A ^SSB CZ 1 A n SOUT - 1 - — — u := o ===== ^ fc>**V*£^ : ./* W.-v^-" THE LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES ' s//;~//rr ' (/////// POEMS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS; BT JAMES STUART, A. B. ARMAGH. 23clf30t: PRINTED BY JOSEPH SMYTH, UICII-STP.CET. ISU. Pre PREFACE. 1 HE blank verse compositions interspersed through this volume, are selections from an un- published descriptive poem, written a considerable time ago. In the detached form in which they are now presented to the publick, some of them may probably be found deficient in unity of design. The narrative of the death of Niall Caille, is founded on well authenticated historical facts, cor- roborated by the universal tradition of the coun- try, in which his tumulus lately existed. The au- thor has imitated in a few lines of the story of Orra and Siorna, p. 16 t, the catastrophe of a beau- tiful poem, inserted in the last edition of Macpher- sou's Ossian. CONTENTS. Page . The returning Traveller. ... .... I The widowed Matron >. , 8 Sensibility 12 Vicissitude. 17 Noon 20 The Dream 40 The Maniac 42 Woman ...50 The Setting Sun 54 Youth 59 The Quakers 62 Elegiack Stanzas 73 Compassion 79 On a beautiful Woman nursing 81 Nelson 85 The wounded Soldier 87 TAe Nightingale , 9 4 An Enigma 9d Evelina 100 Morna's Hill 10.5 Time .127 Night ISO Creation 14-1 The deserted Daughter, 1 44 The Rainbow , . .117 Rama's islund .... 149 Elegiack Stanzas loo Life 170 Turn Love 174 »S'. Tucker's answer 170 The Chain - . . .177 Love's heralds 179 A mominz scene 1 S 1 SUBSCRIBERS' NAMES. A Aughinleck, Mr. Wm. do. Alexander, Mrs. Archer, Mr. Sam. do. Atkinson, John, esq. Sheriff of Andrews, Mr. Wm. Armagh co. Dublin Appleby, Mr. Thos. do. Alexander, Nathaniel, esq. Alexander, Mr. Joseph Ashmore, Miss ... 3 cop. Allen, Edw. Esq. Alexander, Mrs. Crumlin Atkinson, G. esq. Atkinson, Robert, esq. 2 B Atkinson, Jo. esq. Crow-hill Brabazon, Sir Wm. Bt. Armstrong, Jas. esq. Armagh Brownlow, Wm. esq. M. P. Atkinson, Edw. esq. M.D. Burges, John Henry, esq. . 12 Ashe, Rev. Isaac, Tamlaght Barry, Redmond, esq. lieut. col. Ashe, Master Isaac, do. South Cork Militia Armstrong, Rev. James, Dublin Bell, Thos. esq 3 Archbold, Robert, esq. Bushe, P. G. esq. L. L. D. Alder, Miss, Dublin Bushe, Henry Amyas, esq. Austin, Mrs. do. Bushe, Rev. Wm. Anketell, R. C. esq. lieut. R. Ty- Bushe, Robert, esq. rone Regt. Bushe, John, esq. Ashe, Rev. Henry, Acton Bourne, Richard, Rev. Dean Atkinson, Robt. esq. Crow-hill Blacker, Win. esq. major Ar« Arbuthnot, J. O. C. esq, Dublin magh militia Alexander, Hugh, esq. do. Brabazon, Philip, esq. Arbuthnot, Miss, Armagh Brabazon, Charles, Esq. Atkinson, T. esq. Dublin Bruce, Rev. Wm. D.D. Belfast Aryue, Henry, esq. Monaghan Batt, Nar. esq. Atkinson, J. esq. Barklie, Allen, esq. Atkinson, Mr. John, Kilmore Ball, Rev. Wm. Armagh . S Atkinson, Mr. Francis, Ballytrue Bisset, Rev. Wm. Archdeacon Atkinson, Mr. John, do. of Ross Atkinson, Mr. Hen. Wheatfield Black, Rev. Robt. D. D. Derry Aicken, Mr. Edward Blacker, Revd. Sam. Stewarts- Agnew, Mr. Sam. Wm. town Alexander, Mr. Sam. Bradshaw, Thos. esq. Milecross Atkinson, Mr. Walter, Kilmore Bradshaw, Jo. Hoare, esq. Anderson, Mr. Drummond Bradshaw, Robt. esq. Armstrong, Mr. David, Belfast Black, Sam. esq. M.D. SUBSCRIBERS' NAMES. G Blacker, Jno. esq. Drogheda Blacker, Maxwell, esq. Dublin Byrne, Rev. J. P. D.D. Bond, H. C. esq. Blackburne, Francis, esq. Browne, Thomas, esq. Dublin Bourne, Walter, esq. do. Beresford, John, esq. Armagh Bennet, Robert, esq. Bell, J. W. esq. Dublin Becher, Wm. Wrixon, esq. Bryan Geo. esq. Bayle, Vicar, esq. Beasly, Thos. esq. Brebner, John esq. Brown, J. V. esq. Blake, Pierce, esq. Bvrne, Mark, esq. Bell, Miss, Dublin Bell, James, esq. Boyd, Rev. H. E. Dromore Boyd, Rev. Charles, Lurgan Boreland, Rev. Paul Byrne, Rev. James Bateson, R. esq. Burke Win. esq. Black, Sam. esq. Bovd, John, esq. Ball, Sam. esq. Brown, Wm. esq. Lieut. R. N. Bell, J. T. esq 3 Blachford, John esq. 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Bolton, Miss Mary Ann B^ack, Mr. Jonn Bovd, Mr. John Bell, Mr. Sam. Bel!, .Mr. Thos. Bleakly, Mr. Wm. Berry, Mr. Jas. subscribers' names. Tutler, Mr. George Browne, Mr. Sam. Bullock, Mr. Robert Black, Mr. Adam Brown Miss, Armagh Barr, Miss, do. Bennet , Mr. Robert, Tandragee Barklie, Mr. Jas. Brown, Mr. Wm. Armagh Brown; Mr. Martin, do. Bell Mr. Mathew, do. Bell, Mr. Wm. do. Bennett, Mr. Jas. Beatty, Mr. David, do. Barnes, Mr. Wm. do. Brennan, Mr. Andw. Barrett, Mr. John, do. Brown, Mr. Robert Byers, Mr. Jackson Beatty, Mr. Hugh Byrne, Mr. Wm. Birnic, Mr. Thos. Birch, Mr. Eland Bell, Mr. Thomas Beatty, Mr. John, Armagh Beatty, Mr. Jas. do. Bernard, John, esq. Bouverie, Sam. esq. Charlemont, Earl of . . Charlemont, Countess of Cloncurry, Lord Caulfeild, Hon. Henry Caulfeild, Rev. Archdn. . Canlfeild, Rev. Charles , Caulfeild, Thos. esq. Caulfeild, Charles, esq. Caulteild, Miss Campbell, Major-general Cope, lieu! -coi. II. C. Corry, James, esq. Dublin Crnm'pton, Philip, esq. F.T.C.D Cruker, Edvv. esq. Cuming, Wm. esq. ... 3 Cuming, Rev. Thos. ... 3 Close, Rev. Sam. Cochran, Mr. Wm. mercht. 13 Crozier, Geo. esq 3 Clarke, Walter esq. Corry, Trevor, esq. Callwell, Nat. esq. Dublin Crampton, John esq. Cunningham, G. L. esq. Cunningham, Wm. esq. Carlisle, Mrs. Colonel Cuming, Mr. Jas 3 Cooke, T. S. esq. Cooke, Mrs. Cooke, R. esq. Clark, Wm. esq. Carlisle Hugh, esq. Caulfield, Dennis, esq. Creery, Rev. Leslie Creery, John, esq. Cuthbert, Eccles, esq. Connor, Roderick esq. Crozier, Geo. esq. jun. Coleman, Rev. Charles Carlisle, Miss, Ashgrove Coates, Rev. Edw. Courtney, Miss Courtney, Edw. R. esq. Campbell, Rev. Henry Cross, Hamilton, esq. 6 Craig, Rev. Mr. Corry, Wm. esq. Cane, Maurice, esq. 6 Christie, John, esq. 3 Clihborne, Robt. esq. 13 Clibborr.e, Lydia, Miss Clibborne, Edw. esq. Dublin Cuiiningham,Wm.esq. Reck vale Cinnamon, Dr. R. N. Crawford, G. esq. Chamnev, Henrv, esq. Calvert, John esq. juu. Cross, Wm. esq. Coulter, Mrs. 8 SUBSCRIBERS* NAMES. 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Cherry, Mr. Robert, Loughall Croslie, Mr. John Craig, Mr John Caffry, Mr. Owen Coulter, Mr. Richard Coulter, Mr. William Crooks, Mrs. Clogher Crooks, Miss Cherry, Mr. Wm. Cuming, Miss Cox, Rich. esq. Clark, Mr. Pat. Clark, Mr. £. Cunningham, Mrs. L. Callan, Mr. Hugh Conway, Mr. Pat. Cavanagh, Mr. Pat. Cunningham, Mr. Wm. Cunningham, Mr. I. Charlton, Mr. Wm. Carothers, Mr. John Caine, Mrs. Sarah Christy, Mr. John Caldwell, Mr. A. M. Christy, Mr. Peter, Armagh Christian, Mr. Christopher, do. Corry, Mr. Geo. do. Cochran, Mr Jas. do. Carrol, Mr. Edw. Callwell, Mr. Jas. do. Cochran, Mr. Robt. Cavanagh, Mr. Chas. Cochran, Mr. Robt. jun. Close, Mr. Bernard Close, Mr. Jas. Campbell, Mr. Thos. Carlow, Mr. And. Corrigan, Mr. Murty Cherry, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Michael Campbell, Mr. Thos. Compcon Sam. esq. Cunningham, Peter, esq. SUBSCRIBERS 7 NAMES. D Doyle, Mr. Wm. Donegall, Marquis of . . 3 Davis, Mr. Francis Donegal 1, Marchioness of . 3 Davis, Mr. Wm. Dufferin, Lady - Donnelly, Rev. Jno. 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Falls, Mr. Thos. Fulton, Miss Finlay, Mr. I. Foster, Mr. Jas. Farquhar, Mrs. Anne Jane Fleming, Mr. Alex. Forster, Close, esq. Ferguson, Mr. Thos. Feris, Mr. Peter Fox, Mr. Hugh Fox, Mr. Geo. Fegan, Mr. John Fegan, Mr. Arthur Freemith, Joseph, esq. Gore, Wm. esq. 1 A. D. C. to Gardiner, Chs. esq. £ the Ld. Lt. Gillespie, Leon. esq. Ivj.D 3 Gervais Rev. Francis 3 Guinness, Rev. Hosea, L.L.D. Gilmore, J. B. esq. GofF, Jo. esq. Glassock, Talbot, esq. Graydon, Wm. esq. Gregg, Wm. esq. Gledstanes, Geo. esq. Gordon. D. esq. Gordon, capt. 12th Regt. Graham, Rev. Jas. Graham, Miss Graham, Mrs. Glenny, Mrs. Getty, Robert, esq, Greer, lieut. Antrim militia Graham, Campbell, esq. Glenny, J. W. esq. Goddard, Norris, esq. Goddard, Wm. esq. Greer, Thos. esq. Greer, Geo. esq. Greer, John, esq. Greer, Miss Greer, Sam. esq. Greer Mr. Thos. Gray, Mrs. Gibson, Mrs. Wood Graham, Miss Greer, Mrs. Sam. Greer, John esq. Clontarf Greer, Miss, do. Gregg, Mr. F. Gurnell, Mr. Ant. jun. Gihon, Mr. John Gihson, Mr. Sam. Gamble, Mr. Wm. Godfrey, Mr. Geo. Ogle Greenfield, Mrs. Jas. Greer, Mr. Sam. Belfast Gilland, Mr. Jas Grub, Mr. Thos. Gillander, Mr. J. Greenlaw, Mr. Robt. Gvvinn, Mr. Geo. Gamble, Mr. Robt. Gardner, Mr. Henry Grev, Mr. John Garbett, Mr. J Greenfield, Mr. Robt, Girvin, Air. Robert Gribbon, Mr. James Garvey, Mr. Hugh Garvey, Mr. Robert George, Mr. John Gregg, Andw. esq. Gregson, Wm. e?q. Griersoi:, Sam. esq. SUBSCRIBERS' NAMES. ]1 II Hill, Rt. hon. Sir G. F. Hill, Bart. M. P. Hill, Lady- Hall, lieut.-col 8 Heyland, lieut.-col. Heyland, Mrs. Hill, Major Hamilton, Alex. esq. L.L.D 3 Hamilton, Rev. Jas. D.D. Hill, Rev. Averel, D.D. Arch- deacon of Limerick Holmes, Peter, esq. Holmes. esq. Heyland, Mrs. R. Hall, Koger, esq. Hartey, Robt. esq. Hartey, Mark, esq. Hartey Miss Houston, Rev. F. Hughes, Rev. J. Houston, J. H. esq. Houston, Mrs. Hutton, Robt. esq. Holland, Miss Hannyngton, Mrs. Hinckes, Rev. T. Dicks, A.M. Holmes, Mrs. Dublin Holmes, Robt. esq. Hamilton, Robt. esq. Harvey, Amb. esq. Harden, Robt. esq. Houghton, Thos. esq. Houghton, Ben. esq. Hancock, Jno. esq. Hall, R. F. esq. Hog, ftev. Robt. Hardv, Wm. esq. Hill, 'Geo. esq. Husscv, A. esq. Hanna, Miss Hall, Airs, .lane Hunter, Mrs. Harper, Mr-.. Hucheson, A. W. esq. Holmes, Mr-=. Hill, John, esq. Hill, Mrs. Hancock, Miss M. Haffey, Henry, esq. Hardy, John, esq. Hanna, John, esq. Hall, Thos. esq. Hancock, J. B. esq. Hone, Surgeon Henry, Rev. Jo. Hsfckl'oek, Mrs. Harris, Rev. Geo. Hardy, James, esq. Hawkshaw, lieut. 90th Regt. Higginbothom, H. esq. Hartford, George, esq. Holmes, Mr. Thos 3 Hamilton, Mrs. Hamilton, Thos. L. esq. Hamilton, James, esq. Hamilton, Miss Margt. Hamilton, Miss E. M. Hautenville, H. B. esq. Hutchinson, Rev. Wm. Hutchinson, Mrs. Haffield, Cooper. esq. Hojmes, Jno. esq. Hay, Rev. Mr. Horner, Mrs. Horner, Mr. F. Hunter, Air. James Flunter, Mr. Sam. Henderson, Mr. John Milvale Henry, Mr. Wm. Hardy, Mv. Isaac Hamil, Mr. Daniel Halliday, Mr. F. T. H. Henderson, Mr. Robt. Hamilton, Mr. Robt. Hanna, Air. James Hudson, Mr. Edwd. Hagan. Mr. Jno. Hamilton, Air. David Henry, Mr. Jno. Hughes, Mr. Patrick Jlodson, Air. Jno 12 SUBSCRIBERS NAMES. Hancock, Mr. Wm. Harrington, Mr. Wm. Hopes, Mr. Jno. Hall, Mr. Jno. Hal!, Mr. Eciwd. Hutchinson, Mr. Sam. Humphreys, Mr Thos. Haughev, Mr. Jno. Harris, Mr. Hugh Hagan, Mr. Francis Haslette, Sam. esq. I Johnstone, M. Seeds, esq. Jackson, H. T. esq. Jackson, Hugh, esq. Jackson, Robt. esq. Johnston, Air. Wm. Jackson, Mr. Nic. Jackson, Mr. Rich. Johnstone, Mrs. Johnstone, Mr. Jas. Johnston, Mr. R. Johnstone, Mr. A. Johnstone, Mr. J. W. Jackson, Mr. John lies, James, esq 3 Johnston, Mrs. Eliz. Johnston, r. Jas. Jackson, i* r. Ant. Jennings, Mr. Chs. Johnson, Mr. Wm. Johnston, !V> ; r. Thos. Johnston, Mi. Sam. Jelley, Mr. Andw. Jenkins, Wm. esq. K Knox, Aleyander, esq. Kelly, Rev. Dan 6 J Kelly, Arthur Irwin, esq 6 Johnston, Sir Wm 3 Kelly, Wm. esq. Lieut. Col. 24th Johnston, James, esq 3 foot, Portugal Joy, Henrv, esq 2 Kelly, Major Sam. Calcutta Johnston, jas. esq. jun. T.C.D. Kelly, Major Dawson, assistant qr.-master-genl. in Portugal Kelly, M. esq. King, James, esq. lies, Mrs. Irwin, Arthur, esq. Irwin, Wm. esq. Isaac, I. esq. Cap. R.N.D regt. Irwin, Arthur, esq. Violet-hill Irwin, Wm esq. do. Jameson, T. esq. Irwin, Rev. B Clogher Irwin, Richard, esq. Irwin, Mr. Patrick Innes, James, esq. Johnston, N. G. esq. Jones, Thos Morris, esq Jones, W. T. esq. Jones, John, esq. Mus. D 3 King, Hulton, esq Jebb. Jones, J. E. esq. Jeller, Morgan, esq. Jones, lieut. Antrim Regt. Johnston, Rev. James Jack.-.on, Jcs. D. esq. Johnston, G. esq. Johnstone, Mrs. T. Johnstone, Rev. G. H. M. Jebb, Rev. John, A.M. Jackson, Mrs. Kenny, w. esq. Kilpatrick, Wm. esq. Kennedy, J. T. esq. Kicld, Rev. Archibald Kidd,Riclul. e->q 4 K-'dd, Miss J. Kidd, Miss Jane King, Mrs z Kelly, Mr. Wm. K;dd, Mr. James, Millvale Kilbee, Mr. Richd. St. George subscribers' names. 