"With thee conversing, I forget all time;
All seasons and their change, all please alike.
Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet
With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the Sun
When first on this delightful land he spreads
His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and
flower,

Glitt❜ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth
After soft showers; and sweet the coming on
Of grateful evening mild; then silent night.
With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon,
And these the gems of heaven, her starry train
But neither breath of morn when she ascends,
With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun
On this delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower,
Glitt'ring with dew; nor fragrance after showers;
Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night,
With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon
Or glitt'ring star-light, without thee is sweet."

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Without thee is sweet.-Whoever reads this gentle, affectionate speech from Eve to her husband without being

touched by it, is too young, or too old to feel it. If too young, let it be laid aside at present; if too old, let it be laid aside for ever.

DETACHED SENTENCES

FROM THE BEGINNIng of

ENFIELD'S SPEAKER.

How far the little candle throws his beams, So shines a good deed in a naughty world."

This is a natural, but not a very elevated thought, and not expressed in very elegant language. Naughty is a common, and rather a vulgar word. The meaning of the sentence is, that as a small candle is seen far in a dark night, a small instance of goodness is conspicuous in a world which is enlightened by very few instances of generosity or virtue.

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"Love all, trust a few,

Do wrong to none; be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be checked for silence,

But never taxed for speech."

Be able for thine enemy rather in power than use.-Endeavour to raise yourself to such a situation in the world as will put it in your power to resist and overcome your enemies, but use this power seldom.

Thy own life's key. This is a metaphor taken from locking up whatever is precious, and the poet means to say-endeavour to preserve the attachment of your friend with the same care with which you would lock up your own life.

Taxed-blamed.

"The cloud capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve;

And like the baseless fabric of a vision

Leave not a wreck behind! We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep."

Cloud-capt towers.-Towers that rise so high they seem to reach the clouds, and to be covered or capt by them.

Gorgeous-magnificent.

All which it inherit.-To inherit is to be heir to.

Baseless fabric.--In Enfield's Speaker, this line is not the same as in Johnson's Shakespeare-which runs thus,

"And like this insubstantial pageant faded :"

probably the line was altered to generalize the sentiment, which in