But crystal frosts are all agone,

And that which hangs upon the spray,

It is no snow, but flow'r of May!

[SONNET.]

DEATH.

It is not death, that sometime in a sigh

This eloquent breath shall take its speechless flight;

That sometime these bright stars, that now reply

In sunlight to the sun, shall set in night;

That warm conscious flesh shall perish quite,