Poetry.

Poetry .

PERSIAN SONG . TRANSLATED 11 T SIC WILLIAM .. OSES . SHEET maid , if thou would ' st charm my sight , And bid these arms my neck infold ; That rosy cheek , that lily hand Would give the poet more delight Than all Bokhara's vaunted gold

, Than all the gems of Samareand . Boy , let yon liquid ruby flow , And bid thy pensive heart be glad , AVhate ' er the frowning zealots say , Tell them their Eden cannot show A stream so clear as Roeuabad , A bower so sweet as Mosellay .

Oh ! when these fair , perfidious maids , Whose eyes our secret haunts infest , Their dear destructive charms display , Each glance my tender breast invades , And robs my wounded soul of rest , As Tartars seek their destined prey . In vain with love our bosoms glow ;

Can all our tears , can all our sighs , New lustre to those charms impart , Can cheeks where living roses blow , AA'here nature spreads her richest dyes , Require the borrow'd gloss of art . Speak not of fate—ah ! change the theme , And talk of odourstalk of wine

, , Talk of the flowers that round us bloom , 'Tis all a cloud , 'tis all a dream ; To love and joy thy thoughts confine , Nor hope to pierce the sacred gloom . But , ah ! sweet maid , my counsel hear , ( Youth should attend when those advise , Whom long experiences render sage . )

AVhile music charms the ravished ear , AATiile sparkling cups delight our eyes , Be gay , and seom the frowns of age . \\ l _ at cruel answer have I heard . And yet , by heaven , I love thee still , Can aught be cruel from thy lip . Vet say how fell that bitter word ,

. From lips which streams of sweetness fill , AVhich nought but drops of honey sip . Go boldly forth my simple lay , Whose accents flow with artless ease , Like orient pearls at random strung . Thy notes are sweet the damsels say , But , oh ! far sweeter if they please . The nymphs for whom these notes are sung .

Moonrise.

MOONRISE .

'TWAS at the close of a long summer ' s day As we were standing on a grassy slope The sunset hung before us like a dream , That shakes a demon in his fiery lair . The clouds were standing round the setting sua Like gaping eaves , fantastic pinnacles ! Tall towers that went and came like spires of flame ,

Cliffs quivering with fire-snow , and sunset peaks Of pilisd gorgeousness aud rocks of flame Atilt and poised , bare beaches , crimson seas All these were huddled in that dreadful went . All shook and trembled in the imsteadfast light . And from the centre glared the angry sun . Stern as the unlashed eye of God . A glare O'er evening city with its boom of sin :

( Dost thou remember as we journeyed home , That dreadful sunset burnt into our brain . ) AVith what a soothing came the naked moon , She , like a swimmer that has found his ground Came rippling up a silver strand of stars—And plung'd from th' other side into the night ALE _ . _ . . SMITH .

Hope.

HOPE .

BY L . E . LA . KDO __ . OH ! never another dream can be Like that early dream of ours , AVhen Hope , like a child , laid down to slaep , Amid ths folded flower * .

Hope.

But Hope has awakened since and wept Itself like a rainbow away : And the flowers have faded and fallen aroimcl ,-We havo none for a wreath , to-day . Xow Truth has taken the place of Hope , Aud our hearts are like winter hours ; Little , has after life been worth , That early dream of ours .

Literature.

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REVIEWS . The Blazon of Episcopacy . By the Kev . W . K . BILAXD BEDFORD , M . A . 8 vb . London . 1853 . An Alphabetical . Dictionary of Coats of Arms belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland . B y JOHN W . PAPWORTH ,

F . B . I . B . A ., & c . Svo . London . ( In progress . ) AMONGST all the benefits for which we have reason to thank the Masons of the middle ages , there is hardly one whicli , to a large class of the descendants of those for whom they built , is so important and so interesting as a practice which the Masons almost universally adopted—viz ., the introduction of the coat of arms ot tbeir employer in every fitting part of their building . The glass

stainers , the seal engravers , the metal workers , and , at a later period , the portrait painters , all followed this useful example , they having the further advantage of inscribing , iu general , the name of the employer for whom they executed the coat of arms . This plan had the benefit of two chances of saving the information from oblivion : if the coat were destroyed , the inscription mi ght , perhapsescape ; if the latter were obliteratedthe coat might still

, , remain . Now , every one of our readers who has ever visited an old building , or a collection of mediaeval antiquities , must recollect how many cases have fallen under observation of the interest whicli would have been added to this inspection if he had known for whom the work had been executed . The artists have their reputation in their works— -wc shall never know their names ; but we like to he able to feel that this is the seal of Anthony

Beck tbe princely Bishop of Durham , tbat this picture must be the portrait of the unfortunate Earl of Essex , this IMS . has belonged to John of Gaunt , or that this brass is the memorial of Sir John de Creke with the artist ' s stamp affixed—that this cup was the gift of the Lord Mayor , John Northampton . And when the sceptic asks , AVhy do you say this belonged to such a man in so remote a period?—it is satisfactory to be able to say , Look at the coat of arms as here displayed , and sec for yourself that it , at

least , is genuine . Little interest of this sort attaches itself to any portion , except the medals of the classic period ; it is only when wc look back to tbe dawn of civilization in Egyptian hieroglyphics that the monument still tells us the time at ivhich , and for whom , it was made . To the present day almost every Egyptian work is to a certain extent dated : wc have learned approximately the succession of the nionarchs at a time far earlier than that which

regal and republican Eome only offers a legendary , if not mythic , history ; and there is hardly one Egyptian work of any importance which does not show thc title and name , if not always the banner , of the sovereign under whom it was executed . 'The Assyrian inscriptions may be ranked iii this class of useful information . Some Greek and Eoman inscriptions of this sort have been preserved ; but personalor rather familyhistory can

, , hardly be said to commence before the period at which the Masons and the heralds began to work in harmony . If we enter a cathedral and begin to seek for thc dates of the various portions , many a legend is contradicted by the silent testimony of some bishop's coat of arms ; and when wc review the series of tombs , many a vacancy in the local knowledge as to whom they are to commemorate is to be supplied by any visitor who has some

knowledge of heraldry . This knowledge is of three sorts ; many persons think that as soon as they have learned the principal terms used in that science they are great scholars ; others possess a sort of index either in their memory , or in writing , and on seeing a coat can quickly tell the name of the family , if celebrated , to which it belongs ; while some have farther—perhaps as Jar as have the pundits at the

gone College of Arms in Doctor ' s Commons—and know , if they are teid the locality in which a coat of arms exists , what- hook " g ives the history of ' the families in that nei ghbourhood , or , are obliged to consult some of the attempts at an index which have been almost the most important labours of thc best heralds for the last three centuries .