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When fancy, whose creative power

Can give to trees a tongue, And furnish from their mystick lore "A sermon or a song,"

Employing all her magick here,
Gave language to an oak;
Which, thus admonishing my ear,
Intelligibly spoke-

Vain mortal! wherefore dost thou come,
My nakedness see?

Why leave a comfortable home,
To moralize on me?

All rifled as I am and torn;

To taunt me com'st thou here?

Or dost thou come, with me to mourn
The exit of the year?

Whate'er thy motive, mortal, take
Instruction from a tree,
And condescend for once to make
Comparison with me.

If honour, joined to length of days,
Thou fondly wouldst obtain,
Behold an object that portrays

At once; and proves them vain!

For monarch of the woods am I,
The mightiest of my name;
A monarch, not by courtesy,
But by a prouder claim.

Two centuries round their circles rolled,
Ere I attained my prime;
Another, ere I waxed old,

Was registered by Time.

Surviving still, though wounded strong,
I brave the wintery blast;

And many a man in years now young,
Will not behold my last.

Yet he whose all destroying stroke
Lays men and forests low,
Will level me!-No more it spoke,
But ended with a bow.

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bers;

The sea-bird had flown to her wave girdled nest,

The fisherman sunk to his slumbers: One moment I looked from the hill's gentle slope,

(All hushed was the billow's commo. tion)

And thought that the beacon looked lovely as hope,

That star of life's tremulous ocean. The time is long past and the scene is afar; Yet, when my head rests on its pillow, Will memory sometimes rekindle the star That blazed on the breast of the billow, In life's closing hour, when the trembling soul flies,

And death stills the heart's last emo.

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barked in the expedition, a very general solicitude was directed towards the uncertain fate of the two frigates; and it must ever remain as an honourable trait in the character of the national assembly of 1791, that, in the heat and ferment of a great change then operating on men's minds, and amidst concerns of the highest importance, they found time and inclination to pay so much deference to the publick feeling and to private distress, as to adopt the only means which could afford the least chance of gratifying the one, and relieving the other. It not only passed a resolution to petition the king to order all his ministers, consuls, and agents, residing in different countries, to induce, by suitable rewards, all navigators, and particularly those proceeding to the South Šeas, to make every possible inquiry for La Boussole and L'Astrolabe, but also to request that his majesty would give directions for the immediate equipment of one or two vessels, for the double purpose of ascertaining, if possible, the fate of La Pérouse, and of extending the knowledge of geography, of the arts, sciences, and commerce. Accord

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