As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!

When old age shall this generation waste,

Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe

Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty"—that is all

Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

MADELINE.

[From The Eve of St. Agnes.]

Out went the taper as she hurried in;

Its little smoke in pallid moonshine died;