1802. ] 
*Tis Mirvan, fung bythe fwains from the 
firft glimmer of the morn to the fhades of 
eve. 
Dim with forrow is the luftre of her eye. 
’ He fell, and gave his f{pirit tothe winds. 
At that infant, in her chamber, on the 
eye of the fair Mirvan appear’d the ghoft of 
Morar; burnt were his locks, and blatted 
his youthful cheek. 
~ Fix'd for a moment was his eye on the 
charmer, when, withea defpairing - {mile, 
averted vilage, and ilowly waving hand, he 
bade an eternal adieu. 
Terror flar’d from the eye oor the damfel, 
and, like the branches on-the oak’s top ftood 
hor hair, 
The heart’s blood grew cold, ftreneth for- 
fook her limbs—the fell; ah! motionlefs 
fhe lay, as the comely tree ‘fell on the hills 
ef Penely. 
Soon on her cheek re-lkindles the bluth of 
the new day; fhe weeps ; fhe calls onthe de- 
light of her heart, e 
Soon, ah! foon he appear’d dead in the 
arms of his lamenting friends} 2 Who can 
paint the diftreffes of the daughter of Tre- 
goze? ‘Tregoze,. from whofe eye for ever 
glanced the beam of love on Mirvan, the 
foother of his old years. Around his heart 
twined the damfel Mi urvan, like the clafping 
ivy round the venerable oak. 
Fatt down the cheek of Trezoze hopp’d the 
tears, like hail on the honfe-top; bis old 
heart fighed, and pity melted o’er the cold 
and languid limbs of the dead. 
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355 
Peace and joy poffeft his bofom; peace 
fuch as reigns in the fequefter’d vale of La- 
morner, and joy fuch as triumphs amidft the 
tuneful groves of Polharman, But changed 
is Tregoze 3 content leaves his heart, like * 
the dove forfaking his neft, and black. trou- 
blous thoughts become its tenants. 
Like the bats and fcreech-owls, inhabiting 
the deferted and time-ftruck pile. 
Thought on_ thought fucceffively fwells 
on his breaft, Hike the reftlets waves on the 
fhore, 
Yet to the nymph he offers comfort 5 
but the daughter of Tregoze fhuns relief 
She climbs the brow of the mountain, 
droops o’er the falt wave, and murmurs to 
the boifterous ocean, like foft mufic to the 
voice of thunder. 
She climbsthe hill, where the fierce fame 
blafted the bloffom of her hope, and big 
{wells her overpower’d heart with grief. 
Let pleafure, the cries, be a ftranger to 
this bofom, and let-me be furrounded with 
fcenes of woe; let darknefs for ever cloudthe 
eye. of the day, and wan horror, like the 
moping raven on his perch, brood on the 
gloom, for fuch fuits the foul of the un- 
happy! Let my touch be confin’d to the 
writhing {nake, and my ear be dead to every 
found but the toad’s croak! When fhall I 
depart? ah! when fhall I fink to ret? Yer 
not till that eternal reft, O my Morar, fhall 
oblivion blot thee from my heart; for me- 
mory fhall fix on thee with the eye of the 
~ eagle. 
Extracts from the Port-folio of a Man of Letters: 
—= a 
BRUNETTO-LATINI. 
_ Letter IV. 
[Brunetto-Latini gives an Account of the 
Diverfions of the Englifh Nation—Englifh 
Dogs—their Excellence—Hiftory of the 
Dog—wonderful Initances of the Sagacity 
and Fidelity ofthat Animal. ] 
HE chief diverfions of the Enelifh 
barons and gentry [Sezguors et chrs 
(chevaliers)) are hawking, hunting, and 
exercifing with arms, as well on BEET Ae 
as on foot. The lower fort of people [ fer- 
Sens et burgeis| divert themfelves on holi- 
days with wreftling, cudgel-playing, foot- 
ball, foot-races, leaping, throwing quoits 
or ase, bars of iron, baiting bulls, bears, 
and badgers with dogs. To thefe may 
be -added combats betwixt cocks of the 
game, hunting ducks and otters with 
ogs. : 
' ‘Their dogs are very fierce and fight 
defperately, never quitting their hold. 
The Engithh are particularly curious in. 
the breed of this animal; and, indeed, all 
of that race here, peek are defioned for 
the chace, have a. wondeitul quicknefs of 
{cent. 
I need fcarcely tell you that the dog i is 
born blind, and comes to his fight in che 
regular courfe of nature—that he has a 
greater attachment and love for the human 
race than any other animal—that he difco-. 
vers a fhynefs towards thofe with whom 
he does not happen to dwell—that he an- 
-{wers to his name and the call of his maf 
ter—that his tongue has the property of 
healing wounds and fores—that he eats his 
own pprmietiae if he {wims acrofs a 
ftream with flefh or any thing elfe in his 
mouth, and dilcovers the fhadow thereof 
in the water, he will let go the fubftance 
in order to catch its refemblance. 
All, 
