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CANADA. 
 
 A DESCRIPTIVE POEM, 
 
 Written at Quebec, 1805. 
 
 WITH 
 
 SATIRES-IMITATIONS-AND SONNETS. 
 
 « Pro Charis Amicis,'*'~Hor. Ode. 
 
 Ftinud by John N.ilioh, No. J. Mououin-Stre.t. 
 
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 INT 
 
DEDICATION 
 
 TO THE POEM ON CANADA. 
 
 TO MISS 
 
 THIS POEM 
 
 INTENDED TO DESCRIBE A COUNTRY, 
 
 OF WHICH 
 
 SHE IS THE GREATEST ORNAMENT, 
 
 IS INSCRIBED 
 
 AS A TRIBUTE OF AFFECTION 
 
 BY THE AUTHOR, 
 
ADVERTISEMENT. 
 
 J\ T the request of his friends, and willing to o- 
 blige where a compliment was so generously intended, the 
 author of the following «* Bagatelles," commits them to the 
 press. Should they chance to travel beyond the circle of his 
 acquaintance, he can only entreat the candid reader to make 
 allowances for the inexperience of a Youth (he may almost 
 say a School-boy) 5 and more particularly to overlook the er- 
 rors in his Poem on Canada, which he had not an opportu- 
 nity of correcting. 
 
 Quebec, February 1806. 
 
CANADA. 
 
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 PLAN OF THE FOE^f. 
 
 The view frem Cape Diamond described-The animal ?.nd vegltablc pfo- 
 ductions of the Country-The Indians with some conjectuves upon thdr 
 origin and former state— The colonization of Canada by the French Mis- 
 ,ionaries-lts conquest by the British in 1759-The De.th of Wolfe-Thc 
 reoulse of the Amer:can army under Montsomcry-Reflections upon De- 
 mocracy-and the usual evils oi a Revolution- Illustrated by France.- 
 The Contrast presented in the innocent manners ot the Canadians-The.r 
 Civil and Religious libertles-Their manners and customs described, as 
 varying according to the seasons— Upper Canada introduced— Lakes^ 
 Fnlis of Niagara— Roflectioas upon Great Britain and h:r Colonies— Ad- 
 dress to the St. Lawrepce--its rivers-towns and villages— Panegyric up- 
 on Quebec — Us G.-neral Hospital— The Nuns-ihrir amusements £.'c. 
 The Poem concludes v/lih a tr;bute of praise to the females of the Pro- 
 vince. 
 
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 Low st.-ep th' ascent ! how fearful from the brow 
 Projefting thus, to mark the gulf below ! 
 Ev'n now the fal'tring stmnd appears to sink— 
 Mv feet recoil with horror from the brink ! 
 One startling word might hurl the fleeting breath, 
 Wafted in midway air, to realms of Death ; 
 One more— one sudden glance— half snatch d— would seem 
 
 Inevitable fate ! Tis Fancy's dream— 
 
 And 'tis but for a nioaient ! Reason's laws 
 
 Return, colleaed, from the transient pause; 10 
 
 A thousand charms the raptur'd soul employ, 
 
 And fear i;.self is overwheim'd in joy. 
 
 The glittering spire— the rampart's massy tower, 
 The cannon frowning on opposing power ; 
 The tide-resisting wharf— the busy shore — 
 The bulky vessel — and the crowded store — 
 
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 Half- 
 
 K O T E . 
 
 self assailed by o'.e 
 
 Ver I " He who looks from a Prcciplce-.rinds Mmse , . . ,. 
 
 ■ ubie destruction — but this overvvhdming reflection IS dis- 
 
 d cm dil- 
 
 drcadful idf aof irresist 
 
 "ipated from the moment the faculties become colkc..d-...d the -niud c.n .1, 
 
 iro it's attention w mmuu objects. See Johnsou'. recurk. on Shak 
 
 spear'i Lear." 
 
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 Half-nndistlnguish'd by the naked eye, 
 
 Low at my feet, in pigmy semblance, He ! 
 
 Onwards— wliilst not a shade intrudes between, 
 
 Expands the area of the checquer'd scene } 20 
 
 Ail that Creation's rural sceptre yields 
 
 The bloom of vales— the garniture of fields. 
 
 All that of Beauport's crops— of Orlean's charms 
 
 Majestic Lawrence circles in his arms; 
 
 All that the wood prinia;val, nature's child, 23 
 
 Spreads o'er the rocky steep of vesture wild ; 
 
 These fill the void; whilst Alps on Alps arise. 
 
 And bound the prospeft to our wearied eyes. 
 
 Yet still the mind — imagination's cell — 
 
 On scenes, which pall the senses, loves to dwell — 30 
 
 Calls up reflexion's ever-roving train — 
 
 Links every thought in one successive chain. 
 
 And as those thoughts in Fancy's realms we lose 
 
 Gives birth to song, and consecrates the Muse ! 
 
 And yet on thee, no classic wreaths await, 85 
 
 To swell the annals of an ancient state ; 
 
 liut long and dreary wa? the night that spread. 
 
 It's Chaos, Lawrence, o'er thy oozy bed ! 
 
 In vain the shore, where now th' industrious hand 
 
 Of labor glows, and animates the land ; 4,q 
 
 'Phen free- displaying it's abundant breast 
 
 'I'he plowshare wo'cd, and sought to be caress 'd ; 
 
 In vain the Cedar ting'd the perfum'd gale ; 
 
 And stately pines wav'il on the upland dale j 
 
 In vain the Maple wept her sweets around, 45 
 
 And fruits spontaneous incited on the ground ; 
 
 There nought was heard throughout the lengthen'd shore 
 
 Save the dull Bear's reiterated roar ; 
 
 There the sleek VAk with bounding spirit rov'd, 
 
 The shaggy ButKdoe majestic mov\l ; .^q 
 
 The Mammoth, hugest in the brutal train, 
 
 Towr'd to the sky, an I stalk'd across the plain, 
 
 Drank the discolor'd river from it's bed, 
 
 And shook the mountains at his every tread. 
 
 (Sole suicide, save man) the crested smike, .5^ 
 
 Rattled her tolds and rustled thro' the brake; 
 
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 Vfr. r^8. Genesis, I. 2. 
 
 Ver. 55. The H;<itl« Snake lus been known to bite iVi,-./ wlien in danger. 
 
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 The Beaver provident of future lot, 
 
 His gran'ries stow'd-^and built his simple cot; 
 
 The murd'rous Wolf that whelms his soul in blood, 
 
 The Otter carried on the limpid flood; 
 
 The Fox that lurks in ambush for his prey, 
 
 The pilfering band of Squirrels darkning day ; 
 
 These an innimierous and a varying race, 
 
 Rang'd undisputed tyrants of the place, 
 
 Save when mankind, the forest's ancient Lords, 
 
 Pitch'd their light tents, and told their savage hordes; 
 
 Of sex regardless — rushing from afar, 
 
 With brethren clans to wage eternal war ! 
 
 Mark yon wild Indian, leaning on his bow. 
 
 Fatigue and labour streaming from his brow ; 
 
 Ev'n in his wild and undomestic state. 
 
 In form superior and in reason great ! 
 
 Mark how the hand of Fashion or of Pride 
 
 In barbarous custom decorates his side ; 
 
 Mark the snow-sandals that support his tread. 
 
 The crown of Feathers waving o'er his head ; 
 
 Mark in his face what various passions low'r 
 
 And lule hib bosom with alternate power ! 
 
 Revenge, to mercy deaf to reason blind. 
 
 That scorns forgiveness as beneath his mind ; 
 
 Exulting Rage, with human tortures fed, 
 
 That rears the Scalp his triumph o'er the dead; 
 
 With " Jealousy, the injur'd lover's hell," 
 
 And dark distrust, that vacant blasts impel ! 
 
 And yet with these, humanity may trace 
 Some nobler stamps that fire the warriors f;ice ; 
 There beam the patriot virtues, self-born train — 
 Contempt of danger, and contempt of pain : 
 Yes here are form'd the mouldings of a soul, 
 Too great for ease, too lofty for controul ; 
 A soul, which ripen'd by refinement's hanJ, 
 Had scattcr'd wisdom thro' its native land ; 
 A soul, which Education mi^ht haVc given 
 To earth an honor — and an heir to Heaven ! 
 Nay more ! Perchance there was a time (e're first 
 On Europe's plains the dawn of science burst) 
 
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 Ver. 83. Milton's Par. lost; book I. 
 
 Ver. 'J5. Sec these conjectures, so agipcable to reason, and so essential to 
 to the truth ot Revelation, supjiorled at length by — Grotius — Home (de ori^. 
 americ.) Robertson— (jilbcrt Stuart — I'aley — Sulliiiglieet, and others.— Seethe 
 note on this subject at thi end ol'iLc Po.ni. 
 
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 When the forefathers of thede vagrant hordes 
 
 Knew every charm that civil life affords; 
 
 Now may they rove, expell'd by wayward fate, 
 
 By mutual warfare or tyrannic hate; 100 
 
 The offspring once, of nations far renown'd, 
 
 Whom Genius cherish'd or whom Glory crown'd ; 
 
 Perchance — (for whence could superstition claim 
 
 E'en yet in these wild forests her domain) 
 
 The spirit, nonv the objeft of their dread 105 
 
 When nature's thunders echo round their head, 
 
 The plank impending o'er the gulf beneath, 
 
 Pass'd by each trembling stranger after death, 
 
 Are but the phantoms of a purer creed 
 
 That worships Heav'n in spirit as in deed; MO 
 
 Perchance at last — when their meridian blaze 
 
 Had bcam'd around on man's astonish'd gaze ; 
 
 In nature's coarse, and time's declining date. 
 
 Perfection yielded to the hand of fate , 
 
 Their Sun of Science set beneath the clouds, 115 
 
 And bade the night arise, that still their glory shrouds ! 
 
 Yet wherefore still ? — -as when, of late, around 
 
 Canadia's shores a darken'd Sabbath frown'd. 
 
 The fearful crowds with awful doubt forlorn, 
 
 Watch'd — and (transported) hail'd th' ensuing morn ; 120 
 
 So — willing Hope perceives returning beams 
 
 Bursting from nature's long-bewilder'd dreams , 
 
 So now she feels again th' expanding rays 
 
 And looks beyond to life's maturer blaze ! 
 
 How sweet the vales with many a hamlet crown'd 
 Where Sabbath bells proclaim their welcome sound ! 
 Are those the spots where erst the savage race 
 With endless bloodshed fiU'd the desert place ? 
 Are these the spots where o'er the piling fire. 
 The Indian watch'd his viftim foes expire ? 
 
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 NOTES, 
 
 Ver. lOS. The ancients, unable to account for the mixture of evil with good, 
 iri the dispensations of Providence, imngined two principles of Divinity— one 
 good, tiie other evil---hence ttie Indian doctrine of two distinct Spirits. 
 
 Ver. 107. Many tribes imagine that after desth they are destined to pasj 
 plank impending over a tiery gulph into which they fall if meriting punish- 
 inent---They have been known at the death of thejr children to destroy thcm- 
 selvss in Drder to assist them over the plank into the Elyrium beyond. 
 
 Ver. 118. Theditrk Sunday at Quebec, October 17, I7i(S. 
 
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 How chang'd the scene !• now nought but niutual love, 
 
 Descends in Seraph features from above ; 
 
 Thp darted tomahawk, no longer known, 
 
 Its tribute yields to agriculture's throne } 
 
 The war whoop's echoes and the slave's sad throes, 
 
 Are hush'd in music, pleasure, and repose! 
 
 This, Gallia, was thy work— to thee 'twas given 
 
 To dare these shores, the messenger of Heaven } 
 
 What time th' astonis'd Caht from his deck ^^ 
 
 Beheld, and hail'd th' emphatic name « ^^ebec ; 
 
 What time, regardless of their forfeit breath, 
 
 And scorning anger's new-invented death ; ^^ 
 
 Thy hallow'd lab'rors planted « Sharon's rofe. 
 
 On these bleak coasts and yet-untempted snows ! 
 
 Nor be less praise to thee, my country due ; — 
 
 Britannia's honors let my Song renew ! 
 
 Whether for thee the laurel wreath we twine. 
 
 Or consecrate the lov'licr olive thine ; _ 
 
 No vengeance stains those laurels with its gore 
 
 Those olives no tyrannic thorns deplore -, 
 
 Thy sons in mercy great, in justice brave, 
 
 Fight but to conquer— conquer but to save ! 
 
 This let Canadia's vanquish'd clime confess, 
 
 Tho' vanquish'd happy, nor iu freedom less •, 
 
 This let her tell ; that, when her open'd gate, 
 
 Recciv'd tho Victors in triumphal state ; 
 
 Albion in turn receiv'd her humbled foe 
 
 With arms of Pity— not with arms of Woe ! 
 
 Whence then, amid the trump's exuking note, 
 
 Wide thro the air do sighs of sorrow float ? 
 
 Whence 'midst ovation's pomp proceeds the tear, 
 
 That thus bedews yon sable vested bier ? 
 
