200 WARBSTOW BARROW. 



To the Editor. (Private and confidential.) 



My dear , Thin skinned though your bachelor be, I dare 



say he is a clever fellow; and I hope you will introduce us to 

 one another when I next visit your town. In consideration of the 

 tenuity of his epidermis you will perceive that I have dealt gently 

 with him in my replication to his reply : do you think he would 

 write a paper on the same subject every alternate month ; if so, de- 

 pend on me for ditto; only stop our career when you think we have 

 verged ad nauseam. I hear his wedding day is fixed for the 14th 

 instant, is this a fact ? 



Will you call on , and ask him if he can lend me two 



kill-devils; the top swivel of mine was broken in my last trolling 

 expedition ; enclose them to Richard Darke, Esq., Tavistock, for me. 

 I am about to visit Prince Town for a few days. 



Yours as of yore, 



P.S. How did he like the trout ? 



As we see nothing private or confidential in the above, except the names, we 

 hope for "Theobalds" pardon in publishing it. EDITOR. 



WARBSTOW BARROW. 



The wide moors of Cornwall are dotted by gorsegrown hillocks. These are se- 

 pulchral mounds of the old dead. They still bear the Cornish name of Barrows or 

 Graves. 



Did the wild blast of battle sound 

 Of old, from yonder lonely mound ? 

 Race of Pendragon ! did ye pour 

 To this dear soil your votive gore ? 



Did stern swords cleave along the plain 

 The loose rank of the roving Dane ? 

 Or Norman charger's iron tread 

 Smite the meek daisy's Saxon head? 



The wayward winds no answer breathe 

 No legend cometh from beneath, 

 Of chief, with good sword at his side, 

 Or Druid in his tomb of pride. 



One quiet bird that comes to make 

 Her lone nest in the tangled brake, 

 A nameless flower a crested fern, 

 Lo ! the dim Warrior's stoned urn. 



Hark ! on the wild wing of the blast, 

 The future echoing to the past ! 

 "Thy scenes, oh nature! glorious still. 

 The voices cease upon the hill ! " 



The Author of" Records of the Western 



