s: 'Tis not the Winter's dreary reign I mourn,


s: But absent friends--and _one_ than life more dear,


s: O gentle Hope, that 'mid Siberia's snows,


s: Can cheer the wretched exile's lingering year,


s: And where the sun on curs'd Oppression glows,


s: Can check the sigh, and wipe the falling tear,


s: O raise thy heavenly voice, and bid me weep no more.


s: Thou hears't my prayer--I feel thy holy flame--


s: And future joys in bright succession rise,


s: And mutual love and friendship--sacred name!


s: And home and all the blessings that I prize.


s: Thou, Memory, lendst thy aid, and to my view


s: Each friend I love, and every scene most dear,


s: In forms more bright than ever painter drew,


s: Fresh from thy pencil's magic tint appear.


s: Roll on, ye lingering hours, that lie between,


s: Till Truth shall realize, and Virtue bless, the scene.


s: (Angels such melody might deign to hear,)


s: To anticipate on earth the joys of heav'n,


s: 'Twas Handel's task: to him that pow'r was giv'n.


s: Ah, when he late attuned Messiah's praise,


s: With sound celestial, with melodious lays:


s: A last farewell, his languid looks express'd,


s: And thus, methinks, th' enraptur'd crowd addrest.


s: "Adieu, my dearest friend, and also you,


s: "Apollo whispering, prompts me to retire,


s: "And bids me join the bright seraphic choir:


s: "Oh! for Elijah's car!" great Handel cry'd:


s: Messiah heard his voice, and Handel died.


s: "The Reader must be apprised, that the stoves in North Germany


s: 'A fig for your languages, German and Norse,


s: In scorn of writers, Faustus still doth hold,


s: Nought is now said, but hath been said of old;


s: Well, Faustus, say my wits are gross and dull,


s: If for that word I give thee not a Gull:


s: Thus then I prove thou holdst a false position;


s: A man true of thy word, tall of thy hands,


s: Of high descent and left good store of lands;


s: Thou with false dice and cards hast never play'd,


s: And, as for swearing, none in all this realm,


s: Doth seldomer in speech curse or blaspheme.


s: In fine, your virtues are so rare and ample,


s: For all our Song thou mayst be made a sample.


s: This, I dare swear, _none ever said before_,


s: This, I may swear, _none ever will say more_.


s: When shall I behold again, in one day, all pleasing objects of my


s: Perch'd on the whirlwind's thund'ring tower,


s: And line with light the mountain's brow;


s: In the following exquisite Parody, the sentiments are not less


s: With pangs unfelt before, at crimes before unknown.


s: Who, thoughtless of her own, embraced fictitious woe.


s: And leave us dungeons, chains and blood.


s: And Shakespeare mourns to view the exotic prodigy.


s: Spectres, that haunt the shades of night,


s: And Hymen's sacred torch low hisses, and expires.


s: With which thou hurl'st thy darts at kings.


s: By despot arts immur'd in ghastly poverty.


s: Establish'd order spurn, and call each outcast friend.


s: Here, far from all the pomp ambition seeks,


s: Much sought, but only whilst untasted prais'd,


s: Content and Innocence, with rosy cheeks,


s: Enjoy the simple shed their hands have rais'd.


s: On a gay rock it stands, whose fretted base


s: The distant cataract's murm'ring waters lave;


s: Whilst, o'er its grassy roof, with varying grace,


s: The slender branches of the white birch wave.


s: Behind, the forest fir is heard to sigh,


s: On which the pensive ear delights to dwell;


s: The grazing goat looks up and rings his bell.


s: Oh! in my native land, ere life's decline,


s: May such a spot, so wild, so sweet, be mine!


s: While grateful feelings warm'd her breast,


s: Alas! her thoughts were chang'd, I ween,


s: Extracts from Parts VI and I respectively. Cf. Preface.]


s: has given rise in England to a very humorous


s: Down stairs! down stairs! halloo, halloo!


s: They sally forth, they wheel, they jump,


s: Dash fearless on through thick and thin,


s: When, puffing, holding both their sides,


s: The right-hand stranger's locks were grey,


s: "Methinks," the other said, "'twere best


s: To leave, my friends, your frantick joys,


s: Clears the _green grocer's_ humble stall;


s: While through the apples scatter'd round,


s: For loud the _watchmen's rattles_ sound.


s: "Forebear your knighthood thus to stain,


s: Where rougher climes a nobler race display;


s: Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread,


s: And force a churlish soil for scanty bread,


s: Yet still, e'en here, Content can spread a charm,


s: Redress the clime, and all its rage disarm.


s: Though poor the peasant's hut his feast though small,


s: Cheerful at morn, he wakes from short repose,


s: Breathes the keen air, and carrols as he goes.


s: He sits him down, the monarch of his shed;


s: Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys,


s: His children's looks, that brighten at the blaze;


s: While his lov'd partner, boastful of her hoard,


s: Displays her cleanly platter on her board;


s: And haply too, some pilgrim, hither led,


s: With many a tale repays the nightly bed.


s: Helvetian vales! Where freedom fix'd her sway;


s: And all the social virtues lov'd to stray;


s: Soft blissful seats of undisturb'd repose,


s: Has marr'd your sports, and clos'd your song of joy?


s: What horrid yells the affrighted ear assail!


s: What screams of terror load the passing gale!


s: See ruffian hordes, with tiger rage advance,


s: The shame of manhood, and the boast of France!


s: See trampled, crush'd and torn in lustful strife


s: While wanton carnage sweeps each crowded wood,


s: And all the mountain torrents swell with blood!


s: Lo! Where yon cliff projects its length of shade


s: O'er fields of death, a wounded chief is laid!


s: Thus vents his anguish to the fleeting air:


s: "Dear native hills, amidst whose woodland maze,


s: I pass'd the tranquil morning of my days,


s: On whose green tops malignant planets scowl,


s: Where hell hounds ravage, and the furies howl;


s: Though chang'd, deform'd, still, still ye meet my view,


s: Ye still are left to hear my last adieu!


s: My friends, my children, gor'd with many a wound,


s: Whose mangled bodies strew the ensanguin'd ground,


s: To parch and stiffen in the blaze of day,


s: Consign'd to vultures, and to wolves a prey,


s: Your toils are past; no more ye wake to feel


s: Lust's savage gripe, or rapine's reeking steel!


s: And Thou, to whom my wedded faith was given,


s: On earth my solace, and my hope in heaven,


s: Approv'd in manhood, as in youth ador'd,


s: Belov'd while living, as in death deplor'd,


s: O stay thy flight! Around this dreary shore


s: On thy poor corpse, thy bleeding husband hangs,


s: Counts all thy wounds, and feels thy ling'ring pangs--


s: O righteous fathers! Thou whose fostering care


s: Sustains creation, hear my dying prayer!


s: Look down, look down on this devoted land,


s: O'er my poor country stretch thy saving hand!


s: O let the blood that streaming to the skies,


s: Still flows in torrents--let that blood suffice!


s: To thee the dreadful recompense belongs--


s: To thy just vengeance I consign my wrongs;


s: O vindicate the rights of nation's sway,


s: And sweep the monsters from the blushing day!"


s: I know a Song, the magick of whose power


s: Can save the Warrior in destruction's hour;


s: From the fierce foe his falling vengeance charm,


s: And wrest the weapon from his nervous arm.


s: I know a Song, which, when in bonds I lay,


s: Broke from the grinding chain its links away.


s: While the sweet notes their swelling numbers rolled,


s: Back flew the bolts, the trembling gates unfold;


s: Free as the breeze the elastic limbs advance,


s: Course the far field, or braid the enlivening dance.


s: I know a Song, to mend the heart design'd,


s: Quenching the fiery passions of mankind;


s: When lurking hate and deadly rage combine,


s: To charm the serpent of revenge is mine;


s: By heavenly verse the furious deed restrain,


s: I know a Song, which when the wild winds blow


s: To bend the monarchs of the forests low,


s: If to the lay my warbling voice incline,


s: Waking its various tones with skill divine,


s: Hush'd are the gales, the spirit of the storm


s: Calms his bleak breath, and smooths his furrow'd form,


s: The day look up, the dripping hills serene


s: Through the faint clouds exalt their sparkling green.


s: The wind whistled loud! farmer Dobbin's wheat stack


s: Fell down! The rain beat 'gainst his door!


s: As he sat by the fire he heard the roof crack!


s: The cat 'gan to mew and to put up her back!


s: The farmer exclaimed with a piteous sigh,


s: "To get rid of this curs'd noise and rout,


s: "Wife gi'e us some ale." His dame straight did cry,


s: Hemed and coughed three times three, then made this reply--


s: "I can't mun! Why? 'cause the cask's out!"


s: By the side of the fire sat Roger Gee-ho


s: With Cicely, whose eyes were as black as a Sloe,


s: And because _she ne'er had an occasion_!


s: All these were alarmed by the loud piercing cries,


s: Till open the door, with wide staring eyes,


s: They found to their joy, no less than surprise,


s: "_'Twas the old sow fast stuck in a gate!_"


s: O when shall I visit the land of my birth,


s: The loveliest land on the face of the earth?


s: When shall I those scenes of affection explore,


s: With the pride of our mountains, the maid I adore?


s: O when shall I dance on the daisy white mead,


s: In the shade of an elm, to the sound of the reed?


s: When shall I return to thy lowly retreat,


s: Where all my fond objects of tenderness meet?


s: The lambs and the heifers that follow my call;


s: O when shall I visit the land of my birth?


s: 'Tis the loveliest land on the face of the earth.


s: On plain _pot luck_,--for such his phrase--


s: Soup, turkey, beef, by turns were serv'd,


s: Fowls, turtle, sauce, they follow'd next,


s: "Ach nein!" with groans Von Schlemmer said,


s: Its plaintive notes our tears beguiling,


s: And as you touch'd the trembling keys along,


s: Through lucid gems I saw you sadly smiling.


s: No more shall Pity's tear together flow,


s: Our love, our hopes, our joys forever blighting.


s: Let thrilling mem'ry o'er my fancy stealing,


s: As next you sing "Forget me not," a tear


s: Shall gently fall, my beating heart to cheer;


s: I'll never thee forget while I have life and feeling.


s: In the vallies yet lingered the shadows of night,


s: Though red on the glaciers the morning sun shone,


s: When our moss-covered church-tower first broke on my sight,


s: As I cross'd the vast oak o'er the cataract thrown.


s: For beyond that old church-tower, embosomed in pines,


s: Was the spot which contained all the bliss of my life,


s: Near yon grey granite rock, where the red ash reclines,


s: Stood the cottage where dwelt my loved children and wife.


s: Long since did the blasts of the war-trumpet cease,


s: The drum slept in silence, the colours were furled,


s: Serene over France rose the day-star of Peace,


s: And the beams of its splendour gave light to the world.


s: When near to the land of my fathers I drew,


s: And the drawn light her features of grandeur unveiled,


s: As I caught the first glimpse of her ice-mountains blue,


s: Our old native Alps with what rapture I hailed.


s: "Oh! soon, I exclaimed, will those mountains be passed,


s: And soon shall I stop at my own cottage door,


s: There my children's caresses will greet me at last,


s: And the arms of my wife will enfold me once more.


s: "While the fulness of joy leaves me powerless to speak,


s: Emotions which language can never define,


s: When her sweet tears of transport drop warm on my cheek,


s: And I feel her fond heart beat once more against mine.


s: "Then my boy, when our tumults of rapture subside,


s: Will anxiously ask how our soldiers have sped,


s: Will flourish my bay'net with infantile pride,


s: And exultingly place my plumed cap on his head.


s: "Then my sweet girl will boast how her chamois has grown;


s: And make him repeat all his antics with glee,


s: Then she'll haste to the vine that she claims as her own,


s: And fondly select its ripe clusters for me.


s: "And when round our fire we assemble at night,


s: With what interest they'll list to my tale of the war,


s: How our shining arms gleamed on St. Bernard's vast height,


s: While the clouds in white billows rolled under us far.


