...cloud of God's protecting love." Lewisham, Feb. lith, 1840. THE CROCUS'S SOLILOQUY.* BY HISS HF GOULD. DOWN in my solitude under the snow, Where nothing...trust to nature to teach me. I will not despair, nor he idle, nor frown, Lock'd in so gloomy a dwelling; My leaves shall run up, and my roots shall run...

...nest!' For I took all the matches she brought, And Mary may tell you the rest. THE CROCUS'S SOLILOQUY. Down in my solitude under the snow, Where nothing...reach me ; Here, without light to see how to grow, 1 'll trust to nature to teach me. I will not despair, nor be idle nor frown, • Locked in so gloomy...

...! " For I took all the matches she brought, And Mary may tell you the rest. THE CROCUS'S SOLILOQUY. DOWN in my solitude under the snow, Where nothing...reach me ; Here, without light to see how to grow, I '11 trust to nature to teach me. I will not despair, nor be idle, nor frown, Locked in so gloomy...

...my heart's incense I will breathe To Heaven, bright flower, with thee. ANON. THE CROCUS' SOLILOQUY. Down in my solitude, under the snow, Where nothing cheering can reach me: Hero without light to see how to grow, I '11 trust to Nature to teach me. I will not despair, nor be...

...it, could easily be made intelligible to a child of the age for which the piece seems intended : — Down in my solitude under the snow, Where nothing...see how to grow, I'll trust to nature to teach me. So long, however, as what is vulgar, or glaringly absurd, is excluded, and also what is false in fact...

...it, could easily be made intelligible to a child of the age for which the piece seems intended : — Down in my solitude under the snow, Where nothing...cheering can reach me ; Here without light to see how I grow, I'll trust to nature to teach me. So long, however, as what is vulgar, or glaringly absurd,...

...hide, And in his virtues feel a pride. [1] The moral here given is by another hand 97.— THE CROCUS. Down in my solitude under the snow, Where nothing...teach me. I will not despair, nor be idle, nor frown, Lock'd in so gloomy a dwelling ; My leaves shall run up and my roots shall run down, While the bud...

...enthroned upon his precipice, breathing a curse upon them. THE CROCUS'S SOLILOQUY. Bv Miss HF GOULD. DOWN in my solitude under the snow. Where nothing...reach me ; Here, without light to see how to grow, I 'll trust to nature to teach me. I will not despair, nor be idle, nor frown, Locked in so gloomy...

...* Gum Cestus of Arabia — which sheds its flowers as BOOH aa they are blown. THE CROCUS SOLILOQUY. Down in my solitude under the snow, Where nothing...reach me — Here, without light to see how to grow, I 'll trust to nature to teach me. I will not despair, nor be idle, nor frown, Locked in so gloomy...

...of March. This is, however, much more beautifully told in the following soliloquy of a Crocus ; — Down in my solitude under the snow. Where nothing cheering can reach i — Here without light to see how to grow, I'll trust to Nature to teach me ! I'll tr I will not...