"FOR VIRTUOUS ACTS AND HARMLESS JOYS THE MINUTES WILL NOT STAY."-DR. CHARLES MACKAY.

"IF WRONG YOU DO, IN SUMMer among the flowers,-(MACKAY)

He popped his head under her wing, and lay

As still as a stone, till King Sun was away.

[The foregoing extracts are from "The Disciple, and Other Poems," published in 1867.]

Dr. Charles Mackay.

[CHARLES MACKAY, a lyrist of no common power, and a poet of considerable fertility of fancy and a wide and varied range of musical expression, was born at Perth in 1814. He published a small volume of poems in 1834, which led to his engagement on the Morning Chronicle, then a newspaper of great influence and popularity. In 1840 appeared his "Hope of the World," followed by the airy and graceful Rosicrucian romance of "The Salamandrine" in 1842. From 1844 to 1847 Dr. Mackay (he received the distinction of LL.D. from the University of Glasgow) edited the Glasgow Argus; after which, returning to London, he contributed leading articles to the Illustrated London News for a period of years. He has also acted as special correspondent for the Times. His principal works, in addition to those already mentioned, are:-"Legends of the Isles, and Other Poems" (1845); "Voices from the Mountains" (1846); "Town Lyrics" (1847); "Egeria" (1850): "The Lump of Gold" (1855); "Under Green Leaves" (1857); "A Man's Heart" (1860); "Studies from the Antique (1864); and the prose works of "The Thames and its Tributaries" (1840); and "Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions."]

"O PIETY, O HEAVENLY PIETY! SHE IS NOT RIGID AS A FANATIC'S DREAM."-DR. CHARLES MACKAY.

LOUISE ON THE DOOR-STEP.
ALF-PAST three in the morning,

And no one in the street

But me, on the sheltering door-step
Resting my weary feet;

Watching the rain-drops patter
And dance where the puddles run,
As bright in the flaring gaslight
As dew-drops in the sun.

YOU MUST ATONE IN WINTER AMONG THE SHOWERS."

-MACKAY.

"BUT YET THE WORLD GOES ROUND AND ROUND, AND THE GENIAL SEASONS RUN;

“WHAT MIGHT BE DONE IF MEN WERE WISE,-(MACKAY)

LOUISE ON THE DOOR-STEP.

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There's a light upon the pavement—

It shines like a magic glass,
And there are faces in it

That look at me and pass.
Faces-ah! well remembered
In the happy long ago,

When my garb was as light as lilies,
And my thoughts as pure as snow.
Faces! ah, yes! I see them-
One, two, and three-and four-
That come in the gust of tempests,
And go on the winds that bore.
Changeful and evanescent,
They shine 'mid storm and rain,
Till the terror of their beauty
Lies deep upon my brain.

One of them frowns ;-I know him,
With his thin long snow-white hair,-
Cursing his wretched daughter
That drove him to despair.
And the other with wakening pity
In her large tear-streaming eyes,
Seems as she yearned towards me,
And whispered "Paradise."

They pass, they melt in the ripples,
And I shut mine eyes, that burn,

To escape another vision

That follows where'er I turn

The face of a false deceiver

That lives and lies; ah, me!

Though I see it in the pavement,
Mocking my misery!

AND CEASED THEIR SCORN FOR ONE ANOTHER!"-MACKAY,

AND EVER THE TRUTH COMES UPPERMOST, AND EVER IS JUSTICE DONE."-MACKAY.

"THE GREAT MINDS THAT SOAR TO HEIGHTS SUBLIME, AND WIN IN PERIL ALL THE WORLD'S APPLAUSE,

"A NEW LIGHT HATH DAWNED ON THE DARKNESS OF YORE,—(MACKAY)

AND MEN SHALL BE SLAVES AND OPPRESSORS NO MORE."-DR. MACKAY.

ARE AYE THE SAME, IN A CALMER TIME, CONFORM THEM TO THE SWEET DOMESTIC LAWS."-MACKAY.

"BE WISE, OH, YE NATIONS! AND HEAR WHAT

YESTERDAY TELLETH TO-DAY,(CHARLES MACKAY)

"THE DAY HAS A TONGUE, THE HOURS UTTER SPEECH ;-(MACKAY)

WISE WILL YE BE IF YE LEARN WHAT THEY TEACH!"-DR. MACKAY.

A CHANGE COMETH OVER OUR SPHERE, AND THE OLD GOETH DOWN TO DECAY."-CHARLES MACKAY.

"THE VOICE OF OPINION HAS GROWN: 'TWAS YESTERDAY CHANGEFUL AND WEAK-MACKAY)

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"THE MIST, THE CLOUD FROM THEIR PATHWAY ARE CURLED;

DR. CHARLES MACKAY.

TO-DAY IT HAS TAKEN THE TONE OF AN ORATOR WORTHY TO SPEAK."-CHARLES MACKAY.