s: "Then I'll tell how the legions of Austria we braved,


s: How we fought on Marengo's victorious day,


s: When the colours of conquest dejectedly wave


s: Where streamed the last blood of the gallant Dessaix."


s: 'Twas thus in fond fancy my bosom beat light


s: As I crossed the rude bridge where the wild waters roll,


s: When each well-known scene crowded fast on my sight,


s: And Hope's glowing visions came warm to my soul.


s: Through the pine-grove I hastened with footsteps of air


s: Already my lov'd ones I felt in embrace,


s: When I came--of my cot not a vestige was there--


s: But a hilloc of snow was heap'd high in its place.


s: The heart-rending story too soon did I hear--


s: An avalanche, loosed from the near mountain's side,


s: Our cottage o'erwhelmed in its thundering career,


s: And beneath it my wife and my children had died.


s: Sleep on thou dear shade, rest in peace,


s: Fire-King," etc., the following burlesque ballad may afford some


s: Fair Ellen, was once the delight of the young;


s: Her charms were the theme of the heart and the tongue,


s: And bards without number in extacies sung


s: But Ellen, though lovers in regiments threw


s: From the sorrow no pitying sympathy knew;


s: For, cold as an icicle-shower, they drew


s: Yet still did the heart of fair Ellen implore


s: Like a sailor it seem'd on a desolate shore,


s: With nor house, nor a tree, nor a sound, but the roar


s: From object to object, still, still would she stray


s: Through Novelty's mazes she rambled all day,


s: And even at midnight, so restless, they say,


s: Nay, rather than sit like a statue so still,


s: Up and down would she go like the sails of a mill,


s: And pat every stair, like a wood-pecker's bill,


s: From the tiles of the roof to the ground.


s: One morn, as the maid from her casement reclin'd,


s: Pass'd a youth with a frame in his hand.


s: The casement she clos'd; not the eye of her mind;


s: For do all she could, no, she could not be blind;


s: Still before her she saw the youth stand.


s: "And what can he do," said the maid with a sigh,


s: I wish I could know it." When suddenly by


s: The youth pass'd again; and again did her eye


s: "Oh! sweet, lovely picture!" the fair Ellen sigh'd,


s: Then under her white chin her bonnet she tied,


s: And after the youth and the picture she hied,


s: Till the youth, looking back, met her eye.


s: "Fair damsel," said he (and he chuckled the while),


s: Then take it, I beg you, perhaps 'twill beguile


s: Some moments of sorrow: (pray pardon my smile)


s: Or, at least, keep you home by the fire."


s: Then Ellen the gift, with delight and surprise,


s: From the cunning young stripling receiv'd.


s: But she knew not the poison that enter'd her eyes,


s: When beaming with rapture they gazed on her prize:


s: 'Twas a youth o'er the form of a statue inclin'd;


s: And the sculptor he seem'd of the stone;


s: Yet he languish'd, as though for its beauty he pin'd,


s: And gaz'd, as the eyes of the statue so blind


s: 'Twas the tale of the sculptor, Pygmalion of old;


s: "Ah! could'st thou but lift from that marble so cold,


s: Thine eyes so enchanting, thy arms should enfold,


s: She said: when, behold, from the canvass arose


s: The youth ... and he stepp'd from the frame;


s: With a furious joy, his arms did enclose


s: The love-plighted Ellen; and, clasping, he froze


s: She turn'd and beheld on each shoulder a wing


s: "Oh! heaven!" cried she, "who art thou?"


s: From the roof to the ground did his fierce answer ring,


s: When frowning, he thunder'd, "I am the Paint-King!


s: Then high from the ground did the grim monster lift


s: And he sped through the air, like a meteor swift,


s: While the clouds, wand'ring by him, did fearfully drift


s: Now, suddenly sloping his hurricane flight,


s: The air all below him becomes black as night,


s: And the ground where he treads, as if mov'd with affright,


s: "I am here!" said the fiend, and he thundering knock'd


s: The gates open'd wide, as by magick unlock'd,


s: While the peaks of the mount, reeling to and fro, rock'd,


s: "Oh! mercy!" cried Ellen, and swoon'd in his arms.


s: But the Paint-King, he scoff'd at her pain.


s: "Prithee, love," said the monster, "what mean these alarms?"


s: She hears not, she sees not the terrible charms


s: She opens her lids; but no longer her eyes


s: Now appears the Paint-King in his natural guise;


s: His face, like a palette of villainous dies,


s: Black and white, red and yellow, and blue.


s: On a bright polish'd throne, of prismatical spar,


s: While he rear'd in his mouth a gigantick cigar


s: Twice as big as the light-house, though seen from afar,


s: And anon, as he puff'd the vast volumes, were seen,


s: Legs and arms, head and bodies, emerging between;


s: Like the drawing room grim of the Scotch Sawney Beane,


s: "Ah me!" cried the damsel, and fell at his feet,


s: "Must I hang on these walls to be dried?"


s: "Oh, no!" said the fiend, while he sprung from his seat,


s: "A far nobler fortune thy person shall meet;


s: Into paint will I grind thee, my bride!"


s: Then, seizing the maid by her dark auburn hair,


s: Seven days, seven nights, with the shrieks of despair


s: Did Ellen in torment convulse the dim air,


s: On the morn of the eighth on a huge sable stone


s: With a rock for his muller, he crush'd every bone;


s: But though ground to jelly, still, still did she groan;


s: Now reaching his palette with masterly care,


s: The blue of her eyes, and the brown of her hair,


s: The pearl and the white of her forehead so fair


s: Then stamping his foot, did the monster exclaim,


s: When lo! from a chasm unfathom'd there came


s: A small tiny chariot of rose-colour'd flame,


s: Enthron'd in the midst on an emerald bright,


s: Her robe was the gleam of the first blush of light,


s: And her mantle the fleece of a noon-cloud white,


s: In a voice that stole on the still charmed air,


s: Thus spake from her chariot the Fairy so fair:


s: "I come at thy call ... but, oh Paint-King! beware,


s: "'Tis true," said the monster, "thou queen of my heart!


s: Yet ne'er to the canvass could I with my art


s: The least of thy wonderful beauties impart;


s: "Now I swear, by the light of the Comet-King's tail!"


s: "If again with these magical colours I fail,


s: The crater of Etna shall hence be my jail,


s: "But if I succeed, then, oh! fair Geraldine!


s: And thou, queen of Fairies, shalt ever be mine


s: The bride of my bed; and thy portrait divine


s: He spake; when, behold the fair Geraldine's form


s: His touches, they flew like the leaves in a storm;


s: And the pure, pearly white, and the carnation warm,


s: And now did the portrait a twin-sister seem


s: With the same sweet expression did faithfully teem


s: Each muscle, each feature; in short, not a gleam


s: 'Twas the Fairy herself! but, alas! her blue eyes


s: And who shall describe the terrifick surprise


s: That seized the Paint-King, when, behold, he descries


s: "I am lost!" said the fiend, and he shook like a leaf;


s: He saw the lost pupils of Ellen with grief


s: In the jaws of a mouse, and the sly little thief


s: "I am lost!" said the fiend, and he fell like a stone:


s: With a touch of her finger she loosen'd her zone,


s: (While the limbs on the wall gave a terrible groan!)


s: Her spear now a thunder-bolt flash'd in the air,


s: She smote the grim monster; and now by the hair


s: High lifting, she hurl'd him in speechless despair


s: Then waving, with smiles, o'er the picture her spear,


s: When, behold, from the canvass fair Ellen appear!


s: In feature, in person more lovely than e'er,


s: liberty, for the sake of the metre, to alter the word


s: observations on the Hamburghers, and other Germans, &c.


s: Cancer. By M. I. Soultzer, first Physician to his Royal


s: preached at the opening of the Provincial Congress of


s: Georgia. With an appendix giving a concise account of the


s: struggles of Swisserland, to recover their Liberty. By John


s: J. Zubly, D.D. (Select passages from new British


s: Emperor of Germany. Trans. from the Journal Historique &


s: Alexis, the unfortunate son of the Czar Peter the Great. By


s: tomb of Madame Langhans, executed by Mr. John Augustus Nahl,


s: late sculptor to the King of Prussia, and which is to be seen


s: in the choir of the parish church of Hindlebanck 2 leagues


s: from Berne, [Prose article containing a trans. of a German


s: of vol. III are misnumbered after p. 72.]


s: I--First week in Apr.--third week in Aug. 1786.


s: appeared in Germany under the title of "Joseph Gebetbux"


s: Dunkards to a Lady of the Penn Family, with her Answer.


s: King of Prussia," published at Paris and Strassburg in the


s: summer of 1788, and now translating in Philadelphia.


s: Duties of Kings. By the late King of Prussia. Sent, in 1781,


s: to his Secretary of State, de Hertsberg; but written in 1776,


s: or 1777, as appears from his Letters to Voltaire.


s: present King of Sweden when a young man, with the


s: lady, in the Electorate of Hanover, who was thought worthy of


s: the highest academical honours in the University of


s: Gottengen, at the Grand Jubilee, in the year 1787.


s: Sweden, etc. [Con. from V of _Columbian Mag._]


s: Island of Amsterdam. (From Mortimer's Observations, during a


s: voyage from Canton to the northwest coast of America and back


s: Customs of the Swedes. (From Catteau's "General view of


s: the King of Prussia raised from the ranks to be a General


s: Hopkinson, and delivered by a young gentleman at a public


s: commencement in the University of Pennsylvania. [Against the


s: study of Latin and Greek.... "It is not necessary to search


s: antiquity for a means of a reciprocal communication of ideas,


s: because languages most in use, are, in truth, the most useful


s: Communicated by a British officer to the editor of the


s: in the 11th cent., taken from Mallet's Northern Antiquities.


s: the ministers and elders of the German Reformed congregations


s: in the United States, at their general meeting, held at


s: political survey of the present state of Europe.


s: By the Shepherd his Majesty means himself.


s: Pennsylvania. (From Capt. Aubrey's Travels through the


s: Holland, in 1784, by an American," just published.)


s: Electorate of Hanover who received academical honors in the


s: references to the German drama. "Goëthé," Lessing, Schiller,


s: Leisewitz, "Garstenberg," Unzer and Klinger mentioned; also,


s: =The Christian's, Scholar's, and Farmer's


s: ---- From a German divine, a doctor of Divinity. [Unnumbered


s: page following 656 with heading "To Subscribers."]


s: addressed to the Editor of the Edinburgh Mag.


s: Luthern Church at the Anniversary meeting of the German


s: assassination of Gustavus III, King of Sweden.


s: affecting anecdote. (From "Observations on Denmark, etc.")


s: Select Orations and Paper's relative to the Swedish Academy.)


s: Russia, Austria and Prussia; which, according to the ideas of


s: the Marquis of Lansdowne, if the present combination against


s: France succeeds, will swallow up the other governments of


s: Character of the Tyrolese. (From Travels through the Rhaetian


s: Alps, in the year 1786, from Italy to Germany through Tyrol;


s: France. (From "The late Picture of Paris.")


s: Horrebow's Natural History of that Island.)


s: Interesting Fragment, found among the Papers of Count


s: Mountain. (From Coxe's Travels in Switzerland.)


s: (From a work of that name by the late Baron Haller.)


s: (From Dutton's Translation of Nicolai's Nothanker.)


s: =Lady's Mag. and Repos. of Entertaining Knowledge.=--Phila.


s: affecting anecdote. [Containing a poem. Cf. p. 136.]


s: =Curiosities of Literature.=--London printed;


s: the Diet of Ratisbon, a sketch of the German Constitution,


s: and of its military forces, cannot be unacceptable to the


s: generality of our readers.) [The article follows.]


s: Countries in the East. Trans. into English by Robert Heron.


s: German by J. W. von Goëthe. Printed at Norwich; sold by


s: Johnson, London. [Extracts from the metrical trans. given. By


s: into the Nature of Prophecies, by Konynenburg (Prof. in


s: Michaelis late Prof. in the University of Gottingen, &c.