 'Tis glory mourns (yet wherefore name the name 
 
 Of him so oft immortaliz'd by fame ?) , , . , 
 
 Tis Glory mourns her Wolfe ! the monntam s height 
 
 The barrier rocks had vanish'd at his sight •, — 
 
 Nature and art appil'd beheld in vain 
 
 Their powers combiu'd his onset to restrainj 
 
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 NOTES. 
 
 Vcr. 135. Isaiah, 2. 4. 
 
 Ver. 142. Cabot is said on turni 
 Off the rock betorehim, ai.a to ha 
 i«thou£htto have it's natne. ^ . ««■ • 
 
 Ven 144. See Ch?.rlevo:x's account of the sufferings of ''^' MifSionaries. 
 
 Ver. 14>. Cu\vi>t:i'b tAsk. B •• 
 
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 ning " Po'iiufevi" to have gazed wilh wonder 
 nave exchim^l " Quel Bee ! " v.'hence the city 
 
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 Borne on the wings of war the hero rode 
 
 Where battles thunder'd and where carnage flow'd } 
 
 The aid of pride he scorn'd — ev'n music's sound 
 
 Amidst the clangor of his arms was drown'd ; 
 
 Till " Hope awhile bade England's name farewell," 
 
 And Valour shudder'd as her warrior fell ; 
 
 Fell — and reclin'd in Victry's bosom died, 
 
 When "now they fly — they fly" — the well known herald cried! 
 
 Yet still for him his country's grateful praise 
 
 A lasting tomb of mcm'ry's love shall ratfe ! 
 
 Yet still his spirit hover's o'er these walls, 
 
 Ard Albion's sons to Valour's standard calls ! 
 
 'Twas this inspir'd the few — who recreant hurl'd 
 
 An host from hence (the rebels of the world) 
 
 When with the serpent fangs of jealous strife, 
 
 They gnaw'd the parent breast thaf gave them life ; 
 
 T/:at maddning tribe who ignorant and rude 
 
 Shunn'd fancied ills and chas'd romantic good j 
 
 Who shar'd what real freedom could bestow. 
 
 Yet sought a freedom they can never know ! 
 
 For hark, ev'n now, from some sequester 'd cave 
 
 That Hudson's waves or wild Potomac's lave, 
 
 Columbia's genius mourns her alier'd sway 
 
 And, in prophetic sorrovv, seems to say : 
 
 " III fated rose the Ea^;le — voice of war, 
 
 « And fprc id the cries of vengeance from afar, 
 
 <« When Jirst my sons, fir'd with the thoughts of right, 
 
 «( Provok'd the call of paricidal ^ight ! 
 
 « What tho' the parent o'er her offspring reign 
 
 «« With lawless rigour and unequal chain, 
 
 « Say can that rigour and that chain impel 
 
 " To spurn their filial tfiity, and rebel ? 
 
 « Or what tho', valiant in an erring cause, 
 
 « They crush'd her sceptre and abjur'd her IawS| 
 
 « Yet now ambition struggles round my shore, 
 
 « Ferments arise ; imprison'd fiictions roar ; 
 
 « Ev'n now we find tliat despot slavery springs 
 
 « From despot rabbles, more than despot kings } — 
 
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 Vcr. 173. Wolfe is said to have nlJr^ised ihe musicians the night before till 
 memorable battle, aiiJ d'-aireil tlietn to niter the ranks, (lointing to the can- 
 lion, and addiiic;, " that, my liov*,'* i» llio niu^k, I must have played M-wwow / 
 
 Vrr. Vi. Woll expired ai he iuard ihoc Wtfids UUCi'd by the Bniuh Ucrald! 
 
 Vcr. 208. Goldsimth's UavcUcr. 
 
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 « Already down Democracy's career, 
 
 " Envy and strife the weak republic steer -, 
 
 « The fragil bark, scarce launch'd upon the main, 
 
 " Its glittering name of Freedom boasts in vain ; 
 
 « Soon when the blasts of adverse chance arise, 
 
 <« When war and tumult shroud the black'ning skies, 
 
 « My sons shall mourn their wreck's unhappy fate 
 
 « And nature's second night for ever close their date ! " 
 
 'Tis not the voice of Fancy that we hear ; 
 
 'Tis not delusion's dream excites our fear ! 
 
 O ! turn your eyes to Gallia's blood-ftain'd coast, 
 
 And mark the limits of her former boast ! 
 
 Lo ! the mad train—" the men without a God ; " 
 
 That points destruction'r short unerring road ; 
 
 Lo ! in the front Voltaire, from earliest youth 
 
 Avow'd the champion 'gainst the cause of Truth ! 
 
 Lo ! the weak Sophist tho' th' intrepid man. 
 
 Whose regal inliuence animates the plan ; 
 
 With all who shwe upheld th' unhallow'd cause, 
 
 «« To crush the wretch " — their savior's sacred laws •, 
 
 Gallia's I-f-Prt«x— Columbia's serpent Paine; 
 
 With England's infamous tho' tithcl train •, 
 
 These against man their venom'd arts employ 
 
 To blast their present with their future joy, 
 
 To make mistaken right their secret scheme •, 
 
 Their country libel, and their God blaspheme ! 
 
 Swift flies thro' hapless France the pois'nous band, 
 
 Proscription guides its sacrificing hand } 
 
 Till on the throne where murder d Louis sate 
 
 A foreign Defpot wields the wav'ring state ! 
 
 Mad with ambition, thro' the eastern coast. 
 
 Depopulation leads his murdering host \ 
 
 Italia mourns — stript of her classic charms. 
 
 And Danube echoes to the clash of arms ; 
 
 Europa's empire's totter on their base. 
 
 Nor dare their universal foe to face \ B 2 
 
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 Ver. 211. Horace's ode 14. lib. I.— " genuj ct nomen inutil.-,' 
 
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 Ver. 216. Tne aim of the jetTc-vsoncan philosoi^hy x^ mtrtly tUs. 
 
 Ver". 222 Voltaire's tutor (U l^y) »aid to hin» wliiUt ;i itudriit it Coltege, 
 «' unhappy vouili, you will one day be the itaiidaid-bcarcr ot lulidclity !" letl 
 Kell's lite 01 Voltaire. 
 
 Ver. 225. l-redrick of Prusii.i. 
 
 Ver. 2.50. Sintfibury, Holinbvukc, ftc. See Leland'i Delitic»l wrUeri, 
 
 Ver. 2i4. See the Antij-itubiii poetry. 
 
 Vet. 236, Robtipier's «w»nn, S«« the AbbI Barruc!, vol. I, 
 
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 Save thou my native land !-^'tis ^^/W alone fi4cfl 
 
 To shake corruption from her Yenal throne ; 
 
 'Tis thine to scorn the threats in fury hurl d, 
 
 And stay the Hood that strives to overwhelm the world ! 
 
 Yet wherefore thus th' unpleasing theme pursue ? 
 
 Why bring such horrors to Canadia's view r 250 
 
 Her crimes abjuring, guiltless of her shame, 
 
 She knows not ought of Gallia but the name ; 
 
 Nought but the cheerful sunshine of the breast, 
 
 The active labour or the wanted rest, 
 
 The s.aiple song — the pipe—the rural choir, 354 
 
 Charms that oz/tv bloom'd amidst the vales of Loire ! 
 
 Hence tJustoir calls her Sons to hail the day 
 
 With a'-.nua1 vows to pleasure and to May, 
 
 When Laurence first breaks from his icy chain. 
 
 And thun'dering pour his caverns to the main j 26() 
 
 And as the spring disolves the parting snow, 
 
 A new Creation vegetates below ! 
 
 Then whilst the early hand of active toil 
 
 Resumes the harro.v and inverts the soil ; '- 
 
 Soon the glad soil returns the given seed, 2195 
 
 With three-fold harvests and with earliest meed j 
 
 And scarce eVe yet the embryo blooms appear. 
 
 Mature and perfect shews the favorM year ! 
 
 Yet labor oft beneath the Summer's blaze 
 
 Faints with the fervor, nor supports the gaze \ ^70 
 
 Ev'n the light bird, that/',v/ff.r his plaintive notes, 
 
 Sportive no longer on the Zephyr iioats. 
 
 But in the flowery cup of roseate hue 
 
 Enfolds his wings, and drinks it's honied dew ! 
 
 And now the cloud-; that ocr th' horizon run 275 
 
 Proclaim th' approach of each departing sun ; 
 
 Whilst in one deep iutcrminnblc shade, 
 
 Depopulation walks the sombrous glade. 
 
 And spoils the hnary foliage of ho groves. 
 
 That Fancy haunts and Contemplation loves ! 8|Q 
 
 Then e're thp autumn's last luxuriant smile 
 
 Fades on the prospect— let me trace the isle 
 
 Which, Cirant, thy hand industrious has cmbrac'd 
 
 With mix'd protub'rance and assiduous taste ; Of 
 
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 Ver. 248. \. Clironirlps, 21. 22. 
 
 Vfr. 271, The liuinming bird. 
 
 Ver. 28.^ St. Htlen'j Islan-l, the property of Mr. Cr»nt. 
 
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 Or let me stray where Montreal's moimtain heighth SOfi 
 
 Displays un-number'd beauties to the sight •, 
 
 And there recline on yon romantic cave 
 
 Where widow'J love has rais'd a husband's grave ; 
 
 Wide round me lie in one exhaustless view 
 
 Landscapes which fancy scarcely can pursue 29Q 
 
 The plenteous hrm — tlie field -the buzy mill, 
 
 La-Praric's spire ; the azure distant hill ; 
 
 The winding river, where alternate smile, 
 
 The rocky shed — the intervening isle j 
 
 Whilst at my feet the sun's last tranquil ray 29S 
 
 On Montrears summits beams departing day ! 
 
 For short thse days — and nightly thro' the air 
 
 Wild meteors shoot — innocuous lightnings glare j 
 
 Or from the North Aurora's Boreas breaks, 
 
 Expands from side to side — and noon nocturnal wakQS. SOQ 
 
 Yet not ungenial to Canadia's plains 
 
 Are these pure gales and equinoctial rains ) 
 
 Soon with a keener air the biting North, 
 
 Parent of health and pleasure rushes forlh ; 
 
 His powers the frame invigorated speak, SO^ 
 
 Brace every nerve and flush in every cheek ! 
 
 Then in one tractlcss scene resplendent glov/ 
 
 Hills, vales, and rivers of unending snow j 
 
 The mountain torrents by the frost's control 
 
 Arrested pause, — and, freezing as they roll, 310 
 
 In gothic shapes and broken structures rise. 
 
 Which y)layful Fancy oft mayiealize ! — 
 
 Its vaprant smoke the cottage chimney hurls, 
 
 Shri;»ks from the cold, and, as it issues, curls } 
 
 The forests groan beneath the flaky weight, S15 
 
 Congeal'il to ice, and mourn their fallen state ; 
 
 Ev'n animation seems to pause ! — the herds, ' 
 
 The color-changing hare — the trembling birds, 
 
 To covert fly ! man rears his butchering blow. 
 
 Cautious, ev'n now his wintry food to stow ; $99 
 
 Nor fears he ought, save only when the gale 
 
 Sweeps with his drifting whirlwinds o'er the dale, 
 
 One icy torrent should convulsive fall, 
 
 Uproot his hapless cot — and whelm his little all I 
 
 Jut 'tis not often thus : the welUpleas'd swain MB 
 
 Views the full market teeming with his gain, And 
 
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 Vcr. 288, M'Tavish's toniU on the in«unt»in. 
 Yer. 29V, The Auiera Butc»li«, 
 
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 And by his hardy dogs in burthens drawn. 
 
 Directs his sledge across the snow-clad lawn ! 
 
 Now o'er the road scarce yielding to its force 
 
 Swift glides the Carriole's well-pointed course ; 330 
 
 O er streams and lakes the winged coursers fiy, 
 
 (New pleasure glist'ning in the strangers eye) 
 
 And social mirth invites the willing car, 
 
 At friendship's call to hasten from afar ! 
 
 There whilst the evening hearth — the genial smile, 335 
 
 And frequent draught — the tedious night beguile 
 
 Perchance some healthful hoary-headcd sire, 
 
 Allures the circle round the cheering fire ; 
 
 Pleas'd with the past, he tells the list'ning crow'd, 
 
 His earliest travels from his lov'd abode ; 340 
 
 Tells how he stray'J thro' woods, a prey to dread. 
 
 His fears creating fonns at every tread ; 
 
 Tells with what skill amidst the rapid's shock 
 
 His light canoe evaded every rock. 
 
 Or how the well-known song inspir'd the oar, 345 
 
 And his batteaux swift glided by the shore. 
 
 In wonder wrapt their roving fancies trace 
 
 The various scenes his histories embrace ; 
 
 Now on Ontario's wide expanse they seem 
 
 Launch'd on a new and never-ending stream ; 356 
 
 Now on Superior where a British fleet 
 
 Swells on an inland ocean's distant sheet; 
 
 Now on wild Erie where the scatter'd cot, 
 
 But proves the former deserts of the spot ; 
 
 Or where the frequent fires that blaze, declare 355 
 
 How cultivation even travels there! 
 
