...beantiful, should perish with the flowers. BRYA.M. TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN. THOU blossom bright with antumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue, That openest, when the quiet li^ht Succeeds the keen and fro>ty night. Thou comest not when violets lean O'er wandering brooks aml...

...withered, changed of hue.' And. in my spleen I smiled that it was trray. TO THE FRiNGEO GENTIAN. fhoa blossom bright with autumn dew And colored with the heaven's own blue, Thou openest when the quiut light Succeeds the keen and frosty night. Thou comest not whnn violets...

...that one, like that young friend of ours, So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers. TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN. THOU blossom bright with autumn...light .Succeeds the keen and frosty night, — Thou cornest not when violets lean O'er wanderingbrooksand springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple drest,...

...them. These are from The Fringed Gentian : — " Thou blossom, bright with autumn dew, And coloured with the heaven's own blue, That openest when the...brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple drest, Nod o'er the ground-bird's hidden nest. " Thou waitest late, and coni'st alone, When woods are...

...air-- Gaze on them, till the tears shall dim thy sight, But keep that earlier, wilder image bright. TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN. THOU blossom bright with autumn...the quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night — I Thou comest not when violets lean O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen. Or columbines, in...

...the plant to ripeness lead. foBX bfkhl rs TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN. THOU blossom, bright with autnmn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue, That...quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night ; Thou coraeet not when violets lean O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple dressed,...

...leaf and running stream. TO THE FRINGED GENTIAN* THOU blossom bright with autumn dew, And colour'd with the heaven's own blue, That openest when the...quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night ! Thou comesfc not when violets lean O'er wandering brooks and springs unseen, Or columbines, in purple dress'd,...

...we give it entire as an instance of Bryant's dealing in his happiest vein with a single object : — To THE FRINGED GENTIAN. Thou blossom bright with autumn dew , And colored with the heavens' own blue, That openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night. Thou comest...

...noblest lines. Here springs beneath the brown trailing skirts of Autumn " The Fringed Gentian," — " Blossom bright with autumn dew, And colored with the heaven's own blue, L_ That openest when the quiet light Succeeds the keen and frosty night." Here too, " When beechen...

...lie withered, And fond ones arc flown, 0, who would inhabit This bleak world alone ? THOMAS MOORE. a constant attendant during frequent solitary rambles...by fits, when the eagle was yelling, And starting AS" lien woods are bare and birds are flown, And frosts and shortening days portend The aged Year is...