FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1872.

Beyond the darkening ocean burned The bloody sunset's embers, While the Crimean valleys learned How British love remembers. And once again a "fire of Hell" (Feu d'enfer) Rained on the Russian quarters; With screams of shot, and bursts of shell, And bellowing of the mortars. But Irish Nora's eyes are dim For a singer, dumb & gone; And Highland Mary mourns for him Who sang of "Annie Laurie".— "Bayard Taylor"