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In eastern olinie, where slaves assume 



Dominion of the free, 

 Where paclias jealous fieqnent doom 



The silken cord, — the sea; 

 If captive beauty weeps the hours, 



Tlio' hazardous to win, 

 Dc'jpite a haram's guards and tow'rs, 



O Love will venture in. 

 He climbs the deck, he rides the wave 



In whirlwind, fiery storm ; 

 He peri's youth and life to save, 



Where liorrors wide deform. 

 In War's sirocco sulphurous breath, 



The breach he mounts to win ; 

 Despite of foes, and wounds, and death, 



For glory ventures in! 

 Love is supreme ! a daring might 



His ener-;y appears j 

 Sublime pervades the realms of light. 



And guides the rollinst spheres. 

 Him fond in Nature's works descry, 



Magnificent as fair ; 

 These seen with adoration's eye, 

 His spirit enters there. 



Novelties of Foreign Literature. [May !, 



Or sincr, in rude unmeasur'd strain, 

 The roving flag on the Spanish main ! 

 AVith eye upturn'd to tlie flappinar sail, 

 The boatswain relates some wond'rous tale- 

 Of flovv'ry isles, at evening seen. 

 Like floating wreaths on the orean green ; 

 Whence perfume-bearing breezes sweeping. 

 With melody lull the mariner sleeping. 

 Who seeks in vain their beauties, gone 

 With the first faint blush of orient morn. 

 Fill hiuh the can! — Still eold and gain 

 Shall glad the lords of the Spanish main! 



Onr fancy views the bwecaneer 

 Awake unliallow'd rites of fear, 

 Stunn'd by the midnight tempest's roar, 

 On some grey cape's rock-guarded shore ; 

 Tiie victim slave, the magic round. 

 The dark blood curdling o'er the ground, 

 Till phantom forms, in wild turmoil, 

 Hover o'er rapine's buried spoil. 

 Fearless we maik the ghastly train, 

 As victors we sweep the Spanish main ! 

 T.S. 



THE PHIATE'S SONG. 



Joyous the life of the wanderer, free 

 On the broad expanse of a western sea, 

 Trindy his bark the helm obeying, 

 The pirate-banner proud displaying, 

 AVith daring crew, and oft-tried sword, 

 He moves, — the ocean's conscious lord ! 

 Fearless of foe, or loiirinu' sky. 

 He joins the noon- tide revelry, 

 An(i drinks the well-known toast again. 

 Success to onr cruise on the Spanish main! 



The moon difiuses her liquid light. 

 And tinges each ripple with silver bright; 

 The wind declines with the setting sun. 

 And the midnight wat('li is just begun. 

 Kccumbent round the crntrc msist, 

 They talk of deeds and dangers past ; 

 Of magic shores, romantic streams. 

 Like those that liannt the poet's dreams ; 



A FRAGMENT. 

 In yonth, with feelings fine and clear, 

 When Love our future prospects cheer. 

 And Pleasure points, with magic hand, 

 To Folly's court, and Bennty bland ; 

 Oh! then, how quickly pass our days, 

 Like fairies' mirth, or dance of fays : 

 No cares obtrude, no fears oppress. 

 But Nature, in her loveliest dress 

 Attir'd, attracts the senses free, 

 And wraps the soul in ccstacy. 

 But, when relentless age appears, 

 When time has told Miccccding years, 

 AVhen the gay dance no more can charm, 

 Nor mirth or joke our spirits warm ; 

 And Beauty, — tho' attir'd with ease, 

 Graceful and neat, — no more can please; 

 Nor e'en sweet melody inspire 

 The soul that once caught all its fire : 

 Then life, bereft of all its charms, 

 Slninbers in second childhood's arms. 



S. 



NOVELTIES OF FOREIGN LITERATURE, 



PRESENT STATE of the FRENCH MO- 

 NARCHY, with REMAitivS, principaUi/ 

 relating to the statistical materi- 

 als of its DirHERENT COUNTRIES, §C. 



FROM its magnitude, and the traits 

 that cliarueterise it as a nation, 

 France must over bold a leading place, 

 and be one of the first objects to engage 

 attention in the survey of European 

 politics. Its n-.une has been long con- 

 nected with celebrity ; and the obser- 

 vation has not unfrequently been 

 made, that France is the finest couu- 

 try in Europe. In many respects, 

 this must be admitted as a subjcci of 



just and reasonable acknowledgment. 

 The following is oflered as a familiar 

 analysis of these principles, as answer- 

 ing the purposes of general informa- 

 tion ou the wliole train of subjectsthat 

 enter into the science of its statistics. 



In the present state of things, or 

 since 1815, the following is a fair 

 statement of tiie French monarchy: the 

 kingdom of France, several islands 

 scattered in the surrounding seas, Cor- 

 sica, the isles of Hyeres near Toulon, 

 the isles of Lerins on tlie coast of Pro- 

 vence, or St. Marguerite and St. 

 Honorute, the isle Dieu, Noirnioutier, 

 Bcllcislc, Gronais, the isle of Ushant, 



the 



