Yet Love, ah, Love is still divine,
And surely Goodness never dies!’—
He said no more—we closed his eyes—
We laid him in the grassy grove—
He died, he died of slighted love.”
—Dublin University Magazine.
ROOSHKULUM, OR THE WISE SIMPLETON,
A LEGEND OF CLARE.
BY J. G. M’TEAGUE.
Corney Neylan, our village schoolmaster, when any question of arithmetic may be proposed to him which he is in no humour to answer, and would rather turn off by a joke, has been frequently known to reply to it by asking another question, like this:—