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Sweet is, O chearful Spring! thy infpiring 
breath, © 
When the meads cradle thee, and thy foft 
Yaifs 
Into the hearts of youths 
And hearts of virgins glide. 
Thou makeft Feeling conqueror, Ah! thro’ 
thee 
Fairer, more tremulous, heaves each bloom- 
ing breatt ; 
With lips fpell-freed by thee 
Young Love unfaltering pleads. 
Fair gleams the wine, when to’ the focial 
change 
Of thought or heart-felt pleafure it invites ;- 
And the Socratic cup, 
With dewy rofes bound, 
Sheds through the bofom blifs, and wakes 
refolves, 
Such as the drunkard knows not, proud re- 
folves 
Emboldening to defpife 
Whate’er the fage difowns. 
Delightful thrills againft the panting heart 
¥ame’s filver voice—and Immortality 
Is a great thought; well worth 
The toil of noble men. 
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By dint of fong to jive through after-tims me 
Often to be with rapture’s thanking tone 
By name invok’d aloud, 
From the mute grave invok’d— 
- To form the pliant heart of fons unborn—~ 
To plant thee, Love! thee, holy Virtue! 
there, 
Gold-heaper, is well worth 
The toil of noble ee ; 
But fweeter, fairer, more delightful ’tis 
On a friend’s arm to know. one’s-felf a friend ! 
Nor is the hour fo bleft. . 
Unworthy heaven itfelf. 
Full of affeGtion, in the airy thades 
Of the dim foreft, and with downcat look 
Fix’d on the filver wave, 
I breath’d this pious with: 
‘¢ O were ye here! who love me tho’ afar, 
«¢ Whom fingly {catter’d in our country’s lap, 
“¢ In lucky hallow’d hour > 
_ | && My feeking bofom found, 
¢ Here would we build us huts of friendfhip, 
ee herer. 
*¢ Together dwell:for ever!” The dim wood 
‘A fhadowy temple feem’d} 
The vale, Elyfium. 
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VARIETIES, 
LITERARY and PHILOSOPHICAL; 
Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domeffic and Foreign. 
*% Authentic Communications for this Article will always be thankfully received. 
AJOR OUSELEY’s Tranflation of - 
Si the Mefalek Memalek; a geogra- 
phical MS, originally written in Arabic, 
will be ready for publication early in Ja- 
nuary next, or as foon as the neceflary 
maps can be engraved. This work will 
form a large quarto volume: it contains a 
- molt curious and accurate defcription of 
Perfia, Arabia, part of Hindoftan, Tran- 
foxania, Syria, Egypt, Barbary, and other 
parts of Africa; Paleftine and Spain, 
which was in poffeffion of the Mahome- 
tans when the author compofed this work, 
between the years gso and 1000 of the 
Chriftian era; and confequently above 150 
years before the time of the Nubian Geo- 
grapher. .The author of the Mefalek Me- 
malek vifited mok of the places he defcribes 
himfelf; and his obfervations are not only - 
fuch as will intereft the geographer, but 
the naturalift, the hiftorian, and the anti- 
quarian. Major Oufeley has delayed for 
fome months the publication of this work, 
that the collation of his own MS with a 
. copy preferved in one of our public libra- 
ries may render his tranflation more ac- 
curate. 
A treatife upon the interefting fubjeét 
of Infanity may fpeedily be expected, from 
the pen of Dr. Joun Rerp. 
Mr.- JosepH COOPER WALKER, the’ 
ingenious author of ‘* Hiftorical Memoirs 
on ItalianTragedy,”’ is arranging materials. 
for an effay on the revival of the drama in 
Italy ; to which feveral of the moft emi- 
nent literary charaéters have contributed. 
This work will be printed in the fame 
form and manner as the ‘* Hiftorical 
Memoirs,”’ to which, in faét, it is in- 
tended as a fupplement. 
Mr. SourHEY’s Metrical Romance on 
the Deftruétion of the Dom-Daniel, will 
be ready for publication in the enfuing 
fpring; its title ‘* Thalaba the De- 
ftroyer.”” ; 
The fecond volume of the Annual An- 
thology will be fent to prefs early in De- 
cember. / | 
Early in the winter will be publifhed 
part of the writings of the late HucH 
BoyD, efq. with a new and complete 
account of his life, 
CAMPBELL; in which the fact of his 
having written the letters of Junius 
ip Oe will 
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