love, As e'er was fatten'd in a poult'rer's coop. Your verse the merit of the Dove dis. plays; The compliments I pay my bird are few; Yet, 'tis, methinks, no niggard share of praise, To say how strongly he resembles ELIZA. you. BATTLE OF ASPERN. ON the banks of the Danube, as slow ly descending, Came night with her ebony shield, The contest of warriors most happily ending, And hiding the gore of the field,When the clashing of arms was no more to be heard And the soldier fatigu'd with his toil For the life that was saved, his rude authem preferr'd, Or slept on his ill gotten spoil; Came a damsel, that morning who rose to delight. That morn bid her lover adieu, As she braced on his helm for the ter rible fight, And swore to be constant and tree. But vain was her vow. For the rude band of war Had parted the youth and the maid, Whose beauty thus reminds me of And vain was her search, as she sought my own. I cannot prove my gratitude too soon, For such a mark of tenderness conferr'd; him Jafar, Mid the havock the battle had made. She sought him in vain; for the wreek of the day. Had marr'd ev'ry warrior's form; All blacken'd and riven, and blasted they lay, Like trees 'neath the pitiless storm. Now wild as her ringlets flow'd loose in the air, She call'd on the youth whom she lov'd ; So frantic her grief, and so sad her despair, No tiger had heard her unmov'd. Terror strikes on every heart, GOD OF MERCY, it is o'er! Ye I hear the shriek of death, 'Tis the Demon's parting blast, Howling o'er the dreary heath; Heav'n be prais'd! the mischief's past Type of that ETERNAL MORN, When this poor and fragile world, On the flaming whirlwind borne, Will in endless gulphs be hurl'd. "Ah! wherefore my love could you Checks, Cards, Handbills leave me alone, Thomas H. 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Dulilot promised every thing; his courage was roused by the generosity of his friend, whose firmness seemed to have communicated itself to his heart: the resolution was taken:-Debar fortifi he had just manifested a moment before: Nervalle appeared, at the sight of her completely disconcerted him. 'How delighted I am to see you again!' cried she to Bulilot, accompanying this sweet. exclamation with an enchanting smile and with that seducing look, the power of which she had so often experienced over the too feeble Dulilot, grant me a moment's conversation in this closet.' She ed it anew with every thing that opened the door of it at the same time, and was followed thither by Dulilot, who sighed, looking at his friend. The latter would have recalled him, but in vain. might render it immoveable; he saw in Dulilot's air, an assurance of the sincerity of his promises; satisfied with his exertions, and daring to hope from them the wished for success; he left the room with him. Nervalle's apartment was higher than theirs, they ascended to it, and knocked: it was supper time; a tall young man, with a handsome countenance, came and opened the door: Dulilot's heart was moved on approaching the place where his mistressed Debar: No, madam, I withwas: a confused agitation made him hesitate. Come in then,' said Debar, and remember your promises, and the conduct that you must adhere to, or else I give you up.' Dulilot's tottering steps no longer answered the resolution that Debar waited with impatience the end of this private interview: at last it concluded; the fatal door opened; Dulot appeared, with his eyes still quite swelled by the tears that he had just shed. These gentlemen will do us the honor to sup with us,' said she, looking at the young chevalier.-I,' answer draw, and to-morrow morning early I set off post for Paris, I see too plainly that my presence here is useless. Adieu!' In saying these words, he went away. Dulilot followed him in hopes of bringing him back, by communicating to vice. He exposed to him more strongly still, into what difficulties he would fall, if he did not tear himself from this perfidious woman "Ah! my friend,' cried Dulilot, 'you are going to tax me again with folly and credulity, but you do not know her yet; at the moment in which I am apeaking to you she is labouring hard to procure me a place of commissary in the war department; I have seen the letters which she has written for that purpose, it is in this manner that she wishes to indemnify me for the disbursements which I have made for her.' Debar could with difficulty curb his impatience, this last trait animat him his illusion. 'Ah! What do you mean?' answered Debar; must I remain to be a witness of your new follics?' 