 And now they hear a wild romantic roar ; 
 
 'Tis Niagara shakes the echoing shore ! 
 
 First breaking restless thro' the watry maze, 
 
 A bubbling stream the rural scene displays ;— , 360 
 
 But soon the pine uprooted by the blast, 
 
 The parted vale inundated and waste ; 
 
 The massy cliffs, that by convulsive storm 
 
 Thrown from their basis, nature's face deform, 
 
 These all collecting as it rolls along, 355 
 
 The fountain flows majestic, wide, and strong; Till 
 
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 Ver. 345. The celebrated Voyagfurs songs. 
 
 Vrr. j?5. The fires that clo.r llie woovilands. 
 
 Vcr> 3Sli, Uoldsmith'i authority justifiei this pronounciation« 
 
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 Till in one lengthen'd sheet of hoary white 
 Wave upon wave it tumbles from its heighth j 
 The rocks below receive th' incessant stroke. 
 And back recoil a cloud of watery smoke ; 
 The cloud, ascending to the sun's full blaze, 
 Reflects the lustre of his arching rays i 
 And to the grandeur of the awful view 
 Adds every softer — every milder hue f 
 
 Thus whilst he tells, the aged sire recals 
 His former thoughts of these stupendous falls,' 
 He feels how grand — how infinite the tale, 
 Himself how little in Creation's scale ; 
 And still to low his maker's works to raise, 
 Bids more expressive silence muse his praise } 
 
 For in these cots afar from Athiest pride. 
 
 And bigot doctrines to deciet allied ; 
 
 Faith, Hope and Charity adore the cross. 
 
 Of /jt/n who suffer'd to redeem our loss — 
 
 Religion here disdains not to impart. 
 
 Her warmest influence on the simple heart i 
 
 Here persecution tempts not from his door. 
 
 To seek a gentler rule the pious poor ; 
 
 No griping landlord with oppression's rod. 
 
 Drives the poor tenant from his sweet abode ; 
 
 No wretch with one monopolizing hand 
 
 Spreads crafty famine o'er a plenteous land ; 
 
 No titled Lord th' instructed child of vice, 
 
 Whose laws are passion, and whose Gods are dice. 
 
 Lays seige to virgin innocence and Youth, 
 
 Ensnares her prudence — tramples on her truth ; 
 
 Then spurns her, gloryitig in his brut^al fame. 
 
 A prey to guilty tears — to poverty — and shame !— 
 
 It is not so— for here the rustic bands, 
 Themselves enjoy the labour of their hands } 
 Each views the independence of his lot, 
 The genial stove that cheers his cleanly cot ; 
 His faithful wife— his offspring's varying stage, 
 fn quick succession rip'ning into age ; 
 His neat Calafli (himself the artist) made, 
 For use and pleasure — not for vain parade \ 
 
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 \i-t. 372. The rainbow form'd in the spray. 
 V«ii iiO, Thompson's iiymn to ihe iea»cnii 
 
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 The well plough'd arpent — the laborious steed, 
 
 The' small, yet strong, and certain in his speed } 
 
 The cow's full udder wishing to be press'd, 
 
 The downy flock whence flows his self-made vest ; ilO 
 
 The river's freedom or the babbling brook 
 
 Where many a victim trembles on his hook, 
 
 These are his riches ; — but from Heaven sent. 
 
 He boasts his greatest wealth in virtue and content ! 
 
 Ah! little thought the empress of the world 415 
 
 When o'er mankind her conqu'ring scourge was hurl'd ; 
 
 Whilst Tully's pillars should alternate claim, 
 
 The fort's — the cloister's — and the dungeon's name ; 
 
 That Albion's once inhospitable shores, 
 
 Which banished peace and science from her doors } 420 
 
 In hemispheres, to Cxsar's eyes unknown, 
 
 Should shed such blessings from her equal throne ; 
 
 That British sons uncounted leagues should roam, 
 
 'Midst savage tribes to fix a polish'd home ; 
 
 And grace with Europe's charms a dreary scene, 425* 
 
 WTiere half the convex world intrudes between j 
 
 She little thought, when England's-self gave birth, 
 
 To the then-distant barrier of the earth. 
 
 That one exalted mind alone should scan, 
 
 Millions of regions undescricd by man ; 430 
 
 Circling the globe from wide Atlantic's bound. 
 
 To where Pacific meets the joining round ! 
 
 Ah ! little thought she when her Tiber's wave. 
 
 Had wept for arts and wash'd fair Freedom's grave ; 
 
 That Freedom's spirit — tho' an cxilo thence, 435 
 
 Should here a purer lasting sway commence, 
 
 Where Lawrence op'ning thus his golden reign, 
 
 Recalls the Poet's tributary strain ! 
 
 Hail then. Majestic King of rivers, hail ! 
 
 Whether amid the placid-winding vale, 410 
 
 Thy waters ripen nature's every bloom ; 
 
 Or, thro' the bosom of the forest's gloom, 
 
 Their swelling currents with resistless tide. 
 
 Break o'er the rocks, and lash their craggy skle ; WhereVe 
 
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 Ver. 41?. The Cc'eWr;ited Portico ot Ciicri), has bfcn successively occupied,' 
 •t thu btirhariftn'j lort— the monk's cloister, aud itie iii^uisitws d«u— Oil»b»»* 
 Ver. 419. Hor. od-?. lib. 2, [4. 
 VtT. 423. The Nor-West (Jompany. 
 Vrr, 42(>. Coldsinith's traveller. 
 Ver. 429. Sir Alexander M'Kcn^ie. 
 
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 Where'ere thy Waves reflect the face of day, 4*5 
 
 Wide — rich — romantic — is thy regal sway ! 
 
 Thine is Chaudiere in wild impetuous force, 
 
 And Montmorenci's more majestic course } 
 
 Thine are the well-nam'd Cartier's bending woods, 
 
 And Saguenay, himself a Prince of floods ; 
 
 Thine is Chamblee that still adorns her fort, 
 
 And neat Sorelle, the pitncely-favor'd port ; 
 
 Here Kingston tow'rs o'er vast Ontario's sheet, 
 
 Here too Toronto, now an Empire's seat ; 
 
 And here impending Albion's signal plays. 
 
 O'er the rude rock from whence my fancy strays ! 
 
 What tho' no marble busts, no gothic tow'rs, 
 No pillars glowing with Corinthian flowers. 
 No gaudy equipage, no liveried train, 
 Here thro' the streets awaken Envy's pain •, 
 What tho' no surly porter's idle state 
 Spurns the poor beggar from the noble's gate ? 
 What tho' no brothels here with riot sound. 
 No tables shake, no taverns blaze around, 
 Where dissipation holds her midnight sway, 
 Reversing nature, shrinking from the day ? 
 These are not themes that charm the peaceful muse j 
 More pleas'd the scenes of order'd rest she views ; 
 More pleas'd she roves thro* yonder cloister'd roof 
 With youthful fcience, and instructive proof; 
 More pleas'd she strays where yonder female band. 
 In vestal robes around the altar stand ! 
 
 More pleas'd ! — for shall not Heav'n itself approve, 
 
 A work devoted to coelestial love ; 
 
 O ! shall not Angels smile to hover round, 473 
 
 Yon simple dome with pity's standard crown'd ? 
 
 There should the spark of reason yield to fate. 
 
 Should shame with penitence on guilt await *, 
 
 There should the infant mind be wrapt in night 
 
 Nor share the dawn of intellectual light ; - 480 
 
 Should sickness frown amidst a helpless roof. 
 
 Or virtue mourn at poverty's reproof; 
 
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 Ver. 452. Call'd after Prince William Henry. 
 
 Ver. 4S4. York, in Upper-Canada. 
 
 Ver. 456. yuebec— The British itaiiJard on the Cape. 
 
 Ver. 470, '1 he Seiiiiiiarv. 
 
 Vn. 476. Th. GciKral Hospitil. 
 
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 There Charity erect's her willing throne 
 And bids these female vot'ries be her own ! 
 
 Nor be the intervening task forgot, 485 
 
 That cheers the vestal's solitary lot » 
 
 When graceful art entwines the bristly hair, 
 
 And ornaments the bark with varying care j 
 
 Or from the gauze shapes out the imag'd ftower. 
 
 And decks the shrines with many a mimic bower ! 490 
 
 One tear be shed, as the deep-sounding bell 
 
 Religion's victims summons to her cell; 
 
 One tear to find that superstition's reign, 
 
 Ev'n here her gloomy influence can retain ; 
 
 That beauty, beauteous in a female mind, 495 
 
 For active virtue, and for love design'd ; 
 
 Should linger here by false delusion led. 
 
 Lost to the world — to life's enjoyments dead ! 
 
 For there are girls, and dear the lovely band ; j 
 
 The budding beauties of their native land; v nOQ 
 
 The angel office of whose sacred breast, ... 
 
 Is man to bless, and mutually be bless'd ! - - 
 
 Yes there are girls who boast a generous soul , . . 
 
 Whose virtue knows, nor limits nor controul ; 
 
 Who reign unconscious of the powei-s they share of.i 
 
 To waken rapture or excite dispair ; 
 
 Yes such there are ! — Oh ! witness thou, 
 
 That manly love to female worth must bow ; 
 
 Life with thee, , were an endless feast. 
 
 Tome, without thee, one continual waste; ,-310 
 
 O ! whilst thy country boasts of hearts like thine, 
 
 In seraph forms a spirit so divine. 
 
 Then may that country bear the palm away, 
 
 From every clime that drinks the orient ray. 
 
 Then may the theme which now my song pursues ;51.5 
 
 Be prais'd hereafter by a worthier muse ; 
 
 And England's self may hall around her coast, 
 
 Canadia's daughters as her noblest boast ! 
 
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 Ver. 487. N'-ju's bnrk work. 
 Ver. 48'J, Artiticial flowers midi.' b; 
 
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 NOTE REFERRED TO IN THE POEM ON CANADA, Pagi 7. 
 
 Since the poem on Canada was committed to the press, the author has met 
 with several little tieatises upon the subject of the origin of native Americans. 
 
 Col. Daniel Boon, in his account of Kentucky, imagines the tribes on the Or 
 hio, to have been a branch of t\vt Wthh, who left Britain under Madoc, their 
 Prince, in the eleventh century. 
 
 John Bell, in his travels thro' Asia, asserts an undeniable similarity between 
 the Indians of Canada and the Tongusians. 
 
 Gj/idrf S/tttf« conceives them to have bien r:irt of the scattered Jews.— 0. 
 thers conjecture them to have sprung from the Persians— the Carthaginians— the 
 Danes or the Picts. 
 
 But the most generally received opinion is, that they are tribes of rovi.ig Tir- 
 tars— and this seems the more probable, if we suppose the two Continents to 
 have been once united. 
 
 Be this as it may, they have no accounts or memoirs of themselves (as Stilling- 
 fle«t observes) 0/ more than 800 years backwards ; and when we reflect upon 
 their manners and customs— their vestiges of arts and sciences— and above all, 
 their notions of religion (which could never have been derived from nature) we 
 cannot doubt of their owing their origin to enlightened nations, unutbe conJu~ 
 lion of tongues. 
 
 Superstition would naturally creep into their religious ceremonies ; the cli- 
 mate and local circumstances of the regions they colonized, would alter not on- 
 ly their manner of living, but even their bodily appearance- The loss of litera- 
 ture and education would corrupt their language— and the want of proper ma- 
 terials and opportunities would occasion that decay of arts and sciences which 
 must finally terminate in barbarity. 
 
 The curious reader may find ample amusement upon this interesting and even 
 useful subject in " Grotius de veritate "—" Charlevoix "—•« De Hornn "— 
 ••John de Laet "— Stillingfleefs origines Sacr* "— " Paley's evidences " and 
 many others, particularly, «• Brerewoodon the diversity of languages— 8vo. 1674." 
 
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 England, as now upon thy rocky strand, 
 
 My parting eyes survey their native land ; 
 
 As from my much-lov'd home (awhile) I fly, 
 
 To seek new climes beneath the western sky \ 
 
 How shall my falt'ring tongue unmov'd impart, 3 
 
 One last adieu the language of my heart ? 
 
 How shall my bosom beat secure from pain. 
 
 Or reasoning comfort nature's tear restrain ? 
 
 Hard is the task to bid the scenes farewell, 
 
 "Where all the ties that bind affection dwell j 10^ 
 
 "Where all our blessings, all our wishes end, 
 
 In the lov'd names of parent — brother — friend !■ — 
 
 Hard to forsake the hearth of social ease. 
 
 And smiling circles emulous to please j 
 
 To tempt tho' short the period climes unknown, 15 
 
 And wander far, unfriended and alone ! 
 
 Ask Afric's son, who in a forei^ soil. 
 
