Aloud she shriek'd-for Hermes reappears!

Round the dear shade she would have clung-'tis vain:

The hours are past,-too brief had they been years;

And him no mortal effort can detain:

Swift, toward the realms that know not earthly day,
He through the portal takes his silent way-
And on the palace floor a lifeless corse she lay
Ah, judge her gently who so deeply loved!
Her, who, in reason's spite, yet without crime,
Was in a trance of passion thus removed;
Deliver'd from the galling yoke of time,
And these frail elements-to gather flowers
Of blissful quiet 'mid unfading bowers.
Yet tears to human suffering are due;
And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown
Are mourn'd by man, and not by man alone,
As fondly he believes.-Upon the side
Of Hellespont (such faith was entertain'd)
A knot of spiry trees for ages grew

From out the tomb of him for whom she died;
And ever, when such stature they had gain'd
That Ilium's walls were subject to their view,
The trees' tall summits wither'd at the sight;
A constant interchange of growth and blight!

Vox subita exoritur-natum uidet illa Tonantis; nequicquam speciem dextera uana tenet.

hora fugit citius, neque enim sat uisa fuissent
sæcula: non ulli iam revocandus abit.
protinus e foribus tacitus uestigia uertit,
et peragit nostri nescia regna die.

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nam nemus (antiquæ si fas est credere famæ) Hellespontiacas prospiciebat aquas,

Illius et tumulo longis uoluentibus annis
culmina tollebant cuius amore perit;
at simul ac foliis surrexit silua superbis
despexitque procul Pergama uerticibus,

protinus, en mirum! demissa cacumina marcent:
alternis uicibus uitaque morsque redit.

R. T. RICHARDSON.

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EXTRACT FROM ROBERT HALL'S SERMON

ON

WAR WITH NAPOLEON.

In other wars we have been a divided people: the effect of our external operations has been in some measure weakened by intestine dissension. When peace has returned, the breach has widened, while parties have been formed on the merits of particular men, or of particular measures. The sentiment of self-preservation, the first law which nature has impressed, has absorbed every other feeling; and the fire of liberty has melted down the discordant sentiments and minds of the British Empire into one mass, and propelled them in one direction. While we feel solicitude, let us not betray dejection, nor be alarmed at the past successes of our enemy, which are more dangerous to himself than to us, since they have raised him from obscurity to an elevation which has made him giddy, and tempted him to suppose everything within his power.