For ever!’ I shouted, while whirling along:

‘I have come, I have come from a shadowy clime,

A breath of the monarch Earth’s children call Time!’

Cincinnati, December, 1843.

ON COLOUR.

Full angel-like the birdis sang their hours[1]

Within their curtains green, within their bowers

Apparelled with white and red, with bloomys sweet.

Enamell’d was the field with all coloùrs: