But found his horse all on a sweat; His daughter he said nothing to, Her father to the father went They asked her, and she still did say A handkerchief she said she tied Affrighted then they did behold And though he had a month been dead, This thing unto her then they told, And grievéd, that she quickly died. Part not true love, you rich men, then; You look o'cr the sweet vales of green Surrey there, O, Farnham, green Farnham, what hop-grounds are there O, Dorking is pleasant, and Dorking is green, And Deepdene's green woods will no more meet my eye; But the green woods of Surrey, the sweet woods of Surrey, The dear woods of Surrey, I'll love till I die. O, Kent has fair orchards; no pleasanter show O Surrey, green Surrey, that I had been born To a farm 'mongst your fields, with its hops and its corn, Minnesota's green prairies have plenty for all, But sighing avails not, and wishing is vain, To make dear to my heart, as they're fair to my eye; 'Neath the park limes in Betchworth, 't is there I would stroll; O, to walk but once more by the clear winding Mole! But no more shall I hear the soft breeze rustle by Through those lime-tops, no more by the Mole I shall lie; But the clear streams of Surrey, the sweet streams of Surrey, The dear streams of Surrey, I'll love till I die. By the gray ivied church, where my father is laid, Where my mother lies with him, my grave should be made, But, far from them, my bones, when my time comes, must lie 'Neath the rain and the snow of a strange foreign sky; O, the green hills of Surrey, the sweet vales of Surrey, The dear fields of Surrey, I'll love till I die. William C. Bennett. Sussex. WHY ARE THEY SHUT? THE following stanzas were composed while the author was sitting outside a country church, in Sussex, much regretting that, as it was weekday, he could not gain admittance to the sacred edifice. THY are our churches shut with jealous care, WHY Bolted and barred against our bosom's yearning, Save for the few short hours of sabbath prayer, With the bell's tolling statedly returning? Why are they shut? If with diurnal drudgeries o'erwrought, We wish to snatch one little space for thought, Why are they shut? What! shall the church, the house of prayer, no more Give tacit notice from its fastened portals, That for six days 't is useless to adore, Since God will hold no communings with mortals? Are there no sinners in the churchless week, Are there no poor, no wronged, no heirs of grief, By kneeling at the God of mercy's altars? Why are they shut? Are there no wicked, whom, if tempted in, O, if there be, how solemn is the question, Why are they shut? In foreign climes mechanics leave their tasks |