Now they chat of various things,
Of taxes, ministers, and kings,
Or else tell all the village news,
How madam did the 'squire refuse;
How parson on his tythes was bent,
And landlord oft distrain'd for rent.
Thus do they talk, till in the sky
The pale-ey'd moon is mounted high,
And from the alehouse drunken Ned
Had reel'd-then hasten all to bed.
The mistress sees that lazy Kate
The happing coal on kitchen grate
Has laid-while master goes throughout,
Sees shutters fast, the mastiff out,
The candles safe, the hearths all clear,
And nought from thieves or fire to fear;
Then both to bed together creep,
And join the general troop of sleep.

[From Campbell's Gertrude of Wyoming.]

I.

N Susquehana's side, fair Wyoming,
Although the wild flower on thy ruin'd wall
And roofless homes a sad remembrance bring
Of what thy gentle people did befall,

Yet thou wert once the loveliest land of all
That see the Atlantic wave their morn restore.
Sweet land! may I thy lost delights recall,
And paint thy Gertrude in her bowers of yore,
Whose beauty was the love of Pensylvania's shore!

II.

It was beneath thy skies that, but to prune
His Autumn fruits, or skim the light canoe,
Perchance along thy river calm at noon,
The happy shepherd swain had nought to do
From morn till evening's sweeter pastime grew;
Their timbrel, in the dance of forests brown
When lovely maidens prankt in flowret new,
way down
And aye, those sunny mountains half
Would echo flagelet from some romantic town.

Then,

III.

Then, where of Indian hills the daylight takes
His leave, how might you the flamingo see
Disporting like a meteor on the lakes-
And playful squirrel on his nut-grown tree:
And every sound of life was full of glee,

From merry mock-bird's song, or hum of men,
While heark'uing, fearing nought their revelry,
The wild deer arch'd his neck from glades, and then,
Unhunted, sought his woods and wilderness again.

IV

And scarce had Wyoming of war or crime
Heard but in transatlantic story rung,
For here the exile met from ev'ry clime,
And spoke in friendship ev'ry distant tongue;
Men from the blood of warring Europe sprung,
Were but divided by the running brook;
And happy where no Rhenish trumpet sung,
On plains no sieging mine's volcano shook,

The blue-ey'd German chang'd his sword to pruning-hook.

V.

Nor far some Andalusian saraband

Would sound to many a native rondelay.
But who is he that yet a dearer land

Remembers, over hills and far away?

Green Albyn!* what though he no more survey

Thy ships at anchor on the quiet shore,

Thy pellochs rolling from the mountain bay;

Thy lone sepulchral cairn upon the moor,

And distant isles that hear the loud Corbrechtan roar!+

VI.

Alas! poor Caledonia's mountaineer,

That want's stern edict e'er, and feudal grief,
Had forced him from a home he lov'd so dear!
Yet found he here a home, and glad relief,
And ply'd the bev'rage from his own fair sheaf,
That fir'd his Highland blood with mickle glec;
And England sent her men, of men the chief,
Who taught those sires of Empire yet to be,

To plant the tree of life; to plant fair freedom's tree!

* Scotland.

The great whirlpool of the Western Hebrides.

Here

VII.

Here was not mingled in the city's pomp
Of life's extremes the grandeur and the gloom;
Judgment awoke not here her dismal tromp,
Nor seal'd in blood a fellow-creature's doom,
Nor mourn'd the captive in a living tomb.
One venerable man, beloved of all,

Sufficed where innocence was yet in bloom,
To sway the strife, that seldom might befall,
And Albert was their judge in patriarchal hall.

ACCOUNT

ACCOUNT OF BOOKS

FOR 1809.

The literary labours of Hum. boldt and Bompland, the fruits of their long-continued, variegated, and perilous travels in the Spanish colonies of America, are divided into six parts; each of these parts being subdivided into a number of volumes, and these again into livraisons (deliveries), one of which is presented to the public from time to time, according to the progress made in the hole work. Each of these volumes, which may be considered as distinct works, is sold separately, and with a particular title. This is very judicious.

pher. He wished earnestly to join the expedition that had set out to Egypt, from whence he hoped to penetrate into Arabia, and crossing the Gulph of Persia, to reach the English settlements in India. But the situation of France, after the battle of the Nile, became every day more and more critical. The Barbary powers, according to their custom, made war on the defeated party, and the navigation of the Mediterranean, for French vessels, was extremely dangerous. Humboldt staid two months at Marseilles, where he hoped to obtain a passage on board a Swedish frigate, with a consul from Sweden to Algiers. His patience being worn out, he went to Spain, in the hopes of finding a ready pas sage to Barbary from thence. He carried with him astronomical instruments, and an apparatus for the cultivation of experimental philosophy, which he had purchased on Measurements from the 10th ed in England.

But a more extensive prospect was now opened to him. After residing some months, he obtain. ed from the court of Spain, in the most liberal and flattering manner, permission to visit her colonies in the New World. He immediately called from Paris his friend Bom. pland, whose profound knowledge in botany and zoology were equalled only by his zeal to ad. vance, without ceasing, in the way of new discovery. The two voy. agers, without losing a moment's time, went on board a Spanish vessel at Corunna, and after touch. ing at the Canary Isles, where they climbed the pique of Teydé to see its crater, pursuing their voyage, arrived, in the month of July, at Cumana, in South America.

The first part contains general physics and an historical account of the voyage; comprised in five vols. 4to. with two atlases. The first volume is intitled "An Essay on the Geography of Plants, accompanied with a Physical Table of the Equinoctial Regions; found

. Degree of North, to the 10th Degree of South Latitude: forming an Introduction to the whole Work." This volume has been published, as also those relating to the history of the voyage.

The second part is taken up with "Comparative Zoology and Anatomy." Published.

The third part is "A Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Mexico; in one vol. 4to. with an Atlas in folio." Published.

The fourth part, "Astronomy and Magnetism; three vols. 4to." Published.

The fifth part is intitled "An Essay on Geological Pasigraphy, (General and Physical Geography) one vol. 4to." In the press. The sixth part is taken up with botany. In the press.

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