There rests from toil its long-unpractised wing, Nor wearies of its song the livelong summer's day. So lightly pricketh on his way yon wight, Blotting the parchment oft with bootless tear. How far more heavenly pure, ethereal, and divine! Him now they welcome to their green retreats, No more to stray from those delightful seats, 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! ODE FOR THE NEW YEAR, 1809. BY J. H. PYE, ESQ. Performed on her Majesty's Birth-day.* Full-orb'd in equinoctial skies, * 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 So o'er Europa's ravished plain, And scatter ruin wide and far; 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, Or if with trembling hope she cast And grasp the spear, and wave the crest; Yet lies her course through war's ensanguined flood; Ah! happier Britain, o'er thy plain Behold the field of ruin round them lie; The storms that shake each neighbour realm with fear, 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: The muse devotes her tributary lay, And consecrate to fame a 'verse as mean as mine.' Yet not to selfish thoughts confined, Peace o'er his realms her bliss diffuse, Go forth, my sons, and to the world declare, 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. 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