Like Eve, who hid her from the dread command Deep in the dewy blooms of paradise; So thy shy soul, love calling, fears to stand Discover’d at thine eyes. Or, like a tender little fawn, which lies Asleep amid the fern, and waking, hears Some careless footstep drawing near, and flies, Yet knows not what she fears. So shrinks thy soul, but, dearest, shrink not so; Look thou into mine eyes as I in thine, So our reflected souls shall meet and grow, And each with each combine In something nobler; as when one has laid Opposite mirrors on a cottage wall; And lo! the never-ending colonnade, The vast palatial hall. So our twin souls, by one sweet suicide, Shall fade into an essence more sublime; Living through death, and dying glorified, Beyond the reach of time. SHADOWS. SHADOW gives to sunshine brightness, And it gives to joy its lightness; Shadow gives to honour meekness, And imparts its strength to weakness; Shadow deepens human kindness, Draws the veil from mental blindness; Shadow sweetens love’s own sweetness, And gives to life its deep intenseness; Shadow is earth’s sacredness, And the heaven’s loveliness; Shadow is day’s tenderness, And the night’s calm holiness; Shadow’s deepest night of darkness Will break in day’s eternal brightness. SHADOWS. IN the band of noble workers, Seems no place for such as I— They have faith, where I have yearning, They can speak where I but sigh, They can point the way distinctly Where for me the shadows lie. Lofty purpose, strong endeavour, These are not ordain’d for me— Wayside flower might strive for ever, Never could it grow a tree— Yet a child may laugh to gather, Or a sick man smile to see. So I too in God’s creation Have my own peculiar part, He must have some purpose surely For weak hand and timid heart, Transient joys for my diffusing, For my healing transient smart. Just to fling a moment’s brightness Over dreary down-trod ways, Just to fan a better impulse By a full and ready praise— Pitying where I may not succour, Loving where I cannot raise. ORGAN-BOYS. A LEGEND OF LONDON. BY THOMAS INGOLDSBY, MINOR.