 Drags out a life of death in slavish toil, 
 
 What are his dreams of realms beyond the tomb, 
 
 What his ideas of a state to come ; 20 
 
 His native sands restor'd, his dog and wife. 
 
 Are all the Heaven he hopes in future life ! 
 
 Or ask yon wand'ring Swiss, by war's alarms 
 
 Forc'd to abandon all his mountain charms, 
 
 "Whence flow the tears that down his furrow'd cheek, 25 
 
 In silent sorrow nature's language speak , 
 
 *He hears the well-known tune, that o'er the lake 
 
 Was wont each social feeling to awake, 
 
 He hears its notes that now but sound in vain, 
 
 Or rousing " memory turn the past to pain," 80 
 
 Mem'ry that points to his deserted shore, 
 
 Where Freedom, Peace and Glory are no more ! 
 
 So strong are those attractive pow'rs of earth 
 
 That draw mankind to scenes that gave them birth ! 
 
 For trace the cultivated world's extent, %$ 
 
 And all its bounds this general law present ; 
 
 Whj^te'ere the charms that call mankind away, 
 
 To toil for int'rest or for pleasure stray ; 
 
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 Where'm we rove, and (as our thoughts delude,) .. 
 Shun fancied ills and chase romantic good •, 
 N ot all the world can alienate the mind, 
 That in its country leaves a nvorld behind } 
 But as perchance, when playful infants rove 
 Careless of danger thro' some distant grove ; 
 Soon as the mother's fondness stands confess'd. 
 Before their eyes, they rush into her breast: 
 So too the heart where genuine feeling burns. 
 Still to it's country, «« still untravell'd turn's ;" 
 And having wander'd thro' each foreign shore, 
 Flies to it's own prepar'd to love it more ! — 
 For me— the task is done ! ev'n now the gale, 
 Destin'd to waft me plays upon the sail i 
 Ev'n now my blessing and ray last farewell, 
 Must crown the scenes I lov'd so long, so well ! 
 Yet never shall my soul forget the shores 
 That hold the objects which it most adores j 
 * If I forgot thee, England, let my tongue 
 Cleave to my mouth, and be my nerves unstrung. 
 Let my right hand forget her us'd employ. 
 If I prefer not thee to every joy ! 
 Yes ! when thy rocks before mine eye-lids fail. 
 Still in my heart thy image shall prevail, 
 My raptur'd fancy shall survey thee stiil 
 And all my thoughts with pleasing sorrow fill ! 
 In every spot — in every tree shall find, 
 Some pictur'd form of those it leaves behind ; 
 And to the haunts that Contemplation loves, 
 Give mapy a well-known nanie of Albion's groves. 
 And should the summons from my maker, God, 
 Recal my spirit to it's dread abode } 
 Should I in foreign shores for ever sleep, 
 And western climes my unwept ashes keep ; 
 For thee th' expiring prayer shall rise to Heav'n, 
 For thee the sigh, the laft fond wish be given ; 
 Thy form divine shall catch my parting breath, 
 And soothe 'midst angel choirs the pangs of Death- 
 Then in it's bless'd Redeemer's blood bedew'd. 
 By mercy pardon'd and by grace renew'd i 
 O ! may my soul in brighter realms above. 
 Still share the joys of patriotic love ; 
 
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 J%ere friends, on earth rever'd, 'midst Seraphs trace 
 There meet again a Father's lov'd embrace } 
 There too with him, from mortal bondage free. 
 Triumphant soar— and gaze bless'd land on thee ! 
 
 THE SMILE. 
 
 Oh ! say for whom Pity, reclin'd on yon bier, 
 
 Thus discharges the tribute of woe ? 
 
 'Tis for Edwin ; — who lately could banifh the tear 
 
 Which he now has occasion'd to flow ! 
 
 Form'd to taste all the innocent transports of youth 
 
 No alloy couM his pleasures beguile ; 
 
 And his soul the resemblance of candour and truth. 
 
 Was express'd on his face by a Smile. 
 
 2. 
 
 When that Smile once appear'd all was comfort and mirth 
 And soUicitude fell from the mind ; 
 Whilst the beauty and virtues of Edwin gave birth, 
 To the love and esteem of mankind. 
 But the world, and the notions of mortals below, 
 Little joy to his soul could impart ; 
 And that Stnile which illumin'd him most, us'd to glow 
 When caress'd by the girl of his heart ! 
 
 3. 
 
 Twas Eliza he lov'd j and had hop'd in her charms 
 Every bliss, every treasure to see ; 
 But Eliza was faithless and fled to the arms 
 Of a wealthier suitor than he : 
 
 When he heard it, his conscience with purity bright 
 Seem'd to scorn all the horrors of care ; 
 But 'twas finish'd ! the smile of content and delight, 
 Was exchang'd fc •?v,.7^ of despair. 
 
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 At the Altar unu^uiited he stood by her side 
 When her hand to his rival was given ; 
 And in silence invok'd on the fond-faithless bride 
 The protection and blessing of Heaven ! At 
 
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 At the feast — amidst riot and merriment's sound, 
 He appear'd every passion to brave ; 
 And he smiled as the joke and the bottle went round, 
 But that Sini/e wai, the Smile of the grave ! 
 
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 And 'twas just ! as the day, when EUza he knew. 
 All his hopes of enjoyment arose ; 
 So the day when his hopes with her promises flew, 
 Mark'd his sojourn on earth with its close ! 
 Yet has innocence triumph'd o'er sorrow's last strife ; 
 Angels caught his expiring breath ; 
 And the Smile that he wore thro' the te^or of life, 
 Has not left Edwin's features in Death ! 
 
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 On the death of JAMES BEATTIIy L. L. D. Author of the 
 
 Minstrel^ isfc. ^c. isfc. Written in imitation of and chief f 
 
 collected from that Poem. 
 
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 High on a rock that frown'd o'er Eden's wave, 
 
 A youthful Minstrel stood in wild despair •, 
 
 Loose flow'd his vest, and carelefs sorrow gave, 
 
 His auburn ringlets to th' unconscious air ! 
 
 Rude were his features and his bosom bare ; 
 
 Tears quench'd his eyes that glisten'd erst with fire j 
 
 And as be tun'd the echoing notes of care. 
 
 Grief seem'd herself to animate his lyre. 
 
 To rouse the feeling strain, and ev'ry verse inspire ! 
 
 2. 
 
 « Mourn, Edwin, mourn thy rev'rend guardian dead, 
 " He who thy breast from false desires redeem'd ; 
 «« Cold is the hand which then thy footsteps led, 
 « Clos'd are those eyes whence heavenly pity beam'd, 
 « Silent the heart which in his features gleam'd ! 
 « And mute, for ever mute his genial tongue 
 «« That tongue which inspiration's image seem'd ; 
 <« Whilst on his lips coelestial doctrines hung, 
 « *And Revelation will'd the music that he sung ! 3 
 
 »Sei: his evidences of Christianity, 2 Vol. duodciino. 
 
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 " The warbling groves — the garniture of fields 
 « The solemn night — the blaz e of perfect day ; 
 « All that the healthful dew of morning yields, ' 
 
 *« And all that echoes to the evening lay ; 
 « No more their Beattie's rural charms display ;— ^ 
 « For me, whose wand'ring heart his maxims drew, 
 *« From Fancy's paths to reason's purer way, 
 «< Here on his recent tomb I fix my view, 
 *« And pour my endless tears — and weep my soul's adieu 1 
 
 4. 
 
 *' Yet no ! — hark ! 'tis his voice ! — « let those their doom 
 ** Deplore, whose hope is still this dark sojourn ; 
 «< But lofty souls who look beyond the tomb, 
 *' Can smile at Fate — and wonder how they mourn ; 
 « Shall endless darkness shroud the strangers bourne ? 
 « Shall man be born to vegetate in vain ? 
 " No ! Heaven's immortal spring shall yet return, 
 " And man's majestic beauty bloom again, 
 « Bright thro' the eternal years of Love's triumphant reign ! " 
 
 REFLECTIONS AT SEA. 
 \st. Written during a S'TORM, 
 
 1. 
 
 /VH ! what dangers the ocean of life overwhelm, 
 When youth's giddy bark on it's surface appears ; 
 Should desire be the Pilot that rules at the helm, 
 And the pleasures of Folly the course that she steers ! 
 
 2. 
 
 Whilst perchance the gay morning of Fortune may smile. 
 Too incautious ambition unfurls every sail ; 
 And whilst Syrens of ease the frail vessel beguile, 
 She is stranded on shoals where temptations prevail ! 
 
 3. 
 
 Or at length when the storms of adversity low'r 
 And the light'nings of famine and Poverty glare { 
 Too distracted to brave the wild hurricane's power, 
 She for ever is wreck'd on the rocks of Despair 1 9i/. 
 
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 2i. On hearing some Canary Birds sing during a Storm. 
 
 1. 
 
 Sweet birds, that confin'd in yon cages of wire, 
 Thus warble your mutual strain i 
 How unconscious are ye of the panes of Desire, 
 How regardless of sorrow or pain ! 
 
 2. 
 
 The waves that with fury the vessel surround 
 Disturb not your gentle repose ) 
 And still as in concert your voices resound, 
 Ye heed not the wind as it blows ! 
 
 3. 
 
 Oh ! had but mankind hearts as spotless as you, 
 And as guiltless of envy and strife 
 Misfortune's rude blasts with disduiu they might view 
 And sing 'midst the leinpests of life ! 
 
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 LINES luritten on the banks of the Skullkill. 
 
 1. 
 
 Whilst a stranger I wander afar from the shores, 
 
 Where my heart must for ever remain ; 
 OU ! say why that heart all its cheerfulness pours, 
 0)l the banks of the Skullkill again ? 
 
 2. 
 
 It is not the villas that hang on the brow, 
 N<ir the harvests that scatter the field *, 
 It is not the swelling Savannah's below 
 Nor the treasures her commerce can yield } 
 
 3. 
 
 But 'tis that which the Skullkill alone of eacjb stream 
 That adorns her Columbia can prove \ 
 ' Tis the gentle ingenious manners that beam. 
 On her social politeness and love ! 
 
 4. 
 
 ♦Philadelphia ! how well ilo thy merits approve, 
 The fair title affection has given ; 
 Where thy sons are the union of brotherly love, 
 And thy daughters are Seraphs from Heaven ! 
 
 
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 Phiiitdt'liuiu u ihe Ortek Moid fgr broiheily love. I 
 
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 Bor me : when my country receives me again 
 And my tale shall recall what has ^ast, 
 The dear banks of the Sfeullkill my praise shall retain 
 Whilst my mem'ry and gratitude last ! 
 
 6. 
 
 Yes ! — I bid unregretting a final adieu, 
 To each scene that Columbia reveres, 
 But a lingring farewell from my soul shall bedew 
 The dear banks of the Skullkill with tears. 
 
 ColL Camb. 
 
 On tie Death of ROBMHT SUMNM, A. B. Christ, 
 ob. Jiiney 1804.. atat. 22. 
 « lam distressed for thee my brother I Very pleasant hast thou been 
 unto me! — Thy love to me ivas "wonderful ! ' 2, Sam. I. 2(.. 
 
 Oh ! my prophetic soul ! and did my heart 
 
 So justly true the fatal fear impart ? 
 
 Did sorrow tell me when my Sumner's breast 
 
 First bade me slumber in its generous rest ; 
 
 That soon, e're friendship's raptures could cominctuc. 
 
 My heart should mourn an early exile thmce ? 
 
 And yet, dear youth, the same internal dread, 
 
 Had .rark'd thee (conscious) for the fleeting dead ; 
 
 The hour that gave reflecting wisdom birth. 
 
 Told thee how short thy sad career on earth ; 
 
 Each rising year proclaim'd the tale again, 
 
 With louder summons and severer pain ; 
 
 Whilst nature secm'd to tremble on the brink, 
 
 Ev'n life itself in hourly death to sink ; 
 
 And every pulse chain'd by the sad controul 
 
 Died in the yielding conflict 'save thy Soul ! 
 
 That soul the mirror of ingcnous youth, 
 
 Whose every wish and every thought was truth •, 
 
 That soul which yet in mercy may impart 
 
 Its wanted influence to my bleeding heart i 
 
 That soul, opprcss'd by sorrow's bitterest sway, 
 
 Taught thee, resign'd, to suffer and obey j 
 
 Undaunted watch'd the limits of tliy breath, 
 
 And smil'd in triumph 'midst the pangs of Death ! 
 
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 SONNETSy efc. 
 
 " Nugse CanorsB." 
 
 Or reading Poems by MOORR^ the translator of Aiiaireont under 
 the name of <* LlTTL'E." 
 
 1. 
 PRUD'RY percharice as here she bbms 
 Thro' modesty's affected veil, 
 May blush to look on nature's themes, 
 And spurn the bard's enamor'd tale ! 
 
 2. 
 Perchance the frown of crabbed age. 
 Its soul to proferr'd bliss may steel ; 
 And mark as errors in the page, 
 Affections which it cannot feel ! 
 3. 
 But every pulse of generous yotith 
 To sympathetic joys must move ; 
 And life asserts it's noblest truth, 
 When rapture warms a mutual love ! 
 
