20 SEPTEMBER 1879, Page 14

PoETRy.

ON THE HEIGHTS.

O'BIZARCIIING depth of Imre transparency,

Flooded. with summer warmth and noon-day light ;— I, standing on this crag-uplifted height, Gaze down the wooded vales, the fruitful lea, The rock-bound shores, the softly-murmuring sea, To find in everything that greets my sight

Some sadden'd memories of past delight ;—

And hence I turn my longing eyes to thee.

Say, circling realm of other limitless!

Hold'st thou the treasures of our baffled love

Exhaled. from earth into thy vast caress ; Or do thy mingling myriad lights, that move

Like living spirits through the unfathom'd space,

Foregleam the radiant hosts of Heaven above P