From kind feelings to the benevolence of the Franciscan mendicant’s address, which we may suppose ourselves to have just heard, we illustrate something of his purpose, by annexing the rose, the tulip, and the passion-flower, after an engraving by a catholic artist, who has impressed them with devotional monograms, and symbols of his faith. [Illustration] RURAL MUSINGS. _Margaret._--What sports do you use in the forest?-- _Simon._--Not many; some few, as thus:-- To see the sun to bed, and to arise, Like some hot amourist with glowing eyes, Bursting the lazy bands of sleep that bound him, With all his fires and travelling glories round him. Sometimes the moon on soft night clouds to rest, Like beauty nestling in a young man’s breast, And all the winking stars, her handmaids, keep Admiring silence, while those lovers sleep, Sometimes outstretcht, in very idleness, Naught doing, saying little, thinking less, To view the leaves thin dancers upon air, Go in eddy ground; and small birds, how they fare, When mother Autumn fills their beaks with corn, Filch’d from the careless Amalthea’s horn; And how the woods berries and worms provide Without their pains, when earth has naught beside To answer their small wants. C. LAMB. ~January 16.~ _St Marcellus_, Pope. _St. Macarius the elder_, of Egypt. _St. Honoratus._ _St. Fursey._ _St. Henry_, Hermit, &c. _St. Marcellus_, Pope. According to Butler, he was so strict in penance, that the Christians disliked him; he was banished by Maxentius, “for his severity against a certain apostate;” and died pope in 310. WINTER RAINBOW _in Ireland_. In the first of the “Letters from the Irish Islands,” in 1823, the writer addresses to his friend, a description of the rainbow on the hills at this season of the year. He says, “I could wish (provided I could ensure you one fine day in the course of the week) that you were here, to enjoy, in rapid succession, and, with all its wild magnificence, the whirlwind, the tempest, the ocean’s swell, and, as Burns beautifully expresses it, Some gleams of sunshine, ’mid renewing storms.