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Where are they all departed,
The loved ones of my youth,
Those emblems white of purity,
Sweet innocence and truth?
When day-light drives the darkness,
When evening melts to night,...

Breathless is the deep blue sky;
Breathless doth the blue sea lie;
And scarcely can my heart believe,
'Neath such a sky, on such a wave,
That Heaven can frown and billows rave,...

[NOTE. - The following lines were written by request, to be read at a Meeting of the "Girls' Friendly Society."]


What should a maiden be? Pure as the rill,
Ere it has left its first home in the hill;...

O BEATA SOLITUDO; O SOLA BEATITUDO.

(Inscription in the Grounds of Burg Birseck, near Basel.)


Sweet Solitude where dost thou linger?
When and where shall I look in thy face?...

A lay sung in the Temple of Minerva Girtanensis.

...

I made an ascent of the Eiger
Last year, which has ne'er been surpassed;
'Twas dangerous, long, and laborious,
But almost incredibly fast.
We started at twelve from the Faulberg;...

When the shades of eve descending
Throw o'er cloistered courts their gloom,
Dimly with the twilight blending
Memories long forgotten loom.
From the bright fire's falling embers...

1. WATNEY Lady Margaret.
2. BEEBEE Lady Margaret.
3. PIGOTT Corpus
4. KINGLAKE 3rd Trinity.
5. STEAVENSON Trinity Hall
6. BORTHWICK 1st Trinity....