FOR CHILDREN. 275

Oh! never let us haste to bring
The cup of sorrow to a brother.

Each has the power to wound; but he
Who wounds that he may witness pain,
Has spurned the law of charity,
Which ne’er inflicts a pang in vain.
’Tis godlike to awaken joy,
Or sorrow's influence to subdue—
But not to wound, or to annoy,
Is part of virtue’s lesson too.

Peace, winged in fairer worlds above,
Shall lend her dawn to brighten this ;
Then all man’s labour shall be love,
And all his aim his brother’s bliss.
Gisborne.

THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE.!

Tout for the brave !

The brave that are no more !
All sunk beneath the wave,
Fast by their native shore !

Eight hundred of the brave,
Whose courage well was tried,
Had made the vessel heel,?
And laid her on her side ;

1 The Royal George—a vessel of war of 300 guns, com-
manded by Admiral] Kempenfelt, which went down in Spit-
head harbour, August 29th, 1782, with 800 men on board
who were all lost.

2 Heel—lean on one side.