Yet scorns the immortal mind this base control! And in a flash from earth to heaven it goes! Or, in sweet converse, pass the joyous hours. And, in its watches, wearies every star! Marco Bozzaris.-F. G. HALLECK. [He fell in an attack upon the Turkish camp at Laspi, the site of the ancient Platæa, August 20, 1823, and expired in the moment of victory. His last words were" To die for liberty is a pleasure, and not a pain."] Ar midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour In dreams, through camp and court, he bore In dreams, his song of triumph heard; Then pressed that monarch's throne,-a king; As Eden's garden bird. An hour passed on-the Turk awoke; He woke to hear his sentry's shriek, "To arms! they come: the Greek! the Greek!" And death-shots falling thick and fast "Strike-till the last armed foe expires, They fought, like brave men, long and well, They piled that ground with Moslem slain, They conquered-but Bozzaris fell, Bleeding at every vein. His few surviving comrades saw Then saw in death his eyelids close Like flowers at set of sun. Come to the bridal chamber, Death! Which close the pestilence are broke, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, We tell thy doom without a sigh; Weehawken.-F. G. HALLECK. WEEHAWKEN! in thy mountain scenery yet, And never has a summer's morning smiled Amid thy forest solitudes, he climbs O'er crags that proudly tower above the deep, Like the death-music of his coming doom, And clings to the green turf with desperate force, As the heart clings to life; and when resume The currents in his veins their wonted course, There lingers a deep feeling, like the moan Of wearied ocean, when the storm is gone. In such an hour, he turns, and on his view, Ocean, and earth, and heaven, burst before himClouds slumbering at his feet, and the clear blue Of summer's sky, in beauty bending o'er him Tall spire, and glittering roof, and battlement, And white sails o'er the calm blue waters bent, And many a scene forgot, the heart will hold Its memory of this; nor lives there one, Whose infant breath was drawn, or boyhood days Of happiness were passed beneath that sun, That in his manhood prime can calmly gaze Upon that bay, or on that mountain stand, Nor feel the prouder of his native land. On laying the Corner Stone of the Bunker Hill Monu ment.-PIERPONT. O, is not this a holy spot? 'Tis the high place of Freedom's birth! God of our fathers! is it not The holiest spot of all the earth? Quenched is thy flame on Horeb's side; No more on Zion's mournful brow. But on this hill thou, Lord, hast dwelt, Here sleeps their dust: 'tis holy ground: Free as the winds around us blow, Free as the waves below us spread, But on their deeds no shade shall fall, Thine ear was bowed to hear their call, And thy right hand shall guard their fame. Rousseau and Cowper.-CARLOS WILCOX. ROUSSEAU could weep; yes, with a heart of stone, The pure and peaceful lake, and muse alone On its small running waves, in purple dyed, On the white sails that o'er its bosom glide, But his were not the tears of feeling fine Of wasting fire, chills with the icy snow Was he but justly wretched from his crimes? Lifts the pure heart through clouds, that roll between Or wherefore did those clouds thus intervene To render vain faith's lifted telescope, And leave him in thick gloom his weary way to grope? He, too, could give himself to musing deep; Or, through the still and dewy atmosphere, The pipe's soft tones, waked by some gentle hand, From fronting shore and woody island near In echoes quick returned more mellow and more clear. And he could cherish wild and mournful dreams, Stretching the shades of trunks erect and bare, As of some temple vast or colonnade, While on green turf, made smooth without his care, He wandered o'er its stripes of light and shade, And heard the dying day-breeze all the boughs pervad |