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In Araby, or where the spicy clime 



Of Ternate woos the sea, until it comes 



At night time, to receive the perfumed strength 



Of winds, impregnate with its luscious sighs. 



Young Zephyrus followed with exulting step 

 Light as the words of his own I6ving voice 

 Falling on Echo's bosom, and he brought 

 Chaplets of flowers of every scent and hue 

 From the first snow drop of serene-eyed spring 

 To that small flower whose golden heart hath bloom 

 To garland dark December, though alone 

 It lifts its meek head on the desert hill : 

 He bore upon his wings the treasured sound 

 Of lovers' kisses that he caught amid 

 The silence floating ; and he went along 

 Diffusing so much sweetness that the glens. 

 The meadows and cool solitudes rejoiced. 



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THE MISERIES OF A GRAMMARIAN. 



Doctor Qualm was one of those book-worms who know nothing 

 of the world by which they are surrounded ; passing from school to 

 college, from the class room to the closet or library, he had made 

 the classics his favourite companion, and moreover prided himself 

 on the purity of his pronunciation of the dead authors, and on his 

 profound knowledge of his own language ; to these he had devoted 

 so much of his time, that he had neglected both his health and his 

 appearance; not that he was like a certain learned professor, so 

 dirty, slovenly, and sometimes ragged, as to be ' to dogs a terroi*, 

 and to men a shame.' On the contrary, cleanliness was an observ- 

 ance of this L. L. D. A. S. S.; but he cared as much about the 

 fashions as a donkey does about latitude and longitude. He was 

 only desirous to be amply clad, and never varied in his mode of 

 dress : his hat was umbrageous, as he used to call it, and of large 

 dimension ; his cauliflower wig would keep out a hail storm, if it 

 assailed him in the rear ; his coat had skirts under which he could 

 carry a month's provisions ; his boots were ample and easy, black 

 and all black ; and, when he was not up to his elbows in business, 

 he was up to his knees in boots; moreover, although he never 

 troubled his clear and steady head with love or politics, he was over 



