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WESTMINSTER ABBEY. FROM THE NEW EDITION OF MISS MIT.

FORD'S POEMS, NOW IN THE PRESS.

WHERE all that strikes th' admiring eye,
Breathes beauty and sublimity;
Where the cool air and tranquil light,
The world-worn heart to peace invite ;
Whence comes this sadness, pure and holy,
This calm resistless melancholy,
This hallow'd fear, this awe-struck feeling?
Comes it from yonder organ pealing?
From low chaunt stealing up the aisle?
From closed gate echoing through the pile?
From storied windows glancing high?
From bannerets of chivalry?
Or from yon holy chapel seen
Dimly athwart the Gothic screen?
No, 'tis the stranger's solemn tread,
Resounding o'er the mighty dead!
He came to see thy wond'rous state,
The wise, the beautiful, the great,
Thy glories, empress of the wave,
He came to see,-and found a grave,
But such a grave as never yet
To statesman paid a people's debt;
In battle strife the hero's sigh

Is breathed for thee or victory;

And bards immortal find in thee
A second immortality.

He who first raised from Gothic gloom
Our tongue, here Chaucer finds a tomb;
Here gentle Spenser, foulest stain

Of his own Gloriana's reign!

And he who mocked at art's controul,
The mighty master of the soul;

Shakespeare, our Shakespeare!by his side,
The man who poured his mighty tide;
MONTHLY MAG. No. 214.

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Garrick's voice and Shakespeare's
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Here Milton's heaven-strung lyre reposes!
Here Dryden's meteor brilliance closes!
Here Newton lies and with him lie
The thousand glories of our sky;
Stars, numerous as the host of heaven,
And radiant as the flashing levin!
Lo, Chatham! the immortal name,
Graven in the patriot's heart of flame!
Here, his long course of honours run,
The mighty father's mighty son:
And here-Ah, wipe that falling tear!
Last, best, and greatest, Fox lies here.
Here sleep they all: on the wide earth
There dwell not men of mortal birth,
With those who fill this little space.
Would dare contest fame's glorious race,
O, could some wizard spell revive
The buried dead, and bid them live,
It were a sight to charm dull age,
The infant's roving eye engage,
The wounded heal, the deaf man cure,
The widow from her tears allure,
And moping ideots tell the story,
Of England's bliss and England's glory,
And they do live! Our Shakespeare's
strains

Die not whilst English tongue remains;
Whilst light and colours rise and fly,
Lives Newton's deathless memory:
Whilst Freedom warms one English breast,
There Fox's honored name shall rest.
Yes, they do live!-they live t' inspire
Fame's daring sons with hallowed fire;
Like sparks from heaven they make the
blaze,

The living light of genius' rays;

Bid England's glories flash across the gloom, And catch her heroes' spirit from their tomb,

SUN-SET.

BY MISS MITFORD,

FROM THE SAME.

THE clouds disperse,-just glancing bright,
The sun sends forth his shrouded light;
'Tis pleasant on th' horizon's verge,
To see the clouded beams immerge,

Which strove all day 'twixt frown and smile,
Like the coy beauty's simple wile,

Who seeks to fix her lover's eye,
By thy strong spell, variety!

It clears!-we'll rest upon the bridge,
And mark yon purple western ridge,
Where the dividing clouds unfold
Long narrow streaks of burnished gold;
Now seen amid the clustering trees,
Like flaming sparka borne on the breeze
Now tipping every verdant elm
With radiant light, like warrior's helm
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Now

Now higher mount the clouds, and higher,
Bursts on the eye that orb of fire!
Lighting the landscape's fair expanse,
Wide, far, the brilliant sun beams dance.
Now on the unruffled lakelet playing,
Now on the winding streamlet straying,
Gilding fair cot and white-washed farm,
Awakening every sleeping charm,
Chacing the dark sky's vapoury sorrow,
And promising a glorious morrow.
How beautiful the sight!-the eye
Shrinks from its dazzling majesty
To rest upon the rosy cloud
Which overhangs its lustre proud,
Catching the pure refulgent rays,
But softening their excessive blaze;
Refreshed, the charmed eye returns
Where that bright orb of glory burns;
Suspended for a moment's space,

He seems to check th' etherial race,
Then sinks beneath the horizon's bound,
With added speed to run his round-
So sinks the hero's soul to rest,
To rise more bright amid the blest!

He speeds upon the viewless wind;
The track of light remains behind,
And golden tint and rosy blush
Wide circling mix in brilliant flush;
Reflected in the stream below,
How lovely the bright colors glow,
Fring'd in by trees that shake and quiver
On the clear margin of the river,
That, downward growing, seem to spread,
And proudly wave th' inverted head!
There, bending o'er the light rail, sleep
Our watery shadows dark and deep;
There, too, my playful favorite bends,
And o'er the stream her head extends,
Graceful inclines the long arched neck,
With haughty wave and sportive beck:

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Then, starting back, erects her ear,
And sees deep in the water clear
Another jetty greyhound rise,
With long arched neck and sparkling eyes;
Advance, recede, stoop down, or fly,
With apt and faithful mimicry,
Pursuing still her every motion,
Baffling her every simple notion,
Till with slow step, and frequent pause,
Maria from the bridge withdraws.

