4^ ANNUAL REGISTER, 1794/ 



Beneath its light, foil many a livid mien, 

 And haggard eye-ball through the dusk are seen. 

 In thought I see thee, at each hollow sound< 

 With humid lips oft anxious gaze around. 

 Eut, oh ! for him who, to yon vault confin'd. 

 Has bid a long farewell to human kind ; 

 His wasted forn^ his cold and bloodless cheek, 

 A tale of sadder sorrow seems to speak. 

 Of friends, perhaps, now mingled with the dead : 

 Of hope, that like a faithless liatlcrer, fled 

 In th' utmost hour of need ; or of a son 

 Cast to the bleak w orld's mercy ; or of one 

 Whose heartwas broken, when the stern behest 

 Tore him from pale affection's bleeding breast. 

 Despairing, from his cold and flinty bed, 

 With fearful muttering he hath rais'd his head ; 

 " What pitying spirit, what unwonted guest, 

 " Strays to this last retreat, these shades unblest ? 

 ** From life and light shut out, beneath this cell 

 " Long have I bid Hope's chearful sun farewell. 

 " I heard for ever clos'd the jealous door, 

 *• I mark'd ni)^ bed on the forsaken floor; 

 •' I had no hope on earth, no human friend; 

 " Let meunpitied to the dust descend !'* 

 Cold is his frozen he;n t — his eye is rear'd 

 To Heaven no more — and on his sable beard 

 I'he tear has ceas'd to fall. Thou canst not bring 

 Back to his mournful heart the morn of spring. 

 Thou canst not bid tlie rose of health renew, 

 Upon his wasted cheek her crimson line. 

 But at frliy look (ere yet to hate resign'd; 

 He murmurs his last curses on mankind), 

 At thy kind look one tender thought shall rise. 

 And his full soul shall tliank thee ere it dies. 



Antony and Cleopatra, from Uoman'Pqrlraih, a Poem in heroic verse, ly 



Robert Je^hson, esq. 



BUT not content v ith half the world's domain, 

 Caesar and Antony alone w(5^jJd reign } 

 The first, a steady sccpl re born tifuit.ld, 

 O'er all his acts extends the public shield ; 

 The last, abhorrent from the toils of state, 

 Rotsph tUe Nile, a licary profligate; 

 ^Vhile subtle Cttsar sapp'd his eastern thronf, 

 He clitsp'd hi* world in Cleopatra's zone. 



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