'Ah! my friend,you are ignorant of the truth: the young man who accompanies her is her husband; I know the motive of all her proceedings, which have incurred from you so much blame. She is innocent, as I always thought; and, No,' said Debar, I can listen to you no more, all that I can promise you, is to delay my departure till to-morrow at noon; you will have time to execute between this and then, what you had promised me to-day--and if your resolution is not more effectual, I set off, and nothing shall detain me.' But, mying him again, he continued the friend, I cannot avoid going to sup with her; a refusal on my part, after the invitation which gave me before her husband, might appear strange to him.' 'Go,' said Debar, for my part I rem she alone, but think of setting off to-morrow morning with me,-or of renouncing my friendship forever.' The forenoon of the next day was employed, by Debar, in exhorting his friend as warmly as the preceding evening; the question was come to a positive decision; Debar wished to set off; and after having fulfilled all the duties of the most affectionate friend, he was at the point of abandoning Dulilot to all the misfortunes of his passion if he did not seriously comply with his wise ad representations which it was proper to make to the feeble Dulilot, but not seeing him as decided as he wished, he sent for his postchaise and prepared to quit him. The approach of the departure of his friend, however, agitated Dulilot, the sentiment of all that he owed him operated on his mind, friendship and gratitude were not wholly extinguished in his heart, he saw all that he was going to lose, Debar perceived him hesitate and give way, he wished to take advantage of the first impression. and prevailed on him to take the step which he had recommended him the evening before. Dulilot promised, and went to execute it, but his courage forsook him at the very moment. Debar then feeling that it was the persons embarked in this passage-boat, Debar remarked an officer clothed in a uniform similar to that of the chevalier Duval, better to content himself with what he might obtain than to require all, dreading beside the dangers of a fresh interview. renounced his first ideas, and confined him-Struck by the idea that this sight stepp young man much about your size, with a pleasant countenance, he has fine light hair, a soft voice, an agreeable look, but the most unpolished manner.' 'No, sir, that chevalier does not belong to our corps. But, surely, you know him, his wife went to see him in Corsica, a few months ago. Ah! I see now whom you mean; the title of chevalier had deceived me; does not she whom you call his wife, go by the name of Nervalle?' self to deciding Dulilot to depart. awakened in him, he interrogated the officer. 'Are you not, sir, of He kept up, by his remonstrances, the ferment in which his friend the regiment of Bourbonnois? 'Yes 'You come was, and contriving to wrest from sir,' said the officer. him a sullen consent, he flew to then from Corsica, I presume?' bring his niece, whom Nervalle I am just arrived thence.'-You resigned without much difficulty, must know the chevalier Duval, since Dulilot, ruined, could no he belongs to your regiment.' 'No, longer be useful to her, and stepp- sir, I am not at all acquainted with ing with them into the post-chaise,him,' "That is singular, he is a took them to Dijou, in order to place the niece in a convent, and thence pursue his journey to Paris, where he reckoned to procure Dulilot resources which he could not hope to find for him at Lyons. Debar's own affairs also called him thither, and his money began to get low. At Auxerre they took the passage boat, here Dulilot was in such a situation as may be imagined, melancholly, thoughtful, seeing nothing of what was passing around him, lost in his own ideas, still in love, and persuaded of the honor of his mistress, accusing her of none of his misfortune, which he imputed to his own evil destiny, and cursing his fate in adoring Nervalle. Debar congratulated himself, however, on having removed him from so dangerous an object, and hoped that time and absence would alleviate his afflictions, and cure his folly, he exerted his attention to divert and enliven him. Among Exactly so. But I did not think that, when she was with him, she went by that name.'--It seems to me that you are well acquainted with her.. Vastly well; and this is her character, if you wish to know it. Nervalle is a pretty Paris girl, who understood her trade very well; she fell seriously in love with an adventurer in a small way, who after having enjoyed her favours at a cheaper rate than any other man, having grown tired of her, and having no resource, en |