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was made before; Godand).men, , the 
morning of the 14th ofiMarelj!1821, 
while..the .engmywasdefiling im the 
streets of Naples. The nanieofGaldi 
Was written witli those 6ftheitwenty-_ 
four deputies, wlio ‘signed it!’ “If ‘this’ 
dangerous honour ‘had’ been denied 
him, ‘he’ declared he would be carried 
dying into the parliament.,, Galdisur- 
vived but a short, time the misfortune 
of his country: patriotic grief, even 
more than his, bodily. infirmities, .de- 
prived him. of life;some months ago, 
He was a man of mild manners, an 
excellent husband and father, and a 
good citizen. He spent’ the hours of 
his domestic life-in the education of 
his two daughters, whom the study of 
literature did not rob of the dearer 
graces of their sex. Galdi was a man 
of great learning, of a good under- 
standing, but possessed of an indifler- 
ent taste in speaking and. writing. 
He was amemberof all the academies 
at Naples, and of some other literary 
societies in Upper Italy and Holland, 
He composed many works, which ‘the 
ORIGINAL POETRY. 
— 
THE SHEPHERD. 
[HE Shepherd was born in.an ivy cot 
Where tlie woods and the winds are plaving, 
And the sheep, with theewbite little lambs they 
_., have got, er 
Over the meadows for pastare are straying. 
His mother she died, and his father was put 
Inthe grave by her'side on the morrow ; 
The Shepherd grew up, andhe bnilt hima hut, 
at his spirits were season’d with sorrow. 
pe ares his oes 3 —— hilt, 
ud hi was his only attendant, 
Till if men “ fair damsel who lived ‘at the mill, 
And then he becante her dependant. 
She left him, and went to the city far,— 
He songht, but he never could find her; 
Like the mnystical track of a fugitive star, 
No traces she left behind her. - 
He loved and he pined asa drooping stemy § © 
That has felt the electric fluid; - 
He tended his flock, but he wander’d like them, 
* And led but the Ife of a Druid. 
Years told him decay was. fast creeping on, 
And he sank on a green-vrass pillow ; 
He pray’d for his love tilLhis breuth was gone,— 
His shade were the hagel and willow. : « 
The peaskotey wrapp'd him am shrond:and in sheet, 
Yn his coffin tliey tenderly sid NIMs: 0% saps wh 
They'strew’d on his bosom their pase, £0 sweet, 
‘And fiinefal tributes were puid hime) 28 
There are tears for the brave in battle slain, 1 a 
For the tars who in sea-fights perish ; - 
But we Jean aver jovesgrayes 
Aud grieve for the Virtues w 
Uslingtons 5:9) 
nt urilo a 
i BEAUTY’s: VALUEL' 
Original Rocky: sh 
AMDT HANG Like spellaiotnid witht iw herniit’s tel 
igor isla prgoRre |v 1 list’didg heard no tolling kuelb; © 
t bus eelbind od! Butpwhilethe:sleeping: winds were still, 
te ebeo! In Quantock’s woods, on: high|Ham-hill; « 
[July-t,: 
limitsjof this, artiele willionly: alloweus 
to enumeratésso 1. ;Onuthe necessity 
of establishinga. Repablieim Italy, a! 
juvenile work, but’ falf “of ‘originality ;) 
published at’ Milan; 1796, and trans- 
lated into Frenchs 2: Reflections on 
the Helvéti¢ Constitution.’ 3. « 
of the’ Italian Stage. °4, Econo 
Relations among Free States, trans- 
Political 
‘Rip ets of 
lated into French,.,,7,:‘Th 
Public Justruction.,... Three, » 
a 
YS) 
upon economical subjects, andjene on 
a) new. geographical) division sof; the’. 
two Sicilies. He composedi also se- 
veral poetical:tracts in: different styles, 
inserted . in; the, Jiterxary,, journals sof; 
Italy, but little. esteemed. || Some alta 3 
Essays by,Galdi, ion economical anc! 
legislative subjects, are not,yeét pub- 
lished. Such was this distinguished’ 
Neapolitan. duo? 
ls waa 9H 
til ob snO 
i ‘fietra tyes C od bah 
{ bus nis) YO 
isootogs ah 
A fleeting good, a gloss, a glass’ alfl wes, 
Lost, faded, trakek; Hex shia ts ir; 
As goods when lost are wond’rous Seldom 
found, a | oon iui th $3 ; 
As faded gloss no rubbing ca é&xtité, ” * 
As flowers when dead are trampled ‘on the 
ground, (uleiisy Lo a8 AA , ,, ’ 
As broken glass no cement can hiite ane 
So beauty, blemish’d once, is ever lost, 
In spite of plijsic, paiifinp” paths dud ost 
yqqase ork 
0 toed Bae OWE? (od aye? 
4 ‘ 1G SONNET. sa Hoeven 110% 
[The following 
lines, written, by, a: liermit 
__on hearing the bells of South Petherton, 
Somerset, in the evening of Shrove Tues- 
day, 1822, have some reference to those 
of Dr. Booker, in the Monthly Maga- 
zine, for December 1821, on the “ Bella 
of Meriden.”}, © 
» Duleesest natale solium.- 
: 
») WHA? tuneful sounds are those I hear; 
On this:fine.eve} how\soft and clear! 
\\Unlikesthe desert’s'\dolefal queen; 29) 
Unlike the scteech-owl’s boding' scream); \ 
Butifleating thro’ the\peaceful zonez (sss 
y are the bells of Petherton, 
a } 
Beauty is bat'a vaiwand fleeting wood)" | Theelockiswuck six;and therenpom i » 
A shining»gloss that fadeth suddenly,” 
A flower that dies when almostinthe bud; 
A brittle glass flat breaketh presently i 
i Rangjthe sweet bells,of Pethertons|\...5 |). 
Ye, who for pleasure idly roam, 
And wish to findya hut, ahome, 
When 
