Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 66, No. 408, January 1849

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Various. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 66, No. 408, January 1849

THE CAXTONS. – PART THE LAST

CHAPTER CI

CHAPTER CII

CHAPTER CIII

CHAPTER CIV

CHAPTER CV

CHAPTER CVI

CHAPTER CVII

CHAPTER CVIII

LYNMOUTH REVISITED

WHAT HAS REVOLUTIONISING GERMANY ATTAINED?

THE GREEN HAND – A "SHORT" YARN

PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY.14

CIVIL REVOLUTION IN THE CANADAS – A REMEDY

THE ENGLISH MAIL-COACH, OR THE GLORY OF MOTION

DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS.27

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Adieu, thou beautiful land! Canaan of the exiles, and Ararat to many a shattered ark! Fair cradle of a race for whom the unbounded heritage of a future, that no sage can conjecture, no prophet divine, lies afar in the golden promise-light of Time! – destined, perchance, from the sins and sorrows of a civilisation struggling with its own elements of decay, to renew the youth of the world, and transmit the great soul of England through the cycles of Infinite Change. All climates that can best ripen the products of earth, or form into various character and temper the different families of man, "rain influences" from the heaven, that smiles so benignly on those who had once shrunk, ragged, from the wind, or scowled on the thankless sun. Here, the hardy air of the chill Mother Isle, there the mild warmth of Italian autumns, or the breathless glow of the tropics. And with the beams of every climate, glides subtle Hope. Of her there, it may be said as of Light itself, in those exquisite lines of a neglected poet —

Adieu, my kind nurse and sweet foster-mother! – a long and a last adieu! Never had I left thee but for that louder voice of Nature which calls the child to the parent, and woos us from the labours we love the best by the chime in the Sabbath-bells of Home.

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Blanche, (passing by Squills, and glancing towards Roland.) – Hush!

Roland remains silent.

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