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The third verse of the 104th Psahii, 



'* He maketli the clouds his chariot, and walketh upon the wings 

 of the wind," — 



is evidently taken from the before-mentioned verses in the 

 18th Psalm, on which it is perhaps an improvement. It 

 has also been imitated by two of our first poets, Shake- 

 speare and Thomson. The former in Romeo and Juliet — 



" Bestrides the lazy paced clouds. 

 And sails upon the bosom of the air," 



The latter in Winter, 1. 199— 



" Till Nature's king, who oft 



Amid tempestuous darkness dwells alone. 

 And on the wings of the careering winds 

 Walks dreadfully serene." 



As these imitations have not before, I believe, been no- 

 ticed, they caTinot fail to interest the lovers of polite let- 

 ters ; and they are such as at least will amuse your readers 

 in general. If the sacred writings were attentively per- 

 used, we should find innumerable passages from which our 

 best modern poets have drawn their most adirdred ideas ; 

 and the enumeration of these instances would perhaps 

 attract the attention of many persons to those volumes, 

 which they now perhaps think to contain everything te- 

 dious and disgusting, but which, on the contrary, they 

 would find replete with interest, beauty, and true subli- 

 mit v. 



STERNHOLD AND HOPKINS. 



Mr Editor, 



In your " Mirror" for July, a ]\Ir William Toone has 

 offered a few observations on a paper of mine, in a pre- 

 ceding number, containing remarks on the versions and 

 imitations of the ninth and tenth verses of the ISth Psalm, 



