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But bere was peace, thut peace whichshome can yields, 
PRO brake tne : ef ahneacoumie e field, oy 
one ticking ek ee all pote become 
he-substitutes fer-chuion, fife, adddrum. yo mq 2 
White Ke a mused, still gazing, gazing stil, 5. 
Beds oF moss thint spread the window sill, 
1 deem’d no moss my eyes had ever seen; (i's 
Had been sojoxely, baiiant, fleshy and green, i 
And gheéss’d soine infant hand had placed it there, 
fu fzed! its htue,—so exquisite, 80 rare.’ ‘ 
jem you wud 2 #2 st] > * 
Two shadows then I saw, two voices héard, 
Oue bespoke age, and one,achild appear’d,— 
Inistepp my father, with cotrvul-ive start, 
io Jv &h-instent-clasp’d me to his heart. 
xe by him stood. a little blue-ey’d maid, 
Ani} stooping to the child, the old man said, 
*<Coute hithery,Nancy, kiss me once again; 
This is your uncle Charles, come home from Spain :” 
Thé-ehil@approach’d, and with her fingers light, 
Stroked,my old eyes, almost-deprived of sight. 
But why thus spin my tale, thus tedious be? 
Hiippy old soldiex! Rhine's the world to me? 
“Phe old soldier, we think, makes his 
rétreat in sood order, and with flying 
colouts,, In the next instance, it 
gtieves,us' to be again called upon, as 
a'leatned judée once expressed it, to 
temper mércy with justice. Poor Ro- 
samiond, ‘a sick girl, betrothed to Phi- 
lip, is prevailed upon, by his injudi- 
cidts cntreatics, to volunteer a copy 
of veyses, called a Song of Hope, which 
weé cannot allow to go, in any degree, 
in‘réduction of Sir Ambrose’s claim for 
retit-atrear, if any such there be. We 
peat y to be under the necessity of 
iss 1s fais hardly with a female, and 
sic 1 é, t00; but we trust that her 
2) gm partiality exposed her to 
this WABHiRCAtiOn’ will have magnani- 
tility €nduely to take the debt upon his 
own shoulders, and to discharge it 
esther in'specie orin rhyme. The re- 
maining candidate for poetical honours 
is ‘an’old yeoman, who narrates a tale 
Bloonyfield’s: MayDay with the Muses. 
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of his domestic: life,» whiclyopessesses 
much interest, 'and>is: very pleasingly 
told. It relates: tova beautiful daugh- 
ter, whois throw, in’ her infaney, into, 
the societyiot:a boy of higher rank and 
fortune: than: her! own, but blind from 
his births “A mutual “passion is con 
tracted) the? effect ‘of Which on the 
sightless youth; dis! well) depieted ; and, 
after overcoming some formal: difficul- 
ties, they ‘are‘at last united. Yf our 
pages admitted of further extracts; we. 
should be at no loss to find materials of 
a very agreeable nature, in this pretty. 
little poem. 
And now we have arrived at the end 
of the rent-roll; and the venerable 
Lady Higham, in the very dress which 
she wore sixty years before on her bridaf 
day, comes from the mansion to accom- 
pany the baronet home. Her worthy 
spouse addresses his faithful. tenantry 
in plain. but affectionate, terms; and 
acquaints them with his intention of 
sending their respective productions to 
press— Wists 
The world shall see them; why should «I 
refrain ? Wits 
’ Tis all the produce of my own domain,” ; 
In this resolution, we hold Sir Am4 
brose to be perfectly justifiable; and 
we take a civil leave of him} in’ full 
confidence that the result of this Maye 
day, or rent-day, of the’ Muses; ‘will 
equally conduce to the! emolument:of 
the baronet. and the fame of his teriants, 
or, which is much about! the same 
thing, to those of our old and valued 
friend, Mr. Bloomficid. if 
ORIGINAL POETRY. 
THE GIANT’S CAUSEY. 
(From. Mr. Thelwail's Manuscript Epic 
Poem, The Wop2 of Albion.” ) 
WOW might I onthe wond'rons scenes dilate 
Thro’ which our navy stcer’d: the Glant’s toil 
By Fairhead and the Robogdian promontory— 
Enormous pile columinar—the wreck 
Of that colossal causeway erst that join’d 
Erin to Caledonia; till the waves, 
Indiznant ef such barrier, burst amain 
Their interdictad, way, and strew’a the const, 
And strew'd the ocean-be:l with fragments huge 
Of more than morts] architecture : here 
Toweripg in many an awful mass, and there 
Theseap and onuprootable bases, shorn 
By the vex’d waye,-like a,descending floor 
Of massy slabs hexagonal, outstrerch’d 
In slope expanse wards the opposing shore; 
Where St ada’ dale, intowering piide, upiifts, 
From su/h immovable foundation reard 
1ts yet uishaken halls—mocking the gone 
Of humaw architraves,yat-prouden stil 
Of Fingal’s plonions waite >—hero rever’d 
Alike by Eriy and by Caledon). (5). i 
And fam’ alike thro’ each 'in-Ossinn’s song. 
On Erin’y side of this gigantic toil 
Fuil many « fearful caverii seaward yawns 
1 
—sr— 
By many a rough sear fene’d, o'er which the waves 
-Of the vex’d ocean, when-condicting winds ../) 
Oppose his onward tide, impetuons roar, 
Till foam and spray; thsurgent to the height 
Of the o’erbeething cliffs, obscure the airy: (fy) \// 
And sea and sky are mingled. But when smooth 
(As for our prosperous;voyage) from tlrase cavesito © 
The sea-nympbs off, with more than mortal sng, 
Make veeal the charm’d echoes, and easnare  ~ 
(So rans the legend) with thei? syrénl spell. 1 
‘Lhe unwary mariner. who loitering dies | 49 )\')) 
The entiane’d soul flitting thro’ his ravish’d ears. 
And'sich sweet'songItheatd. But Sure tome 
The strain that from those eayerns,.o’en the auooth 
And favonring wave, stole on the summer breeze, 
Was of no evil omens but Sti sweet) 1 ee 
Rings in remem brance—it prophetic strainy, son ye 
re) 
That scem’d to, charm the wild waves of their rage, 
And dimple the green billows! witli new smiles t')° 
And thee the nymph who sung a.vision|seem’d || 
But of benignant joy. . Pe rie . 
2 rs ESD On! ve fir ; ton 4 Jatiy’s 
nd prosp: rons our rove eseave steer’, 
Till Staffa’s wondrtots AN aPH SSE full'in view, 
With awful reverence past. And, pastalike 
Full many a rocky islet) thiekebesprint. 
Along the ragged coast, our welcome keel 
Touu’s sucre ‘isle atlengt att jas. 
ON 
