Brisk sprightly warmth, a nymph divine,
Flam'd in the radiance of each artless line.
Amelia's harrowing tale lay yet untold,
Ripe in design, and in pure judgment bold :
Domestic love there breathes his tender soul,
And anxious nature trembles o'er the whole.

In thy bright sky another planet † shone,
With joy-imparting vigour, all his own;
The scenes of life his ready hand
Bade in sweet succession stand,

And left their checquer'd chances to the eye:
Satire stood blinking nigh,

And while he strove to mend the loaded crew, Dash'd with malignant gall the liveliest hue. His fabling fancy too, fantastic arm'd Stout Chivalry's enthusiast, grizzly chief! Erst wont to urge the plough, with porter warm'd, Or deal with falchion dread deep gash to bleeding beef.

See his Launcelot Greaves, a most admirable comic performance. The following lines allude to incidents in the romance, which the reader will not regret to be referred to.

How alter'd soon; in steel 'ycased,
With mettlesome trot he paced
The sober charger, while behind

His gallant 'squire the luncheon'd bag assaulted;
And tilting tournaments of wind,

O'er some unlucky oak's o'erhanging branches vaulted. The maniac marine their well-earn'd honours saw, Right envious of the murd'rous field;

And buckling helm around his sturdy jaw, Couch'd his clastic pole, and rung his brazen shield.

Another Quixote * join'd the madding row,
Lad of th' uplifted eye, and willing spirit ;
Replete with methodistic merit,

He soft commands the saintly bosom glow;
Fresh from the rustic bench, behold he mounts
The pulpit-thrones of Whitefield's, Wesley's,

courts,

And midst his strugglings dire, thou Goddess, spy, O'erflowing sanctity illume his eye!

Again resum'd the hobbling rhime,
Thou rose o'er Envy and old Time,

The Spiritual Quixote.

And breath'd, with loose poetic pride,
Thy influence o'er the pleasing guide.*

Grey-tressed Age shook hands with rose-cheek'd
Mirth,

And antic Humour, on the smoaky hearth,
Pourtray'd the courtly tricks of dance and ball;
Meanwhile the cottage seem'd a new Vauxhall.

The dormant feelings too 'gan weave

Their choicest web in Goldsmith's simple tale; What time he sought with nat'ral hand to save The Vicar mild from Wakefield's silent vale; The pensive Pleasures on the hist'ry hung, And smil'd betimes, and wept, as Auburn's minstre sung.

O! form'd in ev'ry dress to charm,
Thou, gentle tyrant of the breast,
Couldst with resistles indignation warm
Or sink the soul in fancy'd woe deprest :

* Alluding to Anstey's Bath Guide, which, though in the form of an epistolary poem, may be reckoned a romance, as a small plot runs through the whole.

Nature's own hand shall deck thy humble tomb,
And bid her dewy wild-flow'rs weep around;
Pity's own pencil milden the dread gloom,
And harmless Jest frequent the darling ground.

But thou art fled; despis'd, and scorn'd,
With every winning grace adorn'd:

No more thou deign'st t' inspire the Bard,
His heart-felt balm, his bright reward,
Oh! frolic tut'ress, gay coquette,

The pedant bookworm's mouldy crust forget,
The prude Philosophy disdain,

And o'er my favour'd bosom reign ;
Weave wild the probable design,
Harsh stricture rude to wit refine,
And bright'ning into smiles of day,
The night of Dulness chase away.

ABBEY EFFUSIONS.

ON SEEING MASON'S MONUMENT.

WHILE mid this solemn dome's sequester'd shade,
By venerable virtues sacred made,

With softer awe I mark, and gentler tread,
One modest modern join the mighty dead.
Drayton's cold check a pallid blush betrays,
And learned Jonson trembles for the bays!
Nor may the marble, deck'd by Mason's name,
Less fervent pray', or meaner homage claim;
Though round the tuneful sons of Britain rise,
Where, laurel-wreath'd, his recent model lies.

Yet, once more, oh! ye Bards, on Mona's steep, Who nightly your mysterious meetings keep, And wailing o'er the corse of warrior brave, Moan to the murmur of the troublous wave; Once more, with your wild warmth and native fire, Smite the deep sorrows of the sounding lyre; While, in the yelling tempest heard afar, Caractacus impels his scythed car;