this kind, of a man of observation and acuteness, stepping on to his century, beginning the history, as was intended,

"

even from his boyish days

"To the very moment he was bid to write it,"

might have exhibited an instance of what a mind uncontaminated by the vices of society, a body braced by regular exercise, and kept in tone by invariable temperance, is capable. And had it not been for the intervention of an attack, violent and sudden, rather than of any lin、 gering disease, the effect of a decayed constitution, this example of the 66 sana mens in corpore sano" might have been given to the living world, and to posterity, by a man of genius and virtue, in the avNBREDTH YEAR of his age.

GLEANER

ORIGINAL

ORIGINAL EXTEMPORANEOUS LINES

TO LAURA PHILLIPS,

AN INFANT.

1

WHAT bard a tribute can refuse
To LAURA, dear to every Muse?
Auspicious Babe! thy classic name
Kindles at once the poet's flame;
Each liquid letter fans the fire,
And animates the glowing lyre.

But, chaste as the descending snows,

And pure as May's scarce budding rose,

And fragrant as the breath of morn

When Flora's sweets the spring adorn,
Should the unsullied incense be,

To form a wreath, sweet maid, for thee!

What though, fond Petrarch, thy warm lay

Was ardent as the summer ray,

And gentle as the zephyr's sigh

Breath'd from thy own Italian sky;

What tho' these deck'd tTHY Laura's shrine,
Blest innocent! they suit not Thine.

For no unhallow'd, troublous thought
From the mad world's infection caught,

No

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No passion, foe to peace and rest,
Has yet disturb'd that spotless breast;
And other strains to thee belong

Than ill-starr'd Love's tumultuous song.

O if a Petrarch sighs for thee,
And thou of magic poesy

Confess the charm, and yield to love,
May Honour still the flame approve!

*

May thy Vaucluse be Virtue's vale,

Where Health and Heaven embalm the gale!

And purer far than Sorgue's † the wave
That shall that peaceful valley lave :
Here let an altar, rcar'd to Truth,
Burn for sweet Laura and the Youth,
Blameless, yet bright as Vestal fire,
And never in her heart expire!

* Near Avignon-celebrated by Petrarch.

S. J. PRATT.

The river Sorgue-often mentioned by the poet.
Alluding to the altar raised by Petrarch to Laura.

SYM

SYMPATHY,

POEM:

WITH

NOTES AND ILLUSTRATION S.

[REVISED FROM THE EIGHTH EDITION.]

INTRODUCTION.

THE Reader is requested to consider the following Poem as a SKETCH, and only a sketch, of the Sympathetic Principle, or Social Principle, applied first to the Author's particular situation, and thence extended more generally as influencing the whole animal creation.

Upon visiting the villa of a friend, and finding it deserted by a family extremely dear to the Author, he experienced precisely the sensations he has endeavoured to describe. It was natural for him to pass beyond his own case, and contemplate that of others under similar circumstances. The fairest productions of animated nature were before him. They occupied the same spot. He was in the midst of them. His heart dilated. If, as scems to be admitted, a virtuous enthusiasm be necessary to the proper enjoyment of such scenery, the Critic of Nature will hardly know how to be offended, though he should find that enough of this has stolen into the subject to occasion effusions, which, if closely examined when the mind is cold, may be not altogether in strict connection.

It were easy to have thrown out some sentiments not quite in keeping with the theme; but, zealous to prove the powers of Universal Sympathy, the writer felt the solicitudes of a Philanthropist united with those of an Author. Of course, what had any chance of cementing the social affections was too precious to be omitted,

The success which has attended the work in various forms of publication, is truly gratifying to the author,