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*Twas at the midnight hour, in fecret {tole 
From the fcant fum, fleep was allow’d to 
wafe, 
That he enlarg’d the treafures of his foul, 
Refin’d his feelings, and improv’d his 
tafte. 
The day to care and induftry apply’d, 
The lack of patrimonial wealth reftor‘d : 
Hence independence, hence that honeft 
ride, 
Which only independence can afford. 
Unaw’d by power, though reverencing the 
throne ; 
' His mind unfetter’d, though the church. 
was dear 
fo all his hopes—alike to him unknown, 
The flatterer’s meannefs, and the coward’s 
* fear. 
Ardent he burn’d with friendfhip’s holy flame; 
And all that fondefs to a hufband gave : 
A parent’s love, his merit, and his blame ! 
A parent’s anguifh brought him to the grave 
Adieu, bleft thade! by each kind office ty’d 
To him who long efteem’d thee, and who 
knew 
Thy life one conftant effort to avoid 
Fame, to thy virtues and thy talents due. 
Forgive thy friend ! if eager to approve 
He round thy memory one faint wreath 
would twine, 
A lafting token of unfhaken love, 
Conftant and pure, but not as ftrong, as 
thine. 
W. Hampson. 
‘VERSES TO THE’ MEMORY OF THE 
LATE JOSEPH BROWN, 
, OF LOTHERSDALE; 
Whe bad fuffered a long Confinement in the Cafile 
of York, and thé Lojs :of all bis worldly Pro- 
. perty, for Conjeience’ Sake; by one whe bad 
been bis Feilow-prifoner. 
“ SPIRIT, leave thine houfe of clay ; 
Lingering duft, refign thy breath ; 
Spirit, caft thy chains away: 
Dutt, be thou diffov’d in death.” 
Thus, thy guardian angel fpoke, 
As he watch’d thy dying bed ; 
As the bonds of life he broke, 
And the ranfom'd captive fled. 
* Prifoner, long detain’d below, 
Prifoner, now with freedom blett ; 
Welcome, from a world of woe ! 
Welcome to a land of reft !” 
Thus, thy guardian angel fang, 
_ As he bore thy fou! on high; 
While'with Hallelujahs rang 
All the region of the fky. 
Ye that mourn a father’s lofs; 
Ye that weep a friend, no more,- 
Call to mind the Chriftian crofs 
Which your friend, your-father bore. - 
Original Poetry. 
(July 1; 
Grief, and penury, and pain, 
Still attended on his way, 
And oppreffion’s fcourge and chain, 
More unmerciful than they. 
Yet, while travelling in diftrefs, 
(Twas the eldeft curfe of fin) 
Through the world’s wafte wildernefs 5 
He had Paradife within ; 
And along that vale of tears, 
Which his humble footfteps trod, 
Still a fhining path appears, 
Where the mourner walk’d with God : 
Till his mafter from above, 
When the promis’d hour was come, 
Sent the chariot of his love, 
To convey the wand’rer home. 
Saw ye not the wheels of fire, 
And the fteeds that cleft the wind ? 
Saw ye not his foul afpire, 
When his mantle dropt behind ? 
Ye that caught it as it fell, 
Rind that mantle round your breaft ; 
So in you his meeknefs dwell ; 
So on you his fpirit reft ! 
Yet, rejoicing in his lot, 
Still fhall memory love to weep 
O’er the venerable fpot, 
Where his dear cold relics fleep. 
Grave, the guardian of his duft; 
Grave, the treafury of the fkies ; 
Every atom of thy truft . 
Refts in hope again to rife. 
Hark ! the Judgment-trumpet calls, 
« Soul, rebuild thine houfe of clay, 
And immortal be thy walls! 
And eternal be thy day !” 
———- 
DESCRIPTION OF A COMET. 
Wie the dread comet verges on the 
ull, 
His lengthen’d courfe of centuries outrun ; 
He full imbibes the renovative flame, 
The planets dwindling"in his fiercer beam. 
He f{wecps around the fervid fource of day, 
Then headlong launches on his deftin’d way. 
His {plendours dinnn’d, as onward he retires, 
In ruddy gleams his languid torch expires : 
And now beyond where Herfchel’s utmoft 
{phere, 
Unbleft, revolves along his dark career : 
Progreflive holds his unabated flight, 
Through the profound of everlafting night: | 
For here, eachfun, diminifh’d to a ftar, _ 
Shoots a faint ray, and twinkles from afar ; 
Amid the vaft, his felf-fufpended ball 
Long ages view obfcure, and filent roll : 
Elaps’d his years; attraction’s rifing power, 
Through {pace impels him fwifter every hour ; 
Till now againft the gloom a pallid glow 
His fides reflect, like night o’er Lapland 
fnew. 
Anop 
