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INDEX TO VOL. XLII.

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ST. CLOUD.

FROM GEMS OF MOORE.

Gayly sounds the castanet,

Beating time to bounding feet,
When, after daylight's golden set,
Maid and youths by moonlight meet.
Oh, then, how sweet to move
Through all that maze of mirth,
Led by light from eyes we love
Beyond all eyes on earth.

To the pleasure-loving inhabitants of Paris, ges for which the French are famous, or gayly St. Cloud offers one of those delightful places tripping on the greensward to the enlivening of resort which, in the neighborhood of a great sound of some popular air, a sense of pleasure city, seems to transport the beholder hundreds and joy animates the whole being, and, pleasing of miles from the capital, and by rendering cheap and pleased, diffuses itself around in all those and innocent pleasures easy of access, docs more little graces and amenities which have made to ameliorate the condition of the lower orders French politeness proverbial throughout the than can well be imagined. From the noise and world. dust of manufactories, from the glare and oppressive atmosphere of the crowded work-room; and, also, but too often, from the deficiences and discomforts of an ill-regulated house-to the toiling artisan and ever-bending seamstress, how enchanting the transition to the shades and verdure of St. Cloud, whose beautiful Lauterne, modelled from the tower of Demosthenes at Athens, finely placed on a lofty eminence, commands a noble prospect of the surrounding country; here, seated beneath the magnificent old trees that wave over them with a thousand gentle influences, the smiling landscape at their feet, whose shining river, spanned by its superb bridges, reflects the palaces on its banks, and the gayly-dressed groups whose many-colored garments are seen amongst the groves, the sparkling fountains, and shadowy walks in all directions, life insensibly assumes a more cheering aspect its pains and penalties are either forgotten or borne more easily; and indulging in the harmless luxury of some of those fantastic bevera

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"A lovely day

In the lap of May

Sat singing of Summer; not far away;
And the words of her song

Were caught by a throng

Of bursting buds that hasted along.

She told of Summer with mild blue eyes
And hair like the gold of sunset skies,
And floating robe of a thousand dies;
Of her cheek's soft hue

Where the blush shows through.

And her forehead bathed in morning dew,-
Of her happy song so sweet and mild,

Of her breath, as pure as the breath of a child,
Over her lips all undefiled:-

Of her languishing air at the evening hour,
When shadows creep through grove and bower,
And dews weigh down the closing flower:-
Of her joyous shout in the early morn,
Over the hills and woodlands borne,
Answered by Echo's dulcet horn:-

Then, the joyous banquet spread

On the cool and fragrant ground,
With heaven's bright sparklers overhead,
And still brighter sparkling round.
Oh, then, how sweet to say

Into some loved one's ear,
Thoughts reserved through many a day
To be thus whisper'd here.

When the dance and feast are done,
Arm in arm as home we stray,
How sweet to see the dawning sun
O'er her cheek's warm blushes play!
Then, too, the farewell kiss-

The words, whose parting tone
Lingers still in dreams of bliss,
That haunt young hearts alone.

Of her slumbers deep in the hushed noontide,
Laid in the shadows cool and wide,
That far in the heart of the forest hide :-
Of her active hands that strive to bring
To fruition the work of her sister Spring:-
Till-just as her songs of completeness ring-
With stalwart stride o'er the laden fields
Comes Autumn: a warrior blade he wields;
Affrighted, sweet Summer her treasure yields.
Then flushes her cheek--and her pulse grows slow,
And into her eyes comes a look of woe
As she gathers her floating robes to go:
And with some fair flowers still in her hand,
Companioned o'er head by a songster band,
She passes on to a southern land.

'Twas thus a day

In the lap of May

Sat singing of Summer not far away.
And the words of her song

Were caught by a throng

Of bursting buds that hasted along."

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