s: Trans. from the 4th ed. of the German and considerably


s: augmented with Notes, explanatory and supplemental. By


s: Herbert Marsh, B.D. Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge.


s: June 20--Anecdote of Count Cagliostro.--Letter from Tuscofee,


s: Feb. 6, 1796--Curious Contest between two Rival Lovers. A


s: June 18--The Hermit of the Alps. A Fragment. [A continued


s: Feb. 6--Military Courtship. A curious old Danish Anecdote.


s: May 28--Curious Contest between Two Rival Lovers. A German


s: d'Archenholz, Captain in the Prussian Service. Trans. from


s: Charles XII, King of Sweden, by the late King of Prussia.


s: of Prussia, Frederic the Great. [Trans. from the German.]


s: Century, in which the Proceedings of the Secret Tribunal


s: under the Emperors Winceslaus and Sigismund are delineated.


s: Lecturer on Natural History. Trans. from the Swedish.


s: Wollstoncraft's Letters during a residence in Sweden, Norway


s: Translator of Goethe's Iphigenia in Tauris.


s: Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Sicily. A late Publication.)


s: Gottingen. Trans. from the Latin by Archibald Maclaine, D.D.


s: Officer, who served under him in Poland.


s: Beckmann, public Professor of Economy, in the Univ. of


s: Gottingen. Trans. from the German by Wm. Johnston. 3 vols.


s: North America, described by D. von Bülow. 2 vols. [Notice.]


s: Note: Engel has made this anecdote the subject of a little


s: types of foreign literature. [Frederick the Great and


s: compared. Trans. from the German of Gentz.


s: James Montgomery. [For quotations, cf. p. 163.]


s: entitled "Memoirs of Anacreon, Translated from the Greek by


s: Charles Sedley, Esq." [In the review of the above is the


s: Compare also Weisse Scherz. Lieder lib iii der Soldat, Gail,


s: A Dramatic Anecdote, from the miscellaneous works of


s: (From Travels into Sweden, Norway and Denmark.)


s: and extensive work, which has lately appeared in the form of


s: traveller who visited that city in July, 1799.


s: Commander-in-Chief of the Army of Prussia.


s: reference made to the characters: Moor, Francis, Amelia, the


s: their Emancipation from the House of Austria.


s: regarding the change from Protestantism to Catholicism.


s: Germany. Extracted from a Gottingen Journal. [The Brocken in


s: Montgomery, containing extracts. Cf. p. 169.]


s: emigrant hussars, under Prince Conde, on the night of the


s: battle of Kamlach. Scene--Banks of the Danube.


s: which took place on the second of September 1806.


s: occurrence in the Rhaetian Alps, with the general character


s: and excellent Musaeus. By his pupil Kotzebue. [Continued from


s: poem, continued from number to number. Cf. p. 175.]


s: No. 14--[Mention of Klopstock's use of hexameters in his


s: No. 50--A Comparison of "The Wanderer of Switzerland" with a


s: presented a much admired Tragedy in three acts, called


s: "Werter; or the Fatal Attachment." Taken from the popular


s: German tale called Charlotte and Werter, and performed at


s: Covent Garden Theatre, London, with great applause. [The cast


s: general Field Marshal in the service of Russia. A free trans.


s: from the German of Gerard Anthoine de Halem.--Paris. [Book


s: (into French) from the German with notes by H. L. C. 3 vols.


s: to the Salt Mines of Salzburg and of Reichenall, and through


s: =Quarterly Rev.=--London printed; N. Y. reprinted.


s: Tindal Palmer. 4 vols. London. [Critique.]


s: lies in the town of Weimar, and the neighbourhood of the


s: abbey of Quedlinburgh. Time, from the 12th to the present


s: century." [In the next number this play is referred to as


s: "the imitation of the German drama, which we presented in our


s: ---- Emilia Galotti, a Tragedy. Trans. from the German of G.


s: Inskeep, Phila., 1810. [The translation bound at end of Jan.


s: =The Quarterly Rev.=--London printed; N. Y. reprinted.


s: of France, with a View to illustrate the Rise and Progress of


s: Florian, &c. Trans. from the French. By Wm. B. Hewetson.


s: Public Library, the Atheneum Library and the library of the


s: =The Boston Mag.=, containing a collection of instructive and


s: London printed; Phila. reprinted and sold. 1793. [A


s: =The Lady and Gentleman's Pocket Mag.= of Literary and Polite


s: Twenty-seven numbers were published. Cf. _Hist. Mag._,


s: =The Gleaner=, a miscellaneous production in three volumes. By


s: I, Nos. 1-4, 23rd year of American Independence.


s: II, No. 5, 24th year of Amer. Independence; no place of publ.


s: =Child of Pallas.= Devoted mostly to Belles Lettres.--Balto.


s: Feb. 25, 1800--Proposals for printing the Ladies' Museum.


s: =The Lady's Mag. and Musical Repository.=--N. Y.


s: =Holcombe's Georgia Analytical Repository.=--Savannah.


s: =The Panoplist, or the Christian's Armory.=--Boston.


s: =The Rambler's Mag.= and N. Y. Theatrical Register for the Season


s: =The Quarterly Review.=--London printed; N. Y. reprinted.


s: =The Phila. Repertory=, devoted to Literature and useful


s: A General View of Switzerland, etc., =136=


s: A literal translation of the King of Prussia's Ode, 18, =105=


s: Cogan's, Dr., Travels on the Rhine, =71=


s: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (Goethe), 19, =24=


s: Leiden, Die, des jungen Werthers (Goethe), cf. Werter.


s: On reading in the publick Papers, etc., 18, =112=


s: On Singing Mozart's "Vergiss Me Nicht," =178=


s: Parson's Daughter, The (Bürger), cf. Lass of Fair Wone, The.


s: Speech of the Prince of Brunswick, etc., =107=


s: Voltaire's letter, cf. Mr. Voltaire's letter.


s: Werter's Farewell to Charlotte, 19, =141=


s: Entered, according to the Act of the Provincial Parliament,


s: in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty, by


s: CHARLES SANGSTER, in the office ef the Registrar of the


s: Oh, strong young soul, and thinking brain!


s: Crowd through the brain's dim labyrinths,


s: Before the eras stamped their autographs


s: And hair like heaven's golden atmosphere,


s: Features as perfect as God's dearest work,


s: Translucent as pure crystal, or the light


s: That flowed, unceasing, from this higher world


s: The extremest regions underneath the Earth


s: The first spheres rose, of vari-coloured light,


s: Like seas of jasper, blue, and coralline,


s: For nothing passes wholly.  All is changed.


s: The Years but slumber in their sepulchres,


s: And speak prophetic meanings in their sleep.


s: At the deeds which were done since then,


s: Progressing still, the bright-faced Seraph rose


s: From Goodness to Perfection, till she stood


s: The fairest and the best of all that waked


s: Where Lucifer, then the stateliest of the throng


s: In robes of brightness worthy of his place.


s: And all the intermediate spheres were homes


s: That linked them to each other--heart to heart,


s: And angel world to world, and soul to soul.


s: Sphere spake with sphere, and love conversed with love,


s: From the far centre to sublimest height,


s: Rehearse their paeans of unceasing praise;


s: Oh, truest Love, because the truest life!


s: Oh, blest existence, to exist with Love!


s: Oh, Love, without which all things else must die


s: The death that knows no waking unto life!


s: Oh, Jealousy that saps the heart of Love,


s: And Pride, that tramples with its iron hoof


s: Upon the flower of love, whose fragrant soul


s: All due allegiance to his rightful Lord;


s: Turning the truth and wisdom which were his


s: To thirst for power, and hatred of his God,


s: Who raised him to such vast preëminence!


s: To purchase Hell, and at so vast a price!


s: 'Tis the old story of celestial strife--


s: False angels joining the insurgent ranks,


s: Who suffered dire defeats, and fell at last


s: From bliss supreme to darkness and despair.


s: But they, the faithful dwellers in the spheres,


s: Heaven's love and truth were truly great rewards:


s: For these the stars were sown throughout all space,


s: The wretched lost were banished to the depths


s: Beneath the lowest spheres.  Earth barred the space


s: Between them and the Faithful.  Then the hills


s: Rose bald and rugged o'er the wild abyss;


s: The waters found their places; and the sun,


s: The bright-haired warder of the golden morn,


s: Rung his first challenge to the dismal shades,


s: That shrunk back, awed, into Cimmerean gloom;


s: And the young moon glode through the startled void


s: The glowing Seraph with the brow of light


s: Was first among the Faithful.  When the war


s: Between heaven's rival armies fiercely waged,


s: She bore the Will Divine from rank to rank,


s: Her presence cheered the combatants for Truth,


s: And Victory stood up where'er she moved.


s: And now, in gleaming robe of woven pearl,


s: She moves first in the innumerable throng


s: With noiseless speed the angel charioteers


s: In dazzling splendour all triumphant rode;


s: That flashed a golden, phosphorescent spray,


s: As luminous as the sun's intensest beams,


s: Of all the hosts and hierarchs of heaven,


s: Their steeds of swiftness up the arch of light,


s: From sphere to sphere increasing as they came,


s: Till world on world was emptied of its race.


s: Reached the far confines of the utmost sphere,


s: The home of Truth, the dwelling-place of Love,


s: That heaved in swells of soft, mellifluous sound,


s: To the blest crowds at whose triumphal tread


s: Its soul of sweetness waked in thrills sublime,


s: The sun stood poised upon the western verge;


s: The moon paused, waiting for the march of earth,


s: That stayed to watch the advent of the stars;


s: Memorials of their faithfulness and love.


s: The Evening Star, God's bright eternal gift


s: To the pure Seraph with the brow of light,


s: Came twinkling down the unencumbered blue,


s: On viewless wings of sweet melodious sound,


s: Beauty and grace presiding at its birth.


s: Celestial plaudits sweeping through the skies


s: Waked resonant paeans, till the concave thrilled


s: From every point of heaven the hurrying cars


s: Conveyed the constellations to their thrones--


s: The throbbing planets, and the burning suns,


s: From the far arctic and antarctic zones,


s: Through all the vast, surrounding infinite,


s: The gleaming wonders, pulsing earthward, came;


s: With hearts of wonder, and with souls of praise:


s: For each young angel born to us from earth,


s: A new-made star is launched among its peers.


s: Of the rejoicing stars--is silent praise.


s: Descends in throbbings of celestial light


s: Into the heart of man, whose upward gaze,


s: Of the heart's incense passing up the night.


s: Of the vexed ocean soars the fullest psalm;


s: And in the solemn midnight, silence blends


s: Whose trance-like stillness wakes delicious pain.


s: Holds keener anguish in its orb of brine,


s: But the deep, tearless Sorrow,--how profound!


s: Morn on the mountains lights his urn of fire.


s: Rejoice in silence; huge pines stand apart


s: Their woes to every breeze that passeth by;


s: That breathes its trembling thoughts through all the


s: What is it to the violet lightning thought?


s: So with the burning passion of the stars--


s: The gates of Paradise, while the too-intimate,


s: Self-righteous' boast, strikes rudely at the gate


s: Of heaven, unknowing why it does not open to


s: Their summons, as they see pale Silence passing through.


s: Withdrew the gleaming curtains of the night,


s: We watched the whirling systems, until each


s: Could recognize their own peculiar star;


s: Ere the earth's sun had kissed the mountain tops,


s: Or shook the sea-pearls from his locks of gold.


s: Night's shepherdess sat, queenlike, on her throne,


s: Watching her starry flocks from zone to zone,


s: While we, like mortals turned to breathing stone,


s: Her thoughts are sweet glimpses of heaven,


s: Stopped the pulse that thrilled the germ;


s: Passed the smoke-wreaths, white and fair,


s: Of golden visions, dreams away his days,


s: The singer's thoughts imbue the atmosphere;


s: Sweet as the dreamings of the nightingales


s: Ere yet their songs have waked the eastern vales,


s: That haunt the forest's social solitude.


