ORIGINAL POETRY. LETTER TO A FRIEND. WHILE you, my friend, in perfect cafe, Here Phoebus darts his fierceft rays, When Sol, at length, retires to rest, Despair here lifts her baleful hand, In this dull ifle, no blooming fair, Here Afric's fable race deplore my reft, Ye gods! what tranfports once I knew! *Muskito. MONTHLY MAG. No. VI, Ah me! those blissful scenes are o'er; Your once, once happy cheerful friend! SACRED MUSIC. AN ODE, FROM THE GERMAN OF KLOPSTOCK, DEAR dream, which I must ne'er behold Thou beamy form, more fair than orient day, Do they wear crowns in vain, that they forbear Shall marble hearse them all, Ere the bright change be wrought ?, Yes-could the grave allow-of thee I'd fing: My pledge for loftier verfe. Great is thy deed, my wish. He has not known What 'tis to melt in blifs, who never felt Ne'er fweetly trembled, when adoring choirs Long float around my forehead, blissful dream! The people fing their Saviour, fing the Son; Th' afpiring foul from earth. On the rais'd eye-lafh, on the burning cheek, Where fhines the golden crown, Hufh! the clear fong fwells forth. Now flows along Mufic, as if pour'd artless from the breast; To lead its channel'd courfe. Deep, ftrong, it feizes on the fwelling heart, 3 R Borna Borne on the deep flow founds, a holy awe Or the triumphal Hail to him, who rofe; Afcend the Lord of Life. One voice alone, one harp alone, begins; Joy! Joy! They fcarce fupport it. Rolls aloud And to the fhout of all, The temple trembles too! Enough! I fink. The wave of people bows Before the altar-bows the front to earth; They taste the hallow'd cup, Devoutly, deeply, still. One day, when reft my bones befide a fane, Where thus affembl'd worshippers adore, The conicious grave fhail heave, Its flow'rets fweeter bloom; And on the morn that from the rock fprang, When panting praife purfues his radiant way, I'll hear,-He rofe again Shall vibrate through the tomb. POEM. They tell me, too, that in luxuriance wild Wav'd my dark locks: perchance, they tell me truth; For 'tis an adage, that the lovelieft child Makes, in advancing age, the forrier youth. So has it been with me. In vain I feek 'To trace the roseate hue of healthful red; Dull is my eye, and colourless my cheek, And gone the flowing honours of my head! But ftill remains, unchang'd, my better part, Still true to Love and Laura is my heart. Gray's-Inn, April 4. ODE. W. R. FERREUM credis mihi pectus ? Ah fi Illa dum cœlo tacito niteret, Audiit noftræ gemitum querelæ ; He Sæpe non fictæ fuit illa flammæ Prifcus & jamjam calor ille vivit ; Sepe defertam recolo Camillam, Et mihi mæftæ facies puellæ Confcia noftræ Sapæ recurfat, Perge me diris onerare verbis, Chara pigebit. W. R. POUR être un digne & bon Chrétien, Il faut à Chrift être femblable Il faut r noncer à tout bien, A tout honneur qui eft damnable; A la Dame belle & jolie, A plaifir qui la chair émeut, Laiffer biens, honneurs, & amie! Ne fait pas ce tour-là qui veut. Ses biens aux pauvres faut donner, D'un cœur joyeux & volontaire ; Faut les injures pardonner, Et à fes ennemis bien faire ; S'enjouir en mélancholie Et tourment dont la chair s'émeut; Aimer la mort comme la vie ! Ne fait pas ce tour-là qui veut. SONNET. THEY tell me that, in opening life, the hue Of rofy health bloom'd on my glowing cheek; That my full eye fparkled with liquid blue, And feem'd with strong intelligence to speak: ELEGY. WRITTEN IN MAY, 1794. WHY com'ft thou, gentle May, with driving rain, And chilly blafts, to check the opening year? Why roll thy fhadows o'er the gloomy plain? Why frown in fullen fadness dark and drear? I have not feen the radiant orb of day Beam his glad radiance on the dewy flow'r ; Nor, fince I wel om'd the return of May, Known the mild influence of one funny hour! Thou com'ft congenial to my mourning mind; Well does my foul thy fullen fadness fuit; And when I hear the howling of the wind, Refponfive fighs the sympathizing lute. In happiness and peace I pafs'd the day. Vain flatterer, Hope! no more shalt thou delight O'er fairy vales to caft the eager eye; For Fancy, now prophetic, in affright, Starts from the phantoms of futurity. O, May! MORTALITY. B. SWIFT o'er the high grafs fweeps the blast, A filver fhade fpreads o'er the lively green; The gale is paft, No more the filver fhade is feen. A drear memorial of the with'ring stroke, What, then, the Wife one's dreams, the When Death proclaims th' irrevocable hour, No cheering tidings reach mankind from To ease the last long ling'ring breath, 491 Dimm'd by thofe little mifts in Reafon's feeble eye: Enthusiast! cease to gaze amid immenfity. 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Thefe fongs met with a very popular reception in their public performance at the Opera. Their own merit was, doubtless, increafed in its effect by the excellent manner of finging them by Mr. Viganoni. [The mufical world have this month to lament the death of Dr. THOMAS SAUNDERS Duruis, organist and compofer to his Majetty. Of this gentleman's merit and character we have fpoken more at length in our Obituary.] LITERARY NOTICES. 493 lume, in a German dress, and, from the elegant tafte of the tranflator, it suffers as little as poffible in the change. Surely, a work of the fame kind would receive encouragement in England. The Attic writers deserve to be introduced, as they fair fex in England, inftead of being are in Germany, to the toilettes of the confined to the mufty precincts of a college. Mr. SOUTHEY, of Bristol, author of the poem of Joan of Arc, has in the prefs a volume of Letters from Spain and Portugal. 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The original MSS. &c. may be feen at Mr. Ireland's houfe, No. 3, Poet's-corner, Palace-yard. an Mr. PRATT, the author of Emma Corbet, and of other well known works, is preparing for the prefs a work, under the title of "Family Secrets, interperfed with Converfations on the Ufe and Abuse of Modern Romance." In Euclid's time, the method was generally known of conftructing, geometrically, triangles, quadrilateral figures, pentagons, hexagons, quindecagons, or any figures with double the number of [The very extenfive circulation of the fides in the above figures: but the other Monthly Magazine, abroad as well as at regular figures have been fuppofed to be without the limits of the art. A Student, bome, rendering thefe Notices of confidsrable utility to authors engaged in the proat Goettingin, has announced his intentions of making public a method of je&tion of any new and original work, the Editor vibes this article to be confi conftructing many other figures with seven, eleven, thirteen fides each, geomedered as being freely open to the notificatrically. This method is deduced from tions of the learned world.] WIELAND has published a fpecimen of what we may expect from his Attifches Mufeum. He propofes to give to Germany a full and accurate knowledge, as far as tranflation can, of the manners, customs, and celebrated works of the Greeks. The panegyric of Ifocrates appears, in the first part of his first vo the corollary to a theorem of very great extent. The mathematician who has made this difcovery, is a MR. GAUSS, of Brunfwick, to whofe proficiency in philofophical and claffical studies, profeffor Zimmerman bears honourable teftimony. 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