THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES ^^1*. ,11'. OR I COOK /. OLIVER NEWMAJT: NEW-ENGLAND TALE (unfinished) : WITH OTHER POETICAL REMAINS. Bv t;ie late EOBEET SOUTHEY. LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1845. TO WILLIAM AND MARY WORDSWORTH, THE OLD AXD DEAR FRIENDS OF ROBERT SOUTHEY, THESE LAST PBOBUCTIONS, THE IMPEBFliCT "AUTUMNAL FLOWERS," OF HIS POETICAL GENIUS, ARE INSCRIBED, IVITII FILIAL EEVEBENCE AND AFFECTION, BY THE EDITOR. S3? But thou, O faitliful to thy fame, The Muse's law didst rightly know ; That wlio would animate his lays, And other minds to virtue raise, Must feel his own with all her spirit glow. Akenside, Book I. Ode xviii. PREFACE. The principal Poem of this volume, Oliver Newman, was well known to many friends of the late Poet Laureate : and it is presumed that those persons at least, who have heard him read portions of it, with his peculiar and highly expressive intonation, will welcome with pleasure, not however unmingled with melancholy, this his last poetical work, imperfect as it is. Oliver Newman was not a rapid production : the first idea of it seems to have arisen in his mind in 1811; it was commenced in January, 1815; and having been continued at different intervals, amid the pressure of more urgent business, received its last additions in September, 1829. Although this is not the place to speak critically, one observation perhaps may be par- doned — that this poem seems to possess in a consi- derable degree a quality which some of the Author's A 4 Vlll PREFACE. otlier poems were judged by several critics to be deficient in, viz., a human interest: we feel that we are among persons of a like nature with our- selves, and their sufferings touch the heart. A general account of the story upon which it is based, and the intended plan, has been drawn up from the Author's notes, and printed as an Appendix. It was thought better to do this, than to leave the reader entirely without information : yet the sketch is presented with considerable misgivings ; because it is likely, that to some persons, notwithstanding that the Author's own words are used wherever it is possible, the dry bones of a poem may seem not only uninteresting, but even repulsive. Neither can such a sketch be certainly a true representation of the mere story of the perfect work; because, even of the few particulars there noted, several might, in the working out of the poem, be altered or expunged. Of the other pieces here collected, the " Frag- mentary Thoughts occasioned by his Son's Death," and the " Short Passages of Scripture," are printed as much for the purpose of giving fresh proof of the purity and elevation of his character, as for their own intrinsic beauty. His son Herbert — of whom he wrote thus in the Colloquies, " I called to mind my hopeful II too, so often the sweet companion of my morning walks to this very spot, TREFACEr IX in whom I had fondly thought my better part should have survived me, and ' With whom it seem'd my very life Went half away ' " — died 1 7th April, 1816, being about ten years old, a boy of remarkable genius and sweetness of disposition. These Fragments bear a date at their commence- ment, 3d May, 1816, but do not seem all written at the same time. The Author at one time contem- plated founding upon them a considerable work, of a meditative and deeply serious cast. But, although he, like Schiller, after the vanishing of his Ideals, always found " Employment *, the never-tiring," one of his truest friends, — yet this particular form of employment, which seemed at first attractive to him, had not, when tried, the soothing effect upon his feelings which was needful ; and in March, 1817, he Avrites, that he "had not recovered heart enough to proceed with it." The "Passages of Scripture" are found in one of his latest note-books : they were evidently not written witli any view to publication, but arose » Schiller's " Die Ideale," Merivale's translation, p. 61. — " Thou too, his mate, with him conspiring To quell the bosom's rising storm, Employment — thou, the never-tiring. Who toilsome shap'st, nor break'st the form." X PREFACE. simply from the pure pleasure which he took in marking down, after his own fashion, verses that attracted his poetical taste, either by the force of some peculiar idea, or by the musical harmony of the words in our English version. ^Moreover, these passages seem illustrative of the structure and choice of language in some of his poems ; for they lead us to observe in them also the effects of habi- tual study of the Holy Scriptures, evidenced not only by the references, which are frequently given, but also, which is more important, by the appa- rently unconscious use of a diction borrowed from the poetical and imaginative portions of the Bible. It was natural that a writer of so energetic a mind as the late Poet Laureate, would leave many unfinished projects. Besides the Fragments here published, he had commenced a poem on " Robin Hood," the manuscript of which is not among his other poetical papers. He had also thought of a series of " Inscriptions in honour' of English Poets," the notice of which, as it is short, may be here in- serted, for the use of those who may take pleasure in cultivating that style, of which Akenside is the prototype. " Tuesday, 6th Sept. 1814. " Inscriptions for the Poetical Ground of these Kingdoms ; i. e., a tribute of respect to all those PREFACE. XI poets who deserve it. This, I think, would be u worthy task. Chaucer — at AVoodstock ? Blenheim will become an empty name, and that palace a pile of ruins, while he remains. Malvern -— Piers Ploughman. Lydgate — at Bury. Spenser — by the Mole. Surrey — at his place of burial, if that be known ; otherwise, at the chief seat of the Howards. Amwell — Warner and Walton and Scott. T. Warton — by the Cherwell. Rokeby — Mason and Scott and Morritt himself. Davenant — Cowes Castle. Sylvester — Donnington ; buried at Middleburg." Lastly, it may be not unfitly recorded, that some notes exist, preparatory to a poem in honour of her Majesty Queen Victoria. During the first years of this reign, severe reflections were from time to time made upon the Poet Laureate, for his silence. Now, the solemn events which have happened since that time, allow us to suppose that the Spirit of Poetry was then too dead within him, to permit him to undertake this new labour. It only remains to be said, that these poems are printed as he left them ; and that, as none of them Xii PREFACE. had received his final corrections for the press, there may be defects of language which he himself would have removed. At the same time it is honestly avowed that, deservedly high as his repu- tation, both as a poet and a man, has stood among the writers of his generation — now, alas ! fast de- parting from us, — a strong confidence is felt that this small volume will in no way derogate from it ; and in this hope it is committed to the world. Herbert Hill. Warwick, Nov. 4. 1845. CONTENTS. Page Preface - - - - • - vu Oliver Newman : I. Funeral at Sea - 1 II. The Voyage - 6 in. Cape Cod - - 17 IV. The Captives Ransomed - - 26 V. The Portrait - 35 VI. Future Prospects - 42 Vn. The Indian War - - 55 VIII. Parting Words - 68 IX. Journey through the Forest - 74 X. - 81 Appendix to Oliver Newman - - 83 Miscellaneous Poetical Remains : Fragmentary Thoughts occasioned by his Son's Death . . - - - 93 Short Passages of Scripture, rhythmically arranged or paraphrased ... - 96 Little Book, in Green and Gold - - 105 Lines written in the Album of Rotha Q. - 108 Imagination and Reality - 110 Madrigal, from Luis Martin - Ill Mohammed ; a Fragment - 113 OLIVER NEWMAN: NEW-ENGLAND TALE. T0I2 TEK0T2I TAP OTA' EI nONEI TI2, AEI nONOT MNHMHN EXEIN. Sophocles, CEdipus Coloneus, 1. 508. OLIVER NEWMAN. FUNERAL AT SEA. The summer sun is riding high Amid a bright and cloudless sky ; Beneath whose deep o'er-arching blue The circle of the Atlantic sea, Reflecting back a deeper hue, Is heaving peacefully. The winds are still, the ship with idle motion Rocks gently on the gentle ocean ; Loose hang her sails, awaiting when the breeze Again shall wake to waft her on her way. Glancing beside, the dolphins, as they play, Their gorgeous tints suffused with gold display ; And gay bonitos in their beauty glide : With arrowy speed, in close pursuit, They through the azure waters shoot ; B -^ix 2 OLI\-ER NEWJfAN. I. A feebler shoal before them in aifright Spring from the wave, and in short flight, On wet and plumeless wing essay The aerial element : The greedy followers, on the chase intent, Dart forward still with keen and upturn'd sight, And, to their proper danger blind the while, Heed not the sharks, which have for many a day Hover'd behind the ship, presentient of their prey. So fair a season might persuade Yon crowd to try the fisher's trade ; Yet from the stern no line is hung. Nor bait by eager sea-boy flung ; Nor doth the watchful sailor stand Alert to strike, harpoon in hand. Upon the deck assembled, old and young. Bareheaded all in reverence, see them there ; Behold where, hoisted half-mast high. The English flag hangs mournfully ; And hark ! what solemn sounds are these Heard in the silence of the seas ? " iMan that is born of woman, short his time. And full of woe ! he springeth like a flower. Or like the grass, that, green at morning prime, Is cut and withereth ere the evening hour ; Never doth he continue in one stay, But like a shadow doth he pass away." It was that awful strain, which saith How in the midst of life we are in death : I. FUNEUAL AT SEA. " Yet not for ever, O Lord God most High ! Saviour ! yet not for ever shall we die ! " Ne'er from a voice more eloquent did prayer Arise, with fervent piety sincere. To every heart, of all the listening crew, It made its way, and drew Even from the hardy seaman's eyes a tear. " God," he pursued, " hath taken to himself The soul of our departed sister dear ; We then commit her body to the deep ; " He paused, and, at the word. The coffin's plunge was heard. A female voice of anguish then brake forth With sobs convulsive of a heart opprest. It was a daughter's agonising cry : But soon hath she represt The fit of passionate grief, And listening patiently. In that religious effijrt gain'd relief. Beside the grey-hair'd captain doth she stand ; One arm is linked in his ; the other hand Hid with the handkerchief her face, and prest Her eyes, whence burning tears continuous flow, Down hung her head upon her breast, And thus the maiden stood in silent woe. Again was heard the preacher's earnest voice : It bade the righteous in their faith rejoice, Their sure and certain hope in Christ ; for blest In Him are they, who from their labours rest. B 2 4 OLIVER NEWMAN. I. It rose into a high thanksgiving strain, And praised the Lord, who from a world of pain Had now been pleased to set his servant free ; Hasten thy kingdom. Lord, that all may rest in thee • In manhood's fairest prime was he who pray'd, Even in the flower and beauty of his youth. These holy words and fervent tones portrayed The feelings of his inmost soul sincere ; For scarce two months had fiU'd their short career Since from the grave of her who gave him birth That sound had struck upon his ear ; "Wlien to the doleful words of " Earth to earth " Its dead response the senseless coffin gave : — Oh ! who can e'er forget that echo of the grave ! Now in the grace of God dismiss'd, They separate as they may, To narrow limits of the ship confined : Nor did the impression lightly pass away, Even from the unreflecting sailor's mind. They pitied that sweet maiden, all bereft, Alone on shipboard among strangers left. They spake of that young preacher, day by day How while the fever held its fatal course. He minister'd at the patient sufferer's side. Holding of faith and hope his high discourse ; And how, when all had join'd in humble prayer, She solemnly confided to his care. Till to her father's hands she could be given. Her child forlorn, — and blest him ere she died. FUNERiVL AT SEA. They call'd to mind, how peaceful, how serene, Like one who seem'd already half in heaven, After that act she yielded up her breath ; And sure they wish'd their end like her's, I ween, And for a comforter like him in death. B 3 OLIVER NEWMAN. H. II. THE VOYAGE. The maiden on her nari-ow bed To needful solitude hath fled ; He who perform'd the funeral prayer Leans o'er the vessel's head, and there Contemplating the sea and sky, He muses of eternity. The captain paces to and fro The deck with steady step and slow, And at his side a passenger, Conversing as they go. Their talk was of that maid forlorn, The mournful service of the morn, And the young man, whose voice of heartfelt faith Breathed hope and comfort o'er the bed of death. " Captain," quoth Randolph, " you have borne, Ere this, I ween, to Boston's shore. Saints by the dozen, and the score : But if he preach as he can pray, The Boston men will bless the day On which you brought this treasure o'er : A youth like him they well may call A son of thunder, or a second Paul." Ij. THE VOYAGE. 7 Thereat the captain smiled, and said, " Oh hang the broad face and round head, Hard as iron, and heavy as lead ! I have whistled for a wind ere now, And thought it cheap to crack a sail, If it sent the canting breed below. Jonah was three days in the whale, But I have had fellows here, I trow. With lungs of brazen power. Who would not fail to preach a whale Dead sick in half an hour. One Sunday, when on the banks we lay. These Roundheads, think ye, what did they? Because, they said, 'twas the sabbath day. And hallowed by the Lord, They took the fish, which their servants caught. And threw them overboard. Newman is made of different clay ; He walks in his own quiet way : And yet beneath that sober mien Gleams of a spirit may be seen, Which show what temper lies supprest Witliin his meek and unambitious breast : He seemeth surely one of gentle seed. Whose sires for many an age were wont to lead In courts and councils, and in camps to bleed," Randolph replied, " He rules his tongue too well Ever of those from whom he sprung to tell : Whatever rank they once possessed In camps and councils, is, I ween, suppress'd B 4 H OLIVER NEWMAJf. n. In prudent silence. Little love that pair Could to the royal Martyr bear, Be sure, who named their offspring Oliver. You have mark'd that volume, over which he seems To pore and meditate, like one who dreams, Pondering upon the page with thought intense, That nought, which passes round him, can from thence His fix'd attention move : He carries it about his person still, Nor lays it from him for a moment's time. At my request, one day, with no good will. He lent it me : what, think ye, did it prove ? A rigmarole of verses without rhyme. About the apple, and the cause of sin. By the blind old traitor Milton ! and within, Upon the cover, he had written thus. As if some saintly relic it had been, Which the fond owner gloried in possessing : ' Given me by my most venerable friend. The author, with his blessing ! '" CAPTAIN. Sits the wind there ! RANDOLPH. Returning him the book, I told him I was sorry he could find None who deserved his veneration more Than one who, in the blackest deed of guilt n. THE VOYAGE. ^ That blots our annals, stands participant, A volunteer in that worst infamy, Stain'd to the core with blessed Charles his blood, Although by some capricious mercy spared, Strangely, as if by miracle, he still Lived to disparage justice. CAPTAIN. And how brook'd he Your reprehension ? RANDOLPH. With his wonted air Of self-possession, and a mind subdued : And yet it moved him ; for, though looks and words By the strong mastery of his practised will Were overruled, the mounting blood betray'd An impiUse in its secret spring too deep For his control. But taking up my speech. He answer'd with a simulated smile : " Sir, you say well ; by miracle indeed The life so fairly forfeited seems spared ; And it was worth the special care of Heaven ; Else had the hangman and the insensate axe Cut off this toil divine." With that his eyes Flash'd, and a warmer feeling flush'd his cheek : " Time will bring down the pyramids," he cried, " Eldest of human works, and wear away The dreadful Alps, coeval with himself: But while yon suni shall hold his place assign'd, This ocean ebb and flow, and the round earth, 10 OLIVER new:man. n. Obedient to the Almighty Mover, fill Her silent revolutions, Milton's mind Shall dwell with us, an influence and a power; And tliis great monument, which he hath built, Outliving empires, pyramids, and Alps, Endure, the lasting wonder of mankind." CAPTAIN. This is stark madness. RANDOLPH. Or stark poetry, Two things as near as Grub Street and Moorfields But he came bravely oflP ; for, softening soon To his habitual suavity, he said. Far was it from his thought to vindicate 111 deeds of treason and of blood. The Avise Had sometimes err'd, the virtuous gone astray : Too surely in ourselves we felt the seed " Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brousht death into the world and all our woe :" His friend, like other men, had drawn a part Of that sad heritage ; he loved in him His wisdom and his virtue, not his faults. CAPTAIN. Well said, and manfully, like one who speaks The honest truth. n. THE VOYAGL. H RANDOLPH. Why, so it sounds, and seems. CAPTAIN. And we must needs admit, he hath not left His native country in that piggish mood Wliich neither will be led nor driven, but grunts And strives with stubborn neck and groundling snout, Struggling through mire and brake, to right and left. No matter where, so it can only take The way it should not go. One of that herd, Rather than read the service, would have seen The dead thrown overboard without a prayer. KANDOLPH. Yet he hath freaks and follies of opinion ; The bubbles of a yeasty mind, that works As it would crack its vessel. CAPTAIN. They are ever The sweetest nuts in which the maggot breeds. RANDOLPH. But, once fly-stricken, what avails their sweetness t Only to feed a pamper'd grub, that leaves Nothing but dirt and hoUowness behind it. Tainted the young man is, and deeply too, I fear, by birth and breeding : I perceive it 12 OLIVER NEWMAN. II. "With sorrow, seeing on how fair a stock The unlucky graft is set. CAPTAIN. "Wliy then, alas For that poor Annabel ! if she must have This farther cause to rue our baneful factions. The wretched strife already hath entail'd Upon her luckless family the loss Of fair possessions, friends, and native land ! And now a chance hath offered, which to her, I trow, might largely make amends for all : It would be hard indeed, when all things seem To square so well — youth, opportunity. Their fortunes one, the natural dower of each So equal, and so bountifully given, A dying mother's blessing to crown all — It would be hard indeed, should loyalty Forbid the banns. KANDOLPH. I know her father's temper, True as his own Toledo to the cause Wherein they both were tried. Nor will neglect. Ingratitude of courts, and banishment, (For a grant in the American wilderness Only calls exile by a fairer name,) Subdue his high-wrought virtue. Satisfied At last, by years of painful proof. That loyalty must find in its own proud sense n. THE VOYAGE. 13 Its own reward, that pride he will bequeath His children as their best inheritance, A single heir-loom rescued from the wreck, And worth whate'er was lost. CAPTAIN. 'Tis well the youth Thinks less of earth than heaven, and hath his heart More with the angels than on human love : But if such thoughts and hopes have enter'd it, As would some forty years ago have found Quick entrance, and warm welcome too, in mine. His ugly baptism may mar all, and make him Breathe maledictions on his godfathers, Though old Nol himself were one. RANDOLPH. Howbeit 't will win him Worship and friends in the city of the saints ; And, to the ears of sober Boston men, Oliver wiB be a name more savoury Than Tribulation, or Stand-fast-in-the-Lord, Increase or Nathan, Gershom, Ichabod, Praise-God, or any of the Barebones breed. They rise upon the oak-holyday with faces A full inch longer than they took to bed : Experienced nurses feed their babes that day With spoons, because the mother's milk is sour ; And when they mourn upon the Martyrdom, 'Tis for the expiation, not the crime. Oh they love dearly one of the precious seed ! 14 OLIVER NEW3IAX. H. Tyburn, since Sixty, in their secret hearts Holds place of Calvary. For saints and martyrs, None like their own Hugh Peters, and the heads On the Hall your only relics ! Fifteen years They have hid among them the two regicides, Shifting from den to cover, as we found "Where the scent lay. But earth them as they will, I shall unkennel them, and from their holes Drag them to light and justice. CAPTADf. There hath been Much wholesome sickness thrown away. Sir Randolph On your strong stomach ! Two sea voyages Have not sufficed to clear the bile wherewith You left New England ! RANDOLPH. Nay, it rises in me As I draw near their shores. CAPTAIN. "Why then, look shortly For a sharp fit ; for, if the sky tell true. Anon we shall have wind, and to our wish. So spake the Captain, for his eye, "Versed in all signs and weathers, Discerned faint traces in the eastern sky. Such as a lion's paw might leave n. THE VOYAGE. H Upon the desert, when the sands are dry. The dog-vane now blows out with its light feathers ; And lo ! the ship, which like a log hath lain. Heavily rolling on the long slow swell. Stirs wdth her proper impulse now, and gathers A power like life beneath the helmsman's will. Her head lies right ; the rising breeze Astern comes rippling o'er the seas ; A tramp of feet ! a sound of busy voices ! The cordage rattles, and the topsails fill ; All hands are active, every heart rejoices. Blest with fair seas, and favourable skies, Eight for her promised land The gallant vessel flies ; Far, far behind her now The foamy furrow lies ; Like dust around her prow The ocean spray is driven. thou fair creature of the human hand ! Thou, who wert palsied late, When the dead calm lay heavy on the deep. Again hast thou received the breath of heaven, And, w^aking from thy sleep. As strength again to those broad wings is given, Thou puttest forth thy beauty and thy state 1 Hold on with happy winds thy prosperous way, And may no storm that goodly pride abate, Nor baffling airs thy destined course delay, Nor the sea-rover seize thee for his prey ; But minist'ring angels wait 16 OLIVER NEWMAN. H. To watch for thee, against all ill event, From man, or from the reckless element. Thou hast a richer freight Than ever vessel bore from Ophir old, Or spicey India sent. Or Lisbon welcomed to her joyful quay From her Brazilian land of gems and gold : Thou carriest pious hope, and pure desires. Such as approving angels might behold ; A heart of finest mould, A spirit that aspires To heaven, and draws its flame from heavenly fires ; Genius, Devotion, Faith, Stronger than Time or Death, A temper of the high heroic mood. By that strong faith exalted, and subdued To a magnanimous fortitude. The blossom of all virtues dost thou bear. The seed of noble actions ! Go thy way Rejoicingly, from fear and evil free : These shall be thy defence, Beneath the all-present arm of Providence, Against all perils of the treacherous sea. 17 m. CAPE COD. Days pass, winds veer, and favouring skies Change like the face of fortune ; storms arise ; Safely, but not within her port desired. The good ship lies. Where the long sandy Cape Bends and embraces round, As with a lover's arm, the shelter'd sea, A haven she hath found From adverse gales and boisterous billows free. Now strike your sails. Ye toilworn mariners, and take your rest Lone as the fierce north-west In that wild fit prevails. Tossing the waves uptorn with frantic sway. Keep ye within the bay. Contented to delay Your course till the elemental madness cease, And heaven and ocean are again at peace. How gladly there. Sick of the uncomfortable ocean. The impatient passengers approach the shore ; c 18 OLI^'ER NEWMAN. m. Escaping from the sense of endless motion, To feel firm earth beneath their feet once more, To breathe again the air With taint of bilge and cordage undefiled, And drink of living springs, if there they may. And with fresh fruits and wholesome food repair Their spirits, weary of the watery way. And oh ! how beautiful The things of earth appear To eyes that far and near For many a week have seen Only the circle of the restless sea ! "With what a fresh delight They gaze again on fields and forests green, Hovel, or whatsoe'er May bear the trace of man's industrious hand ; How grateful to their sight The shore of shelving sand. As the light boat moves joyfully to land ! Woods they beheld, and huts, and piles of wood. And many a trace of toil, But not green fields or pastures. 'T was a land Of pines and sand ; Dark pines, that from the loose and sparkling soil Rose in their strength aspiring : far and wide They sent their searching roots on every side, And thus, by depth and long extension, found Firm hold and grasp witliin that treacherous ground: So had they risen and flourish'd ; till the earth, Unstable as its neighbouring ocean there, m. CAI'E COD. 19 Like an unnatural mother, heap'd around Their trunks its wavy furrows white and high ; And stilled thus the living things it bore. Half buried thus they stand, Their summits sere and dry, Marking, like monuments, the funeral mound ; As when the masts of some tall vessel show AVhere, on the fatal shoals, the wreck lies whelm'd below. Such was the ungenial earth ; nor was the air Fresh and delightful there: A noisome taint upon the breath it bore ; For they who dwelt upon that sandy shore, Of meadows and. of gardens took no care ; They sowed not, neither did they reap : The ocean was their field, their flocks and herds The myriad-moving armies of the deep ; The whale their mighty chase, whose bones bestrew'd The sandy margin of that ample bay. And all about, in many a loathly heap, The offal and the reeking refuse lay, Left there for dogs obscene and carrion birds a prey. Oliver, as they approach'd, said thoughtfully ; " It was within this bay That they, into the wilderness who bore The seeds of English faith and liberty. First set their feet upon the shore. Here they put in, escaping from the rage Of tempests, and by treacherous pilotage c 2 20 OLIVER NEWMAN. in. Led, as it seem'd to fallible men, astray : But God was with them ; and the Providence Which errs not, had design'd his people's way." "A blessed day for England had it been," Randolph exclaim'd, " had Providence thought good, If the whole stern round-headed brotherhood Had foUow'd, man and woman, great and small ; Kew England might have prosper'd with the brood, Or seas and sharks been welcome to them all." " Alas, how many a broken famUy Hath felt that bitter wish ! " the youth replied ; And, as he spake, he breathed a silent sigh. " The wounded heart is prone to entertain Presumptuous thoughts and feelings, which arraign The appointed course of things. But what are we, Short-sighted creatures of an hour. That we should judge ? In part alone we see, And this but dimly. He, who ordereth all, Beholdeth all, at once, and to the end : Upon His wisdom and His power. His mercy and His boundless love, we rest ; And resting thus in humble faith, we know, Whether the present be for weal or woe, For us whatever is must needs be best." Thus, while he spake, the boat had reach'd the land ; And, grating gently, rested on the sand. They step ashore ; the dwellers gather nigh : " Whence comes the vessel ? whither is she bound ? " Then for Old England's welfare they inquire ; — m. CAPE COD. 21 Eager alike for question and reply. With open lips and ears attending round; — What news of war, and plague, and plots, and fire ? Till satisfied of these, with cheerful care The board and bowl they hasten to prepare; Each active in his way. Glad of some lawful business, that may break The tedium of an idle Sabbath-day. But, from the stir of that loquacious crew, Oliver meantime apart from all withdrew. Beyond the bare and sapless pines, which stood Half-overwhelm'd with sand, He pass'd, and entering in the wood, Indulged his burthen'd heart in solitude. " Thou Earth ! receive me, from my native land An unoffending exile ! Hear my claim ! In search of wealth I have not sought thy shore, Nor covetous of fame, Nor treading in the ambitious steps of power ; But hiding from the world a hapless name, And sacrificing all At holiest duty's call. Thou barbarous Land, of thee I only crave — For those I love — concealment and a grave." Thus he relieved his breast ; yet did not dare Allow himself full utterance, even there : To part he gave a voice ; and then, in fear, Shaped witli his lips, inaudibly, the rest : Witli that the veiy air IVIight not be trusted ; and he look'd around, c 3 22 OLIVER NEAVSIAN. III. Alarm'd, lest human ear Had caught the unfinish'd sound. Some tears stole down his cheek, now not repress'd, And, kneeling on the earth, he kiss'd the ground. Unbidden thoughts then took their course, and drew The future and the past before his view : The haunts, the friendships, and the hopes of youth — All, all forsaken; — no dear voice, Ever again to bid his heart rejoice ! Familiar scenes and faces Only in dreams should he behold again ; But, in their places, The wilderness, wild beasts, and savage men ! Soon from that poignant thought His soul upon the wings of hope took flight ; And strong imagination brought Visions of joy before his inward sight. Of regions yet by Englishmen unsought. And ancient woods, was that delightful dream, — The broad savannah, and the silver stream. Fair bowers were there, and gardens smiled, And harvests flourish'd in the wild ; And, while he made Redeeming Love his theme, — Savage no longer now — The Indians stood around, And drank salvation with the sound. One Christian grave was there, Turf'd well, and weeded by his pious care, And redolent of many a fragrant flower And herb profusely planted all about. m. CAPE COD. 23 "Within his bower An old man sate, in patience and in peace, While the low sands of life ran out, Awaiting his release. That old man laid his hand upon his head, And blest him daily, when the day was done ; And Heaven was open to him, and he saw His mother's spirit smile, and bless her son. Thus to the voluntary dream resign'd He lay, while blended sounds of air and sea LuU'd his unconscious mind With their wild symphony. The wind was in the pines, awakening there A sea-like sound continuous, and a swell At fitful intervals, that mingled well With ocean's louder roar, When the long curling waves. Reach after reach in regular rising, fell Upon the sandy shore. Long might he there have lain, but that, in tones Which seem'd of haste to tell. Once, twice, and thrice pronounced he heard his name : Too sweetly to his ears the accents came. Breathed from the gentle lips of Annabel. With hurried pace she comes, and flush'd in face, And with a look, half-pity, half-affright. Which, while she spake, enlarged her timid eyes : " O, sir ! I have seen a piteous sight !" The shuddering maiden cries ; " A poor wild woman. Woe is me ! among c 4 24 OLIVER NEWMAN. HI. What worse than heathen people are we thrown ? Beasts, in our England, are not treated thus, — ; Our very stones would rise Against such cruelties ! But you, perhaps, can reach the stony heart, — Oh come, then, and perform your Christian part." She led him hastily toward a shed, Where, fetter'd to the door-post, on the ground An Indian woman sate. Her hands were bound, Her shoulders and her back were waled and scored With recent stripes. A boy stood by, Some seven years old, who with a piteous eye Beheld his suffering mother, and deplored Her injuries with a cry, Deep, but not loud, — an utterance that express'd The mingled feelings swelling in his breast, — Instinctive love intense, the burning sense Of wrong, intolerable grief of heart. And rage, to think his arm could not fulfil The pious vengeance of his passionate will. His sister by the door Lay basking in the sun : too young was she To feel the burthen of their misery ; Reckless of all that pass'd, her little hand Play'd idly with the soft and glittering sand. At tliis abhorred sight. Had there been place for aught But pity, half-relieved by indignation. They would have seen that Indian woman's face Not with surprise alone, but admiration : Ill CAPE COD. 25 With such severe composure, such an air Of stern endurance, did she bear Her lot of absolute despair. You rather might have deem'd. So fix'd and hard the strong bronze features seem'd, That they were of some molten statue part, Than the live sentient index of a heart Suffering and struggling with extremest wrong : But that the coarse jet hair upon her back Hung loose, and lank, and long, And that sometimes she moved her large black eye, And look'd upon the boy who there stood weeping by. Oliver in vain attempted to assuage, With gentle tones and looks compassionate, - The bitterness of that young Indian's rage. The boy drew back abhorrent from his hand, Eyed him with fierce disdain, and breathed In inarticulate sounds his deadly hate. Not so the mother ; she could understand ilis thoughtful pity, and the tears which fell CJopiously down the cheeks of Annabel. Touch'd by that unaccustom'd sympathy Her countenance relax'd : she moved her head As if to thank them both ; Then frowning, as she raised her mournful eye, — " Bad Christian-man ! bad English-man !" she said : And Oliver a sudden sense of shame Felt for the English and the Christian name. 26 OLIVER NEWMAN. IT. IV. THE CAPTH^ES RANSOMED. OLIVER. I PRAY you, sir, who owns the Indian woman That is chain'd in yonder hut ? CAPE's-aiAN. "What you have seen them. The she-wolf and her whelps ? OLIVER. She hath indeed A strange wild aspect, and the boy appears Of a fierce nature. I should think her owner "Would find her an unprofitable slave. cape's-3lan. "Why, sir, you reckon rightly ; and, methinks, "Without a conjuror's skill you well may think so: Those fetters, and tlie marks upon her skin. Speak her deserts. On week-days with the whip "We keep her tightly to her work ; but thus Her Sabbatli must be spent, or she would put IV. THE CAPTH'ES RANSOMED. 27 The wilderness between her and her owner. An honest dealer never paid good money For a worse piece : and for that boy of hers, He is a true-bred savage, blood and bone. To the marrow and heart's core. RANDOLPH. I warrant him ! No mother like your squaw to train a child In the way she would have him go ; she makes him subtler Than the sly snake, untameable as bear Or buflfalo, fierce as a famish'd wolf. And crueller than French judges, Spanish friars, Or Dutchmen in the East. His earliest plaything Is a green scalp, and then, for lollipop, The toasted finger of an Englishman ! Young as he is, I dare be swoi'n he knows Where is the liveliest part to stick a skewer Into a prisoner's flesh, and where to scoop The tenderest mouthful. If the Devil himself Would learn devices to afilict the damn'd With sharper torments, he might go to school To a New England savage. cape's-man. I perceive, sir, You know them well. Perhaps you may have heard Of this young deviling's father ; — he was noted For a most bloody savage in his day : They called him Kawnacom. 