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Show LINES TO A SKELETON. t bout fifty scars ago the London Morning Morn-ing Chronicle published a joein entitled ' Lines to a Skeleton," which excited much attention INers iffort. even to the offer, lug of a reward of Co guineas, was vnlnly mndn to discover the author All thut eicr transpired was that the poem In a fnlr clerk s hand wns tnund near a skel-etnn skel-etnn of remarkable biauts of form and color in the museum of the Ftnval College of Suri-eons 1 Inioln s Inn. London anl that the curator of the museum had suit to Mr Perrs, editor nnd proprietor of the Morning Chronicle Uehnld this ruin, twas n tkull, Once of etherlvl spirit full This narrow cell was life s retreat, This spice was tho ight s mssterlous scat Mbit beauteous visions filled this spot What dreams nf pleasures long forgot, Norhoie nor love nor Jos nor fear. Have left one traco of record here Ilenenth this moul lerlng canopy Once shown the bright and busy esc. Hut start n U at the dlsmnl void If social love that esc emploscd If with no lawless lire It gleamed Hut through the dews of kindness beamed That eje s'lall te forever bright W hen stars an 1 suns aro sunk in night Within this hollow cavirn hung The reads swift and tuneful tongue If fnlsehoo I s hones It dtsd lined Anl when It could not praise was chained, If bold In virtues cause It spoke, "Set gentle loncord never broke, 'Ihls silent tongue shall pie id for theo When Tinio unv.Ils eternlts Sis' did these llncers delve the mine or with Its envied rubks shine? To hew tho roik or wear the gem Can llttlo now avail to them Hut If the I age of truth thes sought, Or comfort to the mourner bronchi riieec hands a ilcher meed shall clHlm Ihan nil that wall on wealth or fume Avails It whether bale or shod, These f.et tho i ithi of .hits trod? If from the bowers of ease thes fled To seek allll. Hon humble abed If grniideum guin bribe thes spurned And home to virtu r iot returned-llicse returned-llicse feet with aiigU wings shall vie, I nd lr.nl th. piljc of tho k$ |