POETRY. 479 
So when this courser, late the gen’ral dread, 
Had touch’d the earth, his native ferceness fled, 
All mild he seem’d, yet still a pride retain’d, 
A pride that all ignoble lords disdain’d. 
_And now his stately neck the warrior prest, __ yan f 
Smooth’d his rough mane, and clapp’d his swelling chest ; 
Loudly he neigh’d, as if rejoic’d to stand 
Beneath the pressure of his master’s hand. 
The son of Amon, who exulting view'd 
Such savage fury by his arm subdu’d, ; 
The reins and saddle from his steed displac’d, _ ih 
And with the golden spoils Bayardo grac’d. 
Th’ Iberian knight, who, from Bayardo’s force, 
Lay streich’d on earth a seeming lifeless corse, 
Recov’ring rose, what time the blocming knight 
With dauntless breast maintain’d so strange a fight. 
Th’ adventure thus atchiev’d, in mute surprise 
He stood, and seem'd to question with his eyes ; 
He little deem’d such strength of nerve to find 
In tender limbs; such youth with manhood join’d. 
STANZAS, written in a Leaf at the beginning of Mr. Rogers's Poem, 
“ The Pleasures of Memory.” 
1p map of Mem'ry !—oh supremely blest, 
And justly proud beyond a poet's praise ; 
If the pure confines of thy tranquil breast 
Contain, indeed, the subject of thy lays! 
By me how envy’d !—for to me, 
The herald still of misery. | 
Mem'ry makes her influence known 
By sighs and tears, and grief alone: 
I greet her as the fiend to whom belong 
The vulture’s rav’ning beak, the raven’s fun’ral song. 
Alone, at midnight’s haunted hour, 
When Nature woos repose in vain, 
Remembrance wastes her penal pow’r, 
The tyrant of the burning brain ; 
She tells of time misspent, or comfort lost, 
Of fair occasions gone for ever by ; 
Of hopes too fondly nurs’d, too rudely cross’d, 
Of many a cause to wish, yet fear, to die: 
For what, except th’ instinctive fear 
Lest she survive, detains me here, 
When “ all the life of life” is fled ?— 
What, but the deep inherent dread, 
Lest she beyond the grave resume her reign, 
And realize the hell that priests and beldames feign. 
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