28 OLIVER NEWTilAN. IV. RANDOLPH. What! Kawnacom, The Narhaganset Sagamore ? cape's-man. The same; A sort of captain, or of prince, among them. RANDOLPH. A most notorious villain ! But I left him At peace with the English ? cape's-man. And you find him so, — Under the only bail he would not break ; A bullet through the heart is surety for him. You have not learnt, I guess, what dreadful work There is in the back country ? — Families Burnt in their houses ; stragglers tomahawk'd And scalp'd, or dragg'd away that they may die By piecemeal murder, to make mockery For these incarnate devils at the stake. Farms are forsaken ; towns are insecure ; Men sleep with one eye open, and the gun By their bed-side. And, what is worst, they know not How far the league extends, nor whom to trust Among these treacherous tribes. Old people say That things were not so bad in the Pequod war. IV. THE CAPTIVES RANSOMEju. 29 RANDOLPH. What then, have we been idle ? cape's-man. Hitherto But little has been done. The evil found us Lapp'd in security, and unprepared : Nor know we where to strike, nor whom, so darkly The mischief hath been laid. RANDOLPH. Strike where we wUl, So we strike hard, we cannot err. The blow That rids us of an Indian does good service. oli\t;r. That were a better service which should win The savage to your friendship. cape's-man. You are young, sir, • And, I perceive, a stranger in the land; Or you would know how bootless is the attempt To tame and civilise these enemies, Man-beasts, or man-fiends, — call them which you will, — Their monstrous nature being half brute, half devil, Nothing about them human but their form. 30 OLIVER NEWMAN. IV. He, who expends his kindness on a savage Thinking to win his friendship, might as wisely Plant thorns and hope to gather grapes at vintage. OLIVER. Look but to Martha's vineyard, and behold On your own shores the impossibility Achieved — the standing miracle display'd In public view, apparent to all eyes. And famous through all countries wheresoe'er The Gospel truth is known ! Many are the hearts In distant England which have overflow'd With pious joy to read of Hiacoomes, "Whose prayerful house the pestilence past by ; And blind Wawompek, — he, within whose doors The glad thanksgiving strain of choral praise Fails not, at morn and eve, from year to year ; And the Sachem, who rejoiced because the time Of light was come, and now his countrymen, Erring and lost, no longer should go down In ignorance and darkness to the grave ; And poor old Lazarus, that rich poor man, The child of poverty, but rich in faith And his assured inheritance in heaven. RANDOLPH. Young sir, it is with stories as with men ; That credit oftentimes they gain abroad, "Which, either for misluck or misdesert, They fail to find at home. IV. THE CAPTIVES RANSOMED. 31 OLIVER. Are these things false, then ? Is there no truth in Mayhew's life of love ? Hath not the impatient Welshman's zeal, that blazed Even like a burning and consuming fire, Refined itself into a steady light Amons the Indians ? — and the name of Williams, The signal once for strife where'er he went, ' ' Become a passport and a word of peace Through savage nations ? Or is this a tale Set forth to mock pur weak credulity ; And all that holy 'Eliot hath perform'd Only a fable cunningly devised ? y-' /' ^' , ^rii^ cape's-man. He comes out qualified to lecture us Upon our own affairs ! RANDOLPH. The things you talk of Serve but with us to comfort our old women, Furnish an elder with some choice discourse For a dull synod, and sometimes help out Sir Spintext at a pinch, when he would think it A sin did he dismiss his hungry flock Before the second glass be fairly spent. Much have you read, and have believed as largely ; And yet one week's abode in the colony Will teach you more than all your English reading. ,v 07**^^-e^^ J^ ^"^^"^^ 32 OLIVER NEWMAN. iV. OLIVER. Sir, I am easy of belief, for that way My temper leads me, — liable to err; And yet, I hope, not obstinate in error ; But ready still to thank the riper judgment That may correct my inexperienced years. You paint the Indians to the life, I doubt not : Cliildren of sin, and therefore heirs of wrath, The likeness of their Heavenly Sire in them Seems utterly defaced ; and in its stead. Almost, it might be thought, the Evil Power Had set his stamp and image. This should move us The more to deep compassion ; men ourselves, In whom the accident of birth alone Makes all this awful difference ! And remem- bering. That from our common parent we derive Our nature's common malady innate, P^or which our common Saviour offers us The only cure, — oh ! ought we not to feel How good and merciful a deed it were To bring these poor lost sheep within his fold ! ' RANDOLPH. Sheep call you them, forsooth ! When you can gather Bears, wolves, and tigers in a fold, hope then To tame such sheep as these. IV. THE CAPTIVES RANSOMED. 33 OLIVER. What is there, sir, That may not by assiduous care be won To do our will ? Give me a lion's cub. Torn from the teat, and I will so train up The noble beast, that he shall fondle me. And lay his placid head upon my knees, And lick my hand, and couch my bed-side, And guard me with a dog's fidelity. RANDOLPH. Behold a litter ready to your wish I Our friend, if I mistake not, will aiford An easy purchase, dam and cubs. What say you, My lion-tamer ? cape's-man. You shall have them cheap, sir I A bargain that may tempt you ; come, for half That they would fetch in the Barbadoes market. I meant to ship them thither, but would rather Sell at a loss than keep that woman longer. Thus had the jeer grown serious, and it drew Into the young man's cheek a deeper hue. Moments there are in life, — alas, how few ! — When, casting cold prudential doubts aside, We take a generous impulse for our guide, And, following promptly what the heart thinks best, . Commit to Providence the rest, D 34 OLIVER NEWMAN. IT, Sure that no after-reckoning will arise, Of shame, or sorrow, for the heart is wise. And happy they who thus in faith obey Their better nature : err sometimes they may, And some sad thoughts lie heavy in the breast, Such as by hope deceived are left behind ; But, like a shadow, these will pass away From the pure sunshine of the peaceful mind. Thus feeling, Oliver obey'd His uncorrupted heart ; nor paused, nor weigh'd What hindrance, what displeasure might ensue ; But from his little store of worldly wealth, Poor as it was, the ready ransom drew. Half-earnest, half-sarcastic, Randolph now Sought him from that rash purpose to dissuade ; While the hard Cape's-man, nothing nice, Counted the money, glad to get his price. 35 V. THE PORTRAIT. At length the adverse gales have ceased ; The breath of morn is from the east, Where, burnishing with gold the restless sea, Uprose the sun in radiant majesty. Unfelt that breath upon the seas, Unheard amid the silent trees, It breathes so quietly : Yet have the seamen, on their way intent, Perceived the auspicious sign. The sails are bent. The anchor raised ; the swelling canvas now Fills with the fresh'ning breeze ; the Cape recedes, Its sandhills and its pines In distance fade away. Steady she holds her course ; and still the day Is young, when lo ! the haven is in sight ; And ere from his meridian height the sun Declines, within that haven's gentle breast, From the long labours of her weary way. The vessel comes to rest. Scatter'd within the peaceful bay Many a fair isle and islet lay, And rocks and banks which threaten'd there D 2 36 OLIVER NEWMAN. 1 No peril to the mariner. The shores which bent around were gay With maizals, and with pastures green, And rails and hedge-row trees between, And fields for harvest white, And dwellings sprinkled up and down ; And round about the cluster'd town. "\Yhich rose in sunshine bright, Was many a shelter'd garden spot, And many a sunny orchard plot, And bowers which might invite The studious man to take his seat Within their quiet, cool retreat. When noon was at its height. No heart that was at ease, I ween, Could gaze on that surrounding scene Without a calm delight. Behold upon the quay a press Of business and of idleness. Where these new-comers land. Kinsfolk with anxious questions meet ; And friends and light acquaintance greet AYith jocund shake of hand: The idlers ask the crew of what Upon their way befell ; And all, and more than all they know, The wondering sailors tell. From tongue to tongue the tidings ran ; The lady's death, — the strange young man ; His moody ways, his gift of prayer. The maid committed to his care^ V. THE PORTRAIT. 37 His destined bride they nothing doubting deem'd ; And how, by sudden tit of pity moved, From slavery he redeem'd The children and the wife of Kawnacom, (An act that all admired, but none approved,) And to their savage tribe, they fear'd, Reckless of counsel, would conduct them home. All marvell'd at the tale ; the many jeer'd : " Mad as the Quakers ! " some exclaim'd ; and some Pray'd that his rash and unenlighten'd will IVJUsrht cause no after-troubles in a state Pester'd with errors and new fancies still. Some shook their heads ; the more compassionate Observed, that where so kind a heart ws found. Pity it was the wits should not be sound. " It is a madness which the world will cure," Leverett, the Governor, said, " too soon, be sure." Randolph had risen to leave him, when the youth Enter'd the Governor's door. " Come, let me play," Quoth he, " the usher ! " in his wonted way. Mingling with sportive speech sarcastic truth. " Your Excellency here beholds the Man ! The Quaker-Church of England-Puritan, Knight-errant, preacher, and we know not what, So many things he is, and he is not ; A hero, certes, if he would but fight ; A Solomon, if his notions were but right. Should he into a lion's den be thrown, — Look at those arms and eyes, and you might swear That he would act the London 'Prentice there ; But trusting to the mind, forsooth, alone D 3 38 OLTVTER NEWMAX. T. He'd take the cubs, like lambkins, to his breast, And, Daniel-like, by faith subdue the rest. Then for the harder task of savage-quelling He hath a talent which exceeds aU telling. Two full-bred deviUngs he has taught to greet him, And kiss as lovingly as they would eat him ; And he hath bought their mother squaw, to teach That pleasant lingo the six-nation speech ; "Words, which would choke a Dutchman or a Jew, Dumbfound old Nick, and which from me or you Could not be forced by ipecacuanha. Drop from his oratoric lips like manna. So fine withal his temper proves, that it Hath borne imhurt the file of my rough wit ; This to his honour I am bound to tell ; "Would that he took true counsel half as well ! And now, sir, as your favour may befriend him. To that in right good earnest I commend him I " " A man of caustic speech ! " the Governor said, Following him with his eye, as forth he went : " Yet hath this humour no unkind intent ; His commendation, sir, shall have its weight, The rest we take as it is meant." The youth To that urbane accoil, with grateful eye. And gentle motion of the bending head, Return'd a mute reply. There was a troubled meaning in his look, And o'er his brow an ashy paleness spread, As forth he took ^ A little casket, and, with trembling hand V. THE POIITRAIT. 39 Presenting it to Leverett, said : " Thus I discharge my mother's last command ; On her death-bed she tokl me I should need . No other friend with you in my behalf to plead." The Governor's countenance changed, as he re- ceived That message from the dead ; And when he open'd and contemplated The sad bequest, Tears fill'd his eyes, which could not be represt. It was a woman's picture, in her youth And bloom portray *d, by Cooper's perfect skill. The eyes, which death had quench'd. Kept there their life and living lustre still ; The auburn locks, which sorrow's withering hand, Forestalling time, had changed to early grey, * Disparting from the ivory forehead, fell In ringlets which might tempt the breath of May ; The lips, now cold as clay, Seem'd to breathe warmth and vernal fragrance there ; The cheeks were in their maiden freshness fair. Thus had the limner's art divine preserved A beauty which from earth had pass'd away ; And it had caught the mind which gave that face Its surest charm, its own peculiar grace. A modest mien, A meek, submissive gentleness serene, A heart on duty stay'd. Simple, sincere, affectionate, sedate, Were in that virgin countenance portray 'd : D 4 40 OLIVER NEWMAX. V. She was an angel now ; and yet, More beautiful than this fair counterfeit, Even in heaven, her spirit scarce could be, Nor seem from stain of ill, and evil thoughts, more free. Time was, when Leverett had worn That picture like a relic in his breast ; And duly, morn and night. With Love's idolatry Fix'd on its beauties his adorinjr sisrht. And to his lips the precious crystal prest. Time was, when, in tlie visions of his rest, That image of delight Came with sweet smiles, and musical voice, to bless His sleep, and all his dreams were happiness. And still, though course of time, and fatal force Of circumstance, grave thoughts, and worldly cares (Ah I how unlike the blissful hopes of youth, From which it had been worse than death to parti) Had fortified as well as heal'd his heart, That vision, in her beauty and her truth, Sometimes would visit him; and he. With a confused but conscious faculty. Knowing full well That this, which seem'd, too surely could not be, Struggled against the spell. Unchanged and unimpair'd by thirty years, Her image came, but only to distress The heart she wont to bless, Till from the painful unreality He woke, disturb'd in spirit, and in tears. Y, THE PORTRAIT. 41 But he was master of his waking soul, And could control All unbecoming passion, and all feeling That needs repressing or concealing. Howbeit he sought not to restrain Ilis deep emotion now, nor turn'd aside His natural tears to hide, which freely fell ; But wiping them away a moment, eyed Oliver's pale countenance and anxious brow, Perusing there his mother's lineaments : Then took his hand, and said, " Thou need'st not tell Thy hapless name and perilous secret now, I know them but too well." 42 OLIATiR NE'WlttAX. VI. VL FUTURE PROSPECTS. LEVERETT. Why hast thou ventured hither ? With what hope Or end hath natural piety betray'd thee To this forlorn attempt ? If to escape Had offer'd chance enough to tempt despair, The desperate effort had ere this been tried. Besure, it hath been meditated oft, And bravely ; and, had life been all the stake, Life had been cheaply set upon the die, To lose it being gain. OLIVER. They must forego. The dear desire of e'er revisiting Their native land, — and in my mother's grave That hope, I ween, will now be laid at rest : Nor could they safely seek a resting-place In Europe, even if we reach'd a ship, And left these shores behind us. Oft and well Have I perpended this, devising ways For flight, and schemes of plausible disguise. Such thoughts in disappointment ending alway ; Till having offer'd up in fervent faith A disciplined and humbled heart to Heaven, n. FUTURE PROSPECTS. 43 A better hope arose. The wilderness Is open to us ! Thither will we go, Far in the wilds, where foot of Englishman Hath never trod. The equal elements Will not deny our portion : Mother Earth In unappropriated freedom, there Holds forth her liberal lap ; her springs, her fruits. Her creatures of the land and air and stream. To her free children freely offering. Hid from the world, a double duty there May I perform, to God and man discharged, Serving my human and my Heavenly Sire ; There, treading in your saintly Eliot's path, Guide the poor Indian in the way to Heaven ! And, in the foretaste of its joys assured. Receive mine own exceeding great reward. LEVERETT. Oh pitiable lot Of poor humanity, "Wlien virtue thus can wrong the heroic heart, And blind the noble intellect ! Thou dreamest Of peopling some Arcadian solitude With human angels, — ignorant, alas ! Of time, place, circumstance, and men, and things, — The Indians, and thy father, and thyself! r OLIVER. Myself at least I know, prepared to act Or suffer, with a soul for aU events Resign'd. 44 OLIVER NEWMAN. VI. LEVERETT, To suffer, rightly thou may'st say; Easily we screw our courage to that point, The issue being remote, and hope and chance Between us and the event. But how prepared to act ? Ere thou couldst hold With these Red tribes the commonest discourse Of needful things and every-day concerns, Years of laborious pupilage must pass, Unless the cloven flame upon thy head Should light, and loose thy speech by miracle. But wherefore with the show of difficulties Should I dissuade thee from an enterprise Impossible to attempt ? OLIVER. A Poet, sir, In whose dark sayings deeper wisdom lies Than ancient oracles enounced, or statesmen Appear to reach in these ignoble times, Hath taught me to believe, " impossible Is but the faith of fear." LEVERETT. Are poets, then. jvre poeis, tnen. Thy teachers ? O, young man, their flattering lore But ill prepares the spirit for the uses Of ordinary life ! VI. FUTURE rROSPECTS. 