s: His thoughts are pastorals; his days are rife


s: That makes the poet heir to worlds unknown,


s: All space his empire, and the sun his throne.


s: As the bee stores the sweetness of the flowers,


s: Is hived the Hybla richness of the year;


s: Choice souls imbibing the ambrosial cheer,


s: Gleans honied secrets from the passing rills;


s: Link vale to mountain with a chain of praise.


s: Foremost among the honoured sons of toil


s: Are they who overcome the stubborn soil;


s: Was even greater than when lord of Rome.


s: Down sinks the sun behind the lofty pines


s: That skirt the mountain, like the straggling lines


s: On the dim lowlands deepening into night;


s: Soft-featured twilight, peering through the maze,


s: Sees the first starbeam pierce the purple haze;


s: Through all the vales the vespers of the birds


s: Cheer the young shepherds homeward with their herds;


s: Creak 'neath the fulness of the ripened grain,


s: As the swarth builders of the precious load,


s: Returning homewards, sing their Autumn Ode.


s: With willing hands and keen-edged scythe,


s: Alive with beeves and sweet-breathed kine


s: A two-fold crop of grain and pleasure yields,


s: While round their hearths, before their evening fires,


s: The level tracts, denuded of their grain,


s: In calm dispute are bravely shorn again,


s: Till some rough reaper, on a tide of song,


s: Like a bold pirate, captivates the throng:


s: Knights of the Plough! for no Golden Fleece we sail,


s: We're Princes in our own right--our sceptre is the Flail.


s: A song for the Flail, and the faces hale


s: Fair was the maid, and lovely as the morn


s: From starry Night and rosy Twilight born,


s: Rehearsed the strains that from her lips ere long


s: Welled free and sparkling, as the vocal woods


s: Repeat the day-spring's sweetest interludes.


s: Her gentle eyes' serenest depths of blue


s: Shrined love and truth, and all their retinue;


s: The health and beauty of her youthful face


s: And such perfection blended with her air,


s: She seemed some stately Goddess moving there:


s: Beholding her, you thought she might have been


s: The long-lost, flower-loving Proserpine:


s: Up the wide chimney rolls the social fire,


s: Warming the hearts of matron, youth, and sire;


s: Painting such grotesque shadows on the wall,


s: The stripling looms a giant stout and tall,


s: While they whose statures reach the common height


s: Seem spectres mocking the hilarious night.


s: From hand to hand the ripened fruit went round,


s: And rural sports a pleased acceptance found;


s: The youthful fiddler on his three-legged stool,


s: Hunted the slipper till his ribs were sore;


s: Some chose the graceful waltz or lively reel,


s: While deeper heads the chess battalions wheel


s: Till some old veteran, compelled to yield,


s: More brave than skilful, vanquished, quits the field.


s: As a flushed harper, when the doubtful fight


s: Favors the prowess of some stately knight,


s: Upholds the spirits of the victor throng,


s: Thus sung the praises of the partner of his toil:


s: From fairest bowers bring rarest flowers,


s: No breeze that sweeps trade's stormy deeps,


s: Their foes are few, their lives are true,


s: Fast sped the rushing chariot of the Hours.


s: Without, the Harvest Moon, through fleecy bowers


s: Of hazy cloudlets, swept her graceful way,


s: Proud as an empress on her marriage-day;


s: The admiring planets lit her stately march


s: With smiles that gleamed along the silent arch,


s: And all the starry midnight blazed with light,


s: As if 'twere earth and heaven's nuptial-night;


s: The cock crowed, certain that the day had broke,


s: And bayed so loud a challenge to the moon,


s: From the old orchard fled the thievish 'coon;


s: Within, the lightest hearts that ever beat


s: Still found their harmless pleasures pure and sweet;


s: The fire still burned on the capacious hearth,


s: Old graybeards felt the glow of youth revive,


s: Where life's rare nectar, fit for gods to sip,


s: In forfeit kisses passed from lip to lip.


s: Be hushed rude Mirth! as merry as the May


s: Was hers who warbled "Claire."  All the day long


s: Her voice was ringing like a bridal bell;


s: Gladness and joy leaped up at every swell;


s: And love was deeper, warmer, for the tone


s: That clasped the heart like an enchanted zone.


s: A youth was there more comely than the rest,


s: One who could turn a furrow with the best,


s: Compete for manly strength and portly air,


s: Or wield a scythe with any reaper there.


s: The waters of his soul, and waked his song to Love:


s: "Come tell me, merry Brooklet, of a gentle Maid I seek,


s: Thou'lt know her by the freshness of the rose upon her cheek;


s: Her eyes are chaste and tender, and so serenely bright,


s: "The Maid has not come hither," said the Brooklet in reply;


s: "I've listened for her footfall ere the stars were in the sky;


s: The Fountain has been singing of a Maid, with eyes so bright


s: You may read the cherished secrets of her bosom by their light."


s: "Pray tell me, merry Brooklet, what saith her thoughts of one


s: Who wronged her loving nature ere the setting of the sun?


s: What say they of yon autumn moon that smiles so mournfully


s: On the slowly-dying season, and the blasted moorland tree?"


s: "She sitteth by the Fountain," the Brook replied again,


s: "Her heart as pure as heaven, and her thoughts without a stain;


s: 'Oh, fickle moon, and changeful man!' she saith, 'a year ago


s: "She sitteth by the Fountain, the gentle mists arise,


s: And kiss away the tear-pearls that tremble in her eyes,


s: The Fountain singeth to me that the Maiden in her dream


s: Shrinks as the vapours claim her as the Oread of the stream."


s: Off sped the merry Streamlet adown the sloping vale;


s: The Shepherd seeks the Fountain, where sits the Maiden pale;


s: And to the wandering Brooklet, through many a lonely wild,


s: The burden of the Fountain was, that Love was reconciled.


s: But soon the Morn, on many a distant height,


s: Fingers the raven locks of lingering Night;


s: The last dark shadows that precede the day


s: Have stripped the splendour from the Milky Way;


s: And Nature seems disturbed by fitful dreams,


s: As one who shudders when the owlet screams;


s: Like a vague Sorrow, floats from hill to hill;


s: Along the vales the doleful accents run,


s: Where the white vapours dread the burning sun;


s: While human voices stir the haunted air,


s: One sings "the Plough," another warbles "Claire:"


s: The Happy Harvesters, a lightsome throng,


s: Dispersing homewards, prove the excellence of Song.


s: I have laid my cheek to Nature's, placed my puny hand in hers,


s: Felt a kindred spirit warming all the life-blood of my face,


s: Moved amid the very foremost of her truest worshippers,


s: Studying each curve of beauty, marking every minute grace;


s: Loved not less the mountain cedar than the flowers at its feet,


s: Looking skyward from the valley, open-lipped as if in prayer,


s: Felt a pleasure in the brooklet singing of its wild retreat,


s: But I knelt before the splendour of the thunderous Chaudière.


s: All my manhood waked within me, every nerve had tenfold force,


s: And my soul stood up rejoicing, looking on with cheerful eyes,


s: Watching the resistless waters speeding on their downward course,


s: Whose floor is woven with the iris bright,


s: Genius and Queen of the Chaudière I dwell,


s: Marked by the foot of ages long-departed,


s: My joy, the cataract's stupendous shock,


s: Whose roll is music to the grateful-hearted.


s: With muffled tread to their eternal dreams,


s: While I have lived in vale and mountain side,


s: With leaping torrents and sweet purling streams.


s: His love, pride, passions, courage, and great deeds;


s: His perfect freedom, and his thirst for strife;


s: His swift revenge, at which the memory bleeds:


s: Swept down the stately tribes like slaughtered deers,


s: And spread decay through centuries of pain--


s: No more I mark their sure, avenging pace,


s: And forests wave where war-whoops shook the plain.


s: The valleys and the solemn wildernesses,


s: And strung with diamond dews the pine-trees' tresses;


s: And he that reigns therein is simply man;


s: Man turns God's gifts to poison in the chalice


s: That brimmed with nectar in the primal plan.


s: That waked conviction in his doubting heart:


s: Dare to doubt! and these shall teach thee


s: Refreshed and gladdened by the cheering showers


s: Wrung from the passion of the seething deep.


s: Rising, white-sheeted, from their gloomy graves,


s: As if the depths had yielded up their ghosts.


s: Enfolds the welkin in its robe of clouds,


s: Through the dim vapours of the cauldron swarm


s: The sheeted spectres in their whitest shrouds,


s: These gather from the insubstantial vapour


s: The lunar rainbows, which by them are made--


s: Woven with moonbeams by some starry taper,


s: Of my fair palace, whence I'm pained to see


s: Thy human brethren watch the waterfalls--


s: Not with such rev'rence as I've found in thee:


s: To speculation and the worldling's dreams;


s: Nor read the oral language of the streams.


s: The beautiful with grateful heart and soul,


s: Who looked on nature fondly, and were moved


s: By one sweet glance, as by the mighty whole:


s: Thou wert the first to seek the inner temple,


s: And stand before the Priestess.  Thou wert true


s: Will awe the spirits of the heartless mimes


s: To worship God in truth, with nature's constancy."


s: Still I heard the mellow sweetness of her voice at intervals,


s: Mingling with the fall of waters, rising with the snowy spray,


s: Ringing through the sportive current like the joy of waterfalls,


s: Sending up their hearty vespers at the calmy close of day.


s: Deeper, stronger, more enduring than my dreams of wood and glade,


s: Speeding past the rocky Island, steadfast as a sentinel,


s: Echoes of thy voice of sweetness, rousing all my better life,


s: Ever haunt my wildest visions of the jubilant Chaudière.


s: And pay her rightful homage through her Son;


s: Our hearts go forth to meet him--we are one.


s: There's not a slave amongst us--we are free.


s: Our Fathers all were heroes--in the van.


s: To strike for England's honour and her Queen.


s: The living torrents, sweeping in, evince


s: 'Honour to England's Heir!--long live the Prince!'


s: To thee and thine our best affections cling,


s: With heart and soul we'll shout--GOD SAVE THE KING!


s: Erratic Soul of some great Purpose, doomed


s: Were not more stern on earth than thine in Heaven!


s: Art thou the Spirit of some Angel World,


s: For grave rebellion banished from thy peers,


s: Compelled to watch the calm, immortal stars,


s: From which she flies in terror so profound,


s: And with such whirl of torment in her breast,


s: That mighty earthquakes yearn where'er she treads;


s: While War makes red its terrible right hand,


s: And Famine stalks abroad all lean and wan?


s: Or gentlest fancy that e'er floated down


s: Wedding the thought that was too deep for words


s: When the stars sang together o'er the birth


s: In the coarse manger at the crowded Inn,


s: Didst thou, perhaps a bright exalted star,


s: Refuse to swell the grand, harmonious lay,


s: Pierced the Redeemer's brow, didst thou disdain


s: Were blinded by the fulness of their tears?


s: E'en to the flaming sun, that hid his face


s: No rest!  No rest! the very damned have that


s: Where the dread scheme was perfected that sealed


s: Like Adam's sons, hast thou, too, forfeited


s: The blest repose that never pillowed Sin?


s: No! none can tell thy fate, thou wandering Sphinx!


s: Pale Science, searching by the midnight lamp


s: Through the vexed mazes of the human brain,


s: Still fails to read the secret of its soul


s: A loosed Prometheus burning with disdain.


s: If seasons, like the human race, had souls,


s: The Poet's mentor and the Painter's guide.


s: That thrill the forests with prophetic fire.


s: And what could painter's skill compared to these?


s: What palette ever held the flaming tints


s: That on these leafy hieroglyphs foretell


s: How set the ebbing currents of the year?


s: Or told the lesson of life's waning days


s: More forcibly, with more of natural truth,


s: Than yon red maples, or these poplars, white


s: As the pale shroud that wraps some human corse?


