1809.] 
Thus off went Nick, with panting sides, 
The steed obeys the, hand ; 
And now within a circle rides, 
Acknowledging command. 
Yet, still momentum did exist, 
And yet exert its sway 3 
Till Will gave one convulsive twist, 
And turn’d him tother way. 
And now he gains the sacred door 
In sad, and woeful plight ; 
The parish all, both rich and poor, 
Now hail him, with delight. 
All run ¢o help him, in his need 
Extend supporting hands ; 
- And now, upon the faneral mead 
They place him; and he stands 
A most forlorn, Me piteous sighty 
His learned head all bare ; 
Enough it surely was—Qh quite 5 
To make a parson swear. 
God bless the King==the Queen also, 
The Commons, great, ‘and small; 
And keep our arch, and deadly foe, 
The devil—from us all. 
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IRISH CASTLES. 
JN an age of foul libels and squibs, 
Let us rhyme upon themes of more note; 
Let us trumpet the charms of Miss Nibbs, 
And record how LordBottom could doat. 
Miss Angelica Nibbs, tall, and slim, 
And Lord Bottom, gigantic, and stout, 
Seem’d, selected by fate in a whim, 
Just to prove how extremes come about. 
With a castle in Ireland so fine, 
With a paddock and carriage to bogt 5 
And with giants and Neales in bis line, 
Did Lord Bottom deliver his suit. 
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Twould have melted a bosom of rock, 
To hear of his lordship’s domain 5 
All the rabbits, the bogs, and live stock, 
°Twixt Cavan, and sweet Castleshane. 
With the wealth of an heiress, yet weak, 
And as tender and fond as a dove, 
Did Miss Nibbs hear his lordship first speak 
Of the pangs that he suffer’d from love. 
Tho’ her face bore the high-noon of life, 
Yet it brighten’d with youth, as he spoke ; 
In her fancy she dream’d herself wife, 
Oh! the pity she ever awoke. 
Such professions, such prospects, and sighs, 
Ne’er beleaguer’d the heart of a maid 5 
And she thought for so splendid a prize 
Fifty thousand might safely be paid. 
Tobe blest with a husband so gay, 
With a title that envy ne’er ’scapes; 
Had Angelica rashly said nay, 
*Fwould be punishment slight to lead apes. 
With a smile she consented to prove 
All that conjugal sweets can supply 5 
But e’en Peers, like Plebeians, can love, 
And e’en Peers, like Plebeians, can lic! 
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Original Poetry. 
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To the church then impatient away 
Flew the lord, and his juvenile fair 5 
But alas! they might both curse the day, 
That could hurry their frail bodies there, 
Near the altar, so meekly dispos’d, 
Such a tumult was heard at the door; 
That the page hymeneal was clos’d, - 
So unhallow’d a din to explore, 
But who may describe the surprise, 
Or the bitter invectives repeat 5 
When a female with tears in her eyes, 
Call’d vengeance on Bottom’s deceit. 
Lord Bottom no more! for his wife, 
That from Ireland had follaw’d his track, 
Still exclaimed—=** Oh thou curse of my 
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Captain Bottom, to Cavan come back |" 
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ME 
INSCRIPTION. 
LEFT IN THE PAVILION ON THE TOP OF 
THE PRECIPICE, IN THE PLEASURE 
GROUNDS OF —— HAVELOCKE, ESQ-. 
AT ENGRESS, KENT, JULY 28, 1800. 
WOODLAND wanderersy here delight- 
ing, 
Spirit of the grove, 1 dwell ; 
Here, with sacred peace, eine 
Echo from her airy cell. 
Here, these shady haunts defending, 
Dryads constant vigils keep 3 
And, with zephyrs wavy wending, 
Rock the weods, and murmur sleep. 
Here, from storm and tempest ruder, 
Gales of odour fill the air ; 
And the throstle, sweet obtruder! 
Soothes the tremblings of despair. 
You, perchance, from some proud city, ~ 
Come to catch the laughing health 5 
- Or, retiring here with pity, 
Spurn the splendid glare of wealth. 
Seize the moments now presenting 5 
Nature’s gifts are ever good ;—— 
Nature here, with art conventing, 
Weaves the shade and decks the wood, 
See the cypress green, aspiring 
On the cliffs romantic marge 3 
See the woodbine’s gay attiring, 
And the rose beneath enlarge. 
See Laburnum’s pendent tresses 
Wanton o’er the Rosmarine ;—- 
See the mandrake wildly dresses 
Many a shrub with liv’lier green, 
See the lily paly:blooming, 
Laughs beneath the lilac’s See 
See che sycamore englooming, 
Flings her arms across the ‘alade; 
See old Thames, in bold meandering, 
Urges on his breezy way ;-—= 
List; the lark, in ether wandering, 
Nature charms the live-long day. 
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