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Poetry.
Poetry .
TIME'S MEASURES . [ Shortly before his death the late 'Rev . William Buchanan , Chaplain to tho Lodge Ayr St . Paul ( No . 204 ) , _ published a " volumo of verses . " serious , humorous , and satirical . The pieces are for the most part short—ovidontly tho product of Muse-worship iu the leisure hours of many years—tho sudden outpouring of a cultivated intellect . In several of tho poems ,
deep reflective thought is stirred with originality and power ; while , iimike the style o £ the modern local poet , who is apt to eke out poverty of ideas by mellifluous language , here we have ideas and similes so crowding as to havo forced tho author to hit them off at the expense of occasional weak and unharmonious lines . Taking them all in all , however , the bulk of the poems are really good , aud have the further recommendation , of haying all a good aim . —D . MURRAY LYON . ]
Reckon not by Saud or Dial , Or the Clock's dull passing sound ; Life disowns such computation , Time consists not in their round ; Sim and Moon may keep their courses With unvarying length of years , And the Seasons dance thoir cycle To the music of tho spheres ;
Not by such , material measures ' Is our being counted o ' er ; Youth is sometimes old at twenty , And age youthful at fourscore 1
Present pain , it clogs the minutes , How unwelcomely they stay 1 Pain in prospect lends them swiftness , Rapidly they pass away ; Promised Hope , expected Pleasures , Loitering , laggard is their pace ; "While our fevered pulses thunder , Like the chariot in the race ; Like the courser , who the noaror To his goal , the faster flies ; And , like him , as worn and jaded ,
Ere wo win , aud wear the prize . Worn and jaded , with the sickness Of Desire so long delayed , Pleasure palls us with its sweetness , Hope possessed is hope decayed ; Sated , not with satisfaction , Sinks the soul in torpor numb
, Every nerve and power grow feeble , Feeling , Fancy , all are dumb ; Then , indeed , poor sonseless Matter Well enough existence tells ; Minutes are but sixty seconds , Hours are counted on the bells .
Oh 1 for something less deceiving , More ennobling and sublimo , Which shall set our bosoms beating To a grander march of Timo ; Rouse our souls to oarnest striving . Stir our hearts to ceaseless play , And shall make us , while we ' re living In To-morrow , live To-day ; Something whoso majestic Future , Unconcoived , unheard , unsung , Frosh before us over rising , Keeps the spirit ever young .
Young , for eager aspiration Young , for generous lofty aim ; Young , with thrilling thought and effort Young , with feeling ' s warmest flame ; Old , in all the unbought wisdom Sagest counsel can impart ; Old , in all the wary caution And experieneo of tho heart .
Such a Youth and Ago uniting , Meeting thus in holy strife—This , Immortals , is the only Fitting gauge of Mortal life I
Poetry.
Reckon not by Sand or Dial , Or the Clock ' s dull passing sound ; Life disowns such computation , Time consists not in their round ; Sun aud Moon may keep their courses With unvarying length of years , And the Seasons dance their cycle To tho music of tho spheres ;
Not by such material measures Is our boing counted o ' er ; Youth is sometimes old at twenty , And Ago youthful at fourscore 1
Meetings Of The Learned Societies For
MEETINGS OF THE LEARNED SOCIETIES FOR
THE WEEK ENDING JANUARY 18 TH , 1868 . MONDAY , 13 th . —Geographical Society , at 8-30 . TUESDAY , 14 th . —Institution of Civil Engineers , at 8 . "WEDNESDAY , loth . —Society of Arts , at 8 . METROPOLITAN LODGE MEETINGS , ETC ., FOR THE WEEK ENDING JANUARY 18 TH , 1868 .
MONDAY , January 13 th . —St . George's and Corner Stone , 5 , Freemasons' Hall . Fortitude and Old Cumberland Lodge , 12 , Ship and Turtle , Leadenhall-street . St . Alban ' s Lodge , 29 , Albion Tavern , Aldersgate-street . Royal Naval Lodge , -59 , Freemasons' Hall . Confidence Lodge , 193 , Anderton ' s Hotel , Fleet-street . Peckham Lodge , 879 , Edinbro' Castle , Peckham Rye . Mount Sion Chapter , 22 , Radley ' s Hotel , Bridge-street , Blackfriars .
TUESDAY , January 14 th— Old Union Lodge , Radley ' s Hotel , Bridge-street , Blackfriars . Burlington Lodge , 96 , Albion Tavern , Aldersgate-street . Union Lodge , 166 , London Tavern , Bishopsgate-street . St . James ' s Lodge , 180 , Freemasons' Hall . Percy Lodge , 193 , Ship and Turtle Tavern , Leadenhall-street . St . Michael ' s Lodge , 211 , Albion Tavern , Aldersgate-street .
