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 PREFACE. 
 
 pHTrK^''"Tr"K^^-^"'l'''^''^ ^'«"« time not intend- 
 ed to be published in their present formj but time 
 
 and c.rcumstances-K^ircumstances which could in- 
 erest no one besides the author himself, have had 
 sway enough to alter his first intention. For him 
 to ask the leniency of the public to be shown now 
 to these Poems, would be folly, and would aooear 
 .nhis thmkmg, something lik; a person who may 
 be supposed to ask pardon for^a crime previour^o 
 the commission of it. But while he wou Id put n a 
 claim for such a leniency, which many others ne, 
 per.enced,„ such matters have done before hi^ 
 
 eft'im rtha't^Vr' ^"l g-*'^J"g consid^rJ^n 
 cess ^ whJ h • ♦i '^\'^^^^' production failof suc- 
 cess,) which is this— that he feels he has shown a 
 candid and unaffected avowal of the endeavorhe 
 has made. Whether that one turns out to be a Ld 
 
 (Which niust be pronounced on by others^ is of 
 course of no small importance to him. ^ 
 
 „ J . ll .. ..^^The AuTHol tt.^ 
 
 r^tlH 
 
PiULT 1ST. ^fe 
 
 Fr^nd of the Muse! permit me now lo hand / 
 
 You th|S the second of my youthful lays, / 
 
 W^!k !l ^ '^""""^ I'^"'" y«" *^«n command. / 
 With thy approval stamp, or stern dispraise / 
 
 Yet should u please when you have glan Jd h o'er 
 
 And I'll on ; f *"""^' '^^^^ "'^^ «^«"^« to raise ; ' 
 And I 1 on future wmg more safely soar 
 
 If I now triumph as I've triumphed oft before 
 
 II. 
 
 Tlu. scene seem'd laid on consecrated ground- 
 Where a broad stream! thro' fertile regions stray'd • 
 
 Nea whose br^ht windings soft„'i„g alf around^ ' 
 Thick crowds m new rapt admiraUon staid, 
 And of high peaks and proraont'ries surrey'd 
 
 iC'nL 'r^'r ''^ '^'^™^ ^«^« «««n to expand ' 
 • bxp^ored, admired, and sketch'd-till all dismav'd 
 bhrunk at stern Nature answering some comS- 
 A muttering shock of thunder roll'd flong thrS 
 
rOMIE's DREilr. 
 
 Ill 
 
 As^nlmoning auention ! cracking loud 
 O er the chang'd West live adamant be^an 
 
 Thin n . '^^'.'"'^^^S^ ^"'^ ^P'^cious spar, : 
 na^od on da,k^el„uds-.hei. l^lHs S roi.,„s „,,!., 
 
 IV. 
 
 bhol I., array ncxto'er tl,a, garnish'd Hcrten 
 ;'a "K-f 'f""' '""™"« "lollo" vortex drvt^' 
 
 Arose that cJoud from where the Earth had rent 
 Wh^n f *^ ''•^'''"S ^^^'^ beholder's eye • 
 
egan 
 ch cloud 
 spar) : 
 fire o'erran , 
 
 I plan I 
 oHing white 
 
 loning fires 
 : given, 
 ires 
 catten, 
 ven ; 
 
 ell'd amain 
 riven ; 
 a train, 
 )lain. 
 
 POBsie's dream. - 'f 
 
 VI. 1 
 
 ,1 
 
 Rush'd many down from peak and promontory, 
 
 Who in the west liad watch'd those structure's'piled ^ 
 Upon each other in all outward glorv, ' 
 
 And with interior splendors nrchly'aisled,— \ 
 To welcome such as o'er plain, lawn, or wild, 1 
 , On to the fanes then bent their glorious course ' - 
 (Which " Temple Places" by the crowds were 
 styled) 
 
 Soon- as behind The Mighty, with a hoarse 
 Commotion dread, the hcij-his had closed with shudder-, 
 ing force. 
 
 VII. 
 
 All welcomed on ! with gaits reluctant, slow— 
 Tall and commanding'some, and numbers, lafne ; 
 
 some low in stature, not in genius low, 
 
 As might be shewn, if by their grades of fame 
 Lach were annouiic'd, or histre of his name ; ' ' 
 
 5>uch as they were. Earth own'd their presence wfiile 
 Ihey oer her plains, and velVct pastures came 
 
 fehe back returning them the frecpient smile 
 As thoughts their hearts express'd unmixed with fulsome 
 guile. . ^A^ 
 
 *-^ i| 
 
 /• 
 
 rem 
 g cry ; 
 
 [ the sky ; 
 
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 re nigh — 
 
 r ,- 
 
 I rear. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 And from the garbs in which they seemed to rise 
 Ami from the traits in life, that marked them, well 
 
 fciach Epic Chief the eye could Pecognize, 
 Whose loudly varied and heroic swell ' 
 On mankind's ears in^graceful numbers fell ; 
 
 Who forms of former days did then resume ; 
 
 ^ttC? ^^°™ ^" ^^^-^ '°^'*^^ 'ong and much^o dwell : 
 While some dofTd weeds of Tirae^ and Death, and 
 GJoora, 
 With which they had burst unimprisoned from the torab.. 
 
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 POESIE'S DREAM 
 
 I IX. 
 
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 '^r on 0101*6 darinir anri n-.- • . ^" > 
 ScrnH« «fK . 7""g ana.iMrwinian whig 
 
 XI. • 
 
 ^ m ll^'^iitf itT'--^ fr--''.o >o„„,- 
 
 And, a. So. Uhtf teP T'" ""''" P''"'^''^ 
 At ivar-note Ditch .„ K l^- J'P' *"""■ """>g 
 
 Whether^ CS;;^g'l»ii;:iXTv "^^'^ ■■ , 
 
 Of old Knight-ErMntry t,,„„,h, ,^7a,aiden, g., 
 
 k- 
 
sion^ rose 
 
 /cold died !vin ; 
 
 he glows ^^ 
 
 »rain, 
 
 im agaiii, 
 
 1 pa?c, ^ 
 er age. 
 
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 poesie's drea^. 
 
 xri. ' 
 
 — With Sach as wefe in life to Fame urge<l on, 
 By innate impulse forced to climb its steep ; ' 
 
 Companionless, whose day:* were spent alone ' 
 
 ^ In arduous study— application deepT* 
 Strangers alil^to sj^ishine as t8 slefcp ; 
 
 And, with'iunswohniflg energy of brain ' *^ 
 
 An^ soul, hard earn'd applause^id duly/reap ; " 
 
 Of whom their Kings were proud, their countries vain 
 Who Learnmg's stores^enrich'^ with toil, fatigue, and 
 pain. 
 
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 ored 
 ring ; 
 
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 eed to siijcr 
 
 It toclinor 
 
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 •ong. 
 
 XIII. 
 
 , Redounding to their glory and their prais^, 
 
 On to those ni(xnuments whiclTthey well knew 
 The learn'd would t<r their hsting mem'ries raife, 
 While copqu'ring much, who onward patient drew 
 ** And ah V^q common praise to such wae due .L 
 MailW thus for toils and literary wars ; « " 
 
 Up to the future's emulative view 
 " ^on'^P't^uous held, beside/those lonely stars 
 Of old, whose lustres burst^e'-en thr|' dark prison bars. 
 
 ung — 
 
 1 pieaised: 
 •ung 
 ized : 
 peased 
 day I 
 sed ; 
 
 gay. 
 
 XIV. 
 
 And as thus o'erstrode Earth their straggling bands 
 In wayward ramblings many fell beiiind ° 
 
 Re-viewing spots along their native lands— 
 Which fond remembrances recall'd to mind ; 
 Where Youth and Fame had early garlands twined 
 
 Or young Love's ardor first was felt to wake- 
 But all such lingering, as the day^ileclined, - 
 
 In swm wmged chariots driven, each like a flake _ 
 Before the storm, were s^en the rest tq overtake. 
 
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 poesie's dream. 
 
 XV. 
 
 ^f^tX'"" r'!f """^' '^'y> «« they came 
 
 AndiT" "'''^'' ^"^ contoursboIdL 
 
 Ana aJJ swept onward out of earthly siaht • ' 
 
 Wl^le ^'Thi'" ^T'"^ ^«"^^^^« with S J ' 
 
 ' - Jhe-r gathering, and approach the Temples 
 
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 XVI. 
 
 At noon they far from distanc'd Earth were soied • 
 M sunset pass'd thev thm' th^ J! • P^° ' 
 
 Whpn th^ ci . ^ "^ t"^ portal wavs • 
 
 With in ''^>^:-^^""?'»g fanes stupendous, widi 
 
 xvir. 
 
 ■ ° Prnt ^- '■",' "»"«"gl/ ^blime to view 
 
 ,]■ 
 
poesie's dream. 
 
 u 
 
 5y came, 
 
 left and right ; 
 
 le— 
 
 fian night, 
 bt; 
 
 'Sight ; 
 
 he old, 
 
 ^ the Temples 
 
 were spied ; 
 i wavs ; 
 Js, wide, 
 d praise, 
 
 ^8 : 
 
 and high, 
 lays ; 
 
 B, and Sky, 
 le eye. 
 
 w, 
 
 es between 
 rue, 
 
 »; 
 
 so green, 
 •Pping food ; 
 srene — 
 ood. 
 
 tood. 
 
 XVIII. 
 
 Beyond all mortal praise^ be extoll'd 
 
 What chisel there and pencil did propound ; 
 For cataracts and noireless rivers roll'd, 
 From which some e'en believed they caught the 
 
 sound : ^ 
 
 —Shores dash'd with shade, and sunshine, or im- 
 imbrowned ; 
 Lawn, climbing mead, and fence-encircled park, 
 And heights, and bright wing'd birds th^teoar'd 
 around, -n^j^ 
 
 Glowed into very life, and such to mark 
 Was wild delight indeed ! and in the stilly dark / 
 
 XIX. " 
 
 Brushwood surrounded waters, sullen, deep, 
 To mark where the unruffled azure slept' 
 Save frequent spots, that thrill'd in uttering sleep 
 Wherem the inmates of the Lakelets . leapt [' 
 Or soft along the wings of Zephyr swept; 
 O ! works of owned inimitable skill ! 
 -That long alive the mantling wonder kept 
 _yt those atRapture's fount who drank their fill— 
 Ere long who mused mid scenes of greater splendors still. 
 
 XX. 
 
 Onward thro' pile adjoining pUe they pass'd, 
 Till they to the remotest came, when all,- 
 
 Still more deaign'd magnificence aghast 
 Beheld— the garnish of that mightiest hall— 
 The deep emboss'd rich spiral pillars tall, 
 ^«**en'8 arch grandeur to the eye rev^ealfed ; 
 With altars, thrones, out-jutting from each wall ; 
 
 On, or near which leaned forms or mutely kneel'd, 
 Or with peculiar anguish to the soul appealed. 
 
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 poesie's dream. 
 
 xxxr 
 
 Ay ! whoJe length-forms with soul so well express'd 
 ^ That moment took all reason's power to chide 
 The e^ ,,,„3 raised in each beholder's br'east 
 
 Pl«y.i f "" ^.^""^ ^'^'P'^ enthusiasm eied • 
 Placed not m the.r allotted niches there ^ ' 
 
 Or \hf r'^ v^ assuming air of power aid pride 
 Or the fine chisel's fingerini; to declare 
 Or between Art and Lifelo drL the dui iomp.re. 
 
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 XXII. 
 
 Like life into a stone-struck attitude 
 
 Of uander.ng wonder throw o'er all around • 
 But how may we their extacy express ^ ' 
 Up to a pitch of adoration wound" ^ " 
 When there, in all life's true similitude, they found 
 
 XXIII. 
 
 Their loves ! amid that mute assemblage ranged • 
 More of whose eloquent forms 'twere vain to sDeak 
 
 So soft^ttired, with breathing looks unchaTg'd ^ ^ ' 
 Showing no trace out of place, expressive meek 
 The pensive brow-the cold and marble cS- 
 
 With utt ranee, and the soft reply to seek • 
 Of slighted Love three owned the'^irroS swav » 
 Ah (surely 'twa, no chisel that could suchTumay! 
 
veil express'd, 
 er to chide 
 i breast, 
 de; • 
 
 I eyed ! 
 
 and pride. 
 
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 complete. 
 
 poesie's dream. 
 XXIV. 
 
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 Yes ! hush'd and dreamy stood the forms of those, 
 
 Arranged thus (sculpture they were not) along • 
 From whom sighs, soft to fancy's ear, arose. 
 
 To meet with those from the awaken'd throng ; 
 
 For sad the souls of some, the last among ! 
 While soothing records of the heart awoke 
 
 In others, drawn from mem'ry, touoh'd with song , 
 For, such remembrances as Love bespoke 
 None present sternly strove against, or feign 'd to cloak. 
 
 soul's address 
 
 earnestness, 
 
 ;ess 
 Jnd ; 
 
 7 found 
 
 XXV. 
 
