The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-04-30


send on the continuation of Anteros. We
take leave to say that ':The Church in
jerusalem by Eugene Lawrence, is far
too long. There is a political article here
by Don Piatt, which makes NJ. Drouyn de
L'Huys say to Mr.. Mason, on certain
Manifesto, 81 have read your paper, gotten
up at Ostend.' He could scarcely have so
spoken, for gotten up is term obsolete in
Europe, though continued in America
Here is pleasing snatch of poetry by
Mary \. Prescott
\ SONG.
IT'S not the murmuring voice of Spring
That stirs my heart and makes me sing;
tbs not the blue skies, bubbling DER
With sunshine spilled along earth's floor;
Nor yet the flush of bursting rose,
Nor bloom Of any flower that grows
1t is that long, long years ago,
When all the world was blushing So
1t is that then my cheek blushed too,
My heart beat fast for love and you;
There was music in the air
| fail to find now anywhere.
And so when Spring comes wandering by,
l lose the thread of misery;
Trusting the promise of her days.
| tune my voice to sing her praise,
And cheat myself with the sweet pain
That in the Spring Love blooms again.
Tile -1aantic for May has an unusual
quantity Of verse. An eight line poemlet
by T. b. Alrich; a sonnet by William Nor
ris, the new English poet a May-time Pas
toral, by Bayard Taylor, ia English hex
ameter, and 'The Legend of Jubal," by
George Eliot, containing over eight hun
dred lines. and occupying sixteen pages
A fine poem it is, simple in manner and
impressive in that simplicity. 1t introduces
Cane after lie was driven from Jehovah's
! land:
He wandered eastward, seeking some far
strand
Ruled by kind gods who asked no offerings.
Save pure field-truits, as aromatic things
| To feed the subtler sense of frames divine
That lived on fragrance for their food and
wine:
Wild joyous gods, who winked at faults
and folly,
And could be pitiful and melancholy.
He never had doubt that such gods were;
He looked within, and saw them mirrered
there
Some think he came at last to Tartary,
And some to Ind: but, howsoe' er it be,
His staff he planted where sweet waters
ran
And in that home of Cain the Arts began.
He returned-to find home changed,
many instead Of few people, paven road
instead of a narrow foot-Path, a great city
where he had left few huts, and, more
than all, multitudinous and variously-in-
strumental music, all in praise of him, the
inventor. He proclaims himself the maker
of the Tyre, but the people, to whom, in all
the long years, he had become myth.
drive him away, and he lay down, an aged
patria rich, to die. Other articles, in this
number, are Bayard Taylor's novel, the
English Governess at the Siamese Court:
Mr.. De Forests Lauson Tragedy: Mrs.
Celia Thaxter's admirable Isles of Shoals
proseidyls, the Channel Islands. (by Mrs.
Linton, novelist and wife Of the great en-
graver,) a sketch of Western travel, by J.
T. Trowbridge, well-timed, and we'll
written narrative of the suspension of cash
payments in England in l19,, and very
literal account, written at Madrid by Mr..
Richard West, of the Duel of the Spanish
Bourbons, in which the Duke de Montpen-
sier slew Don Henrique de Bourbon, his
wife's first cousin.-Ticknor & Fields Bos-
ton, Publishers.
+ 5pIi T ,Ji
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