45 OLIVER. They best prepare it, Who warn the heart against its own illusions ; And, strengthening it with patient hope and faith, Arm it against all issues. To such teachers My inexperienced youth by Providence AVas mercifully led. Pcnn hath allow'd me To call him friend, in no sectarian use Of words ; and I have sate at Milton's feet A reverential listener. LEVERETT. Milton's friendship Will neither hurt nor help thee in a land, Where they, who stiffliest hold his errors, lift not Their thoughts above the earth to follow him, When his strong spirit mounts upon the Aving, Beyond their grovelling vision. But well is it Thou hast not fi-om Penn's dangerous fellowship Learnt his sectarian speech, and other follies Wherewith that formal informality Provokes the law. New England writes her statutes In blood against the Quakers. Thou hast 'scaped Their clownish and uncivil usages ; But if there be an inner taint, take heed To keep it hidden : openly I must not Allow the violation of our laws. OLIVER. Oh we have trespass'd largely on your goodness ; Generous beyond example, as thou art, 46 OLIVER NEVV3IAN. VI. Too largely have we tax'd it ; and the cause, The dreadful cause alone, can palliate Conduct like ours towards thee. Not for worlds "Would I do aught that might displeasure thee, Best earthly friend ! whom my dear mother never Named without tears, and holiest gratitude, Such as will surely bring upon thy head , The blessing that it pray'd for. I comQ here, Not wilfully and madly to provoke Intolerant lawSj'fior farther to presume Upon thy noble nature ; but to thank thee, In her dear name, for all which thou hast done ; To tell thee, as she charged me, that in death She bless'd thee for thy goodness ; and, performing Her latest wish and will, to take the burthen Of our unhappy fortunes on myself. LEVEKETT. Her latest wish and will ! OLIVER. It was a thought Which added to her griefs, that you should stand In jeopardy for us; howbeit, she said. She hoped and felt and trusted that you knew Her inmost mind, and Heaven would recompense A true affection, too severely tried. LEVERETT. Thus it was ever with her gentle heart, By some strange fortune fated still to prove VI. FTTTURE PROSPECTS. 47 That in her strength alone the root Of her sole weakness lay. Poor heart ! a victim always at the call Of fancied duty ; only then unjust, Only then obstinate, when offering up Itself a bleeding sacrifice ! I know. And understand, in w.hat devoted mood Her acquiescence to thy, dreams was given Such as aspiring saints desire, and martyrs Reach in their triumph, when they clasp the stake. OLIYER. 'Twas in no height of feverish exaltation, In no delusion of the heated mind. That her consent was given : but mutually Our hearts received, as I believe, from Heaven The impulse. By the test of prayer we tried. And in the balance of the sanctuary Weighed it ; and having taken our resolve, Partook that inward peace, wherewith the Spirit Doth set the seal to its authentic acts. Shake not thy head thus mournfully, nor thus In disapproval knit the incredulous brow ! The purpose, which at first was entertain'd With doubtfulness and fear, increased in strength. While long infirmity and wasting pain Consumed her mortal mould ; and at that hour, When it is no illusion to believe That the departing soul hath sight of heaven Opening before its happy flight, and feels The expansion of diviner faculties 48 OLIVER NEWMAN. VI. Than this gross earth unfolds, her looks and tokens Confirm'd the injunction of her latest voice, And bless'd, and for obedience strengthen'd me, Betide what may. LEVEJRETT. For me, then, it remains Only to show what obstacles impede The perilous course from which I must not farther Essay to turn thee. Thou, who art not less In mind than lineaments thy mother's image, Judge for thyself if they be superable. Thy grandsire lives, indeed, — if it be life, When the poor flesh, surviving, doth entomb The reasonable soul defunct. Below The reach of grief and danger he hath sunk. The tale of his dear daughter's death to liim Will be like baptism to a chrysome babe. Something that means he knows and recks not what. Safely in court might he hold up the hand. Now trembling and unconscious, which subscribed The fatal warrant : even the sword of law Would, in his pitiable estate, acknowledge The visitation of a higher Power, And turn away its edge. But as thou canst not, Encumber'd with a twichild man, pursue Thy purpose, it must of necessity Be laid aside, at least till death remove The impediment, not else removeable. VI. FUTUKE PROSPECTS. 49 OLIVER. So be it. We must patiently await The hour of his release. With time and death Sure reckoning may be made. LEVERETT. That hour in truth Cannot be long dclay'd. But what shall make Thy father to thy dreams defer his own ? If in his corporal uses man becomes The slave of habit, stronger are the chains In which the mind is bound, a willing thrall. OLIVER. I understand you not ! LEVERETT. You do not know Your father. OLIVER. Only by report, alas ! As England in his years of fortune knew him ; Religious, faithful, excellently skill'd In war, and in his single person brave To all men's admiration. LEVERETT. Yet I think Enthusiast as thou art, thou needest not E 5(y OLIVER NEAVIVIAN. VI. Learn with how much alloy the richest vein Of virtues is too often found combined. 'Tis the condition of humanity, Frail and infirm at best ; and they who boast Sinless perfection for their privilege, By the proud folly of the claim, confute Their own insane pretension. OLIVER. Surely, sir, My father had not in the school of Christ So poorly profited, nor lived so long A stranger to himself and his own heart, That he should hold this error. LEVERETT. Glad I am Thou seest it erroneous. Other notions He holds too near akin to it, the breed Of those pestiferous and portentous times Wherein his lot had faUen. Even yet he thinks The kingdom of the saints shall be in strength Establish'd ; finds in whatsoe'er occurs The accomplishment of some dark prophecy ; Interprets, and expounds, and calculates That soon he shall be call'd to bear his part In setting up again the broken work . Left incomplete by chosen Oliver. Thus he in one continuous dream of hope Beguiles the tedious years. VI.' FUTURE PROSrECTS. 51 OLIVER. Herein I see not What should impede my purpose. In the forest, The sense of freedom and security, Healing a wounded spirit, may restore To health his mind diseased. LEVERETT. But if the patient Reject the means of cure? He will not leave A place of refuge which the Lord prepared For him in his distress ; and where full surely He trusts the call will reach him, to come forth And fight the battles of the good old cause, For which he doth endure contentedly This living martyrdom. Thy father thus Would answer thee ; the malady is rooted In him so deeply now. It is become Essential in his being : long success, Beyond the most audacious of his thoughts, Fed and inflamed it first ; long suffering since Hath as it were annealed it in his soul With stubborn fortitude, bewilder'd faith, Love, hatred, indignation, all strong passions. The bitterest feelings, and the tenderest thoughts. Yea, all his earthly, all his heavenly hopes. And Russel — for such sympathy alone Could_ influence him to harbour long such guests — Fosters the old delusion which he shares, A,ud ministers to it, even in his prayers. E 2 52 OLIVER NEW3IAN. VT. OLIVER. My father will not be persuaded then, You think ? LEVERETT. I know he will not. There are minds, The course of which, as of some slow disease, Kjiown by its fatal frequency too well, We see with helpless foresight, hopelessly. But, if he listen'd to thy moving words, What would it now avail ? The wilderness Affords no shelter while the Indians, Fiercer than beasts, and wilier, are in arms. OLIVER. I have a passport for the wilderness Safer than statesmen could accord, or states Enforce with all their strength. _ The Indian woman. Of whom Sir Randolpli in his mockery told thee : She and her children will be my protection Among the wildest tribes. LEVERETT. And was this thought, then, Thy motive for the act ? OLIVER. I will not say It had so much of forethought : but the ways Of Providence open before me now. VI. FUTURE PROSPECTS. 53 The impulse, which appear'd like foolishness To worldly censure, and which tremblingly I foUow'd, for this issue was design'd : Oh doubt it not ! And had I disobey'd The inward and unerring monitor That hour, infirm of faith, how had I then Disherited myself of this fair hope ! LEVERETT. A Narhaganset woman, is she not ? The widow of a Sagamore, who fell In the outbreak of these troubles ? OLIVER. So they told me ; A noted savage, Kawnacom his name. LEVERETT. Something, methinks, I see in this, wherein Our purposes may square, and my straight path Of policy with thy eccentric course Fall in and meet at the end. But, understand me, Rather would I for thine own sake dissuade thee. And for the sake of that dear Saint in heaven, From an adventure of remotest hope And imminent peril : but if thy resolve Be obstinate against all reason, blameless Then may I, both in her sight and in thine, Betide the issue how it will, promote The purpose which in vain I disapprove. One trust we have ; all-able Providence E 3 54 OLIVER NE"V7MAN. TL Will overrule our ways, and haply too, , Knowing the upright intention, rectify Our erring judgments. Let the matter sleep Till I have taken counsel with my pillow And this night's waking thoughts. See me to- morrow As early as you will, before the stir Of business hath begun : and now farewell. 65 vn. THE INDIAN WAR. "With many an anxious thought opprest, From busy sleep more wearying than unrest, Hath Oliver arisen ; And from his bed of feverish care, Glad to respire the cool fresh morning air. Gone forth as from a prison. The wakeful Governor received his guest ; And ere the morning board was placed, They to and fro the garden paced In earnest talk, while Leverett told How mutual injuries of old, And mutual fears, the envenom'd will, Suspicions still conceal'd but festering still. And policy that shrunk from nothing ill, (Savage or civilised — oh shame To man's perverted power ! — in this the same,) Youth's fiery courage, and eld's rooted hate. Had brought the danger on, which now assail'd the state. The times were fearful; wheresoe'er around Among the Indian tribes he turn'd his view, False friends, or open enemies, were found. How wide their league he rather fear'd than knew. E 4 56 OLIVER NEWMAN. "VIL But this was understood, That feuds deliver 'd down for many an age, From sire to son in sacred heritage, Wherewith their very nature seem'd imbued. Had been with dread solemnities foresworn And secret rites accurst, in fell intent That they should root the English from the land, And the last white man's blood Be of their bond the seal and sacrament. In truth they were a formidable foe ; Compared with ours, their numbers made them so ; Crafty, deceitful, murderous, merciless : Yet with heroic qualities endued : Contempt of death, surpassing fortitude, Patience through all privations, self-control Even such as saints and sages scarce attain, And a sustain'd serenity of soul, Which Fortune might assault or tempt in vain, Not to be moved by pleasure or by pain. OLIVER. Alas to think they have not long ere this Been link'd with you in Christian fellowship ! LEVERETT. Look at divided Christendom ! — at England ; Her wounds, inflicted by sectarian rage, Open and festering, — never to be heal'd ! Look at thy father's house ; a threefold cord Of brotherhood trebly disparted there ; vn. THE INDIAJS" WAR. 57 Then tell me, where may Christian fellowship In tliis wide world be found ? Alas, my friend, I see it only in the Promised Land. From Pisgah's summit, through the glass of Faith, Far in the regions of futurity. Yet something we have done, which — though I own it Far short of what true policy requires. And in the scale of national duty weighing Lighter than dust — may show we are not wholly The slaves of Mammon. Fretted as we have been By schisms, by rampant heresies disturb'd, And by that spiritual pride possess'd, whose touch, With influence lethal as an aspic's tooth, Numbs the life-blood of charity, this England Hath sons, whose names, if there be any praise, Shall have their place with saints of primitive times EnroU'd, true heroes of humanity. OLIVER. Oh doubt not that their virtue and their prayers Will in this time of trial speed you more Than all your carnal strength ! LEVERETT. That faith might better Beseem thine uncle of the seminary, The Oratorian, than thy father's son. "A monk may put his trust in beads and sackcloth ; But Olivers saints wore buflf, and their right hands 58 OLIVER NEWMAN. VU. Wrought for themselves the miracles they ask'd for. Think not, young man, that I disparage prayer, Because I hold that he, who calls on Heaven For help against his temporal enemies. Then with most cause and surest hope prefers His supplication, when he best exerts The prudence and the strength which God hath given him. OLIVER. There is a strength in patience which exceedeth All other power ; a prudence in the Gospel Passing, as needs it must, all human wisdom. That Gospel teaches passiveness and peace. LEVERETT. Patience he needs, Heaven knows ! who hath to deal With one enamour'd of a young opinion, And like a giddy amorist pursuing The passionate folly, reckless where it leads him. Remember that you come not here to teach : Kemember too, that something like respect Is due to years, and something to experience ; Some deference to our station ; some attention — And this at least wiU be allow'd — to one Who at all hazards has approved himself Thy mother's friend, and would no less be thine. Abash'd at that reproof severe Stood Oliver, unable to abate ya, THE INDIAN AVAR. 59 : The rising glow of shame that fired his cheek, Or check the starting tear. But then the Governor's eye compassionate Even in reproof, — the pause he interposed, — The low relenting tone wherein he closed His stern though fit authoritive strain, Temper'd the needful pain. " O best and kindest friend, O friend revered, I feel and own, Whether I spake in error or in truth. That thy rebuke is just," replied the youth: "Forgive me ! and no more will I oifend ; But listen, and in all things, that I may, Humbly and zealously obey." LEVERETT. Hear then, and patiently, while I instruct thee Of things as yet linchronicled in books. But- bearing on this crisis, and the knowledge Whereof in thine adventure will be found Specially needful. Wlien the English laid The poor foundations of our colony, (For poor indeed they seem'd ; and yet I ween In happy hour a corner-stone was placed That ne'er shall be removed !) they found the land Contested sometimes, and sometimes possess'd In captious peace, between three powerful nations, Or rather families of tribes. Omitting The minor distributions (which are many And barbarous all), suffice it to name these 60 OLIVER NE-WMAN. VIL In the order of their strength : the Pequods first ; The Narhagansets, unto whom belong Thy ransom'd captives ; lastly, the Moheagans, ^ Who occupied the immediate territory Whereon our sad adventurers set foot. With Massasoyt, chief Sachem of the latter, A league was made, of mutual benefit; For, under Providence, his only friendship, In the first hardships of the settlement. Saved them alive ; and their alliance proved A shield against his enemies. This being The end to which he look'd, who was a man Advanced in years, far-sighted, honourable And of a spirit, which, if he had sway'd An European sceptre, might have blest The people over whom its rule extended, The league was faithfully on both sides observed ; And ere his death the old man solemnly Eenew'd it for his sons, who for themselves In their own persons ratified the engagement. But men and times were changed, when the elder youth Succeeded to his sire ; for the Colonists, Now well acquainted with these Indian neighbours, Loath'd their unseemly usages, abhorr'd Their most incredible cruelty, despised Their easy ignorance, — and practised on it. I seek not to conceal our own ofiences : Compared with other nations, — even with England, Such as corrupted England long hath been, — We are a sober, yea, a righteous people : Vn. THE INDL\N WAR. 61 But Trade, which in the mother-land is one Of many wheels, bearing a part alone, And that too but subordinate, in the movements Of a complicate and wonderful machine, Is in our simple order the main-spring That governs all. And where Trade rules, alas ! Whatever name be worshipp'd in the temples, Mammon receives the heart's idolatry. And is the god of the land. Our Indian friends Too soon had reason to abate their friendship ; And politic interests, which had held them to us, Were loosen'd, when they saw their ancient foes. The dreaded Pequods, by our arms pursued In vigorous war, and rooted from the land, Till the name alone remain'd, with none to own it. This Alexander, so the youth was called, Finding that check removed, and being also By his father's death set free from all control. Plotted against the English, in resentment Partly, no doubt, because strict pains in teaching (Less wise than well-intended) had been spent On his indocile and unwilling spirit ; But having injuries also to provoke A haughty courage. Ere his schemes