“After the funeral was ower, and the mourners were all gone, I stood beside her grave, thinking ower the days of my boyhood, when she and I were happy weans, an’ used to pu’ the gowans together, on the heathery hills o’ dear auld Scotland. An’ I tried in vain to understan’ the mysterious providence o’ God, who had stricken her who seemed sae gude and pure, an’ spared the like o’ me, who was mair deservin’ o’ his wrath, when I heard a deep groan, an’ I saw Willie Robertson standing near me beside the grave. “‘Ye may as weel spare your grief, noo,’ said I, for I felt hard toward him, an’ rejoice that the weary is at rest.’ “‘It was I murdered her,’ said he, ‘an’ the thought will haunt me to my last day. Did she remember me on her death-bed?’ “‘Her thoughts were only ken’d by Him who reads the secrets of a’ hearts, Willie. Her end was peace, an’ her Saviour’s blessed name was the last sound upon her lips. But if ever woman died fra’ a broken heart, there she lies.’ “‘Oh, Jeanie!’ he cried, mine ain darling Jennie! my blessed lammie! I was na’ worthy o’ yer love—my heart, too, is breaking. To bring ye back aince mair, I wud lay me down an’ dee!’ “An’ he flung himsel’ upon the grave, and embraced the fresh clods, and greeted like a child. “When he grew more calm, we had a long conversation about the past, and truly I believe that the man was not in his right senses when he married yon wife; at ony rate, he is not lang for this world; he has fretted the flesh aff his banes, an’ before many months are ower, his heid will lie as low as puir Jeanie Burns’s.” * * * * * =THE LAST HOUR OF SAPPHO.= =BY E. ANNA LEWIS.= THE PROMONTORY OF LEUCADIA. This is the spot—’tis here tradition says, That hopeless love from this high towering rook Leaped headlong to oblivion, or to death. Oh, ’tis a giddy height! my dizzy head Swims at the precipice!—’tis death to fall. Southey. My life is in its last hour . . . . ——————farewell, ye opening heavens! Look not upon me thus reproachfully— Ye were not meant for me—earth! take these atoms! _Manfred._ I.