658 
*¢ Ly Tanc, idle and unemployed, in a 
vacant and joyless hour, spake thus: 
_ “* Behold the sua, star of the morning, 
risé on my furnace, and illumine my hall un- 
der an imperial dynasty. 
~ €©Great is the beauty, and high the anti- 
quity of sacred Vases, simple but exquisite in 
their form,’ which it requires time to go in 
quest of, and opportunity to possess, and 
length of days to arrange and set in order, as 
incentives to the pursuit of virtue and the 
performance of good deeds.” 
_ The cup, from which the poem is taken, 
1s engraved as a vignette in the utle. 
Among the poetical fruits of “ early 
age,” we notice, with no small satisfac- 
tion, the “ Poems and Translations -from 
the menor Greek Poets, and others, written 
chiefly between the Ages of Ten and Six- 
teen,” by a Younc Lapy.—“ The Canzo- 
net for three Friends” is one of the best 
among the original compositions. 
A considerable share of praise is also 
due to Mr. J. B. Frsuer, for his “ Pathe- 
tic Tales, Poems, 8c.” 
“* The Senses, an Ode, in the Manner 
of Collins’s Ode on the Passions,” will rank 
among the more successful specimens of 
Imitation. 
But while mentioning new claimants to 
praise, we must not forget those who have 
both long and permanently pleased us. 
Mr. CampBeELt’s “ Gertrude of Wyoming, 
a Pennsyloanian Tale,” has flights of 
true poetry, and passages of deep pathos, 
equal to any we remember to have seen 
in his former productions. Insulated 
extracts would afford no idea of its plan, 
and we have not room for a complete 
analysis. The Death Song of the Oneyda 
Chief, with which the Poem closes is cer- 
tainly one of the finest parts. From the 
stanzas, which concern the death of Ger- 
trude, we shall select four. They will 
probably lead many, who have not al- 
ready seen the Poem, to enquire for it. 
s* And tranc’d.in . giddy horror Gertrude 
Swoon’d; 
Yet while she clasps him lifeless to her 
_ zone 5 
Say, burst they, borrow’d from her father’s 
é wound, 
These drops?—-Oh God! the life-blood is 
her own; 
‘And faltring, on her Waldegrave’s bosom 
thrown— , 
66 Weep not, O Love!” she cries, ** to 
see me bleed— ~ 
Thee, Gertrude’s sad survivor, thee alone— 
' Heaven’s peace commiserate; for scarce I 
heed . 
These wounds, yet thee to leave is death—is 
- death indeed. Be Le en 
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Retrospect of Domestic Literature—Poetry. 
«¢ Clasp me, a little longer, on the brink . 
Of Fate! while I can feel thy drear caress 5 
And, when this heart hath ceas’d to beatex 
oh! think, Bia 
And let it mitigate thy woes’ excess, 
That thou has been to me all tenderness, 
And friend to more than human friendship 
just. 
Oh! by that retrospect of happiness, 
And by the hopes of an immortal trust, 
God shall assuage thy pangs—when I am laid 
in dust. 
¢¢ Go, Henry, go not back, when I depart; 
The scene thy bursting tears too deep will 
move, 
Where my dear father took thee to his heart, 
And Gertrude thought it ecstacy to rove ~ 
With thee, as with an angel, through the 
grove 
Of peace—imagining her lot was cast. 
In heav’n; for ours was not like earthly love. 
And must this parting be our very last * 
No! I shall love thee still, when death itself 
is past. 
¢¢ Half could I bear, methinks, to leave this 
earth, 
And thee, more lov’d than ought beneath 
‘the sun, ee 
If I had liv’d to smile but on the birth . 
Of one dear pledge—but shall there then 
be none, } 
In future times ?—no gentle little one, 
To clasp thy neck, and look, resembling 
me ? 
Yet seems it, ev’n while life’s last pulses runy 
A sweetness in the cup of death to be, ~~. 
Lord of my bosom’s love! to die beholding 
thee !” 
In this class also we have to notice 
“A Translation from the Latin of Va- 
nier, Book xv. upon Fish ;” by the late 
Rev. Jonn Duncomse, of Christ Church 
College, Cambridge; with a brief Intro- 
duction, and Passages from English 
Writers, selected as Notes. ‘The trans- 
lation itself appears to have been made 
about 1750. The notes have been of 
late added, and seem to form the most 
curious part of the pamphlet. The works 
they are taken from, are Silvester Du 
-Bartas; the Dialoges of Creatures Mo- 
ralyzed; Fawkes’s Theocritus; 
Gay- 
ton’s Art of Longevity, 1659; 
Poly- 
chronicon; Gower’s Confessio Amantis, — 
1554; Purchas’s Pilgrimes; A strange 
Metamorphosis of Man, 1634; Epitaphes, 
Epigrams, 
Owen Glendour; Llewellyn’s Men Mira- 
cles, 1656; Breton’s Ourania; Florio’s 
Translation of Montague; Mickle’s Syr 
Martin; Topsell’s. History of Four- 
footed Beasts; Hereules Furens, 158] ; 
Flecknoe; Barnaby Googe’s Palingenius ; 
~ ' England’s 
&c. by Turbervile;, Baldwin’s ° 
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