were ripe He was, on sure intelligence, arrested ; A.nd disappointed malice, joined Avith anger. Raising a fever in his heart and brain, Deliver'd him from our restraint by death. He left a brother, who inherited 62 OLIVER NETTJIAN. VH. His rights and wrongs, — that Philip who is now The scourge and terror of the colony. Think not that these were names imposed in bap- tism : Upon that point the heart of Massasoyt Was harden'd ; and his sons, like him, regarded With mingled hatred and contempt a faith They fail'd to understand. But it is held A mark of honour to bestow, a pledge Of friendship to receive, new appellations ; Which here too, among savages, import Something of peerage, of deserved esteem. Or of imputed worth, the commonalty (Strange as such custom may appear) being name- less. My predecessor, with too true presage, Fix'd on these names, less for the Christian sound Which use hath given them, than because he saw In the one youth an enterprising temper, Ambitious of command ; and in the other. More to be fear'd, a deep dissembling spirit, Which, if the time required, could brook its wrongs, And in all outward patience chew the while The cud of bitter thoughts. He being yet younf, The station, which his sire had fiU'd, devolved Upon a chief, who was alike approved In council and in war ; the right remaining For Philip to succeed in course of years, If years should validate the acknowledged claim Of birthright ; for that claim, among the Indians, Is held defeasible by ill-desert. Vn. THE INDIAN WAR. 63 During this lapse of time, old rivalries Revived between the two remaining tribes ; Whom ere the Pequods' power was crush'd, the sense Of danger from that common enemy Restrain'd in peace. Not to prolong my tale With details not required for thy instruction, The sum was this, that, as by treaty pledged And justice bound, (for the right cause was theirs, And interest also led us to uphold The weaker side,) we aided the Moheagans, Our first allies ; and, when they took in battle The hostile leader Miantonnimo, He sufier'd death, by our advice and sanction ; Being however, at our instance, spared From all those customary cruelties, Which make the Indians odious in the sight Of God and man. Seem I to speak severely, Beyond what truth or Christian charity May warrant .'' Soon, my friend, thou wilt have cause To give that sentence thy convinced assent ; God in his mercy grant thou may'st not buy The sad conviction dearly ! For awhile The hatred which this left between those nations Was our security ; albeit we knew That, in the offended party, the desire Of vengeance would outlive the gratitude Due for our help, from those whom we had succour'd. The sense of injury in the human mind Is like a drug upon the offended palate, 64" OLIVER NEWMAlf. VH. Clinging when bitterest most abidingly : The benefits, which men receive, they take Like wholesome food, that leaves no tang behind it. "We found it thus : for now these Tribes, foregoing Their mutual hatred, as of lesser moment, Have leagued against us. Philip is the head Of the confederacy : his crafty brain Combines, provides, prepares and plans the mischief. And yet his venomous will and strong desire Draw him to this, against his better judgment, Possess'd not more with wise prudential fear Than with a strange religious awe, so weighty That, politic as he is, he hath not sought Even from his own people to conceal Its dark forebodings. What he wants in hope His new ally the Narhaganset Sachem Supplies but all too well : for this Canonchet, Son of that Miantonnimo whose death He charges on our counsels, is the heart Of the league. Insidious, resolute, inhuman ; Brave, both in passive and in active courage, Almost beyond belief ; implacable In malice ; wily as a snake to wind His silent way unseen, when time requires Concealment ; furious as a hungry wolf, "When opportunity allows the indulgence Of his fierce hatred, — this man is accomplish'd To the height of savage virtue. Need I tell thee, That, as in civil, so in barbarous states, VII. THE INDIAX "WAn. 65 The course of action takes its bias less From meditation, and the calm resolve Of wisdom, than from accident and temper, Private advantage at all costs pursued, Private resentments recklessly indulged, The humour, will, and pleasure, of the leaders, The passions and the madness of the people. Under all climes, and in all forms of rule, Alike the one, tlie many, or the few. Among all nations of whatever tint, AU languages, these govern everywhere; The difference only is of less or more, As chance, to use the common speech, may sway ; In wiser words, as Providence directs. The bond wherein these hostile tribes are knit Against us, policy cannot untie. Nor the sword cut. No easy conquest ours. Such as the Spaniards found in Mexico, Or Eldorado's priestly monarchies. Or the well-order'd Incas' rich domains ; They could cope there with multitudinous hosts Drawn forth in open field, and kings whose will, Even in captivity was thi-ough the realm Religiously obey'd. But we must wage Wars that wiU yield the soldier neither gold Nor glory. In the forest and the swamp Have we to seek our foes ; and if the shield Of the good Angel be not over us, On all sides from safe cover with sm'e aim The death-shots whiz. Would we then clear the land, It is not to be done by victories ; p 66 OLIVEB NEAVMAN. VII. But head by head must they be hunted down, Like wolves ; a work of danger and of time ; And in this region wild of endless woods, Possible only to the inveterate hatred Of tribe for tribe. We tried the extremity — Inhuman as it is — against the Pequods ; And, wnth the ferine help of such allies, Pursued it to the end. All whom the sword Spared, or our mercy interposed to save From torments, to the Sugar Isles were sold ; And in the daily death of bondage there The race hath been consumed. But what hathjbeen The issue ? Why, the tribes wliich aided us To root them out, stand on the hostile part Against us now the more audaciously. Because they feel themselves in union strong. And see us in the land without allies. The hope thy hazardous adventure offers Is this, that, if the die, whereon thy fate For life or death is set, fall favourably, And thou shouldst gain access among the elders. The exasperate mood, which w^ould too surely else Repel our pi-ofter'd terms of amnesty. May toward thee be soften'd. For these people Act sometimes upon impulse, like thyself; A generous action wins them, whom no fear Can touch, nor pity move ; and they will trust, Like dogs and children, to a countenance, Wherein, as if instinctively, they read Fair testimonials from the unerring hand Of Nature, patent there. And if one tribe, One chief, unto thy words of peace incline Vir. THE INDIAN WAR. 67 A willing ear, the league in all its parts Will feel its ill-compacted strength relax : Once loosen'd, it dissolves. The Governor Paused then ; and fixing on the youth a look Benign though mournful, " Mark me, Oliver," lie said ; " I call upon thy mother's soul To witness — if the spirits of the dead Are cognizant of what is done below — That I have sought in all sincerity To turn thfee from thy purpose ! If the event Be fatal, before thee, and her, and Heaven, Shall I stand unreproved ; and with my sorrow No self-reproach will mingle. But if still Thy purpose holdeth firm, God speed thee ! Go In hope ! I would not that my words should prove A load to weigh thy buoyant spirit down. It may be thou may'st render to the state Some eminent service in this time of need. And thus — O son of an unhappy house, Born to a sad inheritance ! — it may be, That in this other England, this new world. Thou may'st recast thy fortunes ; may'st acquire Such honour as consists with peace of mind In the end ; and for thy children's children gain In this good land a goodly heritage. 68 OLIVER NEWMAN. Vm. vm. PARTING WORDS. Son of a hapless house ! What were the thoughts which then within thy breast, At thy true friend's concluding words, arose ? Doth that quick flush disclose A feeling thou hast labour'd to control. And liitherto represt In singleness of heart and strength of soul ? A light, which like a sudden hope might seem. Kindled his cheek, and brighten'd in his eye : But it departed like a gleam, That for a moment in the heavy sky Is open'd when the storm is hurrying by; Ajid then his countenance resumed Its meek serenity. Nor did that sad composure change, When of the gentle maiden Leverett spake. Whom to his charge her mother's dying prayer In Christian confidence consign'd. And yet it was a theme which well might wake Oppugnant feelings in his inmost mind ; For with a hope upon that mothex''s heart, VIII. PARTING WORDS. 69 Implied, though not express'd, the solemn care Was given ; and therefore in the young man's heart Uneasily it lay, As if he were unjust. And had received a trust He could not, must not, did not dare — And yet would fain — repay. " That trust I could not choose but take," he said ; " And all that I stand pledged for to the dead Is soon discharged ; it will not from my way Detain me long, nor lead me far astray." ^' 'Tis but the easy distance of a day From Hadley," quoth the Governor; and he spread A map before them, rudely drawn, wherein Wild forests stretching far and wide were seen, Rivers Avhose inland course was unexplored. And infant settlements, as yet ill-stored, Few, and with dreary intervals between. " Here in the vale of the Connecticut," Said Leverett, " Willoby'^ allotment lies : A part from our immediate enemies Remote, and, if reliance might be put On distance, safe. From hence it bears due west Some five days' travel through the woods ; and now The least frequented path will be the best, That thou may'st leave behind thee on the left The troubled country. Here thou see'st it, south, About these creeks and inlets and the mouth Of Providence river, and the region wide Of lakes and swamps in woodland interspersed, F 3 70 OLIVER newjman. -vin. -That darkens o'er the land on every side. Tiiis then will be thy course, to render first The damsel to her father's hands ; then seek Thy fortune with thine Indian company In the Narhaganset lands. If it fall fair, Thou wilt among their people leave them there. And to that painful interview proceed, "Which of thy dearest hope, full well I know, Must undeceive thee. It shall be my care To the Connecticut thy way to speed ; From thence, alas ! I can but follow thee With anxious thoughts in spirit and in prayer. But I will suiFer no ill bodings now : The Lord is merciful, and thy intent Is righteous, and to Him we leave the event." Thus having ended, to the board he led His guest : too full of care were they For appetite or easy talk that day. " This caution let me give thee," Leverett said, " That Willoby is a high old Cavalier!" " Fear not lest I should jar upon his ear With ill-attuned discourse," the Youth replied. " He bore a part, a brave one too, I hear, In those unhappy times, and may look back Upon the strife with passion and with pi'ide : My soul abhors the ill deeds on either side, Even if it had not cost me all too dear. Likelier it is that in my Father's sight I may appear degenerate, and excite Sorrow or sterner notions in a heart, The which, albeit with piety imbued, VIU. PARTING WORDS. 71 Is to a Christian temper unsubdued : But tliis too I can bear. Oh what a strengtii For sutleranee to tlie patient soul is given When, wholly humbled, it hath placed at length Its only hope in Heaven." " Nay," answer'd Leverett, " earth, I trust, hath yet Good hope for tliec in store. One day with fair performance to be crown'd : For one who doth so well discharge the debt Of filial duty, will not Heaven fulfil The eternal promise which it made of yore ? Happy, and long, I trust, thy days shall be, Here, in the land which the Lord givcth thee." And then, as if with such discursive speech To draw his mind from gloomy thoughts away, Did Leverett reach His lifted hand towards the town and bay. Bright in the morning sunshine as they lay Before them : " Is it not a goodly land," He cried. " where nought is wanting that may bless The heart of man with wholesome happiness ? Summer subdues not here To sloth the dissolute mind ; Nor doth the rigorous year In long inaction bind His ice-lock'd arm and torpid faculties. But changeful skies And varying seasons, in their due career. Bring forth his powers ; and in the vigorous frame The human spirit thrives and ripens here!' Where might the sober mind, F 4 I ^ 2 OLIVER NEWMAN. VIII. Which Heaven with temperate desires hath blest, A land of happier promise find ? Where might a good man fitlier fix his rest ? Where better might he choose a burial-place For him and for his race ? Where wiselier plant the tree Of his posterity ? " The smile wherewith the youth received his speech Was cold and feeble, — one in which the heart Too plainly had no part ; , Constrain'd it came, and slowly past away. " Truly thou say'st, friend!" He said ; " and well are they Who, far from plagues and plots, and from the rage Of faction, for their children may prepare A peaceful heritage. For me, if other end Await me, fall my fortune as it may, A comfort and a strength it is to know That, wheresoe'er I go, There is the same Heaven over me on high, WTiereon in faith to fix the steady eye ; The same access for prayer ; The same God, always present, every where ; And if no home, yet every where the bed Which Earth makes ready for the weary head. " But wherefore should I talk of weariness Thus early in the day. And when the morning calls me on my way? In brightness and in beauty hath it risen, vm. PARTING WORDS. 73 As if the eternal skies Approved and smiled upon our enterprise ! Now then farewell ! That we shall meet again, True friend ! we know ; but whether among men Or angels who can tell ? It is not ours To choose, or to foresee ; Such choice or foresight would but ill agree With man's imperfect powers. Enough for him, that what is best will be." 74 OLIVEK NEWMAN. IX. IX. JOURNEY THROUGH THE FOREST. They ai-e on their way, and they have enter'd now The forest that from earliest time hath stood, By human culture unsubdued. Strangelier assorted company Than this, which through that ancient wood Their solitary course pursued, No errant knight might chance to see, Wandering, in good King Arthur's days, Through Faery or Loegria land. Where most adventures were at hand. Liken'd the gentle Annabel might be To Bweet Serena, ere the blatant mouth And cankerous tooth Had with their venom stain'd her harmless youth. And he who paced beside her steed Might seem, in form, and strength, and manly grace. Like Calidore, when he had laid aside His glorious thoughts and martial pride. And, as a shepherd, in the sylvan shade, Woo'd Pastorella for his bride, Contented to forego for her the meed Ot'high desert; and with true love How largely for ambition overpaid ! Such Oliver might seem, and such the maid. IX. JOtTRNEY THROUGH THE TOREST. ^O But lighter hearts, I ween, of yore The errant knights and damsels bore, In ages when the shield and lance Gave law through all the realms of Old Romance ; Who roam'd at hap, or on adventure bent. Searching the seas, the isles, and continent ; When they, in bower, in hermitage, and hall. Were welcomed every where by all. Or underneath the greenwood tree Took up their inn contentedly. For in that pensive maiden's mien Had recent sorrow left its trace. And plainly too might there be seen A present trouble in her face : She fear'd the melancholy meeting, When grief would mar her father's greeting ; And hardly less, I ween, the pain With which she soon must part From one whose image would remain The inmate of her heart. For wishes, from herself tiU now conceal'd — Conceal'd, if not represt — And thoughts, to which the will had not consented. Forlornly as she felt them now reveal'd. Her secret soul unwillingly confess'd, Unwillingly repented : And hopes, that had arisen she scarce knew how, Were first acknowledged when they fail'd her now. Think not that Oliver was free The while from painful sympathy: 76 OLIVER NEWINIAN. IX, What more had he required his lot to bless, Than in the depth of those clear eyes was seen — The modest, meek, confiding gentleness, That soften'd while it sanctified her mien ; Those looks, devoid of art, "Whose mild intelligence he loved to meet ; The voice, that, varying still, but always sweet, Still found a chord responsive in his heart ? If ever at his fate he half repined. If ever o'er his calm and constant mind The doubt, the trouble, and the cloud, were brought, 'Twas at the thought, That cruel circumstance two souls must sever. Whom God, he surely felt, would else have join'd for ever. Uneasy now became perforce The inevitable intercourse, Too grateful heretofore : Each in the other could descry The tone constrain'd, the alter'd eye. They knew that each to each could seem No longer as of yore ; And yet, while thus estranged, I deem. Each loved the other more. Her's was perhaps the saddest heart ; His the more forced and painful part : A sense of proper maiden pride To her the needful strength supplied. Then first perhaps the Virgin thought How large a dower of love and faithfulness Her gentle spirit could have brought A kindred heart to bless ; IX. JOURNEY THROUGH TllE FOREST. 