His Son's Character of Lord Clarendon. 



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To bind the heart by anguish torn, 



With sweet Affection's band : 

 >Tis thine to nurture Hope's f nd smile, 



To chase Affliction's g;loora ; 

 To blunt the cruel thorns which crowd 



Our passage to the tomb. 

 Then, give me, Heaven, the soul to feel, 



The hand to mercy prone ; 

 The eye, which soft effusive flows 



For sorrows not its own : 

 Be mine the cause of Mis'ry's child, 



J]y WMrmest, tend're,-t care, 

 To pluck the siina; that wouuJs his breast 



And heal it with a tear, 

 tfoltingkani. T.B. 



SONNET, 

 Supposed by petrarch, ttpun lender recol- 

 lections of LAt:t<A. 

 O! SHE was beautiful, the wild wood Ro«e, 

 Symbol of sweetness, bloom "d upon her 

 cheek. 

 And she was virtuous — ah! no flower that 

 blow 5, 

 Shines half so delicate, so chaste, and 

 meek. 

 And the mild evenin:;-*tar at (I:'yli^ht'scIo>-e, 

 Coiich'd in its silvery halo, — which doth 

 rise. 

 Sheds a faint sickly ray, compnr'd with 



those 

 Pure "-lossy thrones of lovciinr'ss: — her cys. 



Death made in her t!'f veriest cruel prize, 



Yet was she no coarse being; of this sphere, 



But came a short sojourner from llie 



skies ! 



To shew what glorious forms inhabit there. 



O Love ! when thy warm vows to such are 



given, 

 Thou'rt bliss on earth, extracted pure from 

 Heaven. Enort Smith. 



IMaroh ] 



LOVE. 



" Amor vincit omnia." 

 How bright is the morning of Love's young 

 day. 

 When the passions are opening to sight ; 

 When the sua of the soul beams his natural 

 ray. 

 O'er the worlds of a wak'ning delight: 

 Care's visions are fleeting, 

 For attraction, when meeting. 

 Unites and distils Sensibility's kiss ; 

 Youth's eye-stars are met. 

 And they cannot part yet. 

 So (hey wed in their love for their port ion of 



'bliss. 

 How fair is the day of an unison'd feeling. 



If Children, like buds, are around lis, 

 And our tear-drops, like oils, their aggriev- 

 auees healing. 

 Make us wonder how firmly love bouud us : 

 O ! the summer — like charm ! 

 O! this season so warm! 

 Sweetly scented with garlands the best of 

 Hope's yeiir : 

 May they flourish and last 

 Thro' Love's season's unpast. 

 And in Life's great meridian still lovelier 

 appear. 



The noon and the evening of old age ad- 

 vancing. 

 Virtue's fruits are secured for ever ; 

 And the night-rays of Love while descending 

 are glancing. 

 Unwilling their glory to sever : 

 Like friends of the heart, 

 'Tis in duty they part ; 

 But they shine in the parting undyingly 

 clear; 



And short is the sorrow 

 That welcomes Love's morrow, 

 Eternally faithful ! — etenially dear! 



Islington. J. R. Priok. 



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MEDITATIONS Oil the first ^'Inniiiersnnj 

 after the Death of Lord Chnncellor 

 CLARENDON, urittcii on the 9fh of 

 December, 1075, bi/ his Son, Lau- 

 rence HYDE, afterwards eari, of 

 ROCHESTER, and note first printed 

 from the original 3IS. in po.isession of 

 the Editor. 



THIS is (lie first iviiuiversiiry day of 

 iny father's death, the 9th of De- 

 cemher'. 167") ; wliicli ought to ptitt nie 

 in miiul of lecollectina; myselfe hov I 

 have passed this whole year, (he first 

 that I haA-ebeen left absolutely (o my 

 owne free choice and direcdon, witiiout 

 that awe and reslraiiit our parents have, 

 «ir should have, over us. It is true, in- 

 deed, I was then of an age ripe enotigh, 

 if ever, to be trusted to niyselfe, and 

 I had been for seven years before liy my 

 father's banisliment, and my mother's 



death, wliieii Jiapned within iialfe a year 

 or lesseoueoftheothor, allmost as niiieh 

 exposed, I may call it, to my owne 

 eleciion. wiicn I w;is so mticli younger, 

 and more lyal)le to the lenijitations of a 

 new goit liiverty. 



However, because I am conscious (o 

 myselfe, that during his life I had re- 

 gard, in siiine of my actions at least, to 

 the jiid<in!cnt he should niakcof tlieni, 

 and that I have oliserved the groat al- 

 terations in some of liis friends and re- 

 lations, who liaA'e not preserved that 

 steddynesse and integrity, neither in 

 their lives nor manners, which they 

 appearetl with belbre, it will not b.-; 

 amiss to make som.e reflections, both 

 upon them and myselfe, whom I liave 

 reason (o suspect as miicii as any other 

 body, and particularly upon this day, 

 which I would spend with some leve- 

 rence, 