s: Clothed with that majesty most monarchs lack,


s: Might fit old Autumn for his royal rule:


s: For here is kingly ermine, cloth of gold,


s: By the best monarch that e'er donned a crown.


s: The Laureate of the Seasons, whose rare songs


s: Autumn, the Poet, Painter, and true King!


s: From the rare colors of the changing leaves;


s: And the ripe blood that swells his purple veins


s: He walks with Shelley's spirit on the cliffs


s: And meets the soul of Wordsworth, in profound


s: The human race.  The cheery Spring may come,


s: And touch the dreaming flowers into life,


s: As a fair hand strikes music from a lyre:


s: But Autumn, from its daybreak to its close,


s: Robed with rare brightness and ethereal flame,


s: Holds all the year's ripe fruitage in its hands,


s: And dies with songs of praise upon its lips.


s: And then, the Indian Summer, bland as June:


s: Or Huron Chief, returned to smoke the Pipe


s: Of Peace upon the ancient hunting grounds;


s: The mighty shade in spirit walking forth


s: The scanty remnants of the scattered tribes


s: Wending towards their graves.  Few Braves are left;


s: Few mighty Hunters; fewer stately Chiefs,


s: Like great Tecumseth fit to take the field,


s: But having run thy gauntlet of their days,


s: This Autumn remnant of some unknown race,


s: Fall like dry leaves into the lap of Time;


s: Their old trunks sapless, their tough branches bare,


s: And Fate's shrill war-whoop thund'ring at their heels.


s: Who'll fearlessly brave the maniac wave,


s: Thoughtless of self, human life to save,


s: Who, Shadrach-like, will walk through fire,


s: That there's but a step 'twixt life and death?


s: And come down from your self-built throne:


s: Would dare to fling, whether serf or king,


s: There may be a curse on the hands that gave,


s: "Truth lights our minds as sunrise lights the world.


s: The heart that shuts out truth, excludes the light


s: That wakes the love of beauty in the soul;


s: The sole Dispenser of the gracious bliss


s: That brings us nearer the celestial gate.


s: They who might feed on rose-leaves of the True,


s: And grow in loveliness of heart and soul,


s: As children clutch at stars.  To some, the world


s: Is a bleak desert, parched with blinding sand,


s: With here and there a mirage, fair to view,


s: Of Folly and Despair.  Could we but know


s: How nigh we are to the true light of heaven;


s: In what a world of love we live and breathe;


s: On what a tide of truth our souls are borne!


s: Yet we're but bubbles in the whirl of life,


s: Our footsteps from the path that leads us home.


s: Of the true spirit quenched in utter night,


s: As we rush headlong, wrecked on Error's shoals.


s: Some hearts will never open; all their wards


s: Have grown so rusty, that the golden key


s: Of Love Divine must fail to move the bolt


s: That Self has drawn to keep God's angels out."


s: That seemed to me so many golden threads


s: Of thought between her fingers and her brain,


s: Bestrung with priceless pearls; her lightsome mood,


s: That made her beauty like an eve in June,


s: That seemed prophetic of her thoughts to-night:


s: Strong in vast hopes, but weak in deeds,


s: That they whose love and hope have slept,


s: That which men spurned, angels have shrined


s: "'Tis well that nature hath her ministers,"


s: She said, her voice and looks so passing sweet;


s: "Great-hearts that let in love, and keep it there,


s: Like the true flame within the diamond's heart,


s: Informing, blessing, chastening their lives.


s: Man has but one great love--his love for God;


s: All other loves are lesser and more less


s: As they recede from Him, as are the streams


s: The farthest from the fountain.  God is Love.


s: Who loves God most, loves most his fellow-men;


s: Where others see but man--and he, so frail


s: There is no light that is not born of love;


s: No truth where love is not its guiding star;


s: Faith without love is noonday without sun,


s: For love begetteth works both good and true,


s: Seemed never half so bright or numberless


s: As they appeared to-night.  Margery's laugh


s: Like the quick steps of fairies in the air


s: Breathed into silvery music.  Happy soul!


s: "God bless the darling Eva!" was my prayer.


s: A pure, unconscious depth of earnestness


s: A stain upon the river, whose first swell


s: Would swirl it to the deep.  A calm, sweet soul,


s: Where Love's celestial saints and ministers


s: Virtue sprung up like daisies from the sod.


s: Oh, for one hour's sweet excellence like hers!


s: One hour of sinlessness, that never more


s: Can visit me this side the Silent Shore,


s: To stand, like her, serene, unblushing before God!


s: His heart's a burning censer, filled with spice


s: Breathing such prayers to heaven, that the nice


s: Can cull sweet praises from the rare perfume.


s: Man cannot know what starry lights illume


s: He judges harshly with his mind's eyes closed;


s: The heights where Poet-souls have oft reposed;


s: Divine, that lights the Ideal atmosphere,


s: Rolls the majestic hymn that inspirates the Seer.


s: Till I lose all sense of the outer world,


s: Deep, deeper still, from the springs of Thought


s: Where I seem to rise upon airs that melt


s: And wheresoe'er through the wondrous space


s: Hurled their proud, defiant curses at the battle-heated foe,


s: When the bridle-rein was broken, and the rider was laid low.


s: Where I marshalled the battalions of my fancy to my aid!


s: And the cannons' echoes startling the reverberating glade.


s: In the thickest of the contest, round the resolute Montcalm;


s: Of the battle's fiery furnace, like the swelling of a psalm.


s: On which the hymn of battle rung, like surgings of the wave


s: And with arm that never faltered drove the brave defenders back.


s: Of the zephyr-sprite that wantons on the rosy lips of morn;


s: To unfit them for their triumph over death's impending scorn.


s: The Power to whom each mighty act and victory are due,


s: And for the air of quietude that steeped the distant view.


s: His beams of whitest glory till they flooded all the Plain;


s: Yours is the truest splendour, and the most enduring fame;


s: Is harsh discord to the music of your undertoned acclaim.


s: "They run! they run!"--"Who run?"  Not they


s: "The French! the French!" a voice replied,


s: Sound the mute trumpet, strike the lyre,


s: No tongue need blazon forth their fame--


s: That conquered then, that conquers still;


s: In prayer, in thunder, thought, or song;


s: Ere the heart is chilled and cheerless--


s: The indolent bátteau moved slowly along,


s: Beguiled the dull moments with laughter and song:


s: "Hurrah for the Rapid! that merrily, merrily


s: Soon we will enter it, cheerily, cheerily,


s: Pleased with its freshness, and wet with its spray."


s: They dash down the stream like a terrified steed;


s: Their voices keep pace with their quickening speed:


s: Now we have entered it, cheerily, cheerily,


s: Our spirits as light as its feathery spray."


s: Though danger awaits them on every side;


s: But downward they speed with the merciless tide;


s: No voice cheers the Rapid, that angrily, angrily


s: Shivers their bark in its maddening play;


s: Gaily they entered it--heedlessly recklessly,


s: Mingling their lives with its treacherous spray!


s: And our poor hands are torn with thorns,


s: Stops, and reads their cherished secrets,


s: Wrest her love's strange secret from it,


s: "Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear


s: received a little thereof. A SPIRIT passed before my


s: The following lines were written under the powerful impulse of


s: "SPIRITUS intus alit, _totamque infusa per ARTUS_,


s: MENS agitat MOLEM, et _magno se corpore miscet_."


s: Of magic Fancy, threw, with full control,


s: Her half prophetic mantle o'er the soul.


s: The place was thron'd like Britain's royal halls,


s: And her proud navy deck'd the tap'stried walls.


s: Statesmen and heroes grac'd the pictur'd scene;


s: Fathers who were what since their sons have been;


s: And some whose laurell'd brows might glow with shame,


s: Of sons with nought of their's besides the name.


s: Seem'd hush'd, and prince and peer in silence sate;


s: E'en G--ff--d's brazen descant seem'd to fail,


s: And gasping C--pley gazed on L--d--rd--le;


s: Panting, they loll'd their contumelious tongues,


s: And suck'd _Italian juice_ to clear their lungs.


s: Y--k mus'd on _armies_; yet, with doubtful trust,


s: Wish'd he were certain, or the cause were just:


s: The eye of Cl--r--nce fiercely rang'd the floor,


s: But soften'd as it fell on D--n--ghm--re;


s: While L--v--rp--l, who inly seem'd to fear


s: For place and power, his fellows strove to cheer


s: With sickly smile; and courtier lords obscene,


s: Temper'd new filth, to daub their libell'd QUEEN.


s: Sudden amid the peers whom ENGLAND hails


s: HER nobles--men who fail but when SHE fails,


s: Made those walls tremble through its earthly mould.


s: Now a mild glory round its presence play'd,


s: And 'spoke from heav'nly courts the awful shade.


s: Its brow wore high reproof; the lifted arm


s: Was stretch'd for pleading; and there was a charm


s: Like one whose rank was with the great and good;


s: And well that rank was own'd, when ERSKINE cried,


s: "'Tis England's CHATHAM!"--"CHATHAM!" all replied.


s: Like the dead stillness of the summer air,


s: When pregnant clouds of shrouded fire are there,


s: They sat:--and like the voice of thunder broke


s: The rolling periods, as the vision spoke.


s: "Is this," he cried, "the consecrated floor,


s: Where England's peerage stood, as known of yore,


s: Jealous of honour, zealous for the laws;


s: Justice their sword, and England's weal their cause?


s: Are these the walls whose echoes then return'd


s: No words that chasten'd gallantry had spurn'd?


s: Is this the throne whose last loved tenant view'd


s: His people's morals as the monarch's good?


s: And bade _Example_ to _his_ court proclaim


s: What taught, unpractis'd, is the teacher's shame?


s: Ah no! that throne is chang'd; this gew-gaw thing


s: Befits a raree-shew, not England's King!


s: And can it be that Brunswick's cherish'd heir


s: Will also change the laws which plac'd him there?


s: Yet make his sorrowing subjects dwell on both?


s: Forbid it, Heaven! Far other thoughts he knew,


s: When yet his talents with his graces grew;


s: Admired the prince, and half adored the man.


s: Nor now _thus_ fall'n!--Yet whence this hot cabal


s: These monstrous portents that before me rise


s: This deep, dark plotting, spreading net and snare,


s: By hands that used their country's ark to bear?


s: This hateful truckling to misguided power,


s: Combined in palace, temple, hall, and bower,


s: To crush an outcast Queen, with evidence


s: Tales that would merit but an equal fate,


s: Told of the veriest wench in Billingsgate!


s: FATHERS! and BRITONS! whence this alien band


s: Of miscreant lechers bribed from sea and land?--


s: By England spurn'd, yet plied with England's gold,


s: Till every scoundrel's stock of oaths was sold;


s: Then hither sent by hirelings vile as they,


s: Have lent these vermin not unwilling ears;


s: For new-born lies have barter'd ancient law,


s: Broke public faith, to patch a private flaw,


s: And made a court that freemen never saw.


s: Strangle this monster, ere its birth be o'er,


s: Or grov'lling lick the dust to rise no more!


s: This crew 'gainst England's CONSORT QUEEN preferred?


s: Here did their sland'rous breath infest the air?


s: Hence did malicious tongues the scandal bear?


s: Gush'd 'neath this sacred dome the prurient flood


s: Of filth and venom, from that viper brood,


s: Which o'er the land hath spread its noisome stain,


s: While shudd'ring virtue weeps, but weeps in vain?


s: And (O shame's nauseous dregs!) did noble lips


s: Here taste that stream with epicurean sips?


s: And mitred heads, as o'er its scum they bent,


s: Snuff the rank steam, and chuckle at the scent?--


s: My soul is sick!--I turn with sated ear,


s: Peers who their conscience to no market bring;


s: Respect themselves, their country, and their king:


s: Nor would round England's smiling hearths diffuse


s: The breath--the very atmosphere of stews.


s: Air no blessed spirit may unpained endure:


s: Yet leave I not without a warning voice:


s: Hear, and obey, and Britons shall rejoice!


