-Pride of his country's banded chivalry,
His fame their hope, his name their battle cry;
He lived as mothers wish their sons to live,
He died as fathers wish their sons to die.

If on the grief-worn cheek the hues of bliss, Which fade when all we love is in the tomb, Could ever know on earth a second bloom, The memory of a gallant death like his Would call them into being-but the few, Who as their friend, their brother, or their son, His kind warm heart and gentle spirit knew, Had long lived, hoped, and feared for him alone; His voice their morning music, and his eye The only starlight of their evening sky, Till even the sun of happiness seemed dim, And life's best joys were sorrows but with him ; And when the burning bullet in his breast,

He dropped, like summer fruit from off the bough, There was one heart that knew and loved him bestIt was a mother's-and is broken now.

NOTES.

(1) P. 9.-ALNWICK CASTLE, Northumberlandshire, a seat of the Duke of Northumberland. Written in October, 1822.

From him who once his standard set.—Page 12.

(2) One of the ancestors of the Percy family was an Emperor of Constantinople.

Fought for King George at Lexington.—Page 12.

(3) The late Duke. He commanded a detachment of the British army, in the affair at Lexington and Concord, in 1775.

From royal Berwick's beach of sand.—Page 13.

Berwick was formerly a Principality. Richard II. was styled "King of England, France and Ireland, and Berwick-upon-Tweed."

(4) P. 16.-MARCO BOZZARIS, one of the best and bravest of the modern Greek Chieftains. He fell in a night attack upon the Turkish Camp at Laspi, the site of the ancient Platæa, August 20, 1823, and expired in the moment of victory.

(5) P. 32.-WYOMING.-The allusions in the following stanzas can be understood by those only who have read Campbell's beautiful poem, "GERTRUDE OF WYOMING :" but who has not read it.

(6) P. 55.—“ RED JACKET" appeared originally in 1828, soon after the publication of Mr. Cooper's "NOTIONS OF THE AMERICANS."

(7) P. 70.—MAGDALEN.--Written in 1823, for a love-stricken young officer on his way to Greece. The reader will have the kindness to presume that he died there.

(8) P. 95.-Lieut. ALLEN.—He commanded the U. S. Sloop of War Alligator, and was mortally wounded on the 9th of Nov. 1822, in an action with pirates, near Matanzas, in the Island of Cuba. His mother, a few hours after hearing of his death, died—literally of a broken heart.