d high,
A soul that smiles on destiny.
As surges breaking on the shore,
Or like the distant torrents roar,
The shouts of victory rolled afar.
And shook the hills, as the victor's car
Gorgeous and bright was borne along
By the swift rush of the gathered throng.
A glorious sight on his haughty way,
With laurel crown, and mail-clad breast,
With waving plume and princely crest,
Was the conqueror on that day.

* * * * *

An old man paced the guarded room,
With quivering lip and brow of gloom,
And his silver hair in the moonlight shone
Like the grayish front of a time-worn stone;
Nor voice, nor sound the still air woke,
Till his burning words the silence broke:

I.

'Where is the shining car
And where the gorgeous train?
Fled as the falling star
That sunk behind the main!

II.

'Where is the victor's crown?
The pageant sweeping past?
Gone with the thistle-down,
Swept by the hurrying blast.

III.

'Where is the trump of Fame
That woke the startled air?
'Tis like my branded name,
And like my dying prayer.

IV.

'I've braved the din and strife
Of many a battle-plain,
And lavished strength and life;
My guerdon is a chain!

V.

'I brought a true heart brave,
A spirit bold and free,
Free as the ocean wave;
My country! unto thee.

VI.

'I had not thought to start
Before thy stinging frown;
Wo for the trusting heart!
Wo for the laurel crown!'

_Shelter Island_. MARY GARDINER.

A VERITABLE GHOST STORY.

'There are more things in heaven and earth
Than are dreamed of in our philosophy.'

Some forty years since, an elderly English gentleman, who had been
successful in his pursuit after wealth in the British metropolis,
determined upon purchasing an estate in the country, upon which he might
retire and enjoy the residue of life in unostentatious ease and quiet. He
was a man of elegant tastes and fond of antiquarian pursuits. This latter
predilection induced him, in his various summer journeyings in England, to
select from among those old inns or taverns which are invariably to be met
with in every ancient borough or market-town, the most respectable one, as
the place at which he wo