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The fairy fcenes are flown, 
The bright enchantment vanifhed in air; 
Faithlefs, for ever are they gone, 
Unmark’d, unheard my prayer. 
On hafty wing has Fortune urged her flight, 
Nor Knowledge grants.me yet her gifts to 
fhare, 
‘While hid in clouds of doubt is Truth’s im~ 
mortal light. 
I faw the palm of high renown 
The cates brow adorn; 
look’d—-and lo! for ever flown 
"The opening fweets of life’s delicious morfi! 
And deeper ftill and darker grew 
‘The fhades that gather’d round my lonely 
way, ) 
While mid the dull and dreary view 
Hope fcarcely thed a feeble doubtful ray. 
Of all the vifionary train 
That Fancy erft was wont to raife, 
© fay, which faithful yet remain, 
To cheer the evening of my days ! 
hou, Friendfhip, who {alone haft power 
To heal each degply-rankling wound, 
And cheer afflidtion’s darkeft hour— 
Thou whom I early fought and found: 
Employment, too, whofe healing balm 
Can ftill the paffions madding rage, 
The tempeft of the foul can calm, 
And all life’s ills affuage. 
*Tis thou, who unappall’d by toil, 
Canf to perfection bring each nobler aim, 
And atoms upon atoms pile, 
To form a fyftem’s mighty frames: 
Led by thy hand in life’s declining day, 
Hours, minutes, months, and years, will 
{oftly fteal away. 
| Sept. 11) T8OI. 
J. Be 
LINES 
@PON THE DEATH OF THE REV. GILBERT 
R WAKEFIELD. 
S Wakefield dead? Icaught the paffing tale! 
¢¢ Not warm affection’s reftlefs cares avail /¥ 
©¢ Nor healing fkili,to ftop his fleeting breath:’* 
Yet, yet, he lives; his mind has vanquihh’é 
death _* 4 
Long as the various literary ftores 
From ancient Rome, from claffic Grecian 
_ fhores, x 
Shall fhare the vacan¢€ or the ftudious hour— 
Long as pure tafte and learning hold their 
power— athe 
Long as the prefs exifts, the foul to feed—~ 
Wakefield furvives=-Ah! ftill does Friends 
{nip bleed? 
The hufband, father, friend, for ever loft 5 
Thofe hopes fo late infpir’d feverely crofs’d$ 
Hopes when again he breath’dinFreedom’s airs 
That years of happinefs might well repair 
Of time and joy the cruel prifon’s wafte— 
But fay, was his humane free fpirit, plac’d 
In earth’s corrupted atmofphere, at home 5 
This earch, where vice and war deftroying 
roam ? . 
No :—Heav’n in kindnefs fnatcli’d him froma 
the fcene " 
To dwell where love and truth are alwayé 
green. 
j.N. H. 
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Errata—tIn the firft of the introductory 
lines to Dr. Geddes’s Latin VWerfes, for 
‘¢ Effay, read «+ Elegy”—Line 1, verfe 3, of 
the Tranflation to ditto, for ‘* wi/bes,” read 
‘¢ virtues,”—and in line 44, pe136, for ** my 
latent fires,” read ‘¢its latent fires,” — ; 
Exirads from the Port-folio of a Man of Letters. 
NAUTICAL LITERATURE. 
a Exe common and ftatuté law of fea- 
matters (fays the Monthly Review, 
vol. XI. p. 564) handed down by tradi- 
tion, and By the Rhodian code from the 
‘ancients, was gradually modified into 
that fyfiem of regulations known by the 
name of Il Confulato del Mare, which re- 
ceived the papal fanétion in 1075, was 
re-enacted in moft fea-ports of the Medi- 
terranean, but not till 1162 at Marfeilles. 
This work was firft printed at Barcelona 
in 1502: it has been tranflated into moft 
European langoages, our own excepted; 
the Batch verfion of .1704 is the bef. 
The rules and orders taught by the cir- 
cumftances and experience of the Baltic 
failors were firft reduced into a body of 
written law at Wilsby, one of the An- 
featic towns, and were printed at Copen 
hagen in 1505 in the Frankith tongue. 
Of thefe an Englifh tranflation appeared 
in 1536. i age ae 
Surely a book containing thefe two pri- 
mary codes of maritime law, in modern 
Englith, would neither bedifficult to exe 
cute, nor dificult to fell. 
COALITION PROPOSED. 
For a coalition between the churcheg. 
of England and of Rome (fays a com- 
mentator on Barry’s Letter to the Society 
of Arts) na doubt the times are ripe: it. 
would furnifh a: favourable opportunity 
for increafing the pomp of worfhip in our 
eftablifhed churches, and for converting 
them into galleries of the fine arts. It 18) 
for the learned among the catholics to 
ftate the.terms on which they could accept 
Ta SO ala nl 
From the Port-Folio of a Man of Letters. [October 1; 
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