...save the sweet and consolatory dictates of the purest pity and compassion for suffering humanity. " O woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...variable as the shade, By the light quivering aspen made ; — When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou." Nothing could exceed the tender...

...!" The ensuing stauza ia eminently 1>«tiful :— " O woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, ooy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made. W lirii pain and anguish wring the brew A ministering angel thou !— . Scarce were the piteous accent!...

...appointed burden I Compare the beautifully delicate, but still kindred lines of Sir Walter Scott — ' O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! ' Or the more passionate breathings...

...squire, or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water, from the spring, To slake my dying thirst ! ' O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents...

...injured Clara alone remains — he cries for water to slake his thirst, on which the poet exclaims: * O, woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — " P. 362. And Clara comes to...

...groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water, from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !" — • XXXI. O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents...

...squire, or groom, one cup to bring Pf blessed water, from the spring, To slake my dying thirst !"— {5, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring die brow, A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents...

...or groom, one cup to bring Of blessed water from the spring. To »Ukc my d\ ir.g. thirst t • _0, woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade Bv the light quivering aspen imde; When pain and anguiih wring ihe hrow, A ministering angel, thou!...

...nurst, Page, squire, or groom, one cup Of blessed water from the spring, To »lake my dying thirst!" — O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brou , A ministering angel thou ! — Scarce were the piteous accents...

...assiduity towards them, that it brought forcibly to my recollection that beautiful passage in Marmion. O woman, in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and...variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou. Having discharged my djity at the...