570 
[Jan, 1, 
Original Poetry 
To him, 0 listen f or, if ?o tliou please. 
What time soft zephyr fans the evening 
breeze, 
The lofty Bard of Edsn Lost* shall long 
D et^in thine audience with enchanting song; 
As sink the notes upon the mellow air. 
Tell, tor thou c^nst, what mystic power was^ 
there. 
See Medicine now from barbarous terms 
depart, 
And healing mix with science and with art; 
Since tiar^vey shewed the circulating blooa, 
Ftoni year to year they flow a gathering 
dood ; 
And, mid the stream, to latest time shall 
flow 
iier honor’d name,! who sooth’d the bed of 
woe; 
Taught to implant disease of kindlier power, 
And pass it hawnless over beauty’s flower ; 
And, if ker name to latest time descends, 
O surely his who all the world befriends; 
*TiS not enough to blunt the poison’d dart, 
fi IS Vaccine Lymph shall bid the fiend 
depart ; 
No more, by death, to wake the mournful 
sigh; 
The roseate cheek no more to mar—-the eye 
No more to, quench—-but radiant shall it 
shine. 
And hail our Jexner messenger divine, 
Such, Science, are thy trophies! but, yet 
more, 
Healing hath now of power an ample store j 
Go study Brown and simplify thy mind, 
“i hen cast the jargon of the schools behind ; 
The lumber worthless, as of art the tricks. 
Or A.bum Graec-^nh. or as oil of^bricks ; 
Bed Dots and Darwin may some truth 
impart, 
Cullen will leave apt lesson on thy heart; 
But chief the Handmaio;^ shall thy care 
repay. 
Whom sage Experience leads in open day ; 
Ffiestley shall teach thee, with peculiar 
care, 
The nice components of the liquid air j 
And Lavoisier how may the silvery tide, 
la two pure glasses ditJerently divide ; 
How fiery hydrogene, with volant wings, 
Fills the air vessel and aluft up-springs ; 
And Sadler, ventronsa^ in air he flies, 
How look the clouJs beneath, above the 
skies. 
But theseafetv—why thunders roll on high, 
Or vivid lightning gleams along the s.ky j 
Why earthquakes lift, with trembling dire, 
the ground. 
And dread volcanoes roll their lavas round; 
How heat Galvanic Davy’s skill directs, 
And metals make us, with their strange 
effects, 
Milton, 
+ Lady Mary Worcley Alontagu. 
^ Chemistry, 
Were repetition—knowledge now full well. 
Commands the power the processes to tell. 
Yet more 1 Behold yon cylinder of steam. 
Whose piston lifts the pois’d and massive 
beam 1 
From deepest mines to draw the flowing 
spring. 
And up today earth's bidden treasures bring ; 
Where once the vvir.d-iniil, or the rounding 
horse 
Machinery manag’d with defective force; 
See now one steady, regular and strong— 
One vast impulsion urge the wheels along ; 
Even o’er the sea-wave see the power pi^side. 
And young Columoia hails the swelling 
tide*; 
To Watt and Boulton lift the trump of 
tame; 
Of W’att and Boulton consecrate the 
name. 
From those—Of mind behold the exploring 
art! 
See Hartley trace the windings of the 
heart; 
Of love, of hate, and all the impassion’d 
train, 
How quick they vibrate o’er the trembling 
brain ; 
With motiv’d force the various actions rnn, 
F’rom link to link, i.mpeH’d as they begun ; 
No broken series in the mind we trace, 
Effects uncaus’d, or action out of place, 
But all moves onward with one steady aim j— 
The God of raiure ever is the same. 
Go to the senate, and behold the tongue 
Of Chath.^m shake the base and venal 
throng; 
See how his eyes, like lightning, pierce the 
soul. 
And TcKvnsbend trembles 'neath their strong 
control ; 
List Burke, declaiming o’er an India’s 
wrong, 
In Justice eloquent—in reason strong; 
Mark how the tears descend adown each 
cheek, 
And all the mind in silent anguisli speak i 
To Fox attend, and at weak folly’s car, 
Behold him bind the advocates of war ; 
See how they shrink beneath his potent^ 
wand, 
Afraid to meet him fair, or hand to hand! 
Of living lights, a phalanx! Erskine stands. 
Foremost to front, of power the nervous 
bands; 
Burdett, unmov’d, the hateful truth shall 
tell. 
Though bonds await him and the gloomy 
cell; 
W'hitbreao shall lift aloud his warning 
voice, 
And Moira make the debitor rejoice. 
* This alludes to the steam-boat used for 
convey ing passengers in America. 
LUt 
