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Her breath fill warms the tepid breeze, 
The fields her fprightly. livery wear, 
And Winter hefitates to feize 
The fceptre of a year fo fair. . 
Bright daughter of the Sun, adieu! 
“' On whom defcends his kindlieft fmile 3 
No more thy glorious form we view, 
But fill thy gifts rejoice our ifle. © 
For fee commiffion’d Autumn ftand 
With Péenty’s overflowing horn, 
And featter round with lavifh hand 
Rich fruits and life-fuftaining corn. 
~ But, hark! new founds of rapture fteal 
Obfcurely on the lift’ning ear: 
Wow loud they grow: now louder peal 
In full-ton’d accents foft and clear. 
Oh, *tis the voice of Peace! behoid 
Her fteps purfue the warning found 5 
And, as her heavenly charms unfold, | 
Unwonted glory beams around. 
Contending hofts, in mute furprife, 
Drop from their grafp the brandifh’d blade, 
Forget the fray, and turn their eyes, 
Tranfported, on th’angelic maid. 
Hail, lovely ftranger! long-loft gueftt! 
And doft thou greet us once again? 
Oh! let us ever, ever reft 
Beneath thy meek and holy reign ! 
Aufpicious zra, dawn fublime, 
Commencement of a golden day! 
See in the longdrawn rear of time 
Bright ages in auguftarray. _ 
The freeborn Briton fhall embrace | 
The Gaul, who alfo dar’d be free 5 
And the wide world, compos’d in peace, 
Shall learn the {weets of amity. 
Worcefter, OG. 13,1801. TREBOR. 
Account of Citizen Poiffonier. 
- [Jan 3; 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
WASEFIELD is dead ! See facred Science, 
-, mourn, x aot 
Like her own Aikin, bending o’er his arn 3 
While every mufe, by his fair daughter leds 
In precious tears embalms th’illuftrious dead ; 
While generous youths, enwrap’d in claflic 
lore, iy 
The Mafter Genius of the fong deplore ; . 
Here, tott’ring age eflays with trembling 
tongue, . : ie 
Fault’ring, to mingle in the tuneful throng, 
And caft his feeble, laft, expiring ftrain | 
On Friendfhip’s altar, foon to blaze again. 
Thus age and wifdom, youth and beauty join, 
T° anticipate afentence more divine. | 
Who would not thus, like Wakefield, 
with to die, ‘ 
Secure of fame and immoftality ! 
'P.D. 
Hackney, O&. 1801- 3 
ee ek he ‘ 
. SONNET, writtea at the CLOSE of EVE. 
“*rrIS eve, “tis folemn eve !—Still, penfive 
Thought a ae 
Sits in his robe of twilight fadly grey, 
Moufing o’er fhadows by his dark eye caught, 
The dimm’d.atid dying majefty of day ! 
Lorn murmurs tremble thro’ the mournful 
trees, ahi 
Mute Philomel her leafy couch has found ; 
And Melancholy’s niufic in the breeze’ 
Whifpers a note of foothing fadnefs round. 
And now, as night her darker mantle draws, 
The groves more low and deeply fullen 
wave ; 
Save when, as folemn comes a dreary paufe, 
Tis itillneis: all;—the ftillnefs of the 
grave ! ; 
The grave !—Ah, yet her abfence I deplore, 
Whole morn, and day, and eve, are now no 
moze ! . 
j. H. L. HuNTe 
~~ 
MEMOIRS OF EMINENT PERSONS. 
—e 
A Notice relative to the LiFe of Pois- 
SONIER, read at the COLLEGE of 
FRANCE, 292 Brumaire, fixth Year, 
by JEROME LALANDE, 
Po Isaac. PoissOnieR,. Doétor- 
A» regent of the Faculty of Medicine of 
Paris, Member of the late Academy of 
Sciences, Senier-member of the College of 
- France, &c. was born at Dijon, on the 
sth of July, 1720. He at firft engaged 
in pharmacy, but being foon induced to 
viit the capital, whither “he was led by 
his talents: and his zeal, he fudied medi- 
cine, and was received a licentiate, Au- 
guft 11th, 1744. -His thefes of 1743 and 
1744, 0n the following fubjects, announce 
the Arit objetis of his labours; 
“Do monfters originally. exift, or are they 
produced by accident?” : 
** Ought the bark to be applied 
the breaft ?”* : 
‘61s the lateral operation for the ftone, the 
beft ?” : 
in difeafes of 
In 1749 he publithed a Continuation of 
the Courfe of Surgery, diftated to the 
Schools of Medicine, by Col de Villars, 
Vols. V. and VI. containing a Treatife on 
Fractures and Luxations. : 
Dubois, Profeffor of Medicine, having 
-guitted the College of France in 1744, on 
purpofe to retire to St. L, the place of 
his nativity, he was fucceeded by Poiffo- 
nier; who pronounced his initiatory Dif 
courfe,; February xsoth, 1746: he after” 
ward 
