[Entered according to the Act of Congress of the United States of America, December 9, 1835, by George Dearborn, in the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York.]

LENOX LIBRARY

NEW YORK

SCATCHERD & ADAMS,
FRINTERS,

38 Gold Street.

POEMS.

ALNWICK CASTLE.1

HOME of the Percy's high-born race,
Home of their beautiful and brave,

Alike their birth and burial place,
Their cradle, and their grave!

Still sternly o'er the castle gate
Their house's Lion stands in state,

As in his proud departed hours; And warriors frown in stone on high, And feudal banners "flout the sky" Above his princely towers.

A gentle hill its side inclines,

Lovely in England's fadeless green, To meet the quiet stream which winds Through this romantic scene

As silently and sweetly still,

As when, at evening, on that hill,

While summer's wind blew soft and low,

Seated by gallant Hotspur's side,

His Katherine was a happy bride,
A thousand years ago.

Gaze on the Abbey's ruined pile:

Does not the succouring Ivy, keeping

Her watch around it, seem to smile,

As o'er a loved one sleeping?

One solitary turret gray

Still tells, in melancholy glory,

The legend of the Cheviot day,

The Percy's proudest border story. That day its roof was triumph's arch;

Then rang, from aisle to pictured dome, The light step of the soldier's march,

The music of the trump and drum ;