13 Kidd, Mr. Henry Lappan, Rev. Francis Kidd, Mr. Robt. Lockhart, Rev. Geo. A.M. Kidd, Mr. Hugh Lawson, Miss Kidd, Mr. Sam. Ley, Miss Kidd, Mr. James, jun. Little, Sam. esq. Kearney, Mrs. Leslie, Mr. Sam. Kane, Mr. Jno 2 Logan. Mr. Chas. Kane, Mr. Alexr. jun. Lewis, Mr. John Kidd, Richd. esq. surgn. R. N. Le Pan, Mr. Louis. Keough, Mr. Wm. Lynch, Mr. Jno. Kerr. Mr. R. Lowry, Mr. G. Kane, Mrs. Sarah Ley, Mr. Arthur Kelly, Mr. James Lepper, Mr. Geo. Kelly, Mr. Peter Lang, Mr. James Ley, Mr. Anthony L Langtry, Mr. Jno. Leslie, C. P. esq.M.P 3 Lyross, Mr. Joshua, Belfast. Leslie, C. A. esq 3 Lynn, Mr. David La Louche, Peter, esq. Lewis, Mr. John Lyne, James, esq 3 Luke, Mr. James Lecky, Wm. esq. alderman Little, Mr. John Lowry, Alexander, esq 3 Lindsay, Mr. Richd. Langrishe, Rev. Richard Lee, Mr. Joseph Langrishe, Robt. esq. Lee, Mr. John Lodge, Rev. Wm. L L.D. Loughrey, M. James Lofty, Wm. esq. Loughrev, Master Lewery, esq. Lieut. Ant. militia Library/Publick, Derry Livingston, Rcbt.esq. Lascelles, Wm. esq. Loyd, Owen, esq. Lambert, Francis, esq. M Lambert Thus. esq. Alassareene, Earl of 2 Leonards, Lieut. Wicklow Regt. Monck, Lord Viscount Leigh, Wm. esq. Moiyneux, Sir C. Bart 8 Lett, esq. Lieut. Armagh Regt. M'Cleland, Hon. Baron Leaden, Lieut. Ant. militia Meredith, Sir Thos. Bart. Lovett, J. B. esq. Mitchell, Major General Jno. Lyle, Sam. esq. Macan, Major General 3 Lyle, Hugh, esq. T.C.D. M'Manus, Lieut. Col. Alex. Ley, Arthur, esq. M'Geough, Joshua, esq fi Lindsev, Mrs. M'Geough, Walter, esq 3 Lepper. Mr. Charles Macan, Major Thos 3 I.yle, Mr. Andrew 3 A'lacartncv, Andrew, esq 13 Lowry, Miss Rachael Macartney, Jas. esq 3 Lawrence, Mr. Jno 2 May, Edwd.esq. M.P. Lee, Surgn. C.L.Armagh regt. M'Veagh, Henry, esq. Lawrcson, Mr*. Elizabeth Mercer, Mrs 3 n Moore, Thos. esq. translator of Anacreon, &c. May, Rev. Edw. Macan, Turner, esq. Mason, Henry, esq. Moore, Edw. esq. Montgomery, J. esq. M'Naghten,C. E. esq. M'Kenny, Thos. esq. Sheriff's peer, Dublin M'Kenny, Miss M'Kenny, Miss M. M'Kenny, Master W. M'Kenny, Mrs Jane M'Kenny, John, esq. Miott, Joseph, esq 2 MacQueen, Robt. esq. Moutray, John Corry, esq. Melling, John, esq 2 Maziere, Earth, esq. Maziere, Wm. esq. Mocre, Rich. esq. Moody, Rev. Dr. Moore, Miss M'Causland, Counsr. MacQueen, J. esq. M'llveen, Gil. esq. M'Kinstry, Robt. esq 3 Mountgarret, Cant. Arm. Regt. M'Kinstry, Miss S. Bassnett...3 M'Cance, John, esq. M'Connell, C. esq. M'Connell, Jo. esq. M'Connell, R. esq. Marshall, S. B. esq. M 'Murray, I. S. esq. M'Neille, A. M. esq. Montgomery, H. esq. Murray, Rev. R. Moore, .las. esq. Moore, Chas. esq. Moore, Mrs. Moore, Geo. esq. M'Bride, Mr. Geo 1 Maxwell, W. H. esq. T.C.D. M'Gee, Robt. esq. M.D. SUBSCRIBERS NAMES. Maxwell, Lieut. 72d Regt. M'Donald, Wm. esq. Murray, A. A. esq. T.C.D. M'Kinstry, lieut. Armagh reg. Maean, Luke, esq. M.D. M'Morran, John, esq. M.D. Miller, Joseph, esq. M.D. Mac Neil, T. P. esq. Mac Neil, Mrs. Mac Neil, John, esq. Moore, Captain Manning, T. esq. Maguire, Alex. esq. Mitchel, Rich. esq. Macan, Robt. esq. Mallagh, B. esq. M'Masters, H. esq. M'Masters, C. esq. Moore, Wm. esq. Moore, John, esq. Maxwell, Geo. esq. M.D. Moore, Miss Montgomery, J. esq. Mayne, Miss Murry, Miss M urry, Master Wm. T. urray, Wm. esq. Murray, Mrs. Maxwell, Arth. esq. Moore, Jo. esq. Moore, Sam. esq. IVoore, And. esq. M axwell, John, esq. IV, 'Dougail, H. esq. M'Gowan, Mr. Jas S JVj 'Clean, Robt. esq. ;\, acckveren, Rev. Mr. r^'Ardle, Rev. Doctor JV'alcolm, Rev. A. G. rV arshall, Rev. Cornelius ]V:anlever, Rev. Mr. ]\ iller, Rev. And. ]\ 'Creery, Rev. Mr. "> 'Cleane, Rev. Wm. \ 'Osker, Rev. Hugh M'Keuna, Rev. Edw. SUBSCRIBERS NAMES. 35 Maitland, esq. Moore, Christ, esq. M'Kew, Robt. esq. M'Kinstry, Lee, esq ,...2 Millar, Wm. esq. IVi orris, Mrs. Ann M'Donald, Miss M'Gowan, Mrs. A. Mathers, Jo. esq. Maculla, Hugh, esq. M 'Masters, lieut. Armagh regt. M'Kenzie, Alex. esq. Moneypennny, Wm. esq. M'Gucken, James, esq. M'Creat, John, esq. Marshall, Jo. esq. M'Williams, Wm. esq 3 Maxwell, Mr. Sam 3 Maxwell, Miss Maxwell, Mr. James Morris, Mr. Thomas M'Cleland, Mr. Hugh Mackay, Mr. Alex 3 M'Clean, Mr. Andw. Mathews, Mrs. M'Adam, Mr. Jas. M'Adam, Mr. John M'Clean, Mr. Adam..... S M'Clean, Mr. Robt. Dublin Macklin, Mr. R. B. Maziere, Mr. Andw. Al'Lurkin, Mr. Wm. Wunn, Mr. John M'Cleery, Mr. James Miller, Mr. James M'Nair, Mr. Thos. M'Cracken, A r. John M'Kinstry, Mr. Lee, Glenn M'Crum, Mr. Wm. M'Wiiliam, Mr. Henry Maculla, Edw. esq. Maxwell, Mr. W. H. M'Dowell, Mr. Robt. Marshal, Mr. i. ichael M'Kee, Mr. John Morcwood, Mr. Samuel \ artin, Ur. A. M'Cune, Mr. James M'Clintock, Mr. J. Marshall, Mr. Andw. Surgeon M'Cameron, Mr. John M'Mullan, Mr. John M'Kibbin, Mr. Joseph Moreland, Mr. Andw. M'Maste:s, Mr. James Murray, Mr. King 3 May, Mr. San. May, Mr. Thos. M'lntire, Mr. Wm. May, Mr. Derry M'Kim, Mr. John Mackay, Mr. G. M'Kee, Mr. Barnet M'Kee, Mr. J. M'Gowan, Mr Wm. Millar, Mrs. Margaret Moffet, Mr, Robt. Moore, Mrs. M'Clenaghan, Mr. Jas. \. ollan, Wr . James. 'V ooney, Mr. T. M'Kenna, Mr. Francis !N 'Ilroy, Mr. A. M'Crum, Mr. Jno. M'Cabe, Mr. Wm. iV'Camiey, Mr. Chas. jua. ]V oore, Mrs. Moore, Mr. Wm. Kells M'Killop, Mr. Lamb N 'Allister, Mr. James M'Keough, Mr. Hugh ' ackev, Mr. James M'Cluskey, Mr. Edwd. Moore, Mr. I. M'Kinstry, ]\ r. Alex. i\ 'Kean, Mr. James A ontgomery, Mr. Hugh IN urray, Mr. Richd. M'Gennis, Mr. Daniel M'Kee, Mr. Dennis M'Bride, Mr. Adam M'Bride, Mr. Rob'.. 16 subscribers' names. Mosson, Air. George Magee, Mr. Mic. M'Clean, Mr. Francis Maywood, Mr. Robt. Mullen, Mr. Jno. ft'orrow, Mr. James M'Connell, Mr. Thos. ^/AfFee, Mr. Joseph Moreland, Mr. Stephen Moreland, Mr. Alexander jyj'Cunn, Mr. M alone, Mr. John, Dublin Mitchell, Mr. Alex. M'Cabe, Mr. Thos. M'Burney, Mr. Wm, Moore, Mr. David, Millvale Marshall, Mr. F. Moore, Mr. David Millar, Mr. Thos. M ur phy, Mr. John M'Kibbin, Mr. Robt. Moore, M. Wm. .A. 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Whittle, James, esq. 3 Tew, John, esq. Wade, N. esq. Trew, Andw. esq. Wade, C. esq. Thomson, Wm. esq. Belfast Woodhouse, Curran, esq. Thomson, John, esq. Walker, Chamberlain, esq. Thomson, John, esq. Derry White, Francis, esq. Telfair, Robert, esq. jun. White, James, esq. Turner, Robert, esq. Wallace, John, esq. Turkington, William, esq. Wade, Josiah, esq. Thomson, Robert, esq. Newry Wrixon, John, esq. Thomson, John, esq. M.D. Waller, Edw. A. esq. Thomson, Charles, esq. Waller, Richard, esq. Thomson, Mrs. Jane Wakefield, T. C. esq. Thomson, Mr. Samuel Wood, William, esq. Thackery, Rev. E. Wood, Mrs. Trail, Mr. Robert 2 Wood, Miss Thomson, Mrs. Susanna Wood, Miss Carolina Trouton, Mr. Charles Wood, Master Townley, Mr. William Wray Thomas, esq. Thomson, Mr. John Wood, Robert, esq. Trimble, Mr. Charles Walford, esq. Lieut. G4th Regt. Trimble, Mr. J. Warren, Richard B. esq. Turner, Mr. Jonathan Ward, S. N. esq. Taggart, Mr. James Ward, Edward, esq. Taylor, Mr. Robert Walsh, William, esq. Traynor, Mr. Thomas Waite, John, esq. Waring, T. esq. V Williamson, Robert, esq. Belfast Verner, James, esq. Winder, Captain, R. A. Verner, Thomas, esq. Walker, Captain Verner, William, esq. Williamson, Robt. esq. Lambeg Verner, John, esq. White, Miss Verschoyle, Richard, esq. Wilson, James, jun. esq. Vickers, Thomas, esq. Williams, Mr. Griffith Vickers Mrs. Walsh, Thomas esq. Vogan, Surgeon Whittington, Carles, esq. Vogan, Mr J. Whittaker, George, esq. Vance, Mrs. Warren, Mrs. Wilson, James, esq, W Wilson, Mr. James Woodward, major, Cavan Regt. Wilson, Rev. James Woodward, Rev. Richard, D.D. Wilson, Mrs. Lath Wilson, Thomas, esq 6 Whittle, Mr. John subscribers' names. 21 Wilson, Mr. Wm. Wright, Mr. William Wilson, Mr. William Watt, Mr. Samuel Williams, Mr. Nathaniel Williams, Mr. Joseph Ward, Mr. John Wright, Mr. John Watt, Mr. A. A. Walker, Mr. A. Walker, Mr. Thomas, junior Wihon, Mrs. Baltimore Weld, Mrs. Dublin Weid, Mr. Wells, Mr. Mathew Walker, Mr. George Wilson, Mr. Benjamin. Winter, Mr. Robert Whinnery, Mr. Thomas Ward, Mr. Jeremiah Walsh, Mrs. Jane Wright, Mr. John Wrightman,Mr. James Ward, Mr. Thomas Whittington, Mr. Richard Wallace, Mr. John Wallace, Mr. I. H. Wallace, Mr. A. White, Mr John 2 White, Mr. David Winter, Mr. Robert Wilson, Mr. Joseph Waugh, Mr. John Wilson, Mr. George Wynne, Mr. J. Walker, Mr. S. Watt, Mr. Hamilton. Ward, Mr. John Young, Lieut. Col.... Young, Rev. John.... Young, Walter, esq. Young, Mr. David Young, Mr. Wm. Yates, Mr. Robt. THE RETURNING TRAVELLER'S SOLILOQUY. X ROPITIOUS wind, awake, arise, " Breathe steady on the swelling sail, "Whilst light the bounding vessel flies " Before the gale ! *' O'er the dark billows of the main, " Ascend, ascend, O king of day, " And pour across the liquid plain, " Thy golden ray ! *' Then, shall my dear-loved native shore " Burst glorious on my raptured view, "And I will gaze her green hills o'er "And mountains blue. 2 THE RETURNING " I pant to see the verdant bowers, " The smiling lawn, the shady grove, " Where sportive fled my youthful hours, " In joy and love. " Blow fresh ye winds; Arise O tide ; " Rush quickly to the shore, O sea ! " Swift fly ye moments that divide «* My love and me ! " I sigh to fold her in my arms, " For ah ! three tedious years are gone, " Since last I saw her youthful charms, " In beauty's dawn. "These charms, now full matured by time, " Shall shine with more resplendent rays, " And I shall view her in her prime, " In beauty's blr.zc. TRAVELLER'S SOLILOQUY. 3 " Thus, in my dear-loved natiye vale, " I marked a flower beneath a thorn, " Half-opening in the balmy gale " To meet the morn. " When the third noon had tinged the sky, " I saw it ev'ry charm disclose, " Blushing it stood before the eye, " A full-blown rose. " Blow fresh ye winds ; Arise, O tid« ! " Rush quickly to the land, O sea ! " Swift fly ye moments that divide " My love and me! " Life of my life, for thee alone, " I traversed Africk's burning shore, " And sought amid the torrid zone, The golden ore. 4 THE RETURNING " Not for myself I toiled for wealth, *' My ardent hopes and cares were thine; " I would not barter rosy health " For Quito's mine. " In thee is placed my heart's sole pleasure, " For thee, I felt my travel sweet, " That I might lay earth's choicest treasure, " Low at thy feet. " Ah ! every heavy hour of toil, "The sleepless night, the tedious day, " Thy speaking glance, thy cherub smile " Shall well repay. " Oh it delights my faithful heart, " Thee, with life's noblest gifts to crown, " To place thee above Envy's dart, "And Fortune's frown. traveller's SOLILOQUY. i " Arise, arise, O purple morn ! " Blow stronger yet ye breezes kind ! " My thought, on Hope's strong pinions borne, « Outstrips the wind. "And Fancy holds before my eyes " The wonders of her magic glass, " Where pleasing scenes of future joys, " In vision pais. " I clasp Maria to my breast, " I see her cheeks with blushes glow, " I hear her tender love expressed " In murmurs low. '• And as I dwell upon the kiss " In visionary rapture sweet, " I feel her throbbing heart with bliss " Lcstatick beat. 6 THE RETURNING " Methinks I have already bowed *' With her before the powers above, " And at the sacred altar vowed " Connubial love. " Methinks I see an infant race, " With sparkling eyes that swim in glee, " And ruddy cheek, and cherub face, "Smile round my knee. " Arise, arise, O purple morn ; " Blow stronger yet ye breezes kind ; " My thought, on Hope's strong pinions borne, " Outstrips the wind. " Ha ! see, the rising king of day, " Emerging, skirts yon orient cloud, " Glorious he pours his golden ray, " Through twilight's shroud ! traveller's soliloquy. 