16 Poland, Past and Present. [JAN. 



the gigantic power of Russia without already " counting the cost." 

 Hitherto all has been success. The Russian Viceroy has been expelled ; 

 the Russian troops have been defeated. The armies of Russia have not 

 ventured to advance. The Polish provisional government has despatched 

 agents to France, and, we are told, communications have been made to 

 this country. Here they will have the wishes of every honest man ! If 

 the late French Revolution could justify but slight difference of opinions 

 among sincere men, the Polish Revolution can justify none. It is a 

 rising, not of the people against their monarch, but of the oppressed 

 against the oppressor, of the native against the stranger, of the betrayed 

 against the betrayer, of the slave against the tyrant ; of a nation, the 

 victim of the basest treachery and the most cruel suffering in the annals 

 of mankind, against the traitor, the spoiler, the remorseless author 

 of their suffering. Their cause is a triumph in itself; and may the 

 great Being who " hateth iniquity, and terribly judgeth the oppressor," 

 shield them in the day of struggle, and give a new hope to mankind by 

 the new victory of their freedom ! 



A MOORE-ISH MELODY. 



OH ! give me not unmeaning Smiles, 



Though worldly clouds may fly before them; 

 But let me see the sweet blue isles 



Of radiant eyes when Tears wash o'er them. 

 Though small the fount where they begin, 



They form 'tis thought in many a sonnet 

 A Flood to drown our sense of sin ; 



But oh ! Love's ark still floats upon it. 



Then give me tears oh ! hide not one ; 



The best affections are but flowers, 

 That faint beneath the fervid sun, 



And languish once a day for showers. 

 Yet peril lurks in every gem 



For tears are worse than swords in slaughter ; 

 And man is still subdued by them, 



As humming-birds are shot with water ! 



