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ON A LADY’S BIRTH-DAY. 
By C. Reppine, 
Author of * Retirement,” &c. just published. 
FASStTE! all ye sylphs that, light asairy 
Hover around your chosen fair, 
‘Or’ mid her tresses play 5 
Prepare your sweets, your music bring, 
With all the roseate stores which Spring 
Has given to bless the day. 
Thive to the ocean’s depths profound, 
Compass tlymassy globe around, 
From earth, and sea, and sky ; 
Pour out the year’s collected storey 
Each bounteous planet too explore, 
And lay the treasures by. 
“Then of ambrosial dews and showers, 
Of amaranth’s unfading flowers, 
Of nectar from on high; 
Tiove’s best delicious draught prepare, 
(Of love unmix’d with pain or carey) 
And equal shares supply. 
"Then make the feast, and at the treat 
Bid Mirth and Pleasure take a seat, 
And laughing Joy preside ; 
Enclose the fair with magic art, 
Bind in his easy chains her heart, 
And dark-brow’d Care deride. 
Now bid the dance, and gaily singy 
And on each light and airy wing, 
Tune sweet the sprightly lay ; 
Proceedings of Learned Societies. 
[Sept. 1, 
Raise high the strain, and give command. 
To all your happy joyous band 5 
Proclaim it to the day 
s¢ We that wanton in the air, ‘ 
Guardians of our favourite fair, 
. Sometimes visiting the fountains 
Where we sip the glassy stream 3 
Sometimes floating o’er the mountains 
Riding on the moon’s pale beam 3 
Ever there our vigils keeping — 
Over the chosen head we guard, 
Hovering o’er our charge when 
ing, 
Watchfulness our best reward : 
Chorus. —Let us celebrate the day. 
Dance and sing and sport away. 
sleeps 
&* Light as gossamer we move, 
Every step attun’d to love, 
Every mortal eye unseeing, 
While our revels we enjoy 3 
Every evil distant fleeing 
That could dare our peace annoy $ 
Thus we welcome in the morning, 
Joyous moments of delight ; 
Grief and care, and envy scorning, 
Thus we’ll welcome in the night. 
Chorus.—Let us celebrate the day, 
Dance and sing and sport away.” 
PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 
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Royal ACADEMY of COPENHAGEN, 
NHIS Academy bas proposed the 
"] folluwing prize questions for 1810: 
—In Mathematics. A body which 
has the form'and figure of a cylinder, 
such as Congreve’s rockets, is pro- 
jected at a certain elevation or angle with 
the horizon, and is continually impelled 
by the flames which issue from it. The 
substance which feeds the fire is gradu- 
ally consumed, and the weight of the 
body- diminished. This being the case, 
4. What is the curve described by that 
body? 2. If the inflammable. matter 
contained ‘by the cyliader burns in such 
a manner that the inflamed strata are 
neither parallel to each other nor per- 
pendicular to the axis, to what pertur-_ 
bations will the rocket be subject: how 
are they to be prevented or corrected? 
3. As itis necessary that the cylinder be 
perforated and hollowed so as to afford 
the flame a greater surface and to increase 
the force of the flame that issues from it, 
it is required to know what form or figure 
is most advantageous for the excavation? 
The society wishes that attention be paid, 
if possible, to the resistance and pres- 
sure of the air; but yet tke prize will be 
adjudged to the best answer to the above 
three questions. In Natural Philosophy. 
Philosophers have long bestowed great 
pains on seeking to discover the connec- 
tion that subsists between electricity and 
magnetism, which exhibit phenomena 
so similar and so different. Modern ob- 
servations and discoveries have furnished 
new means of prosecuting these re- 
searches. The older philosophers have 
left us numerous experiments on this sub= 
ject, which do not exactly correspond 
with the principles of the experimental 
philosophy of the present day. Some 
philosophers have made new and impor- 
tant experiments which have not been 
sufficiently examined or repeated. The 
Royal Society thinking that this part of 
expérimental philosophy may be consi< 
derably improved, offers a prize to the 
‘writer, who, taking experience for his 
guide and support, shall give the best ex- 
’ position of the mutual connection between 
electricity and magnetism. * In Philoso- 
phy. 1. There are persons who still 
deny the utility of physical doctrines and 
experiments in explaining.the phenomena > 
of the mind and soul: ethers, on the cone 
trary, contemptuously reject Meet 
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