...Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish the thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters, Not from the...Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavour ; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his...

...poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay That shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish the thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters, Not from the...Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil anji endeavour; And to-night I long for rest. Head from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from...

...within for that reason. To Longfellow and his poems we feel that his own words most truly apply:— Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from...clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start j Who, through long days of labour, And nights devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul the music Of...

...Some simple and heartfelt lay. That shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish the thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps eeho Through the eorridors of Time. For, like strains of martial musie, Their mighty thoughts suggest...

...SOPHOCLES. And yet this deathless trio — three such redoubted names as these, the grand old masters," the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time," to what a towering eminence have they culminated HOMER, not only the Poet, who, transcendently " triumphant...

...Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish the thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters, Not from the...Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from bis heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start ; Who through long...

...Some simple and heart-felt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish the thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters, Not from the...endless toil and endeavor; And to-night I long for rest. Whose songs gushed from his heart, As show'rs from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eye-lids...

...Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish the thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters, Not from the...Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavour ; And to-night I long for rest. Bead from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his...

...original in his subjects as in his manner of handling them; a man — " Whose songs gushed from hie heart As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start; TVbo, through long days of labour, And nights devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul the music Of...

...wonderful melodies ;" at least he wrote sacred hymns which have all the appearance of having — " Gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears to the eyelids stait." Augustine, in his "Confessions," gives us asnatch of one of them. Overcome with...