7 Herself then first she understood With wliat capacities endued ; Then first, by undeserved neglect Roused to a consciousness of self-respect, . Felt she was not more willing to be won Than worthy to be woo'd. Had they from such disturbant thoughts been free, It had been sure for them A gladsome sight to see The Indian children, with what glee They breathed their native air of liberty. Food to the weary man with toil forespent Not more refreshment brings, Than did the forest breeze upon its wings To these true younglings of the wilderness : A happy sight, a sight of hearts content ! For blithe were they As swallows, wheeling in the summer sky At close of day ; As insects, when on high Their mazy dance they thread In myi'iads overhead, Where sunbeams thi-ough the thinner foliage gleam. Or spin in rapid circles as they play. Where winds are still. Upon the surface of the unrippled stream : Yea, gamesome in their innocence were they As lambs in fragrant pasture, at their will The udder when to press They run, for hunger less Than joy, and very love and wantonness. 78 OLIVER XEWirA> IX. Nor less contentmeut had it brought To see what change benevolence had wrought In the wild Indian mother, whom they first Had seen, her spirit strong Madden'd by violence of wrong, For vengeance in her inmost soul, With natural but with ferine rage, athirst. That soul unhoped-for kindness had subdued : Her looks, and words, and actions, now combined, Express'd, in that composure of the mind Which unefFaceable sorrow had left behind, A lively ever-watchful gratitude. Oliver seem'd to her a creature Less of this earth than of celestial nature ; And Annabel as well Had won from her a love like veneration ; (So goodness on the grateful heart can gain; ) Though charms of European tint and feature No beauty to an Indian eye convey. Regarded with disdain. As if they were the original stamp and stain Of an inferior clay, Proved in some earlier, inexpert creation. And then, for degradation, When the red man was fashion'd, put away. Pamya was troubled now, for she had seen Their alter'd mien : Some change there was, she knew not what, nor why, Some infelicity ; Which yet she might descry IX. JOURNEY THROUGH THE FOREST. 79 Rose not from wrath nor alienated will; For in their converse still The tones were such as meet The ear of love, and still The smiles they interchanged, though sad, were sweet : Yet plainly she could tell, all was not well. They too could read in her observant eye Its apprehension and its sympathy: And surely she, had but her speech been free, Had prest, how earnestly ! for explanation, And sought to bring about The fuU and perfect reconciliation Dearly desired by both, she did not doubt. Their hearts were merciful and meek she knew. And could not to each other but be true : But on her tongue the curse of Babel hung, And when the eager wish her breast was swelling, Eye-speaking thoughts were all she could impait, Intelligibly telling The deep indwelling yearnings of the heart. Four days they travell'd through the endless wood. Measuring their journey still to reach at eve Some settler's home, and sure of their receiving Such hospitality, sincere, though rude. As men who felt no want, and had no vice Of chilling avarice, In their plain kindness found a joy in giving. The fifth morn rose, and with the morn rose they. That they might reach that day Their journey's end ; and through the forest wide Did they their weary way 80 OLIVEK NE"\\THAN. IX, Hold on from early dawn till eventide ; But ere the light of eve Began to fade, their guide, Accustomed to descry With instantaneous eye The slightest trace of man, a smoke espied, Staining a little space of open sky : " Yon is the place we seek ! " he said ; nor knew What a cold feeling, at the words, ran through The veins of Annabel, and Newman too. 81 X. Oh, what a happy meeting had been here, Willoby thought, in anguish, when he prest His daughter to liis widow'd breast ; If that dear hope which served so long to cheer His patient hibours in the wilderness Had wholly been fulfill'd, as now in part ; After so many storms and troubles past, Here had the faithful partner of his heart Rejoiced to reach the quiet port at last. 83 APPENDIX TO OLIVER NEWMAN. The following sketch of the story intended to be -worked out in this poem is, -with the exception of those passages otherwise appropriated by references, drawn from very brief and sometimes contradictory notes in Mr. Southey's hand- writing. In the published letters from Mr. Southey to Mr. W. Taylor of Norwich, there is a passage, written in Jan. 1811, which records the earliest germ of this poem in his mind. " In reviewing Holmes's American Annals, I pointed out Philip's war as the proper subject for an Anglo-American Iliad. I have now fallen in love with it myself, and am brooding over it with the full intention of falling to work as soon as Pelayo is completed. The main interest will fix upon GofiFe the regicide, for whom I invent a Quaker son. a new character you will allow for heroic poetry. This Oliver Goffe, however, is to be the hero." The poem itself is in the first draught called Oliver Goffe. The facts relating to those regicides whose fate is alluded to in the poem are as follow : * " When the restoration ap- * See " Trial of Charles I. and the Regicides," in Murray's Family Library. G 2 S 84 OLIVER NEWMAN'. peared inevitable, Colonel Goffe, vith his father-in-law, Colonel Whalley, seeing that their life was in danger, left the kingdom, and arrived in America on the 27th of July, 1660. For some time they resided at Cambridge, four miles from Boston, attending public service, and being received ■with respect and hospitality by the inhabitants. But when the Act of Indemnity, out of which they were expressly ex- cepted, arrived at Boston, in November, the magistrates withdrew their protection, and Whalley and Goffe retired to Newhaven. Here they were forced to conceal themselves, and eventually to fly to a retirement, called Hatchet's Har- bour, in the woods, where they remained two nights, till a cave in the side of a hill was prepared to conceal them. To this hill they gave the name of Providence, and remained some weeks in their hiding-place, sleeping, when the weather was tempestuous, in a house near it. They behaved with great honour to their friends : and when Mr. Davenport, the mi- nister of Newhaven, was suspected by the magistrates of concealing them, they went publicly to the deputy-governor of Newhaven to offer themselves up ; but he refused to take any notice of them, suffering them to return again to the woods. The pursuit of them afterwards relaxing, they re- mained two years in a house near Milford, where they fre- quently prayed and preached at private meetings in their chamber; till the king's commissioners coming to Boston, they were again driven to their cave in the woods. Here some Indians discovered their beds, which obliged them to seek a fresh refuge ; and they went to Hadley, 100 miles distant, where they were received by Mr. Russell, the mi- nister, and remained as long as they lived, very few persons knowing who they were. Whalley's death took place about 1679. They confessed that their lives were "miserable, and constant burdens to them ;" especially when their fanatical hopes of some divine vengeance on Charles II. and his ad- visers were perpetually disappointed. The fidelity and affec- APPENDIX. 85 tion of Goffe's -wife to her husband were remarkaLly dis- played in her letters." While they -were at Hadley the Indian war broke out, which was particularly disastrous in that part of the colony.* " The following story has been traditionally conveyed down among the inhabitants of Hadley. In the course of Philip's war, which involved almost all the Indian tribes in New England, and amongst them those in the neighbourhood of this town, the inhabitants thought it proper to observe the 1st of September, 1675, as a day of fasting and prayer. WTiile they were in the church, and employed in their wor- ship, they were surprised by a band of savages. The people instantly betook themselves to their arms, which, according to the custom of the times, they had carried with them to the church, and, rushing out of the house, attacked their invaders. The panic under which they began the conflict was, however, so great, and their number was so disproportioned to that of their enemies, that they fought doubtfully at first, and in a short time began evidently to give way. At this time an ancient man, with hoary locks, of a most venerable and dig- nified aspect, and in a dress widely differing from that of the inhabitants, appeared suddenly at their head, and with a firm voice, and an example of undaunted resolution, reanimated their spirits — led them again to the conflict — and totally routed the savages. When the battle was ended, the stranger suddenly disappeared ; and no person knew whence he had come, or whither he had gone. The relief was so timely, so sudden, so unexpected, and so providential ; the appearance and the retreat of him who furnished it. were so unaccount- able, his person was so dignified and commanding, his reso- lution so superior, and his interference so decisive, that the inhabitants without any uncommon exertion of credulity, readily believed him to be an angel sent by Heaven for their • Dwight's Travels in New England, vol. i. p. 31 7. London. 1823. c S 86 OLIVER NEWMAN. prescryation. Nor was this opinion seriously controverted until it was discovered, several years afterwards, that GofiFe and \Mialley had been lodged in the house of Mr. Russell. Then it was known that their deliverer was Goffe, Whalley having become superannuated some time before the event took place." The latter part of Gofife's life seems not to be known with certainty. Dwight says, immediately before the passage above quoted, " After Whalley 's death, Goffe quitted Hadley, went into Connecticut, andafterwards, according to tradition, to the neighbourhood of New York. Here he is said to have lived some time, and, the better to flisguise himself, to have carried vegetables at times to market. It is said that having been discovered here, he retired secretly to the colony of Rhode Island, and there lived with a son of WhaUey during the remainder of his life." Goffe's was a divided family — one of his brothers being a clergyman of the Church of England, while another was become a Roman Catholic priest. To this division allusion is made in Leverett's conversation with Oliver. Of the other persons introduced, the following are historical : Leverett the governor, who succeeded Bellingham, in 1673; he had been a CromweUian, and is sobered into a rational Conformist ; he knew where the regicides were, and connived at their concealment, as he is represented doing in the poem : and Randolph, of whom the people of New England said " that he went up and down to devour them." Also the names of the Indian chieftains, and the general account of the war, are matter of history. The hero Oliver himself is therefore a purely imaginary character : he was originally intended to be a Quaker ; but it would appear that the author afterwards considered that the noble points of character and of principle intended to be exhibited — viz. zeal for the Christian faith, inflexible truth, peacefulness, and endurance — were not exclusively belong- ing to that sect whose operations and whose sufferings in New England he had been contemplating; and at the same time, that some features of their character were both unma- APPENDIX. 87 nageable in poetry and distasteful to his own mind. There was also another reason for the alteration, namely, that he found it necessary for his plot, that, at least in one instance, Oliver's usual mode of conduct should bend to circumstances ; and such a compliance would be morally, and therefore poetically, probable in a person swayed only by a reasonable principle, but not so in one governed by an absolute rule of life. The following notes will explain the intended bearing of this cha- racter upon the story. 1811. " A son of GofFe, a Quaker, gone after his mother's death to seek his father. He, by converting one of the prin- cipal Sachems, weakens Metacom's party so materially as to decide the contest ; and with that Sachem he retires into the interior. He and his father are discovered, and he will not lift his hand in defence. A party of Indians take them all, he still passive; hence his influence begins with their astonishment." " The points on which Oliver's Quakerism is put to the test are, in not denying his father's name, and in not lifting a hand to defend him." 1814. " Oliver must be so far instrumental in terminating the war as to obtain security for his father ; and this instru- mentality must be effected wholly by means conformable to his peculiar opinions. But those opinions must yield where they are wrong." Imperfectly as the latter part of the story can be ascer- tained, it has been thought better to sketch it out, however rudely, from the author's hints, than to leave an entire blank. X. Oliver at WiUoby's House. They remain awhile at Willoby's, that Pamya may be their protection. When some Indians appear, she goes out, and finds among a party of Indians one of her own tribe. After her story, the calumet is smoked, and the door of Willoby's house painted with marks indicating that it was under their protection. Then they venture to depart. A sort of half -confidence has first been made to Willoby in conse- G 4 88 OLIVER NEWIIAN. quence of his wife's letter, and a sort of half-engagement formed. Willoby had known one of the Gofifes. His moral reasons for leaving England, — on account of his sons, seeing the character of the times, and that all that we pray in the Litany to be delivered from, was come upon the country — blindness of heart, pride, vain-glory and hypocrisy, envj-, hatred and malice, false doctrine, heresy and schism, sedi- tion, privy conspiracy, and rebellion, &c. XL The Wounded Indian. Oliver journeying with Pamya and her children through the forest, finds a wounded Indian, by whom they stay till a party of. his countrymen see them. This is the Mohawk, whom Philip had meant to kill, and not sculped, to create a belief that he had been killed by the English. (An histori- cal fact, and represented as not of unfrequent occurrence.) Many hints for forest scenery, which are noted down, would probably belong to this canto. At night Oliver is seen read- ing by firelight in the wood. XII. WhalleysBody. The Indians conduct the party to their Sachem : on the way they meet with Whalley's body being conveyed some- where for interment. Oliver knows it by a mutilated hand. Likeness of Whalley to his daughter [Oliver's mother] ; that family character of face, which the infant brings into the world, and into which the countenance settles in old age, when the character which individual pursuits and passions have induced fades away, and the natural lineaments recover their primary cast. The death of Whalley sets GofFe at liberty. They reach the encampment of Indians, and Pamya is restored to her own friends, the Narbagansets. XIII. The Affair of Hadley. A renegade (in one place named Joshua Tift, the English savage and traitor,) being among the Indians, calls Oliver a APPENDIX. 89 spy, insults and strikes him. This Oliver endures patiently, making no retaliation. This fellow relates the affair of Hadley, "the most disastrous day that ever befell New England," and especially the marvellous apparition of one during the conflict, who was really Goffe, Oliver's father. XIV. Reasoning with the Sachems. The interest of this scene is to turn chiefly upon two points : the effect for good which Oliver's words have upon an old Indian chief, who has formerly been impressed by Eliot or R. Williams, and who now puts himself under Oliver's guidance. This man belongs to the tribe of Sako- nets, who are probably connected with the Narhaganset stock. It would have been contrary to history to make the Narhaganset chieftain himself influenced at this time by Oliver. The other point is, the peculiar character of Philip, composed of hatred and vindictiveness against the English, united with gloomy forebodings about the issue of the war. These may be some of his words, or rather the more hopeful Canonchet's : The forest and the swamp are our allies ; Have we not with these giants of the wood A sacred immemorial brotherhood ? The land itself will aid her proper children. XV. Oliver reaches his Father. When Oliver mentions th^ wilderness, Goffe replies, it is not there that he must prepare the May of the Lord, but in the streets of London. XVL The Arrest. A party sent by Randolph, with Willoby the cavalier at their head, surprise them. — Willoby offers to let them go, if Oliver will declare that this oerson is not Goffe. — Meeting with Randolph. 90 OLIVER NEWMAN. XVII. Rescue. The whole party are surprised by the Sakonets. — Goffe and "NVilloby escape. — Randolph and Oliver are taken, and carried to the encampment of the Sachems. — Oliver is recognised and welcomed. — Randolph is to be burnt, but Oliver obtains his life and safe dismission : they separate. XVIII. Defeat of the Indians, Goffe meanwhile has rallied some stragglers, who attack and defeat the Sakonet party, and take some ; for whom Oliver intercedes, engaging for them that they shall commit no more hostilities. — He then goes with these Indians to negotiate with their tribe. XIX. Annabel a Prisoner, While this discussion is going on, Annabel is brought in a prisoner by the renegade ; in the dispute which ensues, Oliver kills him. This is the point in which Oliver's passive- ness is to give way to a just wrath. Before he knocks out the fellow's brains he stands " trembling, but not with fear." XX. Peace. The Sakonet tribe make peace with the English ; Oliver going with the chiefs to the English head-quarters to sign it. — The Mohawk, whom he had saved in the forest, meets him there, at the head of his party. XXI. Deatli of Philip. Oliver's services are now clearly seen. — Randolph solicits for him a grant of land.