 4. 
 Then (far from themes of labor'd art) 
 Be mine the soft ingenuous strain, 
 "Which stealing from the Poet's heart, 
 Steals thro' the Reader's heart again ! 
 
 SONG. 
 O ! Bring the Howing goblet here, 
 That lulls the soul to sleep •, 
 And as it s charms my bosom cheer, 
 Let me forget to weep I 
 
 2. 
 It cannot be ! — when mourns the breast 
 With temporary woe ', 
 Wine may promote it's genial rest, 
 And sorrow cease to flow ! 
 3. 
 But when the wishes cease to Uve, 
 And Death becomes a friend ; 
 Life's only cure that wine can give. 
 Is— hast'ning on it's end ! 
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 To 
 
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 To 
 
 1. 
 
 Dear Girl, whilst thus I bend the knee, 
 A beggar I must prove } 
 Nor whilst I claim the boon from thee, 
 Return thee love for love ! 
 2. 
 
 For whilst I supplicate thy heart 
 I cannot offer mine ; 
 The gift is not my own t'impart } 
 // is already thine! 
 
 SYMPATHT. 
 
 1. 
 
 SWEET is the influence that can move, 
 Two souls with one unchanging glow } 
 And bid the tide of mutual love. 
 Thro' Sympathetic bosoms flow ! 
 2. 
 
 Bless'd are the hearts, divinely bless'd. 
 Whose vital streams united run j 
 Which throb responsive thro' the breast, 
 And the pulse vibrate both in one ! 
 
 To 
 
 1. 
 
 AND can you —— then forego 
 
 The riches of mankind ; — 
 For one whose only wealth below 
 Is center'd in his mind ? 
 2. 
 
 And shall thy faithful bosom burn. 
 With fondness but for me ? 
 And shall my mutual friendship turn 
 From every wish but thef ? 
 
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 3. 
 
 Then must the bond that gives it birth 
 Our union constant prove ; 
 Ourselves n\ust be our only earth, 
 Our only wishes Love ! 
 
 On her Canary Bird. — « / nvish I were thy bird ! " 
 
 Shaks. Rom. 
 
 1. 
 
 YON bird that flutters in his cage 
 And seems to struggle to be free ; 
 Knows not the cares he would engage, 
 
 Dear when at large from thee ! 
 
 2. 
 
 For should he break his wiry chain 
 And seek the songsters of the grove ; 
 Still would he fly to you again, 
 Where center'd rests his only love. 
 
 9. 
 
 For me — whose heart (like him) is bound, 
 
 In 's unlamented cage, 
 
 1 would not leave my measur'd ground 
 For all the freedom of the age I 
 4. 
 
 For should my light and winged heart, 
 Soar thro' the limits of the world ; 
 Still would it dread misfortune's dart. 
 By faithless hate, and falshood hurl'd j 
 
 5. 
 
 But in my 
 
 Slavery itself becomes a bliss; 
 My only prison is her breast. 
 And each resistless chain a kiu ! 
 
 -'s bond repress'd, 
 

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 iHtl 
 
 ^ Familiar Epistle front Cioltege to a Friend in the Country, 
 
 A public fair is annually held in September, on Sturbitch plain, near Cam- 
 bridge, and proclaimed with much pomp and ceremony. — Some incidents 
 whicli occurred at its celebration in 1802, are here described. 'The want of 
 discipline hinted at in the latter part of the poem, has already been lashed 
 by Cowper. 
 
 JL ROM Granta's fair plains where together in youth, 
 
 We pursued the dear footsteps of Science and truth ) 
 
 Or (to Speak less like Poets) where studious of ease, 
 
 We slumber'd and saunter'd to gain our degrees ; 
 
 I address you, dear Charles, and bid blessings attend 5 
 
 The man I revere, and can claim as my friend ! 
 
 Yet, what news can I send, when the walls of a College, 
 
 Are the bounds of my world, th' extent of my knowledge ; 
 
 What news, where each day opes with chapel at seven 
 
 And closes with barring the gates e're eleven ? 10 
 
 Yet since I have vow'd to compose you a letter 
 
 Accept this relation for want of a better. 
 
 I had scarcely return'd from the summer Vacation, 
 
 And in Chrift's second story recover'd my station j 
 
 When the annual wonders of Sturbitch laid wait 15 
 
 For the wise men of England to worship the fete ! 
 
 O ! had but inyself and the muses, to back us, 
 
 The spirit ot Homer, or Virgil, or Flaccus, 
 
 With what pdmp might we sing of bless'd Granta's renown, 
 
 When the fair was proclainl'd thro' the country and town ; ao 
 
 With what pomp might we tell what arrangements were made. 
 
 For these " mysteries of Athens" this " second crusade ! " 
 
 First then — paint to your fancy a coach sent express 
 
 From the City of Loudon to carry the mess ; 
 
 The Chancellor's vice-roy, in vestments of scarlet, 25 
 
 Not unlike altogether fam'd Babylon's harlot , 
 
 With masters and tutors — physicians and doctors, 
 
 Moderators — Scrutators — and Taxers — and Proctors ; 
 
 And as if the poor Vice were unable to bear, "1 
 
 All the cargo of Doctrine to hallow the fare, > 30 
 
 To assist in \!ciQ farce came his Hortor the Mnyor ! j 
 
 Then as soon as they ceas'd their permission to preach. 
 And the ground was made holy and pure by their speech, 
 O ! ye Heavens ! what a fight iit for C — rt-s to view. 
 Or to charm with desire Epicurus* crew ; 85 
 
 Vcr. 14. Christ's College. 
 
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 When the party— both Clergy^and Galena— and FeetaiU 
 Emptied barrels of oysters by wholesale and retail ' 
 
 With porter and mutton and other good eating. 
 Which they forc'd the poor^^roc/prj to give them in treating F 
 
 'T would be vain to recount all the scenes and the train 40 
 
 That rose (as by magic) on Sturbitche's plain ! 
 
 Here gingerbread husbands — queens — princes and wives; 
 
 Lay scatter'd with thimbles and scissars and knives •, 
 
 Here petticoats— breeches— chemises and bedding 
 
 Here coffins for fun'rals— here rings for a weddmg ; 45 
 
 Here «« Baxter's last words, and expiring treasure," 
 
 Were heap'd on " Joe Millars" and «* W ^n of pleasure j" 
 
 Here bibles and prayer-books (O ! shame on the binder) 
 Were bound up with "Tally-i-o and the grinder." 
 Nor less were the live-stock, a mixture of face 
 Which ev'n Hogarth himself had been puzzled to trace 
 Here mouted on high stood a mountebank teacher, 
 Here mounted still higher a methodist preacher ; 
 Here Punch and his puppets— here Harlequin's motions, 
 Here a quack, with his blisters, cathartic's and potions ; 
 Here a hucks'ter— a Jew— and a smart city Tailor, 
 Here a sharper of note— turn'd a blind begging sailor i 
 Here a Thespian theatre form'd in a cart. 
 Where each was a dozen — and acted each part ; 
 Here a booth fill'd with wine serv'd by waiters the quickest. 
 With a snug little bar and the "quod petis hie est !" 
 Here dancing and fiddling and tennis and Ball, 
 Alternately shook the pro-tempore hall ; 
 
 Here psalms, cards and dice, 
 Revelation and vice. 
 Dissipation and piety meet ; 
 Here the merry and grave, 
 f^. Here the good and the knave. 
 
 Promiscuous throng the retreat ! 
 But what struck one the most was a cargo of Dames 
 (No matter their ages, their dresses, or names \ 
 Who came down from the City, like Sylphs from above, 
 To initiate the Freshmen in mysteries of Love ! 
 Whilst the lads just let loose from the bars of a athool^ 
 Unrestrain'd by the rod,— undirected by rule) 75 
 
 Liipatient to claim the bless'd title of niaity 
 
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 Tho' as yet o'er their cheeks not a razor had ran % 
 
 Made 
 
 Ver. 70. \\ >i h«peii a relation of ti\e f4«t, will n»t be conitrutd U lictnti- 
 
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 Made libations in plenty (perchance too, between ut 
 
 To their future regret) both to Bacchus and Venus ! 
 
 Nor if Freshmen and Sophs follow'd fashion's example, 80 
 
 "Were their betters remiss in promoting the sample } 
 
 The tutor, dear Charles, who so often has pos'd you 
 
 With sections and angles, and oftener dos'd you ; 
 
 With a tribe of his brethren whose souls being mellow 
 
 And empty their heads — claim the title of Fellow ; 85 
 
 Came high mounted on hunters — and arm'd Cap-a-pee, 
 
 With the Jacket and whip that denote their degree ! 
 
 Some, less jovial than these, who the fair could acknowledge 
 
 At least three-score times since they enter'd at College, 
 
 Less ambitious of fame ^ were contented to sit, 
 
 And feast on the riches of Harlequin's wit ! 
 
 But the foremost for pleasure so hearty and jolly, 
 
 "Were the proctors y those rev'rend correctors of Folly ; 
 
 Those bailiffs of Granta — those watchmen of evil 
 
 Who search allies and lanes, the vile haunts of the D — 1} 95 
 
 "Were espied in a booth giving lectures at ease^ 
 
 To two Cyprian frail ones who sat on their knees ! 
 
 Thus a fortnight went by, e're these mystries were over, 
 
 Whilst the gyps like their masters were feeding in clover ; 
 
 When the genius of Cambridge (like Greece) had a notion, 100 
 
 That a custom so sacred should close with devotion ; 
 
 So on Sunday to finish the hallow'd transaction, 
 
 St. Mary's was chang'd to the temple of action ! 
 
 There in Golgotha sat the Vice Chancellor's red. 
 
 And around him the Caput (fair Science's head ! ) IDS 
 
 On his right sat nobility gilded and glaz'd. 
 
 And beneath him the tinsel of Barony blaz'd ) 
 
 Whilst we the offscourings of genius and learning 
 
 Were huddled above scarcely worth your discerning. 
 
 Then — led by the bedels those guardians of grace 1 1 
 
 Who wield the proud sceptre the Chancellor's mace. 
 
 Who should mount on the pulpit but H d the hack 
 
 Who carries divinity's load on his back. 
 
 And steals every Sabbaih for many a ninny 
 
 A sermon from Blair which he reads for a guinea ! 115 
 
 And lastly at night the fam'd S — -n of King's, 
 
 Soar'd high on the rant of absurdity's wings ; And 
 
 Ver. 89. Consequently not much under four-score years of age. 
 
 Ver. 99. Gyps — College Servants. 
 
 Ver. 112. No disparagement 13 intended to this worthy usurer in Thea!o|7. 
 
 Ver. 117. The facetious anthor ol Sksletous of Sermoni ! 
 
 
 
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 And held forth In the meeting that well-belov'd statiottj 
 So pleasant for forming a snug assignation ; 
 Where, whilst Maudlinites lengthen then sorrowful face, 120 
 And tremble for regeneration and grace ; 
 Their lost Academical brethren are paying, 
 Tiieir orisons to love — and their purses displaying ! 
 Such a medley as this, my dear Charles, you'l conclude 
 Has afiForded my fancy abundance of food j 125 
 
 And to tell you the truth (for I never will flatter,) 
 I have thought a good deal on so serious a matter j 
 When I rove thro* the scenes where our Sacati and Barrowy 
 And Dryden first fe/d upon Genius' marrow, 
 O ! me — thinks, could our regal promoters of art, 130 
 
 Who on Granta first labor'd its charms to impart ; 
 Could our founders but rise from their Westminster station 
 And gaze at this moment on Cam's situation ; 
 With what praise would they load the dear empire of science 
 Which has still bid the arms of oppression defiance ; 135 
 
 And which ever encreasing in glory and worth, 
 Noiv displays it's meridian of wisdom on earth ! 
 When they built these rude cloisters, as mansions of Truth 
 Tor the progress of Talent, and guidance of youth, 
 An usurper had seiz'd the tutorial rein 
 And bound independence in Discipline's chain ; 
 It was " Order ! " — her spirit pervaded the soul 
 And the life of the place, with incessant controul j 
 Then the bell of the Chapel that summon 'd to pray, 
 Would not hear of a tardy, or suffer delay ; 
 Then no Sizar with stockings ungarter'd was seen 
 To haste, e're the psalms should begin, o'er the green ; 
 Then the Schools were created for art, not for pleasure^ 
 And the youths enter'd college for toil not for leisure ; 
 Whilst the masters themselves were oppress'd with the shame, ISO 
 And consider'd their office as more than a name ; 
 Whilst the Preachers submitted in person to preach 
 The Students to learn — and the Teachers to teach ; 
 And our Milton himself (tho' now prais'd as a God) 
 Was compell'd when obstrep'rous to strip to the rod ! 
 
 Thus Ord':r had long held the sceptre of Camus, 
 And the night of dependence and slavery o'ercame us, 
 
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 Ver. 120. The sober students of Magdalen (Maudlin) College. 
 "Ver. 1.^2. Westminstrr Ahbey. 
 \ ax. 15S. Milio.i wis the last who tuffeied corporal punishment, in College. 
 
