POETRY.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2441, 1 February 1882, Page 4

POETRY.

ONE MOBE UNFORTUNATE. 1 0 [" Chambers' Journal."] I The winds upon the wave are sleeping, « And softly murmureth the sea ; . The stars in heaven's blue canopy ; With the bright moon, their watob. axe ; keepirg. ■ And by that light so calmly dipping * Beneath the bridge, botween the piers, j I see the glittering spars, and spears Of sails, close reefed, upon the shipping. j I mark the boatman, late and lonely, In silence feathering the sculls, Glide slowly past the distant hulls, That look giant shadows only. And from the darkness of the city As from the weary heart, doth come The wail of a regretful hum, That wakes an answering sigh of pity. 3Tor oold with care, a child of sorrow Kneels down to meet the cruel wave ; Alaok! it were a peaoeful grave, It were a lovable to-morrow > Jfoot heart! to weep when all the heaven Is glistening in the joy of light; Poor heart! to sorrow most at night, When oare and sorrow are forgiven. And now a hand in anguish dashes Away a cloud of tears that tinge The fair white light of heaven, and fringe The drooping border of her lashes. Anon a hand is raised above her, And in sad melody, a prayer Goes upward—up the altar stair, JTor maiden frail and faithless lover. Tba lights beside the water shiver, The sails elose-reefed shake on the matt, At slowly, slowly goeth past A iweet white face adown the river. In tangled mass the hair is streaming, That lately curled in pride of love, The sightless eyes are fixed above,_ Wide open, blind to moonlight beaming. And cast adrift and unforgivon, Ye say that soul will bo at last, That love is lost, that heaven will blast ; .Ah! nought know ye of love or heaven. A LAY FROM THE LANCET. Bad complexions, blotchy and rough skins, deficient eyebrows and eyelashes, and _ bald heads are becoming common characteristics, not only of the frivolous or dissipated classes, but of the respeotablo and sedate community aa a whole. These are the oonsequences of that hurtful recourse to washes, soaps, powders, hair strengthened and producers and depilatories whioh has become general of - late /ears. —" Lanoet" You were fair till you tried those emulsions and dyes, Whioh the chemist and hairdresser offer for sale; Sat oh! why should yon wish to make brighter bright eyes, Or to radii?? a pheek that is perfeot when pale P Don't yon know that those washes and soaps must do harm— That there's woe in the compounds that ohemists prepare ? Wan the fairest of maidens you'll own loses charm, When the hair-wash she uses deprives her Of hair! So no wonder that muddy complexions increase, And that eyebrows and eyelashes vanish away; Sat we turn to oar " Lin cot," and that gives us peace;, If we follow the rules that it lays down to-day. Let vile nostrums alone, or abandon all hope Of a faoe without blotohes and rubicund noae 5 Bat just stiok to spring water and plenty of soap, And you'll find your oomplexion as fresh as a rose. —London " Punoh."