TO ADELINE. On receiving from her the foregoing Elegy, on the Decease of a beloved Daughter. АH! little thought the subject of thy song, "For incense brings the vivid "words that burn ;" "What though her heart, by sympathetic glow, May feel a pang the selfish never know; "Yet e'en from Sorrow can her polish'd mind, "A pensive pleasure draw by love refin'd; "And when delightful themes her thoughts employ, "Pure is the transport, exquisite the joy. "O henceforth may she muse on such alone, "Partake of other's bliss, and double all her own." G. H. D. * To Oberon, &c.-which had been perused with great delight, especially these two lines; "To hear the minstrelsy of heaven "Float on the breezes of the even." It will be seen that this expression here borrowed, refers to much higher order of beings. THE GAMEKEEPER'S RETURN AT NIGHT. BY S. E. BRYDGES, ESQ. WRITTEN 1802. 1. THRO' the long morning have I toil'd But deeper now the gathering clouds And faint and weary warn my steps 2. And now the driving mist withdraws veil : Her grey and vapoury I mark again the sacred tower 3. Ah now I see the smoke ascend Now my heart beats at every step, Now starting from my blazing hearth And loud with shrill and clamorous joy Their happy sire surround. 4. How sweet when Night first wraps the world To sit beside the crackling fire With weary limbs at rest; And think on all the labours past, That Morn's bright hours employ'd, 5. The wild and fearful distant scene, Seem now in Memory's mellowing eye To wear a softer form; And while my wand'rings I describe, 6. Then soft enchanting slumbers calm, And on my humble bed I sink To most profound repose; Save, that by fits, the scenes of day, And, touch'd by Fancy's magic wand, MARCH, 1802. ODE TO THE VENUS URANIA. To heights where Fancy ne'er aspir'd, Not she for whom Cythera's bowers, Thee rather modest Nymph! I greet, Still Goddess thy permitted view Within us dwell those forms divine, Which thy sole image can impart; We rear to thee no marble shrine, Whose living temple is-the heart! ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, OXON. T. P. INSCRIPTION ON A MURAL TABLET, IN THE Chapel of Holyrood-housé, Edinburgh. SACRED to the Memory of HENRIETTA ELIZABETH HAY, DAUGHTER OF THE REVEREND GEORGE HAY DRUMMOND, SON OF ROBERT, ARCHBISHOP OF YORK; Who departed this Life, November 28, 1802, in the Sixteenth Year of her Age. Too pure and perfect still to linger here, And pour'd her spirit forth upon his breast. He bends not o'er the mansion of the dead, G. H. D. |