7 " And as the shadowy vapour flies, " What pleasing objects meet my view ! " I see my native hills arise, " And mountains blue. "Joyous, before the fav'ring breeze, "That sweeps the bounding billows o'er, " Elate, we cut the parting seas, " And hail the shore. " O heavens, I see Maria there ! " Blushing she stands in all her charms, " I spring to clasp the panting fair, "In my fond arms! THE WIDOWED MATRON. " HENCE, idle hope ! false world adieu ! "My every joy in life is gone; " Ah ! what have I with hope to do > " It died with thee, ray darling son. " Though Sorrow "marked me for her own," " And I had felt her bitter smart, "And stern Affliction's coldest frown " Had chilled the pulses of my heart ; " Of every other bliss bereft, " My fancy fondly turned to thee, " For thou, my sweetest child, wert left, " And thou wert all the world to me ! THE WIDOWED MATRON. ** When I beheld thy blooming face, "In beauty's rising charms, display " The winning smile and manly grace " Of him who stole my heart away : " Thou wert to me a morning light, " Thou wert to me a moontide beam, ** And in the slumbers of the night " I clasped thee in Affection's dream. " And when I viewed thy tender mind " Taste's fairest forms with joy receive, " And every impulse, bland and kind, " That hope could wish, or precept give : u When in the mirror of thine eye " Each imaged virtue seemed to glow, " Pure as the tints of morning sky " Reflected in the lake below : 10 THE WIDOWED MATRON, " I fondly hoped thy gentle love "Would cheer the evening of my day, " Thy fdial smile a beam would prove, " To guide me on my lonely way. " Hence, idle hope; false world adien? " My every joy in life is gone, " Ah ! what have I with hope to do > " 'Tis buried with my darling son ! " So the light ray, that shoots on high, "Through watry clouds, its radiant form, " (Vain promise of a brighter sky,) " Is but the harbinger of storm. " Tnou, shouldst have caught my parting breath, " And shed for me the starting tear ; "But I have closed thine eyes in death,, "And mournful wept upon thy bier. THE WIDOWED MATRON. 1 1 " And art thou ever, ever fled ? "And will the pitying pow'rs above '•' Grant no communion with the dead, ""No converse with the souls we love ? " O could I mount the realms of bliss, " My spirit, rapt in love divine, " Would greet thee with a sainted kiss, " And blend in ecstacy with thine ! -'But ah, on earth, hills, groves and plains " To me seem wrapt in hateful gloom ! '•' One only spot belov'd remains, "The spot that bears my William's tomb, " And yet, to sooth my widowed hours, " Is left one melancholy joy ; "To deck that lonely tomb with flowers, " Weeping o'er thee, my lovely boy." SENSIBILITY. JL HE melting tear, the tender sigh^ The language of the speaking eye, The thrill of ecstacy divine, Imagination's airy dream, And the rapt poet's wildest theme, Sweet Sensibility, are thine. Thine too, is Beauty's virgin blush, Soft as the morning's rosy flush, Tinging the sky with glowing charms; Thine too, her lip's delightful wile, Sweet as a dreaming infant's smile, Light, slumb'ring in its mother's arms. SENSIBILITY. 13 Fancy, for thee, with living light, Pierces the sable robe of Night, That darkly curtains future years ; And lo ! before thy wond'ring eyes, Hope's gayest scenes in prospect rise, And Joy, with dimpled cheek appears ! And Mem'ry, queen of magick power, Recalls for thee, the vanished hour, And kindly gives thee back to bliss, To fond Affection's gentlest flow, And Friendship's pure and ardent glow., And Love's ambrosial kiss, Hark ! o'er the harp's resounding strings, His viewless hand, soft Zephyr flings, And musick wildly floats around ! Thrilled by the rapture-breathing tone, Thy heart, " with bliss before unknown," Responsive, vibrates to the sound. 14 SENSIBILITY. Is there on earth, from pole to pole, One kind emotion of the soul, One lambent beam of love divine, To mortal man in mercy given; A foretaste of the sweets of heaven ; O Sensibility, 'tis thine ! Thine, is the happy mother's joy, When leaning o'er her infant boy, With all a parent's transport blest, She fondly-smiling, loves to trace The father's features in his face, And clasp the cherub to her breast. And thine are all the visions bright, That hover through the blissful night, Round meek-eyed Pity's peaceful bed ; Till roused by morning's orient ray, She smiles the pangs of Care away, And raises Sorrow's lowly head. SENSIBILITY. 15 Why breathes she oft the feeling sigh ? And wherefore trembles in her eye, The tear for anguish not her own ? O " child of pleasure, child of woe," Thou badst the tender stream o'erflow, At piercing Mis'ry's melting moan ! Sweeter to thee that starting tear, To Sympathy and Mercy dear, Than all the splendid pomp of power; The idle blaze of wealth and state, Vain pageants of the falsely great, That vanish with the fleeting hour. Thou art the solace of man's day, The star, that guides him on his way, Through Rapture's glow, or Sorrow's gloom ; Even to that hour, his faithful friend, When Death his varied course shall end. And sweep him to the silent tomb. 16 SENSIBILITY. And when his eye hath ceased to beam, His heart, to pour its vital stream, "Wilt thou too rest in dreamless sleep ? No ! — Thou wilt then teach tender sighs, For him, from other breasts to rise» And other eyes to weepv VICISSITUDE, A SIMILE. 1 SAW the bright king of the morning arise From Ocean's blue surface serene, When calm was its bosom, and cloudless the skies, And the landscape was mantled with green. Soft warbled the lark, o'er his down-covered nest, And cheered his loved mate with his lay ; And bright, as he soared through the sky, on his breast Gleamed the purple effusion of day. The birds were awoke from the slumbers of night, Their transports were breathed on the gale, And Nature was pleased with the pure robe of light That was spread on the face of the vale. 18 VICISSITUDE. So sweet seemed the flowrets that bloomed in the lawn, As they bent in the morn's pearly dew, I thought in my heart, it was like the first dawn, That blushed when creation was new. But clouds in the north began soon to unfold, Wide-sweeping, their shadowy form, Their skirts as they floated, seemed burnish'd with gold, Yet their bosoms were pregnant with storm. Then murky the face of the atmosphere grew, And the winds began loudly to roar ; The billows of Ocean rose dark on the view, As they wildly rolled on to the shore. No longer the birds sung the raptures of love, The flowrets no more breathed perfume, The blossoms were torn from the face of the grove, And Nature lay buried in gloom: VICISSITUDE. 19 An emblem methought of man's varying hour, When the dawn of his youth smiles serene, He basks in the sunshine of pleasure and power And Hope's softest ray gilds the scene. But his prospects of joy are too soon overspread* And dissolve like a vision in air, The bolt of misfortune descends on his head, And he sinks in the night of despair. NOON. vJN heaven's cerulean arch the king of day Now walks sublime, and o'er the glowing skies A brighter glory spreads. The sunny hills In beamy verdure shine. A lucid robe Mantles the woods and vales, and tumbling streams, That murm'ring down the mountains' heath-clad side, Tremble in light. The morning dews are fled, Drank by the sunbeam, at whose noon-day glance The floating vapour and the fleecy cloud Expand to thinnest air. Before the eye Gazing intense, the lucid atmosphere Seems quiv'ring quick, in undulating wreaths, With ceaseless motion. Meanwhile, sultry sighs The western breeze, and with its tepid wing NOON. 21 Scarce moves the trembling aspin. In the grove, Beside the river's daisy-spangled bank, The ruminating cattle stand and breathe Pure vital air, shed in the balmy gale, By health-diffusing trees.* Their od'rous breath. Back to the breeze, delicious fragrance gives, Exhaling grateful perfume. Drooping now, The fainting flow'rs recline their feeble heads, In languid elegance; the blaze of noon Hath scorched their tender veins. The lily shines With fading splendour; and the tulip bows His form majestick; while the crimson rose More faintly blushes. Thirsty all they seem And eager to imbibe the evening dews, Whose liquid orbs shall cool their burning leaves, And renovate their charms. Then shall they glow With tenfold lustre, and when humid night * The leaves of trees emit oxygen gas during the heat of the dav. 22 NOON. Hath fled the dawn, meet the young eye of mora, In Beauty's brightest flush. So timid shrinks The youthful lover, at the scornful glance Of his fair idol : pensively he pines, 'Till melting soft, once more her kindling eye Speaks tenderness, and round her coral lips Play gentle smiles, that charm his fears away. Now deep, beneath the clear and tranquil lake, The mimick landscape glows in all its charms, With soft and mellow tints: Hills, lawns and woods, A sylvan scene, and heaven's ethereal arch Circling the orb of day, reflected shine In mildest splendour. And old Ocean's waves, Seen through yon vista, in a thousand streams Refract the glittering sunbeam. On the tide Rides the proud galley ; whilst the half-filled sail Flaps in the dying breeze, the sailor sees On the blue main, the lofty mast project A shorter shadow, and delighted views NOON* 23 The coming hills, in all their charms arrayed. To him, long absent from his native bowers, Affection's colours tinge the rural scene, With hues of tenfold loveliness. His eye, Wand'ringfrom vale to vale, and wood to wood, Enraptured sees at last the curling smoke, Light wreathing o'er the cottage, where retired The lovely partner of his joys and cares Dwells with her smiling babes ; and musing deep On all the perils of the watry waste, Sighs for her absent spouse ; and gazing oft On her sweet prattlers, lifts her melting eye. In silent prayer, to him who stills the waves, And guides the wand'rer o'er the azure main. Lo ! resting for a moment from his toil, The sinewy ploughman leaves the fallowed land Half- furrowed j while the hungry birds descend And snatch with eager bill the writhing w ? orm ! The panting steed, beneath the friendly &hade, 24 NOON. Enjoys sweet respite, and his moistened sides Smoke in the sunbeam. See, the patient steer, Freed from the cumbrous draught, delighted quaffs The pure and cooling stream ; and idle rests The glitt'ring ploughshare on the ridgy mould ! Blithe, o'er the meadow's wide extended plain, A youthful group, amid the new-mown hay, In playful labour sports. Here, rural maids, Flushed by the sunbeam, toss with active hands The perfume-shedding grass; and swains alert Ply the toothed rake, and draw in circling wreaths, The tedded hay, or build with rustick skill The lofty cock. Eager they urge the work, Lest through the redd'ning skies, the lightning burst, Heralding thunder; and the gushing rains Deluge the valley. Wide around the mead, Loud laughter rings; for jest and jocund prank, And village jibe, and Joy himself are there, And rosy Mirth, with sweetly-dimpled cheek, NOON. 25 Who smiles away their toils. Now o'er the fields, Th' imprisoned ears of young and tender grain Burst the green shot-blade, and luxuriant spring, To meet the stream of day. The barley rears Aloft it's barbed spears. The milky wheat Stands in full blossom, and the farmer sees Rejoiced the oat extend its branching head And the tall rye lift up its coarser form. Anticipation to his sanguine soul Gives the full harvest, and his fancy views The golden grain, in treasured heaps arise, Upon his groaning floors : yet sometimes shoots A sudden terror through his anxious heart, Lest baleful blight should change the swelling grain, To orbs of dusky pulp; or mildew come, And round the withering stem, and shrivelled ear. His loathed embraces twine, and ruthless drain From the shrunk plant, the bland nectareous juice. 