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LINES

Written by a ragged Irishman, a passenger on board a vessel with the Archbishop of Tuam.

  If each man had his suum,
  You would not have Tuam,
  But I should get meum,
  And sing a Te Deum.

G.K.

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MAY.

The following verses were composed by John Barbour, a poet and divine, who was born at Aberdeen in 1330.  They afford a specimen of the poetry in his time:—­

  “This was in midst of month of May,
  When birdis sing on ilka spray,
  Melland[5] their notes, with seemly soun,
  For softness of the sweet seasoun.

  “And leavis of the branchis spreeds,
  And blomis bright, beside them, breeds
  And Fieldis strawed are with flow’rs
  Well savouring of seir[6] colours;
  And all things wor this, blyth, and gay.”

P.T.W.

    [5] Mingling.

    [6] Their.

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POPULAR SCIENCE.

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