510 Public Charities. [MAY, 



J804, a committee reported that no steps had been taken, and recom- 

 mended instant compliance, and further to add the savings on the Grantham 

 lecture how they arose is quite unintelligible amounting to 93 II. 5s. 

 to the original 3,100/. No. livings are yet purchased, and we hope now, 

 that no livings will be purchased, but that some better mode of disposing 

 of this 4,0001. the wisdom of parliament will quickly discover. 

 The Haberdashers' and the South wark Charities, next month. 



KINDRED HEARTS. 



OH ! ask not, hope thou not too much 



Of sympathy below ; 

 Few are the hearts whence one same touch 



Bids the sweet fountains flow ; 

 Few and by still conflicting powers 



Forbidden here to meet 

 Such ties would make this life of our's 



Too fair for aught so fleet, 



It may be that thy brother's eye 



Sees not as thine, which turns 

 In such deep reverence to the sky, 



Where the rich sunset burns : 

 It may be that the breath of spring, 



Born amidst violets lone, 

 A rapture o'er thy soul can bring 



A dream, to his unknown. 



The tune that speaks of other times 



A sorrowful delight ! 

 The melody of distant chimes, 



The sound of waves by night; 

 The wind that, with so many a tone, 



Some chord within can thrill, 

 These may have language all thine own, 



To him a mystery still. 



Yet scorn thou not for this, the true 



And stedfast love of years ; 

 The kindly, that from childhood grew, 



The faithful to thy tears ! 

 If there be one that o'er the dead 



Hath in thy grief borne part, 

 And watched through sickness by thy bed, 



Call his a kindred heart ! 



But for those bonds all perfect made, 



Wherein bright spirits blend, 

 Like sister flowers of one sweet shade, 



With the same breeze that bend, 

 For that full bliss of thought allied, 



Never to mortals given, 

 Oh ! lay thy lovely dreams aside, 



Or lift them unto heaven. F. H. 



