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POETRY. 
Sir, ; To the Editor of the Bee. 
By inserting the following ode in the Bee, you will oblige your most 
obedient servant, A. A. 
OpE TO AURORA, 
Farr smiling goddefs of the dawn, 
That o’er the dew-bespangled lawn 
Serenely beam’st with rosy eye, 
All beauteous in the dappled fky ; 
Soon as thou cheer’st the mountain’s height, 
.Purpling afar the orient wave, 
Abath’d the sable power of night 
Shoots with increasing speed to dark Cimmerian cave; 
Lo, startied by thy hostile beam, 
Night's terrors fly the heavenly gleam ; 
And fire eyed forms and spectres pale 
Flock fearful to the cavern’d dale. 
So when fair science beams along, 
The gloom of ignorance pro‘ound, 
Aghast withdraws her blackening throng ; 
And beauty, order, truth, triumphant smile around, 
Dimm’d by thy roseate lustre, fly 
The nightly squadrons of the fky ; 
Save when the radiant queen of love * 
Displays her emulous gem above : 
Anon fhe fhines with peerlefs light, 
The brilliant harbinger of day, 
Till streaming glorious on the sight, i 
Bursts from the golden wave Hyperion’s flaming ray. 
Wak'd by thy smile creative, glows 
The landscape vivid as the rose : 
The fieids their goodliest tints unveil, 
And fragrance floats upon the gale. 
To thee the, woodland pours its strains: 
Mid solitude’s enchanting sway 
The lark, the songster of the plains, 
Mounts from her lowly nest, and trills her matin lay. 
Pleas’d the industrious peasaut eyes 
Thy oluth, and to his labour hies; 
Thou, murdeious slumber dost controul, 
A.dwak’st the vigour of the soul. 
* Venus, sometimes the morning, and sometimes the evening star. 
About the time of her greatest elongation from the sun, fhe is so bright 
as to centinue visible, when to the west of him, tillhe rise; and to 
a tharp eye even when he’is far above the horizon, 
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