POETRY.

THE SCATTERED HOUSEHOLD.
TpF SCATTERED HOUSEHOLD.

 "Hov ste sOOrlfs aspect choRsss." The family group is gathered,

 And all are happy thers; The cheerful smile and glance pass round, . For life with them is fair: a,- -4 A faIi unbroken household! Itis a pleasant sight; w The mothers smile is sweeter then

 The father's glance more bright. There is another gathering-

 But one is wanting there: 9 The youth who sat beside his sire

 Comes not to 6ll his chair. The graveyard bears another stone

 The missed one sleeps beneath; The cheerful smile doth yet pass round- as But thou art felt, o Death! Again there is gathering;

 But where iS she whose smile Was wont to make our young hearts glad,

 Our fathers care beguile? In vain we list mothers voice

 'Tis stiAed in the tomb! .. The happy smile is seen no more

 Where mrth was, now is gloom. Once more there is gathering:

 Once more an empty space Proclaims that death has been at work

 To fill brothers place. His grave is in distant isle, Made by strangers hand; Oh! hard it is to die away - ge,s From one's own native land! That group may never gather more

 Around that kindred hearth TT is broken up-what Death has left .. - Are scattered o'er the earth And where that humble mansion stood, There now is not a stone To mark the spot, and tell of those

 Who to their homes have gone.