The circle's bounding line are they, Its centre is my heart, My ready love the equal ray That flows to every part.

Another Chief, followed by the voices of the assembly, repeated, in a low deep tone, which fell on our ears as distinctly as the loudest trumpet-note in the midst of absolute silence, the solemn imprecation "Who denies a brother's need, Who in will, or word, or deed, Breaks the Circle's bounded line, Rends the Veil that guards the Shrine, Lifts the hand to lips that lie, Fronts the Star with soothless eye:.

By the Light that knows no flaw, By the Circle's perfect law, By the Serpent's life renewed, By the Wings' similitude

Rests the Golden Circle's glory, rests the silver gleam on her Who shall rein Kargynda's fury with a thread of gossamer.

The circle's formed, and all his fawning slaves Devoutly bow to earth; from every mouth The nauseous flattery flows, which he returns 490 With promises, that die as soon as born.

Yours and his, too, and all our little circle's most affect'e. C. LAMB.

Long be the social circle's grace and pride, Of parents' hopes, the dearest and the best, "The Dove of promise to this ark of rest:"

What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball? 4 While some, on earnest business bent, Their murmuring labours ply, 'Gainst graver hours, that bring constraint, To sweeten liberty: Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions dare descry; Still as they run they look behind.

True to the awful rites of old, In long and measured strides, behold The Chorus from the hinder ground, Pace the vast circle's solemn round.

Then, true to those strange rites of old, Pacing the circle's solemn round, In long and measured stridesbehold, They vanish in the hinder ground!

She motioned Shane, who had prostrated himself, clansman fashion upon the floor, to rise, "check'd with a glance the circle's smile," eyeing as she did so, not without characteristic appreciation, the redoubtable thews and sinews of this the most formidable of her vassals.

"'World-circle's brow, Thou mighty North!