'And from the garden lawn comes, soft and clear,

The robin's warble from the leafless spray,

The low sweet Angelus of the dying year,

Passing in light away.'

PROSPERITY.

'I doubt if the maxims the Stoic adduces

Be true in the main, when they state

That our nature's improved by adversity's uses,

And spoilt by a happier fate.

'The heart that is tried by misfortune and pain,