As flows the am'rous tide, the fair attend, EE, first, enchanting El.... n1 appears; More quick than light, more soft than zephyr's airs: O love! the shape a single gown betrays! Her radiant eyes diversify the scene, And where she dips, appears a brighter green. Like her attir'd, and led within her hand, See, next advance, with every smiling grace, Nigh her a female with a graceful air, How shall I next describe the younger C..r ?5 1 Ellison. 2 Jurdison. 3 Carr. 4 Ogle. 5 Carr. Genteel and graceful are her shape and mien, With native charms and unaffected ease, The blooming H......y's1 are form'd to please— Next M....... n,2 all blooming, fair, and young, Charming as her, but with a nobler mien, The elder H.... l's4 charms, O muse, survey, Her lovely sister mixes in the scene, Nor shall, amidst the bright, the gay, the young, As Marcia fair, her soul, like her, she decks 1 Hollidays. 2 Middleton. 3 Andrews. 4 Henzel's. 5 Appleby. When beauty palls and fades upon the sight, Nor here, in silence, can the muse pass by She, next a nymph, in whom all beauties meet, h's1 eye. See Cr. w3 steps forward to the sight, and forms In H. . . . . m,1 beauty every charm displays, H go n3 appears; ye swains be wise and fly, Not with more glory Phoebus darts his ray, 1 Goldsbrough. 2 Noble. 3 Crow. 4 Headlam. 5 Hodgshon. VOL. III. 6 Anderson. Her face expressive of a sprightly joy, And love lies bathing in her melting eye. The beauteous W.. ds1 demands the sweetest lay, In E...... n2 all gay attractions meet, But see, succeeding charms attract the sight, With easy majesty around her live, And give all joys a human form can give. New beauties strike the view !-but cease my strain, Too much, if this attempt your censure move. No more shall Scarborough vaunt her shining Belles, No more shall Bath without a rival reign, St. James's boasts not of a brighter court. 1 Wards. 2 Emmerson. 3 Punchon's. A Chase on the Banks of the Tyne. RANK Pickering, an unhappy fugitive, had been committed to Hexham House of Correction for some offence against the Poor Laws. Several weeks of his imprisonment had elapsed, but a few were yet unexpired. John Macpherson the keeper, sometimes indulged his prisoners by employing them to carry in coals from the door,-a task no doubt esteemed a favour by the poor prisoners, whatever were its intent. On the 23rd of July, 1840, Pickering had performed such a service; and the work being finished, he instantly ran off to TyneGreen. Tom Jeffer was at his usual post, the corner of the Green; who having been often in prison himself, and only liberated from Pickering's quarters at the preceding sessions, was inclined rather to aid than arrest the fugitive. Tom's advice was to take the water, which, from the late rains, was rather muddy and swollen. Frank seemed to hesitate, but not to stop. He first made towards the Spital lodge; but Macpherson and his dog were out, and he was obliged to turn. The fugitive then crossed the Green-passed the mill-dam by the sluice at its higher extremity-took the main water a little below. the spot where a fragment of the old bridge has since 1771, marked the rise and fall of the water, as it becomes visible or disappears. There was now only one course, and no time to lose: he therefore tried to ford the river where a penning had been made across its bed--and though much exhausted by running, for a time kept his feet. But a breach in the penning presented a chasm which no man could either leap or ford. Many eyes were upon him when he made the desperate attempt; and soon he was seen heels uppermost in the water. was only visible for an instant, a little lower down the stream-and three poplar trees on the opposite side point out the spot where Frank Pickering met his fate. His mother kept a small inn at Bardonmill; and two or three men came in from the west, and made search for him next day. An ill-founded opinion was entertained by some, that he had got out on the other side; and little seems to have been attempted the day following. But on Sunday morning, Richard Muse, a tanner-a man who had often given aid, on trying occasions, succeeded, with some assistance, in recovering the body, near the Hermitge, a little below the place where he was drowned. removed to Tyne mills. He It was J. R. |