Such were the feelings all expressed;
And as, like Wordsworth, I
"Love human feelings gently nursed,
And human sympathy,"

And do not boast descriptive art,
Leave other bards to sing

How in the fire the Abbey glowed,
While its light spires and tracery showed
Brilliant and burnished as the abode
Of a flame-commanding king;

Or how there seemed a stream of fire

The river's bed to fill

Such a stream as that which, in realms below,
May for the use of the statesmen flow
Who framed the last poor-bill.

Or how the "matrons never wed"
Breathed forth a hearty curse

On those who made their wretched state
Of horror so much worse-

As to make their babies' lives depend
On the shortness of their purse.

Or how the sweeps denounced the House
That bade them not cry for their pelf;
Because there was a brother Broom,

Who wished all the talk to himself;"

Or how many more witty things were said,
The which I can't relate,—

Or of the delight which spread that night
That the houses were out of date,

And the sorrow sore that each face wore
That nothing else shared the fate.

The Moral.

This is an ending of my lay;

And mankind must admire

How near such things as our Commons and Lords

Were to setting the Thames on fire!

What a pity it is that the correspondence of Lord Durham and Macvey Napier did not come in time for our Magazine! But it may not be too late next month.

J. Moyes, 28 Castle Street, Leicester Square.

O. Y.

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