26 NOON. Fled are the early blossoms of the spring, That in the orchard's close-embow'ring shade Poured softest incense on the balmy air, Sweet as the breath of Flora, when she comes, Scatt'ring her fragrant roses. Now the pear Inverted dangles, and the apple swells It's orb, scarce redd'ning. Soon it's glowing cheek Shall blush with deeper hues, and the plump fruit, In mellow ripeness, tempt the school-boy's hand. Warmed by the fervid sun, the sycamore, Whose friendly arms, through many a wintry storm, Shielded the tender fruit-trees from the blast, ■Fours through the surface of its spongy leaf, The honied fluid ; and the vagrant fly, Pcor, thoughtless victim of voluptuous joy, Lured by the fragrance of the nectared dew, Amid the viscous liquid dips his wings, And, in the luscious banquet, feasts and die?. NOON. £7 Me, it delights to fly the noon-day blaze And wander thoughtful, round those sloping hills, Where the tall pine, and wide extending oak Project their deepest shadows. Much I love, From the grove's skirt, through shelving lawns to view Yon glassy lake, winding in gentle curve Around its willowy borders. There with joy The feathered nations sport : the dapple duck Dips for the finny fry: there float the teal And widgeon, streaked wilh undulating lines, Alternate black and white. King of the lake, The stately swan, of snowy plumage bright, Majestick sails; high-curved, his silver wing Collects the passing gale : his downy neck In arch elliptick bends ; beneath the wave, He plies his ebon feet, and bold he floats, In conscious beauty proud, as if aware That Jove himself, to win the bashful maid, Had wrapt the godhead in hi* graceful form. 28 NOON. And oft, it joys to steal in silence on, Behind the thicket, and to view unseen The tenants of the lawn, a harmless race ; There dwells the timid hare, who ceaseless moves His vibratory lip; the rabbit there, Emerging fearful, from her dark retreat, Nibbles the tender herbage ; and the stag, With sparkling eye and branching antlers vast, Lifts up his graceful head. With ear erect, He listens to the passing gale, and hears The shepherd's pipe, delighted. Now he springs, With limb elastick, o'er the sunny plain, Then stops, and in the thicket's deepest shade Stands ruminating; till alarmed he spies, Quick passing through the thick-embow'ring trees. The hostile greyhound ; fleeter than the wind, He bounds along the glade, mounts the steep hill, Then pauses; and with eye of ardent gaze, Ponders his danger. Now 'tis sweet to view, NOON. 29 Deep in the grove, the feathered race retired, Shunning the fervid heat: mid rustling leaves Silent they sit, or breathe their tender loveu In sudden fits of interrupted song And pant for evening gales. Yet bolder birds Pour forth their rougher tones. Hoarse caws the rook From the tall fir-tree ; and the perter pie, Garrulous chatters ; while the raven croaks Harsh dissonance, and wheeling round and round, In many a circle, imprecations dire Vengeful repeats, against th' unfeeling boy, Who laughing, robs her of her callow young. Loud screaming, from the summit of the pine, The bird of Juno calls his absent mate. Descend, thou loveliest of the plumy race And in full glory burst upon the sight, Expanding wide thy many-coloured train, Spangled with vivid crescents, that outshine The stars resplendent, when the dewy night, Around the pole, hath sprinkled all the sky 30 NOON. With glitt'ring orbs of light. A thousand hues Of glossy brightness, tinge thy moving wings, And shining breast; thy head of purple die Commixed with green, thou proudly bear'st aloft, And glorying in pre-eminence of form, And majesty unrivalled, gazest round In conscious beauty, challenging applause. Pent in their narrow channels, gently glide The lessened rivers, for the garish sun And the scorched banks drink half the passing stream. Clear through the surface, shines the speckled trout Meeting the coming waters ; and the eel Scarce in the bottom hides his slenrler form, Twining through bending reeds. The daffodil Stands in full flow'r, and water-lilies spread Their snowy charms, and vyeeping willows bow Their pliant heads, enamoured of the stream. Light sport the insect tribes, on tender wing, Their little hour; while fleet the swallow glides, NOON. 31 And through the pervious air his prey pursues, To man invisible ; oft as he wheels And shoots along, he dips his passing wing Alternate in the stream. Him, as he stoops O'er reedy lake, to seize th' aquatick fly, The pike voracious marks, and rapid springs On his unwary prey, and bears him down, Tw'n in the moment, when the hapless bird, With eager bill, had seized his glitt'ring prize. Thus oft, beneath th' unerring shaft of death, The ruthless warriour, in his red career Of conquest falls ; ev'n at the very hour, When Vict'ry crowns him, and when Glory twines Her wreath of blood-stained laurels round his brow. Oft, on the margin of yon winding stream, Shunning the bustle of the busy world, lis fjlitt'ring pageants, and its empty joys, The melancholy man dejected pores I [ion i he babbling waters; or retired 52 NOON. In gloomy glade, he listens to the voice Of mimick Echo, nymph of many tongues, Who, from her rocky cell, invisible, With more mellifluous tones, idly repeats Each passing sound ; the sad and sullen roar Of falling oak, felled by the woodman's axe, With stroke reiterate ; the noisy clack Of yonder mill, that with the varying breeze Alternate swells and sinks ; the low of herds ; The soft and silver tinklings of the fold, The dash of falling stream, that tumbles down Steep, brok'n rocks, abrupt; and the slow knell, Tolling from village church its warning sad, In solemn tremblings o'er the sinking soul. Here too, the unsuccessful lover roams, Musing his sorrows; or in anguish hears The moaning ring-dove's lamentable plaint, Re-echo through the grove ; or languid lists To the low murmurs of the dying breeze, NOON. S3 Bending the willows ; or the beechen leaf, Whisp'ring to Zephyr, as his silken wing Brushes the verdant foliage. Happier he, Who in the woodbine arbour social sits. And gazing on the maid his soul adores, Hears from her lip the softly breathing song Melodious flow; or sees her speaking eye Beam with the lambent fire of purest love, And conscious feels that purest love his own. And oft, amid these solitary shades, Divine Philosophy delighted walks, Poiurring on Nature's volume. Ev'ry plant Spread on the valley; ev'ry tender flow'r That gems the breezy lawns; Each trembling taaf That flutters in the gale, and ev'ry bird Wild warbling in the woodland ; hills, and streams, And cultured vallies, and the mountain waste. And all the sylvan scene, that glows around.. r 34 NOON. To him suggest unutterable thoughts. His soul, in awe and solemn silence wrapt, Explores the cause of these amazing things, And finds that cause in heav'n. Devotion comes, Companion of his walk; a meek-eyed maid, Who holds high converse with the God of Gods. Where'er she moves, through dark-embow'ring grove, Or vale, or sunny hill, or shadowy glade, She feels him present. Nature's glorious works, The azure sea, the flow'r-enamelled earth, The glowing atmosphere, and op'ning heavens, Insphered in light, form to her ardent soul A mighty vista, whence with raptured eye She views her God and father. u King of Kings, And Lord of Lords," the universe proclaims Itself thy creature ! Lo ! the mighty sun, From world to world, transmits th' eternal truth On moving wings of light. Ethereal space, Beyond the limits of the solar beam, NOON. 35 Encircling systems, whose resplendent blaze, Lost in immensity, hath never glanced Through countless years, on earth's remotest orb, Filled with thy presence, owns thy power divine. O ! could Devotion's ardent spirit soar Sublime, upon the lightning's rapid beam, Beyond the milky way, where never yet Hath solar comet wheeled his red career ; Or could she plunge beyond the realms of light, Where Darkness sits enthroned in sable clouds, Ev'n there, would she behold thee; and the gloom Pierced by thy living glance, would blaze at once, With all the splendours of eternal day. Great source of life ! from thy omniBck word Sprang all the active energies that glow In sentient beings, down through varied ranks; Descending in gradation from the hosts Of spirits pure, who in the heav'n of h'jav'ns Hymn forth thy praises, to the insect tribes SO NOON. That wanton in the gale ; and lower still, Down to the race minute, whose slender forms, Wrapt in transcendent littleness, evade Investigation's pow'rs. The least of these, No less than yon resplendent sun, demands Omnipotence itself to call it forth, From nothing to existence. Who can tell The limits of thy works ? The earth, the heav'ns, And all the starry worlds that sweep through space Their glorious circuit, at thy mighty word Rushed into being. Their stupendous orb?, That seem eternal, shall dissolve away In splendid ruin, at th' appointed hour, When from thy living throne thou shalt transmit Thine awful mandate. Spectacle sublime ! When all the nations of ten thousand world?, Bursting the chains of death, shall soar aloft Ev'n to the heav'n of heav'ns, and mingling there With angels and archangels, shall behold NOON. 37 The blaze terrifick ; 'till the melting mass Fade on the gazing eye, and nought remain, Save vacant space, a vast and formless void. Tremendous thought ! Yet more amazing scenes Haply shall meet their view. A day may come. When thou shalt congregate around thy throne Myriads of angels, and exalted souls Of men made perfect. Through the deep abyss Of space immense, thy awful voice shall rush, " Come forth another universe ! " and Lo ! Obedient to the call, ten thousand suns Shall stream forth glory ! With the least of these Yon orb of day compared, would seem a star Of faintest splendour; countless worlds shall spring At once to being, and the virgin light, Bursting the sphere of darkness, shall diffuse Its golden mantle o'er the new-born earth ! Then shall the rising hills and vallies shine In gayest verdure, and the gentle gales 38 NOON. Waft fragrance softer than the balmy breath Of infant Zephyr; when with untried wing, He first essayed to bend the blooming trees Of paradise, and mingle with his sweets The perfume of their blossoms. Rosy hues Celestial, such as mortal never saw, Shall tinge the atmosphere, and the young sky- Meet the new sun with blushes. Ev'ry sphere Shall teem with living creatures, who amazed At their own being, and transcendent powers, Shall gaze with wonder at the novel scene ; And struck with awe, lift their astonished eyes To thee, their great creator.' The new heav'ns And earth shall echo with the sacred hymns, And loud resounding tones of grateful joy, From cherubim and seraphim. For lo, Already, ev'ry orb begins to move In mystic dance, around its central sun, Wheeling its grand career ! And ev'ry sun, NOON. 39 Bearing these minor worlds, through boundless space, With force resistless round the heav'n of heay'ns, In mighty circuit sweeps : thy throne itself, Their common centre ; and the moving pow'r, The great, eternal, and omniscient God. THE DREAM, BY A DECEASED FRIEND. 1 HE moon with mild reflected light, Had decked the blue serene, And all the silver host of night, Paid homage to their queen. The gentle pow'rs of soft repose, O'er all my senses stole, When lo ! in matchless beauty rose The idol of my soul ! The lovely, yielding shade, methought, With eager arms I pressed : Ah ! could the substance thus be caught, How would mv soul be blessed ! THE DREAM. 41 Swift flew my heart on Rapture's wing. To meet each melting kiss, Ye gods, what real transports spring From visionary bliss ! But soon, the streaming source of li^htc With all-diffusive beam, Shed on my soul a tenfold night, And broke my golden dream. Ah night ! a love-sick mind to heal, This envious sun remove ! Once more, mine eyes in slumber seal, That I may see my love. THE MANIAC. PlAH ! who is she with folded hands That gazes on the stream, And wrapt in melancholy stands, Beneath the lunar beam ? Her cheek is as the lily pale, And sunk her hazel eye, And quick and frequent on the gale She pours the melting sigh. Her auburne tresses wildly flow, Dishevelled on the air, The image she of heart-struck wo, Sublimed into despair. THE MANIAC. 43 Ah she was once the loveliest maid Of all the virgin train, That on the banks of Lagan strayed. Or Breda's flow'ry plain! " Beneath a tender mother's eye, Rosanna flourished fair ;" She knew no sorrow, breathed 'no sigh, And felt no anxious care. Sweet as the violet that blows, Beneath the shelt'ring thorn, And blooming as the blushing rose, Tinged by the ray of morn. Evander saw the maiden bright, Amid the female throng, " Transcendent as the queen of night, The silver stars an)on And beauty-beaming face. THE MANIAC. 45 Soft blushes, deep'ning on her cheek, A brighter bloom impart, And looks, in living language, speak The feelings of the heart. And soon the village bells ring round, The merry roundelay* And loud and blithe, the jocund sound Proclaims their wedding day. The rising sun with orient light, Inhales night's dewy tears, When clad in robes of purest white, The bridal train appears. Now see beneath the rosy dawn The gay procession move, Led graceful, o'er the flowery lawn, By Hymen and by Love. 46 THE MANIAC. Why rush those naval sons of blood Across yon gloomy glade, From the deep covert of the wood, And wave the murd'rous blade K The ruthless band Evander leads, Impelled by jealous rage ; Can Britain's law permit such deeds, Such war can Britons wage ? Like tigers, furious from their lair, The ruffians sweep along, And William from Rosanna tear, Amid the bridal throng. Vain is the female's piercing cry, And their loud shriek of fear, Vain too their pitv-asking eye, And Beauty's pearly tear. THE MANIAC. 