 But — Time, that ever flies, flew on apace, 
 
 And more enrich'd he could not well* have flown 
 
 Who Imger'd o'er, at times, to fondly trace ' 
 
 The ancient bands of Poets, famed and known 
 
 rnu I.T'!^'" ™'x'<l— in warmest friendship shovvn ; 
 1 hose differmg only in attire from thes6, 
 Well pleas'd each ranging glance ' around 
 thrown ; 
 In love exulting, dignity, and ease. 
 Could such a fellowship of genius fail to please? 
 
 was 
 
 ranged ; 
 tin to speak, 
 ing'd ; 
 fe meek, 
 e cheek — 
 I to play 
 
 ig sway ! 
 }urtray ! 
 
 . XXVI. 
 
 Each change they met, with no bewilder'd eye 
 As yet, but how hearts beat we may not know 
 
 Beneath garbs of remote antiquity 
 
 A nd such as gifted moderns rouid them throw- 
 When nods, adjudging Pallas, to bestow ; 
 
 While, mterspers'd with these and those of yore, 
 
 ' ThplfAl ^''^u\^°^*''^''^'>«"«P'«"dto show; 
 The last tho' not the least,' which Fingal wore- 
 Whose dazzlmg beauties vie with none known heretofore. 
 
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 POESrE's DREAM, 
 
 XXVII. 
 
 There many stood, known by their bovish sfnnno • 
 
 XXVIII 
 
 O'er terrac'd high enormous aisles did lean 
 Spectators musing ;_who that concourse traced 
 
 VVhPn".n '^ '^'^''^u ^l '^""^ *^'^ ^«" they paced 
 W . '"*"•■"' by happy chances, faced ' 
 
 ¥rn„ ' A '"^"'' °" ^'"^ =»^ P'""«. chaced, 
 ni roused by messengers anon in speed 
 
 1 hreadmg the,r way. tho^few knew what was to succeed. 
 
 XXIX. ^^ 
 
 A moment ! and. as thui^they walk'd or stood 
 Discussing topics of the past-so dear, 
 
 Rh^f^ r^" ""'"^^^ "'^"' «"^ «Jter'd mood, 
 hhowed Genius aire depicted deeply here : 
 
 bome instantaneous impulse, far and near 
 
 1 he loud-rung-hum and clamour quickly hush'd ■ 
 
 A monitory silence fill'd the ear ! 
 
 PnV^' '?i? "^ i?^^ '?"ff ^'t'* expectation flush'd ; ' 
 Faroer the Temple's heights a flash of glory giish'd. 
 
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poesie's dueam. 
 
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 ish stoops ; 
 
 Jndship join'd ; 
 
 jups, 
 
 and combin'd, 
 
 >f mind ! 
 
 i^ith White ! 
 
 y behind 
 
 ie could write, 
 
 >nic bite. 
 
 XXX. 
 
 A flash, whose bright unborrowed lustre shone ; 
 When two loud change-announcing sounds were 
 rung— 
 
 Once ! and, as swell'd its multiplying tone 
 The dipping sun red o'er the ocean hung\- 
 Twice ! and as thro' th^ aisles it raging sung ' 
 
 The Temple-Hall became a Banquet Place— 
 And lighted chanaeliers descending swung • 
 
 Viands and fruits were spread— wines pour'd apace— 
 And waved a Tree of Life o'er all in native grace 
 
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 an, 
 
 irse traced 
 le! 
 
 they paced ; 
 faced 
 indeed, 
 chaced, 
 
 s to succeed. 
 
 stood, 
 
 mood, 
 re; 
 Bar, 
 hush'd ; 
 
 I'd; ^ 
 r gush'd. 
 
 xxxr. 
 
 Such favor'd crowds, who had, with cheers and cries 
 
 Late follow'd in the Poets' paths, and one 
 By one climbed balustrades to sate their eyes 
 And these o'er the interior splendors run ' 
 X Now mark'd the friendly interchange begun "^ 
 Between the mighty— heard their pledging ?alls— 
 
 Yea ! eagerly remark'd all said and done 
 But chiefly when they read the brilliant walls, 
 They mar W their fancies' rise, their spirits, flights and 
 
 xxxir 
 
 As woke rare minstrelsy- so prone to start 
 The solemn rev'ry in the Poet's mind ; 
 
 Which much recalls to memory of his art ; 
 An art as yet imperfectly defined ; 
 But ah ! how boundless in its scope— Mankind 
 w°"'' 9''®^*°^'^ praise which daily fills ; 
 With Liberty's responsive echoes, joined ; 
 
 An art, although not proof 'gainst worldly ills 
 31an with the finer feelings of his nature thrilb, ' 
 
POESIE'S DREAM. 
 
 XXXIII. 
 
 Which gains for him, by steady Ws, a name- 
 
 Above the finger-pointing grovelJina mass •' 
 In mental conflicts Hho like men beh?ve"!l ' 
 iJut to our theme-i-let that h^ ix- "*'"^^^^— , 
 
 •"« ^ei mat be tor the present waived. 
 
 XXXIV. 
 
 The goodly companie thus constituted 
 
 T«m;.h % J'^^^'^'' ^™^*y enchained, 
 Talked-and dispassionately oft disputed- 
 
 ™ nXTrrh h^' P^'f'"^ ^°"^"^«^« gained, 
 AnV M f . ^^^"^^ them stood arraigned • 
 
 For al "^ '•'Jk ^^^^" ^^"^*« «^«r« round Lt ' 
 Pom'd smdHnhr'? ^°^/"\""«" unconstrained, 
 Which thnTl ^"^"«f'? at the board, without 
 
 ' doubt ^'* ^'^" ^^"^^ '« fo'™«r gloom and 
 
 XXXV. 
 
 Near some who had high birth stamp'd «n their brow 
 Sat others, who had borne Life's rue^l bale ' 
 
 Stel':^^/^"'^ ^J^o'n'd to labour at thJploulV 
 Stemmd us rough torrent-br^^S 'its ^Lkest 
 
 Yefj5**K ^^"^^ ^^^t^^B^d. pathetic wail : 
 or? T '''^ breasts the high unbounded flow 
 ^1^ AiP/^^^^T^^^^^^^^^y did prevail; 
 
 ;. And worldly wealth, before th^Muse'^^ine to bow 
 
I a name — 
 id to pass ; 
 2<I came, 
 >rny, as 
 as ! 
 
 paved ; 
 I mass : 
 vfed— 
 Bsent waived. 
 
 poesie's dream, , 1,7 
 
 XXXVI 
 
 /• ' 
 
 The Muse once all their fond engaging care, 
 
 They lived unmindful of the morrow's domn , • 
 At whom the passer-by was drawn to stare 
 
 As at some spirit wanderers 'mid the gloom— 
 ;v Sent life's night-paths to brilliantly illume : 
 Nature's own oracles ! sublimely quaint ! 
 
 Whosetongues, and only theirs could here presume 
 Her loves— her charms to eloquently paint, 
 And breathe unstudied song around without restraint 
 
 ed— 
 
 lests gained, 
 
 arraigned ; 
 
 ind out : 
 
 constrained, 
 
 thout' 
 
 )er gloom and 
 
 XXXVII. 
 
 So, what a ^dlented array convened I 
 Of men, and critics, gifted and long sighted ' 
 
 To each other in coloquial warmth who lean'd 
 And olden grudge and disputation righted ,' 
 With wordy wars who once the world delighted 
 
 Critics and bards, who bitterly had clash'd, 
 Thterethe kind glance.of recognition plighted; 
 
 Mild as a lamb great Bentley sat, and flash'd 
 With genius Raleigh's eye, with pride all unabash'd 
 
 <n 
 
 P'n their brow, 
 Jul bale ; 
 plough, 
 its bleakest 
 
 ail: 
 id flow 
 
 ne to bow. 
 
 XXXVIII 
 
 And Johnson too ! the first among that crowd I 
 High tow'rd the mighty and majestic soul ! ' I 
 Who, It is said, in Life could bluster loud— 
 . But, spanning as he did from pole to pole 
 Ihe universe of learning, no control 
 
 I rom men brook'd he-since their neglect had gal!'<i— 
 
 His soul, nor praise nor fortune could cajole ; 
 
 II im e en the countenance of the mighty pall'd 
 i^MHMrile with p^ re<ill'd. ': 
 
18 
 
 POESIE'sfDREAM. 
 
 XXXIX. 
 
 ^'Thfi^'^P^W^'''^' Scarron.and CowIe\ sat 
 The ^ewton of the moral world was seen ■ ' 
 
 fe^P^V*!?'^ '^ft «S»i° «at Pratt-! ' ^ 
 While at the Banquet's farther end, between ^ 
 
 BrJl' o"ht'^' g-atCowper grac'dth: scene ; 
 ThJ J"^T.'^'^''e rose upon his other side 
 The Ayrshire Peasant's independent mein • 
 Whose accents flow, i„ alJ the conscious pHd'e 
 Ofysentiment, swell'd not the least the jovial Ude 
 
 Th 
 
 * XL. 
 
 Near forty years ! Ah ! well the Musemav trust ' 
 The Chronicles of Death, since every grove 
 
 Last^rang (ere he was summon'd to the dust) 
 With simplest melody and rural love • 
 And more than that ! ^tis ev'n so, since he drove 
 
 StnW " "■■ -'^A^'"^ ^'""^^^^ breezy field- ^ 
 Struck harp with th^t same nervous arm which strove 
 To pass unscathed the mouse in mossy bield- 
 ^ince he the daisy mourn'd, whose fate like his wassealM 
 
 XLI. 
 
 ^ wVs"b!ltTff/'rr ^^'■'!:?'^' ^^^' ^^««^ ™«"»^' 
 
 was but so lately from oblivion saved— 
 And that dark flashing eye, wont to behold* 
 
 Musing Nith's water as it roll'd or raved— 
 
 1 hat visage which the frowns of fortune braved • 
 And o er his swarthy brow a sadness fling 
 
 And, dark iQcks lay, there negligently wa'ved- 
 t,uch .narked him then-he, who could sweetest sing, 
 And Love s soft woes could home to every bosom bring 
 
POESIE S DREAM. 
 
 19 
 
 J Cowley sat, 
 ' seen, 
 ;t— 
 
 between \ 
 
 rac'd the scene ; 
 r side 
 t mein ; 
 Js pride 
 ial tide. 
 
 XLII. 
 
 Thy Muse then smiled, Oh! home of mountain pride, 
 
 To mark between the great and him no line — 
 No jealous harb'rings, while there, side by side, 
 
 The Bards of England sat by some of thine ; 
 
 Helping each other's lustres thus to shine, 
 Oh Scotia ! while that joy-resoiinding hall 
 
 Rang frequent to thy own old ' Auld Lang Syne ;' 
 Three mystic words, or Notes ! that call up all 
 The shade and sunshine of the past — Time's lone night 
 call. 
 
 may trust 
 
 Y grove 
 
 '■ dust) 
 
 > 
 
 ce he drove ^ 
 
 zy field — 
 
 m which strove 
 
 bield— 
 
 his was seal'd. 
 
 XLIII. 
 
 By Ossian sat Isaiah ! and the bard 
 
 Who pathos deep with the sublime could pour ; 
 And he, at enmity with man, who warr'd 
 Against the world, and wooed its galling sore, 
 By him who oUce^tray'd lone on Patmos' shore : 
 Than whose no bolder contours could be traced : ^ 
 And Pope on the Messiah's bard look'd o'er ; 
 * While Daniel our own glorious Dryden faced — 
 Thus, thus, by happy choice, or chance, they all were 
 placed. 
 
 hose mould 
 I— 
 lold* 
 ved — 
 le braved ; 
 ing, 
 
 waved — 
 sweetest sing, 
 
 bosom bring. 
 
 XLIV. 
 
 And ah ! the few once stung or starv'd to death, 
 Who proudly saw with whom they now were class'd, 
 
 OJer whose essaying morns of life, the breath 
 Wcanker'd Envy had untimely pass'd. 
 Rejoiced well o'er their meeds of fame at last : 
 
 And yet, altho' from ill-directed jeer. 
 And taunt, secure, a melancholy cast 
 
 Sat on their brows, tho' much they had to cheer— 
 ^fheir souls delight—and gifted, awful deniud nesa^ 
 
20 
 
 rOESIE's DREAlNr. 
 
 XLV. 
 
 Alio rhymes streamed Pl^nofo '" l'"*/ a , 
 
 Along the waJ^yet vet as?/'!!'' ^^""'''•^''^"''' 
 
 XLVJ. 
 
 "tit '.ro™r„r"«,'t:ir.r °°"/' ""-<>■■. 
 
 XI,VJI. 
 = ""!, m Ills power, irradiate easiern sties. 
 
POESIE's DRnAM. 
 
 21 
 
 Y bland, 
 pJay'd ; 
 
 donev'ryhand, 
 ■n said, 
 vay'd, -» 
 —behind 
 encepra)'d , 
 
 n kind. 
 
