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TO THE SPIRIT OF HEALTH.

SWEET Spirit of the sunny brow
And smiling eye! where wanderest thou,
Like spring-cloud softly gliding?
Dost thou among the mountains stray ?
Or in some low glen far away,
'Mong cottage-elves light sporting play,
From thy sad votary hiding?

I've sought thee in the youthful hour
Of spring, when every little flower
Its timid eye was closing:

I've traced thee to the streamy dell,

Where living waves clear-gushing well,

And calmly in its mossy cell

The violet lies reposing.

The cliffy steep I've climb'd for thee;
And skimm'd the dewdrop from the lea,
When thro' the clouds upspringing,

Light carolling his gladsome lay,
To hail the virgin-blush of day,
Soaring aloft away, away,

The lark his song was singing.

When Summer suns wheel'd sultry by,
And glittering heat flamed o'er the sky,
To shady groves slow-wending,

Full oft, amid the quiet bowers,

I've traced thy steps o'er fragrant flowers,
Or felt in gentle balmy showers

Thy influence descending.

In bounteous Autumn oft with thee
I've roam'd, to mark plain, dell, and tree
With golden treasures glowing;

Even when stern Winter's storms blew chill,
And billowy snows wreath'd vale and hill,
A keen invigorating thrill

I've felt thy breath bestowing.

Whither, sweet Spirit! hast thou fled ?
Where dost thou lay thine Angel-head?
In what secluded dwelling?

Hear! 'mid thy wanderings blest and free,
Thy humblest votary calls on thee,
With clasped hands and bended knee,
And bosom deeply swelling.

Canst thou behold the feeble streak
Lessening on that pale beauteous cheek?—
A rose-bud cropp'd and fading :-
And canst thou hear the sick long sigh
Heaving that lovely bosom high?
Or see faint dimness cloud that eye,

Its living light o'ershading?

Thou canst not! Come, then, Spirit mild! Come from the far, the breezy wild!

Come from the heathy mountain ! Come from the leafy glen! And bring With thee gales sweet as breathing Spring, When Zephyr stirs, with airy wing, Young flowers that kiss the fountain!

Dear Spirit! come! and spread once more
Thy own bright bloom that pale cheek o'er,
In all its native beauty:

And I will weave thee garlands fair,
Of every flower that scents the air;
And oft shall rise to thee my prayer,
And hymns of grateful duty!

GENIUS.

O, GENIUS! thou art near allied to madness!
Dull ebbing souls nor rise nor sink in gladness.
But thy fine heart, like leaflet trembling on
The vernal spray, by every wind is blown.
Thy health too, nicely poised, a straw can turn,
Or lift to life, or weigh down to the urn.

Thy breathings, O how sweet! thy tides, how high!
Thy dead low water, what a lullaby!

Thy listening ear, to lutes and loves, among
The leaves-how tremblingly alive to song!
Thy nerves how tuneful! yet how easily
Waked in their tremors, like the aspen-tree!
Like some fond mother, far too fond art thou,
Of all thy sweets, to wear a sunny brow.
Thy very loves are tender fears for things
Which glide away, like youth's imaginings.
Alas! the gleams which lighten thine own breast,
Are still life's shortest-fleetest-tho' her best!

NEW BUILDINGS AT CAMBRIDGE.

THOSE persons, whom chance or curiosity may have led to the University of Cambridge, must doubtless have been actuated by such feelings of admiration as its colleges and public buildings are calculated to impress upon the mind of every stranger. The passing traveller finds there objects which, excepting in the Sister University, have perhaps nowhere a parallel. Instead of the din of a metropolis, or the hurry and confusion of those towns where “trade's proud empire" pervades every rank of society, the silence which reigns throughout the spacious quadrangle, the gloom of the monastic cloister, and the grey Gothic portal bearing the stamp of years, all conspire to excite awe and veneration, even in the most unlettered. But to him who is able justly to appreciate the ends for which these establishments were founded, -who is acquainted with the times, and the character of the illustrious individuals who gave birth to these retreats of science, endowed them with the ample means of prosecuting the study of learning and philosophy, and instituted rewards for those who dedicated themselves to the pursuit of knowledge,-who recollects the many philosophers to whom these institutions have given birth, and pictures to his imagination those who shall hereafter go forth to pursue paths as yet untrod

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