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[email protected]. ()W VOl. VIII. OCT()BER, 1873. i\'o. 2. THE ST.A.rrES1\fA.N'S DREAJVL (W. P. VEUVE, Mental Philosophy.) B ~A.z O N E D ' high amid the records of the pillared dome of Fame, With a lustre ever brightening, shines Iny praised illy honored nan.1c. Far and wide my deeds are sounded, in the hearty Saxon tongue; Thousands for my beck have waited, thousands on my accents hung. Fortune's favor on me showers all the gifts my soul can crave: Wealth is mine: more never miser hoarded yet in secret cave. Friends surround me, strong in numbers, true in faith as tempered steel; Ready, or with hand or fortune, to . b ~ s t i r them for n1Y weal. Think'st thou then, 0 gentle stranger, that il1y lot 111U.st happy be? Nay, but list, tbe while I tell thee of a dream that haunted I11e] "Twas a fair autumnal evening, not so very long ago; Ah l distinctly I remember how the shadows 'gan to grow.