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Belles-Lettrcs, and to excite in each a desire to collect, like the 

 industrious bee, materials from every valuable source, to pro- 

 vide sweets of purest flavour, for our little hive of information. 

 The effects of this mental exercise on many of the former 

 correspondents, who are now ornaments of their various connec- 

 tions, plainly prove its beneficial aid in acquiring an easy, and 

 perspicuous style of composition, and its advantages as intro- 

 ductory to the practical duties of a respectable station in society. 

 We solicit original compositions, which will meet with hon- 

 ourable mention, in proportion to their respective merits, and be 

 submitted, with due deference, to the inspection of our kind 

 patrons. 



TO THE RETURNING SWALLOW. 



Summer land traveller. 



Blooming time's messenger. 

 Child of the sunny year's happiest hour, 



Joy from the leafy grove 



Greets thee with songs of lore. 

 Hailing thy presence in nature's gay bow*r. 



Where on thy rapid wing, 



Hast thou been wandering, 

 Spring's welcome harbinger, bird of the wind ? 



Did'st thou from winter's reign. 



Fly o'er the pathless main, 

 Leaving the chilling blasts' fury behind ? 



Can'st thou have mounted high, 



Soaring beyond the sky. 

 Where milder breezes incessantly play ? 



Oh ! if thou comest thence, 



Bringing its pleasures hence. 

 Turn not again to convey them away. 



Earth in her loveliness. 



Puts on her spangled dress, 

 Binding her front with new garlands of green; 



Bids the perfuming gale, 



Spread o'er the flow'ry vale. 

 When on the ether thy pinions are seen. 



Dear too art thou to man, 

 Teaching his soul to scan, 

 Pleasures ne*er ending in Paradise land ; 



