We had intended to conclude this paper with some few remarks upon Sir Joshua, his style, and influence upon art, but we have not space. Perhaps we may fulfil this part of our intention in another number of Maga. * * * * * THE YOUNG GREY HEAD. Grief hath been known to turn the young head grey-- To silver over in a single day The bright locks of the beautiful, their prime Scarcely o'erpast: as in the fearful time Of Gallia's madness, that discrownèd head Serene, that on the accursed altar bled Miscall'd of Liberty. Oh! martyr'd Queen! What must the sufferings of that night have been-- _That one_--that sprinkled thy fair tresses o'er With time's untimely snow! But now no more Lovely, august, unhappy one! of thee-- I have to tell an humbler history; A village tale, whose only charm, in sooth, (If any) will be sad and simple truth. "Mother," quoth Ambrose to his thrifty dame-- So oft our peasant's use his wife to name, "Father" and "Master" to himself applied, As life's grave duties matronize the bride-- "Mother," quoth Ambrose, as he faced the north, With hard-set teeth, before he issued forth To his day labour, from the cottage door-- "I'm thinking that, to-night, if not before, There'll be wild work. Dost hear old Chewton[12] roar? It's brewing up down westward; and look there, One of those sea-gulls! ay, there goes a pair; And such a sudden thaw! If rain comes on, As threats, the waters will be out anon. That path by th' ford's a nasty bit of way-- Best let the young ones bide from school to-day." "Do, mother, do!" the quick-ear'd urchins cried; Two little lasses to the father's side Close clinging, as they look'd from him, to spy The answering language of the mother's eye. _There_ was denial, and she shook her head: "Nay, nay--no harm will come to them," she said, "The mistress lets them off these short dark days An hour the earlier; and our Liz, she says, May quite be trusted--and I know 'tis true-- To take care of herself and Jenny too. And so she ought--she's seven come first of May-- Two years the oldest: and they give away The Christmas bounty at the school to-day."