s: "You cannot, Lords! by votes create a crime,


s: Nor make your country's voice with falsehood chime:--


s: You cannot quench, with all this flood of LIES,


s: A gallant people's glowing sympathies:--


s: You cannot hide your idol God from them,


s: When prone you kiss its garment's nether hem:--


s: You cannot waste their treasure on a cause,


s: That boldly violates their guardian laws;


s: And 'scape the arrows from their quiver hurl'd--


s: The keen reproach, and hisses of the world.


s: You may cry 'GUILTY!' but the umpire land


s: Cancels the verdict with indignant hand,


s: The nation's dignity; nor brooks that gold,


s: Wrung hardly from her toiling sons, should pay


s: The Judas gang that would her rights betray.


s: Scorn meets THE FEW who, bought by pandering power,


s: Outvote the nation's voice in hapless hour.


s: O pause ere yet that fatal hour is seen!--


s: Be counsell'd, Lords!--You cannot crush your Queen,


s: But by a blow that must, with blind intent,


s: Bruise THRONE and ALTAR in its dire descent!


s: "O where, ye PRELATES! is your light withdrawn?


s: Where now the lustral influence of your lawn?[A]


s: Where the meek crosier, and the crook of fleece,


s: That guard the fold (not reckless of the peace)?


s: Is there no wolf in all your pastur'd plains?


s: No murrain rankling in your lambkins' veins?


s: No lurking thief, by whom they nightly bleed?


s: No arid spots refreshing streams that need?


s: Sit ye, unmindful where the victims fall,


s: To _hire_ ONE SACRIFICE with cords be bound,


s: And your anointed hands inflict the wound?


s: If such your rites, no LEVITE here I view,


s: But BAAL'S PRIESTS may leap and shout with you.[B]


s: O whither urge these bodings of my breast?


s: Let hope, let charity their flight arrest!


s: Whose courtly robes yet bear no wilful stain!


s: PRINCES! and PEERS! once more on you I call--


s: Save! save your tottering glory ere it fall!


s: If truth, if virtue, to your hearts be dear;


s: If sounds of sweet content you love to hear;


s: If generous sons, and daughters chaste, you prize,


s: Be worth your care; if rank can aught avail:


s: If rev'rence for the altar and the throne,


s: Be yours, and GEORGE the lawful king, you own:


s: If rights your fathers were combin'd to save,


s: When Britain's sceptre to his race they gave,


s: Be justly claim'd, as justly claim'd they are


s: O save your names from hate, disgrace, and scorn,


s: "Ah! heard ye not your lion-genius roar,


s: And shake with mighty tread his ev'ry shore?


s: Deem not that roar in vain; for it hath found


s: And generous hearts have rous'd them at the sound.


s: There is a spirit mightier far than yours--


s: But urg'd too far, a giant's strength awakes,


s: And gyves and bonds at one fierce effort breaks.


s: O hear yet more! There is a GOD, whose eye


s: Whose blessing England owns for countless years,


s: Whose vengeance now she deprecates with tears.


s: To HIM your Queen appeals, and at HIS bar,


s: Your names must mark the awful calendar;


s: There must the witness CONSCIENCE naked plead,


s: And guilty kings receive the culprit's meed.


s: O think on this! e'en now that witness own,


s: And save YOURSELVES, your COUNTRY, and your THRONE!"--


s: The vision ceas'd, and in a radiant cloud


s: Withdrew--The breathless senate rev'rent bow'd.


s: New vigour throbb'd in every patriot breast,


s: And nerveless horror sicken'd all the rest.


s: "The King's wife is participant of many Prerogatives


s: _Price 1s.--Fine Proofs on India paper, 3s._


s: BUONAPARTEPHOBIA.--_Ninth Edition--Now first printed as an 8vo.


s: _Price One Shilling.--A Coloured Edition, 1s. 6d._


s: "I have conferred on him a glorious immortality.


s: --With his name the mothers still their babes."--


s: _New Works Preparing--One Shilling each._


s: _The Protevangelion, or birth of Christ and the Virgin,


s: _The first Gospel of the Infancy of Christ._


s: _Clement's Two Epistles to the Corinthians._


s: _The Shepherd of Hermas, in three books._


s: Table I. List of all the lost Apocryphal books.


s: Table II. List of early Catalogues of the Books of the


s: gratifying to the reader, and more convenient for reference, by


s: arranging the Books into Chapters, and dividing the Chapters into


s: The LOVER OF OLD LITERATURE will here find the obscure but


s: Several of the PAPAL PAGEANTS for the Populace and the MONKISH


s: Schools--_Woodcuts_ in early black letter and block books--and


s: _Illuminations_ of missals and monastic MSS.--receive immediate


s: elucidation on reference to the APOCRYPHAL NEW TESTAMENT, and are


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s: The herd of folly, without color bright,


s: Or fill the Poet's mind, or songs arouse!


s: And though I'd like, just once, to see thee,


s: I'd see thee, but I would not be thee if I might.


s: Our sweetest songs are those that tell of Purple Cows.


s: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,


s: The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea;


s: I watched them slowly wend their weary way,


s: Full many a donkey writes of her, I ween,


s: But neither of these creatures would I be.


s: There, little Cow, don't cry, don't cry.


s: Of purple tint, like to a sun-soaked grape--


s: Of purple tint, like royal velvet cape--


s: This Cow that darkles the red and the blue!


s: A brave lookout; lest I should be asleep


s: When she comes by. For, though I would not be one,


s: I've oft imagined 'twould be joy to see one.


s: She strayed and strayed and strayed and strayed


s: Yet were I that Cow I should want to die.


s: But with mien of chorus lady perched herself above my door.


s: On a dusty bust of Dante perched and sat above my door.


s: On that dusty bust of Dante just above my chamber door,


s: And my soul from out that pool of Purple Shadow on the floor


s: By the side of wan waves do you languish?


s: Now the joys of the road are chiefly these,


s: Though, alack-a-day, there be times enow,


s: When I see pink snakes and a Purple Cow.


s: The man has seen hundreds of purple cows,


s: And the cows seemed to him to be a reddish brown.


s: Thoughts thickly thronging are thrilling


s: Who will may hear the poet's story told.


s: The Little Girl, tricked out with ringolet,


s: Or fringe, or pompadour, or what you will,


s: Switch, bang, rat, puff--odzooks, man! I know not


s: What women call the hanks o' hair they wear!


s: But that same curl, beau-catcher, love-lock, frizz.


s: (Perchance hot-ironed--perchance 'twas bandolined;


s: Mayhap those rubber squirmers gave it shape--


s: I wot not.) But that corkscrew of a curl


s: Hung plumb, true, straight, accurate, at mid-brow,


s: Nor swerved a hair's breadth to the right or left.


s: Aught of her other tresses none may know.


s: Ha! what's the note? Hark here. When she was good,


s: So good she made the saints seem scalawags;


s: Black fails to paint the depths of ignomin,


s: The fearsome sins, the crimes unspeakable,


s: Hist! Tell 't wi' bated breath! One day she let


s: A rosy tongue-tip from red lips peep forth!


s: Can viciousness cap that? Horrid's the word.


s: Yet there she is. There is that Little Girl,


s: Her goodness and her badness, side by side,


s: Like bacon, streak o' fat and streak o' lean.


s: And right in the middle of Annabel's brow


s: She was good with a goodness more than good,


s: With such goodness the winged seraphs of heaven


s: But her badness was stronger by far than the good,


s: Then Mr. Stevenson went out into his own garden and plucked this:


s: "What makes you curl so tight, so tight?"


s: "For you know that when I'm good, I'm just as good as I can be.


s: And when I'm bad, there's nobody can be as bad as me.


s: So I'm thinkin' I'll be very good to-night, because, you see,


s: I'm thinkin' I'll be horrid in the morning."


s: Mr. Hood was in a reminiscent mood, so he looked backward:


s: To know I could have played worse pranks


s: At the next meeting of the Re-Echo Club there was achieved a


s: A mayde ther ben, in Niger born and bredde;


s: Hire merye smyle went neere aboute hire hedde.


s: Uponne a beeste shee rood, a tyger gaye,


s: Ther came, his sadel hangen doone bisyde,


s: The tyger. On his countenaunce the whyle


s: Ther ben behelde a gladnesse and a smyle.


s: Why if the Soul can fling the Dust aside


s: Were't not a Shame--were't not a Shame for him


s: Strange, is it not? that, of the Myriads who


s: Before us rode the Sandy Desert through,


s: Round with the Smile-illumined Tiger held


s: Kipling, of course, seized the theme for a fine and stirring


s: "For she's riding on the tiger, you can see his stately stride;


s: When they're returning home again, she'll take a place inside;


s: And on the tiger's face will be the smile so bland and wide,


s: But she's riding on the tiger in the morning."


s: Since all your life seems meant for fails,


s: Who knows what's best? Ah, who can tell?


s: Hear her gaysome, gleesome giggle as she rides around in style!


s: As she smiles, smiles, smiles, smiles, smiles, smiles, smiles,


s: While she rides along the dusty, desert miles.


s: If such a smile means happiness, he's happy quite a pile;


s: How contentedly he chuckles as he trots along the miles.


s: But he smiles, smiles, smiles, smiles, smiles, smiles, smiles,


s: As he homeward goes along the desert miles.


s: Stay, fellow traveller, let us stop and think,


s: Say would you rather thrust your pen in paste,


s: Or dip your paste-brush carelessly in ink?


s: Here is a theme that is worthy of our cognizance,


s: A theme of great importance and a question for your ken;


s: Or in your pesky pasting-pot immerse your inky pen?


s: O'er theemes of depest thogt her braine she werked,


s: Yette when they askt her if she'd rather sinke


s: Her penne in payste, or eke her brushe in inke,


s: "Ah," quo' the canny mayde, "now wit ye wel,


s: I'm wyse enow to know--too wyse to tel."


s: Shall I sully its white-breasted glories,


s: And when Peter roamed here with his Soul,


s: Through the corn with his conjugal Soul,


s: And he popped her right in through a hole.


s: And, though there's no doubt he bewept her,


s: This was received with acclaim, but many objected to the mortuary


s: How do I keep thee? Let me count the ways.


s: I bar up every breadth and depth and height


s: My hands can reach, while feeling out of sight


s: For bolts that stick and hasps that will not raise.


s: I keep thee from the public's idle gaze,


s: I keep thee, rude, as women strive for Right.


s: I keep thee boldly, as they seek for praise,


s: I keep thee with more effort than I'd use


s: I keep thee with a power I seemed to lose


s: With that last cook. I'll keep thee down the well,


s: Or up the chimney-place! Or if I choose,


s: I shall but keep thee in a Pumpkin shell.


s: Austin Dobson's version was really more lady-like:


s: Like the other women present Dinah Craik felt the pathos of the


s: I would be so tender, so loving, Peter,--


s: Now all men beside are not in it, Peter,--


s: Stretch out your hand to me, Peter, Peter,


s: Mr. Hogg took his own graceful view of the matter, thus:


s: Sweet was thy flitting o'er moorland and lea;


s: Or he had known how thy nature was free;


s: But it really is a comfy, well-constructed punkin shell;


s: So I put her in the punkin and I've kept her very well.


s: Leave go my hands. Let me catch breath and see,


s: Green pumpkin vines about me coil and crawl,


s: Seen sidelong, like a 'possum in a tree,--


s: Ah me, ah me, that pumpkins are so small!


s: Oh, my fair love, I charge thee, let me out


s: From this gold lush encircling me about;


s: The crescent moon shines slim,--but I am stout,--


s: Pumpkin seeds like cold sea blooms bring me dreams;


s: Ah, Pete,--too sweet to me,--My Pete, it seems


s: Love like a Pumpkin holds me in its thrall;


s: And since then he's kept her quite well.


