THE HELICONIAD. 



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view) to the notice of our readers, as a work which they will find 

 practically uesful. 



So much space has been already devoted to the discussion of the 

 topics of review in this number of the Dublin Review that space is 

 not left to us for giving an adequate consideration to the valuable pa- 

 per on the ' Railroad System of Ireland ;' but we regret it less 

 as we have had occasion in another part of the Magazine to awaken 

 the reader's attention to that engrossing subject. 



In conclusion, we may be allowed to express a hope that the advo- 

 cacy of liberal — perhaps, ultra-liberal— opinions may be expressed 

 without rancour of feeling and without the display of a particular 

 creed, without the intrusion of an exclusive doctrine that they them- 

 selves as a party so much decry in others. As the advocates of an 

 ill-governed people we wish them God-speed in the good cause ; 

 and we fear not for ourselves, or for the interests of pure Christianity, 

 all the efforts that a falsely grounded enthusiasm may make to shake 

 the foundation of our holy religion. 



THE HELICONIAD; 



BEING A PARODY ON " THE WALTZ, AN APOSTROPHIC HYMN, 

 BY LORD BYRON.'' 



By ZOGARO VOUNI. 



To the Editor. 



Sin, The author of the following pages wishes not to be understood for one of those 

 ten thousand daily scribblers who travel for two months in France ( ! ), and.wnte a bad 

 history on worse Ihinsjs, but one of those who liave traversed the tall Alps, and trod 

 upon the strand of Policastro, and viewed the red sun descend upon the spoiled remains 

 of the Partlienon— one of those who have wept over the sorrows of the plundered 

 Greek, danced with the dark-eyed (maid of Athens, sipped at the crystal fount of 

 Hippocrene, and in the draught drained inspiration from the great mountain. 



'^'^ ZOGARO VOLNI. 



Melpomene. 

 Muse of the few deserving bards, who claim. 

 From Moore to Campbell,* Laurestina's fame, 

 Melpomene I too long abused by those 



Whom no \ H^l^^f' \ can frighten to repose. 

 Henceforth in all thy native fierceness shine. 

 Defend thyself, protect the virgin nine. 



♦ Moore and CauipbcU rank as the heads of living poets. Besides which Moore 

 must have extensively invoked the assistance of Melpomene in his inimitable farce ot 



" M P " 



t Query-Which is the most effective in silencing the prattle of a hundred scnb- 

 blcrs, self-reproach (a very rare intruder) or a smart critique m a Review . 



