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ORIGINAL POETRY. 

SONNETS, 
attemftied in the manner of 
®CoNTEMPORARY WRITERS.’ 
SONNET I. 
ENSIVE, ateve, on the hard world I mus’d, 
And my poor heart was fad : fo at the moon 
I gaz’d—and figh’d, and figh’d !-~for, ah ! how 
foon 
Eve darkens into night. Mine eye perus’d 
With tearful vacancy, the dampy grails, 
Which wept and glitter’d in the paly ray : 
And E did paufe me on my lonely way, » 
And mus'd me on thofe wretched ones, who 
pafs 
O’er the black heath of sorrow. But, alas! 
Moft of myseitF I thought: when it befell, 
That the footh sprr1t of the breezy wood 
Breath’d in mine ear— All this is very well; 
But much of oze thing is for xo thing good.” 
Ah ! my poor hearts inexplicable {well ! 
NEnEMIAH HiGGINBOTTOM, 
é 

SONNET. II. 
TO SIMPLICITY. 
0! ¥Fdo love thee, meek Simf/icity! 
For of thy lays the lulling fimplenefs 
Goes to my heart, and foothes each {mail diftrefs, 
Diftrefs tho’ fmali, yet haply great to me! - 
? Tis true, on lady Fortune’s gentleft pad 
Lamble on; yet, tho’ I know not why, 
‘ & fad I am!—but fhould a friend and I 
Grow cool and iff, O! Tam very fad! 
And then with fonnets and with fympathy 
My dreamy bofom’s myftic woes I pall; 
Wow of my falfe friend plaining plaintively, 
Now raving at mankind in general ; 
But whether fad or fierce, ’tis fimple all, 
All very fimple, meek simpiicity! 
| NEHEMIAH HIGGINSOTTOM. 

SONNET IIIf. 
8N A RUINED HOUSE IN A ROMANTIC 
COUNTRY. 
Anp this reft houfe is that,the which he built, 
Lamented Jack ! And here his malt he pil’d, 
Cautious in vain! Thefe rats that fqueak fo 
wild, 
Squeak, not unconfcious of their father’s guilt. 
Did ye not fee her gleaming thro” the glade ! 
Belike, ’twas fhe, the maiden all forlorn. 
“What tho’ fhe milk no cow with crumpled 
horn, ; 
Yet, aye, the haunts the dale where ef the 
— ftray’d : ’ 
And, aye, befide her ftalks her amorous knight ! 
Still on his thighs their wonted brogues 4re 
worm, rpg ih 
And thro’ thofe brogues, flill tatter’d and betorn, 
His hindward charms gleam an unearthly white ; 
As when thro’ broken clouds at night’s high ncos 
Peeps in fair fragments forth the full-orb’d 
harveft-moon ! 
NewEMIAH HIGGINSeTHAM, 
ieee 
TO MISS M. A. H——s, FROM HER 
MOTHER ; 
With an Introduétion to Botany. 
O thee, dear objeét of my tendereft love, 
A gift I fend; may’ft thou my choice ap- 
prove, 
No laboured trifle, no expenfive toy, 
No glittering bauble shall attiaét thy eye 5° 
Nor lufcious cates my fondnefs fhall exprefs 
Tempting thy youth to dangerous, mean excefs 
Nor gaudy ornaments, by whim defign’d, 
With vulgar vanity infe@t thy mind. 
The gift I fend thall other joys beftow, 
Joys that from nature and from knowledge flow. 
Not knowledge, fuch as ill-formed minds dift 
lay, 
Of ones and forms, the fopperies of a day : 
Not fuch as fhows, by calculatiens cool, 
To win the rubber, or fecure the pool 5 
Infructs the plume to wave, the robe to flow, 
Or the pale cheek with borrow’d tint to glow 5 
Not vulgar pleafure, fuck as courts the vain 
Fanta ttic flaves of fafhion’s tranfient reign. 
Not fuch as wait on diflipation’s call, 
In crowded card-1coms, or at midnight ball, ‘ 
Where avarice’and envy rule confeit, 
Where every mean fenfation fills the breaft ; 
Where virtue, tafte, and knowledge muit give 
wa 
To felf-important folly’s boundlefs fway ; 
Where age and youth one common path purfue, 
One common {cene of trifles keep in view, ' 
Life wafting in an ufelefs, waking trance, 
Vain of protufion, floth, and ignorance. 
This gift, improved, fhall, to thy mind, ine 
fure 
Knowledge more noble, and delight more puré. 
Shail teach thee nature’s footfteps to purfue, 
Her varying beauties place before thy view. 
Teach thee her fetret workings to explores 
Till thy expanding mind fhall learn to foar 
Above the wonders of this. ear:hly ball, 
‘To the wife, juit, and powerful Caufe of all. 
The fimpleft blade that decks the humble fod, 
Shall raite thy foul, adoring, to that GOD 
Who with like {kill the ftately oak has made, 
And the low plant that creeps beneath its fhade, 
Sweet is the tafk thro’ woodiand-wilds te 
« ftray, 3 ied: 
Health and Content, companions of thy way3 
To watch the earthiy bloffom’s opening bloom, 
Admire its tints, inhale its fweet perfume. 
Each little beauteous ftranger to feleat, 
With pleafing care cach part minute infpect, : 
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