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 Till Fashion dear Fashion, in glory arose, 
 
 To give freedom to belles and emancipate beaux ; 
 
 Till she trumph'd o'er dicipline — trampled on law, 
 
 And bade statutes and precepts remain as a flaw ! 
 
 O ! witness ye streets fiU'd with horses and chaises, 
 
 Let your pavement that rattles speak Albion's praises, 
 
 Ye Gogmagog summits whose turf knows the face. 
 
 Of each gambler that ruins himself in the race ; 
 
 Ye schools whose acquittal of learning and bond is. 
 
 When you give in your question a «« recte respondes } " 
 
 Ye readers who preach to the bare Chapel walls, 
 
 Ye dinners that smoke unregarded in halls y 
 
 But chiefly, dear Sturbitch, O ! witness the glory. 
 
 That the freedom of Fashion thus places before ye ; 
 
 O ! witness the pomp when your festival rose. 
 
 The dear charms of its progress — ^the tears at it's close ! 
 
 With thoughts and reflections like these I've replenish'd 
 My mind, from the moment the rebeck had finish'd 
 And reflections like these I might ever pursue, 
 Did not time my dear Charles, call my bosom to you ! 
 For you on whom Granta no longer bestows 
 ** Philosophical slumbers, and learned repose ; 
 For you who are chain'd to the horrors of life, 
 With the country — a Curacy — children — and wife ! 
 Who are wasting your time and annoying your mind 
 With effxarts and schemes for the good of mankind \ 
 For you who afar from the world's glorious riot 
 Conceive it (how falsely ! ) a bliss to be quiet. 
 Whilst I pity your errors, and mourn for your lot, 
 Your merits and friendship sliall ne'er be forgot ; 
 And tho' hurried away by the impulse of pleasure, 
 Which Granta presents without limit or measure i 
 Yet still will I steal a few moments of view. 
 To gaze, my dear Charles, with compassion on you ; 
 Like a Seraph exalted 'midst thrones of the bless d, 
 Still deign to look down from my mansions of rest ; 
 And to give you a taste of Coekstial mirth. 
 Shall on Monday revisit your cottage on earth I 
 
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 Ver. 164. The Gogmagog liills. 
 
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 ice. &c. 
 
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 r. 165. The on\y excixhi: absolutely required of a cir.didutc for t!ie dearer 
 B — is to give his ^^jueslh" and receive an answer— •• red^ relpoiides" 
 
une 
 
 Whence too tis prov'd how much they smiie at Death, 
 How lightly hold the value of their breath ; 
 How midst the piercing blast they ne'er complain, 
 Tho' sure of fevers and consumptive pain. 
 
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 On the SrSTEM of EDUCATION prevalent in NeW ToRK. 
 
 It is most earnestly requested, that malicious motives, and ill-natured S*tiffl 
 will net be attributed to the author of the lollowiiig lines. g 
 
 Now were Columbia's struggling triumphs done, 
 And fix'd her power in Gun-boat number one / 
 And now her offspring freed from toils of war 
 Cherish'd refinement, and the bless'd Segar ! 
 First where New-York her various tribute pours, 5 
 
 She rais'd on high her Academic towr's ; 
 There bid the child assume the manly gown, 
 Hail'dhim ^^ Collegian" thro' the wondring town. 
 And e're a razor o'er his cheeks had ran, 
 Told him 'twas finish'd— and proclaim'd him man ! 
 Next lest her sons, should share that rust of mmd 
 Which Cam's dull race, and Oxford's pedants find i 
 Columbia taught her boys with dextrous care 
 To braid the ringlets of their flowing hair -, 
 Taught them in Fashion's elegance to move, 
 Then bade them dance, and learn the laws of love •, 
 Hence flows the dying verse from stripling swanis 
 Hence am'rous ditties and poetic strains •, 
 Hence books and nymphs by turns prepar'd to charm. 
 Claim the boy's looks, and rivals, share his arm ; 
 Whilst Cupid's shafts by wondrous change beguil d, 
 Forget their aim and pierce a brother — child ! 
 Next too another task required her toil. 
 To plant ideas in ^female soil •, 
 For this she culls the the fairest flowers of France, 
 To teach them language and to rule the Dance ; 
 For this she shews them how to claim applause 
 From Mantua's skill in tinsel and in gauze ; 
 Whence Mother Eve, like them could never bless 
 The fig-leaf elegance of muslin dress ; 
 Whence thro' the viel too delicately — fine 
 Exulting beauty marks the waving '" 
 
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 Nay 
 
 Ver. 7. The toga virilU was assumed in Rome at 17. In LnjUnd at 15 ' 
 In New York, at 10 ! ! ! 
 
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 Nay further — ^as Columbia's ruling choice ; 
 
 Is Independence and the People's voice ; 
 
 As once she urg'd her Citizens should speak 
 
 In pure dissent from England, Ancietit Greek ; 10 
 
 So too 'tis her's on learnings stahlisVd throne, 
 
 ^ . . To raise z feudal system of her own ! 
 
 i^Cvr>- €« Chliton^ (she cries) O ! thou whose powVs divine 
 ** Can trace the stars and count them as they shine, 
 " Thou by whom seeming inconsistencies, 4-5 
 
 " Are nicely solv'd by A*s and B's j 
 « Lo here thy charge, — be thine this band of youth, 
 ** Bind on their hearts each philosophic truth ; 
 *< Shew them the paths thy toiling footsteps trod, 
 « And teach them nature's law? and nature s God ! " 50 
 
 Columbia spake — and lo ! the task was done, 
 
 Chilton was ready — and his school begun ; 
 
 In vain the youths who deem'd their rights infring'd. 
 
 And all their doors of lawful art unhing'd •, 
 
 Cry for revenge — dip their rude pens in gall, 55 
 
 And on the flock with doggrel weapons fall j 
 
 In vain afar (he hue and cry they raise. 
 
 In vain attempt to make the Hudson blaze ; 
 
 Nay tho' each press with daily labor teems. 
 
 In serious prose, or loose poetic themes ; pO 
 
 Y^t — all his dangers— all his conjbats pass'd ; 
 
 Still Chilton triumphs — and his school shall last ! 
 
 Now mark th' event, — mark from Columbia's laws, 
 
 What vast refinement Education draws ! 
 
 The boy by practice taught to ape the man, 65 
 
 Tq roll a snowball as to hand a fan ; 
 
 Strolls in the careless negligence of ease 
 
 (Since 'tis himself he pleases — sure to please) 
 
 Bows to each girl, gallants her thro' the town 
 
 Looks back to claim the passenger's renown ; 70 
 
 Till thus the morning glides in haste away, 
 
 And dinner warns him of the closing day : 
 
 Then rich in self-conceit he talks of fun, 
 
 Tells us \\\% feats-T-recpunts what nymph's were wop, 
 
 Toast's 
 
 Ver. SI. A/ii/Vojo/iief of th:; name of Chilton, estabUOied 4 female school which 
 was attended by all the fasliiouable ladies of New York in 1805. — The boys at 
 College opposed it— and formed themselves into a society for the purpose of 
 filling the Newspapers with their effusions — swearing "thi;y never would desist 
 till the Hudson blazed." 
 
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 Toast's 
 
 :hoo] which 
 "he boys at 
 : purpose of 
 
 Toasfs to their health -and o'er the Howing bowl, 
 
 Maddens his brain, to shew his pow'rs of soul ! 
 
 At evening too the sacred shrine he haunts, 
 
 Where Harper rattles and where Cooper rants ; n 
 
 There talks aloud— applauds—opposes— nods 
 
 Or joins the thunder of the Gallery Gods ; 
 
 Flies where adorers bend at beauty's shrine, 
 
 And youth's, (like Satellites) round planets shine \ 
 
 Or thro' the lobby strolls with vacant air. 
 
 Surveys the fruit that tempt the pallate there } 
 
 Whips up a jelley and destroy's the glasSy 
 
 To save the bore of taking change in brass! 
 
 But this is low-liv'd pleasure !— Hudson's youth, 
 
 Despise a mirror where they see the truth ,• 
 
 Be theirs the joys that midst the dance abound. 
 
 The brisk cotillion or the waltze's round. 
 
 There they display their independent state. 
 
 There frisk in boots conspicuously great ; 
 
 There shew the girls how much /A«V aid they spurn, 
 
 And 'midst themselves with nobler grace can turn ; 
 
 Thus always pleas'd — from every wish remov'd, 
 
 To rise superior or be more belov'd, 
 
 Their souls possess that calm contented rest. 
 
 Which gives mankind the sunshine of the breast ; 
 
 Whilst Europe's offspring in their countries cause 
 
 Rise to defend their liberties and laws \ 
 
 Whilst thro' the earth the emulating youth, 
 
 Burn to excel in Science and in truth ; 
 
 Columbia's sons alone are freed from cares. 
 
 And all that anxious sorrow genius shares ! 
 
 Untaught, indeed, that other climes are known, 
 
 They hail their empire as the world alone ; 
 
 Unconscious all of transatlantic shores, 
 
 For them the scenes of nature bloom in doors ; 
 
 They wish to know no manners but their own. 
 
 And keep no statutes, but from Fashions throne j 
 
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 Taught 
 
 Ver. 78. Cooper and Harper two favorite performers at the New-York 
 Theatre. 
 
 Ver. 86. From the life. . vr 
 
 Ver. 88. " To hold the Mirror up to Nature." Is the motto to the New- 
 York Theatre, „ , . L cioi\A e 
 
 Ver 92 &c. A bull dance was in vogue in New-York inthe winter of 1804-5 : 
 
 which eight youths (to the negledt of the ladies} accomplifhed with much 
 fclfTfatisfaftion— arrayed in boott and ^reat eeati ! 
 
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 Taught all that injures ireedona to disdain, 
 
 Ev'n independent in belief they reign j 
 
 Now Scripture moralists — now Atheist beaux 
 
 Christians or ;w/— just as the fashion goes ! 
 
 Such was Lothario (well the youth I knew) 
 
 Who all his morals from this system drew ! 
 
 Had but Lothario in nnAher soil 
 
 Flourish'd by care and Education's toil, 
 
 His genius form'd for greatness and for fame, 
 
 Had scatler'd wide his virtues as his name ; 
 
 But ah ! what labors must his mind have shar'd, 
 
 "What devious paths, what steep ascents have dar'd \ 
 
 Year after year he might have dragg'd in vain, 
 
 A life of credit by a life of pain ! 
 
 But 'twas Lothario's lot, contented here, 
 
 Nfv toils to enter, and no pangs to fear ; 
 
 His rising years in earless pleasures flew. 
 
 His days nor envy nor ambition knew ; 
 
 And soon as first he felt his rising breast. 
 
 Swell with some trifle that disturb'd his rest ; 
 
 Too calm to live — to shrink from death too brave, 
 
 He plung'd his sorrows in an eai-ly grave ! 
 
 How nobler this than living to have borne, 
 Lifes future ills and envious mortal's scorn ; 
 How better far when boys arc cross'd with spleen. 
 And manhood's (juarrels meet them at fifteen ; 
 To point the pistol at each other's breast, 
 And send the ball that guarantees them rest \ 
 ( " When they themselves can their quietus make " ) 
 Than all the rubs Fortune's wheel to take ! 
 
 But should the youth at length to age encroase. 
 And fix his life in matrimonial peace } 
 •Some nymph too old and iwaried to coquet, 
 Who nvears and mourns her maiden honors yet, 
 Warms his cold bosom and adorns his side, 
 And reigns his queen, his gloiy, and his bride; 
 His offspring soon the same career commence, 
 Htirs of their fatliers virtues as his sense ) 
 Save him the anxious trouble to direct 
 Their infant footsteps, and their faults correct { 
 For e're his precepts o'er their mind distil, 
 They douht his wisdomy and dispute his will ! 
 Lo } now a fairer prospect claims our view, 
 To see what charms to female miiuis accrue \ 
 
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 To trace the wisdom Chiltoti's models give. 
 
 And mark the nvomen's manners as they live. 
 
 Now morning grows apace — and (lectures done) 
 
 Th' united fair to crowded levies run j 
 
 Relate the wonders Chilton's wit can trace, 
 
 And try the wash he talk'd of for the face ; 
 
 Then turn to scandal — prate of youthful quizzes. 
 
 Their dancing — verses — chit-chat — persons— phizzes ; 
 
 And as each fair one drops in turn away. 
 
 She quick becomes the subject of the day, 
 
 Till thus the morn has furnish'd half the nation, 
 
 With " walking journals of communication ! " 
 
 Yet there arc girls — (and some of Chilton's school) 
 A few exceptions wait on every rule •, 
 Who draw such small advantage from their task 
 As nev'r to wear the stiff pedantic mask ; 
 Who only learn from philosophic art 
 To know themselves — and regulate the heart ; 
 Whose dull enjoyments fur from Fashion's laws, 
 Are those alone whence conscience claims applause \ 
 Whose morning lounge is 'midst those vulgar roofs 
 Where sorrow mourns at Poverty's reproofs ; 
 Yes there are girls whose grov'ling souls display. 
 That coward thought which looks beyond to day ! 
 
