FOR CHILDREN.

« But thou mayst learn to trace the sun

Around the earth and sky,

And see him rising, setting, still,
Where distant oceans lie.

To other lands the bird may guide
His pinions through the air ;

Ere yet he rest his wings, thou art
In thought before him there.

“ Though strong and free, his wing may droop,

Or bands restrain its flight ;

Thought none may stay—more fleet its course
Than swiftest beams of light ;

A lovelier clime than birds can find,
While summers go and come,

Beyond this earth remains for those,
Whom God doth summon home.”

THE CUCKOO.

Hatt, beauteous! stranger of the grove,
Attendant on the Spring!

Now Heaven repairs thy vernal seat,"
And woods thy welcome sing.

¥ The Cuckoo is not remarkable for beauty : it is probably
addressed as beauteous here, because its coming is connected.
with the appearance of the beauties of Spring.

* Now Heaven, &c.—now Heaven, that is, God, makes thy
Spring abode, the woods, beautiful again,