"That morning, thou, that slumbered not before, Nor slept, great Ocean I laid thy waves to rest, And hushed thy mighty minstrelsy.

Blithe was each valley, and each shepherd proud, While he did chant his rural minstrelsy: Attentive was full many a dainty ear, Nay, hearers hung upon his melting tongue, While sweetly of his Fairy Queen he sung; While to the waters' fall he tun'd for fame, And in each bark engrav'd Eliza's name:

Those mighty ones of old, half men half gods, Wrought deeds that shine in many a subtle strain; I, no unpractised minstrel, sing but him; Divinest ears disdain not minstrelsy.

like a seraph's sigh Breath'd to ethereal minstrelsy, And well ye'll deem what a sigh must be From the tearless heirs of eternity!

THE THEMES WHICH FORM THE MINSTRELSY OF THE EARLIEST AGES, either relate to the spoils of the chase or the dangers of the battle-field.

] The bride hath paced into the hall, Red as a rose is she; Nodding their heads before her goes 35 The merry minstrelsy.

King Arthur said, "I would fain hear your minstrelsy."

The Jacobite period from 1710 to 1750 considerably influenced Irish minstrelsy, and some of the most delightful airs were adapted to Jacobite lyrics.

Shakspere loved their simple minstrelsy; he put some of them into the mouth of Ophelia, and scattered snatches of them through his plays, and wrote others like them himself: Now, good Cesario, but that piece of song.

The idea of Mr. WALLACK permitting this negro minstrelsy in his theatre.

This minstrelsy of yours I must repay.

Still, from memory's urn, The lingering blossoms tenderly Refute our wilding minstrelsy.

He allows no change of season to abate his minstrelsy, to any observable degree, and seems equally happy and musical all the year round.

Again: "That morning, thou, that slumberedst not before, Nor sleptst, great Ocean, laidst thy waves at rest, And hush'dst thy mighty minstrelsy.