FOR CHILDREN. 301

WAR.

Tux hunting tribes of air and earth,

Respect the brethren of their birth ;

Nature, who loves the claim of kind,

Less cruel chase to each assigned :

The falcon, poised on soaring wing,

Watches the wild duck at the spring ;

The slow-hound wakes the fox’s lair,

The greyhound presses on the hare,

The eagle pounces on the Jamb

The wolf devours the fleecy dam :

H’en tiger fell and sullen bear

Their likeness and their lineage spare ,

Man only mars kind nature’s plan,

And turns the fierce pursuit on man,

Plying war's desultory trade,

Incursion, flight, and ambuscade ;

Since Nimrod, Cush’s mighty son, ;

At first the bloody game begun. |
Walter Scott.

 

THE HEBREW MOTHER.

THE rose was in rich bloom on Sharon’s plain,
When a young mother, with her first-born, thence
Went up to Zion; for the boy was vowed

Unto the Temple service.' By the hand

1 See t Sam. i. 24.—The presentation of Samuel, is
supposed to have taken place when he was about three
years old,

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