I’ve been a-musing, a-musing, a-musing; An aged sire I saw with stray locks gray, The heat and burden borne of life now closing; I watched his features as he knelt to pray, His spirit fled serene as sun’s last ray, I’ve been a-musing, a-musing, a-musing, Lonely and pensive by a river’s side, In rev’ry sunk my moody self a-losing, List’ning the waters tinkling as they glide. Ah! such is life, methought, a passing tide. London: Printed by STEWART and MURRAY, Old Bailey. * * * * * January, 1845. A Catalogue OF INTERESTING WORKS, IN THE PRESS OR RECENTLY PUBLISHED BY SMITH, ELDER AND CO., 65, CORNHILL, LONDON. Preparing for Publication. [Illustration] OBSERVATIONS IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE, MADE DURING A RECENT RESIDENCE AT THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. By SIR JOHN HERSCHEL, Bart., F.R.S., &c. To be Illustrated by numerous Plates. JUST PUBLISHED, In One Volume, post 8vo., cloth, THE DUTIES OF JUDGE ADVOCATES. Compiled from Her Majesty’s and the Hon. East India Company’s Military Regulations, and from the works of various writers on Military Law. By CAPTAIN R. M. HUGHES, 12th regt. B. N. I., Deputy Judge Advocate General, Scinde Field Force. JUST PUBLISHED, In One Volume, post 8vo., price 10s. 6d., cloth, with a Portrait of Author, CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES: TALES, SKETCHES, AND CHARACTERS. WITH BEAUTIES OF THE MODERN DRAMA, IN FOUR SPECIMENS. By JOHN POOLE, Esq., Author of “Paul Pry,” &c. &c. _Now publishing in Quarterly Volumes_, THE WORKS OF G. P. R. JAMES, ESQ. Price 8s. cloth, Handsomely printed in medium 8vo, and Illustrated. This new and attractive series of Mr. James’s works commenced on the 1st of July with the “Gipsey,” and was followed, on the 1st of October, by “Mary of Burgundy.” The future volumes will be published Quarterly, each containing a complete work. The whole of this edition has been carefully revised by the author, and is got up in that superior style and agreeable size of type which render it fit for every age and for every library. Vol. 3, containing the “Huguenot,” a Tale of the French Protestants, will be published on the 1st January, 1845, and will contain, in addition to the usual Illustration, a new and highly-finished Portrait of the Author.