Travels in the United States, etc.,: during 1849 and 1850./ By the Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley.

TRAVELS IN AMERICA.
'Tis a glad, gracious study for the soul,
As part by part the Heaven-stamped leaves unroll
To watch the crowing triumphs still expand,
The will, the wisdom live along the land!
Not only all-majestic Nature here
Speaks to each kindling thought, but far and near
A large and mighty meaning seems to lurk,
A glorious mnlind is every where at work!A bold, grand spirit rules and reigns around,
And sanctifies the common air and ground;
And glorifies the lowliest herb and stone
With conscious tints and touches of its own —
A spirit ever flashing back the sun,
That scorns each prize while aught is to be won —
More boundless than the prairie's wondrous sweep,
Or the old Atlantic's long-resounding deep;And more luxuriant than the forest's crowd
Of patriarch trees, by weightiest foliage bowed;M(,Ire rich than Calilornia's teeming mould
Whose hoarded sunbeams laugh to living gold;More soaring far than the immemorial hills,
More fresh and flowing than their streams and rills.
That mind of quenchless energy and power
Which springs from strength to strength, hour after hour;
Man's glorious mind in its most glorious mood,That seems for aye, on every side to brood
In this empurpled and exultant land
So gladly bowed beneath its bright command.
Man's sovereign mind in its most sovereign march,
Embr'acing earth, like light's own rainbowed arch.
That soul-that mind,'tis every where revealed,It crowns the steep, it gilds thile cultured field,
Bids science, art, and studious knowledge aid,
Till all hath heard its voice, and all obeyed.
It charms the waste, and paves the rushing stream,
And scarce allows the sun a vagrant beam;
The obsequious lightning to its service trains,
And bids the elements to wear its chains.
It tames the rugged soil of rocks, and flings
From seas to seas the shadow of its wings;
And Time and Space in that great shadow rest,
And watch to serve their ruler-sons' behest;
And still its growing, gathering influence spreads,
And still abroad its own great life it sheds
O'er mount and lake, o'er cataract, field and floodO'er rock, and cave, and isle, o'er plain and wood:
It lives, it lightens; and its might inspires
Each separate scene with fresh creative fires.
Where'er it moves a wondering world awakes,
And fast all nature's form its likeness takes;
It quickening thrills, and kindles and pervades
Her startled deserts and receding shades,
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