JOHN ANGUS THOMPSON.
_Wesleyan Literary Monthly_
~My Treasures.~
My jewels are the drops of dew
That sparkle on the grass,
Or break into a thousand bits
When ruthless footsteps pass.
My gold bedecks the sunlit cloud,
Untouched by human hand;
My silver is the sleeping sea,
Unshadowed by the land.
My friend is every wooded hill,
And every singing brook;
For they are always true to me,
And wear a kindly look
And yet how few would ever think
To count these treasures o'er;
But, dreaming oft of Satan's gold,
Would ask kind Heaven for more.
Co-heirs of Nature all may be,
Although of humble birth;
And yet, the miser hugs his gold,
While poor men own the earth.
WILBUR DANIEL SPENCER.
_Dartmouth Literary Monthly,_
~A Pasture.~
Rough pasture where the blackberries grow!--
It bears upon its churlish face
No sign of beauty, art or grace;
Not here the silvery coverts glow
That April and the angler know.
There sleeps no brooklet in this wild,
Smooth-resting on its mosses sleek,
Like loving lips upon a cheek
Soft as the face of maid or child--
Just boulders, helter-skelter piled.
Ungenerous nature but endows
These acres with the stumps and stocks
Which should be trees, with rude, gray rocks;
Over these humps and hollows browse,
Daily, the awkward, shambling cows.
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