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this beauty as the pastoral pocts. It occurs 
in a great variety of the psalms, and other 
‘poetical parts of the bible; and the reader 
may also turn to Anacreon’s Ode xxxi, in 
which the burden is— 
Orrw, Oeraw pavavet. 
‘©The Gazels of the Asiatics are often 
composed with the same spirited figure. In 
a paper on the resemblances of Grecian and 
Oriental poetry, which I some time ago in- 
serted in the Monthly Magazine, 1 gave an 
instance of it from one of the Gazc!ls of 
Hafiz. The following, to an unknown fair, 
from Khakani, will atiord the reader another 
example. 
« What art thou?—say: 
shape, 
Soft jasmine neck, but flinty heart: 
Tyrant! from whom "tis vain to escape— 
O tell me who thou art? 
T've seen thy bright narcissus-eve, 
Thy form no cypress can impart: 
Queen of my soul! I’ve heard tnee sigh— 
O tell me who thou art? 
Through vales with hyacinths bespread 
I've sought thee, trembling as the hart: 
O rose-bud-lip’d! thy sweets aré fled— 
Tell, tell me who thou art? 
Wine lights thy cheeks ; tiry steps are snares ; 
Thy glance a sure cestructive dart ; 
Say, as its despot-aim it bears, 
‘What fatal bow thou art? 
Thy new-moon brow the full moon robs, 
And bids its fading beams depart :-— 
Tell, thou, for whom each bosom throbs, 
What torturer thou art? 
Drunk with the wine thy charms display, 
Thy slave Khakani hatls his smart: 
Td die to know thy name!—then say 
What deity thou art?” 
with cypress 
«© Longpierre has quoted an ancient end 
anonymous epigram, so perfectly correspon- 
dent with the idyl before us, excepting that 
the research of the devious lover is not 
crowned with the same success, that I can- 
not avoid citing it, nor conceiving that the 
idea was suggested by this beautiiul passage 
in the Song of Songs.” 
**Lecto compositus, vix prima silentia noctis 
Carpebam, et somno Jumina viera dabam : 
Cum me sevus Amor prensum, sursumque 
capillis 
Excitat, et laceram pervigilare jubet. 
* Tu famulus meus (inquit) ames cum mille 
uellas, 
Solus, Io, solus, dure jacere potes?”’ 
Exsilio; et pedibus nudis, tunicaque soluta, 
__Omne iter impedio, nullum iter expedio. 
Nunc propero, nune ire piget; Tursumque 
redire 
Peenitet; et pudor est stare via media. 
THEOLOGY AND ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS. 
‘as Mr. Good very justly observes, “ the 
Ecce tacent voces hominum, strepitusque 
ferarum, a 
Et volucrum cautus, turbaque fida canum. 
Solus +29, ex cunctis paveo somnumiquey )) 
tornmque, “4 
Et sequor imperium, save Cupido, tuum.” 
Tn bed reclined, the first repose of night 
Scarce had I snatched, and clesed my con / 
quered evcs, 
When Love surprized me, and with cruel 
micht, 
Seized by the hair, and forced me straight 9 
to rise, 
© What! shall the man whom countless © 
damsels fire, 1 
Thus void (said he) of pity, sleep alone?™* — 
T rose barefooted, and, in loose attire, 
Block up each avenue, but traverse none, | 
Now rush I headlong—homeward now re+ 
treat— 
Again rush headlong, and each effort try ; 
Ashamed at heart to loiter in the street, 
Yet in my heart still wanting power to Aly, 
Lo! man is hushed—the beasts forbedr to 
roar, 
The birds to sing, the faithful dog to bark— 
I, I alone the loss of bed deplore, 
Tyrannic love pursuing through the dark.” 9 
The second idyl of Moschus is con- @ 
structed upon precisely the same plan, 
It thus opens most beautifully; 
Evewma more Kumeis em yAunuy nev ovsigoy 
: © e 
NoxTos oTe TeiTaTovAx KOS iorareet, eryryuls a nwe 
~~ e . 
"Larves Ore yAuxiwy weritos BAspaeoay epilwr 
AvoipeeAns, mba Uahana nara Dae Jecpwy 
Evte xai ateextay DAipaiveTas byes OVEIE DV. 
Nigh was the dawn, the night had nearly | 
fled, 
When a soft dream approached Europa’s bed ; 
"T'was Venus sent it: honey from the cell 
Not swecter flows, than flowed the sleep that 
fell: 
Loose lay her limbs, her lids with silk were 
bound, 
And fancy’s truest phantoms hovered round.” — 
The name of the fair bride, in whose 
honour these amatory idyls were com- 
posed, is not come down to us; nor is it 
yet agreed among commentators. who 
she was. She has generally been re- 
garded as the daughter of Pharaoh: but 
few circumstances that incidentally relate 
to her history in these poetical effusions, 
completely oppose such an idea.” Our 
author also, with great probability, con- © 
jectures, that the marriage between So- | 
lomon and the Egyptian princess was a_ 
match of interest and policy: whereas, — 
on the contrary, the matrimonial con- 
nection here celebrated, was one formed — 
