SPANISH AND ITALIAN REFUGEES.
A pretty little "Garland of Miscellaneous Poems" has just been published by one of our occasional correspondents,[2] for the Benefit of the Spanish and Italian Refugees. These poems are gracefully written, independent of the interest they ought to awaken from the profits of the sale being appropriated to a benevolent purpose. We subjoin an extract—
THE FIELD OF BANNOCKBURN.
A fearful form from Stirling's tower
Was dimly seen to bend;
He look'd as though, 'mid fate's far hour,
Some mighty woe he kenn'd.
White was his hair, and thin with age,
One hand was raised on high,
The other ope'd the mystic page