Some nook in the valley of life shall be mine,
Where time imperceptibly swiftly glides by,
True friendship and love round my heart shall entwine,
And sympathy start the warm tear in my eye.
Then haply my wild harp will make such sweet notes,
That the traveller climbing the rock’s craggy brow,
May stop and may list, as the music still floats,
And think of the bard in the valley below.
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
Mean Temperature 61·32.
July 6.
Old Midsummer Day.
This day is still marked in our almanacs, on account of its being adhered to, in a few places, as a “good old day,” of the “good old times.”