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Oh lovely rofe ! once fairer than the Morn, 
Gay as the mead that Spring’s green hands 
adorn, 
Sweet as the weftern gale that gently flows, 
Kiffing the budding fragrance as he goes 5 
Pure as the gems that deck the primrofe-vale, 
Soft as the warbling of the nightingale ! 
Awhile thou brightly bloon’f, but foon 
The envious night comes o’er thy beauty’s 
noon 5 
Now low in earth thofe charms negleéted lie, 
That once fo fir’d the world’s admiring eye. 
Where is thy light’ning, Oh avenging 
Power ! 
Whofe piercing glance beheld that midnight 
hour, 
Who heardft her fault’ring prayer, her part- 
ing figh, : 
Who faw life’s mantling hues untimely fly! 
Why breathes the wretch that cropt this 
opening flow’r ? 
Why does the Sun on him its radiance pour? 
Why {miles his gay career of love and mirth, 
While Mary’s faded form lies low in earth ? 
Frefh as the blufh that tints the morning fky 
Did Mary’s charms firft catch his trait’rous 
eye, 
Soon did eg hold her willing foul, 
Soon o’er her breaft the foft delirium ftole ; 
How could the doubt his fend, infidious {mile? 
How trace the doublings of each artful wile ? 
Ah ! could the dream that heart would truth 
difown y 
That fondly fwore to love but her alone ? 
Oft in his eye the tear would feem to iwell, 
Oft from his lips truth’s modeft accents fell. 
Why did net frowning Heav’n with inftant 
death 
Wither the lip, and clofe the treacherous 
breath ; 
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For this thy fame’s fair Sun was funk in 
night, ~ 
For this thy virtues felt an early blight; 
For this thou metft the world’s proud mocke 
ery, 
And bitter language of the taunting eye ! 
This robb’d thy polifh’d cheek of fummer’s 
bloom, . : 
And funk thy youth’s fair honours to the 
tomb ; : 
Blafted the promife of thy graceful form, 
And gave thy beauties to the midnight ftorm, 
But oh ! thou falfe-one, juftice. will are 
rive, \ 
O’er wreck of worlds thy treach’ry will furs 
vive ; 
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See where it burns on Heav’ns wide chronicle, 
See where thy vows the flaming pages fill! 
Tho’ Pleafure hail thee with her laughing 
eyes, 
Soon will thy crimes in direful judgment 
rife. 
E’en now when frolic joys thy fteps attend, 
While fparkling energies their tranfports lend, 
Does not fell confcience with its ftings ad- 
vance, 
And give the future to thy fhuddering glance ? 
At dead of night thy Mary’s form appears, 
Her thrilling voice thy ftartled fancy hears 5 
Oft in the Moon’s pale gleam her fpedtre 
glides ; 
Among the billowy clouds fhe fwifty rides 5 
Majeftic frowning -midft the raving ftorm, 
Thou hear’ft her voice, thou view’ ft her an= 
~ gel-form. 
Soon fhall life’s idle vifions fade away, 
And on thy foul will burft the Judgmen& 
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NATIONAL -INSTITUTE OF 
we FRANCE. 
REPORT 072 COINING. 
Report, lately read tothe Claf{s of 
fathematical and Phyfical Sciences 
of the National Inftitute, enumerates the 
different inventions of Citizen Jean 
Pierre Droz, relative to the Art of 
Coining. It difcuffes at fome length the 
fabrication of Coins, the cutting and tem- 
pering them, the laminage, or the flatten- 
ing and plating of Metals, the*fize of the 
pieces to be ftamped upon, the ferules or 
jimall metallic circles, &c. and laftly, the 
iye or ftamp. It refults from the exa~ 
men of the Commiffarics, that in all and 
ach of thefe articles, this fkilful Mecha- 
nician has arrived to a point of perfection 
hitherto unknown, Heie follows a {um- 
sary ct their obfervations ; : 
1. The different proceffes empleyed by ~ 
Citizen Droz, in the fabrication of coins, 
and the multiplication of the cuttings or 
engravings, are either of his own perfonal 
invention, or have been confiderably ame- 
liorated by him. 
2, We are indebted to him for a parti- 
cular fort of ferula (in French termed vi- 
role brifée), Safceptible of receiving and 
tranfmitiing any kind of mark or cha- 
racter which it may be defired to imprefs 
on monies and medals. In the middle of - 
this virole, the edging is marked or en- 
graved at the fame time as the piece is 
firuck, Although the mode of ftriking 
‘pieces in wvirole brijfée, may have been 
known fometime before Citizen Droz, yet 
the procefs was h'therto attended with — 
fuch inconveniences, ali of which are re- 
moved by this artift, that the honour nf 
the 
