MISCELLANY. 
Ill 
Cities of splendour, where palace and gate,— 
Where the marble of strength and the purple of state,— 
Where the mart and arena, the Olive and Vine, 
Once flourish’d in glory, oh ! are ye not mine ? 
Go, look for famed Carthage, and I shall be found 
In the desolate ruin and weed-covered mound; 
And the slime of my trailing discovers my home 
’Mid the pillars of Tyre and the temples of Rome. 
I am sacredly shelter’d and daintily fed. 
Where the velvet bedecks and the white lawn is spread; 
I may feast undisturbed—I may dwell and carouse 
On the sweetest of lips and the smoothest of brows. 
The voice of the sexton—the clink of the spade— 
Sound merrily under the Willow’s dank shade; 
They are carnival notes, and I travel Avith glee 
To learn what the churchyard has given to me ! 
Oh ! the Worm—the rich Worm has a noble demain, 
For where monarchs are voiceless I revel and reign ! 
I delve at my ease and regale where I may. 
None dispute with the Earth Worm his will or his way. 
The high and the bright for my feasting must fall— 
Youth, beauty, and manhood—I prey on ye all. 
The prince and the peasant, the despot and slave. 
All—all must bow down to the Worm and the grave ! 
Eliza Cook. 
CHAPTER OF MISCELLANIES. 
ZOOLOGY. 
The Dipper on the Yorkshire Coast.— Any one desirous of an opportunity 
of noticing the peculiar habits of this brisk little fellow—so ably described by 
various authors—may visit that sweet and romantic place Haiburn-Wyke, con¬ 
tiguous to the sea-coast, a few miles North of this town. The Dipper is also 
found in Scalby-Beck. I possess specimens from both places.— Patrick Hawk- 
ridge, Scarborough , Aug. 7, 1837- 
Courage of the Missel Thrush. —It is well known to ornithologists, that the 
Jay frequently plunders the nests of other birds, both of eggs and young birds. 
It is, accordingly, viewed with an exceeding jealous eye by the feathered tribe in 
the Spring and Summer months. We have repeatedly seen the Missel Thrush 
fiercely attack and expel the Jay from a tree where the former has built its nest, 
