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Come Inspiration from thy hermit seatf By mortals seldom found."

original. Stay, stay, impatient Fcgastis! thy speed restrain, Thou'it cast thy rider headlong on the plain j Let not thy speed surpass the JMuse's flight, While I of poetry and poets write. First 'D-aleth.' prince of poets, struck the lyre, And from his pen flow'd pure promethean fire! In melting strains he bids a long good-bye, To her "whose every look has caused a sigh." Ah! cruel fate! to sever those who love,

And send poor Daleth through the world to rove;

' Twere better far, if he at home had staid, And Hymen's bands had bound him to the maid.

With desperate, strides he to some lonesome wood

Pregnant with sighs seek3 deepest solitude; In some lone cave, where three hyenas howl, Where lions roar and alligators prowl! He from the world and all its busy cares, Weeps or his fate with unremitting tears.

Now wintry winds howl tbrotigh the leafless trees,

And Laleth sighs responsive to the breeze. But see a form emerges to the sight, From desert glooms of everlasting night; OVr the bleak moor he keeps a steady prod, And like a meteor skims the mire and mud. With joy the repentant lass beholds him come; She thdught, forsooth, 'twas Daleth coming home: Ah! sad mistake, 'tie sun burnt 'Mungo' comes! She saw no more, but angry bit her thumbs! Alas! she cries, must we forever part? Oh! cruel Dalctb,. you have broke my heart. Mungo attempts to soothe, but strives in vain; The briny tears steal down her cheeks again. And now O Muse! with solemn pathos dwell On Mungo's troubles, of hi3 trials tell, . Of travels dreary, and hair-breadth escapes, In different lands 'mong men of different shapes; How 'twas his lot in every clime to find, Woman the same, the generous, good, and kind; Their hearts are always formed of kinder mould The stranger's soothed e'er half his tale is told

Thus Mungo sings, and melts the heart of stone,

And nature sickens at poor Daleth's moan. Thpy both have fled a fairer port to find, "But 'Hope,7 the charmer lingers still behind;" Her flowing verse may both their loss repair,

Cheer the desponding soul, and drive away despair.

Hudibuas

MISCELLANEOUS SELECTIONS.

"profit 'BLENDED with amusement.

A VOYAGE.

I was on my voyage back to my native

country, after an absence of five years, spent in unremitting toil in a foreign land, to

which. I had been driven by a singular fatality. Our voyage had been singular and prosperous, and on Christmas day we were within fifty leagues of port. Passengers and crew were all in the highest spirits, and the

ship was alive with mirth and jolity. For

rny own part, I was the very happiest man in existence. I had been unexpectedly raised from poverty to atilucnce my parents were once more longing to behold their erring and beloved son, anil I knew that there was one dearer even than any parent, who Jiad remained true to me through all my misfortunes, and would soon be mine for life. About eight o'clock in the evening I went on deck. The ship was sailing upon a wind at the rate of seven knots an hour, and there was a wild grandeur in the night. A strong

enow storm blew, hut steadily, and without; It was the ship firing a gun, to let me know, danger, and now and then, when the strug-' if still alive, that she was somewhere lyino-

ling moonlight overcame the sleety and mis-: to. 13ut wherciore : 1 was separated from ty darkness, we saw for some distance a- her by a dire necessity, hy many thousand

round us the agitated sea all tumolmg with, and herce waves, that would not let my

foam. There were no shoals to fear, and; shrieks be heard. Each succeeding gun

the ship kept boldly on her course, close-j was heard fainter and fainter, till at last I

reefed, .and mistress of the storm. 1 leaned' cursed the sound, that, scarcely heard above

to be scon. She was gone forever. The!

little happy world to which, a moment before, I had belonged, had swept by, the waves dashed on me, and stsuck me on the face, and howled at me; the winds yelled, and snow beat like drifting sand into my eyes, and there I was left to struggle, and buffet, and gasp, and sink, and perish, alone, unseen and unpitied by man,and as I thought too, by the everlasting God. 1 tried to penetrate the surrounding darkness with my glaring eyes, that felt leaping from their

sockets, and saw, as if by miraculous power,

to a great distance through the night, but no ship nothing but the white crested waves, and the dismal noise of thunder. I shouted, shrieked and yelled, that I might be heard by the crew, till my voice was gone and that too when I knew there were none to hear me. At last I became utterly speech

less, and when I tried to call aloud, there

was nothing but a silent gasp and convul

sion, while the waves came upon me like

stunning blows, reiterated and reiterating,

and drove me along like a log of wood, or; dead animal.

