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life ; "JBallilore," and several others. 



Wo select the following — 



To W. F. G. on the Loss of his Linnet. 

 O fair Aonian maid ! descend, 

 Assist me to console a friend ; 

 Swift tliroiigh tlie yielding azure fly. 

 And wipe tiie tear from William's eye, 

 AVho lately heard, from sorrow free, 

 His linnet sing as sweet as thee. 

 Lately, — bnt now no more slialt'hear 

 These " wood-notes wild'' with raptnr'd 



ear: 

 Did he for this the food prepare, 

 And joy to tend his pleasing care? 

 His pleasing care (ah, luckless day !) 

 Some envious hand purloin'd away ; 

 The open empty cage he spies; 

 Grief swells his heart and fills his eyes ; 

 The little tuneful tenant's gone, 

 Nor heai's his master's fruitless moan. 



But thou who wrought this cruel deed, 

 With thee may never linnet feed ! 

 Thy cage for ever empty be, 

 / And never goldfinch sing for thee ! 

 May thee no blackbird whistle near, 

 Nor ever thrush with music cheer! 

 But rooks and ravens croak around thee, 

 And magpies with their din confound thee, 

 Who could'st maliciously destroy 

 The pleasures of a fav'rite boy. 

 And yet in vain is all thy spite. 

 To mar his innocent delight ; 

 For, tbo' the pretty songster 's fled, 

 The Muse herself conies in its stead ; 

 The comfort of her verse she brings, 

 And Clio, not the linnet, sings. 



We have been informed that Sirs. 

 Leadbeater is at present, or vi^as sonic 

 time ago, employed on ti poem in blank 

 verse, on the subject of tlie story of 

 Tobit, from which a friend has handed 

 us an extract, — the marriage of Tobias 

 and Sarah : — 



i At her father's call 



Came the dejected fair ; but, w hile her 



hand 



Her father fondly prejt, and then resign'd 

 To glad Tobias, mournful silence seal'd 

 Her balmy lips, and on her hapless ear 

 The nuptial blessing, by a father giv'n. 

 Smote like the funeral knell : " Take thou 



thy bride. 

 Thine by the rites which Moses hath 



prescrili'd, 

 And lead her to thine home ; my blessing 



rest 

 Upon my child and thee." The mother 



came, — 

 Alternate signets seal the sacred bond, 

 And to the feast are led the wedded pair ; 

 If hope and joy look'd in upon that feast. 

 Terror and doubt were there. While on 



his bride 

 The enamom'd bridegroom gaz'd, her 



timid eye 



Minor Poets of Ireland. f JuJy 1, 



DeelJn'd to earth, and fear'd with his to 



meet, 

 Lest its expression should betray the pangs 

 Which rent her bosom; ne'er till now her 



heart 

 Had lov'd so truly ; ne'er till now had 



found 

 An object thusdeservins of her love. 

 And must he fall, a victim to the fate 

 Of those who seek her love ? Wlfy has thus 



fate 

 Her wretched being spar'd to see this hour 

 In bitterness exceeding all the p'a*t ? 



The mother to the bridal chamber led 

 The trembling maid ;— the bridal bower, 



adorn'd 

 With festive splendor, to her o'erchargd 



heart 

 Appear'd her graceful bridegroom's 



gloomy grave. 

 And in her mother's sympathizing breast 

 She pour'd a flood of agcnizing tears. 

 The pityinji parent check'd her own alarms 

 To speak of comfort, and prefer the pray'r 

 That these sad tears might change to 



grateful jo}'. 

 And future blessings present pangs repay. 



Mrs. Leadbealer's works are — 



Poems, 8vo. Dublin, 1808. 



Anecdotes taken from Real Life for the 

 improvement of Children ; Dublin, 1809. 

 A second edition of this is called for. 



Cottage Dialogues, 1st Part ; London 

 and Dublin, 1811. An admirable work, 

 introduced to the world under the warm 

 patronage of Miss Edgeworth, and giving 

 the most perfect idea of the interior of an 

 Irish cottage, and the ideas and manners 

 (if (he peasantry, that can be obtained 

 from any book on Ireland. 



Cottage Dialogues, 2d Part; Dublin, 

 1813. 



Landlord's Friend; Dublin, 18 J 3. 



Cotfnge Biography ; Oublin,lS22. No- 

 ticed in one of our late numbers ; an inte- 

 resting little book, the characters being 

 taken from real life. 



In addition to lliese, she has publish- 

 ed two or three other small works, for 

 the children of the Society of Friends.* 



To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 



SIR, 



PERHAPS you will have the good- 

 ness to allot a place in your mis- 

 cellany for the representation of a 

 method, whereby a letter can be con- 

 veyed witii very great velocity, — at the 

 rate certainly of a hundred miles in an 

 hour. Tlie method is liiis: — A tube of 



small 



* For some further account of this lady^ 

 see Prior's Life and Character of Burke, 

 recently published. 