s: Give me no more! Though worsted slippers be


s: To give or not to give, that is the question;


s: Whether 'tis nobler on the whole to suffer


s: The old exchange of trinkets, gauds and kickshaws,


s: Or to take arms against this Christmas nuisance,


s: And, by opposing, end it? To buy--to give--


s: The Christmas obligations to our friends


s: To give--perchance to get; ay, there's the rub!


s: For in those bundles gay what frights may come


s: When we have shuffled off the ribbon bows


s: And tissue paper! Who would gifts receive


s: Of foolish books and little silver traps,


s: That make us rather keep the things we buy,


s: Than get these others that we know not of!


s: Thus Christmas doth make cowards of us all,


s: And, notwithstanding our good resolutions,


s: Each year we bandy gifts, and follow out


s: But the night shall be filled with nightmares,


s: There, little girl, don't cry, don't cry!


s: "We must advance to meet it," said Teddy Poe, who was ever of an


s: adventurous nature. "What's it all about?"


s: "That's just the point," said the President; "preeminently and


s: "Any rules or conditions?" asked Billy Wordsworth.


s: "Absolutely none. It's the Ruleless School."


s: Ten heads,--though I sometimes count more;


s: Here we have Mr. P.B. Shelley's noble lines:


s: In profuse stairs of unintelligible art.


s: Art thou perchance the sad cube root of 23?


s: Can't you see their paint a-chunkin in a hotchy-potchy splash?


s: Mr. D.G. Rossetti, ever a sweet singer, warbled thus tunefully:


s: Mr. R. Browning found the subject greatly to his liking:


s: Who will may hear the Staircase story told;


s: All its blobs, splotches, facets,--what you will;


s: With ravage of six long sad hundred stairs,


s: Whirling the stairdust, hazarding oblique,


s: The moon safe in her pocket! See she treads


s: Cool citric crystals, fierce pyropus stone;


s: While crushing sunbeams in a triple line


s: And Strojavacca, frowning, looks asquint


s: To see that trick of toe,--that dizened heel,--


s: As she, the somewhat, hangs 'twixt naught and naught.


s: And here is Mr. B. Jonson's little jingle:


s: Robes made of sheet-iron, flowing free,--


s: And Mr. J.W. Riley sang in his usual comforting strain:


s: There Little Nude, don't cry, don't cry!


s: Sir A. Tennyson caught the Cubical spirit neatly thus:


s: As the staircase is, the Nude is; thou art painted by a freak.


s: And I think that he has knocked thee to the middle of next week.


s: So thou art not seen descending in the ordinary way,


s: But, like fifty motor-cycles, breaking speed laws in Cathay.


s: My Cubist Nude, I have no song to give you;


s: I could not pipe you, howsoe'er I tried;


s: But ere I go, I wish that you would teach me


s: Be skittish, child, and let who will be graceful,


s: Do whizzy whirls whenever you've the chance;


s: And so make life, death and that grand old staircase


s: Oscar Wilde was moody and this was his mood:


s: And still the Nude's soul-cubes are there,--


s: Mr. W. Wordsworth was frankly disdainful:


s: And Mr. Bunner's poetic gem has a charm all its own:


s: Mr. Wordsworth treated the subject boldly, thus:


s: What do you think of A. Dobson's triolet:


s: Of course, no one is a sweeter poetess than Miss A.A. Proctor:


s: That came from the head of the staircase


s: And now the admirers of Mr. Poe will enjoy this:


s: And neither the artists in circles above,


s: Can ever dissever the Nude from the Stairs,


s: You thought to charm the country's heart


s: The Thoughtful Soul to speculate aspires;


s: And the lean Hand of Shylock and his Kin


s: Puts out some Money, which he gladly Hires.


s: Myself, when Young, did eagerly Frequent


s: Broker and Broke; and heard Great Argument


s: Came out far Shrewder than when in I went.


s: And then I thought I'd sure be in The Know;


s: And this is all the Wisdom that I gained:


s: If you buy High, Quotations will be Low!


s: Sigh for the big Fool's Paradise to come.


s: Ah, take the Cash, and let the Profits go,


s: Both Standard Oil and Copper can confute;


s: I swore. But was I Cautious when I swore?


s: And then Came Gay State Gas and Rise-in-Hand;


s: I plunged--and Lost some Fifty Thousand More.


s: And then that New Prospectus cast a Spell,


s: And robbed me of my Hard-Earned Savings. Well,


s: One-Half so precious as the Fools they Sell.


s: Last week is past Regret; To-day is a joke;


s: Myself with Yesterday's Seven Thousand Broke!


s: You know, My Friends, with what a Brave Carouse


s: I sent my Soul down where the Magnates flock


s: To learn the Truth about some Worthless Stock;


s: And answered: "I, myself, have Bought a Block!"


s: Oh, threats of Curbs, and Hopes of Bucket-shops,


s: One thing is Certain, and the Rest is Lies--


s: The Stock that you have Bought Forever Drops!


s: And if, in Vain, down on the Stubborn Floor


s: Of the Exchange you Hazard all your Store,


s: You Rise to-day--while Crops are up--how then


s: To-morrow, when they Fall to Rise no more?


s: Of this or that Provision, Crop or Grain.


s: Than sadden just Because it Doesn't Rain!


s: Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend


s: Dust unto Dust, and without Dust to Live,


s: Sans Stock, sans Bonds, sans Credit and sans Friend.


s: The Moving Ticker tells. And, having told,


s: Shall lure it back to Raise one-half a Point,


s: To watch a Magnate shearing a Poor Lamb.


s: The System still shall Lure New Souls to Doom;


s: As Wall Street's Self should heed a Lawson Boom.


s: Ah, Love! could you and I lay on the Shelf


s: The Swan delights o'er streams to glide.


s: The blushing Flowers bloom in the spring.


s: reading-books to consist of the classic tales of the country, the


s: traversed the ground, word by word and sentence by sentence. This


s: little volume into three parts, the first of which gives a short


s: The Greek editor had never read the inane rat and cat stories of


s: American school "readers" when he wrote that. He continues:


s: "'The little boy is grieved when told that he is little. Nor does


s: imagination reaches out and beyond his environments. I find the


s: stories from Homer to be more suitable reading for young children


s: "Therefore these stories are held in as high esteem by the German


s: They were all handsome and heroic young men. One of the youngest,


s: But the youth was so persistent and unhappy that the king at last


s: Now, there was a mysterious reason for this strange desire of


s: royally if he gave his verdict in her favor.


s: Her husband was one of the most renowned heroes of Hellas, King


s: This was the chance which wily Aphrodite had contrived for Paris.


s: Then his heart was filled with great wrath. He set out at once to


s: After the two brothers had talked over this grave affair, they


s: But a soothsayer, or seer, had greatly disturbed him by informing


s: endless wanderings, and loss of comrades.


s: directing the young Greek warriors with all his heart and soul.


s: ambassadors and drove them out of their city.


s: gathered there under the leadership of the celebrated and heroic


s: chiefs. The commander-in-chief of the whole army was Agamemnon.


s: Among the renowned leaders were Menelaos, the sagacious Odysseus,


s: around which the mother circled as if overcome by grief.


s: So Agamemnon went to Calchas, the seer, and asked his advice,


s: whereupon the old prophet told him to send for his lovely young


s: daughter, Iphigeneia, and offer her up on the altar as the only


s: Menelaos was thrown by wind and waves on the island of Crete, and


s: But the saddest fate of all overtook Agamemnon, who met his death


s: Calypso saw him as he came in and knew him. She bade him sit down


s: Odysseus in the meantime sat by the shore mourning and gazing out


s: Odysseus was under water a long time, striving in vain to come to


s: Poseidon saw him, and shaking his head he said: "I verily believe


s: Too tired to breathe or speak, he sank down in a swoon. His knees


s: At the first dawn of day Nausicaä went in haste to her father and


s: maidens of her train following her on foot.


s: The repast over, they began to play ball. First the white-armed


s: Nausicaä sang a song as they frolicked on the sand.


s: So Odysseus clothed himself as best he could, by winding slender


s: "I once saw a young palm-tree growing up beside Apollo's altar in


s: suppliant at thy feet, although I am in sore distress, for great


s: Nausicaä looked at Odysseus in pity and answered: "Stranger, thou


s: The maids hastened to obey. They looked over what was left of the


s: After Nausicaä had mounted to her seat on the cart, she said to


s: Odysseus: "Get ready now, stranger, and we will lead thee to my


s: neighbor. Follow me, and I will lead thee thither. But on the way


s: ships, the great market-place, and the high walls of the city.


s: When they reached the palace, the girl stopped and said: "This is


s: "She is greatly honored by the king, and all the people treat her


s: bewildered by the splendor. The walls were of brass, the doors of


s: Odysseus remained in the hall with Aretè and Alkinoös. As they


s: Phæacians. All the princes instantly arose and walked down to the


s: When the chiefs had taken their seats a great number of young men


s: Then the friends of Laodamas advised him to challenge Odysseus to


s: "Methinks thou art the owner of some merchant-vessel. Thou art a


s: trader, whose head is full of bargains. Such men can take heed of


s: Having said this, Odysseus seized a much larger and heavier quoit


s: greatly admired the swift and rhythmical movements of their feet.


s: They both danced, going through intricate and rhythmical figures,


s: These words pleased Alkinoös greatly, and he said to his people:


s: Odysseus answered: "May the gods be as sure to favor my return to


s: "And I cannot think of anything more delightful than the joy of a


s: "I am the chieftain Odysseus, son of Laertes, and widely known to


s: "Brisk handling of our oars soon carried us out into the sea, but


s: "Nine days and nine nights we were driven about on the sea by the


s: "When our hunger was satisfied, I sent out two of the best men to


s: bitterly when I commanded them to return to the ships, and I was


s: "There is a little woody island lying at the entrance to the land


s: "We were shaping our course toward this island, and a good breeze


s: "The next day I started with twelve men, the crew of my own ship,


s: towering above other mountains, than a human being.


s: "But I would not allow this. It was my wish to stay there and see


s: "After these words he fell asleep and, being very drunk, he began


s: "He called to the other Cyclops, who lived in divers caves on the


s: Polyphemus? Is anyone trying to kill thee?' 'Woe is me!' cried


s: "The rock fell in front of my ship, and the waves which it raised


s: excite the dangerous monster further; but when we were a long way


s: "When Polyphemus heard these words he gave a deep groan, and said


s: smooth rocks and guarded by a wall of shining brass.


s: "Æolus had twelve children, six sons and six daughters, and they


s: "Æolus welcomed us hospitably and kept us with him a whole month.


s: "I took the great bag of winds and bound it fast to the main mast


s: "I found the king and his wife and children at table taking their


s: "Eurylochos stayed a long time outside awaiting the return of his


s: especially a black ram. Then take two sheep, a male and a female,


s: "Young wives and girls, old men and young warriors who had fallen


s: "But first came the soul of Elpenor, one of my companions who had


s: "'I pray thee now by all those whom thou dost love--thy wife, thy


s: "To all this my mother answered: 'My son, Penelope is in the home


s: "So spake my mother, and I longed to clasp her to my heart. Three


s: "Whereupon the king told me the dire story of his home-coming and


s: "I answered: 'Godlike Achilles, I came here to consult the seer


s: Tiresias about my return to my own country, for I have never yet


s: reached Grecian soil, but have wandered about suffering great


s: "When we reached Circè's isle, we dragged our vessel up on to the


s: "'Or, if thou wouldst enjoy the matchless singing and not pay the


s: "'Thence thou wilt come to the narrows where Skylla and Charybdis


s: "'She is a terrible monster that barks like a savage dog, day and


s: indeed, any living creature that passes that way.


s: Charybdis seizes thy ship all must perish.


s: "Thus they sang, and their songs thrilled me. A great desire came


s: comrades to set me free. But they sprang up and bound other cords


s: "Hardly had we escaped from the Sirens when we beheld a black fog


s: hastened from one end of the boat to the other, speaking cheerful


s: outstretched toward me as they were lifted up into the air, and I


s: remembered the words of Tiresias and Circè, and I advised my


s: "My crew would not listen to me. They commanded me to land on the


s: starvation is the worst. Let us kill the best of these cattle and


s: sufficient redress, for the cattle were dead.


