A LITERARY CERIostrY

The following remarkable filth!, poem is

a contribution to the San Praneiseo_Tfol..,,

from the pen of Mrs. IT. A. Deming. (The

realler will notice that emelt line is 5 4 ;1 - 0.-

tation from some one of the stamlatsl all

titers of England and America. This is

the result of a ye ir's laborious search a­

mong the volumbions writings of thirty­

eight leading poets of the past and present.

The number of each line refers to Its author

below :

I. Why an Ws toll for triumphs of hour !

2. LI fa's a 'tort luanaor, man a Anwar.

By turns WO catch the vital breath end die—

The cradle and the total), alas I eu nigh. ,

To be, Is better far than not W be.

Though all males life may seem a tragedy;

But light eerie speak whim mighty gt le b ase dumb

The bottom la bat shallow whoitlee they come.

You fate le but the outman Atte of alt ;

• UnmlogledJoye here to no bin hnfall.

Nature to each *Oats Its prootet sphere

Fortune makes 61iy her pecutilr cars.

Custom does often reason overrnls,

And throw • cruel sunshine on a WI

15. Lire well; how long or short, permit to Ileasen

Id. They who twee* most shall be moat Gtrglemt.

17. Sin may barb/pad sodas* we mom.: see Its Iko—

n. Vire Intercourse, whanavlrtne Its' no Oita

10. Theo keep snob pennon down, huwever dear,

211 Thou pendolom betwixt a smile and tear.

21. 11er sensual star let 6lthlea. Plasaara

22. With craft aad still, to raja and Witray.

Soar not too high to WI, but stoop to r!.«

Re masters grow of all that we despise.

Oh, then, I renounce that itnplcui molt cetecta

althea have wing., and !grandeur la a drama.

27. Think not ambition wise !wanes 'tin lases

28. The paths of glory lead bat to the grave.

29. What isambition! Ms u giorkum cheat

30. Only destructive to the brave and grout.

11. What's all the gsady glitite edit crows,

32. Tim way to bile, lies not Nets of ilowii•

33. Uow 1004 we live, out years, but a.:tian tell ;

31. That am lives twice who lives the first life well

o, then,whlleiet ye may , yonr y.•ur friend

Whom Chrlitisit worship, yet not comprehend:

The trust that's given guard, sod to roanell bojo.t

For, live we how we eau, die we must.

1, Young ; 2, Dr. Johnson ; 3, Pope ;

Prior; 5, Sewell; G, Spenser; 7, Daniell ;

8, Sir Walter Raleigh; 9, Longfellow ;

Sonthwell ; ►l, Congrere; 12, etutrchilt ;

IS, Rochester ; 14, Armstrong; 15, Milton,

16, Bailey; 17, Trench; is, Somerville.

19, Thomson; 20, Byron.; 21, Smollett ;

Crabbe; 23, Messinger; 24, Ccitvierr2s,

Beattie': 2G, Cowper; 27, Sir Walter flare­

mint; 28, Gray; 29, Willis; 30, A.4.ldis4)n :

31, Dryden; 32, Frauds. Quarles : 33, W.kt -

king; 31, Lierriek ; 3. , William ALLior.; ::.;,

Hill; 37, Dena; :18, e.lualesfieare.