Had never stoop'd to ruin. All was still; It seem'd indeed a crystaline sphere-and there Bent round and bless'd it. Life was teeming there Of rank luxuriance; flowers, and purpling vines With the glad cry of thousands. There were gardens And temples rear'd to woodland deities; And they were overcrowded with the excess The holiday of nature? Why not come To add to the sweet sounds of winds and waters- To the bright, listening flowers, and waters falling Most musical from marble fountains wreathed WILLIAM E. GALLAUDET WAS a native of Hartford, Connecticut. He was graduated at Yale College in 1815, and commenced the study of medicine in New York, but abandoned it for some mercantile views. These were however, terminated by his death at the age of 26, in 1821. He was a young man of uncommon promise. Poetry he wrote, but not much. We know of nothing that has been published, except the annexed piece which was included in Roscoe's Specimens of the American Poets. LINES TO THE WESTERN MUMMY. O STRANGER, whose repose profound What wonders of the secret earth Thy race by savage war o'errun, By friendship's hand thine eyelids closed, By friendship's hand the turf was laidAnd friendship here perhaps reposed, With moonlight vigils in the shade. The stars have run their nightly round, The sun look'd out and pass'd his way, And many a season o'er the ground Has trod where thou so softly lay. And wilt thou not one moment raise How like what once enchanted thee? Thy name, thy date, thy life declare- Perhaps a Helen, from whose eye A faded phantom and no more! O not like thee would I remain, The freshness that my childhood knew. But has thy soul, O maid! so long Or has it in some distant clime With curious eye unsated stray'd, And down the winding stream of time On every changeful current play'd? Or lock'd in everlasting sleep Must we thy heart extinct deplore? And sigh for her who feels no more? Or exiled to some humbler sphere, In yonder wood-dove dost thou dwell, Whoe'er thou be, thy sad remains EDWARD EVERETT. MR EVERETT was born in Dorchester, Mass. His father was pastor to the New South Church in Boston. He studied at Harvard University, and was ordained as a minister over the Brattle Street Church in Boston, at the early age of eighteen. Upon the foundation of the professorship of Greek literature at Cambridge, he was called upon to fill the office, in consequence of which, he relinquished his pastoral duties in Boston. After making a visit to Europe, he entered upon his business as professor, and continued in that station till 1825. Since that time he has been a representative in Congress. Mr Everett's reputation, both as a statesman and a scholar, is too widely extended to need any comments from us. Among the great variety of his labors, he has found moments to devote to the muse. The following piece, and a Phi Beta Kappa poem, written in his youth, are, we believe, all that have appeared in public. DIRGE OF ALARIC, THE VISIGOTH, Who stormed and spoiled the city of Rome, and was afterwards buried in the channel of the river Busentius, the water of which had been diverted from its course that the body might be interred. WHEN I am dead, no pageant train Ye shall not raise a marble bust Upon the spot where I repose; In hollow circumstance of woes: Ye shall not pile, with servile toil, Lay down the wreck of Power to rest; But ye the mountain stream shall turn, My gold and silver ye shall fling Back to the clods, that gave them birth ; The captured crowns of many a king, For e'en though dead will I control But when beneath the mountain tide, Ye shall not rear upon its side Pillar or mound to mark the spot; |