47 A wand'ring sailor doomed to roam. Poor William sighed forlorn, From love, from happiness and home, By savage malice torn. And lost Rosanna, sad and pale, Through woods and shady groves, From hill to hill, from dale to dale, In silent sorrow roves. One evening, near the sounding shore, In melancholy gloom, She listened to the surges' roar, And bittern's hollow boom. For lately o'er the sea and sky The tempest fierce had passed, And still the billows mountain high, roamed in the sinking blast. 48 THE MANIAC. And lightnings bursting through the gloom Gleamed round the welkin wide, And seamen met a watry tomb Amid the raging tide. Then as the heaving surges rolled. Dark on the sea-beat strand, Behold a corse, all pa'e and cold, Dashed on the yellow sand ! Heart-struck, she saw her William's form, And chill through ev'ry vein, Shot Horror's agonizing storm, And Phrensy's madd'ning pain. Oft since that hour, in deep despair, The hapless maniac flies, And torn by anguish, rends the air, With sorrow's wildest cries. THE MANIAC. 49 And oft, as now, with folded hands, She gazes on the stream ; And, rapt in melancholy, stands Beneath the lunar beam. WOMAN. WHEN half creation's works were done, Just formed the stars, the glowing sun, And softly blushing skies; And wide across earth's dewy lawn Gleamed the first glances of the dawn, And flowers began to rise : Clad in her robe of tender green, Nature delighted viewed the scene, Pleased with each novel form ; And from each sweetly-opening flower, From hill and vale and shady bower, She culled some lovely charm. WOMAN. 51 Soft o'er the lily's glowing white, Tinged with the trembling ray of light, She shed the rose's flush; Just as the first-born morning gale, Light-breathing o'er the spicy vale, Deepened its virgin blush. She drew the diamond from the mine, And lustre from the stars that shine Amid the cloudless sky ; And purest pearls, obscurely spread, In ocean's dark and gloomy bed, Remote from mortal eye. She took the balmy vi'let's blue, The sweet carnation's mellow hue, Rich with the tear of night ; Though the young beam of rising day, Had melted half that tear away, In the first stream of light. 55 WOMAN. And now in elegance arrayed, Her last, her fairest work she made, Almost a seraph's frame : To animate this form was given A gentle spirit sent from heaven, And Woman was her name. Then on her softly-smiling face She lavished every winning grace, And every charm was there ; Upon her eye the vi'let's blue, Upon her cheek the rose's hue, The lily every where. Yes, on that eye was seen to play The lustre of the stellar ray, The diamond's humid glow ! She threw, to form her bosom's globe, Life's tender flush and Beauty's robe, On wreaths of virgin snow. WOMAN. 53 Then Woman's lips in smiles withdrew Thfcir veils of rich carnation hue And pearls appeared beneath ; And blest Arabia seemed to pour The perfumes of its spicy store, To mingle with her breath. Hark ! hark, she speaks, and silver strains, Melodious floating o'er the plains, A nameless joy impart ! The nightingale hath caught the tone, And made that melting voice his own, That vibrates on the heart. Fond Nature cast her glance around The glowing sky, the flow'ry ground, The day-diffusing sun ; On Woman last, her darling child, She gazed ; and said with accent mild, " Creation's work is done." THE SETTING SUN. -NOW the low sun, declining in the west, O'er yon blue arch, a stream of glory pours; Bright o'er the mountain tops, his golden face In broad refulgence flames. O'er heaven's expanse The air-borne clouds, with lucid skirts of gold, Sportive, ten thousand varying forms assume, And ever changeful hues, gay as the dies Of trembling light, that tinge th' ethereal bow. Steeds, chariots, cities, cataracts and towers, And waving groves, and isles of liquid gold Floating in azure seas; and hostile hosts That menace airy tumult, seem to move On wings of wind fantastick. Sudden springs A transient blast, and sweeps along the skies THE SETTING SUN. 55 Low-murmuring, and the mimick forms are fled, Like a gay dream, before the glance of morn. Thus fly the visions of the dawn of life, When wayward youth and Fancy's idle train Dance through the magick maze of sensual joy, Sporting voluptuous ; 'till the blasts of care Dissolve the airy spell ; and Anguish conies And draws his gloomy curtain o'er the scene. Behold, across the bosom of the air, The trembling sunbeams shoot their radiant forms, In horizontal lines; and distant scenes, Hills, rocks and cities, battlements and spires, Seen o'er the summit of yon waving grove, Shine in the parting ray serenely bright, In golden splendour. Misty wreaths ascend, Grey o'er the passing streams, and dewy tears Already gem the cowslips' slender form With liquid pearls. The odour-breathing rose Prepares to shut its crimson lips and bend 56 THE SETTING SUN. Its blushing head, lest the chill breath of night Should blast its balmy sweets. The gentle birds Pour to the setting sun their vocal lays, And tune their farewell song : and now I hear The low soft musick, and the notes of love Steal through the list'ning grove. And now again The loud, shrill strains, swoll'n by the sighing wind, Float through the balmy air, and mount aloft Wildly melodious, to the cope of heav'n; Then, in a melting cadence die away. Base must he be, whose inharmonious soul Feels no vibrations to the gentle sound Of Innocence and Joy, when Nature pours Her untaught song to charm the raptured ear ! Him, nor the soothing voice of love could move ; Nor should the goddess Harmony descend From her bright throne, where she attunes the spheres, Would her celestial musick ought avail, To melt his rugged and unfeeling heart. THE SETTING SUN. 57 The groves are silent, till the creaking rail, From the close covert of the waving grass, Breaks through the stillness of retiring eve, With endless clamour. Loud resounding glades And fragrant meadows, hillocks, dales and lawns, Filled with his tones, repeat the ceaseless song. And now, behind the mist-embosomed head Of yonder mountain, sinks the setting sun. Far o'er the shadowy east, his dapple wings Grey Twilight spreads. Hills, rocks, and deep'ning woods, In doubtful vision, swim before the sight ; 'Till o'er the less'ning objects, Darkness comes And sweeps his sombrous circle. Solemn gloom Inspheres heaven, earth and ocean : yet behold, Still in the west, a purple gleam of day Breaks through the ring of night ! Ev'n thus retire, In crimson streams, the vital pow'rs of man Around the heart, when icv Sickness coaies 58 THE SETTING SUN. And chills the sinking frame. Faint and more faint, Throbs the low pulse, and with a feebler ray Gleams the dull eye, till ev'ry beam expires, Wrapt in the silent night of cheerless death. YOUTH. x OUTH is the vision of a morn, That flies the coming day ; It is the blossom on the thorn, By rude winds swept away. 'Tis like the charming hue that glows Soft on a virgin's face, Till care hath nipped her fading rose, And withered ev'ry grace. It is the image of the sky, In glassy waters seen ; When not a cloud appears to fly Across the blue serene. 60 YOUTH. But when the waves begin to roar And lift their foaming head, The roimick stars appear no more, And all the heav'n is fled. 'Tislike the dying tones that flow From an iEolian lyre, When passing spirits seem to throw Soft magick o'er the wire. Or like a cloud of fleecy form, Seen on an April day; That veers before the comin<* storm, Then weeps itself away. Tis fleeting as the passing rays Of bright electrick fire, That gild the pole with sudden blazf. And in that blaze expire. YOUTH. And tender as the fil my threads, Which in the dewy dawn, From flow'r to flow'r A^ ow r Ar achne spreads, Wide o'er the verdant lawn. Jt is the morning's gentle gale, That, as it softly blows, Scarce seems to sigh across the vale, Or bend the blushing rose. But soon the jrathprlnn. ♦ , „atnenng tempests pour, And all the sky def orm • The gale becomes the whirlwind's roar. The sigh a raging storm ; Tor Care and Sorrow's morbid gloom, And heart-corroding strife, Andsickne ^ Pointing to the tomb, Await the noon of life. THE QUAKERS. ~*- FROM the rude tumults and the storms of life, The pangs of anguish and the toils of care, To yonder peaceful scenes, the wearied soul Delighted turns. Hail to thy cultured plains Moyallen,* where the magick hand of Taste, With pow'r creative, parcels out thy fields, In simple elegance and rural charms ! The hedge-row green, the gently-sloping lawn, The vista, op'ning through the shady grove ; The rivulet, soft murm'nng round the mead •Moyallen is in the neighbourhood of Tandragee; a colony of quakers is settled in this charming spot, and in the adjoining townland of Stramore. THE QUAKERS. 63 With sun-tinged stream ; the many-coloured copse That crowns the verdant hill ; the deep'ning glade Seen darkly through the wood ; the garden fair. Where Cultivation, through the gay parterres, Opes all her beauties to the eye of day. And lo! amid thy verdant vallies dwells In elegance and ease, a gen'rous race Of mild philanthropists, whom bigot zeal Hath nicknamed quakers. Scanty they of creed And theologick dogma, but sublime Their moral code, and exquisitely framed To tranquillize the passions' furious gusts, That through the gulfs of misery and vice, Hurry bewildered souls. In gentle arts Of industry and joy, time glides along With them in peaceful current. Happy men ! No fiery leader, turbulent of soul, Conducts them to the crimsoned fields of war, There to imbrue, in sanguinary fight, Their hands in human gore. Ah, not on them 64 THE QUAKERS. Descend the widows' curse, the orphans' tear, The father's groan ; when mad Ambition's hand, With murd'rous sword, hath swept the tented field, And left them friendless, in a world of woe, Weeping their sorrows ! Persecution's torch Hath never led them in nocturnal march To fire their neighbour's domes. No headlong zeal Of false religion drives them furious on To deeds of desolation, war and blood ; In impious hope, to please the God of peace, Hy murdering his creatures. Who hath met, Of all the sect, a single son forlorn, Wand'ring in squalid garb, with visage pale, A puling mendicant ? Or in the streets, Hath seen a daughter, helpless and undone, The wretched victim of intemperance, With aspect wanton, and lascivious eye, Leer on the passengers. Go search the haunts Where Av'rice vile, his anxious vigil keeps, And the base soul hangs trembling in suspense, THE QUAKERS. 65 While from the hurried hand, the rolling die Or painted card, pregnant with fate descends; There will be found the furrowed brow of Care, Deep marked with lines of thought: stern Anguish there. Herald of suicide, tremendous frowns Upon the sordid gamester, passion's slave, Who scatters to the wind, the little store That God had given him, in a happier hour, To feed his helpless babes. And there Remorse, From Time receives a catalogue of crimes And list of murdered hours. But never yet, Hath Quaker there been found; nor in the cells, Where, amidst noisome damps, imprisoned lies The bolted robber, or the felon thief Groans out his sleepless nights; save when he comes At Pity's call, upon the wounded soul To pour the balm of comfort, or diffuse A gleam of joy across the lonely gloom K 6(> THE QUAKERS. Of Mis'ry and Despair. Nor in the courts, Where Litigation's never-ending voice Prolongs eternal contest, brings he forth Feigned tales of varnished wrongs. He never bows Before the idol Fashion, nor consumes The moments pregnant with eternal fate, In midnight revels, or the tinsel glare Of fancied pleasure and voluptuous joy, Parents of Anguish. In his peaceful dome, Domestick bliss and social comfort smile The passing hours away. His tender babes Taught Virtue's sacred pi'ecepts, from his lip With fond caresses and with grateful heart, Receive the lesson pure. How sweet to see The father leaning o'er his infant son, With looks that beam delight ; while the loved boy. All eye, all ear, in mute attention fixed, Imbibes the words of knowledge ! Thus the morn, Soft-smiling, joys to shed her fragrant dews On Spring's young blossoms; and the op'ning flower- THE QUAKERS. 