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460  ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH.

Wild shouts on every breeze
Come swelling o'er the sea,–
Hark! 'tis her starving millions cry,
"Give Ireland liberty!"


THE WOUNDED VULTURE.

This incident is beautifully related in Miss Bremer's Diary.

A KINGLY vulture sat alone,
Lord of the ruin round,
Where Egypt's ancient monuments
Upon the desert frown'd.

A hunter's eager eye had mark'd
The form of that proud bird,
And through the voiceless solitude
His ringing shot was heard.

It rent that vulture's plumèd breast,
Aim'd with unerring hand,
And his life-blood gushèd warm and red
Upon the yellow sand.

No struggle mark'd the deadly wound,
He gave no piercing cry,
But calmly spread his giant-wings,
And sought the upper sky.

In vain with swift pursuing shot
The hunter seeks his prey,
Circling and circling upward still,
On his majestic way.

Up to the blue empyrean
He wings his steady flight,
Till his receding form is lost
In the full flood of light.


SARAH C. EDGARTON MAYO.  461

Oh! wounded heart! oh, suffering soul!
Sit not with folded wing,
Where broken dreams and ruin'd hopes
Their mournful shadows fling.

Outspread thy pinions like that bird,
Take thou the path sublime,
Beyond the flying shafts of Fate,
Beyond the wounds of Time.

Mount upward! brave the clouds and storms;
Above life's desert plain
There is a calmer, purer air,
A heaven thou too mayst gain.

And as that dim ascending form
Was lost in day's broad light,
So shall thy earthly sorrows fade,
Lost in the Infinite.


SARAH C. EDGARTON MAYO.

MRS. MAYO, better known as Miss Edgarton, was born in Shirley, Massachusetts, in the year 1819.  Her first appearance as a writer was in 1837, when she contributed to various religious journals, and soon after became one of the editors of the Ladies' Repository, a monthly magazine published in Boston.  She has also been the skilful and industrious editor of a religious annual, called The Rose of Sharon, ever since its first establishment, a period of nine years.  Her stories for children are numerous and useful; among them are Ellen Clifford, and The Palfreys.  She has also displayed much taste in compiling a few miniature volumes of a poetic character, the titles of which are, The Flower Vase, The Floral Fortune Teller, and The Poetry of Woman

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