LYRICS, SONGS AND SONNETS. BY AMOS HENRY CHANDLER AND CHARLES PELHAM M ULVANY. - 1880 - PREFACE - We lay before the Canadian literary public this volume of verse, the . work of two Canadian writers. The object of the Poems on Religious Subjects herein published is to assert the claims of religious thought from the liberal standpoint. Some of the lyrics by both writers have had the advantage of appearing in our Canadian MO nthly and a t i o h R l e view, which has done so much to foster a native literature under the editorship of Mr. G. Mercer Adam. Some of the lyrics, relating to classical history, and the Latin poems, have been honoured with a place in Kottabos, the serial representing the University of Dublin. AMOS HENRY CHANDLER, Nez B r. lazs wick. CIIARLES PELHAM MULVANY, Toronto. LIBRUM SUUM DEDICANT CIVES DUO, STRENUO LIBERTATIS VINDICATORI. TO LIBERTY. LO toward the West a swif t-descending light, That soon shall circle the long clouded earth, Wide blazing, as a gem of priceless worth, Those beams shall yet pierce through the darkest night Of ignorance and sin, with flashes bright -Dispel the fogs, as doth the glowing birth Of summers sun, the mists, , when song and mirth The East vales gladden still pursue thy flight. Shine steady on, 0 Star of Liberty Till waning sects and superstitious creeds No longer bind the consciences of men Till shackles fall, and every slave is free Till bread, not stone, is sent to crying needs-The world shall hail thee her deliverer, then LYRICS OF IIISTOItY AND LIFE. CHARLES PELHAM MULVANY. Ce petit livre, O ma chbre, Que Monsieur Rose a puhli4 Cest le tombeau, cest la parterre, Oh ma jeunesse est enterrke. LYRICS OF HISTORY AND LIFE. STELLA. ONLY a womans hair Found as such relics are found After long years, when the night Closed on what once had been Swift,-Stellas the raven-black tress,-Swifts the inscription, no doubt. Whereat reporters and critics Cast in their Liliput minds What the dead giant might mean, Was it the misathrophes scorn Mocking himself in his pain, Making the love that had died Point one last epigram more Not so, reporters and critics Read how, the night that she diecl, 10 LYRICS OF HIYTORY AND LIFE. Swift sat alone in the dark, Tearless, unable to think -No in these - words are the tears And the tlloughts that would coiue not that da. y. Only a woinans hair All that was left of her now, All that was left of a love True through the world, throug11 the years-Born with his boyhood, to share Battle and darkness and need, Linking his youth to old age-Proud when the Victor prevailec1,-Glad when the athlete was crowned,--True when the dark hours came on,-Smiling to calm the wild eyes,-Kissing the lips fierce with scorn. Only a wolnnns hair l HOW he remembered when first Seen as it curled over eyes Bent on his own, as they two, Uncler the formal, close-trimmed, High-Dutclt, dwarf trees of Moor Park,--Types of the pedant its lord,-Learned a new language of soul--Krsatheci a new life that set free Genius aud Youth, Hope and - Love. Only a wornalls hair l And he had seen it so often Blown by the Li racor w incls,-Brightened by suns that have set Where the strearil shewecl-does it shew Still,-the grey Parsonage walls Still those grey walls which that guest Coming and going made glad-Graced with the charm of her youtll, ...