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On another occasion the historian's enthusiasm was too expansive to be confined to plain prose, and he inflated it in lyric verse: "Brave was the banquet, the red red juice, Hilarity's gift sublime, Invoking the heart to kindred use, And bright'ning halo of time."

He was thin, with a blue nose, and wore a green uniform like the rest: only his carriage proved him a man of authority. This Captain Stubbs listened, you may be sure, with a bright'ning eye to the sergeant's story; and at the close fix'd an inquisitive gaze on the pair of us, turning the King's letter over and over in his hands. "How came this in your possession?" he ask'd at length.

For oh, bethink, in other times, And be those happier times at hand, When science, like the smile of God, Comes bright'ning o'er that weary land, How will her pilgrims hail the power, Beneath the drooping miall's gloom, To sit at eve, and mourn an hour, And pluck a leaf on Leichhardt's tomb. These charming verses were dated the 2d of July 1845.

The sky, so long clouded, was bright'ning now, and growing serener every minute: the hills were thick with fox- gloves, the vales white with hawthorn, smelling very sweetly in the cool of the day: but I, with the bridle flung on Molly's neck, pass'd them by, thinking only of my discomfiture, and barely rousing myself to give back a "Good-day" to those that met me on the road.

As sleeps the dreaming Eve below, Its holiest star keeps ward above, And yonder wave begins to glow, Like friendship bright'ning into Love! Ah, would thy bosom were that stream, Ne'er wooed save by the virgin air! Ah, would that I were that star, whose beam Looks down and finds its image there!

As sleeps the dreaming Eve below, Its holiest star keeps ward above, And yonder wave begins to glow, Like friendship bright'ning into Love! Ah, would thy bosom were that stream, Ne'er wooed save by the virgin air! Ah, would that I were that star, whose beam Looks down and finds its image there!