 But few are these, for whom Columbia's name. 
 
 Need shed the tear or breathe tlie curse of shame ; 
 
 ITcr happv nymplis with nobler views inspir'd, 
 
 With conscious innocence and courage fir'd } 
 
 Dare tocncotmter all our sexes wiles, 
 
 Their am'rous force as their all concju'ring smiles } 
 
 Dare nndefnulcd and ah^ne to rove, 
 
 The public streets or thro' tbe secret grove ; 
 
 Or (if protected) to the world they shew. 
 
 No Mother's care is equal to a beau ! 
 
 Oft have I seen when ev'ning parties blaze, 
 'I'he tender parent (bless'd) in triumph gaze ; 
 Whilst on her girl some stripling swain has hung, 
 And lisp'd forth College phrases from his tongue \ 
 Oft hc.ird the nymph declare impassion'd vows, 
 Whilst the next day she cuts her youth with bows ; 
 Whilst both atloct in equal love to rise 
 And both " MAKE BAnius" in each other's eyes I 
 Ilenco, free from all that sympathy of love. 
 Those real tics which fond atloction move, 
 
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 'Midst them no Hero for Leander raves, 
 
 No dear Leander scorns opposing waves •, 
 
 No dying Arria draws the reeking steel, 
 
 And cries — " for Paetus^ not myself I feel !" 
 
 No 'tis alone on bless'd Columbia's plain, 
 
 That Cupid aims at female hearts in vain ; 
 
 Who if they love— 'tis but to shew their power •, 
 
 Or for the pastime of a leisure hour ! 
 
 Thus, like her sons^ Columbia's daughters too, 
 
 In calm content their rising years pursue ; 
 
 TTis idle folly for their minds to know 
 
 What climes once florish'd— or what florifh now \ 
 
 Since in themselves their only world began, 
 
 And since a C/ssar is no longer man ! 
 
 For them no meinoir of rewarded truth 
 
 Excites the pang of emulating youth ; 
 
 No tale of sorrow wakes the heaving sigh, 
 
 Or difr.s the sparkling lustre of the eye •, 
 
 No trite examples cloud their anxious breast, 
 
 With plans to make a child or husband bless'd j 
 
 But calm they rest— themselves their only rule. 
 
 Conceit their tutors and the streets their school ! 
 
 Nay more whilst Englands dames ailvanc'd in age, 
 
 Despair a boy's attention to engage ; 
 
 The nymphs on Hudson's brighter regions born, 
 
 Treat fears of dotage with contemptuous scorn. 
 
 Tho' three-score years have whitenM o'er their pate, 
 
 And wrinkles frown, where roses bloom'd of late •, 
 
 Still they assume the wink — the maiden glance. 
 
 Flutter like Sylphs and rule the fairy dance i 
 
 Still they retain the tinsil of their teens, 
 
 And detk'd in feathers blaze like Indian queens ! 
 
 From these examples 'midst Columbia's ton, 
 
 From this new system which she claims herown : 
 
 Her lonuer ranks have learn'd to imitate. 
 
 With proper zeaU the manners of the great ! 
 
 The simple shop-boy, late a country clown, 
 
 One winter past, begins to know the town \ 
 
 Smokes his Segary en passant^ thro' the street. 
 
 That bless'd Segar which makes him Man complete > 
 
 And to the haunts of dissipation steers 
 
 A Man in folly, tho' a child in years 1 
 
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 On Sunday too, with more than Cockney grace, 
 He curls his hair and ornaments his face \ 
 Frequents the Church to see and to be seen, 
 With comrade coxcombs loiters o'er the green ; 
 Or nobler still (high mounted) whisks away, 
 The country seeks and drinks the live-long day ! 
 How ble.s'd the land with such refinement grac'd 
 Where ev-nth' apprentice sets the laws of taste •, 
 Soon (should but Heaven favor) wemayiind, 
 Columbia's method follow'd by mankind ! ^ 
 Sxmmayherploughboysapethe woman s man, 
 And handle now a pitchjo^k-^uovf ^ jati. 
 And as thcv leave the lesser world behind, 
 Roiga indfft'ndenly b,ipi>yy and njind! 
 
 '^'" IMITATIONS.' 
 
 From the Greek of BlON. 
 As late in slumber wrapt I lay, 
 Venus approach'd me, blythe and gay ; 
 Her infant Cupid by her side, 
 And thus, in friendly accents cried : 
 ♦' Dear Bion, take ihis child from mc, 
 "^ « And teach him how to sing like thee ! 
 
 She spake, and into air retir'd ; 
 Whilst I with proud ambition fir'd. 
 Fool as 1 war,, began with joy. 
 To to.ich mv music to the boy ; 
 Tlie pipe of 'Pan— Minerva's lute 
 'L'he lyre of Hermes— Plia'bus' flute 
 'Fhcse all I labor'd to impart ; 
 But the wild stripling scorn'd my art ; 
 And rising high his am'rous songs, 
 Taught me the music that belongs 
 To themes immortal ;— themes that move 
 To all his Mothers charms of love \ 
 Till I forgot my loonte.l lays, 
 And now but sing what Cupid plays ! 
 
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 \jt. To the Evening St<n- 
 () ! Hesperus, fair Venus' golden light. 
 
 The sacred nlory "i' ^''^' ^^J^ning night j 
 
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 Less than the moon, yet fairer than the stars, 
 
 ! hail ! and since that setting moon debars 
 Her blaze— bestow thy more propitious ray, 
 To whose fair influence yields the closing day. 
 
 1 come not thus with false — designing soul, 
 The nightly wand'rers musings to controul ; 
 But thou art Venus, — thou my love can'st see ; 
 And love allures me to converse with thee ! 
 
 ^d. Cupid turned Ploughboy. 
 
 His wanted torch and arrows cast away, 
 Cupid usurp'd the ploughboy's rude array } 
 Coupled his oxen in the rustic chain, 
 And strew'd his harvest o'er the fertile plain ; 
 Then cried (whilst smiling on the heav'ns above) 
 ** Burn up these vales of Ceres, mighty Jove ; 
 *' Lest you yourself Europas bull should bow, 
 " Ere long beneath my unresisted plough ! 
 
 FROM HORAC^. 
 Dialogue between Horace and Lydiot 
 
 " Donee gratus eram." 
 HORACE. 
 
 Whilst Horace in his Lydia's arms, 
 Shar'd, fondly shar'd, her blooming charms, 
 Nor knew a rival there ; 
 Not all the blifs that monarchs owp. 
 Not all the wealth of Persia's throne. 
 With Horace could compare. 
 L r n J A. 
 
 Whilst you a mutual fondness shew'd, 
 Nor with a warmer feeling glow'd. 
 For Chlofc than for me ; 
 Not cv'n the Roman Ilia's name 
 Flourished with half so fair a fame, 
 As Lydia's bless'd with thee. 
 HORACE. 
 
 Me now the Thracian Chloe sways, 
 And lulls me with the am'rous lays 
 Her love has taught to flow i 
 For her, I would not shrink from Oeath, 
 Would but the Gods prolong her breath, 
 And grant her bliss below ! 
 
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 CHLOE. 
 
 Me the Thurinian CalaYs fires, 
 And my enraptur'd soul inspires, 
 With more than mutual joy ; 
 Death's fiercest pangs I twice would brave, 
 Could I but rescue from the grave, 
 My dearer life — the boy ! 
 
 HORACE. 
 
 What if our fondness, tho' resign'd, 
 Ev'n now renew'df our hearts should bind, 
 In its resistless chain ; 
 If Chloe should be seen no more ; 
 And Horace ope his willing door 
 To Lydia's arms again ? 
 
 CHLOE. 
 
 Tho' he is beauteous as a star ; 
 Tour faithless bosom lighter far. 
 Than man's retiring breath; 
 Still would I wish to nestle there ; 
 With thee the joys of life to share 
 W^ith thee the pangs of Death ! 
 
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 FROM CATULLUS. 
 
 " Vivemus mca Lesbia." 
 
 Llsdia, let us live and love i 
 Let us, Lesbia, far remove, 
 Care and sorrow — nor regard 
 Talcs that happiness retard ! 
 
 Yon bright sun that gilds the main, 
 Sets, — but sets to rise again ; 
 We — whi.-ii once life's precious light 
 Has fail'd — must sleep in endless night. 
 
 Haste then, darling of my wishes,^ 
 IMess me with a thousand kisses j 
 Then, succeeding each to each, 
 Tho' the number myriads reach } 
 Still encrease the boundless store, 
 Still, O ! still give myriads more j 
 Till — when myriads we have given 
 (Wrapt in all the joys of Heaven) 
 
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 Let 
 
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 Let us cease to count our treasures, 
 Lest we fix a bound to pleasures j 
 Or iest others envious prove, 
 When they see such hoards of love ! 
 
 r L E S B I A, 
 No girl can boast a lover half so true 
 As I, my Lesbia, still have prov'd to you ; 
 No league of faith was e're so firmly bound, 
 As that which you within my breast have found -, 
 Now is my mind so madden'd by your ihame^ 
 80 reft of all its influence hy- your /wwe ; 
 That, tho' I never can my love renew, 
 I cannot hate you, whatsoever you do ! 
 
 FROM CASIMER. 
 
 \st. Neros Mother aihlressing him ivheri he ivas about to hill Irr. 
 Why does thy sword thus threaten with the tomb. 
 Thy Mother's bosom and thy Mother's womb ? 
 Support and life that womb and bofom gave, 
 Each claims thy filial duty— not the grave ! 
 
 Ah ! no ! 'tis false !— the womb and breast that hurl'd 
 Thy tyrant being on a wretched world, 
 Arc worthy both, with deadly blood to flow, 
 And Nero worthy to decide the blow ! 
 
 Qj. From the So/ig of Solomon. 
 
 «' All sitio clamus. " 
 
 « I thirst" the prince of Heaven, expiring, cries \ 
 « I thirst," and lifts his agonizing eyes ; 
 O ! drink, my spouse, and satiate thy call, 
 Tho' the sad cup, embitter'd, tastes with gall ; 
 Yet drink my spouse, to lloav'ns high wi W-esign d, 
 And be the health, " Sahatut to mankind\ 
 
 EPIGRAMS. 
 
 From various Creek Authors— cl,i<-ay in the A.ul>olog,;,. 
 
 \st. On a Statue of Venus at CniJos, by Praxiteles 
 When Venus saw her statue piac'd 
 At Cnidos, with perfection gracd ; 
 
 f* Ah ! 
 
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 ound ■, 
 
 3 I'll/ her. 
 tomb, 
 
 that liui-rd 
 
 , cries ; 
 
 bign'd, 
 
 'tcU's, 
 
 «« Ah! where Praxiteles," she cried, ^^ 
 « Hast thou my naked charms espied ? 
 
 2d. On Envy. 
 Envy is bad ;— and yet has one good part -, 
 It gnaws, the man who envies, to the heart. 
 
 ^d. On Life. 
 Long Ufe is short where virtuous men engage ! 
 But to the bad one moment is an age ! 
 
 4f/'. On a Miser. 
 You have a rich man's wealth-a poor man's breast, 
 Rich fur your heirs, but for yourself distress d ! 
 
 f)th. Imitated. 
 The Graces seeking for a place of rest, 
 Have iix'd their empire in Amanda's breast ! 
 
 Gib. On Vakttidinariens. 
 I mourn not thcie already 'reft of breath, 
 But those who live in hourly fears of Death . 
 
 FROM CATULLUS. 
 
 Hal strives to climb the hill of sense 
 But reason hurls him headlong thonce ! 
 
 f* Ah 
 
 Lesbia my fond proposals still disproves. 
 Yet nwY I perish but my Lesbia loves ■, 
 Whence is my proof ?-the same revoking wdl 
 Is mine !— I curse her— yet I love her still ! 
 
 My Lesbia s'^^^i^she nev^r more can love. 
 Save loving me-no not tho' wo'edbyJove! 
 But women's oaths should, be transcnbd in haste, 
 And somewhere where they cannot be eras d ! 
 
 From He/nsius^Hutgenius, ^c. 
 
 \sf On a wan ahva\s shaking his head. 
 You shake your head ! -a bottle too 
 Requires the same each mmute •, 
 Whilst the poor thlisty toper doubts. 
 If there is ought within it ! 
 
 2J. Juliis in Office. 
 Aulus in office, thinks it is propitious 
 To shew his office— znd to hg oHicious ! 
 
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 Sd. On the iron coins of y. Casar. 
 
 With future names — be any metal grax:'d, 
 But Csesar's stamps on nought but iron plac'd ! 
 
 ^th. On a fine picture of a Girl. 
 
 With raptur'd hearts, the blooming girl we view, 
 Who boastSj tho' painted, natures colors too ! 
 
 5th. On a great man envied. 
 