 ■1 
 
 XLVIH. 
 
 ■ " ' V ) 
 
 And Belts of Stars to wane on sighlff hile, lo ! 
 
 The eastern curtains slowly next unclose ; '^ 
 Whence, broadly laughing up his steep, nor slow, 
 At length the glorious God of Day arose ; 
 -^_ But struggling thro' no cloud, as view'd from those 
 High habitations^; whence the ken was thrown 
 
 On earth and nature, waking from repose ; ' ' 
 
 Bright views ! not in those lower regions known— 
 However dazzling these at times to us are shown. 
 
 l» 
 
 ng's collision, 
 that tiirew 
 iion — 
 It to view ! 
 it fleyv ; .„ _ 
 ;e; 
 \y blew— 
 
 symphony. 
 
 XLixr^ 
 
 The curling mis>s moved hence like infant storm.s, 
 (For, thence, to aught elsje liken'd could they bo^n 
 
 As from the hills, they, gathering up their formi=, 
 Assembled J then,.like an aerial sea. 
 Their trailing robes, were soon beheld to flee 
 
 Pefpre the sun ; who, now, o'er lawn and glade 
 And hill, smil'd glory, till his radiant glee ^ 
 
 Alore and more largely on this round world play'd ,' 
 Lnd all Creation shone in Joy and Light array 'd ' v 
 
 « vanishintr; 
 vay; 
 
 ^nishing — 
 
 * 
 
 ht display . 
 
 1 eyes ! 
 
 they 
 
 jly rise — 
 
 rn skies, 
 
 Save where one storm gloom'd Atlas wave up-hurl'd 
 Bestrode by a huge rainbow^'s ensign, whence ' 
 
 1 hp foamy waters urged, with crests high curl'd, 
 RoH'd far in jabbling voldmes madly hence ; ' 
 
 • As, mid the roar df etements immense, 
 
 The Isurly thunder muttering groan'd o'er all ; 
 
 The lightning through which gfeaming oft intense ; 
 
 1 ill sternly, on jthe earth's replying call, 
 The stofm sail'd sluggishly away—around this ball ; 
 
i 
 
 m 
 
 POESII S DREAM. 
 
 u. 
 
 ,^.',4 
 
 ^''fc;"\"?*^ "'"'*^^'"«'^"^ ''^^ fierce despair 
 '^^.^'71' *'"'" ^'"* «^' "«t"re on 'the rack 
 
 « l.o»o l,..e,. s„ch scone, »s .his', l.ad -erri'bT/o'ldcre.J. 
 
 LII. 
 
 I'or;vl,at more dreadful than Creation's frown 
 WM r"w°"" •'■"'' 'l»'-l'"«»sresl upon the hill's ' 
 
 ^na the earth shudders, and the licrhtninff kills • 
 ; ro swell the list of man's un^umbeT'd i l"^- ' 
 ^ Ahho' what sunshine, elemental war ' 
 
 1 igh places-drives gloom's demons fast and far "" 
 And h.gh and wide Heav'n's gates of laughter lifted'are. 
 
 n, 
 
 ^i 
 
 A 
 
 LIII. 
 
 "IVas thus, that heaven's bright and emblazon'd :&torv ^ 
 in sh.ftmg grandeur o'er the earth bega» T ^ 
 
 i Day, to move when wilds and forests' Ir 
 Showed shades that with unfurling swiAi 
 Then how august see^ -all Creadon's 
 How dread that deep whl^h wages with th« 
 A war eternal—buffets haWy man • 
 '_ Whose sweeping pride foll'd far thro' iav and Firth 
 rmn depth-moved swells, wherein its myrKfbesht 
 
% 
 
 fierce despair, 
 
 lultuous black — 
 
 air, 
 
 on the rack. 
 
 mark'd the track 
 
 from and back, ' 
 cheer'd, 
 
 ribly endeare<}. 
 
 's (rown, 
 I the hills ! - 
 floods iin brown, 
 jhtning kills; 
 r'dillsj 
 
 e fills 
 
 tst and far, 
 
 hter lifted are. 
 
 iblazon'd^^or}' " 
 
 &a», / 
 
 ests hoary 
 wifu ''•"'' ■■' 
 I's 
 th^ 
 
 ly and Firth, 
 iad tribes hav 
 
 POESIE'a DREAM - <«► 23 
 
 ' -, - LIV. ^ / 
 
 Wherein Leviathan is known to ply, 
 
 Lord of the watery i-ealras he round him laves! 
 
 To slowly s^eep, or roam in majesty 
 
 While sovMtMJI&s glooms deliriously he braves ; 
 
 ^'*' *!S^si?^^ ^^^^ ^' bounds he rives : 
 Monjgh^|^*i^nfathom'-<l regions, say, 
 J^^^^finon^ what dismal, noiseless caves ; 
 t,nemipproachable, unknown.^here may 
 o' the unt'rack'd deep delight alone to stray ! 
 
 LV. 
 
 Those times, ere yet the canvass*" easy swell, 
 ^ Impelling lightly, wing'd the bounding bark ; 
 Ere lured by'trommerce. Man dared so to dwell 
 On the calm, or rough stormy waters dark : 
 Ere manlier tripp'd up the shrouds to nfiark ; 
 When naught thereon drew off the landsman's eye, 
 
 Nor glancing sail had scared the hideous shark, 
 The mighty ponder 'd on, . as sails passed by, 
 Driv'n on before the femnantsof that stormy skv. 
 
 ■>. 
 
 LVI. 
 
 Who eyed with joy the realm-encircling lash 
 Of ocean around lands, where he up threw 
 ^ILa br^gting waters, whose impetuous dash 
 iPJPHeceded only to advance anew : 
 
 The blue abyss far-opening on their view — 
 The frequent home of darkness and despair ! 
 Blue depths! however wildly toss'd, that few 
 ^ Of those with daunted souls seek not to dare — 
 To mark the^ blending strife of skies and waters there. 
 
 ^ 
 

 |v> « 
 
 fH 
 
 i .poesie's dream. 
 LVII. 
 
 ^^T%TnH "°^^^"t"'•eon the unslumb'rinff deep ^ 
 
 liH and to view would seem forever losf '^ 
 n.sv,g.lson us midnight-calm to keen "' 
 
 Not htwh?^"^"'^^""^ ''"°^«' ?empesttoss'd ^ 
 All well » 7rZ ?P^"'^ ^^^^ ^'^ef Cfoss'd ; 
 
 'IM^^ r .u^ f**"^ ^^'thful compass guides • 
 
 As thro' « '^"k be from the wished for U. 
 
 Or w th a LTur'^'^' ^'^^^'»^^« '^ glides, 
 ' '""' ' ^"^' «bJ'q"e, the snoring surf diWdes 
 
 coast ; 
 
 LVIir, 
 
 ^'wplillM' '"^ 'T^y • ^h'Je this nether world 
 
 Of S n'mi^h :' ^'"- ^"^"^^^^' -^^ ''^ tra'n 
 rv 1 mighty mmiature unfurl'd 
 Traced by the indentations of the main • 
 
 Cu^Trr '"^ ^"^^ ^« ^•^^ ^"d rose agL • ■ 
 'kl^^' ^^tujent, Domain, outspread ' 
 
 Whereon'h ? ? ^T'^' ""'^ ^^^'» '^^«le 'plain 
 
 FoH?berty"galed"or tlf T^-^^^^^'^' «"^ ^L bied 
 ' ty, gained lor the living by the dead. 
 
 LIX. 
 
 '"^BMaS' ""^!,g''»-'".^ on the rising day 
 
 Have Jood Z^'"u' ^'■'^" "P i» order neat, ^' 
 
 Whn ? r ?' '^^^'^' ^'^ evening, each arU 
 
 And road ar^' TXT^u^-^'^"^ each street 
 and road are strewed the vanquish'd's fforv train 
 
 Fernlron'thetd'"".' '^'"'^ forKS,' 
 UnJikp /i" ^,P « "^^^ *n^ swimming plain 
 '^«i'ke the gallant Ponsonby in cool blLVslain. • 
 
 '«*■ 
 
POUaiS's DREAM. 
 
 25 
 
 ib'ringdeep ? 
 iT lost, 
 
 >, 
 
 tempest toss'd ? 
 
 ross'd ; 
 
 guides ; 
 
 ?d for coast . 
 
 es, 
 
 divides. 
 
 LX. 
 
 And stern old gothic homes that long have been — 
 
 Grown hoar amid ancestral ivy now, >. 
 
 Castles, and castellated towers, were seen, — 
 
 Near many a lawn's, or climbing meadow's brow ; 
 
 With huge tracks spreading, furrow'd by the plough, 
 Rolling around, waste, steep, and "Hesert, pass'd — ° 
 
 With inland peaks, not made in storms to bow ; 
 Sternly opposing each careering blast. 
 Whene'er the Tempest ne(ar them rears his standard vast. 
 
 her world 
 h its train 
 
 I, 
 
 ain ; 
 
 'gain ; 
 
 d, 
 
 i plain, 
 
 have bled 
 
 tad. 
 
 LXI. 
 
 And grey eyed Gree(^, and old tradition'd Rome,— 
 
 And loud in her heard but unheeded woe, 
 Pass'd Pol4nd, oncela boasted Patriot-home, ' 
 
 Late stricken to the earth — dishonor'd blow ! 
 
 And Albion ! froni on high who could not know ? 
 O'^r which grey years of trial long have roll'd, 
 
 Uninjured, still the pride of all .below ; 
 Commanding Queen of Ocean, uncontroll'd "^ 
 
 Mistress of the Modern World, as Rome was of the old. 
 
 ing day, 
 neat, 
 ■h arjg}:, 
 te ? 
 eet 
 
 ry train, 
 defeat, 
 
 ain. ' 
 
 Lxn. 
 
 And all loved Islands rising o'er the sea. 
 
 Whose burning shores are by the silver'd dance 
 
 Of wavelets kissed — where Time Sports merrily, 
 Whose halcyon wings gay nature's scenes enMknce, 
 Claim'd, nor unworthily, a passing glance ; 
 
 And Isles more northward, o'er whose forests drear ; 
 Dark clouds can sweep th' autumnal sky's expanse 
 
 Whose shapes o'ershadowing, herald like, career, 
 ^'^arying their glorious skies, through the glorious yeaFT^ 
 
 3 
 
S6 
 
 poesie's drbam 
 LXIII. 
 
 Etna and Hecla the huge Alpine ran.e- 
 
 The Holy Land they also did behold ' 
 
 ^:^^^ly^^^^^ told ; 
 
 Who to the holy sepulciire meek visits paid. 
 
 \ 
 
 LXIV. ! 
 
 Calm visionaries ! with unfei<rn'd design ' ' 
 
 XLV. I 
 
 No not from that, nor other lands, with bold 
 And measur'dsweeps,thesenethWT vlbetween 
 «aa aught elsewhere withdrawn thp pv« L i 
 I. .raced stro,™, g,ad,; danT:!;,;'; Zk "JllZ. 
 
 ^ H,!ii°,f " '"^T' °"'' ^""■I'urnisbed clime ' 1 
 
 Wh.,h ftom.hewenw»do'».h\.e.nple;ZVH l..,.„„ 
 
;¥ 
 
 FOEalB 8 DREAM. 
 
 27 
 
 ange — 
 • roJI'd ; 
 
 scene to change, 
 
 inofoJd . 
 
 d, 
 
 ide! 
 
 ■vere told ; 
 
 e, 
 
 lid. 
 
 LXVI. 
 
 Meanwhile, all kneel'd to Heaven, in deep devotion. 
 To Him, who once off high Olympus' side. 
 
 To pond'rous worlds gave swift and steady motion, 
 And them in their allotted circles wide, 
 Did launch " along the ilhmitable void ;" 
 
 Sublimely ruled by laws the most divine ; -^ 
 Which sway all time, all temperature, and tide, 
 
 As gloriously they in their orbits shine, 
 Whose mystic concord none alas ! can here untwine 
 
 dour chiJl'd. 
 
 
 irdour thrill'd 
 ll'd, . , 
 rays — ! 
 
 gild 
 ays 
 
 1 davs. ! 
 
 bold 
 
 iv'ns between, 
 oll'd, 
 
 jye, as keen 
 
 and wild ra- 
 
 • 1 
 ime, j 
 
 t seen 
 isb'diatime^— 
 
 4.- 
 
 V 
 
■■\ 
 
 ■^ 
 
 <^' 
 
 >*■' 
 
 II W i 
 
 
 / 
 
 lit 
 
 
 > 
 
 
 
 y ' i 
 
PAST 2I?r). 
 
 " Behold the spheres in unison that roll, 
 
 " That in joint harmony for ever chime ! 
 " Behold how Nature's steady Laws controui 
 
 " The motions of their pond'rous forms thro' Time!" 
 
 Terrifically this, in wrjtten rhyme, 
 Streamed o'er the heavens, which hourly they declare, 
 
 And Truths inculcate, Precepts most sublime ; 
 As yonder Earth roll'd— gloriously fair. 
 Rose, in the west, the Moon in opposite compare. 
 
 ir. 
 
