Deep mourns the turtle in sequestered bower, This sketch of English pastoral life reproduces, with daguerreotype effect, the scenes of half a century ago, before the rail-track had superseded the rustic country road and the slow stage-coach. The following stanza was a favorite with Dr. Chalmers : Oh! how canst thou renounce the boundless store The pomp of groves, the garniture of fields: All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, Oh, how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven? CHATTERTON, "that marvellous boy who perished in his pride," was amusing himself one day, in company with a friend, reading the epitaphs in St. Pancras Churchyard. He was so deep in thought, that as he walked on, not perceiving a grave that was just dug, he tumbled into it. His friend, observing his situation, ran to his assistance, and, as he helped him out, told him, in a jocular manner, he was happy in assisting at the resurrection of genius. Poor Chatterton smiled, and, taking his companion by the arm, replied, “My dear friend, I feel the sting of a speedy dissolution. I have been at war with the grave for some time, and find it not so easy to vanquish it as I imagined. We can find an asylum to hide from every creditor but that." His friend endeavoured to divert his thoughts from the gloomy reflection: but what will not melancholy and adversity combined subjugate? In three days after, this neglected and disconsolate youth of genius put an end to his existence by poison, or, as some think, his miseries were completed by starvation. When only fourteen years of age, he published his first production in a newspaper; it purported to be from manuscripts by one Rowley, a monk of the fifteenth century. Horace Walpole detected the fabrication, and the exposure of the literary fraud entailed upon poor Chatterton neglect and severe exposure to want and suffering. His remarkable genius was unaccompanied by moral principle, and hence his desertion, and the melancholy termination of his brief and hapless career. In his native city, Bristol, as if to atone for this neglect, a splendid monument has been recently erected to his memory. As a specimen of his antique verse, we extract the following lines. on Spring, modernized in the orthography :: The budding floweret blushes at the light, The meads be sprinkled with the yellow hue, The fresh young cowslip bendeth with the dew; When gentle winds do blow, to whistling din is brought.. The evening comes, and brings the dews along, Young ivy round the door-posts doth entwine; The Lines on the Burial of Sir John Moore, by the Rev. CHARLES WOLFE, Byron on one occasion pronounced little inferior to the best Odes the age had produced. This noble poem found its way to the press without the knowledge of its author: it was recited to a friend in Ireland, who was so much impressed with its force and beauty, that he requested a copy, which he sent to a local newspaper, with the author's initials. It soon created a great sensation, and for a long time its authorship was a matter of much speculation. Here are the stanzas:— Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, We buried him darkly, at dead of night, No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on But half of our heavy task was done, When the clock struck the hour for retiring; That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, gun From the field of his fame fresh and gory; R. H. WILDE is the author of this clever sonnet to The Mocking Bird: Wing'd mimic of the woods! thou motley fool! Who shall thy gay buffoonery describe? Thine ever-ready notes of ridicule Pursue thy fellows still with jest and gibe. Wit, sophist, songster, Yorick of thy tribe, To thee the palm of scoffing we ascribe, Thou pour'st a soft, sweet, pensive, solemn strain, Like to the melancholy Jaques, complain, Musing on falsehood, folly, vice, and wrong, FITZ-GREENE HALLECK is the well-known author of that effective and artistic poem, Marco Bozzaris, the hero who fell in an attack upon the Turkish camp, on the site of the ancient Platæa, and |