67 Drink in the balmy drops, 'till all their charms Expand in liquid lustre on the view. His feeling heart, by sordid thirst of gold* Untainted, scorns the execrable trade In human blood. Across th' Atlantick wave, He never tore from Africk's burning coast The miserable wretch whom ruthless pow'r Had found soft-slumb'ring in his rural cot Amidst his gentle babes; that thoughtless man Who wrapt in dreams of tenderness and bliss, * The quakers have used every possible exertion, both in America and Europe, to procure the abolition of the slave trade. They have also laboured indefatigably to obtain a radical reform in our penal code of laws, a sys- tem which inflicts the same indiscriminate and bloody vengeance on crimes utterly dissimilar in their nature. To a quaker the world is indebted for the Lancastrian scheme of education, whicli may probably form a new- era in human knowledge; and to James Bradshaw, a dis- tinguished member of the same sect, Ireland owes the introduction of the machinery for manufacturing diaper and damask, and the apparatus so successfully u«cd fur a long period of time, in the bleaching of linen. 68 THE QUAKERS. Had slept a freeman, but awoke a slave. He who indignant drags the load of life, Far from his native bow'rs and dear-loved home, Where weeps his spouse whose eyes shall never more Speak to his heart unutterable things, Soft-beaming love and rapture. He who bears On foreign shores, the cold unfeeling scorn Of pampered pride, the vile and galling lash Of petty tyrants,, and the nameless pangs Of mem'ry mingling with his present woes., Ideal scenes of long-departed hliss And pleasures fled for ever. He who lifts To God his tearful eye and asks with groans, The grateful boon of death; and wonders much, Why from the op'ning skies, the bolt of heaven Descends not or the lightning's living fires On wings of vengeance sweeps not. from the world The savage wretch, whose boundless rage for gold And unrelenting tyranny, have wrung His bleeding heart with torture and despair. THE QUAKERS. 69 Before his fellow man the Quaker stands In conscious virtue bold ; nor dreads he aught The scorn of princes, or the frown of kings. 'Mid desart wastes, and bleak and dreary wilds, He joys to make the rural village rise And tame the wand'ring hordes of savage men, To industry and peace. What gen'rous mind, Amid Columbia's darkly-frowning woods, Bade embryo states arise, whose growing pow'r Shall awe the world ; the last, the sure retreat Of liberty and peace, when despot Force, O'er groaning realms shall spread his iron hand And adamantine chain ? O noble Penn, Thee, rising nations shall with grateful hearts Proclaim their father ! Infants yet unborn Shall lisp thy name in blessings, whilst their sires Record the wond'rous tale. Hear this and blush. Ye champions of the earth, who armed with pow'rs Resistless, call your mercenary bands To slaughter and to blood ! Why marches forth 70 THE QUAKERS. The Gaul ferocious, on Hungarian plains, To slay his fellow men ? And wherefore pours The Russian fierce, upon the turbaned Turk, His sanguinary legions ? Furious lust Of universal empire urges on Th' insatiate chieftains; and the madd'ning crouds Follow the war-hoop. Av'rice leads the way, And boundless thirst of pillage. In the rear, The fury passions stalk, remorseless Rage And Desolation with his brand of fire, And Rape and Rapine, Murder and Revenge, Eager for human gore. Ah ! then behold The widow bending o'er her breathless spouse, In speechless agony ! The little babe Welt'ring in blood, ev'n in its mother's arms ! And look, the blaze of yonder city mounts And purples all the sky ! Heard ye that groan That rent the air, mixed with the savage shout Of brutal exultation ? There, alas ! Circled with dames and more devouring men, THE QUAKERS. 71 A gentle family of love expired, Wrapt in each other's arms! Grim Ruin stalks O'er hill and dale, and Devastation comes And smites the golden harvest. Famine last. Of meagre face, and Pestilence arise, And sweep the gleanings of the field of blood : And this is glory ! And for this the pow'r And energies of states, concentered, lie Beneath the tyrant's hand ! Ye madmen say, Are there not heaths and wastes and mountains vast, And vallies of interminable length, Through all your wide dominions, where the foot Of man hath never trod ? O thither send, If too redundant population croud Your noisy streets, the surplusage of men! Then shall you see delighted, o'er the wild, Sweet Cultivation smile, and Flora spread Her paradise of sweets, and Autumn wave His golden harvests. Cities shall arise Magnificent, amidst th' astonished waste, 72 THE QUAKERS. And busy crouds shall bless you, as they raise The publick edifice, or temple vast, Corinthian or Ionick. God himself, From his empyreal realms of endless day, Shall view the work, approving. Go and learn The moral lore ! O teach your subjects love, Beneficent and bland * and all the joys Of social virtue and benevolence ! This is true glory, when the feeling heart, Conscious of innate worth, and motive pure, Expands in gen'rous acts, and man delights, With lib'ral hand to aid his fellow man And scatter joy along the paths of life. ELEGIACK STANZAS, ON THE DEATH OF ROSANNA AND JAMES PRENTICE, CHILDREN OF THOMAS PRENTICE, ESQ. OF THE CITY OF ARMAGH. AH ! have you seen a young and tender rose, When rising morn had chased the clouds of night, In early spring its op'ning buds disclose, Soft-glowing in the silver stream of light ? And have you viewed the sweetly blushing flow'r 'Ere its full charms could meet the gazing eye, Nipped by the chilling frost's unkindly pow'r, In languor droop its lovely form and die ? L 74 ELEGIACK STANZAS. And have you seen upon the lily pale, The dew-drop glitt'ring in the solar ray, Tremble a moment in the passing gale, Then melt in tepid air and die away ? Thus fell Rosanna to the silent tomb, The spotless child of innocence and truth ; Snatched by the hand of fate in early bloom From all the rosy joys of dawning youth. Can manners gentle, or affections kind, To mortals frail, prolong the vital breath; Or all the virtues of the op'ning mind, Arrest the unrelenting arm of death ? Ah no! from heav'n itself these virtues spring, And for a moment are to mankind shown, A bright example : Heaven's eternal king, Viewed them in her, and re-assumed his own. ELEGIACK STANZAS. 75 I saw her father breathe the melting sigh, Bending in speechless anguish o'er her bier; I saw her hapless mother's streaming eye, In silent sorrow pour the speaking tear. And still the sigh, and still the tear shall flow, And till the energies of life shall fade, Fond Mem'ry, brooding o'er the scene of wo, Dwell on the dear-loved image of the maid. Alas ! Alas! Ere Time with lenient balm, Could to the wounded soul his aid impart ; Or Resignation's softly-soothing calm, Still the wild tumults of the throbbing heart : Lo ! to the grave descends their darling boy, Entombed in anguish and embalmed in tears, And with him iled the lonely ray of joy, That beamed across the winter of their vears. 76 BLEGIACK STANZAS. Friend of my youth, I feel thy sorrws mine ! * Methinks I listen to thy plaintive moan, My heart-strings beat with ev'ry pulse of thine, My breast responsive echoes groan for groan. For much I loved thy son for ever gone,f From all thy hopes untimely torn away, Ev'n at the moment when youth's op'ning dawn Gave glorious promise of life's coming day. Him, Mem'ry oft shall to thy soul restore, And Joy shall warm thee with a doubtful b?am, And thou shalt fondly gaze his image o'er, Then weep to find that image but a dream. * Thomas Prentice, Esq. who was always the kind and affectionate friend of the author. | James Prentice, who died at the age of nineteen. ELEGIACK STANZAS. 77 And oft, in midnight's solitary gloom, Shall Fancy come and with her magick charms. Burst through the marble prison of the tomb, And give him back to bless thy longing arms. And rapt in thought, thy mental eye shall see The playful actions of his infant time, When first he clasped with little arms thy knee, And first essayed that honoured knee to climb. Ah ! wheresoe'er thy lonely path shall lie, O'er gloomy glades, or woods of deepest green ; His ev'ry look shall float before thine eye, And his loved image mingle with the scene. rkih ! who are these, that from the realms of day Descend to bid thy mighty sorrows cease, Who come, enrobed in Pity's mildest ray, To whisper to thy troubled bo?om peace ? 78 BLEGIAGK STANZAS. 'Tis Resignation, from her throne on higb, And true Religion, gentle, bland and fair, Who lifts to heaven the hope-inspiring eye, And tells thee thou shalt meet thy children there. COMPASSION; A HYMN. T, HE tears of mercy and of love, With more refulgent lustre shine, Before the awful throne above, Than all the gems of Ophir's mine. Then seek, O seek the lowly bed, Where Sorrow, friendless and alone. Drooping, reclines his painful head, And meekly pours to heav'n his moan O ease with Pity's lenient dews, Affliction's keen and burning smart, And Comfort's mildest balm diffuse Upon the deeply-wounded heart ! 80 COMPASSION. Speak to the widowed matron peace, Sad-weeping o'er her orphan boy ; O bid her anxious troubles cease, And let her soul expand with joy ! The tears of mercy and of love, With more refulgent lustre shine, Before the awful throne above, Than all the gems of Ophir's mine. ON A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN, NURSING HER BABE. WOMAN is Nature's darling child, The offspring of her happiest hour, The world without her were a wild, A waste without a flow'r. TIow sweet to see yon babe of love, Clasped fondly to its mother's breast,' Soft as the silver-bosomed dove, Within its downy nest ! And sweet the tears of joy o'erflow The roses of. that blooming cheek, Where Rapture mantles Beauty's glow, In smiles that almost speak. M 82 ON A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN, &C. And every smile and winning grace, The infant's velvet lip hath caught, While light upon his cherub face, Plays the young dawn of thought. O Woman, Nature's loveliest child, Breathed into life in happy hour, The world without thee were a wild, A waste without a flow'r ! Soon will thy strains in transport sung, Thy darling's op'ning mind rejoice, Give language to his falt'ring tongue, And musick to his voice. And when with silver tones of joy, That tuneful voice shall lisp thy name, How wilt thou gaze upon thy boy, While pleasure thrills thy frame ! ON A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN, &C. 83 Yes, thou wilt warm him with thy kiss, Enraptured with his infant charms, And fold him in a trance of bliss, Within thy tender arms. And watch the movement of his eye, (Where sportive mirth shall seem to dance,) And meaning in its lustre spy, And thought in every glance. Then shall thy soul on Hope's bright wings, Through future prospects fondly rove, Fancy unutterable things, And fairy scenes of love. For to thy heart there shall be giv'n Day dreams of bliss serenely mild, Portraying ev'ry gift of heav'n, To grace thy darling child. 84 ON A EEAUTIFUL WOMAN; &C. O pleasing sight ! Ah happy pair ! Let none that nameless bliss destroy ! May no rude chance the parent tear From her delighted boy ! NELSON. VV HAT forms arc these, divinely bright, Celestial grace and glory blending, Enrobed in majesty and light, Amid the blaze of war descending ? These are the spirits of the brave, Who in the rage of battle glorious, Fell prematurely to the grave, Fell in their country's cause victorious.* * Such as Epaminondas, Wolfe, Abercrombie, &c. who died in the moment of victory. 