 Sunsliine still o'er the former's surface ran — 
 
 A Panorama-like display so sheen ! 
 At ^r.indeur, which defied the visual span' 
 
 To grasp— at shades thatpa§s'd, or dipp'd between, 
 
 Her heights, and many a decorated scene. 
 Deep meditative silence oft ensued 
 
 'Mong those, mark'd o'er the Temple's heights to 
 lean ; 
 
 While murigurings joae^ whene'er they broadly view '4= 
 
 The Earth's impetuous speed, and fearful magnitude. 
 
30 
 
 POESrE's DREABT. 
 III. 
 
 L*' ' 
 
 ♦vniie whedJ, round heaven's ffreata»!p fho., • - 
 
 dance ! ^ ^"^-^ '" ^ysUc 
 
 '^ With ill^r^'^i^' '^'^^^'^g «^ they run ; 
 
 Each now an ascertained illumined mass 
 H.^ ^ ' jf^^P'^^ *'«> ^« «^e're taiJ^ht to cfeem • 
 T "hL '"'' '" !^"™ ^'^^'^ ^'"le cheers aJas ' ' 
 i shed ,n twmkling pity o'er us as they pass. ^ , - 
 
 I 
 
 X ' " ■■■ i 
 
 v., • , 
 
 ""rsysS^'^T'^ ""'/''' '^^<''' dra..s 
 
 In^hem wi^'fix"d'tth7rrr'' "^'"^ ^^ 
 
 Ah ' ves frnm^k ' . l^ prccision mcet ; 
 
 The apple 'andThri'™ ^^^^^^/^''^ ^'^^' ^^^ 
 Wk^P ' and thro narrow firth, or strait 
 

 if M'eigh'd ; 
 er have met — 
 lates sway'd. 
 stray'd— 
 at once ! 
 al aid 
 
 thev 
 
 m mystic 
 
 poesie's dream. 
 VI. 
 
 31 
 
 Onward, mysteriously urged, they roll, 
 Eclips'd, eclipsing, by each other's shade ; 
 
 From west to east, by one decree, the whole 
 Are drawn,, or driv'n, as in the Hearens display'd 
 By some original impulse on themlaid^ 
 
 Onward with headlong force driv'n, bounding thro' 
 Immi^nsity, themselves the/ all have made 
 
 Unerrirfg paths— to days, years, and their due 
 Return, grand measurers of time, how strictly true ! 
 
 I 
 ill 
 
 run ; 
 
 'hile they beam 
 
 y not seem 
 dream ? 
 ss ; 
 
 deem ; 
 
 >ass. 
 
 If*-'' 
 
 VII. 
 
 Whate'er their lengths of hours may be, the day 
 In each must differ — bustle and repose 
 
 All -must possess, and morn's and even's gray ; 
 Perhaps, like some we have on eayth, they've those 
 Who, out Time's golden current as it flows 
 
 Yawn in chagrin— short in its daily round ! 
 How short the Mental Lab'rer only knows ; 
 
 But be this as it may — with us abound 
 Poor Sophists, weak contemners of the life they've found. 
 
 1 heat, 
 
 meet ; 
 ar f&et, 
 
 it, 
 
 IS beat, 
 
 vn td ema' 
 
 I viir. 
 
 Life hath a thousand pleasures — pain and strife 
 
 'All nieet with, from the monarch to the clown ; 
 Yet, vain clings, and has ever clung to life, 
 For virtue, wealth, or a dear bought renown ; 
 Why shrinks he at the dust, ere he go down ? 
 Of an existence in its fullest measure 
 
 A neW partaker— why, at Death's dark frown, 
 Clings he to life, as miser to his treasure ? 
 Whyi lothHo die— yet some deny life hath one pleasure- 
 
32 
 
 poesie's dreai*. 
 IX. 
 
 aM! ' '^^ .^l^'^'^t^-ce yet that's known - 
 
 A span which we before the eye can briiir 
 If thus he struggle, when that span ha" flown' 
 
 Just as the soul is about taking winff-l ' 
 . ^o immaterial worlds about to sprint 
 Let us together reason'-this may pro;e 
 
 How ,n eternity we yet shall clinaP ' 
 
 Whe". auls'soL ''^' '" ""^'^"''^ rellms above, 
 wnere all is^song, praise, joy, and beatific love 
 
 . " X. 
 
 Sublimest contemplation ! for the soul 
 And theoretic fdncytruantina - ' 
 
 ' Whfsl'Trr''' '""J P^^"^*^ '^^^ that roll 
 
 Whose awful grandeur lifts us on the win^ • 
 
 As nl f ''■"' '"''^'^"^ harmonies to sing -^ ' 
 As planets, suns, moons, and their satdlhes 
 
 Dark, --;?^.xpanse»'tis^here^lh:trm^^^ ,e- 
 
 \ 
 
 I \ 
 XL 
 
 Delights to muse on what they are and who 
 
 IfSds^of'ET' ''^"'^'. ^y l-:s^ike?urs ; 
 I neius 01 blood for peace they've waded thm' • 
 
 fcl'"^;'"^^"^ vigil'slinglonrhou r ' 
 If tmnts^r ''^^'"V^.^"' '" --an««ce°nt showers • 
 
 OW li T '""" '^^'' damnation dealing 
 If Vh! ' "'^''"''' P"ncipaJities and powers 
 
 ^ 
 
PO£SIE S DREAM. 
 
 3a 
 
 nown, — 
 «n bring, 
 a? flown, ! 
 
 ng, 
 
 rove, ^ 
 
 TIS above, '■ 
 Pic Jove. 
 
 XII. 
 
 f> 
 If they know pain, anxiety, ruin, woe ; 
 
 If Eden's Bowers sin forced them once to Hee ; 
 If any Saviour like to ours they know ; 
 
 Or, if they felt when on the accursed tree 
 
 He bore his pangs and writhing agony ; 
 In prayer when he up-raised his eye, but no 
 
 K^nd father then behind the cloud to see ; 
 Wh0n Nature's eye in syihpathetic woe 
 Was shut, and all earth shook at th^ terrific bbw ;. 
 
 XIII. 
 
 t roll, 
 
 wing ; « 
 
 Ilitea, 
 ring, 
 night's ' 
 ring soul de- 
 
 <^ 
 
 When the sun darken'd, and the rocks were split, 
 The veil was rent, ay, and there was a voice 
 
 That uttered words and cries, which were more fit 
 To be some vile one's agonizing noise, 
 Than a mild Saviour's piercing shouting cries ; 
 
 Or, when upon the cross he at fast expired, 
 
 * And death sealed in the grave his heavenly eyes ; 
 
 "When, o'er his burst op't tomb the Saints desired 
 To strengthen their beliefs, and rapt'rously enquired I 
 
 who 
 
 ? ours ; 
 
 1 thro' ; 
 
 ours, 
 
 showers : 
 
 ing 
 
 srs ; 
 
 ling 
 
 rch beJis^^re 
 
 \ 
 
 XIV. 
 
 When terror made the centinels to bite 
 
 The dust, and palsied arms which him had thong.'d ; 
 And saints, from graves all clothed in raiment white, 
 
 Arose, who for their crowns of glory long'd ; 
 
 And of that promised glory were not wrong'd ; 
 Among whom Patriarchs and martyr's were, 
 
 Who onward to the Eternal City throng'd ; 
 Whose full nerv'd faith no torture could deter — 
 ^h«i heav^h's gates opened wide for many a traveHer?== 
 
 
34 
 
 fOESIE's DREAM. 
 
 XV. 
 
 While other, gatheX; a^eS^^^^^^^^^ '^'-' 
 
 ft 
 
 xvr 
 
 3 ■ 
 
 Had tho cold damp ea„h f„, as [em bed 
 
 'xvr. \ 
 
 "''•■••'••»~xa,;'r,,":;r "' ' 
 
poesie's dream. 
 
 35 
 
 Jocks so hoar, * 
 side by side ; 
 y bore 
 
 bvide 
 
 ~^ 
 
 de. . • 
 
 \ 
 
 int, 
 
 tierial *oid ; 
 
 " 
 
 nt, 
 
 Y went. " 
 
 
 A 
 
 
 
 
 have gone ! 
 been Jed? 
 
 ij 
 
 e 
 
 3 
 
 bed, 
 
 li 
 
 f%^ad 
 
 spread 
 
 Jn dread ! 
 me's no more, 
 rn roJl's o'er.' 
 
 /■ 
 
 XVII. 
 
 WJiose meek tongued .Wdnts, kindly vvhispcr'd, rh^y 
 Be here contcmn'd, but soon she will adorn 
 
 Herself in whitc*tj»bes in soft array 
 
 Before the Throne of God — but not forlorn 
 
 Her foes are thej:e ! still, meet they not her scorn 
 
 With Truth's bright banners broadly npw unfurl'di 
 Before her there, most surely tliev shall mourn 
 
 That ruin, whither tliey are to be huVl'd — 
 They who wove webs to 'snare an intellectual world. 
 
 "V 
 
 XVIII. 
 
 Tho' high as man upon the scaleascends 
 - 1: -r^f JJoMig, and ijiaintains this honor'd place. 
 And c^gmy Ms range he yet extends 
 
 O'er all the works throughout thft realms of space ; 
 . With telescopic aid tho' he embrace 
 Dim Distance, and the arts and knowledge given. 
 Draw down the sunshine of his Maker's face ; ' 
 Tho' gainst » thousand barriers he has striven, 
 And number'd, measur'd all the rolling orbs of. heaven. 
 
 sling^Faith, 
 crcediS, 
 
 '' J 
 
 r leads, 
 
 e leaves 
 
 le 'pleads, 
 eves ; 
 
 IS. 
 
 /fet sh 
 
 XIX. 
 
 ret should. he naught presume, yet should he naught 
 
 Presumg on that celestial knowledge lent, 
 In Temples of our learning daily taught — 
 
 But, know — his thirst at Science spring' twas meant 
 Not hereto quench ; on deep research, tho' bent, 
 Not Wisdom's Laurels here to proudly plume ; 
 
 Till Time, mysterious, awful, stern event ! 
 Shall vanish in the whirlpool of its doom, 
 When bursts eternity around to chase the glo ot t t. 
 
 u. 
 
 r" 
 
 \ 
 
"fij' 
 
 :36 
 
 POBaiE's DREAM. 
 
 XX. 
 
 EterMity ! what is it ? who may tell 
 
 Whn ^T A '" '^''" '^'^•■^^ ««einpt ti array t 
 
 Metes ages out ; abolished world's decay 
 . M«rknotthef«oeofits'^Eternarday- 
 
 Which can have no imaginary flight 
 ■ fi„r;^^ V"^ *"' *^^' *^^^ '-•^'^e pass'd away • 
 One iTrVj ^TP.^«h""«ion'^fi^tesighr~ ' 
 One day of Thought is all we've here-all, all 
 that — night ! . ' 
 
 beyond 
 
 rv 
 
 XXI. 
 
 Aiid what'immensity of space ? no few 
 
 Dim words cax, make foil'diancy comprehend 
 • Its starry mfin.te; whence sh^ ne'er drew 
 One image of it worthy to be penn'd 
 _ Out-widening to no circle-to no end • 
 Throughout which moves the wise Supreme, whose will 
 And full omnipotence thro' a^ extend • '^"*''^'"^' 
 
 CrZ^"' ^^^S '•^^' ^^^'y ^h'^^h shook Snai's' Hill 
 Creative still may brood o'er dark abysses-still. ' 
 
 XXII. 
 ^Unworthy of that great Creator's light 
 
 Gainst Holy I)octrines,-is to shut our sight- 
 Who scotn the revelations of God's n^ie • / 
 
 H,sw..chbyd.y.,dn.gl,t.„ho.lu«,br„r£:, „^l 
 
u 
 
 array ! 
 iron bell 
 decay 
 
 1 away ; 
 ght— 
 -all. all 
 
 beyond 
 
 pobsie's Urbam. 
 XXIIL 
 
 37 
 
 Behold 4he flocks He feeds on many hills ! . ^ 
 
 Which thou, oh ! sophist, look'st so light upon ; 
 Where l^fe so wond'rous breathes, beats, pants, and 
 thrills; 
 Life — which ifthou'st well thought on— now begone; 
 For, certes, thine must be a borrowed tone : 
 Sa^-njuse his praise ; for praise and faith ask» he — 
 /'Altd all tie asks : thou sorely canst have none 
 For that long-buffering God, by whose decree, 
 Change must sweep over change, and generations flee 
 
 mprehend 
 
 ew 
 
 I 
 
 d; 
 
 3mej whose will 
 
 d; 
 
 i's Hill, 
 
 —still. 
 
 ..- XXIV. 
 
 Before Him — ages run as long they've ran — 
 
 But yet, tho' such must thus forever sweep ! 
 Jars ever he the universal plan ? 
 
 Does he not reign in the tumultuous deep ? 
 