 What wonder envy should devolve on you, 
 Whom all feet trample on, but jiom pursue ! 
 
 Qtb. With a set of prayers to his brother — ify HuTGENIUS. 
 
 The prayers you ask, are here, my brother given \ 
 O ! be my words your passport into Hp.iven ! 
 
 Ith. On a Jick Drunkard, 
 
 GEmilius bids the various p'lysic 
 Which his Doctor sends he c ""^ st •, 
 fearing lest the self — sane doses, 
 With his pain should cure his thirst ! 
 
 6th. On Gmiavus of Sweden, 
 
 Ages hereafter, when the earth may quake, 
 Shall say, " the ashes of Gustavus wake ! " 
 
 9th. On a talkative girl — who had lost her teeth. 
 
 What wonder that the beauteous Anna's 
 Lately splendid teeth should fail. 
 Whilst her topgue's incessant hammer, 
 Dares those splendid teeth assail ? 
 
 1 0th. The gouty debtor. 
 
 In vain the gouty debtor tries, 
 ' Th' evasive force of wit ; 
 " He cannot to his promise stand!" 
 No ! — but he sure can sit ! 
 
 11//^.. On a pauper who had falhn into a ditch. 
 
 The pitying strangers haste with generous fear. 
 To lift the pauper from the pit of mud ; 
 «' O ! cease, (he cries) and kt me flumber here, 
 " My bed at home is not one half so good ! " 
 
 1 1th. On a father surrounded by his children. 
 Lines from a circle to its centre 
 Each to ca«. h must equal provp } 
 
 Equal 
 
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 Equal to his circling children 
 Is a gen'rous parent's love ! 
 
 13th. On Women. 
 What is lighter than a feather ? 
 Dust : — than Dust ? — the changing wind : 
 Than the wind ? — than all together ? 
 Nothing — but a woman's mind! 
 lith. On a beautiful boy and his mother each blind of one ey. 
 
 O ! let your eye, sweet Boy> 
 Your mother's socket fill ; 
 And thus be Cupid blind. 
 Whilst she is Venus still ! 
 
 16. Imitated from the French — on a man who had unjustly been 
 refused a College fellowship. 
 
 Here lies a wretch — -who had so little knowledge. 
 He was not ev'n a fellow of a College ! 
 
 :e, 
 
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 I'C, 
 
 FINIS. 
 
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48 
 
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 The Author of the following Poem had not resolved to 
 commit it to the press, till the first part of this little Volume 
 t^s in types—This will account for it's not appearing under it's 
 proper head. 
 
 THE TEAR OF SORROW. 
 
 Written in NetV-TorK at the close of the Tear ISO*. 
 
 " His saltern accumulem donis, et lui;v:ar iuani. 
 "Muusre"! Viig. 
 
 This Elegy was wV.tten at the close ot the year 1804, as a tnbute of regrt 
 to the memory ot several tVieiids most dear to the author, who m that year had 
 paid the debt of nature. The first of these was Dr. Percival, ot Manchester; 
 well kaownin the literary world, as a skilUul Physician, an eie;;aiu Scho;ar, 
 an amiable Companion, and a pious Christian.— As he w.u " a sfconj tithi^ lo 
 the author, mention is here also made of his »-.■„•/ parent, \v!;o was chiei Magis- 
 trate of Manchcst.'r— and died in lune, l>i02, a^td 5 7. — ; A memoir of his 
 
 have 
 
 lldLC Ul i\iailCIlCSl'' 1 illlU UICU III |Ullt, I -J-v-, ":3^- -• ■ • 
 
 life was published by Dr. Percival, i"n t!ie Monthly Magiiinc ior th.it year 
 The second person lamented, is Robert .Sumner, A. B. whc.-.e virtues 
 been so imperfectlv recorded in the former pages. — Th.- third, is John, son ot ti'.e 
 late Sir |olin Mosely, of Staffordshire, a student of t)ricl College, Oxicrd— he 
 died almost suddenly in the ISih year of his age. Tiiis young man added to hiSr 
 mental qualities, the most singular beauty of p.;rsoii ;— and was remarked even 
 
 when a boy for his wonderful elegance and activity,— hii manly and ingenuous 
 countenance, — and his great superiority of strength. 
 
 The fair female whose name closes this list o;' ::.orro'.v, was a young lady, 
 (the most intimate companion of the author's siutir who divd at Mancliesi.ci 
 in October 1804, aged 2i, after a sl.ori illness. 
 
 1. 
 
 OWIFTLY the year has past -j—whose genial beams 
 For 7iie on Albion's blissful plains aro.se ; 
 
 And now, by Hudson's unregardetl scroatits, 
 Marks me a dreary luand'rer at it's cloie ! 
 
 2. 
 
 Yet time may fly, and chance may bid mc rove 
 To trace new scenes of Fashion or oi Fame •, 
 
 But time and place can never change tlte love 
 Which centers only in it's countrfs name ! 
 
 3. 
 
 Then let me glance my mem'ry on the few, 
 Who still are there, to raise my drooping head j 
 
 And let the genuine tear their names bedew, 
 Whom the last year has numbcr'd with the dead ! 
 
 4. 
 
 For there 'tucre hearts which now no longer beat, 
 For me where many a parting sorrow burn d ; 
 
 Ami there were lips which mine no more shall meet, 
 That bade me live to bless ^/jfw; when return 'd ! 5. 
 
resolved to 
 Ltle Volume 
 vr under it's 
 
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 nbute of regrt 
 in th.it year lud 
 >t Manchester ; 
 eie'_;aiu Sclio'ar, 
 eioiiJ father " to 
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 memoir ol his 
 
 r tliat ysar; 
 
 ^e virtues have 
 John, soil ol ll;e 
 jc, Oxicrd — he; 
 nan added to hi^ 
 i remarked even 
 y and ingenuou-i 
 
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 O ! witness this, thou, on whose recent grive, 
 A thousand mourning Charities attend i 
 
 Thou, " Percivaly " whom Heav'n and Virtue gave 
 My guide, my second— Yither, and my friend ! 
 
 6. 
 For 1 had once a father— (and can claim 
 A father still, immortaliz'd above) 
 
 And such a father, as enhanc'd the name 
 "With more than human tenderness and love ! 
 
 7. 
 Him had his Mersey twice— three lustres seen, 
 The guardian of her Justice and her laws ; 
 
 Him had she twice rous'd from the peaceful scene 
 To wield the sabre in his country's cause ! 
 
 8. 
 Him had she seen, when daily toil bad ceas'd, 
 S:ray forth i\t eve to calin some suff'ring breast ; 
 
 At once the donor of the Social feast, 
 At once the pauptr's charitable guest ! 
 
 9. 
 Him had she seen the husband of a hand ; ^ 
 Worthy his heart, and with his heart combin'd j 
 
 Him too the parent of a num'rous band, 
 I.arTe, vet encompass'd in his larger mind ! 
 '^ ^ 10. 
 
 To these (bereft of him) in pitying love, 
 Heav'fi enve a second father as sincere ; 
 
 Who fhcn paternal fondness so could prtJve, 
 As unv to nvake afresh the filial tear ! 
 
 For I remember when in pain reclin'd. 
 Thy medicinal hand was constant there ; 
 
 And oft thy more—th^n medicinal mind 
 In deep affliction snatch'd me from Despair ! 
 ^ 12. 
 
 And I remember when my earliest yomh. 
 In dreams of Fancy and of Error stray'd ; 
 
 Thv precepts led me to the paths of Truth, 
 Unask'd, and (save by conscience) unrepaid ! 
 
 13. 
 How did thy feast of reasoning wit regale ! 
 How did thy converse tedious night beguile ! 
 
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 Combin*9 the moral with the cheerful tale, 
 And taught the Sigh to mingle with the Smile ! 
 
 14. 
 
 Or did'st thou guide the pen, how swiftly flow'd 
 Genius with elegance spontaneous fraught ; 
 
 Where Wisdom's self, where pure Religion glo'sf 'd, 
 Luxuriant language, yet the chastest thought. 
 
 15. 
 
 Bless'd be thy mem'ry ! and if happly now 
 Thy Spirit meets my father in its charms j 
 
 O ! join with him to guide me here below, 
 And (if thou canst') restore me to his arms ! 
 
 16. 
 
 For — may not Hope, without presumption think, 
 That friends on earth, are guardian angels there \ 
 
 Who snatch the soul when 'on destruction's brink 
 And oft direct it to the realms of air ? 
 
 17. 
 
 And may not Faith anticipate the hour, 
 When Hope, dissolv'd in Certainty, shall fail ; 
 
 And Charity renew'd with nobler pow'r, 
 Unblemish'd and unfaiding shall prevail ? 
 
 18. 
 
 Then — in redeeming mercy, may my soul. 
 Give happier passions and affections birth ; 
 
 Freed from the pangs of Envy's dread control. 
 And all that injures friendship, when on eartlo ! 
 
 19. 
 
 Then from my Sumner, may it never part. 
 For whom the muse long pour'd the sorrowing strain ; 
 
 There share the raptures of his cheerful heart, 
 Without the anguish of his former pain ! 
 
 20. 
 
 Nor less with thee, thro' genial skies above, 
 My airy spirit then may wing it's flight; 
 
 Thou, whom this year, so fiital to my love, 
 Plung'd in a moment to the shades of night ! 
 
 21. 
 
 Thou, Mosely, — whom my earliest childhood lov'd j 
 My chosen playmate e're I knevs' thy worth ; 
 
 When hand in hand on Avon's banks we rov'd, 
 And mockd the schoolboy's hardships in our mirth ! 
 
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 Whilst healthi sate blushing thro' thy downy cheek, 
 And pleasure sparkled in thy nioistning eyes ; 
 
 (Those eyes which erst an eloquence could speak 
 Of every feeling that might chance to rise j) 
 
 23. 
 Whilst Vigour cloath'd thy manly limbs with charms, 
 « Harmonious swell'd by nature's finest hand ;" 
 
 Taught thee to stem the current with thy arms> 
 An^ bade the ball recoil at thy command j 
 
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 Yes !— whilst the banks of Lis fondly shew'd, 
 A form so perfect in a si-ripling's years ; 
 
 And prov'd that beauty, when on worth bestow'd. 
 The brightest work of bounteous Heav'n appears ; 
 
 25. 
 Death hover'd o'er, with his resistless dart. 
 And instantaneous dealt the fatal blow ; 
 
 Bade cease the throbbings of thy gen'rous heart, 
 And laid thy youth's aspiring honors low ! 
 
 26. 
 When Virtue, thusy array 'd in op'ning bloom, 
 Fram'd to delight the mind, the sense to cheer. 
 
 Sinks early blasted to the silent tomb, ' 
 
 Who can suppress the sigh — restrain the tear ? 
 
 27. 
 Then w^5— when join'd to Beauty and to Truth, 
 The name of « Female" — heightens every grace \ 
 Can cease to weep, when in expanding youth. 
 Her form is sever'd from his fond embrace ? 
 
 28. 
 Such was Eliza ! such my Sister's friend ; 
 That Sister mark'd her //w— and mark'd her die ! 
 
 Long must she mourn her lov'd companion's er 
 Long shall her brother mourn in fympathy ! 
 
 29. 
 For she was all — the fond fraternal mind. 
 Could wish a darling Sister to possess ; 
 
 All that the purest heart on earth could find ; 
 And Seraphs now may glory to caress ! 
 
 30. 
 Such are the names, that Sorrow bids me write, 
 (Tho' rude the hand) on Mem'ry's sable Urn ; 
 
 Names which this year has shadow'd in its plght } 
 And, //if i/j^^, can '^"'"'r more return ! 
 
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 31. 
 
 Yes ! 'tis the year of sorrow, past !— and nowj 
 Another dawns z%fickley tho' as clear ; 
 
 This too may ravish other friends below, 
 But none more virtuous— 3/4-111 luorc justly dear. 
 
 32. 
 
 The year of Sorrow ! — quickly has its past ! 
 Quickly will pass the few that yet remain ; , 
 
 'Tis but a journey ! — and our souls at last, 
 Shall meet their friends, never to part again ! 
 
 FINIS. 
 
 ERRATA. 
 
 Page 8. Erase the two last lines in the page. 
 
 ibid. Note, to V. 107, for Ely*ii/m, read Elysium. 
 9. Note, to V. 110, for Pevi, rtvul Levi. 
 
 10. Line 198, for frigk, read Jigk. 
 
 1 1. 24:3, for empire's read empires. 
 18, Sg^, for brutiml, read brutal. 
 21. 48, for turn's, read turns. 
 
 55. 18th, from the top, for, O ! read, on. 
 
 ^ingemnus. 
 26. 8th, from the bottom, for ingemus, road 
 
 35. 7th, for bid, read bade. 
 
 56. 97. for Columbra read Columbia. 
 thid, 43. for Chlitmn, read Chilton. 
 
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Iyjiu/f7. 
 
 , on. 
 
 'ingenuous, 
 lou-i, read 
 ead i){iiJi: 
 Columbia. 
 Chilton.