the failing heart of virtue on earth: he venerated Religion, and gave in his firm decision for the cause of God: he knew that the world was passing away, and he lived at once for time and for eternity."" CHERRY CANARY. LINES PRESENTED WITH A CANARY BIRD. BY A. L. SNELLING. COME to thee, dear lady, To breathe my humble strain, To cheer thy hours of happiness, And soothe thy hours of pain. To chase the cloud of sadness, Should it gather o'er thy brow, And recall the smile of gladness, Which sweetly decks it now. When the earth is clothed with beauty, And when wintry winds are howling, What though the power of language I shall know thy voice, sweet lady, For thy care and fond endearments, CHERRY CANARY. ANSWER TO "CHERRY CANARY." O WELCOME, Welcome, pretty bird, I know thou leav'st a pleasant home To stranger tones and hands to come, But place is nothing, pretty bird, If love be present there, And smiles the faces wear; To loving hearts and tender tones, Pretty Cherry, thou hast come, Where music, flowers, and prattling ones, Will make a happy home. NATIVE GENIUS VS. SELF-PROGRESS. BY ELIHU BURRITT.* CAN conceive of nothing more deleterious to a general intellectual cultivation than the unchristian belief in the existence and influence of native genius. For myself I would as soon believe that Jupiter and all his subordinate gods and goddesses still held their lascivious empire in Olympus, as believe in the existence of that mysterious, well-educated, amiable little hobgoblin, known in these modern times by the title of genius. The tenacity with which the world still clings to some of the favorite chimeras of mythology has retarded the development of the intel * From an unpublished lecture. |