Wellington Lodge , 548 , White Swan Tavern , Deptford . WEDNESDAY , January 15 th . —Gen . Committee Grand Chapter , at 3 . Grand Stewards' Lodge . Royal J " ork Lodge , 7 , Freemasons' Hall . United Mariners' Lodge , 30 , George Hotel , Aldermanbury . St . George ' s Lodge , 140 , Lecture Hall , Greenwich . Sincerity Lodge , 174 , Cheshire Cheese Tavern , Crutched-friars . Oak Lodge ,
190 , Radley ' s Hotel , Bridge-street , Blackfriars . Nelson Lodge , 700 , Masonic Hall , William-street , Woolwich . Mayhmy Lodge , 969 , Freemasons' Hall . Westminster and Keystone Chapter , 10 , Freemasons' Hall . THURSDAY , January 16 th . —Globe Lodge , 23 , Freemasons' Hall . Constitutional Lodge , o 5 , Ship and Turtle TavernLeadenhall-street . St . Mary ' s Lod
, ge , 63 , Freemasons' Hall . Temperance Lodge , 169 , White Swan , High-street , Deptford . Manchester Lodge , 179 , Anderton ' s Hotel , Fleet-street . South Norwood Lodge , 1 , 189 , Goat House Hotel , South Norwood . FRIDAY , January 17 fch . —Audit Com . Boys' School . Friendship Lodge , 6 , Willis ' s Rooms , King-street , St . James ' s . Middlesex Lodge 143 Albion
TavernAlders-, , , gate-street . Jordan Lodge , 201 , Freemasons' Hall . New-Concord Lodge , 813 , Rosemary Branch Tavern , Hoxton . Rose of Denmark Lodge , 975 , White Hart Barnes . St . George ' s Chapter , 5 , Freemasons' Hall . SATURDAY , January 18 bh . —Panmure Lodge , 715 , George Hotel , Aldermanbury .
To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
% * All communications to be addressed to 19 , Salisbury-street Strand , London , W . C . D . HERALD . —Thanks for your note . We will with pleasure insert all reports you may be good enough to forward . T . R . V . —In our next issue we shall publish the whole of the names of subscribers who have up to the present time sent in their names to the Masonic Life Boat Fund .
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Poetry.
Poetry .
TIME'S MEASURES . [ Shortly before his death the late 'Rev . William Buchanan , Chaplain to tho Lodge Ayr St . Paul ( No . 204 ) , _ published a " volumo of verses . " serious , humorous , and satirical . The pieces are for the most part short—ovidontly tho product of Muse-worship iu the leisure hours of many years—tho sudden outpouring of a cultivated intellect . In several of tho poems ,
deep reflective thought is stirred with originality and power ; while , iimike the style o £ the modern local poet , who is apt to eke out poverty of ideas by mellifluous language , here we have ideas and similes so crowding as to havo forced tho author to hit them off at the expense of occasional weak and unharmonious lines . Taking them all in all , however , the bulk of the poems are really good , aud have the further recommendation , of haying all a good aim . —D . MURRAY LYON . ]
Reckon not by Saud or Dial , Or the Clock's dull passing sound ; Life disowns such computation , Time consists not in their round ; Sim and Moon may keep their courses With unvarying length of years , And the Seasons dance thoir cycle To the music of tho spheres ;
Not by such , material measures ' Is our being counted o ' er ; Youth is sometimes old at twenty , And age youthful at fourscore 1
Present pain , it clogs the minutes , How unwelcomely they stay 1 Pain in prospect lends them swiftness , Rapidly they pass away ; Promised Hope , expected Pleasures , Loitering , laggard is their pace ; "While our fevered pulses thunder , Like the chariot in the race ; Like the courser , who the noaror To his goal , the faster flies ; And , like him , as worn and jaded ,
Ere wo win , aud wear the prize . Worn and jaded , with the sickness Of Desire so long delayed , Pleasure palls us with its sweetness , Hope possessed is hope decayed ; Sated , not with satisfaction , Sinks the soul in torpor numb
, Every nerve and power grow feeble , Feeling , Fancy , all are dumb ; Then , indeed , poor sonseless Matter Well enough existence tells ; Minutes are but sixty seconds , Hours are counted on the bells .
Oh 1 for something less deceiving , More ennobling and sublimo , Which shall set our bosoms beating To a grander march of Timo ; Rouse our souls to oarnest striving . Stir our hearts to ceaseless play , And shall make us , while we ' re living In To-morrow , live To-day ; Something whoso majestic Future , Unconcoived , unheard , unsung , Frosh before us over rising , Keeps the spirit ever young .