s: "Then Zeus sent a thunder-bolt into the ship, and broke it nearly


s: All the guests had listened with deep attention to the recital of


s: When the morning star arose the ship reached Ithaca. It entered a


s: thwarted. He at once complained to Zeus that the Phæacians had


s: restored Odysseus to his native land, with gifts finer and more


s: The ship had gone, and it was broad daylight when Odysseus awoke.


s: There were tripods and vases of gold and brass and beautiful


s: welfare of his master than did all the rest of the servants whom


s: "The gods have already sent me trouble enough. Here I sit weeping


s: Odysseus followed the swineherd into the cabin. Eumaios threw an


s: Odysseus was gratified at this kind reception, and said to the


s: Odysseus replied: "Thou dost see that I am half naked for want of


s: Odysseus might come. But now, as if we had not troubles enough, a


s: "But tell me, dear old man, from what country dost thou come? Who


s: The time had not yet come when Odysseus thought it best to reveal


s: Returning, he wandered about, and, after many adventures, met


s: Odysseus again getting ready to return to Ithaca. As for himself,


s: Eumaios took a sharp sword and thick mantle and went out near the


s: Then Athena tied golden sandals under her feet and taking a long,


s: Telemachos asked the stranger his name and country.


s: "I am Mentor, son of the Taphian King," said Athena. "I came here


s: Athena grew angry at this, and said: "I would that Odysseus might


s: "Then launch thy finest ship. Man it with twenty good oarsmen and


s: "Thou art no longer a child, and it is not seemly to allow such


s: "Thou hast spoken to me as a father speaks to a son," answered


s: Then said Telemachos: "My mother, let thy heart be strong to bear


s: "I have not summoned you, my friends," he said, "in order that ye


s: "She went on in this way, weaving the great web by day, and every


s: Mentor, the stanch friend and adviser of Odysseus, sat among the


s: appeared to him the day before to come to his assistance. At once


s: Eurycleia, alone. He revealed to her his intention, and asked her


s: When the old nurse heard this she wept and beat her breast. "Dear


s: The Ithacans touched land. Telemachos and Athena disembarked,


s: Here they found many guests assembled at the wedding banquet of


s: One of the attendants of Menelaos saw the strangers drive up, and


s: Menelaos was heartily glad to hear that his guest was really


s: They spent the rest of the day in making the festival as cheerful


s: Menelaos was indignant over the young man's wrongs.


s: "'I will perform that rite speedily, oh prophet,' I replied. 'But


s: "He was welcome to the ship," replied Noëmon. "Who would not have


s: This wicked plot of the suitors was betrayed to the queen, by her


s: In the meantime the suitors spoke among themselves, for they were


s: Telemachos urged a hasty departure and Menelaos did not think it


s: All day the horses bounded on shaking their splendid harness. The


s: "Thy mother is still at home," replied the sturdy swineherd. "She


s: "Thy words are sharp, dear stranger, and I shall answer them with


s: "My father," answered Telemachos, "thy sweet fame has resounded


s: When Telemachos came into the public square the suitors thronged


s: around him with smooth speeches, but in their hearts they kept on


s: But Eumaios grew angry and said: "Melanthios, wait till Odysseus


s: After awhile Odysseus and Eumaios came to the house. As they drew


s: Eumaios replied: "True, my friend, this is the house of Odysseus.


s: They were standing near the stable doors while talking. The filth


s: The swineherd passed on into the hall where the suitors sat, but


s: Melanthios, the goatherd, and the favorite of Eurymachos, wishing


s: Eumaios answered him most courteously: "Antinoös, though thou art


s: Antinoös made response: "Telemachos, thou boaster, if each suitor


s: Antinoös spoke again with insulting words, and one of the guests


s: rebuked him. He was so angry, however, that he did not heed it.


s: The queen thought the beggar's answer was a prudent one, and was


s: dining-hall awaiting the arrival of Penelope. She was not long in


s: Odysseus: "Art thou here, thou beggar! Begone, or I will take a


s: "Strong ties of friendship bind me to Odysseus. Twenty years ago,


s: thirteenth a favorable wind arose and they went on to Troy."


s: "He was accompanied by a herald named Eurybates, a hunchback with


s: Penelope admired the prudence of the poor old beggar, and called


s: "Stranger, I will wash thy feet for the sake of my absent master,


s: "There are from day to day assembled in my home all the young men


s: "Dreams do not always come to pass," rejoined Penelope, "but I


s: Odysseus was lying on his bed, but he could not sleep, for he was


s: Penelope now entered the great hall and took her seat upon a


s: magnificent throne, right in front of the suitors. She heard the


s: maudlin laughter and saw the gluttonous feasting as the revel ran


s: Antinoös lifted up his voice and chid them: "Ye foolish peasants,


s: Then Telemachos took up the bow and laughed. "I must have lost my


s: Telemachos took off his cloak and laid his sword aside. He placed


s: Odysseus begged them to desist, lest the suitors should notice it


s: Eurymachos and Antinoös were the last to make trial of the bow.


s: "Nay, Eurymachos," replied Penelope, "real shame comes on him who


s: Even yet they were blind to the fact that the stranger had slain


s: "Dogs," cried Odysseus, "ye little thought your chief would ever


s: A dreadful frown spread over Odysseus' face, and he replied:


s: Melanthios, the goatherd, had sneaked in and was slyly bringing


s: banquet." They locked the doors and left him there and took their


s: Odysseus and Telemachos and their faithful servants hurled their


s: lances, and the weapons always hit the mark. The cowherd struck


s: Four of the wooers fell to the ground at once and the remainder


s: Odysseus searched up and down the hall to see if any suitor could


s: When this was done, they were driven like a flock of birds into a


s: chieftain and welcomed him with glad salutations. They kissed his


s: Penelope rose from her couch and seized Eurycleia by the hands.


s: "My daughter," said the aged nurse, "what words are these? I


s: Penelope descended from her royal bower uncertain how to meet her


s: Odysseus smiled and said: "My son, be patient, and let thy mother


s: "And let the minstrel bring his lyre and strike up such music as


s: prompts the dance, so that those living near us may report that a


s: Thus spoke the monarch, and his commands were gladly obeyed.


s: After awhile those outside were heard to say: "Shame on Penelope!


s: Meantime Odysseus followed a servant to the bath, and when he had


s: There Odysseus saw his father working around a young tree that he


s: deserves better things. Thy face does not look like the face of a


s: Odysseus was overcome with pity, and invented a tale to prepare


s: Then Odysseus cried out to Telemachos: "Now is the moment to show


s: A chil' les--also called Pelides, the hero of the "Iliad." He was


s: Æ' o lus--the keeper of the winds, and king of Lipara, one of the


s: Ag a mem' non--leader of all the Greek chiefs in the Trojan war.


s: Al kin' ŏ ös--king of Scheria, father of Nausicaä. He gave aid to


s: An tin' o ös--the boldest of the suitors.


s: A re' tè (ä rā' tā)--wife of Alkinoös and queen of Scheria.


s: Ar e thū' sa--a spring "where the swine of Eumaios ate 'abundance


s: Greece--Ithaca.) Arethusa was also the name of a water-nymph


s: A thē' nē, or Athena; Latin, Minerva--the patron deity of Athens.


s: A' treus (a' trūse)--son of Pelops and father of Agamemnon.


s: Greeks and the knowledge of working in metals.


s: Cal' chas, or Kalchas--a soothsayer. He offended Agamemnon by


s: Cir' cè, or Kirkē--the daughter of Hēlios, the Sun. She was an


s: Dē mod' o kos--a bard at the court of Alkinoös.


s: E' lis--a district and a city in the northwestern part of the


s: Eu mai' os, or Eumæus--the swineherd of Odysseus.


s: Eu ry' lŏ chos, or Eurylochus--one of the companions of Odysseus.


s: Eu ry' ma chos, or Eurymachus--one of the suitors of Penelope.


s: Hel' en, or Helenē--a daughter of Tyndareus and Leda. She was the


s: Hel' las--Greece, the land of the Hellenes.


s: Her mi' ŏ ne--the daughter of Menelaos and Helen.


s: I' da--a mountain of Asia Minor, east of Troy.


s: I' no, or Leucothea--a daughter of Cadmus, a sea-nymph who helped


s: famous woman one must read the "Iphigeneia in Aulis" of Euripides


s: consequence of the raids of pirates and the Turkish wars, and did


s: Ktes ip' pos, or Ctesippus--one of the suitors of Penelope.


s: Lak e dai' mon, or Lacedæmon--a district in southeastern Greece.


s: La o' co ön, or Laokoön--a young priest of Apollo. He warned the


s: Trojans not to accept the wooden horse left by the Greeks and was


s: Me lăn' thi os--a servant of Odysseus, a goatherd who sympathized


s: Men' tor--the wise counsellor of Telemachos.


s: Mi' nos--a son of Zeus and ruler over Crete.


s: Mo' ly--a fabulous plant having magic properties. It had a white


s: O ke' a nos, or Oceanus--the god of the river Oceanus, and son of


s: Par' is, or Alexandros--a son of Priam. At his birth there was a


s: Pel op on nēs' us--the peninsula of lower Greece.


s: Phē' mi os--a bard at the court of Odysseus.


s: Phor' kys--the harbor where the Phæacians landed Odysseus on his


s: Pol y phe' mus, or Polyphemos or Cyclops--the son of Poseidon. He


s: Pri' am, or Priamos--king of Troy and father of Paris.


s: Skyl' la--a rock in southwestern Italy. It was supposed to be the


s: Sky' ros--a large island east of Greece.


s: Sim' o is--a river in the Troad, and a branch of the Scamander.


s: Spar' ta--a town in the southern part of the Peloponnesus, on the


s: Tan' ta los--a king of Phrygia punished by the gods for treachery


s: Tē lĕ' ma chos--the son of Odysseus and Penelope.


s: Ten' e dos--an island in the neighborhood of Troy or Ilium.


s: Thes' sa ly--a large province of northern Greece.


s: Thĕ' tis--a sea-nymph, the mother of Achilles.


s: Ti res' ias, or Teiresias--a Theban seer. He retained his


s: consciousness after death, and Odysseus descended into Hades to


s: consult with him before he could reach Ithaca.


s: Za' kyn thos, or Zante--an island near Corfù.


s: Canto LXXVII. The Gathering Of The Ashes.


s: Praise to Válmíki,(2)bird of charming song,(3)


s: And sweetly sings with accent clear and strong


s: Where breathes the man can listen to the strain


s: That flows in music from Válmíki’s tongue,


s: Nor feel his feet the path of bliss attain


s: The stream Rámáyan leaves its sacred fount


s: The whole wide world from sin and stain to free.(4)


s: The Prince of Hermits is the parent mount,


s: Whose pure lips quaff with ever new delight


s: Hail, arch-ascetic, pious, good, and kind!


s: Hail, Saint Válmíki, lord of every lore!


s: Hail, holy Hermit, calm and pure of mind!


s: Hail, First of Bards, Válmíki, hail once more!


s: Of hermit saints, these words addressed:(9)


s: Whose tranquil soul ne’er yields to rage?


s: Queen Fortune’s(10) best and dearest friend,


s: Grant, Saint divine,(13) the boon I ask,


s: Tall and broad-shouldered, strong of limb,


s: Graced with a conch-shell’s triple line,


s: His throat displays the auspicious sign.(16)


s: His strong arms reach below his knee;(17)


s: He guards mankind from scathe and wrong,


s: O’er many a stream, through constant shade,


s: Though urged by all the twice-born(29) train.


s: Earth, hell, and heaven all shook to hear:


s: When straight from out the funeral flame


s: Showed the huge fiend(33) by Báli slain.


s: Soon from their bonds his limbs were free,


s: Which Brahmá(37) had pronounced of yore,