Both are so chang’d, that did we meet We might but marvel we had lov’d: What made our earliest dream so sweet?-- Illusions--long, long since remov’d. I sorrow--but it is to know How still some fair deceit unweaves-- To think how all of joy below Is only joy while it deceives. I sorrow--but it is to feel Changes which my own mind hath told:-- What, though time polishes the steel, Alas! it is less bright than cold. Have more smiles, and fewer tears; But tears are now restrain’d for shame: Task-work the smiles my lip now wears, That once like rain and sunshine came. Where is the sweet credulity, Happy in that fond trust it bore, Which never dream’d the time would be When it could hope and trust no more? Affection, springing warmly forth-- Light word, light laugh, and lighter care Life’s afternoon is little worth-- The dew and warmth of morning air. I would not live again love’s hour; But fain I would again recall The feelings which upheld its power-- The truth, the hope, that made it thrall. I would renounce the worldliness, Now too much with my heart and me; In one trust more, in one doubt less, How much of happiness would be!-- Vainer than vain! Why should I ask Life’s sweet but most deceiving part? Alas! the bloom upon the cheek Long, long outlives that of the heart. L. E. L.--_Monthly Magazine._ * * * * * TIMBER IN BOGS. It is stated in the second report of the commissioners on the bogs of Ireland, that _three_ distinct growths of timber, covered by three distinct masses of bog, are discovered on examination. But whether these morasses were at first formed by the destruction of whole forests, or merely by the stagnation of water in places where its current was choked by the fall of a few trees, and by accumulations of branches and leaves, carried down from the surrounding hills, is a question. Professor Davy is of opinion, that in many places where forests had grown undisturbed, the trees on the outside of the woods grew stronger than the rest, from their exposure to the air and sun; and that, when mankind attempted to establish themselves near these forests, they cut down the large trees on their borders, which opened the internal part, where the trees were weak and slender, to the influence of the wind, which, as is commonly to be seen in such circumstances, had immediate power to sweep down the whole of the internal parts of the forest. The large timber obstructed the passage of vegetable recrement, and of earth falling towards the rivers; the weak timber, in the internal part of the forest after it had fallen, soon decayed, and became the food of future vegetation.