Remains of Joseph Blackett 
While the early-rising cock, ' 
Rouzes all his feather’d brood. 
And the fleecy pent-up flock 
Long to nip their dew-wash’d food. 
See the tripod no>(V is plac’d ; 
And the laughing dairy-maid 
Fills the frothy pail with haste, 
Underneath the elrn-tree’s shade® 
Loudly groans a trembling oak. 
While the forest deep resounds ; 
urm’ring at the woodman’s stroke. 
Widening still its gaping wounds ! 
Smirking yoankers now are seen. 
By their playful fancies led, 
In wild frolic on the green, 
Where the daisy rears its head. 
MID-DAY. 
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Same Date. 
FnoM the scorching heat of noon, 
Panting cattle leave the glade ; 
Faint the mower sits him down 
At the headland in the shade„ 
Drooping lags the toiling ox. 
Heedless of the plough-boy’s goad j 
W ho, delighted, hears the clocks 
h peak the dinner op the road. 
In the fields appear the boys. 
Loos’d from school, in frolic gay ; 
Echo, at the gladsome noise, 
Seems to share their holiday ! 
Resting ’neath yon bow’ry tre^^, 
Slielterfrom the sun-beams, cool. 
See the flock,—the heifers see 
Plunging in the sullied pool. 
Close behind the motley crowd, 
See the cur, wijh half-shuteye. 
Skulking lies,—and barks aloud 
At the trav’Her passing by. 
Kow the tender flow’rs decay. 
Wither’d by the scorching heat. 
And the w’arblers wir their way 
To the thicket’s ^ep retreat. 
Fleas’d, the sun-em' owned swain 
Hears the well-h jwn halloo^swell 
Frofn the farm, act as the plain, 
Substitute for dinner-bell ! 
Slumb’ring in their liquid beds. 
Finny shoals now heedless lay ; 
While the sun above their heads,- 
Tells the blazing noon of day ! 
SUNSET® 
SatKe Date. 
Gently, on the western waves, 
See, the sun reclines his head, 
faintly smiling as he laves, 
■' placid ca ais glassy bed. 
Gloomy frowns the mountain steep. 
Now deserted by h1s beams. 
Bending o’er the noisy deep, 
"Where its broad’ning shadow swims. 
Dim and faint the skiff is seen 
Sailing to its destined place, 
Murky cloudings Intervene, 
Leaving not the smallest trace. 
Hark ! the sheep-dog’s barking noise 
From the wide-stretch’d dewy wold, 
Faithful to"the shepherd's voice, 
Driving flocks within the fold. 
Now, within his rustic shed. 
The returning peasant sees 
Slipper on the table spread. 
And his children clasp bis knees ! 
Through the air, in lofty height. 
Rooks their ev’ning course pursue. 
Still ascending in their flight. 
Keeping still their wood in view. 
Now the landscape’s sunk from sight, 
Homewaid run the youthful train. 
As the fast-approaching night 
Steals across the dusky plain ! 
Darkness now obscures the ground. 
Far has fled the cheering sun 5 
Now the fire is circled round, 
And the goblin-tale’s begun f 
MIDNIGHT. 
Sam^ Date, 
The wearied hind is now at resii. 
And the ember’d fire decays, 
"While the cricket, latest guest, 
Cherups o’er the dying blaze. 
Slowly rising o’er the hill, 
Cyntliia, bright, the prospect cheers 
Arid her figure on the rill, 
Lovely as herself appears, 
Morpheus now has banish’d care, 
And each breast enjoys repose. 
Save yon wretched love-lorn fair. 
Breathing to the night her woes. 
Swift the silver’d scene Is chang’d. 
Tempests dark obscure the sight J 
Clouds of heav’n’s artill’ry rang’d. 
Muster on thebrowof night. 
Dreadful howls the raging blast, 
- Furious o’er creation driv’n. 
While the atheist stares aghast. 
Trembling at oflended heav’n ! 
Wildly foams the surge ; and, hark ! 
To the drowning seaman’s groan ! 
As the billow-beaten bark, 
Plunging, sinks for ever down ! 
Awful silence is restor’d! 
Ai.d the hxirricano pass’d ! 
guieC sleep the winds which roar’d 
O’er the desolated waste ! 