— Willoby gives him his daughter, and Russell marries them.— Pamya's children baptized. MISCELLANEOUS POETICAL REMAINS. 93 FRAGMENTARY THOUGHTS OCCASIONED BY HIS SOn's DEATH.* Thy life was a day, and sum it well, life is but a week of such days, — with how much storm, and cold, and darkness ! Thine was a sweet spring holy- day, — r a vernal Sabbath, all sunshine, hope, and promise. and that name In sacred silence buried, which was still At morn and eve the never-wearying theme Of dear discourse. playful thoughts Turn'd now to gall and esel. * Letter to Mr. W. Taylor, March, 1817. "I have begun a desultory poem in blank verse, pitched in a higher key than Cowper's, and in a wiser strain of philosophy than Young's ; but as yet I have not recovered heart enough to proceed with it ; nor is it likely that it will be published during my life." 94 FRAGMENTARY THOUGHTS. He to whom Heaven in mercy hath assign'd Life's wholesome wormwood, fears no bitterness when Fromth' hand of Death he drinks the Amreetacup. Beauties of Nature, — the passion of my youth, Nursed up and ripen'd to a settled love, Whereto my heart is wedded. Feeling at Westminster, when summer evening sent a sadness to my heart, and I sate pining for green fields, and banks of flowers, and running streams, — or dreaming of Avon and her rocks and woods. No more great attempts, only a few autumnal flowers, like second primroses, &c. They who look for me in our Father's kingdom Will look for Him also ; inseparably Shall we be so remember'd. The Grave the house of Hope : It is the haven whither we are bound On the rough sea of life, and thence she lands In her own country, on the immortal shore. FRAGMENT^VRT THOUOnXS. 95 Come, then, Pain and Infirmity — appointed guests, My heart is ready. My soul Needed perhaps a longer discipline, Or sorer penance, here. A respite something like repose is gain'd While I invoke them, and the troubled tide Of feeling, for a while allay'd, obeys A tranquillising influence, that might seem By some benign intelligence dispensed, Wlio lends an ear to man. They are not, though, Mere unrealities : rather, I ween, The ancient Poets, in the graceful garb Of fiction, have transmitted earliest truths, 111 understood ; adorning, as they deem'd. With mythic tales things erringly received. And mingling with primeval verities Their own devices vain. For what to us Scripture assures, by searching proof confirm'd. And inward certainty of sober Faith, Tradition unto them deliver'd down Changed and corrupted in the course of time, And haply also by delusive art Of Evil Powers. 96 SHORT PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE, RHYTHMICALLY ARRANGED OR PARAPHRASED. JeREM. VI. 4. Woe unto us ! For the day goeth down, For the shadows of evening Are leugthen'd out. Jer. IX. 23 — 4. Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, Let not the rich man glory in his riches, Let not the mighty glory in his might, But in only this let him that glorieth, glory, That he knoweth the Lord, the Lord of infinite mercy, Who exerciseth on the earth His loving-kindness and Ids righteousness. SHORT PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE. 97 Jer. xin. 16. Give glory to the Lord your God ! Lest, while ye look for light, He bring the darkness on. And tlie feet that advanced With liaughty step, Marching astray in their pride, Stumble and fail In the shadow of death. Jer. XL VII. 6, 7. Sword of the Lord ! how long Ere thou be quiet ? thou sword, how long ? Put up thyself Into thy scabbard, Rest and be still. Jer. xlix. 7. From the prudent hath counsel departed ? Is wisdom no more in the land ? Hath it utterly perish'd ? Is it vanish'd and gone ? Jer. l. 25. . . . the Lord Open'd his armoury, and brought forth The weapons of his wrath. 98 SHORT PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE. Jer. L. 15. Ye nations, shout against her round about ; Take vengeance upon her. It is the vengeance of the Lord, As she hath done, do unto her. Luke, in. 5. When every valley shall be filled, And every mountain be brought low ; The crooked be made straight. The rough ways smooth. Lamentations, m. 44. The Lord Cover'd himself with a cloud, That the prayer should not pass through. HosEA, X. 12, 13. Break up your fallow-ground, Sow to yourselves in righteousness, and reap In mercy ; it is time to seek the Lord. Ye have plough'd wickedness, and ye have reap'd Iniquity : the fruit of lies hath been Your harvest and your food. SHORT PASSAGES OP SCRIPTURE. 99 Dajoel, IX. 7, 8, 9. 18. To Thee belongeth righteousness, O Lord ! Confusion and shame to us ; To our kings and our princes, Our priests and our rulers, Ourselves and our children, Because we have sinned against Thee. But mercies and forgivenesses belong To Thee, O Lord our God, Rebellious though we be. Incline thine ear, and hear ; Open thine eyes, and pitifully see Our sins, our miseries, The impending punishment. Too long, too much deserved. Amos, v. 8. Who calleth for the waters of the sea, And poureth them in seasonable rain Upon the face of earth. H 2 100 SHORT PASSAGES OP SCRIPTURE. Nahttm, I. 3 — 8. The Lord hath his way in the whirlwind, The Lord hath his way in the storm, The clouds are the dust of his feet. And darkness shall pursue his enemies. Nahum, m. 15. 17. There shall the fire devour thee, The sword shall cut thee off. Make thyself many as the canker-worm, As the locusts make thyself many. Thou hast multiplied thy merchants Above the stars of heaven ! But the canker-worm spoileth, Then fleeth away, And his place is not found. 1 Kings, vin. 23. 27. 30. Lord God of Israel I There is no God like Thee, In heaven above, or on the earth beneath, Who keepest covenant And mercy with thy servants, when with all Their heart they walk before Thee. SHORT PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE. 101 .... will God indeed Dwell on the earth ? Behold, the heaven, and heaven Of heavens, cannot contain Thee ; how nauch less This house that man hath builded ! .... hear Thou in heaven, thy dwelling-place ; And when Thou hearest, Lord God, forgive ! Isaiah, xxv. 1. 4. 7. Thy counsels. Lord, of old. Are faithfulness and truth. A strength to the weak hast thou been, A help to the poor in his need, A refuge from the storm, A shadow from the heat. The covering that is cast Over all people shall be then removed, And the veil that is spread Over all nations be taken away. B 3 102 SHORT PASSAGES OF SCRIPTUEE. Isaiah, xxvi. 3. 5. 8. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace Whose mind is stay'd on Thee. He bringeth down them that dwell on high ; The lofty city He layeth it low, He layeth it low to the ground. He bringeth it down to the dust : The foot shall tread it down, The feet of the poor and the needy. In the way of thy judgments, Lord, have we waited for Thee. Isaiah, xxvm, 15. 17. 18. They have made lies their refuge, And under falsehood have they hid themselves ; Their covenant is with death, with heU The agreement wherein they trust. O fools ! O miserables ! The covenant shall be annuU'd, The agreement shall not stand. By the storm shall their refuge be swept away. Their hiding-place By the flood be overflown. SHORT PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE. 103 Isaiah, xxvni. 16. In Zion the foundation hath been laid, A precious corner-stone, a sure foundation. Isaiah, xxxi. 3. When the Lord shall put forth his anger, Then both he that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen. Isaiah, Lvn. 1. The righteous perisheth, And none layeth it to heart ! The merciful man Is taken away From the evil to come. EZEKIEL, vu. 5, 6, 7. 12, An evil, an only evil, Behold, is come ! an end Is come, — the end is come ! It watcheth for thee, behold it is come. The time of trouble is near, The morning is gone forth j Behold the day is come. Let not the buyer rejoice. Nor let the seller mourn, For wrath, the wrath of God, Is upon all the multitudes thereof. H 4 104 SHOKT PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE. EzEKiEL, xxn. 7, 8. 14. In thee have they set light By venerable age, By natural piety. In thee God's holy things have they despised, God's sabbaths have profaned. Oh can thine heart endui'e, Or can thine hand be strong, When God shall deal with thee ? 105 LITTLE BOOK, IN GREEN AND GOLD. Little Book, in green and gold, Thou art thus bedight to hold Robert Southet's Album Rhymes, "Wrung from him in busy times : Not a few to his vexation, By importune application ; Some in half-sarcastic strain, More against than with the grain ; Other some, he must confess, Bubbles blown in idleness ; Some in earnest, some in jest, Good for little at the best : Yet, because his Daughter dear Would collect them fondly here, Little Book, in gold and green, Thou art not unfitly seen Thus apparell'd for her pleasure. Like the casket of a treasure. Other owner, well I know, Never more can prize thee so. Little Book, when thou art old. Time will dim thy green and gold. Little Book, thou wilt outlive The pleasure thou wert made to give: 106 LITTLE BOOK. Dear domestic recollections, Home-born loves, and old affections, Incommunicable they : And when these have past away. As perforce they must, from earth, Wliere is then thy former worth ? Other value, then, I ween, Little Book, may supervene. Happily if unto some Thou in due descent shouldst come, Who would something find in thee Like a relic's sanctity. And in whom thou may'st awake, For thy former owner's sake, A pious thouglit, a natural sigh, A feeling of mortality. When those feelings, and that race, Have in course of time given place, Little worth, and little prized, Disregarded or despised, Thou wilt then be bought and sold, Li thy faded green and gold. Then, unless some curious eye Thee upon the shelf should spy, Dust will gatlier on thee there, And the worms, that never spare, Feed their fill within, and hide. Burrowing safely in thy side. Till transfigured out they come From that emblem of the tomb : LITTLE BOOK. 107 Or, by mould and damp consumed, Thou to perish may'st be doom'd. But if some collector find thee, He will, as a prize, re-bind thee ; And thou may'st again be seen Gayly drest in gold and green. 9th September, 1831. 108 LINES WRITTEN IN THE ALBUM OE ROTHA a. KOTHA, after long delays, Since thy book must cross the Raise, Down I sit to turn a stave, Be it gay or be it grave. "Wiser wish than what thy name Prompts for thee I cannot frame ; No where find a better theme Than thy native namesake stream. Lovelier river is there none Underneath an English sun ; From its source it issues bright Upon hoar Hellvellyn's height. Flowing where its summer voice Makes the mountain herds rejoice; Down the dale it issues then ; Not polluted there by men ; "While its lucid waters take Their pastoral course from lake to lake, Please the eye in every part, Lull the ear, and soothe the heart, Till into Windermere sedate They flow and uncontaminate. LINES WRITTEN IN ALBUM. 109 Rotha, such from youth to age Be thy mortal pilgruiiage ; Tlius in childhood blithe and free, Thus in thy maturity, Blest and blessing, may it be ; And a course, in welfare past, Thus serenely close at last. 110 IMAGINATION AND REALITY. The hill was in the sunshine gay and green, The vale below could not be seen ; A cloud hung over it, A thin white cloud, that scarce was seen to fly, So slowly did it flit ; Yet cloud methinks I err in calling it. It spread so evenly along the sky. It gave the hills beyond a hue So beautiful and blue, That I stood loitering for the view : Loitering and musing thoughtfully stood I, For well those hills I knew, And many a time had travell'd them all o'er; Yet now such change the hazy air had wrought. That I could well have thought I never had beheld the scene before. But while I gazed the cloud was passing by ; On the slow air it slowly travell'd on, Eftsoon and that deceitful haze was gone. Which had beguiled me with its mockery ; And all things seem'd again the things they were. Alas ! but then they were not half so fair As I had shaped them in the hazy air ! Ill MADRIGAL, TRANSLATED FROM LUIS JLAKTIN. [This poem is selected for publication from a small volume of translations, because, having been printed before in a news- paper, it attracted the attention of Mr. D' Israeli, who has inserted it in the " Curiosities of Literature," as a beautiful specimen of a kind of extravagance characteristic of Spanish poetry. It seemed, therefore, worth while to place it among the poems of the Translator.] On the green margin of the land. Where Guadalhorce winds his way, My Lady lay. With golden key Sleep's gentle hand Had closed her eyes so bright, Her eyes — two suns of light. And bade his balmy dews Her rosy cheeks suffuse. The River God in slumber saw her laid He raised his dripping head With weeds o'erspread, Clad in his watery robes approach'd the maid, And with cold kiss, like Death, Drank the rich perfume of the maiden's breatL The maiden felt that icy kiss ; Her suns unclosed, their flame Full and unclouded on the intruder came. 112 MADRIGAL. f Amazed, the bold intruder felt His frothy body melt, And heard the radiance on his bosom hiss And, forced in blind confusion to retire, Leapt in the water to escape the fire. February, 1799. 113 MOHAMMED ; A FRAGMENT, WRITTEN IN 1799. Cloak'd in the garment of green, wbo lies on the bed of Mohammed, Restless and full of fear, yet semblant of one that is sleeping ? Every sound of the feet at his door he hears, and the breathing Low of inaudible words : he knows their meaning of murder, Knows what manner of men await his outgoing, and listens All their tread, and their whisp'ring, till even the play of his pulses Disturbs him, so deep his attention. The men of the Koreish Fix on the green-robed youth their eyes ; impatiently watchful Wait they the steps of his rising, the coming of him whom they hated. He rises and makes himself pure, and turning towards the Caaba, Loud he repeats his prayer ; they hear, and, in eagerness trembling, Grasp the hilts of their swords — their swords that are sworn to the slaughter. But when the youth went forth, they saw, and, behold ! it was Ali ! Steady the hero's face : it was pale, for his life was a blessing ; It was calm, for in death he look'd on to the crown of the martvr. Dark as they were of soul, and goaded by rage disappointed, They shed not the blood of the youth, but remember'd their chief- tain his fiither, Abu Taleb the good, and respected the virtue of friendship. Baffled, and full of wrath, through Mecca they scatter the tidings : " He has fled, has discover'd our plans, has eluded our vengeance. z 114 MOHAMMED. " Saw ye the steps of his flight ? "Where lurks he, the lying blas- phemer ? " Now to the chase, to the chase ; seize now the bow and the quiver ; " Now with the sword and the spear, ye stubborn of Mecca ! pursue him ; " Seek him now to the north and the south, to the sunset and sunrise ; Follow, follow the chosen one's flight !" They rush from the city : Over the plain they pursue him, pursue him with cries and with curses — Sounds that rung over the plain, and rung in the echoing mountains ; And Mecca received i^ her streets the din of their clamorous uproar. But the voice of the Moslem, the silent prayer of the faithful. Rose to the throne of God ; and tears of the heart overflowing Interceded for him whom they loved and believed his apostle. " Where is the blasphemous fled? — the lyingdisturber of Mecca? " lias he joumey'd to Tayef? Under the shield of his uncle " Lurks he for safety there ? — or to Yathreb, the credulous city ? " Or seeks he the Ethiop's court, where the earlier runaways shelter ?" Lashing their steeds, they pursue; to the east and the dwelling of Abbas Hasten the thirsty for blood ; to the north they hurry, to Yathreb ; Some to the shore of the sea, lest haply a bark might await him, And the waves should become his protectors : impetuously rushing. Drive they in fury along ; beneath the hoofs of their horses Sparkles the rock of the valley, and rises the dust of the desert. Others the while, more cool in wrath, and thoughtful in fury. Over the town search sedulous : they in the Hashemites' dwellings Seek for the man proscribed; in the dwellings of Hamza and Omar, Ali, Abubeker, and Saad, and Abu Obeidah ; All whom the Prophet loved, who believed in the son of Abdallah. Every house they search in the populous city, whose threshold Ever his feet had trod ; thus vainly through Mecca they seek him Then, unassuaged of hate, of rancour and wrath unabated. They to the mountains turn, to seek in their dens and retirings MOHAJIMED. 