13 OCTOBER 1883, Page 15

POETRY.

AN ENGLISH HOME.

DEEP in a hazy hollow of the down

The brick-built Court in mellow squareness stood, Where feathery beeches fringed the hanging wood, And sighing cedars spread a carpet brown.

Out of the elms the clamorous tree-folk sent A breezy welcome, while the roses made

Their vesper offering, and the creeper laid His flaming hands about the pediment.

0 happy souls, most fatherly denied

The cares that fret, not quicken : drawn to know

The healing hands that hang upon the Cross, And through pure agonies of love and loss Wrought into sorrow for a world of woe, And from a prosperous baseness purified.

Addington Park, Croydon, October 5th. A. C. Bvssox.