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There rests from toil its long-unpractised wing,
And, perch'd upon the hazel's topmost spray,
Makes the wild woodland's deep recesses ring,
Chaunting sweet liberty's delightful lay,

Nor wearies of its song the livelong summer's day.

So lightly pricketh on his way yon wight,
Who, long y-pent in dungeon dark and drear,
Full many a scroll did wearily indite,

Blotting the parchment oft with bootless tear.
How could he but by stealth (Oh! stealth how sweet!)
Hold raptured converse with the sisters nine,
Whose colloquy doth fill the breast with heat,
Venus, how far more elevate than thine;

How far more heavenly pure, ethereal, and divine!

Him now they welcome to their green retreats,
Releas'd from labour's dolorous abode,

No more to stray from those delightful seats,
No more to plod in Mammon's toilsome road:
How sweetly will he pour the flowing rhyme,
Resistless master of the smile and tear!

How sweetly tell the tale of olden time!

Oh

may it be my lot to wander near,

Some strains of his enchanting minstrelsy to hear!
March 1, 1806.

ODE FOR THE NEW YEAR, 1809.

BY J. H. PYE, ESQ.

Performed on her Majesty's Birth-day.*

Full-orb'd in equinoctial skies,
When the pale moon malignant rides,
And bids the howling tempest rise,
And swells the ocean's briny tides,
Dreadful against the sounding shore
The winds and waves tumultuous roar,
The torrent-braving mound in vain
The stormy inroad would restrain;
The surges with resistless sway
Force o'er the labour'd mole their way,

* See Chronicle, p. 34.

Scorn every weak resource of human toil,

O'erwhelm the peopled town, and waste the cultured soil.

But when, by native fences barr'd
From billowy rage, the happier land,
And rocky cliffs for ever stand
To the wide-water'd coast a guard,
Such as on Vecta's southern steep,
Look down defiance on the raging deep,
Such as on Dover's breezy down,
On Gallia's hostile borders frown,
Though billows urging billows roar,
And idly beat against the shore,
While from the heights sublime the swain
Mocks the vain efforts of the foaming main,
Till Nature bids the deluged surge subside,
Hush'd is the tempest's voice, and refluent rolls the tide.

So o'er Europa's ravished plain,
We saw the torrent wild of war,
Resistless spread its iron reign,

And scatter ruin wide and far;
The embattled wall, the warlike band,
Vainly the Tyrant's course withstand;
Before the impious sons of Gaul
The legions fly, the bulwarks fall;
Yet Britain's floating castles sweep
Invasion from her subject deep,
Yet by her rocks secure from harm,
Securer by her patriot arm,
Iberia turns the battle's tide,

Resists the injurious tyrant's pride,

While, freely floating in the ambient sky,

Sacred to freedom's cause, their mingled ensigns fly.

ODE FOR HIS MAJESTY'S BIRTH-DAY..

BY J. H. PYE, ESQ.

While Europe with dejected eye

Beholds around her rural reign,

* See Chronicle, p. 157.

Whilom of peace the fair domain,
The scene of desolation lie;

Or if with trembling hope she cast
Her looks on hours of glory past,
And burn again with virtuous fame
Her ancient honours to reclaim;
And brace the corslet on her breast,

And grasp the spear, and wave the crest;

Yet lies her course through war's ensanguined flood;
Yet must she win her way through carnage and through blood.

Ah! happier Britain, o'er thy plain
Still smiling peace and freedom reign.
And while thy sons with pitying eye

Behold the field of ruin round them lie;

The storms that shake each neighbour realm with fear,
Like distant thunder die upon the ear;

They bless the halcyon hours that gave,

To rule a people free and brave,

A patriot monarch all their own,

Their swords his bulwark, and their hearts his throne:
And while to this auspicious day

The muse devotes her tributary lay,
A nation's vows in choral pæan join,

And consecrate to fame a 'verse as mean as mine.'

Yet not to selfish thoughts confined,
Are the warm feelings of the virtuous mind;
The royal patriot, while he views

Peace o'er his realms her bliss diffuse,
Mourns for the sorrows that afflict mankind.
Go forth, my sons, he cries; my Britons, go
And rescue Europe from her ruthless foe.
Behold, in arms, Austria's imperial lord ;
Behold Iberia draw the avenging sword:-
O let, with theirs, your mingling ensigns fly,
In the great cause of injured liberty!

Go forth, my sons, and to the world declare,
When suff'ring freedom calls, Britannia's arms are there.

NOTE

TO THE ARTICLE

ON THE STATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

IN noticing (p. 406.) DrTatham's accusations against the members of the Hebdomadal meeting, we were not aware that those gentlemen had published a solemn declaration of their firm and full conviction, that since the time when they respectively became members of that board, no meeting had at any time, or on any occasion, been summoned or held in an artful, collusive, or smuggling manner." To this we understand Dr Tatham has replied, adhering strongly to his first assertions. But the merits of this controversy are foreign from our purpose.

What follows after the list of efficient professors (p. 417.) would have been more correctly expressed thus: "That is to say, the professors in these branches were not only ready

to lecture or teach, but in few instances a term, and scarcely ever a whole year, elapsed without their be ing able to obtain an audience." The professors of medicine and of poetry read each of them four public lectures in a year. To prevent every possible misconception, it may here be added, that nothing can be farther from our intention than to convey any censure against the professors, whom we know to be in general selected for the of fices they fill from merit alone, in the most fair and honourable manner. On the contrary, we would be understood as arguing the cause of these learned persons against the system, owing to the defects of which their zeal and ability are in a great measure lost to the community.

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