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How vain the hope, while she remains away,
The Muse will aid her bard's presumptuous lay.
Yet hear, O Spring, nor disregard my strains;

What power withholds thee from those drooping plains?
Ah, I surmise, among the Hesperidés,

Thee lovesome dalliances too fondly please;
Or else thou envious waitst in Hymen's bower
At Zephyrus and Flora's nuptial hour!

And thence you all will round the landscape rove,
Collecting sweetest balsoms from the grove;
Descend the mead, and in a lilly's cup

The brightest dewdrops from the bent grass scoop ;
And cull the choicest flowers and dies more fair,
Than bloom on fairy land, or in the rainbow glare.
But after, soon as Zephyr musks his wing,
You'll hither haste, and fittest patterns bring,
By which to paint our fields, to shape our flowers,
With dews like diamonds drop our meads and bowers,
And them more richly scent with borrowed sweets
Of nectared incense from those blest retreats.
Yes, and you'll wake their newest woodland notes,
To which our minstrels may attune their throats.
But hark, I hear the plover's boding cries,
See from the shores the goldshod troopers rise,
And Zephyr fans the waves with gentle wing;
Welcome, ye harbingers of joy and spring.
Rude winter summons now his boisterous train,
Of storms and frosts, and northward hasts amain ;
Obsequious to the vernal green they bend,
To breezes hush, and in soft dews descend.
So swains, whom casual jealousies incite,
With mutual broils the peaceful village fright;
While yet the contest rages, if by chance

Some blameless beauty tow'rd the scene advance,
Their sudden blush and quick retreat declare
The power of virtue in the vestal fair.
Now is the time Arcadian swains were seen,
All crowned with myrtle wreathes and evergreen,
Sitting devoutly in a rustic row

Within deep groves near streamlets' silver flow,
And hoping there the present god would hear,
Who holds the blast and fructifies the year.
To Pan or Sylvan breathed they uncouth prayer,
And gave their fairest ewes to insure his care.
Then parting, happy with auspicious signs,
They vowed the firstlings of their flocks and vines.
So of mankind the fairest and the best,

Like victims, suffer to redeem the rest.
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Vol. II. No. 4.

Though we those rites forbear, while we secure
Our native taste for nature's beauties pure;
While we enjoy the bounty of her arms,
With rapture due acknowleding her charms,
We breathe the incense, that will mount above,.
Worship, as Israel's shepherd will approve.
Come then, my friends, where rural scenes invite,
Come all, and learn a taste for true delight.
Nature, her stiffening zone of frost unloosed,
Blooms the first fair in all her charms disclosed.
Celia shall come; for her l'll guard with care
The earliest bud my favorite bush may bear;
With her the landscape rove, remembering well
What views and spots in her fair praise excel.
Then lingering by the mirror stream I'll dare
With unchecked rapture gaze my imaged fair ;—
Chide, if a fly, or ruffling breezes screen
Those beauties, elsewise to my peril seen,
Its sedgy marge will yield a pipe to trill
The soft affections, that my bosom thrill
And on the heart as pure impress bestow,
As springbirds' footprints on the newfallen snow.
Then, if her flattering smile approve my lays,
I'll grudge no sprig in Maro's crown of bays.
When the broad sun, as slants his westering team,
Pours on the village spire a crimson gleam,
And Celia's faultering steps would homeward tend,
While I the eve's yet wholesome air commend,
Her parting blush, like Phæbus' setting ray,
Shall speak tomorrow brighter than today.
But, though fair Spring has so inviting drest
The lawns for gambols and the bowers for rest,
And tuned our souls, luxuriously gay,
For idle joyance all each livelong day,
Yet toil alternate shall invade our ease,

And bring us health to make our pastimes please.

LITERARY NOTICES.

MUNROE & FRANCIS have published the first number of Southey's poem of Madoc." It is very beautifully executed. The succeeding numbers are to appear semi-monthly, and will form two octavo volumes. The editors have been judicious in selecting this work for republication. It has been much admired in England, and, if the four first books are to be considered, as a fair specimen of the poem, we think deservedly.

"AN apology for the rite of infant baptism, and for the usual modes of baptizing; in which an attempt is made to state fairly and clearly the argument in proof of these doctrines, and also to refute the objections and reasonings, alledged against them by the Rev, Daniel Merrill, and by the baptists in general. By JOHN REED D.D. pastor of a church and congregation in Bridgewater."

INDEX.

ADAMS

DAMS Hannah an abridgement of the history of New England

review of

Alçaus ode in imitation of, selected

29
95

Anacharsis memoirs of the author of

12, 164, 222

Browne Arthur LL. D. essay on college education

229

Essay on the style of Gibbon from the miscellaneous sketches of

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Drayton John, a view of South Carolina review of

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Gifford William esq. English translation of the satires of Decimus Junius Ju-
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Harris Rev. T. M. tour into the territory northwest of the Alleghany moun-
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Howard Simeon D. D. late pastor of the west church in Boston, remarks on
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Interest of money observations on laws, designed to regulate the

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Johnson Samuel D.D. the first president of King's College in New York, re-
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Michaux Andreas Flora Boreali Americana &c. review of

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Milton's Paradise Lost remarks on

Moschus idyl of .

-Translation of

Onto a letter from N. N. recommending the term

Patronage American poem on

Poets Roman remarks on English translations of

Popkin Rev. John S. sermon on justice, charity, &c. review of
-Sermon on the death of Jabez Kimball A. M. review of
Price Richard Dr. original letters from

Religion the influence of on the fine arts
Rowson Mrs. Susannah abridgement of Geography review of
Rumford Benjamin Count of, original memoirs of

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Spring ode on

ib.

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Student of Harvard University advice to, in a series of letters
Syriac language literary dissertation on

Washington character of

54, 248, 340

329

118

White Daniel A. address to the members of the Merrimack Humane Society
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Willard Joseph D. D. LL. D. late President of Harvard University, monody
on the death of

88

Year fading poem on the

307

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