86 NELSON. Nelson, a grateful task of love, To them in solemn charge is given, To waft thee to the realms above, And place thy kindred soul in heaven ! And who are these with downcast eyes, That in the depths of sorrow languish, And mournful breathe the moving sighs, And the low sob of hopeless anguish > Earth's noblest sons ; a gen'rous band, Who, plaintive, pale, and broken-hearted, Weep, as around thy corse they stand, The hero of mankind departed. O blest supremely in thy end, To thee, a signal lot is given, Two worlds to honour thee contend, Earth with her tears, with glory heaven ! THE WOUNDED SOLDIER. ON yonder blood-empurpled plain, Beside the foaming ocean, On whose steep shore, the wild waves roar, In billowy commotion ; Contending hosts the battle waged, There burned the flame of fight, And warriours, as the tempest raged, In unrelenting wrath engaged, Sunk to eternal night. And when at last the victors fierce, The work of blood had ended, And twilight grey had passed away, And murky night desceuded ; SS THE WOUNDED SOLDIER. Then shrieks of pain and hollow moans, Terrifick rent the air, Expiring warriours' dying groans, And all the agonizing tones Of horrour and despair. And high upon the withered oak, The nightly owl sat screaming, And through the shroud of shadowy cloud, The moon seemed scarcely beaming ; The whistling curlew hovered round The wild and dreary shore, The sad wind sobbed a moaning sound, And bitterns o'er the marshy ground, Poured forth their booming roar. Near that bleak spot, where yon grey rock Frowns o'er the foaming billow, Stretched on the clay, a soldier lay, The cold, cold earth his pillow ; THE WOUNDED SOLDIER. 89 Wounded and musing on his woes, To heaven he poured his sighs. And fervent prayed that fate might close His burning tortures in repose, And seal in death his eyes. When in the tempest of his grief, And heart-consuming anguish, To his loved home, his mind would roam, And for its comforts languish ; Thoughts of his fond, his tender wife. And all his children dear, With whom had passed his happier life. Secure from war's ferocious strife, Oft forced the starting tear. As thus the hapless warriour lay, And lost in mis'ry pondered, A bloody train who stripped the slain, Across the valley wandered; 90 THE WOUNDED SOLDIER. Women, or rather fiends of night, Who shunned the eye of day, But when the pale moon lent her light, Roamed brutal o'er the field of fight, Like savage beasts of prey. And one of this remorseless crew, Observed the soldier wailing, And heard his sighs and moans arise In sorrow unavailing : Silent she stole along the shore, (A tigress from her den,) And in her red right hand she bora A battle-axe all crimsoned o'er, With blood of murdered men* Then near the wounded man she stood, And gazed his figure over: Thus high above the helpless dove, The hawk is seen to hover. THE WOUNDED SOLDIER. 9 1 She waved the axe around her head, No second stroke intending ; But ere its rapid course had sped, To strike the fainting warriour dead, Her arm was caught descending. Astonished, quick she wheeled around, With furious impulse turning, Her with'ring look a soul bespoke, With rage malignant burning: Then full before her on the strand, The shadowy rock below, She saw a lovely female stand, And viewed aghast a youth whose hand Had stopped th' impending blow. Batlled the base assassin sunk — Then o'er the soldier kneeling. With tender air gazed the fond fair, Itapt in tumultuous feeling; 92 THE WOUNDED SOLDIER. For in her gentle arms caressed, Her wounded husband lay, And as in wild confusion pressed, She held him to her throbbing breast, She saw him faint away. But they have borne him to his home, Across the bounding billow, And Friendship bland and Love's soft hand, Have smoothed the warriours' pillow ; And in the evening of his day, Joy's beam hath warmed his soul, His wounds, his cares have passed away; So mists before the morning ray, Their fading volumes roll. And see yon gibbet on the rock, With every wild wind waving, Where wheel their flight the prowling kite, And vulture ever cravinsr ! THE WOUNDED SOLDIEK. 93 There whitening in the passing gale, And moving to and fro, Th' assassin's bones o'erhang the vale, And travellers pointing tell the tale, And curse her as they go. TO THE NIGHTINGALE; A JUVENILE POEM. \J GENTLE bird of plaintive song, Again that dying strain prolong ! Why cease thy lays so soon ? 'Tis not the morning star that streams, From yonder cloud his silver beams, 'Tis but the rising moon. Ah, why expand tby little wing ? And wherefore from thy covert spring ? Wheel not from me thy flight ! I come to listen to thy love, And not to steal thee from the grove, Sweet songstress of the ni"ht ! ON THE NIGHTINGALE. 95 For I, alas! like thee complain, And feel like thee, love's ceaseless pain, Forlorn, ray sorrows flow : And at the midnight hour alone, To Echo have I made my moan, And told my tale of wo. Then pour, O pour thy soul along, In the full stream of melting song, Even to the dawn of day ! Haply thy notes distinct and clear, May draw the sweet Maria here, To listen to the lay. Then, in her gentle breast may rise; Some feelings soft, some moving sighs, Some pity for my sorrow : And I who pined to-day forlorn, Weeping in silence sad, her scorn, May happy be to-morrow. AN ENIGMA. JdEFORE the moon, " resplendent queen of night, "O'er heaven's pure azure shed her silver light ;" And ere the sun, refulgent orb of day, Poured o'er the earth his all-diffusive ray I was; and circling round the blest abodes, Coeval flourished with the God of Gods. Sole witness I, when spirits, suns and earth, At his grand fiat, trembled into birth. I reigned, ere Time his minutes counted o'er My reign shall last, when Time shall be no more. Go soar aloft upon the solar beam, Far as the morning pours its golden stream, Explore the regions of ethereal air, Or fathom ocean's depth, and I am there ! AN ENIGMA. 97 Thence should you plunge amid the deep profound, Where hell and darkness breathe their horrouri rouud. There also I extend my ample reign, 'Midst shrieks and groans of agonizing pain. In me exist the cares, the toils, the strife, And mingled joys that chequer human life; The pangs of want, th' unfeeling pride of power, Sorrow's deep sigh, and Pleasure's festive hour. The cheek, suffused with Rapture's soft delight. The eye that sinks in everlasting night, The bridegroom, gazing on his fair one's charms, The orphan, dying in its mother'9 arms, The virgin, blushing like the dawning day. The robber scowling o'er his murdered prey. The warriour, fighting on th' encrimsoned plain, The victor hero and the mangled slain, The monarch, glorious on his gorgeous throne, The wo-worn beggar, friendless and alone, The lowly vale, the cloud-embosomed hill. The framing ocean, and the murm'ring rill, 98 AN ENIGMA. Kingdoms and continents, and sea-beat isles, Where tempests thunder, or where Flora smiles; The glowing heav'ns, the starry worlds that run Their wond'rous circuit round the blazing sun ; All things above, beneath, or great, or small. Are full of me, and I am full of all. Though motionless I am, yet without me No motion is, no change can ever be. Come forth ye mightiest champions of the land, And you, ye sages come, a thoughtful band ! Try all your force, essay your noblest art, Of me you cannot move one trivial part. Yet smallest atoms pierce me through with ease, And I am pervious to the gentlest breeze. Seek ye my form ? A mighty sphere am I, Greater than earth, and air, and sea, and sky. Where'er you go, whatever spot you enter j Here, there, and every where is placed my centre, But no where my periphery, and hence, Vain i? the search for my circumference. AN ENIGMA. 99 Yet though I am this vast unwieldy thing, I lurk within the circle of a ring, Such as queen Mab, or fairy Puck might wear, Or gay Titania, with the golden hair. Nay, in the pupil of a midge's eye, Secure, beyond thy prying search I lie. In fine, I neither matter am, nor spirit, Guess then my name, and I allow thee merit. EVELINA, A TRANSLATION FROM THE IRISH. ARISE, O my love ! Near yon dew-spangled bower, That waves its green boyghs in the soft-sighing gale, The ring of day breaks on the hawthorn's white flower, That hangs in full bloom on the brow of the vale. Hark ! hark to that voice ! 'Tis the silver-toned lay Of dawn's early herald saluting the light, High-soaring, to view the bright monarch of day, When glorious, he bursts through the circle of night. O'er yonder blue mountain, while morning advances, His delicate flush through the atmosphere glows, And he blends the soft blush with his smiles and his glan- ces, That wanton he kissed from the crimson-lipped rose. EVELINA, 101 O soul of my soul, Evelina arise ! More charming thy smile than the morn's mildest hues. More modest the beam of thy love-kindling eyes, Than the lily, when rifled she weeps in her dews. The richness of wild-honey dwells on thy lip. Such sweets lie enclosed in the bean's balmy flower. And tempt the winged bee its soft nectar to sip, E're exhaled by the sun, or dissolved by the shower. Red, red is that lip, thus deliciously glowing, As the strawb'rry that peeps at the foot of the thorn, Or tender moss-rose, when in loveliness blowing, It poutingly bends in the tears of the morn. More fragrant thy breath than the apple's bright blossom, Whose perfume young Zephyr hath stol'n as he goes, When trembling, he pants on its half-opened bosom. And sighs, as hit leaves it to rifle the rose. 102 EVELINA. O glossy and black, as the jetty -winged raven, Adown thy white shoulders thy dark tresses flow ; And seem, when thy ringlets are sportively waving, Like shadows that move o'er a surface of snow ! More fair is thy neck than the moon-beam in motion, Or down of the swan, when he floats in his pride, And his bosom that rests on the slow-moving ocean. Is wantonly heaved by the swell of the tide. Arise, Evelina ! the sun-beam descending, Yet lingers, with kisses thy beauty to meet, And the heath and the wild furze their bloomy sweets blending, Reserve all their odours my fair one to greet. I will range o'er the grove, at the foot of yon mountain, Where coos, in soft rapture, the gentle ring-dove, And cull the fresh flowrets that bloom near the fountain, And lay all their sweets at the foot of mv love. EVELINA. 103 Fair queen of soft transport, my soul's only treasure, O life of my heart, in thy beauty arise ! For ah ! ev'ry hour of thy absence I measure. And number each moment that passes with sighs ! How long wilt thou leave me, thus lonely repining. To Echo repeating my sorrowful tale, Like the son of the rock, when in anguish declining. He pours out his woes to the soft-sighing gale ? Chaste child of a meek-eyed and white-bosomed mother, Hast thou heard the low murmur I breathed in the breeze? And wilt thou descend to the groves of Miscother, And wander with me in the shade of its trees ? Thou com'stlike young spring when encircled with glory, She cheers the chilled sons of the frost with her beam, And melts the cold mantle, which icy and hoary, Stern "Winter had spread on the face of the stream ' 104 BVELINA. O thus to the trav'ler, sad, feeble and weary, Mom's harbinger rises with soul-cheering light. When through the deep forest, dark, awful and dreary, lie wanders alone, in the storms of the night ! MORNA'S HILL.* IN OW, when before the genial warmth of spring, Stern Winter's hoary frosts have fled away; And when, o'er ev'ry vale and ev'ry hill, Beauty, her variegated robe expands In artless elegance, and with her joins Simplicity, the sweetest, loveliest child Of nature and of truth ; from her retreat, The muse rejoicing walks, and by her side, With placid look, lo Contemplation comes ! For now no more, with sad and sullen sound, The tempest howls, but ev'ry wind is still, Save where the western breeze, with silken wing, Ling'ring on balmy flow'rets, sofilv .sighs * In the neighbourhood of Armagh. 