'Tis sweet to linger here, and view
The fading landscape's twilight hue;
To mark how Nature owns the hour,
That calls to sleep's refreshing bower.
All hasten to their home:-the lamb
Meekly pursues its mild-eyed dam;
The plover, with loud flapping wing
And shrilly scream, is hovering;
The peasant, his day's labor o'er,

Sits idly at his cottage door;

And plough-boys swing on farm-yard gate,

And laugh and joke with heart elate;

'Whilst cackling geese quick fluttering come,
And whirring chaffers loudly hum.
O, Nature has no voice, no tone,
Howe'er discordant when alone,
But breathing her glad spirit free,
Bursts forth in general harmony!
The sheep-bell low, the screaming bird,
The loud rude jest, the lowing herd,
The insect whir,-who'd wish to cease,
Music of nature, joy, and peace!

But they are hushed.-the sky grows pale,
The purple clouds no longer sail,
The gathering shades the valley fill,
The lowering mists obscure the hill,
The evening dew is rising fast,
And evening's loveliest hour is past.

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abreast of each other, he places two strong beams, which he calls depressers, across the three vessels, which beams may be placed twelve or fifteen feet asunder; but equidistant from stem to stern of the boat. The loaded vessel has fixed in a strong keeison, two powerful screws, and higher as to length than her gunwales the beams, or depressers, having holes bored in the centre of them, receive the heads of the two screws; two capstans, with bars being fixed in the head of each screw, the vessel which is loaded, becomes by the action of these elevated screws gradually raised, while two beams are laid across the vessel and lightners, so that, by raising the loaded vessel, and depressing the lightners at the same time, the weight is divided on the three. When the shoals and dith culties in a river are so great in places that the lightners cannot enable the loaded vessel to pass, then he uses a number of water-troughs, called moveable weirs, of which the first is fixed with a kedge anchor on the opposite side of the river, when the vessel is to pass the shoal; and by attaching a number of these moveable weirs to each other, in a diagonal position, and by placing a tarpauling along them to prevent the escape of the water, he sinks the said weirs by weights in the river, by which means he directs the current of the river into so narrow a channel, that the increase of water will so deepen the shoal, that the vessel and apparatus will be enabled to pass the said shoal, and thereby continue her course. When the stream is too narrow for the barge, and lightners both to float, the barge may be buoyed up so as to be clear of the bot tom, when the lightners must be stranded. In this case, two iron wheels are requisite at the ends of the beams, to run in a trough affixed above the gunwales of the trough in the centre, and by securing the cable by anchor, or otherwise, the vessel may, with her windlass, be warped off by degrees.

MR. WINSOR'S, (PALL-MALL), for a fixed Telegraphic Light-house, &c. for Signals and Intelligence, to serve by Night and by Day, &c.

The light-house consists, first, of a plain or hollow mast, either fixed or raised, and lowered at pleasure, according to the local situation. A lauthorn, of a large size, is fastened at top, which may be furnished with lenses, and may be supplied with gas or oil, and the lights

may be multiplied to any number, and arranged in different divisions above each other, so as to leave some visible space between them; for if only one row, or circle of light is given, it might, at a distance, be taken for a star: if only one row, circle, or division, of light is given, a pure gas flame or oil-lamp, should be fixed at a certain height above the lanthorn. In the present light-house, the gas burns in the form of a vane, or weather-cock, shewing the direction and variation of the wind in the darkest nights, which no rain, nor any storm, can extinguish: but the chief utility consists in the application of it for signals and telegraphic dispatches. By Mr. Winsor's invention, one central telegraph may correspond with any number of surrounding ones, by only reserving a distinct signal for preparation for each: whereas the telegraph, now in use, will only serve for one direction, or one point, in the compass, and there must be as many central ones, as there are next surrounding telegraphs.

Another point is, that the telegraphic light-house is made moveable to correspond at different parts of tlic sea-coast, or any where, where no fixed telegraphs are erected; for instance, a vessel at sea in distress fires guns, or makes other sig nals of distress; a moveable telegraph may be brought by a horse and cart, nearest the opposite point, to give sig nals that relief is preparing, and to give directions of any kind to mariners in distress. The inventor says, his telegraph may be of use to armies during battle, by serving to convey orders from the commanding general to any, and the most distaut, corps, whereby time is saved, and a variety of manoeuvres can be executed against the enemy with the greatest celerity. The machine is constructed on the principle of the lazy tongs, which shut up in a cart, and is raised to any length, from thirty to sixty feet, with ease and swiftness: it may follow the general, and become more serviceable than many aide-de-camps.

MR. JOHN DEAKINS, (ST. JOHN STREFT,
SMITHFIELD), for Improvements in the
Kitchen Range.

We cannot well describe the principle of this invention without the aid of figures: the patentee attains his object by carrying the hear of a small fire, in a sort of serpentine direction, to the various parts of his range, and by this means he is enabled to perform every species of

cookery,

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