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KIDD'S LONDON JOURNAL. 



SPRING IS COMING. 



Spring is coming — Spring is coming ! 



With her sunshine and her shower; 

 Heaven is ringing with the singing 



Of the birds in brake and bower; 

 Buds are filling, leaves are swelling, 



Flowers on field, and bloom on tree ; 

 O'er the earth, and air, and ocean, 



Nature holds her jubilee. 

 Soft then stealing, comes a feeling 



O'er my bosom tenderly; 

 Sweet I ponder, as I wander, 



For my musings are of thee. 



Spring is coming — Spring is coming ! 



With her mornings fresh and light ; 

 With her noon of chequered glory, 



Sky of blue and clouds of white. 

 Calm, grey nightfalls, when the light falls, 



From the star-bespangled sky, 

 While the splendor, pale and tender, 



Of the young moon gleams on high — ■ 

 Still at morn, at noon, and even, 



Spring is full of joy for me, 

 For I ponder, as I wander, 



And my musings are of thee. 



Still on thee my thoughts are dwelling, 



Whatsoe'er thy name may be; 

 Beautiful, beyond words telling, 



Is thy presence unto me. 

 Morning's breaking finds thee waking, 



Wandering in the breeze's flight; 

 Noontide's glory mantles o'er thee 



In a shower of sunny light: 

 Daylight dying, leaves thee lying 



In the silvery twilight ray ; 

 Stars look brightly on thee nightly 



Till the coming of the day. 



Everywhere and every minute 



Feel I near thee, lovely one ! 

 In the lark and in the linnet 



I can hear thy joyous tone. 

 Bud and blooming mark the coming 



Of thy feet o'er vale and hill ; 

 And thy presence, with life's essence 



Makes the forest's heart to fill. 

 Low before thee, I adore thee, 



Love Creative, thee I sing; 

 Now I meet thee, — and I greet thee 



By the holy name of Spring ! 

 [From the Dublin University Magazine.'] 



The Vegetarians. — Mrs. Swisshelm con- 

 cludes an article in her Pittsburgh Advertiser, 

 directed against the vegetarians, with the follow- 

 ing poser: — "As for not 'making walking se- 

 pulchres of themselves,' — this not one of them 

 can avoid. Everyone of them has swallowed a 

 hecatomb of living creatures, and the difference 

 between them and beefeaters is, that they prefer 

 to gulp their prey alive whole, while the others 

 have theirs killed and dressed. Fruit, vegetables, 

 and water, teem with animal life ; and the more 

 of these one eats and drinks, the more happy 

 families he consigns to a living tomb. Thus he 

 swallows whole nations, without deriving the 

 benefit he might from eating a thousandth part 

 of a single animal of another class." 



Letters. 



Strange and mysterious mixture of old rags 

 and size, what a world of emotions have you con- 

 veyed about this earth ! Not the most terrible 

 stage that has ever represented to the eyes of ad- 

 miring thousands the works of the poet, or 

 displayed the skill of the actor, has produced such 

 deep tragedy as you. Hovr often has the sight 

 of the thin folded sheet, with its strange, crooked 

 hieroglyphics, overwhelmed the lightest and the 

 gayest heart with heaviness and mourning ! how 

 often changed the smile into the tear ! how often 

 swept away the gay pageants of imagination, and 

 memory, and hope, and left the past all darkness, 

 and the future all despair ! But on the contrary, 

 how often have ye been the unexpected mes- 

 sengers of happiness and joy ! how often have ye 

 brought sunshine and light into a benighted 

 breast ! how often have ye dispelled in a moment 

 the dark thunder-clouds of the world's blackest 

 storms, — ay, and sometimes, too, have closed as 

 with a lightning-flash, the black tempestu- 

 ous day of a long sorrowful life, with a 

 gleam of ecstacy, too intense and potent to 

 survive ! 



NOTICE. 



KIDD'S OWN JOURNAL — The First 

 Volume of this Popular Miscellany, with 

 Title Page, Preface, Index, &c, is Now 

 Ready. Price 2s. 6d., handsomely bound in 

 cloth. 



Abridged from the Literary Times of April. 



"The time is quite gone by formatters of general 

 interest to be exclusive. The march of mind is rapidly 

 progressing, and everybody thirsts to be as well informed 

 as his neighbor. Mr. Kidd is evidently aware of this, 

 and all his writings wholesomely tend to the benefit and 

 instruction of society at large; and this at the cheapest 

 possible rate. . . . 



" Mr. Kidd has acted very judiciously in dividing this 

 work into Quarterly volumes. The First Volume, for 

 'Spring,' has just been issued; and by the aid of a most 

 lucid Index, and very instructive Preface, it is made a 

 really valuable Book of Reference. It is handsomely 

 bound in embossed cloth, and stamped on the side in 

 rich gold letters. As a literary or Birth-day Present, or 

 as an ornament for the Drawing-room table, no book 

 could be more suitable. It will be heartily welcomed 

 by all who love Nature and the works of God. 



"Summer, Autumn, and Winter, will form the three 

 volumes following next in older; and as the seasons 

 advance, it is only fair to anticipate even an increased 

 pleasure in a perusal of the articles from the Kditor's 

 observant pen. Nothing appears to escape his eye whilst 

 rambling through the fields, and he seems equally 'at 

 home' everywhere. . . . 



" A publication thus conducted, may be honestly 

 commended to the Million, for it puts infidelity to the 

 blush; atheism is indeed left no corner in which to hide 

 its guilty head." 



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London : Published for William Kidd, by William 

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