106 morna's hill. His dulcet murmur; whilst aloft in air, Stealing from Melody her tend'rest tones, The lark, self-poised, salutes the rosy morn, Breathing the soul of love. Charmed with the song, Yon blooming youth, whose light and hasty steps Late brushed the morning dew, delighted stands, . Bapt in a dream of joy. Aloft his eye Gazes intense, until the am'rous bird, (His vocal warbling ended,) from his height Of viewless air descending, drops well pleased Into his downy nest, and all the choir Of sylvan songsters, by the lay aroused, Salutes the rising sun, and ev'r\ glade, Woodland and copse, resound the lofty strain. Vv armed by the genial breathings of the spring, See, where on Morna's hill, the lofty trees Expand their leafy honours ! Morning's beam Plays on the tender buds and op'ning flowers That drink the stream of light ; and Zephyr flits morna's hilt.. 10? Light o'er their sweets, and dips his airy wing In Night's translucent tears. The azure heaven Smiles o'er the scene, for Loveliness hath spread Her tend'rest blushes on the orient sky. As round the pine-clad top of Morna's hill Slowly I wind, what varied scenes appear In glorious prospect ? Whether o'er the plains Mantled in green, the eye delighted roves, Or where yon spires peep o'er the sloping hills, And glitter in the sun ; or where aloft, Thy column Rokeby,* lifts its head in air, High o'er the verdant pines, transmitting down To latest years, thy friendship and thy name : Or thine, O Molvneux,f that stands sublime, • Built by the late Dr. Richard Robinson, baron Roke- by, Archbishop of Armagh, by whom it was dedicated to the Duke of Northumberland. | Built by the late right honourable Sir C.ipcl Molvneur, Bart. " to commemorate the glorious revolution which took price in favour of th" ciivtitution of this ki; With soft and humid lustre beaming, Pure as the stars of yonder skv, In mild and silver radiance streaming. O charm me with that witching wile, Graceful, thy op'ning lips adorning, Which seem suffused with Beauty's smile, Twin rosebuds in an April morning. Lovely that smile as orient dawn, Light glancing through spring's genial showers, That, wand'ring o'er the fragrant lawn, Wake into life the infant flowers. TURN LOVE. 1 75 How sweet, how delicately bright, The vermil hue thy cheek discloses, Like flushes of reflected light, From fragrant beds of blooming roses. How fair that sylph-like form of thine, In every youthful charm excelling, Where Symmetry hath chos'n her shrine. And Beauty's self her graceful dwelling! How sweet thy voice of bland delight, Soft on the vernal gale ascending, Where Melody and Love unite In Rapture's tend'rest accents blending! But ah, thy heart, so pure, so kind, With gentler joy my soul entrances, When the full image of thy mind Is pictured in thy meaning glances. 176 TURN LOVE. Then turn on me thy speaking eye. With soft and humid lustre beaming. Bright as the stars of yonder sky, In mild and silver radiance streaming: ! >< An ingenious answer given extemporaneously by 31) <. Samuel Tucker of Belfast, to the Enigma insert- ed in this volume, page 96. Strangely mysterious that such lines should b? Justly descriptive of — "nonentity!" This Mond'rous being yet with ease I trace, And name his mystick nature — " boundless space THE CHAIN, A JUVENILE POEM. S.VW ye those locks of auburne hair, That down the graceful shoulders flow, Of Mary, fairest of the fair, And wanton on her neck of snow ? Of these her taper fingers wove, A mystick chain, with plastick art, To bind in softest links of love, This willing slave, my beating heart. •* O that it were of purest gold," Smiling she said, " for ah in vain, "' Thy wand'ring soul I strive to hold ' A captive in this fragile chain"' 178 THE CHAIN. But Mary, from the happy hour, That Love around the heart-strings twined, His silken bonds, with wily pow'r, A single hair will chain the mind. More firm my soul is knit to thine, By the mere magick of thine eye, Than if thou hadst Jove's chain divine,* That binds the ocean, earth and sky. • Homer, book 8... " Let down our golden, everlasting chain, Whose strong embrace holds heav'n and earth and main. Pope. LOVE'S HERALDS, A JUVENILE POEM. BLUSHES are messengers of thought, With love's transporting tidings fraught, The silent heralds of the heart, That in mate eloquence impart Through the sweet rose of Beauty's cheek, What vocal sounds could never speak. For 'tis not hy words alone, Love makes his tender feelings known ! The dimpled smile, the rising sigh, The humid lustre of the eye, Life's tide that crimsons every vein, Thrilling the soul with pleasing pain, From these a voiceless language springs That tells unalterable thin/*. 180 love's heralds. And when the vital spirits rush, To paint the cheek with Feeling's blush, And soft the passing colours glow, As Eve's last glance on hills of snow, Then will a tender message fly, Swift as a sunbeam through the sky, And Sympathy's sweet transports dart, From eye to eye, from heart to heart. A MORNING SCENE IN THE SPRING SEASON. WlIAT pow'r is this, Maria say, That from the blissful realms of day, Descends to bid the tempest cease ? 'Tis Spring ! I know her robe of green. Her balmy breath, her joyous mien, Her eye of mildness, and her smile of peace ! Soft as she treads the verdant meads along, The fragrant flow'rs beneath her feet arise, The larks, high-soaring, pour their matin song, In lavs harmonious to the purpling skies, Delighted E ho mimicks ev'ry strain, And floods of musick fill th' enraptured plain. 182 A MORNING SCENE. Now, when the rosy-fingered dawn Illumes the flow'r-bespangled lawn, The peasants form a jovial ring, The sweetly-blushing loves combine, And sportive lead the dance divine, Or in glad pseans hail returning Spring. Exulting Hymen, in his golden chain, That binds the heart congenial souls unites, To ev'ry nymph he gives her fav'rite swain, And seals with joy the mystick nuptial rites, On him attend Love's ever gentle fire. And Mirth, and rosy Youth, and fond Desire. O come my fair one, come away ! For now, the bright-haired king of day Pours o'er the hills his golden stream ; Whilst the declining queen of night, With fainter yet, and fainter light, Sinks in his more refulgent beam. A MORNING SCENE. 183 Behold the dewy tears of radiant morn, In pensile orbs their lucid charms disclose, And glitter lovely on the prickly thorn, Or tremble on the bosom of the rose, "'Till gentle Zephyr, eldest born of Spring, "Descend and brush them with his airy wing." O let us, while the balmy gale Breathes spicy odours o'er the vale, On yonder lofty mountain gaze, And see the rolling mist that shrouds His summit in a veil of clouds, Dissolve before the solar rays, "And fast and light, along the eastern sky, On moving wings of rarest ether borne, In spiry forms, fantastically fly, Pierced by the puiple gleam of orient morn: \\ kh wand'ring course the passing shadows glide, 1'ecl o'er the winding stream, or hillock's sloping side." 184 A MORNING SCENE. And whilst we view the prospect o'er, Far as the billow-beaten shore, Where down yon clififabrupt and steep, The tumbling mountain-rivers run, O'er broken rocks, through shade and sun, And foaming plunge into the deep. Lo, floating on the bosom of the tide, Yon stately gallies spread the swelling sail, And as the lordly vessels proudly ride, The canvass bellies to the passing gale ! Elate upon the deck, the sailors stand, And hail with joyous shouts the coming land. And now, before the wond'ring eyes, A thousand pleasing objects rise, The loft\* wood, the verdant bow'r, The level lawn, the open mead, And through the forest-cinctured glade, The mould'ring, ivy-mantled tow'r ' A MORNING SCENE. 185 And o'er yon steep and silver-sparkling stream, The high-arched bridge that braved full many a storm, The palace glitt'ring in the morning beam, The marble obelisk's majestick form, The smoke that from the village cot ascends, And in the breeze its airy column bends. Now blithe upon the furrowed plain, The ploughman sows the golden grain, Soft-whistling as he moves alonjr. In hungry groups around him rove The glossy crow, the silver dove, The sparrow pert with chirping song. Quick o'er the field they wheel their rapid flight, Anil eve with anient gaze the falling seed, Then cautious on the ridgv mould alight, And ply the hasty bill and wand'ring feed; Then timid, in the air aloft the\ spring, And round and round their airy circles wing. a '2 186 A MORNING SCENE. Lo, fraught with many a song of love, Breathed by the warblers of the grove, Zephyr steals gently o'er the hill ! So soft his breath, that as he blows, He scarcely bends the blushing rose, Or ruffles the smooth surface of the rill. Beneath the streams, that gently murm'ring flow, Dancing appear the trees enrobed in green, Another sun seems rolling on below, And other clouds float solemn and serene : A blast descends, the mimick forms decay, Thus fly the joys of man, thus fleets his life away ! Hark, to that voice distinct and clear, That pours upon the list'ning ear, Its double note in measured time ! The cuckoo, bird of dapple wing, Now hails with endless song the spring, From yonder withered oak sublime* A MORNING SCENE. 187 More cheerful far, perched on the bending spray, Loud sings in varied strain the speckled thrush, The jetty blackbird pours his morning lay, From the green summit of yon hawthorn bush; Now, through the air, his notes steal soft and low, And now, in bolder strains of mellow musick flow. Deep toned and solemn, floats around, The village bell's melodious sound, That vibrates on the trembling air; Hailing the rosy-fingered mom, The huntsman winds his jocund horn* Terrifick to the timid hare. The hounds that fleetly range the verdant lawn, With scent sagacious snuff the passing gale, And trace the footsteps of the bounding fawn, That flies affrighted o'er yon woody vale; The ardent horsemen urge the chase behind, And clam'rous Tumult rides upon the wind. 18S A MORNING SCENE. The lowing herds now slowly pass, And eager crop the tender grass, And wander o'er the valley wide, And as they reach the river's brink, Gently they bow the head and drink The limpid waters as they glide. The ruddy milk-maid, with love-sparkling eye, Light-tripping, moves the sunny meads along, To tend their bleating flocks, the shepherds hie, Or sweetly join the woodiark's pleasing song, Where the full chorus bursts from all the grove, In swelling tides of harmony and love. Now let U'i shun the river's bank, O'erspread with sedge and rushes dank, And hide in yonder shady bower: For hark ! I hear among the trees, Whose green leaves rustle in the breeze, The patt'ring of the vernal shower! A MORNING SCENE. 189 Low flits the gliding swallow o'er the lake, The martin skims the surface of the plain?, The vocal quail bids every echo wake, Hailing with triple note the coming rain: From the low marsh, the snipe delighted springs And the glad mallard claps his dapple wings. Around this bower, soft woodbines twine, And ivy mixed with eglantine, In wild festoons the willows bend ; The twisted poplars form an arch, And i.i mi o'er all the conick larch, And broad-leafed oak their shelter lend. But light and transient are the venial sliowVs, For now again the splendid orb of day, O'er heav'n's expanse a stream of glory pours, 1): scending rain drops glister in the ray : Willi lovelier verdure shine the hills and plains And brighter lustre o'er all nature reiirns. 190 A MORNING SCENE. Behold the rainbow in the skies. In majesty unrivalled rise, With span magnificently grand ! From heav'n to earth the arch extends, And, leaning on th' horizon bends In lucid vision o'er the land. Bright from the surface of the humid bow, A thousand vivid rays resplendent stream. Shade above shade, the living colours glow, And tinge the skies with glory's varied beam. Delighted mortals hail the sacred sign, Emblem of wrath appeased, and love divine. Now bursting on the raptured view, See flow'rs of ev'ry form and hue, Fantastick scattered o'er the wild ! The primrose, with his golden eye, Anemone of crimson die, The daisy, Nature's hardv child ; A MORNING SCENE. 191 Who braved stern Winter's loud-resounding storm, And lingers yet to meet the lily fair, And vi'let blue, whose beauty-beaming form Pours streams of fragrance on the ambient air, Sweet as the gale that o'er the hawthorn blows, Or steals the perfume of the op'ning rose. How great art thou, Almighty Lord ! Awoke by thy omnifick word, Nature revives from Winters gloom. Thus on that grand and awful day, When thcu shalt animate our clay, To burst the prison of the tomb, And when dissolved in flames of liquid fire, The sun, and all those worlds that gild the skie?; In splendid ruin shall at once expire, Then shall the soul of man triumphant rise, Unhurt, behold the melting heav'ns and earth, And see new systems tremble into birth. ERRATA. 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