 Does morn not duly come ? does night, with sleep 
 Which shots ail eyes, her visits o'er defer ? 
 
 Yet he could jar the order which they keep ! 
 Buisolemn types they're of himself, and were 
 la their immutability ne'er doom'd to err. 
 
 hose 
 jht- 
 me : 
 
 aim 
 
 / 
 
 loud proclaim 
 
 :eeps 
 
 >t,Po r sleepsj 
 
 J XXV: * 
 
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 And does He reign ? the God of Glory reign* ! 
 
 Tho' late a spirit clothed in awful shroud, 
 Has been abroad, o'ershadowing all the plains, 
 And bursting o'er like any thunder cloud ; 
 When shrieks and groans rose agonizing loud ; 
 And tho', oh! soul of man, by not a few 
 
 'Twas felt Death's angefsialk'd among the crowd, 
 Of aspect dire, a direr might ensi],e, 
 ^f good, from w hat was done, to Him ddeg not a ccrue. 
 ^"' ~^ ^^ 4^ "* 
 
38 
 
 poesie's dreau. 
 
 XXVI. 
 
 One fearful even in mercy, hence, a God 
 More dreadful in his wrath, tho' this has ne'er 
 
 Been lelt yet m the extreme-the chas '„in?rod 
 He wields, whdst we're on earth, is thou|htTevere • 
 But in whH anger may he yet appear "^'*^^'"'^" ' 
 
 To blind idolators of chance." ^Z, good 
 
 DamnM ' """'V"^ ""^^"^'^' ™'^ for 'the ear 
 rinnn^ f^"'''''' ""^ of whom 'twas dreamt thWe stood 
 Upon a lofty precipice, in sullen mood ' ^ 
 
 ,• XXVIJ. 
 
 The orbs on him look'd blood-the ann did c^an^re 
 
 To h K f.",^.""'^^ '^^™'^ '^^' «f all like life ^ 
 To him both dark and solitary-strange- ' 
 With breast all ateeled against Remorse's knife • 
 Where fiends of unbelief had long been rife ' 
 And won Life's Citadel by means u^nfair ' 
 Alone he stood, Woom'd for a trvinff strif«- 
 
 1 rembled the Universe ! just Heav'n thy vicL spare. 
 
 XXVIII. 
 
 ^Vf r^' "° ^^'^ff® P««s'd o'er his harden'd cheek • 
 If fear he felt, such was he skili'd to h°de ' 
 
 The wmhof he.», w hUe heiW .Sri»o.3p«k.. 
 
^ 
 
 lOd 
 
 9 has ne'er 
 it'ning rod 
 
 thought jsevere ; 
 ir 
 
 good 
 
 he ear, 
 
 amt, there stood 
 
 poesie'si dream. 
 
 xxixr" 
 
 39 
 
 He svvoon'd ! and from that state of soul awoke 
 E'en in a darker, a more sullen mood ; 
 
 AVhile round him now the mountains quaked and spoke, 
 But, sunk in all his former hardihood, 
 Buoyed on the flood, one wave rose rough and rude, 
 
 And launched its burden mid sc^me craggy hills — 
 Whereon again the sullen njiutterer stood ; 
 
 Waiving his mocking hand toheav'n, whose ills 
 His impious palms defied—the s^ul that dream yet thrills. 
 
 did ciiange 
 ike life, - 
 
 rse's knife ; 
 en rife, 
 r; 
 
 rife — 
 here — 
 ictim spare. 
 
 n'd cheek ; 
 
 ide, 
 
 k, 
 
 d to slide ; 
 
 lis side, 
 
 ock ; 
 
 le; 
 
 :e 
 
 itn spoke. 
 
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 xxx./ 
 
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 So there the untamed one stood awhile— and slept 
 
 His fear and trembling still ? e'en so, e'en so. 
 Till thunderbolts "electrically leapt 
 
 From peak to peak, from hill to hill— and lo ! 
 
 Like figuring fires they closely round him glow ! 
 Their spent-balls hissing o'er the adjacent wave ; 
 
 'The flood in mercy now subsiding lo%v ; 
 While on dark threatening clouds, dark as the grave, 
 He pallid look'd, and 'gan in hellish sneers to rave. 
 
 xxxr. 
 
 • One swallow makes no summer'- nor one cloud 
 
 A storm— they doubling, rolling, came and scatter'd, 
 And soon envelop'd him, a dismal shroud ! 
 
 As, round and large at once the rain-drops patter'd ; 
 
 Meantime, liketow'rs to earth by cannons batter'd, 
 Muttered, from mid the wild tempestuous war. 
 
 The 'Father of the Tempest'— light'nings shatter d, 
 By aims direct ;— heard hideously to jar, 
 
 ^f^ds were aank» oaks split, and cattle ^treWHaT 
 
40 
 
 poesie's dream. 
 
 xxxn. 
 
 ^Th?t'^'7''r-^r. ""^«f B«"'e •' after 
 
 Se! "'''^"^' ^^"'^' oaks split, murder'd 
 
 "" Thenar o)'alf th''"! '^'^^ '"="^^ '"^*'^"* '^^S^'ter 
 1 ne roar ot alJ the elements at battle, 
 
 N«t tm '" K^ f 'f ^"^^ ^^*Sn'd he stiJl t; prattle ' 
 Not t.11 one bolt had sear'd Kis brow, and "ven 
 
 NoT^ill thr. '^^^^°""d before him, felt to ratt"e- 
 INot till the storm's increasing eddies driven 
 Had seem^ed toecho thro' the fhroneless' vS of Ilea- 
 
 XXXIII. 
 
 Not, till o'ef^arth and under him had oass'd 
 A ru3hing crash not like the fainter fall 
 
 Of to;vers, nor yet the crack of earthquake vast 
 Or tl^ volcano's that can rend this^ball ' 
 
 Th« / X ^""^JTr ^a^a— Not till all I ' 
 The air flamed like an element of fire-i 
 Uid he cry agonizingly—* xvhere shall 
 I refuge find, I deem'd no! HeWs ire 
 Would e'er consume me thus amid such havoc dire !' 
 
 XXXIV. 
 
 ' ^wl7 1^'" '^""t ■ ^ '^"^^n '^oice above him cried 
 
 \h'd, "''''" '' strong !'-the dreamer 
 As mid the fire away his red corse drifted 
 
 A dismal pall fi;om'off 't JX^^t^fdThifte?^""' 
 Al^ve thf S'," ""'^ .o;bi'-course amain '' 
 
 chafn^'' ^"'^^'''' ""^ ^"^« fr«™ «»rth un- 
 
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poesie's dream. 
 
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 s split, murder'd 
 
 deous laughter 
 tie, 
 
 li to prattle ! 
 and riven 
 elt to rattle- 
 driven, 
 8 voids of Ilea- 
 
 I pass'd 
 Pall 
 
 lake vast, 
 >all, 
 
 all 
 
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 lavocdire!' 
 
 ove him cried, 
 -the dreamer 
 
 fted, 
 
 le and gifted ; 
 
 le out again, 
 
 shifted 
 
 roin earth un- 
 
 XXXV. 
 
 And ope the gatesofPraise, let wonder flow — 
 
 Re«echo to our Maker's praises here ! 
 Who pois'd the Poles — can bolts of lightning throw ; 
 
 Who balances the thunder of each sphere ! 
 
 On— on — shot past that orb in bold career, 
 While, the aerial far-felt wild commotion 
 
 Attendant on her flight, brush'd by the «ar 
 E'en like the voice, giv'n forth from the wild ocean. 
 When at his play, as heard iu solitude's devotion. 
 
 XXXVI. 
 
 The transit o'er I long look'd for transit bright !, 
 
 More than a frigid brilliance met the view; 
 Isles and illuminM plains streim'd on the sight — 
 
 Scenes such as pen or pencil never drew - 
 . And groves and mirth-resoundiog ityoodlands too, 
 ^es, that to angel-mirth had long resounded ; 
 
 Chasms, out of which columnar masses grew. 
 And vales, and hills which fertile regions bounded. 
 Ail these her Disc diisplay'd then gloriously outrounded. 
 
 XXXVII. 
 
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 No dimming cloud seem'd o'er her surface laid. 
 
 Such as from clime to clime o'er Terra strays. 
 Her spacious realms and continents to shade. 
 
 Whereon the God of Light sheds gladsome days ; 
 
 Thro' which mild orb thou speak'st, oft as we gaze 
 On thy calm Sabbaths, hail'd by natal strains ; 
 
 Where rivers roll, streams utter forth a praise ; 
 And one long genial ceaseless season reigns ; 
 Lnd plenteous G^^es crowo&iby everiMti&g plftm&^== 
 
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 xxxviir. 
 
 As happy , too, look'd thou, if not more West 
 
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 XXXIX. 
 
 iiut Jiowit has been wove— oh ! do not sift • 
 
 Of'vi? ' M ^"'"""^ P'^^"^"'. «hap^ or gleam 
 tI T r 't'"S'' so mockingly th^ shift- 
 To wade for^aught, thatseerfts to st ay adrift 
 To dash at times, too, mid the break inglam^^ 
 A I this requires the exercising gift • ' 
 
 Who now obedient to my call return^^h ho ™e' 
 
 XL. 
 
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 Poor Maid ! who oft at random lov^ to stray 
 
 From this corporeal mass, and with the soni' 
 Around the precincts of e^eraal day ' 
 
 • Z V^ "*'"^: a glance they both^^) lately stole • 
 
 (That bids defiance to restraint below) ' 
 Wheeling, can wheel her, spurninff all finnfroi 
 
 An1 cC"^™^'^"^"^«« '^' cia/mut fbow *'''' 
 And cou r; some ea sy h aunt ^Life 'g q uiet rou nd to gg 
 
i blest, 
 rmwa» flung 
 
 r swung ; 
 ongue ; 
 
 Jily sprung ;, 
 
 ice, 
 
 bI space. 
 
 me; 
 not sift ; 
 
 •r gleam 
 hift— 
 
 f adrift — 
 foam, 
 
 m; 
 ne. 
 
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 poesie's dream. 
 
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 Thus far, upon an inexperienc'd wing, %\ 
 
 I've borne me up, and though at last I sink -^^ 
 Much there's for every Muse, I ween, to sing, 
 
 Yes, much from which she never ought to shrink ; 
 
 To muse, to weigh, to meditate, to think, 
 To ponder deeply, ay ! and e'en to dream 
 
 We look at times o'er this existence' brink, 
 Becomes a man — long as life's bubbling stream 
 Rolls past, not o'er to engulph the poet and his theme. 
 
 XLir. 
 
 Ah ! the morn of our days, how fair, when first 
 Is tuned the trembling Lyre — oh ! what romance 
 
 Is there not woven with them — when are nurst 
 Hopes, those delightful hopes that so enhance 
 The love of life, and send forth, in advance, 
 
 Allurements thro' the future — with a ray 
 Gild softly every retrospective glance ; 
 
 Ere Fancy yet is in its fullest play. 
 Or Fame is gleaned, how feverish is each night and day. 
 
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 paper, the author has now been ihduced to present 
 itJo the public entire j and he ai'aiis himself of this 
 late opportunity of acquitting himself of th^ charge 
 of neglect towards the subjoined note ; for the ge- 
 nerous tone of advice and correction contained 
 therein, he has to express his grateful acknowledge- 
 ments. . <^>, 
 
 My Dear Sir, 
 
 I hope you will not think me guilty oj presumption, 
 in alluding to what I ^oneeiift to be an oversight in you 
 in one or two instances, in the hurry of composition, in 
 your " Rose Glen,'* which, to my ta^e at least, is a very 
 beautiful production, andwhich, therd^re, I would wish 
 to preserve as far as I can from evcna^H^tng blemish. 
 What I am about to refer to, did hot riccur to me unfit 
 after this week's impression was struck off, else I should 
 have sooner mentioned it. 
 
 lam aware that even Byron and others have occasion-- 
 ally shewn the same inadvertence ; but I believi it can 
 only be defended where it occurs as an oversight, and not 
 as a po etical lic ence. I now state to what I all ude : 
 
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 Spring smiles again — and lingering t6 survey 
 The Rural beauties in advancing May, 
 While admiration every breast expands, 
 Upon.the heights the musing trav'ler stands ; 
 The wavy grounds whjch mingling sweetness show, 
 The lawns — the landscape opening wide below ; 
 Around him hovering many 4. blessed charm, 
 That well. can win the soul, the feelings warm ; 
 For now that season in each bosom burfis, 
 O'er us and all its vernal joy returns ; 
 While Peace, mild Peace, throughout the sky extends. 
 And love on soCt srial wing descends. 
 
