546 EEYIEWS — BOTHWELL. 



But lingered at the tiny rill 



That flows from Anton's fane. 

 Red was the sky ; but Holyrood 

 In dusk and sullen grandeur stood. 

 It seemed as though the setting sun 

 ' Refused to lend it light, 

 So cheerless was its look, and dun, 



While all above was bright. 

 Black in the glare rose spire and vane, 

 No lustre streamed from window pane ; 

 But, as I stood, the Abbey bell 

 Tolled out, with such a dismal knell 

 As smites with awe the shuddering crowd. 

 "When a king's folded in his shroud — 



Methought it said " Farewell !" 



One more specimen we select from the fifth canto, in which, and 

 still more in the concluding one, the captive, having traced out the 

 chequered incidents of his wild career, rises to a more elevated tone, 

 as he gives utterance to the last fierce wailings of remorse and despair : 



Beneath the flags that, day by day, 

 Return dull echoes to my tread, 

 A grave is hollowed in the clay : 

 It waits the coming of the dead — 

 A grave apart, a grave unknown, 

 A grave of solitude and shame, 

 Whereon shall lie no sculptured stone 

 With legend of a warrior's name. 

 0, would it yawn to take me in, 

 And bind me, soul and body, down ! 

 O, could it hide me and my sin, 

 When the last trumpet-blast i.» blown! 



0, might one guilty form remain 

 Unsummoned to that awful crowd, 

 When all the chiefs of Bothweli's train 

 Shall rise from sepulchre and shroud ! 

 How could I meet their stony stare — 

 How could I see my father's face — 



1, the one tainted felon there, 

 The foul Iscariot of his race?" 



In contrast with this we have named the effusions of the Brooklyn 

 Bard. If the accredited author of " Firmilian" has now shown us 

 what a poem ought to be, assuredly Wait Whitman is wide of the 

 mark. Externally and internally he sets all law, decorum, prosody 

 and propriety at defiance. A tall, lean, sallow, most republican, and 

 Tankeedooking volume, is his " Leaves of grass;" full of egotism, 

 extravagance, and spasmodic eccentricities of all sorts ; and heralded 



