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Now a cadence foftly warbles, | 
Tis the flute’s melodius found 5 
Now the meafure loudly fwelling, 
Flings its awful thunder round. 
See the gallant band advances! 
litt ring fabres brandifh’d high ; 
Hope-in ev’ry bofom dances, 
Courage {peaks in ev’ry eye. 
But who is he that flowly follows ? 
Mark the grief that fades his form! 
In each wan feature paffion ftruggles, . 
~ Paffions wild tumultuous ftorm, 
‘View his glances quickly hhifted ! 
View the mif’ry they exprefs ! 
Now to Heav’n his eyes are lifted, 
Now caft down in mute diftrefs, 
To him are loft Hope’s firen accents, 
Harth are thofe ipirit-waking ftrains 3 
On his lorn mind no morning opens, 
There a night of fadnefs reigns. 
But Honour’s pow’rful voice prevailing 
Breaks the fpell that Fancy wove, 
Tow’ring Fame at diftance hailing ~ 
Drowns the timid voice of Love. 
Now his footfteps fondly linger, 
Mark ! ch mark, the foul-fraught gaze! 
He views the fair departing luftre ; 
The laft—laft glimpfe of beauty’s rays. 
Account of Gariners the Botanift. 
[May 15 
So the loft wretch whom Fate purfuing 
Exiles from the light of day, ; 
Once more the lovely landfcape viewing 
Dwells on each charm—then haftes away. 
Thus did 4e feek the beauteous vifion, 
And thus each well-known grace explore, 
Catch the foft day-break of thofe glances, 
Whofe brightnefs he muft view no more, 
Ah! ne’er again on him they refted, 
Thofe liauid funs have ceas’d to roll 5 
Of all their fparkling pow’r diveited, 
No moxe they fire the raptur’d foul. 
Pale is the cheek of polifh’d texture, 
Where once the rofe of fummer fmil’d 5 
And thofe fweet lips, where Love refided, 
Are of their honey’d ftore beguil’d. 
Cold is that breaft, of Heav’n the dwelling, 
Which once with noble& feeling glow’d 5 
No more with foit compafiion fwelling, 
No more of Truth the pure abode. 
Beneath the turf now pow’rlefs lying, 
Thofe limbs where Grace its magic fpread 5 
OF death fhe taftes the leaden lumber, 
“ “While bleak winds whiftle o’er her head. 
MEMOIRS OF EMINENT PERSONS. 
—aE See 
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE refpedling the 
late JOSEPH GAERTNER, the NATU- 
RALIST. By DELEUZE. 
EN of Science have, in all ages, 
formed a republic, the members of 
which, although refiding in different coun- 
tries, are yet united by the fame tafte, con- 
cur towards the fame end, and feel a lively 
intereft in the concerns of each other. 
Some account, therefore, of thofe indivi- 
duals who have, by their labours and dif- 
coveries, rendered themfelves objects de- 
ferving the affe€tion and veneration of 
mankind, muft not only be highly grati- 
fying to our curiofity, but prove extremely 
beneficial, by infpiring a love for learning 
and the-{ciences. 
Biography, befides, prefents examples 
to direct us in our fiudies ; and, at the fame 
time, points out what has already been 
done, and what.remains to be accom- 
piifhed. 
In writing the life of a_philofopher, 
however, fomething more is neceffary than 
an analyfis of his works, a recital of par- 
ticular events, or a vague portrait of his 
manners and chara¢ter. -To render this 
‘Species of compofition interefting and ufe~ 
ful, we fhould be informed what were the 
methods he purfued in his refearches after 
truth, the advantages he enjoyed, the ob- 
ftacles he had to encounter, as well as every 
minute circumftance which might give a 
peculiar caft to his genius. 
Jofeph Gertner was born at Calu, a 
{mall village of Suabia, in the duchy of 
Wirtemberg, on the 12th of March, 1732. 
A fhort time after his birth he loft his fa- 
ther, who had been phytician to the Duke 
of Wirtemberg, as well as his mother, 
whofe family name was Wagner. His 
parents had entrufted the care of his edu- 
cation to a profeflor of theology in the 
univerfity of Tubingen, a man of letters, 
who inftruéted him in the elementary parts 
of Jearning. He was afterwards fent to 
Stutgard, and being deftined forthe church, 
was particularly enjoined to apply to the 
ftudy of theology. Young Gzertner, 
while engaged in this purfuit, employed 
every leifure moment in cultivating an ac- 
quaintance with natural hiftory, mathe- 
matics, and other branches of {cience, for 
which he already evinced a paffionate 
fondnefs; and, it was from this. circum= 
fiance, he acquired a habit of inceflant ap- 
plication, 
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