 'Ti#t"hu3, our land, freed from its wintry night, 
 Breaks forth in opening grandeur on the sight ; 
 In hills and vallies — spring's rich mantle thrown 
 . Aroupd them, coping with the fairest known ; 
 In streams qnd rivers flowing fair again, 
 And onward' slow majestic to the main ; 
 In scenes more solitary — if we take 
 Our stand beside some far sequester'd lake, 
 Whose love-returning face expands to heaven, 
 Wherein reflected utturinw charms are given, 
 Among the hills, ombosom'd by the woods, 
 Where stillness, like eternal silence broods 
 Above it, — and around it evo; dwells 
 P eace in the moss-clad , lone, des erted cellg. 
 
4S 
 
 Rose ULEN. 
 
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 »f In works, if dreader far, we would explore 
 Along itsJash'd, its full resounding shore ; 
 With bays, with broad bays stampt of many shapes— 
 With peaks rcar'd stern behind its craggy capes— 
 With sea-washed cliffs that caves have overhuna, 
 Wherein have sounding echoes loudly run?, 
 Since that dread awful morn, when God the Lord 
 Called all things forth at His Almighty word ; 
 And shaped the earth— the ocean bounded— led 
 
 The waters among hills to seek a bed 
 
 When, after light forth from its source did go, 
 O'er worlds more distant still than this to glow, 
 He gave the mighty floods, sea, sky, and all, 
 Their laws to move around this lower ball ;' 
 Above, below, since none of these can low'r, 
 Unknown to His all-vtrse pervading power ;' 
 Not even thb arraying sunbeam hides its smiles, 
 Or clothes in glory continents and isles. 
 Till thus on skies directing fingers write 
 " From those-shroud thou, shed^o'cr these thy light. " 
 
 How sweet from Hardwood's steep ascent the ken 
 To cast, or from the heights around Roseglen ; 
 And view those spots, where, near Southviilage town 
 Many for life have quietly set down ; ' 
 
 Ea«h with his wish— retirement, blessed lot. 
 Where, scarce remembered, never all forgot, 
 They spend the blest remainder of their days ' 
 In homage to their God, and Nature's praise. 
 
 Thither, where curling smoke directs the eyes, 
 Down in the valley a loved mansion lies ; 
 Mark'd near yon glade given glimpse of richest green 
 Mid bosky brown and gray commingling seen, 
 Whose haunts the loveliest are of any known, 
 Tho' forest shades seem claiming them their own ; 
 Yet for their ^eauty they're not more renown'd, 
 Than does ridh plenty to its praise redound ; ' 
 
 
ItOSe OLEN. 
 
 49 
 
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 re ; 
 
 lany shapes- 
 
 gy capes — 
 
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 ang, 
 
 I the Lord 
 
 word ; 
 
 led— led 
 
 lid go, 
 
 glow, 
 
 1 all, , 
 •all ; 
 
 3w'f, 
 
 rer ; 
 J smile?. 
 
 ;se thy light." 
 
 cent the keii 
 leglen ; 
 village town, 
 
 1 lot, 
 >rgot, 
 lays 
 raise. 
 
 the eyes, 
 
 richest green, 
 : seen, 
 own, 
 
 their own ; 
 lown'd, 
 md ; 
 
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 For all the country-side around well knows, 
 How much mild charity its bounty owes. 
 Is aught for him that's truly poor denied 
 By others ?— there his every want's supplied. 
 Is a sick stranger in the village known 
 To pine? — then more than human pity's shown. 
 But where such goodness dwells, and of such fame, 
 Strange ! the desmene is honored with no name ; 
 Still stranger ! since of plain it boasts so wide — 
 A bay that laves its front and verdant side ; 
 Since thro' its pastures long have cattle ranged, 
 And loiig its beauties have remained unchanged — 
 Wide sloped its grounds from hill to humbhjr vale, 
 And health has proved its aid shall never rail. 
 Whose spring does scarce to its successor yield, 
 Its bright successor— %ian, across each field, - 
 Good autumn's pencil from the glowing skies 
 Paints ruby fruits, and bidu the harvest rise ; 
 When, like some parent to a rising line, 
 'Mid joyous plortty it is viewed to shine ; 
 As it gives all its annual treasures — all, * 
 
 To man and beast that neither faint nor fall. 
 
 Long as shall charm simplicity of heart, 
 While splendor of its dress shall form no part ; 
 The humblest spot will please, if rural sweets | 
 It breathe — whose day on downy pinion fl)eets. 
 Iffertile land around indulgent lie 
 Where all their strengths the hardy lab'rcrs ply. 
 And grounds sloped haply from the dwelling's site, 
 Spread grassy out upon its left and right ; 
 The thick-set groves surrounding, such as those 
 ["hat Colby, and htr summer haunts inclose — 
 [elmont, or Braewood-Park, on high grounds plac'd, - 
 _Utreats, whose acres ure laid out with taste ; 
 Near envied mansion iieights that overlook 
 Sweet Sylvan shades, near many a bubbling brook, *" 
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 R08E GLBN. 
 
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 CouW"*'!j" ^^"*''' ^^ • "'^e'ein early voutb 
 Or bless remembrances of former da^s ^ ' 
 
 Or yet so well, upon the rising gale ' 
 
 Romancecould breathe the spirU of its taJe 
 As near abodes adjoining sounding dells • 
 
 7nr T'T^ '»»^hem1inforgettfng swdls • 
 And soft embowering places fofm thf tr^^ 
 
 t^AfT'^T^?^ ^^^"^ ^^'' *he breeze 
 wtV :: et^^^^^^^^^ far remote, 
 
 Altho' soo^^ly^l^^^^^^ ^— te ; 
 
 Tm '•?,?^«*^Po"«h'd culture widf ly run 
 rdl mth theinorn their lovelinesseVdain 
 
 w^eXtrd'st^h:^tr[ '^ ^^^'"^ "^^"• 
 
 Blest rural quietude l-its search begun 
 
 And, better far, into theioul 3.' 
 
 .Beneaththe b^Se^aX Ty^'^^^. 
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ROSE GLEN. 
 
 51 
 
 //er« scattered noh-Mer. bold the engrossing few, 
 Tow r grand y-but what'^r may be the vk^r, < 
 1 18 douTily free to one as well as another 
 Nature to none being a fa^idious mother.' 
 All may mdulge the contf^mplative vein 
 And good from such indulgence daily gain 
 
 tI'iO'-'aT- ^T ^rafing given, & it told, 
 1^ insipidity 18 idly sold, 
 
 Sifl * f"[^ communes with the heart, and wins 
 Ihegratefu utterance wWich from thought begins- 
 
 InH iS* !' ' ''*" **"u"H "'^^''^ t»" trees grow. 
 And Mir6 8 streams by Woodlands darkly flow : 
 
 It meditation hovering ori the wing 
 
 A wild enchantment o'ei^ dark thickets fling. 
 
 To hollow sounding solitudes, let those, 
 beekmg deep coiitempJaiion, and repose. 
 At times betake the souj-there, themes rfbouird 
 Both rude and, soft foriUcy topropound- . 
 I he oak along the groi^nd gigantic laid— 
 Ihe "P-rooted trees-^their moss^lad troiika dis- 
 , play d — / 
 
 The ivy-tendrila that eAcircling twine ' 
 Around the fir. or the iall-tottering pine- 
 
 Or rii^H tt ""^""i H^^' Paned in horrid form, , 
 Or raged the cruel spf it of the storm ; 
 
 rhe leaves m favoritel dream, that seem to quiver- 
 
 The murmuring nllsi^the noiseof distant river. 
 
 Or hoarsely bawling ^rook that drives along, 
 
 ^u len, and deep, diadainful of a song— V 
 
 All these, and moreJcan form the varyingthem^ 
 
 For Fancy, and add spirit to each dream. 
 
 W?l' '!^^!l^'' ^"'J wnong the fields to range, 
 Aml^r *' the eartWtbis seaadD breathea its Hhange, 
 And new each glori looks, and richly strange- ^ 
 Exahmg sense the Uila they mftet the eye,^ 
 Whitbet ita glance Wlow, or mountslii high ; 
 
52 
 
 ROSE GLEN. 
 
 I 
 
 
 
 Where oxen roam thro' vales, or where the sheep 
 Are spied to graze above Brad water's steep 
 Which straying meet, and part among its rocks. 
 1 hus there thro' distance seeming many flocks • 
 Ur where yon plough behind it leaves its track 
 And draws the Jengthen'd score returning back': 
 Where harrows run, or busy seedsmen sow 
 Un mountmg grounds, or in the fields below. 
 
 "There yet descends no gray o'ershadowing sky : 
 Ifet basking m the sun's beam pathways lie f 
 y ull flames that orb, tho' far his zenith's height 
 J^ distanc d-in Heaven's western arc, yet bright, 
 1 here he in noon succeeding glory glows 
 And «c2ttcr;;.g! »,arHui, abroad o'er Nature throws. 
 
 True to the day's fair aspect, and its skies, 
 boh a 1 the accustom'd rural murmurs rise 
 1 he clacking of the mill-^the cascade's falL 
 1 he opean's general moan heard oyer all ; 
 And rural voices too— where mirthfresorts, 
 And the loud laugh attends the simple sports ; 
 1 he various echo blending, farha^^ near, 
 1 he ran't, the whistle, the tAphing jeer. 
 1. he accents round each cAj^ge murmur'd low 
 buch as from labor, from Jpdiistry flow 
 With distant sounds so ijiCken, on the wane. 
 Wow softly indistinct. *ow clearly plain • 
 And then, the grazier'^ call— along the shore 
 llie measured dipping of the gentle oar, 
 Make for the ear which, with the village hum. 
 ^la well known an^ familiar chorus come : 
 ^y distaiice, melfowing distance, render'd sweet- 
 All mingled thus in fav'rito haunts thev meet. 
 Where, frequent seen, the eagle soars on high : 
 1 he hawk skims on a wilier pinion by ; 
 ^ frequent starts, where flits the jay or thrush. 
 Ur wood-fowl thro' the crushing thickets brush 
 
ROSE GL£If. 
 
 53 
 
 What varied scenes ! those now attracting ^ght 
 y lew'd thus when rove we o'er each mound and height- 
 Along that green ascent New Village lies ; ' 
 
 There Brookvale too with all its varying skies 
 Hid well from sudden squall and rising storm 
 Which, passing o'er, but low'r in milder form 
 
 itT J?" P?.'"* ^^?^^ * hiil-from that, one mounts 
 JJp to the valley of a thousand founts. 
 Not onward far, the lakelet calm and still 
 At centre sleeps— but, from behind the hill 
 U erita withdrawing wing-like edges, seems 
 A ripple fast encroaching on its dreams ; 
 Its calm breast, as if fearful, lest the breeze ' 
 Increase, and mar itspeaceful reveries. 
 Behind— around me, yea on every hand. 
 The trees in curves and lines fantastic staad • 
 These straggling oft— oft lengthen'd ont around 
 1 he Farmer's acres, hedge they in his ground : 
 Oft, from the thicket on the frowning ridge 
 Close set they stretch down to the river's edge • 
 But whehce, more frequent, they diverge in rows 
 1' lelds to encompass, pasture grounds enclose. 
 
 Nigh yon low row of mansions neat and plain 
 Where vision scarce distinctnew can attain ' 
 Alone stands unembower'd the Pastor's manse 
 Closed in— would that it owned « lawn's expanse 
 And, distant not, the Church'i dome directs '^ 
 
 1 he eye, tho' from it yet no spire projects ; 
 Still, in the rustic's visits thro' the year, 
 'Tis his good land mark o'er the village' dear : 
 Around the former budding rose trees wave ; 
 Beside the last swells up the frequent grave 
 Where, pointed out by bare sepuchral stones 
 Lie mouldering deep our Fathers' honor'd bones. 
 
 Joy to the coming morn I which Heaven, decrees 
 To usher in the day of rest andeue ; 
 
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 •EOSE GlEW. 
 
 A b»r^ '?"■"""" T"'"'"'" '"religion seei 
 
 ioreover one of solemn moment lirei. \ 
 jJ,or wluch m>y hallelujahs ring in^Se A 
 
 When hlh ;'l'jr" "'•'' "' <'°'''» «"»"" "'I. 
 
 Ha, eJldors waving ot^t^'n™ r' ""«" 
 
 S,tta5 rA^tSde^ i^"' «"" 
 Whose flow a srn«ll f/n J^ meandering face ; 
 
 And J,ghtn.ng like is quickJy passinTnow 
 Tu^, ■ '"; P^^*^6. lor happiness and easp • 
 
ROSE GLEN. 
 
 So fair a rustic spot is that, when known, 
 > None can mistake the shimber o'er it thrown 
 Which, with the echo from the woodland shades, 
 1 hroughout in s«^t accordance a]I pe/vades. 
 
