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naked eye. The full meaning of these words will be comprehended thus, the horned tour-making goddesses ! ! !" Again. It is worthy of remark,' observes the discoverer, that when Homer sung the battles of the gods with the giants, he sung the battles of the Hebrew leader in the land of Canaan: as may be proved from the synchronism of events recorded in the bible, and introduced by the poet.' The "mystical number of the beast," Mr. B. says, refers to "the interval of time from the destruction of the first temple by Nebuchadnezzar, to the destruction of the second temple by the Romans, which was 666 years! We fear the λλa yeaμμara have, in sober reality, had similar effect on the " author of Biblical Criticisms," to what Festus magined they had produced on the Apostle Paul.

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Art. XXII. Gloria in Excelsis Deo: et in terra pax, bona voluntas hominibus. A Poem. Respectfully inscribed to the British and Foreign Bible Society. 4to. pp. 16. Price 1s. 6d. Hatchard. 1812.

FRIENDS as we are to the Bible Society, (and warmer friends to

it than ourselves, we believe, there breathe not this day in England,) we are yet doubtful whether it be a fit subject for a Poem. The grand design, indeed, of spreading the light which we ourselves have so long possessed, over a benighted world, or the wonderful and delightful effects produced by the bible in a village, a family, or an individual, might furnish a very happy allusion, or sublime paragraph: but to trace ⚫ the godlike plan,' from it's first beginnings, to tell with whom it originated, and by whom it has been advanced, is to connect with it all the details of society-business, the journeyings to and fro (in post-chaises or stagecoaches) of the three secretaries, the making and seconding of motions, the squabbles with Dr. Marsh, together with annual reports, lists of subscribers, donations, &c. &c.; than all which, we conceive, few things can be less poetical.

This objection strikes deep; and we are sorry for it; for the poem before us is evidently the production,-probably the hasty production-of a mind, which, in fertility and elegance of conception, very far surpasses the usual level of poetical pamphleteers. The first paragraphs are very plea sing.

Oh! to have heard the unearthly symphonies,
Which o'er the star-light peace of Syrian skies
Came floating like a dream, and in the ear

Of those blest shepherds told that Heaven was nigh;
Till suddenly the glory of the LORD

Shone forth, and swelled the full angelic song-
"Glory to GoD in the highest, and on earth

"Be peace; good will to men." Oh! to have heard
The silent earth thus greeted by the heavens
In such glad strains of fellowship and peace;
And, while beneath the tranquil smile of night

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The world unconscious slumbered, to have felt
The holy transport of prophetic joy!

Not long the vision tarried: died away
The wondrous music on the charmed ear

Of those few peasants. Morn returned, and found
No footstep on her solitary hills

Of angel visitant. The scene is closed
Of that blest pageantry to mortal gaze :
Yet angels on their embassies of love
Walk the still earth, and pour into the soul
Of kindred beings, the beloved of Heaven,

Mysterious music-music to be felt.' p. 3-4.

There is abundance of simile and metaphor in the poem; the allusion to star recurs too often. Of the three following passages the first is certainly elegant; the effect of the third is a little injured by its applying too minutely, and by its bringing to the mind the auxiliary and branch societies.

Europe views,

With hope-sick heart, upon thy towering cliffs
The sunshine resting which to her hath set,

And turns to thee, and watches for the day.' p. 6.

Are there not signs,

Thunders, and voices in the troubled air?

Do ye not see, upon the mountain tops,

Beacon to beacon answering? Who can tell

But all the harsh and dissonant sounds which long
Have been-are still-disquieting the earth,

Are but the tuning of the varying parts

For the grand harmony, prelusive all

Of that vast chorus which shall usher in

The hastening triumph of the Prince of Peace.' p. 15.

• Lo! how, unfolding from the germ of thought,
The vast idea into earth has struck

Its firm-fixed roots, and reared even unto heaven
Its majesty and, like the sacred tree

Which India worships, from the parent stem
The unnumbered branches, bending to the soil,
And there self-planted, seek again the skies,
Till the whole earth is covered with its shade.'

p. 5.

These extracts will render an express commendation of the poem unnecessary. The verse, indeed, wants finish; but to produce what is eminently beautiful, talent and labour must unite. To write blank verse well requires not only a musical ear, but an acquaintance with the best models so intimate, and practice so unwearied, that he who fails may solace his disgrace with the difficulty of the undertaking, and resolve to attempt again, what the once having been baffled may enable him to attempt with better hopes of success.

• In arms not worse, in foresight much advanced.”

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