plied an inconceivable severity of had, besides humanity, generos conviction, that he had one thing to ity, conscience, and some measure do ; and that he, who would do of what forms the power of consome great thing in this short life, science, the fear of a Superiour must apply himself to the work Being. Consequently, when the with such a concentration of his dreadful momentapproached,he felt forces, as, to idle spectators, who an insupportable conflict between live only to amuse themselves, these opposite principles,and when looks like insanity. it was arrived, his utmust courage His attention was so strongly failed. The worse part of his naand tenaciously fixed on his ob- ture fell prostrate under the power ject, that even at the greatest dise of the better ; the angel of goodtance, like the Egyptian pyramids ness arrested the demon that to travellers, it stood confest to his grasped the dagger, and would sight with a luminous distinctness, have taken that dagger away, if as if it were nigh, and beguiled the pure demoniack firmness of his the toilsome length of labour and wife, who had none of these counenterprise, by which he was to teractive principles, had not shamreach it. It was so conspicuous ed and hardened him to the before him, that not a step deviat- deed. ed from the direction, and every The poet's delineation of Richmovement and every day was an ard III. (I better remember the approximation. If it were possi- poet's account of him than the ble to deduct from his thoughts historian’s,) gives a dreadful speciand actions all that portion, which men of this indivisibility, if I may had not a methodical and stren- so name it, of mental impulse. uous reference to an end, the solid After his determination was fixed, mass, which would remain, would his whole mind, with the compactspread over an amazing length of est fidelity, supported him in prolife, if attenuated to the ordinary secuting it. Securely privileged style of deliberation and achieve- from all interference of doubt that ment. One less thinks of dis- could linger, or humanity that playing such a character, for the could soften, or timidity that could purpose of example, than for that shrink, he advanced with a grim of mortifying comparison. concentrated constancy, through scene after scene of atrocity, still fulfilling his vow to “ cut his way *****, Lady Macbeth may be through with a bloody axe." He cited as a harmonious character, did not waver while he pursued though the epithet seems strangely his object, nor relent when he applied. She had capacity, am- seized it. bition, and courage ; and she willed the death of the king. But he TO W C , JUN., Newport. -BOSTON, SEPT. 6TR, 1806. ............... Tu mitis, et acri Asperitate carens, positoque per omnia fasiu, Inter ut æquales unus numeraris amicos : Obsequiumque doces, et amorem quaeris amando. LUCAN. HAIL, absent friend ! not absent from my soul, Though mountains rise, and floods between us roll. Though life no more thy little bark should steer, The flow'rs of Friendship rarely blossom here, Though the pale miser gaze upon his store, Give me the friend, whom vivid genius fires, Though fortune spread few favours at his door, Frank to his friend; (nor would he fail to please, Let him regard not censors in the streets, For the Monthly Anthology. TO POVERTY O POVERTY! hard-featured dame, That Toil, and Want, and Shame, are known. Thus speaks the world,-to Mammon true,~ To me, and I have seen thee near Yet all the bless'd Affections twine Though boonless, and to praise unknown, Let me thy simple glances meet Not that along the wintry shore But, when to wrongs thy sufferings lead, ALL hail to the ruins, the rocks and CAMBRÍA. gaze, and am changed at the sighti For mine eye is illumined, my Genius takes flight, My soul, like the sun, with a glance the shores! Thou wide-rolling OCEAN, all hail ! dimpled with oars, Now dark with the fresh-blowing gale, And the silver-wing'd sea-fowl on high, Like foam on the surges, the swans of From the tumult and smoke of the city With eager and awful delight, #Searboro Castle. From the day-darting zone to the night- My spirit descends where the day- O regions of beauty, of love, and desire ! When pure was her heart, and un- But now the fair rivers of Paradise wind Through countries and kingdoms o'erthrown; Where the Giant of tyranny crushes mankind, Where he reigns,-and will soon reign alone, For wide and more wide o'er the sunbeaming zone, He stretches his hundred-fold arms, Despoiling, destroying its charms; Beneath his broad footstep the Ganges is dry, And the mountains recoil from the flash of his eye. Thus the pestilent Upas, the hydra of trees, Its boughs o'er the wilderness spreads, And with livid contagion polluting the breeze Its mildewing influence sheds Where Europe exultingly drains And the image of Cæsar set up in its The hour is approaching,-a terrible And Vengeance is bending her bow; The floods return headlong, sweep they The slave-cultur'd lands to the deep; In a moment entomb'd in the horrible void, The birds on the wing, and the flowers By their Maker Himself in his anger in their beds, Are slain by its venomous breath, While their mouldering skeletons whi- Ah! why hath JEHOVAH, in forming With the waters divided the land, And cradled the deep in his hand? mand, And leap o'er the bounds of his birth Distinct as the billows, yet one as the sea! There are, gloomy OCEAN a brother- Who traverse thy banishing waves, forefathers' graves, cending to-day, Then joy to the tempest that whelms them beneath, And makes their destruction its sport! And waft them in safety to port ! destroy'd. Shall this be the fate of the cane-plant od isles, More lovely than clouds in the west, Sinks softly and sweetly to rest? At the voice of thy gospel of peace To walk in thy freedom, and dwell in As homeward my weary-wing'd Fancy extends Her star-lighted course thro' the skies, I see the war-tempested flood his shores. For BRITANNIA is wielding her tri- From her wave-ruling chariots of fire : To spread her invincible name ; Alluding to the glorious success of the Moravian Missionaries among the negroes in the We Indics. |