From the United STATES LitsrGry Gazette


MUSINGS.
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From the United STATES Litsrdry Gazette


MUSINGS.
! sat Dy my window one night,
And watched how the stars grew high;
And the earth and sky were splendid sight
To a sober and muslng eye.
from heaven the silver moon shone down
With gentle and mellow ray,
And beneath the crowded roofs Of the town
N In broad light and shadow lay.
a glory was on the silent sea,
And mainland and island too,
Till a haze came over the lowl.ind lea,
And shrouded that beautiful blue.
Bright in the moon the au umn wood
Its crimson scarf unrolled,
And the trees like A splendid army stood
In a panoply ofgold! ..
| saw them waving their banners high
As their crest to the night wind how'd,
And distant sound on the air went by,
Like the whispering Of a crowd.
Then watched from my window how fast
The lights all around me fed,
! As the wcaricd man to his sluribcr pass'd
And the sick one to his bed.
All faded, save one, that burned


With distant and steady light; .-.-
But that, too, went out,-and turned
Where my own lamp within shone bright!
Thus, thought |, our joys must die,


Yes-the brightest from earth we win,
Till each turns away, with sigh,


TO the lamp that burns brightly within.


II. W. L