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Halloo! ye rabble,—here, come here, 
And follow quickly in our rear; 
For we to bridal-chamber steer, 
And you must dance before us,” 
And then the rout, with noisy shout, 
And voices swelling hoarser 
Than rushing tempests, turn’d about, 
And ran behind the courser ; 
And hurry, hurry, from the spot,— 
Away they speed,—away they trot; 
Till breathing thick, and breathing hot, 
The charger snorts beneath them ; 
And, when they turn’d their eyes to gaze, 
They saw the objects round them 
Soon vanish in the distant haze, 
With speed that did astound them : 
“ Dost fear, dost fear, my youthful bride ? 
The wintry moon is beaming wide ; 
Hurrah! the dead-men well can ride: 
Our course is nearly ended. 
“Steed, steed, go quickly ; hark! the cock 
Is rousing lazy mortals, 
And Morning now will soon unlock 
With rosy hand her portals. 
Folfill’d, fulfill’d, is this wild chace,— 
O maid, prepare for my embrace ! 
We are arriv'd now at the place 
Which thou hast long expected.” 
A massy gate before them stood, 
With splints of iron shielded; 
But, when he touch’d the blacken’d wood, 
It shiver'd, shook, and yielded. 
Back creak’d the hinges loud and hoarse, 
And over graves they hold their course ; 
Beneath the hoof of mighty force 
‘The hollow pavement clatter’d. 
But, mark now! when the rider stopp'd, 
Ensw’d a fearful wonder ; 
From off his limbs the armour dropp’d, 
Like bark when smote by thunder ; 
His ghastly lead at once grew bare 
Of skin and muscle,—fiesh and hair ; 
And no love-lighted eye-balls stare 
Within the yawning sockets. 
Tall grows the steed, and, snorting loud, 
He spouts forth tire-flashes ; 
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Then, fading in a misty shroud, 
Away, away, he dashes. 
While liorrid screamings rose, until 
They shook the yault and distant hill: 
Lenora’s heart grew icy chill, , 
And yet she faintly struggled ; 
And.then the spectres form’d a dauce, 
And round, and round, hurraing, 
First saw her sink in death’s cold trance, 
Then thunderd forth this saying ; 
“©O patience, patience : trifle not 
With Him above, who rules thy lot; 
This is the meed that thou hast got 
For impious lamentation.” 
—<=>— 
ON MR. J. BANGHAM, SURGEON. 
Divines, their stiff-neck’d flocks to cure, 
With wond’rous patience will harangue 
em ; 
To cure my patients of their ails, 
I quicker means devise—~ » 
I Bangham. 
——— 
SONNET. 
Autumn! thy scenes of golden lastre fade, 
No more thy rich-rob’d fields salute the 
eye; , 
Nor more thy ruddy orchards stand 
display’d, : 
Deck’d in Pomona’s beauteons livery ; 
No more thy powerful suns, with ripening 
beam, 
Cheer the lone foliage of yon) brown- 
sere grove ; 
No inore young Zephyr sports along the 
stream, 
Or the gay linnet carols blithe of love : 
Tho’ now, of ‘‘ joyous views” almost bereft, 
The swallows have departed,—omen 
. drear! 
Yet the kind produce of thy bounty left, 
Autumn! our hearts with happiest joy 
shall cheer ;' 
And, as we circle round cold Winter’s fire, 
Thy generous racy wine shall Love’s blest 
thoughts inspire. brisk by 
Cullum-street. 
PROCEEDINGS OF PUBLIC SOCIETIES: 
—— 
Society for mitigating and gradually 
Kae ore) 
abolishing the State of Slavery through- 
out the British Dominions.* 
HE objects of this Society cannot 
be more clearly and comprehen- 
* Extracted from a Pamphlet just pub- 
lished, entitled “‘ The Substance of the De- 
bate in the House of Commons, on the 15th 
of May, 1823, on a Motion for the Mitiga- 
tion and. Gradual Abolition of Slavery’ 
throughout the British Dominions, | With 
a Preface and Appendixes, containing 
facts and reasonings illustrative of Colonial 
Bondage. 
sively defined than in the following Re- 
solutions, which were unanimously 
adopted at its first meeting. 
That the individuals composing the pre- 
sent meeting are deeply impressed with 
the magnitnde and namber otf the evils at- 
tached to the system of Slavery which pre- 
vails inmany of the Colonies of Great Bri- 
tain; asystem which appears to them to 
be oppesed to the spirit and precepts of 
Christianity, as well as repugnaut to every 
dictate of natural humanity and jastice. 
That they long indulged a hope, that the 
great measure of the Abolition of the Slave 
Trade, for which anact of the Legislature 
was 