 Onward, in willing rambles roves the muse 
 wu^* »T^"*^ unforgotfen spots reviews ! 
 Where Mire strays, or where destruction's frown 
 Lies dark o'er olden Louisburg's renown • 
 W hose ramparts prove, and desolated walls 
 How soon the pomp of rising promise falls ,• 
 How quickly gotten glory, warmly nurst. 
 By fate s dread blow can su^cnly be curst • 
 Or where lies to the ejgftra, peaceful, still. 
 Like some love<l hanj»i> its neighboring hill. 
 Far glimmering oft tiWm.sbine to the view 
 Ihe sheltered Settlement of Mainadieu— 
 Not coldly uninviting, thro' the year 
 Like rock bound Gabarus, forlorn and drear • - 
 As both are seen while rides the good boat o'e'r 
 burfs washing tliat unshapen curve of shore • ^ 
 Lre It has weather'd dreaded Scatari, 
 
 'Gainst a cross dashing and resistless sea 
 Where ! seamen doubt your science's best guide 
 If safety s light shines not on every side • 
 rhro' seas ye ofl may have ridden bold, and stood 
 In the instructed task the helmsmen good • 
 Mid breakers with the storm oft m ay ^h a ve' striven 
 But ten fold woes is yours on those if driven— ' 
 Those surly rocks, than which projected there 
 1 lie encountering billows dreader cannot dare. 
 
 But these let fancy leave so drear, and 16ne— 
 Her v^w still from the ocean landward thrown 
 And, h lint Isle passing that way farther on, ' 
 1 hen joys she exultingly^ while seems to slide 
 Land over land augustly, as we glide 
 J^«*^ Va|er shore, when hill and mound 
 
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 BOSE GLEN. 
 
 Wto™ Jn! '^^ """■■'Ml sounding siVoni 
 Heaphigh i. wtSrrX'SS""' 
 
 When ev'ry w,»e S^''"' '» """«"' el"'"" ; 
 
 How oft while safe emhron'd he^ h^^fi 
 
 And elen,«,tal war .0 loudly ;tl •" "8"' 
 
 Ine uiexperenc'd swain ti,:l u • i 
 
 The w..i.^..ntSiXto ti;ni^ 
 
 Ifo^'r^!^'^ ■'i^u''i* "^"""^ ""Me 
 AnH or-kLu- \. \ ®'^*®" course to run 
 
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as we forth 
 'apeNorth, 
 tJess main 
 d again ; 
 lis breast 
 IS press'd— 
 strong ; 
 first along ; 
 fing'd fakst 
 isfatt; 
 
 id barren plains 
 s chains ; 
 s owns, 
 ►ans, 
 
 rd to rage, 
 
 to mark 
 pe^t dark- 
 
 hine sraile, 
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 fear ; 
 flakes, 
 
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 tinks) 
 
 e'll near— 
 i cheer, 
 is pasa'd, , 
 
 B sign'd-"^ 
 oind. 
 
 ,. ROBE GLEN, 57 ' , 
 
 Hope then beam awhile, oft* thus she beams \ 
 
 ; To drop in dubious or delusive gleams^ 
 Upon his shoulders scarce the needful load 
 Sits well, and makes he for his home-ward road, 
 Than lo ! is his attention taken — lo ! 
 The paths he lately trod are smooth with snow. 
 Tho' little wots he then of peril's hour. 
 Of what unknown dilemmas round him lowr. 
 The first snow fall had ere he started ceas'd ; 
 Again, in thickening fall, in size decreas'd. 
 The flakes descend. — • 
 
 Scarce now can he retrace . 
 The long line of his alter'd journey's face, - 
 
 Yet scorns to nurse one idle fear, while he 
 
 Can recognise each cove, and creek and tree ; 
 
 But fell delusion I— troubled next he roves 
 
 Thro' pathless thickets and thro' cheerless groves ; 
 
 At last half frantic, when o'er hill arid dale / 
 
 He long has push'd, all hope begins to fail : , 
 
 And dread may o'er his panic-stricken mind* 
 
 Come.with the rushing of the forest-wind ; ' • 1 
 
 Perhapa4he close set .thicket breaks he thro', ' 
 
 A guideless space is all that meets his view '.' . * ' ' 
 
 Around thick gathering there the stormy cloud, - ^ 
 
 Where earthy ah-, wood, in the wide tempest shroud : 
 
 rhen lookmg round in vain— with anguish torn, 
 
 If he 'neath a repining star be born 
 
 Who's thus assailed ;— but if the unhappy's soul * j 
 
 Be one that nature stampt for her controul, 
 
 Sinks caraly, in the eddy of the storm 
 
 Cold piercing, all res^n'd in his shivering form. 
 
 For huiiible8t..fare and at a lower price. 
 O'er some wide and extended sheet of ice, ^ 
 To soothe hard cravings may another roam ;^ 
 
 To quell insulting indigence at home ; " ' , 
 
 That found— with willing nerve returns he back ' 
 '-ereoa, all heedless of a beaten tracky-^^ -■ 
 
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 ROJiSlE GLEN. 
 
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 Till heart fatij^uinfiT toil ! the load it lefiffth 
 rroud would he be (^Id h, his home but win 
 
 Thjj thought that ,he hard frut oS daS. L 
 
 Tn h!u T''° ' """ '^'i' ">«" does sock 
 lo hold no placo o'er each half famish'd?heek 
 
 And loth to leave the burthen t o the Lt ^ ' 
 
 He presses on ; his heart and soul oppres^'d 
 1 he hoar frost bn his cheek, like winter's iest 
 
 Perchance the freezing tear bedims his eye- 
 
 And who can paint the mental agonv • 
 
 For thus of all exertion reft-to rouse 
 
 Lach sense benumbed, he, forced to yield, allow* 
 
 I^Sh Jl'^^T^ '^'^' <»'«' his frame to creei^ ■ 
 Laid soon along in icy death to sleep. ^ 
 
 Life ihus lost, we rarely need deplore. 
 Since charity opea free the friendly dior 
 
 :past, 
 
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ROSE OLEN. 
 
 69 
 
 Throughout this hospitnble land—but know 
 ^en summer has its ills, tho' winter's foe. 
 Who has not, in a chang'd and alter'd mood, 
 tfeheld like ilaming-swords from wood to wood 
 To shoot, and leap, the forest's raging fire f 
 
 A seemingt^ing then of the Almighty's ire, ^ 
 Or some horrific tyrant, to the eyes 
 
 And ears, whUe it thro' pathless thickets plies • 
 
 t/onsummg oaks and dissipating weeds ; 
 
 Qn groves and dells whose wide jaw'd rcngeancc 
 
 leeds* ' ' . 
 
 When Forests blaze ! and strikes fi-om shore to shore 
 1 his dreaded Element of all the Four : 
 If spurred afar, along the fated land. 
 By aiding heat, by kindling breezes fann'd ■ 
 When life, ev'n life, its mercUessgiUph surrouQds 
 And homes, andtreasur'd heaps, and fertile grounds : 
 
 All fare alike amid the drear dismay 
 
 As snores it on in its appointed way, 
 -Watch'd with what consternation, or afright ! 
 As multiplies its reign on every height. 
 
 Mix'd dismal din ! whene'er the tumult falls 
 On listening Night, and judgement-like appals. 
 1 he lurid air is hot with flashes bright 
 That, spread insidiously, and left and right 
 Shoot up abng the siaoky volumes white ! ' 
 Who stands unaw'd 1 when the red wacking Fir 
 And Pine, in fiery fall, so wildly Btir— 
 
 S[^? "i^^P^ '*'-" ^ ^^'^^ ^^^ F^e's alarum Bell 
 Mid shouts confused tolls on in plaintive knell 
 What ear is shut ? while ever and anon 
 The flaming whirlwind roars in fury on ; 
 And riders good by ev'ry by-path bound 
 With words ;a wider havoc still to sound— 
 xo warn those near such spots it next inust seize. 
 Mark d out by embers shower'd along the breeee. 
 
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 ROSE GLEN. 
 
 And this unsparing power, this element 
 Uncurb'd, Acadia knows, when furious sent 
 Like ^Etna's flume, to wield its mighty wr^th. 
 Thro' forests dark to strike, and mark a path ; 
 But ah ! when Earth's best fruit in ashes flies 
 The pray'r from him, whose pray'rs avail, must rise 
 For mercy — and what marvel ; if that hour ' 
 Of mercy come ; the good man's pray'r hath pow'r— 
 Dark clouds begin to s«re^ gcross the Heaven, 
 With murmurings, then a^oyfuP^iarnings given ; 
 And soon» along their voli*mes driv'n and mix'd 
 The light'ning strikes ; and peals the thunder next ] 
 Peals, and re-peals, and dowA along the plain 
 Show'rsi the thick rain — and mercy smiles again. 
 
 How hush'd lies Nature 'neath such skies o'er cast, 
 In grateful silence, till the clouds are past 1 
 In secret joys she, with her thankful tribes. 
 And largely in the fresh'ning show'rs imbibes ; . 
 Till utter'd mirth, sj^cceeds the quenching rain. 
 From ev'ry spray full throated forth again.* 
 
 Lo! northward where, at night, the Polar star 
 Reigns aver voiceless wooded depths far 
 Along those green and grizzly colors spread, 
 A noble lake lies in the forest-bed : 
 Yon barren wastes thro' distance spot the side 
 Of its a^cendin^ ridge, where, gaping wide. 
 At base lie rocks that lightnings cleft of yore— 
 The which shall lie unsenl'd for evermore : 
 Since no where else, when Night the lightnings seam, 
 They can with fiercer aim more vivid gleam. 
 And no where else, th^ tempest's spirit talks 
 So loud, or o'er with blacker aspects walksL 
 
 Would time and patience with us\ow approve 
 Of lingering over scenes in flow remove, 
 Fair places, one by one, for beauties fam'd, ' 
 Such as S t. An ne's with others m ight be named ;. 
 
ROSE GLEN. ,^l 
 
 "IPori^ttoodor Cheticamp where culture smiles ; — 
 Of the annex'U and beaifTeous Richmond Isles; 
 Where rises Arichat, with green spread lahds, 
 Which fairy views and prospects drear commands ; 
 Qreach sweet spot near harbour, creek, or bay. 
 That bleak *neath wiutryskies, so lately lay. 
 
 A favor'd land is this, and blest of Heaven, 
 To which sure rare superior scenes are giv'n ; ^ 
 Tho' it has jpy'd in almost lasting peace — 
 And tho' iome rave and labor to decrease 
 Its name; o'er it3 neglected page much known 
 And spirit-breathing interest is thrown ; 
 Form'd for commercial bustle, murmuring trade ; 
 And for unshackled liberty 'twas made: * 
 Here 'twas Britannia threw at France her frown, 
 And pluck'd a gem to grace old Albion's crown : 
 Which long she'll claim, this proud Protectress dread ! 
 O'er which her shielding glory well is spread ; 
 Whose sterner boundaries, ridgy inlands fair, 
 Nature consigned well to her signal care ; 
 •From swelling bases, where establish'd proud, \ 
 
 Blue hiJIs arise to cap the passing^cloud ; 
 -Around which, fertile green extents abound, 
 And sheltered spots in lengthen'd v^les are found ; 
 Where health invites, and youth industrious Strays 
 Thro' pleasant paths, and wood-cnviron'd ways ; 
 And where old age the stranger ofteii cheers, 
 When it has brav'd in full its four-score years. 
 
 Ye laboring swains, who live in tlistant cots, ' 
 Blest and contented with your humble Iota, 
 Yc, who aro earliest in tho mornings seen . 
 
 To stray across the miry t:eids or green " 
 
 Up with the thruah„ er(' tl.o fl^wd-gates of light ' 
 Have op*d in eastern skies upon the sight. 
 Oh ! labor at the plongh ! — on you depend, 
 While o'er thcshuro with vliroro^^ s toop y<> ben d. 
 
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 ROSE CLEW. 
 
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 vtTJT °^^"^*T' whicjhaJone enhance ^ 
 Lach^native scene^tliat native worth advance- 
 Both love and interest that can give to trace - 
 rhi8 fertile Wand's cultivated Le, 
 W^ule o er it spring with earlier steps would tread 
 And wider yellow autumn wave his head. ■ 
 
 wI^'^?/V'*'^*'"' J'ke some glad^ stately flood 
 ' Thh' r^ ''^^^ V°"""^^ ^«"«« ^^^ow to scud- 
 And like the hopes, that burst o'er Heav'n.anew 
 Behind the storm which has obscured the^ew- 
 
 ^«wf.^*S"'''^ ""^^"»g blue displays 
 So shall o'er Breton yet break better days • 
 * or earth holds promises with trusri^ hand 
 1 hat soon m^st flourish o'er the happy land • 
 With which, Well keeping pace,advSSces ftee 
 A day when far along display'd, we'll see. 
 Beyond yon Wave's division to the west ' 
 Whose breast the evening's radiant tints invest 
 Rejoicing more corn, trees and fruitage quiver 
 On each s»Je of the widening Spanish R^er' 
 I^s banks and backlands then of thidc wood siiorn 
 Outspreading verdant to the orient morn- ' 
 
 When, m the room of woodland depths, oh ' briaht 
 Fair prospects full shall open on the sight ' ^ 
 
 Mark, fr/m this mount, far as the straining view 
 Can reach to- yon stern ridge's dusky blue ^ 
 O er all that glorimis unmov'd forest's head 
 The last rays of the parting sun ar?^hed : ^ 
 But to my left, lo I pensively and sal, 
 O er hills and deepening glooms with brushwood clad 
 Pale gleaming from afar upon the siaht ' 
 
 ^Slo^^liow ascends the rounded lamp° of night. 
 
