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AGNES OF HIGH SUNDERLAND. 



" Oh leave me not, sweet Eclith. stay, 

 Share thnu my comh till lireak of day, 



Thy tale of love and horror tills 



My breast with te;irs, my blood it chills, 

 Edith, go ni)t away. 



Why shuns thou maiden, thus to share 

 My bel, — O grant my earnest prayer ! 



The lamp is dying. — but I fear 



No vision dread when thou art near, 

 They fail to scare. 



Why wecp'st thou Edith ? why those tears ? 



Let Agnes try to soothe thy fears : 

 Why does thy heart so loudly I eat ? 



V\ hy dost thou dread my gaze to meet ? 

 Mourn'st thou the minstrel's tares ? 



Lend me thy hand tolea'1 the way. 

 Hear me ray p.iter-noster say. 



Then let us sleep, till rosy morn 



Shall laugh our timid fears to scorn 

 Sweet Edith, why delay ?" 



'Round Agnes and her loving maid 

 We fling at last the heavy shade 



Of sacred sleep, — for vulgar eye 

 Should not (e'en tho' a port's) pry 

 O'er slumber, undismay'd. 



But from that night no sign appears 

 Of life, — till alter lapse of year?, 



Si'Uie peasnnts forced the outer gb.te, 

 Audlound wiihiu all desolate. 



And each e.tpressed his fears, 



Lest he might find the Corpses laid, 

 Ot love-lorn Agues and her maid ; — 



But Viiinly tho' they seaicheii the place. 

 They found of neither not a trace, 



Save Edith's clothes desplay'd. 



Since then strange fates the Hall has seen' 

 La\ished with praise, or scorn between ; 



But once there came a comely pair, 

 Who n<)!ed every ohject ihi^re, 



Few were forgot I ween. — 



And some did say who saw them stand. 

 That Agnes of High Sundt-rland, 



Looked vastly like her, — and in truth. 

 The man seem'd like that shepherd youth 

 Who longed to claim her hand. — 



1 leave thee now old hall, I've had ray way, 



And love lh<'e more, — 

 Hoping to visit thee soiiiC other day. 

 When one mure worthy shall have sung a lay 

 And wra])'d thee iu a garb of mystery, 

 Or furnished us a truer histury, 



Of thee of yore. 



J. H. 



Malleable Copper hy Electro-deposition. — M. Bouillet. has liiscovered 

 a reniedv for the brittleness of electro-deposited copper. He has found 

 that a small quantity of gelatine dissolved in the copper bath gives a copper 

 of nearly equal malleability to the rolled metal, whereas the pure bath 

 gives a very porous metal like cast copper. — (Abbe Moigno.) 



To Remedy the Dampness in Walls. — A correspondent of the 

 Chemical News, recommends that the walls should receive several coats of 

 Silicate of Soda (soluble glass), after which no damp will penetrate. 



Blasting ivith Sodium. — According to the British Journal of 

 Photography, experiments are being made in the Isle of Man and elsewhere 

 to ascertain the valne of Sodium, in contact with water and other 

 Bubstances, for blasting purposes 



