THE POOL AND THE SOUL.

("Comme dans les étangs.") {X., May, 1839.}

As in some stagnant pool by forest-side, In human souls two things are oft descried; The sky,—which tints the surface of the pool With all its rays, and all its shadows cool; The basin next,—where gloomy, dark and deep, Through slime and mud black reptiles vaguely creep. R.F. HODGSON