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Patents lately Enrolled. 



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The white churcti, pjepijig half through treirs ; Or peering squirrel nimbly glean 



Mopes, waving corn a^ wills the breeze ; 



Tl^ie podding bean-field, striped with bilks ; 



The shifting sheep-fold ; hoof-trod walks ; 



The road that winds aslant the down 



Thro' whins and fern to di-tant town ; 



The windmill's scarcely circling vane ; 



The villager's returning wjin ; 



The oriel window's radiant blaze, 



That flares obstrusive on (he gaze ; 



The eager heifer's echoing low, 



First from her youngling forc'd to go ; 



The dale's blue smokes, that curling rise ; 



The toil-freed hind, that hoi-ncward hies; 



The call of partridge, creak ot rail. 



The crow of pheasant, plaint of quail ; 

 The throsifi's wildly-varied lay. 



From topmost ash at parting day ; 

 The warning chime and curfew knell. 

 That duly dny's departure tell; 

 The stilly hum from glimmeriag wood ; 

 The mill-tide rush of distant flood ; 

 The streaks of mist that winding spread. 

 As winds the brook adown the mead ; 

 The plank and rail that bridge the stream ; 

 The rising full-moon's umber'd gleam 

 •Twixt severing clouds, that, richly dightj 

 Let gradual fonh her silvery light, 

 Till boundless to the view be given 

 The azure deep of open'd heaven ; 

 No more the onward foot beguile. 

 Where pollard hornbeams roof the stile. 



Whose look now scans the dusky sphere, 

 To watch succeeding stars appear? 

 Who now the flushing dawn descries, 

 That upward streams o'er northern skies ; 

 Or the wan meteor's lurid light, 

 That, headlong trailing, mocks the slight.' 

 Who now, in grove o'er-arch'd, require 

 Tl>e glow-worm lure of emerald fire : 

 Or catch from far the merry round 

 Of village-bells, whose changeful sound, 

 In sudden swing to listening ear. 

 So strikes the passing owl with fear. 

 That, dropt ungrasp'd her evening prey, 

 She whoops, and barn-ward wings her way ? 



When Autumn sere the copse invades. 

 No more you haunt the woodland glades. 

 To view the change from bough to bough. 

 Or eddying leaf descending slow. 

 That, lighting near her calm retreat. 

 Prompts the shy hare to shift her seat ; 



Each nut thnt hung before unseen ; 

 Or flitting down, from thistle borne. 

 Or coral iiaw that crowds the thorn. 

 Whence oft, in saws, observers old 

 Portend the length of Winter's cold, 



Wdk'd by the flail's redoubling bound. 

 When frost o'erspangling crisp; the ground^ 

 No more you break from wildering sleep, 

 To climb with healih yon airy steep. 

 When deepening snows oppress the plain. 

 The birds no more their boon obtain; 

 The red -breast, hovering round your doors. 

 No more his wonted meal implores : 

 Where all that needed lound relief. 

 No tearful eye laments their grief; 

 No lenient hand dispels their pain j 

 Fainting they sue, yet sue in vain. 



But, though the scenes you now deplore 

 W'ith heart and eye, be your's no more ; 

 Thoii?h now each long-known object Stem 

 Unreal as the morning's dream; 

 You still, with retrospective. glance. 

 Or rapt in some poetic tiance. 

 At will may every charm renew. 

 Each smiling pTo-p.":ct still review: 

 Through Memory's power, and Fancy's aid» 

 The vivid phantoms ne'er shall fade. 

 And oh ! where'er your footsteps roam. 

 Where'er you fii: your future home, 

 May joys attending crown the past. 

 And Heaven'i blcat mansion be your last ! 



THE OAK AND IVY: 



.4 FABLB. 



" Prosperity gains friends. Adversity tries thcm.'f 

 TpOR. ages past, a tow'ring oak had stood, 

 -^ The pride and beauty of a neighb'ring wood; 

 The ivy round its trunk was fast entwin'd, 

 Together ev'ry day fre>h branches bind 



On earth, being felled, the oak constrain'd 



to lie. 

 The ivy also seem'd to droop and die ; 

 Its branches torn and with'ring, for awhile 

 Nothing appear'd its loss to reconcile. 

 Hut grief subsides, and after some few dayj 

 The ivy seems its drooping head to raise ; 

 Then stretch'd afar, behold it in its pride. 

 It finds another oak, and climbs its side. 



FiOELIS. 



PATENTS LATELY ENROLLED. 



To Dudley Adams, of Fleet-street ; for 



certain Improvements in tlic Cunstruc- 



tioii of Paper and Vellum Tubes for 



Ti'lescopts, and in the Optical Parts of 



Telescopes. — .Marcli 7, 1815. 



rilH K liist jiait of this iiivcniion is an 



JBl iiii|)roveil mtthofl ol' making tubes, 



coiiipoKcd of |);ii <T iiiid vclluin, ofa form 



perfectly c^liiKlrieal, and of sufficient 



streiigtlitorceeivcaiid lioid metal .screws, 



and other parts necessary to tlic toii- 



etnictioii ot telescopes of various kind.i 



and Hi'Mn ill couunon use, and gf 



AlQNTiiLY Mac. No. 290. 



mannting and putting tlic tubes togellicr 

 in sue!) a manner as that the rarnisji and 

 ovnamcnlal (igiircs or devices of painting 

 or gilding on Ihoir oiiisitles ma}' not ho 

 injured by drawing out or closing tlie 

 tubes. The tnl.cs of jiapcr and vol- 

 luin, are made in the lolluwiiig maimer. 

 First; a coat of post or writing paper, 

 wliicli is called the water coat. Second ; 

 another coat of post or writing paper. 

 Third; a coat of blue, brown, or bag- 

 cap. Fourth; another coat of post. 

 And, l<xit, tbc vollinn ; thu^ forming a sub- 

 X X * stauce. 



