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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: character, and present habits and surroundings. A nobleman of the fine old French stock, reared amid aristocratic circles, and pursuing his literary work rather from that inner impulse which moves and controls every true child of the pen, than for pecuniary profit, he lives tranquilly at his estate of Les Angles, near Avignon, with its avenue of great chestnut-trees, a rural seigneur; visits Paris, spending a considerable portion of his time there, and ranks, probably, as the greatest survivor of the eminent group of critics who, during the last quarter of a century, have illustrated French literature. J. ESTEN COOKE. GOEL. SHE was lying in the oriel window of a spacious room, Partly reading, partly dreaming; I sat farther in the gloom. Morning sunlight, entering the half-closed shutters, o'er her strayed: It was very meet ? for her the sunlight, and for me the shade. Sudden said she, slow upraising from the book her dreamy eyes, You know all new-fangled things: pray, what is goel, Master Wise ? Not ' new-fangled '? Saxon, geale-w I had said, with learned air; But my lips were mute, I only watched the glory on her hair: And then stealing softly to her window: Goel? It is this? (And I touched the golden tresses) Would it tarnish with a kiss ? Ah ! the oriel window hath been darkened many and many a day, And the dreamy eyes are closed, the head is resting far away; Yet I never pass the silent house I do not think the word, Do not see the sweet lips parting, and my heart is strangely stirred. Do you think the story lacks a link ? Nay, let the rest pass by; More there is in almost every page perchance than meets the eye. Yet I own a restless longing where my darling is to be, With the long, soft, goel tresses safe enfolding her and me. Hugh Lyndsay. ...