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170  ELIZA FOLLEN.

When the sad, thirsty spirit turns from the springs
Of enchantment this life can bestow,
And sighs for another, and flutters its wings,
Impatient, "to whom shall we go?"

O, blest be that light which has parted the clouds,
A path to the pilgrim to show,
That pierces the veil which the future enshrouds,
And shows us to whom we may go.

TO MY ÆOLIAN HARP,

AS IT WAS PLAYING ON A COLD, STORMY DAY.

SAY, was it, my harp, the invisible wing
Of a spirit that pass'd o'er thy musical string?
And comes it in love, with its light, airy hand,
To play me a song from the heavenly land?

Though chill is the wind, and fitful is blows,
Yet sweet as in summer thy music still flows;
But, when rages the blast, and contending winds roar,
In silence you wait till the tempest is o'er.

And thus, like thy strings, is the virtuous mind,
Harmonious e'en in adversity's wind;
But, when by the tempests of life it is driven,
It remembers, in silence, the storm is from Heaven.

THE LITTLE SPRING.

BENEATH a green and mossy bank
There flows a clear and fairy stream;
There the pert squirrel oft has drank,
And thought, perhaps, 't was made for him

Their pitchers there the labourers fill
As drop by drop the crystals flow,


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Singing their silvery welcome still
To all who to the fountain go.

Then to the river on it glides,
Its tributary drop to bear;
Its modest head a moment hides,
Then rises up and sparkles there.

The touching lesson on my heart
Falls like the gentle dews of heaven,
Bids me with humble love impart
The little treasure God has given.

For from a source as small as this
Full many a cup of joy may flow,
And on the stream of human bliss
Its little ray of gladness throw.

LOUISA JANE HALL

WAS born at Newburyport, Massachusetts, February 7th, 1802.  Her father, Dr. John Park, was a physician; but at the time he had given up the practice of his profession, and was editing the Repertory, a well-known federal paper.  In 1811, he opened a school for young ladies in Boston, (to which city he had removed several years before,) with a view of giving his daughter a more liberal education than was common at that period, and keeping her at the same time under is own immediate care.  She improved her advantages to the utmost; the chaste and correct style of her writings shows that the study and discipline of her early years must have been thorough and unwavering.  None of her poems appeared in print until after she was twenty; they were then published anonymously in the Literary Gazette, and other periodicals.  Dr. Park removed to Worcester, Mass., in 1831, accom-

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