4 1808.1 Original Poetry. 4 41 
“ Ripe for the sickle, see yon smiling plain; 
«6 Gay in her waving vest of yellow corn. 
' #€ Know pensive mortal, that the golden 
a grain, ‘ 
“ Perish’d inearth, ere it again was born. 
The sun itself, now sunk beneath the wave, 
Again’ shall light this world—again sball 
rise ; 
And from the ocean spring,as fgom his grave, 
And run his course of glory in the skies. 
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| THE DAYS THAT ARE GONE. 
By Mra. TOMLINS, 
OF SHREWSBURY. 
THE sun was departed, the mild zephyr 
blowing, 
Bore over the plain the perfume of the 
flowers, : : 
In sot undulations the streamlet was flowing; 
* And ‘calm Meditation led orward the hours. 
I struck the full chord, and the ready tear 
& started, 
-___-Isung of an exile, forlorn, broken-hearted ; 
Like him from my bosom all joy is departed, 
And sorrow has stol’a from the lyre all its 
powers. 
I paus’d on the strain, when fond memory 
2 tenacious, 
Presented the form I, must ever esteem, 
. Retrac’d scenes of pleasure, alas! how fal- 
.. “ -lacious t 
Evanescent all, all, as the shades of a 
dream ; 
Yet still as they rush’d thro® oppress’d re- 
collection 
The silent tear fell, and the pensive reflec- 
tion, 
~  Immers’d my sad bosom in deeper dejection 5 
On-which cheering Hope scarcely glances 
. 2 beams 
In vain into beauty all Nature is springing, 
In vain smiling Spring does its blossoms 
unfold, 
In. vain round my cot the wing’d choristers 
singing, 
‘When each soft affection is dormantand cold, 
As the merchant is sad, when bereav’d of his 
treasure, . 
$0 slow beats my heart, and so languid its 
‘ measure 
Sodreary,so luncly, a stranger to pleasure, 
Around it Affliction her mantle hath rol?’d. 
But meck resignation supporting the.spiriz, 
Unveils a bright scene to the uplifted eye ; 
A scene which the patient and pure shall in- 
herit ; 
Where hearts bleed'no more, and the tegr 
shail be dry. 
There souls which on earth in each osher 
delighted, 
By friendship, by honor, by virtue united, 
Shall meet, and their pleasures no more shall 
be blighted, 
But perfect and pure as their love be their ; 
Joy. 
Monrury Mac, No. 174 
IMITATION OF A BEAUTIFWL ODE OF 
SAPPHO, 
Daivelas root xivog toos Sectoiy Sc, 
By JAMES HORATIO RUDGE, a.B. 
THE youth who sees thee sweetly smiley 
And fordly listens all\the while, 
Just like the Gods is he ; 
And, as thy numibers smoothly flows 
His breast with Jove begins to glowy 
As close he sits by thee, 
*T was this that rais’d, with subtile art, 
Vhe fever of my jealous heart, 
And wither’d every grace ; 
For while Iview'd, in transports tost, 
My roseate charms were gone, were losty 
The dimple of my face, 
Ah! while I gaz’d, my colour fled, 
A paleness o’er my cheeks was spread, 
The livid hue of death ; 
Swift stole within asubtile flame, 
“That fast consum’d my vital frame, 
The just-expiring breath. 
Cold chilling damps around me grew, 
My trembling limbs were chill’d with dew, 
My eyes forgot to play; 
With hollow sounds my ears were thrill’d, 
-My breast with ianguor then was fill’d*, 
I fainted, died away. 
Bigods, April, 1808. 
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IMITATION. 
TEMPLE OF GNIDUS. 
By JAMES HORATIO RUDGE, A.B. 
HIS lovely Gnidus cyarms the goddess? 
sight, 
Attracts her presence, and her looks delight, 
’Tis there she lovesto dwell; celestial queen! 
And sport with rapture o’er the Gnidiaz ~ 
green: - 
No more can Paphos now impart delight, 
Nor Amathonian groves enchant her sight. 
She ne’er descends from proud Olympi 
seat, : 
But e’er she visits Gnidus’ soft retreat. 
The happy Gnidians, accustom’d tu her view, 
Ne’er struck with t@rror, do her presence rue3; 
Unlike the mortal race with awe inspir’d, 
The goddess view, and are with transport 
fird: 
Whene’er she comes, from o’er the bending 
skies, = 
To charm with raptures her lov’d Gnidians* 
£¥es 5 
She oft descends, in cloud-like. form array’d, 
And leads her Gnidians thro’ each flow’ry 
mead. r > 
Her auburn locks with heav’nly odours 
crown’d, 
E’er soft diffuse ambrosial sweets around 5 
The goddess’ presence then is owned by all, 
All teel her pow’r, as all obey her call. 
EE SSE OO eae 
* In she original yrwporéga de mains Epcpite 
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