115 If from the death he lurks : they enter the cavern of Hira, Place of his fasting and prayer ; the cavern of Hira is lonely. Not in the depth of the cave, and not in the mountain retirings, Not in their hollows and glens, can they track the steps of his going. So through the day they sought ; and still, when the sun was de- scending. They were among the hills : then faint, disappointed, and weary, Turning their faces homeward, they journey'd slowly and sullen Down their rough mountain path ; but often paused, and around them Linger'd with prowling eyes : a little wide of their pathway, Thus as they paused, they saw in the side of the stony mountain A cave-mouth, narrow and high : the hill had the hue of the evening Rich on its rugged sides, and the chasm was distinct in its blackness. Thither turning, they sped ; and one who forewent his companions Came to the cavern's mouth : disturb'd by the noise of his footsteps, From her nest, in the side of the chasm, a pigeon affrighted Fled. The advancing pursuers heard the whirr of her pinions. And he who was first exclaim'd, " There is none in the hole of the mountain; " For lo ! a pigeon fled from her nest at the sound of my coming, " And the spider hath spread his network over the entrance." Then from the cave he turn'd. Was thy spirit shaken, Mohammed, When in the depth of the rock thou heardest the voice of the Koreish ? Hewho was with thee trembled ; the sweat on his forehead was chilly, And his eyes in alarm were turn'd towards thee in the darkness. Silent they sat in the rock ; nor moved they, nor breathed they ; but listen'd Long to the tread of the feet, that, fainter and fainter sounding, Died in the distance now : yet still they were silent, and listen'd. Abubeker first, as his fear gave faith to the echo, Fresh in his sense alarm'd — " Hark ! hark ! I hear them returning • " They are many, and we but two !" he whisper' d, in terror. " There is a third ! " aloud replied the son of Abdallah — "God!" 1 1 6 MOHAMMED. So the niglit came on, and they in the place of their refuge Silently sat. And now in hope they listened, awaiting Sound of approaching feet — of trusted friend or disciple, Bringing them food and tidings, now that the darkness had settled. Slow past the expectant hours : nearer the mouth of the cavern Eagerly now they drew. The sound of the wind that was passing Took from their hope its tone ; and now in its distant murmurs They heard the tread of feet ; and now despairingly argued Danger was yet abroad, and none could venture towards them. Midnight came; and a step was heard — distinctly they heard it : Heavier it comes, — and now in the rock — and a voice — it is Ali. He in the cave laid down the water-skin that he carried, And the figs wrapt under his robe : then told he his tidings. Low was his voice, for he spake in fear : " The perU is pressing, " Prophet of God, I saw thy foes return in the twilight : " Sidlen they came from their toil, and talk'd of the search on the morrow. " The Idolaters joy in thy flight, and grieve at thy safety : " God shall remember their joy, and that grief, in the day of his judgment. " They shall feel in their evil load ! A price is appointed " His who shall shed thy blood : but keep thou close in the mountain ; " God will confound their plots." He paused ; so suddenly checking Words on their way, as one who tells but half of his errand. Loath to utter the worse remainder, that yet must be utter'd. Sure if Mohammed had seen his eye, he had read in its trouble Tidings of evil to come. At length to the son of Abdallah, Telling his tale of woe, spake Ali the first of believers : " Prophet, there is grief in thy dwelling: Cadijah in sickness " Lies on her bed of pain : for death she is stricken, I fear me.' Mohammed heard ; and he bow'd his head, and groan'd for his exile. THE END. Wz October, 18^5. A CATALOGUE OF NEW WOUKS AND NEW EDITIONS I'RINTED FOR LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS, LONDON.' ANALYTICAL INDEX. AGRICULTURE & RURAL AFFAIRS. Pages 5 Bayldon on Valuing: Rents, etc Crocker's Land Surveying . - - Davy's Agricultural Chemistry Greenwood's (Col.) Tree-Lifter Hannnm On Waste Manures - - - Johnsou's Farmer's Eneyelopipdia - Loudon's Encyclopaedia of Agriculture - ,, Self- Instruction for 'Voungr Farmers, etc. - - - . ,, (Mrs.) Lady'sCountry Companion 18 Low's Breedsofthe Domesticated Animals of Great Britain - - • - 19 ,, Elements of Agriculture - - 19 ,, On Landed Property - - - 19 ,, On the Domesticated Animals - 19 ARTS, MANUFACTURES, AND ARCHITECTURE. 9 9 1-2 13 16 18 "- 18 7 7 9 12 18 24 24 2.5 28 31 31 Brande's Dictionary of Science, Litera- ture, and Art . _ - Budt^e's Miner's Guide - . - - De Burtin on the Knowledge of Pictures Gwilt's Encyclopasdiaof Architecture _ - .- Haydon's Lectures on Painting & Design 13 [loUand's Manufactures in Metal • - 13 Loudon's Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture and Furniture • Porter's Manufacture of Silk - • " „ ,, Porcelain & Glass Reid (Dr.) on Warming and Ventilating Steam Engine (The) , by the Artisan Club Ore's Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines - - - - „ Recent Improvements in Arls, Manufactures, and Mines - BIOGRAPHY. Aikin's Life of Addison - - - - 5 Bell's Lives of the most Eminent British Poets ....--. 6 Dover's Life of the King of Prussia - - 10 Dunham's Lives of the Early Writers of Great Britain - - -10 ,, Lives of the British Dramatists 10 Forster's Statesmen of the Commonwealth of England - - • - - - 11 Glei'.;'s Lives of the most Eminent British Military Commanders - - - - 11 Grant (Mrs.) Memoir and Correspondence 11 James's Life of the Black Prince • - 16 ,, Lives of the most Eminent Foreign Statesmen - - ■ - 16 Leslie's Life of t:onstable - - - 17 Mackintosh's Life of Sir T. More - - 20 Maunder's Biographical Treasury - 22 Roberts's Life of the Duke of IVIonraouth 25 Roscoe's Lives of Eminent British Lawyers 26 Russell's Correspondence of the Duke of Bedford 26 Shelley's Lives of the most Eminent Lite- rary Men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal 27 ,, Lives of the most Eminent French Writers - - - 27 Southey's Lives of the British Admirals - 27 Waterton's Autobiography and Essays - 31 BOOKS OF GENERAL UTILITY. Pages Actou's (Eliza) Cookery Book - - 5 Black's Treatise on Brewing' - - - 6 Collegian's Guide 8 Donovjiirs Domestic Economy - - 10 Hand-Book of Taste - - - - 13 Hints on Etiquette ----- 13 Hudson's Parent's Hand-Book - - 15 ,, Executor's Guide • - -IS ,, f)n Making Wills - - - 15 Loudon's Self Instruction - - - 18 Maunder's Treasury of Knowledge - - 21 jf Scientific and Literary Treasury 22 y. Treasury of History - - 22 tf Biographical Treasury - - 21 ,, Universal Class-Book - - 22 Parkes's Domestic Duties - - - 23 Pycroft's Couise of English Readincf - 24 Riddle's English-Latiu and Latin-English Dictionaries - - • - • - 25 Short Whist 27 Thomson^s Domestic Management of the Sick Room - - - 29 ,, Interest Tables - . - 30 Toralins' Law Dictionary - - - - 30 Webster's Ency. of Domestic Economy * 31 BOTANY AND GARDENING. Abercrombie's Practical Gardener - • 5 ,, and Main's Gardener's Companion - - - 5 Callcott's Scripture Herbal • - - 7 Conversations on Botany - - - 8 Drummond's First Steps to Botany - - 10 Glendiuuing On the Culture of the Pine Apple 11 Greenwood's (Co!.) Tree-Lifter - - 12 Henslow's Botany ----- 13 Hoare On Cultivation of the Grape Vine on Open Walls - - - - 13 ,, On the Management of the Roots ofVtnes ----- 13 Hooker's British Flora - - - - 14 ,, and Taylor's MuscologiaBritannica 14 Jackson's Pictorial Flora - - - - 15 Knapp's Gramina Britanutca • - • 16 Lindley's Theory of Horticulture - - 18 ,, Guideto the Orchard and Kitchen " Garden - - - - . 18 ,, Introduction to Botany - - 18 ,, Flora Medica - - • - 18 ,, Synopsis of British Flora - - 18 Loudon's Hortus Britannicus - • -19 ,, ,, Lignosus Londinensis - 19 ,, Encyclopoidia of Trees & Shrubs 18 ,, ,, Gardening - 18 ,, ,, Plants - - 19 Lindley's Suburban Garden and Villa Com- panion - - - - 19 ,, Self-Instruction for Young Gar- detiers, etc. - - - IS Repton's Landscape Gardening and Land- scape Architecture - - - - 25 Uivers's Rose Amateur's Guide - - 25 Roberts on the Vine - • - - 25 London: Printed by Mannint; and Masi-n, Ivy-IJt'ie, St. Paul'si Wz =^ ANALYTICAL INDEX Pages Rogers's Veg-etable Cultivator - - - 26 Schleideu's Scientific Botany - - - 26 Smith's Introduction to Botany - - 27 ,, English Flora - - - - 27 ,, Compendium of English Flora - 27 CHRONOLOGY. Blair's Chronolog:ical Tables Calendar (Illuminated) and Diary, 1&46 Nicolas *s Chronology of History Riddle's Ecclesiastical Chronolo^ . Tate's Horatius Restitutus 6 15 23 25 29 COMMERCE AND MERCANTILE AFFAIRS Kane's (Dr.) Industrial Resources of Ireland - - - - - - 16 Loriiner's Letters to a Young Master Mariner ------ 18 M*Culloch's Dictionary of Commerce and Commercial Navitjation - - - 20 Steel's Shipmaster's Assistant - • - 28 Thomson's Tables of Interest - - - GEOGRAPHY AND ATLASES. Butler's Sketch of Ancient and Modern Geo^aphy - - - - 7 ,, Atlas of Modern Geography - 7 t, M Ancient Geography - 7 Cooley's World Surveyed - . . g De Strzelecki's New South Wales - - 10 Forster's Historical Geography of Arabia 11 Hall's New General Atlas - - - 12 M'CuUoch's Geographical Dictionary - 20 Malte-Brun's Geography - - 20 Murray's Encycloptedia of Geography - 23 Parrot's Ascent of Mount Ararat - . 8 HISTORY AND CRITICISM. Adair's (SirR.), Memoir of a Mission to Vienna ---. .-.5 t. Negotiations for the Peace of the Dardanelles - ... 5 Addison's History of the Knights Templars 5 Bell's History of Russia - - . . 6 Blair's Chron. and Historical Tables - 6 Bloomfield's Translation of Thucydides - 6 ,, Edition of Thucydides - - 6 Bunsen's E^ypt ----- 7 Cooley's History of Maritime and Inland Discovery ...... g Crewe's History of France - - . 9 Dahlmann's English Revolution . . g Dunham's History of Spain and Portugal 10 „ History of Europe during the Middle Ages - - . - 10 „ History of the German Empire 10 ,1 History of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway - - 10 ,, History of Poland . - - 10 Dunlop's History of Fiction ... 10 Fergus's History of United States of America --- -..-ji Grant (Mrs.) Memoir and Corespondence 11 Grattan's History of Netherlands . - 11 Guicciardini'a Hist. Maxims - - - 12 HaUted's I.ifc of Richard III. . - 12 Haydon's Lectures on Painlingand Design 13 Horslev's (Bp.) Biblical Criticism . - 14 JelTrey s (Lord) Contributions to the Edinburgh Review - - - . jg Kcightlcy's Outlines of History - - 16 Laing's Kings of Norway - - . 16 Lcmpri^re's Claiaical Dictionary - - 17 Macaulay's Essavs contributed to the Edinburgh Review - - . - 20 Mackinnon's History of Civilisation - 20 Mackintosh's History of England - . 20 ,, Miscellaneous Works . 20 »:= Pages M'CuUoch's Dictionary, Historical, Geo- graphical, and Statistical . • - 20 Maunder's Treasury of History - -22 Milner's Church History - - - - 22 Moore's History of Ireland - - - 22 Mailer's Mytholog}- ----- 23 Nicolas's Chronology of History - - 23 Ranke's History of the Reformation - 25 Roberts's Rebellion, etc. of the Duke of Monmouth ...-.- 25 Rome, History of - - • - - 26 Russell's Correspondence of the Duke of Bedford --..-.- 6 Scott's Historyof Scotland - - -26 Sismoudi's History of the Fall of the Roman Empire - - - 27 „ History of the Italian Re- publics - - - - 27 Stcbbing's Historj- of the Christian Church 28 ,, History of the Reformation - 28 ,, Church History - - - 28 Switierland, History of - - - - 29 Sydney Smith's Works - ... 27 Thirlwall's Historv of Greece - • - 30 Tooke's Historv of Prices - - - 30 Turner's History of England - - - 31 Zumpt's Latin Grammai - - • - 32 JUVENILE BOOKS, Iticludini^ Mrs. Marcet''a Works. Boy's (the) Own Book - . - - 6 Hawes*s Tales of the N. American Indians 13 Howitt's (M.) Child's Picture and Verse Book - - - - 14 „ (W.) Jack of the Mill - - 14 ,t Boy's Country Book - - 15 Mackintosh's (Si'r Jas.) Life of SirT.More 20 Marcet's Conversations — On the History of England - - 20 On Chemistry - - - • - 21 On Natural Philosophy - • - 21 On Political Economy - - - 21 On Vegetable Physiology - - - 2) On Land and Water - • - - 21 On Language ----- 21 Marcet*s Game ofGrammar - - - 21 ,, Willy's Grammar - - - 21 ,, Lessons on Animals, etc. - - 21 Marryat*fi Masterman Ready - - - 21 ,, Settlersin Canada - - - 21 „ Mission ; or, Scenes in Africa 21 Maunder's Universal Class Book - - 22 Pycroft's (the Rev. J.), English Reading 24 Summerly's (Mrs. Felix) Mother's Primer 28 Uncle Peter's Fairy Tales - - - 31 MEDICINE. Bull*8 Hints to Mothers - ... 7 ,, Management of Children - • 7 Copland's Dictionary of Medicine ■• - 8 Elliotson's Human Physiology - • 10 Holland's Medical Notes - - - - 13 Lefevre (Sir Geo.) on the Nerves - 17 Marx and Willis (Drs.) On Decrease of Disease - - - - . - 21 Pereira On Food and Diet - . - 24 Recce's Medical Guide - - - • 25 Sandby On Mesmerism - - - - 26 VVigan (Dr.) On Insanity - - - 32 MISCELLANEOUS Black's Treatise on Brewing - - - 6 Bray's Philosophy of Necessity - - 7 Clavers's Forest Life . - - - 8 Collegian's Guide ----- 8 Colton's J^acon ------ 8 Dc Burtin On the Knowledge of Pictures 9 Dc Morgan On Probabilities - - - 9 Dc Strzelccki's New South Wales - - 10 Dunlop's History of Fiction - - - 10 Ipp= TO CATALOGUE OF NEW WOlUvS. Pages (iooti's Book of Nature - • - - 11 Orahain's Kiii,''lish .... - H Grunt's Lettt-rs from tlic Mountains - U (iuost's MabinoKJon - - - - • 12 H;inii-Book of Taste - - - - 13 Holibcs (Thos,), Kni^Hsh Works of - 13 Hulliinii's I'roijrcsstvc Kduciition - - 13 Hewitt's Rural Life of Kai;iancliism -...-- 16 Marriage Gift ..-.-- 21 Michelet's Priests, Women, and Families 22 Milner's Cliurch History - - - - 22 Pnrahlcs (The) ----- 23 Parlies's Domestic Duties • - - 23 Kiddle's Letters from a Godfather - - 25 Roliiiison's Greek and English Lexicon to the NewTestamcnt . - - • 26 Sandford On Female Improvement - 26 t. On Woman - - - - 26 ,t 's Parochialia - - - 26 Sermon on the Mount (The) - - - 2? Smith's Female Disciple - - - - 27 Spalding's Philosophy of Christian Morals 28 Stehbing's Church History - - - 28 Tate's History of St. Paul - - - 29 Tayler's(Rcv.C.B.)Margaret; or.the Pearl 29 ,, ,, Sermons - - 29 ,, „ DoraMelder - - '-9 ,, ,, Ladv Mary . - 29 Tomline's Christian Theology - - . 30 Turner's Sacred History - - - 31 \\'ardlaw On Socinian Controversy - 32 Weil's Bible, Koran, and Talmud - - 32 Wilberforce's View of Christianity - 32 Willoughby's (Lady) Diary - - - 32 RURAL SPORTS. BIaine*8 Dictionary of Sports • - - 6 Hansard's Fishing in Wales - - - 13 Hawker's Instructions to Sportsmen - 13 I>oudon's(Mrs.) Ladv's Country Companion 18 Stable Talk and Table Talk - - - 28 Thacker's Coursing Rules - - 29 ,, Courser's Remembrancer - 29 THE SCIENCES IN GENERAL, AND MATHEMATICS. Bakewell's Introduction to Geology - 5 Balmain's Lessons on Cliemistry - - 5 lJrande*s Dictionary of Science, Litera- ture, and Art - - - - - 6 Brewster's Optics ----- 7 Conv(.T.sations on Mineralogy - - - 8 l>c la Becbe on theOeology ofCornwalI,etc. 9 Donovan's Chemistry - - - - 10 Farcy on the Steam Kngine - - - 1] Fosliroke on the Arts of the Greeks and Romans, etc. ----- II Creener on the Gun - - - - 12 Herschel's Natural Philosophy - - 13 ,, Astronomy - - - - 13 Holland's Manufactures in Metal - - 13 Hunt's Researches on l^ight - 15 Kane's KIcments of Chemistry - - IC Kater and Lardner*8 Mechanics - - 16 Lardner'h Cabinet Cyclopaedia - - 17 ,f Hydrostatics and Pneumatics - 17 ,, and Walker's Klectricity - 17 Lardncr's Arithmetic - - - - 17 ,, Geometry - - - - 17 ,, Treatise on Heat - - - 17 Lertures On Polarised Light - - - 17 Lloyd On Light and Vision - - 18 Pages Mackenzie's Physiology of Vision - - 20 Marcel's (Mrs.) Conversations on the Sciences, etc. - - - - 21 Moseley's Practical Mechanics - - 23 ,, Kngineering and Architecture 23 Narrien's Elements ofGeometry - - 26 ,, Astronomy and Geodesy - - 26 Owen's Lectures On Comparative Anatomy 23 Parnell On Roads 23 Pearson's Practical Astronomy - - 24 Peschel's Physics ----- 24 Phillips's PalaeozoicFossilsof Cornwall, etc. 24 ~ ■• 24 24 24 24 24 Guide to Geology ,, Treatise on Geology - ,, Introduction to Mineralogy Portlock's Report on the Geology of Londonderry - - - - - Powell's Natural Philosophy - - - Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 25 Ritchie (Robert) on Railways - - 25 Roberts's Dictionary of Geology - - 26 Sandhurst Mathematical Course - - 26 Scoresby's Magnetical Investigations - 26 Scott's Arithmetic and Algebra - - 26 ,, Trigonometry - - - - 26 Tliomson's Algebra ----- 30 M'^ilkinson's Engines of War - - - 32 TOPOGRAPHY Sc GUIDE BOOKS Addison's History of the Temple Church 5 ,, Guide to ditto - - - - 5 Costello's (Miss) North Wales - - 9 Howitl's German Expcrienres - • • 15 ,, (R..) Australia Felix - - 15 TRANSACTIONS OF SOCIETIES. Transactions of the Entomological Society 30 Zoological Society - - - - 30 Linna;an Society - - - - 30 Geological Society of London - 30 Institution of Civil Engineers - 30 Royal Institute of British Architects 30 Proceedings of the Zoological Society - 24 Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of Loudon ------ 25 TRAVELS. Cooley's World Surveyed - - - 8 Costello's (Missi North Wales - - 9 De Custine's Russia _ - - - g De Strzelecki's New South Wales - - 10 Erman's Travels through Siberia - - 8 Harris's Highlands of Ethiopia - - 13 Howitt's Wanderings of a Journeyman Tailor ----- 15 ,, German Experiences - - 14 ,, (R.) Australia Felix - - 15 Laing's Notes of a Traveller - - - 17 }, Residence in Norway - - - 17 ,, Tour in Sweden - - - - I7 Life of a Travelling Physician - - 18 Parrot's Ascent of Mount Ararat - - 8 Paton's (A.A.) 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