Young , for eager aspiration Young , for generous lofty aim ; Young , with thrilling thought and effort Young , with feeling ' s warmest flame ; Old , in all the unbought wisdom Sagest counsel can impart ; Old , in all the wary caution And experieneo of tho heart .
Such a Youth and Ago uniting , Meeting thus in holy strife—This , Immortals , is the only Fitting gauge of Mortal life I
Poetry.
Reckon not by Sand or Dial , Or the Clock ' s dull passing sound ; Life disowns such computation , Time consists not in their round ; Sun aud Moon may keep their courses With unvarying length of years , And the Seasons dance their cycle To tho music of tho spheres ;
Not by such material measures Is our boing counted o ' er ; Youth is sometimes old at twenty , And Ago youthful at fourscore 1
Meetings Of The Learned Societies For
MEETINGS OF THE LEARNED SOCIETIES FOR
THE WEEK ENDING JANUARY 18 TH , 1868 . MONDAY , 13 th . —Geographical Society , at 8-30 . TUESDAY , 14 th . —Institution of Civil Engineers , at 8 . "WEDNESDAY , loth . —Society of Arts , at 8 . METROPOLITAN LODGE MEETINGS , ETC ., FOR THE WEEK ENDING JANUARY 18 TH , 1868 .
MONDAY , January 13 th . —St . George's and Corner Stone , 5 , Freemasons' Hall . Fortitude and Old Cumberland Lodge , 12 , Ship and Turtle , Leadenhall-street . St . Alban ' s Lodge , 29 , Albion Tavern , Aldersgate-street . Royal Naval Lodge , -59 , Freemasons' Hall . Confidence Lodge , 193 , Anderton ' s Hotel , Fleet-street . Peckham Lodge , 879 , Edinbro' Castle , Peckham Rye . Mount Sion Chapter , 22 , Radley ' s Hotel , Bridge-street , Blackfriars .
TUESDAY , January 14 th— Old Union Lodge , Radley ' s Hotel , Bridge-street , Blackfriars . Burlington Lodge , 96 , Albion Tavern , Aldersgate-street . Union Lodge , 166 , London Tavern , Bishopsgate-street . St . James ' s Lodge , 180 , Freemasons' Hall . Percy Lodge , 193 , Ship and Turtle Tavern , Leadenhall-street . St . Michael ' s Lodge , 211 , Albion Tavern , Aldersgate-street .
Wellington Lodge , 548 , White Swan Tavern , Deptford . WEDNESDAY , January 15 th . —Gen . Committee Grand Chapter , at 3 . Grand Stewards' Lodge . Royal J " ork Lodge , 7 , Freemasons' Hall . United Mariners' Lodge , 30 , George Hotel , Aldermanbury . St . George ' s Lodge , 140 , Lecture Hall , Greenwich . Sincerity Lodge , 174 , Cheshire Cheese Tavern , Crutched-friars . Oak Lodge ,
190 , Radley ' s Hotel , Bridge-street , Blackfriars . Nelson Lodge , 700 , Masonic Hall , William-street , Woolwich . Mayhmy Lodge , 969 , Freemasons' Hall . Westminster and Keystone Chapter , 10 , Freemasons' Hall . THURSDAY , January 16 th . —Globe Lodge , 23 , Freemasons' Hall . Constitutional Lodge , o 5 , Ship and Turtle TavernLeadenhall-street . St . Mary ' s Lod
, ge , 63 , Freemasons' Hall . Temperance Lodge , 169 , White Swan , High-street , Deptford . Manchester Lodge , 179 , Anderton ' s Hotel , Fleet-street . South Norwood Lodge , 1 , 189 , Goat House Hotel , South Norwood . FRIDAY , January 17 fch . —Audit Com . Boys' School . Friendship Lodge , 6 , Willis ' s Rooms , King-street , St . James ' s . Middlesex Lodge 143 Albion
TavernAlders-, , , gate-street . Jordan Lodge , 201 , Freemasons' Hall . New-Concord Lodge , 813 , Rosemary Branch Tavern , Hoxton . Rose of Denmark Lodge , 975 , White Hart Barnes . St . George ' s Chapter , 5 , Freemasons' Hall . SATURDAY , January 18 bh . —Panmure Lodge , 715 , George Hotel , Aldermanbury .
To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
% * All communications to be addressed to 19 , Salisbury-street Strand , London , W . C . D . HERALD . —Thanks for your note . We will with pleasure insert all reports you may be good enough to forward . T . R . V . —In our next issue we shall publish the whole of the names of subscribers who have up to the present time sent in their names to the Masonic Life Boat Fund .