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The lafting Jabours of his Mufe fublime 
Shall ftand unhurt amid the wrecks of time=— 
A touring column of immortal fame, 
And bards unborn fhall celebrate his name, 
Warm’d by a fpark of his ethereal fame ! 
“ — | 
THE MORNING OF THE YEAR. 
COLD, cold is the birth of the infantile 
Year, 
Whofe cradle the winds of the Winter will 
rock, 
Till the Spring inher bofom the orphan thall 
chear, 
Like a new-fallen lambkin, the firft of the 
flock. 
Who wove the rude drefs that apparels the 
a child ? 
His chaplet of ivy, his mantle of mofs ; 
Extradts from the Port-folio of a Man of Letters. [June tl, 
His fandals of holly-leaves, pluck’d from the 
wild ? 
While icicle dew-drops his raiments em- 
bofs'? 
With the heavenly birth, lo! the morning 
is gay 3 
The Sur through the clouds darts a {mile 
o’er the globe, 
To melt on the mountains the fnow-hills 
away »5- 
And promife the woods their frefh beau- 
tiful robe. 
With the changes of time may the bleffings 
of eafe 
Defcend on my Laura with fondeft delight: 
In her eyes, tho’ the winter rule iflands and 
feas, 
A heaven of fummer ftill gladdens our 
fight. ° SILVa. 
Extradés from the Port-folio of a Man of Letters. 
——— 
A RINT TO THE COMPILERS OF CY- 
; CLOP#p1AS! 
N unfortunate author, upon receiv- 
ing the compliment of having his 
entire work copied into one of the Scottish 
Dictionaries lately publifhed, applied to a - 
friend learned in the law for directions 
how to proceed againit the plagiarilts :— 
<< Proceed againft them, (replied his coun- 
fellor,): why the next time you publifh an 
edition of your work, interweave in it the 
whole of their Encyclopedia.” , 
THE DOMINION OF THE SEA. 
The fovereignty of the fea, which 
Great Britain lays claim to, and which it 
is the grand object of cur enemies to fub- 
vert, is no new pretenfion; for it has 
been claimed and maintained through ma- 
ny ages ; bat what is rather curious, was 
firtt aflerted by a poet. Ai little treatife 
in verfe is preferved in Hackluyt, intitled, 
De Politicia Confervativa Mavis, the 
author of which is unknown, but fuppo- 
fed to have lived about the beginning of 
the reign of Edward dV. It contains 
fome admirable reafoning, to prove the 
ufe ard neceffity of a fovereignty on the 
ocean to this nation, and is thus intredu- 
ced: ‘* Here beginneth the prologue of 
the proceffe of the libel of England’s po- 
licie, exhorting all England to keep the 
fea, and namely, the narrow fea: fhewing 
what profite cometh thereof, and alfo 
what worlhip and faivation to England 
and to all Englifhmen.” An the courfe 
of his remarks this fpirited writer ate’ 
tempts to deduce our claim tothe fove- 
reignty in queflion from the time of Ed. 
ward III., by thus explaining a device on 
our nobles, a gold coin ftruck by this 
Prince, and reprelenting the monarch in 
afhip, with a {word in his righthand : — 
‘¢ Pour things our noble fheweth unto me, 
King, fhip, and {word, and power of the 
fea.” 
SANNIZARIUS. 
The following defcription of night is 
from the poem of Sannizarius, De Party 
Virginis. At might eafily be miftaken for 
an extract from Virgil. 
Tempus erat, quo nox tardis inve¢ta quadri- 
is 
Nondum ftelliferi mediam pervenit Olympi 
Ad metam, et tacito fcintillant fidera motu. 
Cum fylvz, urbesque filent, cum feffa la~ 
bore 
Accipiunt placidos mortalia pe€tora fomnos ; 
Non fera, non volucris, non pitto corpore 
ferpens 
Dat fonitum. Jamque incineresconfederat ignis 
Ultimus. 
There is another fhort defcription of 
night in one of his pilcatory eclogues, 
which may pleale from its confonanee te 
the marine character of thefe pcems. 
Afpice, canéta filent. Orcas et maxima cete 
Somnus habet, tacit recubant per litora 
phoce, 
Non Zephyri ftrepit aura, fopor fuus humida 
muicet 
4£quora, fopitoconnivent fidera clo. 
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