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And told his hope; her trembling joy appears,
Her forced reserve and his retreating fears.

All now is present ;- -'tis a moment's gleam
Of former sunshine-stay, delightful dream!
Let him within his pleasant garden walk,
Give him her arm, of blessings let them talk.

Yes! all are with him now, and all the while Life's early prospects and his Fanny's smile : Then come his sister and his village-friend, And he will now the sweetest moments spend Life has to yield;- No! never will he find Again on earth such pleasure in his mind: He goes through shrubby walks these friends

among,

Love in their looks and honour on the tongue :
Nay, there's a charm beyond what nature shows,
The bloom is softer and more sweetly glows;
Pierced by no crime, and urged by no desire
For more than true and honest hearts require,
They feel the calm delight, and thus proceed
Through the green lane, then linger in the

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Stray o'er the heath in all its purple bloom,-
And pluck the blossom where the wild bees hum
Then through the broomy bound with ease they pass,
And press the sandy sheep-walk's slender grass,
Where dwarfish flowers among the gorse are spread,
And the lamb browses by the linnet's bed;

Then 'cross the bounding brook they make their way
O'er its rough bridge-and there behold the bay!-

The ocean smiling to the fervid sun—
The waves that faintly fall and slowly run-
The ships at distance and the boats at hand;
And now they walk upon the sea-side sand,
Counting the number and what kind they be,
Ships softly sinking in the sleepy sea:

Now arm in arm, now parted, they behold
The glitt'ring waters on the shingles roll'd:
The timid girls, half dreading their design,
Dip the small foot in the retarded brine,

And search for crimson weeds, which spreading flow,

Or lie like pictures on the sand below:

With all those bright red pebbles, that the sun
Through the small waves so softly shines upon;
And those live lucid jellies which the eye
Delights to trace as they swim glittering by:
Pearl-shells and rubied star-fish they admire,
And will arrange above the parlour-fire,—
Tokens of bliss! (1)-" Oh! horrible! a wave
"Roars as it rises. -save me, Edward! save!"
She cries:-Alas! the watchman on his way
Calls, and lets in-truth, terror, and the day!

(1) [We have here a description of the dream of a felon under sentence of death; and though the requisite accuracy and beauty of the landscapepainting are such as must have recommended it to notice in poetry of any order, it derives an unspeakable charm from the lowly simplicity and humble content of the characters—at least, we cannot conceive any walk of ladies and gentlemen that could furnish out so sweet a picture as termi. nates this passage. — JEFFREY.]

THE BOROUGH.

LETTER XXIV.

SCHOOLS.

Tu quoque ne metuas, quamvis schola verbere multo
Increpet et truculenta senex geret ora magister;
Degeneres animos timor arguit; at tibi consta
Intrepidus, nec te clamor plagæque sonantes,
Nec matutinis agitet formido sub horis,

Quòd sceptrum vibrat ferulæ, quòd multa supellex
Virgea, qubd molis scuticam prætexit aluta,
Quòd fervent trepido subsellia vestra tumultu,
Pompa loci, et vani fugiatur scena timoris.

AUSONIUS in Protreptico ad Nepotem.

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