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east, Yet dearer by far is that land where the skies Though colder bends o'er it and bleak winds arise, Where the broad chart of Nature is boldly unfurled, And a light from the free beameth out o'er the world. Yes, dearer that land where the eagle on high Spreads his wings to the wind as he cleaves the cold sky, Where mountain, and torrent, and forest and vale, Are swept by the path of the storm-ridden gale, And each rock is an altar, each heart is a shrine, Where Freedom is worshiped in Liberty clime, And her banners float out on the breath of the gale, Bright symbols of glory which proudly we hail, And her bulwarks are reared where the heart of the brave Refused to be subject, and scorned to be slave. [Footnote 15: Santa Cruz.] SONNET:--TO ARABELLA, BY MRS. E. C. KINNEY. There is a pathos in those azure eyes, Touching, and beautiful, and strange, fair child! When the fringed lids upturn, such radiance mild Beams out as in some brimming lakelet lies, Which undisturbed reflects the cloudless skies: No tokens glitter there of passion wild, That into ecstasy with time shall rise; But in the deep of those clear orbs are signs-- Which Poesy's prophetic eye divines-- Of woman's love, enduring, undefiled! If, like the lake at rest, through life we see Thy face reflect the heaven that in it shines, No _idol_ to thy worshipers thou'lt be, For he will worship HEAVEN, who worships _thee_. PROTESTATION. No, I will not forget thee. Hearts may break Around us, as old lifeless trees are snapt By the swift breath of whirlwinds as they wake Their path amid the forest. Lightning-wrapt, (For love is fire from Heaven,) we calmly stand-- Heart pressed to answering heart--hand linked with hand. REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS. _Endymion. By Henry B. Hirst. Boston: Wm. D. Ticknor & Co. 1 vol. 12mo._ It was Goethe, we believe, who objected to some poet, that he put too much water in his ink. This objection would apply to the uncounted host of our amateur versifiers, and poets by the grace of verbiage. If an idea, or part of an idea, chances to stray into the brain of an American gentleman, he quickly apparels it in an old coat from his wardrobe of worn phrases, and rushes off in mad haste to the first magazine or newspaper, in order that t
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