The priest-like father reads the sacred page, With Amalek's ungracious progeny; Perhaps the Christian volume is the theme,- Saw in the sun a mighty angel stand, And heard great Babylon's doom pronounced by Heav'n's Then kneeling down to HEAVEN'S ETERNAL KING, No more to sigh or shed the bitter tear; In such society, yet still more dear; While circling time moves round in an eternal sphere. Then homeward all take off their sev'ral way; The parent pair their secret homage pay, For them and for their little ones provide; But, chiefly, in their hearts with grace divine preside.3 FROM "EPISTLE TO DAVIE, A BROTHER POET." To lie in kilns and barns at e'en, When banes are crazed and bluid is thin, 1 From Pope's "Messiah." 2 From Pope's "Windsor Forest." 3 The "Cottar's Saturday Night" is founded on Fergusson's "Farmer's Ingle;" and is said to be a faithful picture of the household of Burns's father. 4 Bones. Blood. 1 Ball. 4 Then. Is, doubtless, great distress! The honest heart that's free frae a' Intended fraud or guile, Has aye some cause to smile; What though, like commoners of air, Yet nature's charms, the hills and woods, In days when daisies deck the ground, On braes when we please, then, It's no in titles nor in rank, Nae treasures or pleasures Then let us cheerfu' acquiesce, And, even should misfortunes come, 2 Without. In making much more. Whistle in a low tone. Learning. I, here wha sit, ha'e met wi' some, They make us see the naked truth, Though losses and crosses Be lessons right severe, OF A' THE AIRTS THE WIND CAN BLaw. Of a' the airts the wind can blaw, For there the bonnie lassie lives, The lassie I lo'e best : There wild woods grow, and rivers row, But, day and night, my fancy's flight I see her in the dewy flowers, I hear her in the tunefu' birds, I hear her charm the air: There's not a bonnie flower that springs, Oh blaw ye westlin' winds, blaw saft Wi' balmy gale, frae hill and dale, What sighs and vows amang the knowes Hae passed atween us twa! How fond to meet, how wae to part, To whom the heart is seen, That nane can be so dear to me As my sweet lovely Jean! THE BANKS O' DOON. [Original version, which was afterwards altered to suit a particular tune.-Chambers.] Ye flowery banks o' bonnie Doon, How can ye bloom sae fair! And I sae fu' o' care! Thou'll break my heart, thou bonnie bird, That sings upon the bough; Thou minds me o' the happy days When my fause luve was true. Thou'll break my heart, thou bonnie bird, For sae I sat, and sae I sang, Aft hae I rov'd by bonnie Doon, Wi' lightsome heart I pu'd a rose, And my fause luver staw the rose, [The poets from whose works we have still to quote may be considered (inclusive of Crabbe) to belong to our present century. The earliest publications of many of them appeared before the expiration of the century; some of these bards still survive among us in their honoured age; some have very recently departed. The farther we descend in the chronological line, the more numerous become the names that crowd the literary stage: and, of course, the greater becomes the number which our limited space compels us to abandon. Among the poets of the middle and of the latter half of the eighteenth century are, Dyer (Grongar Hill, The Fleece, &c.); Dr Samuel Johnson (Vanity of Human Wishes, &c.); Shenstone (The Schoolmistress, Pastorals, &c.); Meikle (the Translator of Camoen's Lusiad, and author of the ballad Cumnor Hall); Armstrong; Dr Jn. Langhorne: Dr Th. Percy; Churchill; Michael Bruce, and Jn. Logan; the two Wartons; Dr Blacklock; Glover. The tragic dramatists are Moore, Home, Mason, Glover, &c. A longer catalogue adorns the literature of comedy; of these Sheridan is the most distinguished name.] ་ MR ROGERS still enjoys the rewards of a long, useful, and honourable life. His larger works are, "The Pleasures of Memory," "Human Life," "Columbus," and " Italy." His writings are remarkable for elegance of diction, purity of taste, and beauty of sentiment. His publications range from 1786 to 1822. "6 POWER OF THE CHARM OF EARLY ASSOCIATIONS. Ask not if courts or camps dissolve the charm: Why great Navarre, when France and freedom bled, Say, when contentious Charles renounced a throne, A MOTHER'S LOVE. Her, by her smile, how soon the stranger knows,5 As to her lips she lifts the lovely boy, What answering looks of sympathy and joy! "This emperor, according to Suetonius, constantly passed the summer in a small villa near Reate, where he was born, and to which he would never add any embellishment; ne quid scilicet oculorum consuetudini deperiret."-Suet. in Vit. Vesp., c. ii.—See Author's note, where many other examples will be found. 2 Henry IV. of France made an excursion from his camp, during the siege of Laon, to dine at a house in the forest of Folambray, where he had often been regaled when a boy with fruit, milk, and new cheese."-Mém. de Sully.-Author's note. 3 The Roman emperor Diocletian retired into his native province (Dalmatia), and there amused himself with building, planting, and gardening. His answer to Maximian is deservedly celebrated. If," said he, "I could show him the cabbages which I have planted with my own hands at Salona, he would no longer solicit me to return to a throne."— Author's note. 4 Charles V., after his abdication, on his way to his Spanish monastery, stopped at Ghent, his birth-place, to indulge the feelings described in the text.-See Robertson, Book xii. 5 Virg., Eclog. iv. |