 Those who at homely casements nightly sit 
 And woo the flickering moon-beams asthev flit 
 Can little image up. with all the aid ' ' 
 
 MMmum the thick dark forest glade ^ — 
 
 f^ 
 
ihance 
 
 dvance^- 
 
 trace 
 
 ouJd treadi, 
 d. 
 
 ely flood 
 cud — 
 v'a,,ane«r 
 be view — 
 ays, 
 s ; 
 ind, 
 land ; 
 sfrce 
 !e, 
 
 I invest, 
 quiver, 
 iver : 
 >od shorn, 
 
 5h ! bright 
 
 ning view 
 
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 ihwood clad, 
 
 ight. 
 
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 ■y flit. 
 
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 A moonlight scene !—w hen, in her meekest mood, 
 The Queen of silence amidst solitude ! 
 Fair Luna, sails among her star-read signs, 
 And in her placid silvery brightness shines ; 
 As strays she then where Day's orb late has been. 
 Heaven all around her cloudless and serene. 
 
 Lone trav1er,TOute1 while thus she's climbing high 
 Amidst the darkest blue of Breton's sky. 
 First thro' the boughs, when comes her hallowing light 
 She's hail'd — the welcom'd visitant of night. 
 And then and over and thro' all pervades 
 Her ray, o'er all are thrown the well known shades; 
 When it is joy to see the light cloud fly 
 Fleecy and white, fantastic through the sky ; 
 Which, if by hurrying breezes onward driv'n. 
 Seems like some careless homeless child of heav'n, 
 That Cometh forth and goeth where—ah ! where ?-r- 
 Soon an unseen inhabitant of air ! 
 Like some soul mocking phantom speeds it by^— 
 She then the ^lirror of the memorv. 
 
 Oh ! soft ihe scene when her pale ray serene * 
 Thro' opening valley streams, ^nd deep ravine — . 
 Sits on the tufted hills around, and gleams ' 
 Along the limpid surface of the streams ; 
 Which in their dreaiQy flow forever glide 
 By hills, thro' groves, and azure bells beside. 
 While many a brook where yet the bear may quench 
 His thirst in — love his shaggy hide to drench, 
 Her ray impartial follows as they foam, 
 And lights them onward to their ocean-home ; p 
 Bat otherwise neglected as they run ; 
 Unmark'd— unnam'd — from year to year being known 
 No musing glance along their channels thrown. 
 Yet they as soon with their rude flows began, 
 As when the fam'd Euprhates' waters ran; 
 Unnam'd they'll run, 'till o'er each hilly brow 
 The harrows run, and tears the uplurninfjjloiigh;—^ 
 
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 ROSE GLEN. 
 
 BleBt Island ! thro' my devious tracM of life 
 
 Its dark strange tissued dreams of toil aiid Htrife, 
 Of mirth and tears ;— each spot^ each favorite spot- 
 Of thine, time from my memory ne'er can blot ; 
 'Twas here my friendship found its earliest birth, 
 And its first joyous flow of youthful mirth. 
 On days by-gone— days never doom'd to last. 
 The pleasing eye of ftncy shall be cast : 
 While all thy sunny hours, thy. evenings' cheer, 
 Thy healthful pastimes thro' the varied year, 
 Thy ringing sports^ and the accustom'd place 
 For summer-gambols, and thy winter's chase, 
 Not like faint gleams my memory shall pass off. 
 Till death comes with his dark and dismal scoC 
 
 Slow o'er New-village heights the smoke ascends ; 
 Thro' dusky shades an earliest night impends. 
 The eagles now have sought their airy nests ; 
 The hawk no more his weak wing'd prey molests : 
 No rapre the timid Birds the sportsman shun, 
 Now faomevvard wending with his slanted gun : 
 The deer the wilds have left, and, ranging wide. 
 In droves, surround dark Flamboise wooded side: 
 Yet, thro' the twilight, prowls from out his deu 
 The wily fox, far from the haunts of men ; 
 Upon the ev'ning's stillness yet are thrown 
 The low of herds, of flocks, the bleating tone : 
 Tho', one by one, as from the Ea'st draw near 
 Her thickening shades, upon the listener's ear 
 Each other ruralsound, or echo dies,. 
 
 Since the sun sunk below the western skies^- 
 Sunk to his needful rest— ^whose yellow ray, 
 Threw his last farewell-look in gladdening play ,• 
 j And firom yon thicket then his flasfi tobk flig^ 
 
 i Already in whose depths feigns deeper nig} 
 
 i Already over head-land-hill the breeze 
 
 I Ofnight sighs mournfully anwyng the trees. 
 
 South Village Cbtitdh in etstera distance gleams 
 t\ ___^j^J?^'^^^°<^ '"^''^ reflecta the tplar beamsj ■__ . 
 
ROSE QLEN. 
 
 63 
 
 But o'er ita graves aVtd tombs, where sleep^the dead 
 Below, there, coldly iV the moonbeam shed. 
 Rose Glen and envie^Richmond now yield all 
 Their hues up as the nightly curtains fall i 
 And Sherwood-banks, Hardwood's surrounding gladei 
 Slow draw around themselves their sombre shades. 
 And dimly'while Woodale, and Brae-wood park, 
 S^em nearing thro' this far perspective dark, 
 Each hill turns seeniingly to earth its brow, 
 And risen stars behold ! b^^d them now ; 
 'Tis otFthe heights arotind B^sjb 
 First nwrn, and best day's closing 
 
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 LINES ON THE DEATH OF A CHILD. 
 
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 A spiriMately took the wing 
 
 And mounted up in joy, 
 Which freed from eaptbiy suffering 
 
 A lovely infant Boy. . 
 
 Tho' the transition hence was rough 
 
 To on# so young and pure, 
 Into the place of sainted rest 
 
 Was his admission sure ; 
 
 I saw him by an angel-train 
 
 Borne far above tbese skies ; 
 And much, while look'd he wibtftil back, 
 
 I long'd with him to rise. 
 
 I mark'd him look thro^ Heav'n's bright gates, 
 
 Which he was struck to see ; 
 Where round about him flock'd the train 
 
 And questioned eagerly 
 
 ♦' Thy Name ?" was ask'd " they call'dme--' 
 " Oh ! we've many such names here, 
 
 So frieve^ot---why wifhin fhtaeiiye^ — 
 
 Forms mm that crystal tear." - 
 
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 ON THE DEATH OF A CHILD. 
 
 Which saying, hound they round his head 
 
 A chaplet like their own ; 
 And bade him downward look to mark 
 
 From whence he late had flown : 
 
 " And wouldst thou re-descend ?" — " awhile 
 From such bright realms as these 
 
 I'd go to seek my Parents out, 
 Their bursting hearts to ease ; 
 
 ♦ ' 
 
 " For I left both loudly weeping 
 With voices strained and hoarse, 
 
 Bent in convulsive vigils 
 O'er my pale silent corse ; 
 
 *-. 
 
 " I left my mother sobbing 
 
 With nearly stifled breath, 
 Because she saw me sleeping 
 
 The last long sleep of death : 
 
 " My mother ! whose eyes holy beamed 
 On mine, ere they were closed ; ' 
 
 My Father ! on whose cheek oft mine, 
 Pain'd, for relief reposed"— 
 
 " Grieve not" 'twas answered, " for the more 
 
 They mourn, they will employ 
 Their future days to meet thee here. 
 
 Their lost— their only boy." 
 
 Meantime the portals open'd wide, 
 And him they bore along 
 ^ A wide, blue, bright-sun'd pillar'd vault, 
 Which rang with praise and song ; 
 
 Where dwtflt the Saviour of the world 
 
 'Mid all things blooming fair ; 
 A n d cQimtlesd spir ita min istc ^- — 
 
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 Around his prgsencf there. 
 
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 FOR ENGLAND BOL'ND. 
 
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 -" awhile 
 
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 ine, 
 
 9r the more 
 
 ault, 
 
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 f OR ENGLAND BOUND. 
 
 For England bound, the gallant bark 
 
 Waits farther time nor tide ; 
 The anchor's Weigh'd, the sails unfurl, 
 
 The boats crowd by her side ; 
 /o^ The wreathy clouds are gat^iering rounds 
 
 The wind and waves prevail ;* 
 While love and friendship sevet'd now 
 
 Sigh in the gusty gale ; * v 
 
 On fair Acadia look their last — ' 
 They, sadly gazing by yon mast : ^ 
 
 For England bound, (the helm's a-port) 
 
 She now begins to wear ; ^ 
 Soon thro' the ocean's rolling depths 
 
 A foamy path to tear ; 
 The perils of the deep to brave *; 
 
 From Island far, and from ^^ 
 
 Each guiding continent — his breast 
 
 This night must be her home, 
 Thro' which no planet o'er the brine;; 
 Or star yet promises to shine. 
 
 The sky — the sky is over cast ; 
 
 Dark clouds the evening shroud ; 
 The winds and shivering cordage raise * 
 
 Their shrill discordance loud ; 
 It is to be a wilder night '* 
 
 Than what the day has been ; 
 Old Ocean heaves his main' afar «* 
 
 His wrath is kindiing keen-^ 
 Slow giidcth from the port the bark 
 , O'er sullen deepening waves and dark. 
 
 'Tis done— a parting cheer ! — high floatsr' 
 The pennant on the wind ; . 
 
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 STANZAS^ 
 
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 A farewell signal has been made 
 
 At leaving joys behind ; 
 As some one thought of by-gone-days, 
 
 Of sounds in grove and hall ; 
 When pleasure lured him from his home, 
 
 And mirth's devoted call — 
 But lists he now to ocean's roar— ^ 
 The flapping sails are heard no more. 
 
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 Go, seam the waters, best of ships, 
 Go — let the breeze k^e stronger'; 
 
 SiiTMCe it was bold to venture thus,-- 
 Thus to delay no longer ; ^ '- # 
 
 And ye borne onward, tho' Night's shades 
 Behind sweep hill and lawn, 
 
 Before you with each morning's ray 
 
 ' ^all noble prospects dawn-r- 
 
 Fair ! to ^jehold, 'nealh other skies, 
 
 Horizons o'er horizons -rise. 
 
 /- 
 
 STANZAS. 
 
 Ills wail and his praise yet by all are mention'd ever ; 
 
 But those honors due his genius — why not paid ? 
 Alas ! around his dust the leaves of autumn quiver ; 
 
 In a cold foreign grave he is laid ! 
 
 He left his riiountain-home— he left his native hearth't 
 
 In this clime his profession to pursue ; 
 He was drawn to a spot, no lovelier 's on earth— 
 
 And renown was awarded him — his due. 
 
 Yes, from the mountain-land of his sires he had come, 
 
 And those who yet name him, I esteem ; 
 ^Vthe virtues which hecherish'd, denie d him b y some. 
 =^vuld wefl Wf^ wer&aif ties retf eitti7"^^^ ^^ 
 
 
 
, THE poet's eye 
 
 Ah ! had not the arrows of death have beset him, 
 Nor his youth in such, waywardness been.spenfW 
 
 There all had desired in his fame to have met him^ 
 And this song had not breath'd this lament. 
 
 'Tis said hfs mein was noble — a star in his art — 
 He was granted the nerve for the same ; 
 
 He was noble in his mind — humane in his heart. 
 So far thro' the land ran- his fame : 
 
 But his memory may die, since not a record here 
 He has left thro' the iuture to be read ; 
 
 Then soon may some marble be rais'd o'er his bier 
 That strangers may know where they tread. 
 
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 THE POET'S EYE. 
 
 " Friend after friend is snatch'd away," 
 
 Iftk spotted pa^e Ihou tellest true ; 
 But when thy whisper'd numbers say 
 
 That one, the chosen one of few — 
 With whom 1 braved Life's adverse morrt. 
 
 With fortune dooih'd a war to wage, 
 Is from me prematurdy torn, 
 
 jWhat grief fe mine truth telliqg page ! 
 
 " In health weJu^atcH'd him sinbiim fjist, 
 
 And want and, woe his hea^;t as&f ' 
 Disease's signs were traced at last ; 
 
 His manly brow grew cold and pale ; ^ 
 Consumption pre^d upon his frame, 
 
 Nought couJd pain's repercussions I^Il ; * 
 H^s cheek's flush quickly went and came ; 
 
 His eye sttlength grew gjazed and dull." 
 
 "^at eye,^5fiT raotrrnful tidings Twoht^ 
 O'er others cheer and mirth to throw, 
 
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 * . ^^1"'^,^ «ft ^^"nk ai,aliti for ivoe • 
 
 ene'er on \»ini^'i' k.^ l^ • . 
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 ,%f^l^ no mi^cr'this Poet's lyre 
 -^isS^'iS^"''"^ influence yield : '^ 
 
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