Beneath the shock of grief, maternal Love
Caught that one word of hope, and held it high,
And grappling to it, like a broken raft,
Still breasts the shoreless ocean of despair.
Monday, August 31, 1840.
"King Arthur's wassail cup."
Carlisle, principally distinguished as it was in border-warfare, had also, as it appears by ancient chronicles, its share in the festivities of the olden time.
"The great king Arthur made a royal feast,
And kept his merry Christmas at Carlisle,
And thither came the vassals most and least,
From every corner of the British isle."
Also in an ancient ballad, in Bishop Percy's Reliques, the same allusion is made.
"In Carlisle dwelt King Arthur,
A prince of passing might,
And there maintained his table round,
Beset with many a knight,
And there he kept his Christmas,
With mirth and great delight."
"England's cloth-yard arrow."
Sir Walter Scott says, "In some of the counties in England, distinguished for archery, shafts of this ex-
