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Johnson's easy simplicity on sed a peculiar r^ratification at being- 



tliis occasion extracted a smile from 

 all the company ; which was not cor- 

 rected when, on Wilkes happening to 

 retire from the room for a few minutes, 

 Johnson, addressing the party, expres- 



introduccd into his company, now that 

 he was assured, from his own mouth, 

 that all that malicious story reported 

 of him was a d 'd lie ! 



ORIGINAL POETRY. 



MAY; 



EV J. M.'lACEY. 



QHALL May escape, and not a lay 

 ^-J Of mine attest its pow'is ; 

 Unmark'd depart its brightest day, 

 And all its fi-agrant hours? 



Forbid it love! for May is thine, 



And ev'ry bloomini; tree 

 Becomes for thee a living shrine, 



Full of sweet minstrelsy. 

 Oft be it mine, in some deep grove, 



Whilst May shall lend its cliarms, 

 Towitness Nature's work of love. 



Far from the world's alarms. 

 Yet not alone ! — one dearer form 



Than all on earth beside. 

 One who has fac'd with uie life's storm. 



My solace and ray pride ; 



Must still attend, and bless my way, 



Midat May's divinest bow'rs; 

 Dark, without her, the lia;htest day, 



And dull its brightest flowrs. 



Come, Ann, let's seek the path of peace. 



Beside the winding rill ; 

 Where ev'ry turbulence must cease. 



Amidst a scene so still. 



Let us enjoy this heav'nly calm. 



The uift of lovely Spring ; 

 It lias for man a nameless charm, 



That only May can bring. 

 Let i»s, — ere Age his snows shall send 



In life's lone wint'ry hour,— 

 Seek Nature as our truest friend, 



And own her mighty pow'r. 



SONNET 



TO THE TRIPLK-AI.LIED MONARCHS. 



I.N vain Oppression's iron bolts ye lift, 

 Despots! surrounded by each murder- 

 ous clan. 

 In vain whilst Liberty life's precious gift, 

 Links with her social sweetniss man lo 

 ■nan ; 

 In vain your " Edicts," weak as floating 

 straws, 

 Strive to dissolve those patriot ranks 

 conibin'd. : 



Know, proniulf^ators of tyrannic laws! 

 Brute force ne'er conquer'd yet one self- 

 will'd mind. 

 Seek not then Freedom where she sits 

 cufihiiii'd. 

 Guarded by free,determin'd, virtuous men. 

 Vet if, lo coiiirquenccs proudly blind, 

 Madly ye geek Spain's lion in his den. 



Farewell, farewell, in retribution's hour, 

 'J'o that vain hateful fiend— despotic pow'r» 

 CuUuin-slreet. Enokt. 



THE SWEEPER. 



BY J. R. PRIOR. 



Double she sat by the prison-wall, 

 To catch the pence that for her might fall ; 

 Scanty and torn the clothes she wore, 

 She was old and palsied, crippled and poorj 

 Her voice breath'd forth in a piteous lay. 

 And her heart puls'd sorrow through every 



day! 

 The haughty man, in his self-control, 

 Pass'd by like the shade of his darken'd 



soul; 

 The thoutshtless and young would deride 



and jest, — 

 Excuses for pity spread many a breast! 

 Half-worn,by the side ofher shivering form, 

 Her besom unconsciously stood in the storm. 

 And the hail roll'd over the pavement fast. 

 Till the sun appear'd and his brightness cast. 

 I stopp'd, and I gaz'd on this creature sad! 

 I tlu-f w in her lap all the money I had ; 

 Care shone in her smile wrapp'd round by 



her hood. 

 And her quivering lips I left blessing the 



good! 

 I pass'd a2;ain on the morrow cold, 

 Ice trimm'd the eaves of each house's fold; 

 lask'd?— but the Sweeper had spent her 



brnath 

 In the chill of siltuce, the quiet of death ? 

 Idingtun. 



LOVE ; 



BY THE AUTHOR OF " IM.tJSTR ATIONS 

 CF AFFECnoN." 



When chill and murky to the sight, 



The tempest-rain descends, 

 In gloom and peril of the night, 



'i he trav'ler weary wends; 

 When doors are shut, and bars are fast. 



And ceas'd afar the din. 

 Despite of danger, darkness, blast, 



O Love will venture in. 



In cloister dim, and silent cell. 



Monastic terrors nigh. 

 Where vestals pallid, listless dwell, 



Secluded, hopeless sigh ; 

 Tho' the clos'd wall is fearful shown. 



That broken vows have been, 

 Despite a ling'ring death in stone, 



O Love will venture in. 



In 