Once I muttered to myself,"this is a dream,

and 1 shall awake. 1 had often before

dreamed of being drowned, and this idea of

its being a dream so pressed upon me, that I vainly strove to shriek out, that the noise

might awaken me. But oh! the transition,

from this momentary and wild hope of its

being all a dreadful dream, into the convic

tion of its reality ! That indeed was some

thing more hideous than a frantic s thought

of hell. All at once 1 felt my inmost soul

throttled, struggled and stifled, by an insup

portable fear of death. That death which,

to my imagination, had ever appeared the

most hideous, and of which 1 had often

dreamed till the drops fell down my forehead like rain, had now, in good truth, befal

len me; but dreadful as all my dreams had

been, what were they all to this? I felt as if all human misery was concentrated in the

speechless anguish of my own single heart. All this time I was not conscious of any

act of swimming; but I soon found that I

had been instinctively exerting my power

and skill, and both were requisite to keep me alive in the tumultuous wake of the ship.

Something struck me harder than a wave.

What it was I knew not, but I grasped it

with a passionate violence, for the hope of

salvation came suddenly over me. and, with

a sudden transition from despair, 1 felt that I was rescued. I had the same thought as if I had been suddenly heaved on shore by a

wave. 1 he crew had thrown overboard ev

ery thing they thought could afford me the

slightest chance of escape from death, and a

hen-coop had drifted towards me. At once

all the stories I had ever read of mariners miraculously saved at sea, rushed across m

recollection. I had an object to cling to,

which 1 knew would enable me to prolong

my existence, l was no longer helpless on the cold weltering world of waters; and the thought that my friends were thinking of me,

and doing all that they could for me, gave me a wonderful courage. I may yet pass the

night in the ship, 1 thought, and looked a

round eagerly to hear the rush of her prow,

or to see through the snow-dnlt the gleam ing of her sails.

This was but a momentary gladness. The ship I knew could not be far oif, but

for any good she could do me, she might

have been in the heart of the Atlantic ocean. Ere she could have altered her course I

must have drifted a long way to the lee

ward, and m that dim, snowy night how-

was such a speck to be seen ? I saw a flash of lightning, and then there was thunder.

.i i. . .i .. i k 1,

over uit; guMw uie, (uuiuiiii ihvj aiui mining past like a foaming cataract, when, by some unaccountable accident, I lost my balance, and in an instant fell overboard into the sea. I remember a convulsive shuddering all

over my body, and a hurried leaping of my

the vessel, and afterwards a sensation of the most icy chill ness from immersion into the waves but nothing resembling a fall or precipitation. When below the water, I think that the momentary belief rushed across mv mind that the ship had suddenlv sun!;, and that I was but one of the perishing crew. I imagined that I felt a hand with long fingers clutching at my legs, and made violent efforts to escape, dragging after me, as I thought, the body of some drowning wretch. O.i rising to the surface, I recollected in a moment what had befallen me, and uttered a cry of horror, which is in my ears to this day, and often makes me shudder, as if it were the mad shriek of another person in the extremity of perilous agony. Often have I dreamed over again that dire moment, and the cry I utter in nvy sleep is something more horrible than a human voice. No ship was

the hollow rumbling of the tempestuous sea,

told me that the ship was farther and farther olF, till she and her heartless crew had left me to my fate. Why did they not send their boats round and round all the night through, for the sake of one whom they pre

tended to love so well? I blamed, blessed,

-no horc ot re

cue. " It was broad day-light, and the storm had ceased; but clouds lay round the horizon, and no land was to be seen. "What

dreadful clouds! Some black as pitch, and charged with thunder; others like cliffs of tire; and here and there all streamed over with blood. It was indeed a sullen, wrathful, despairing sky. The sun itself was a dull brazen orb, coldf

dead, and beamless. I beheld three ships afar off, but all their heads were turned from

me. For whole hours they would adhere, motionless, to the sea, while I d rifted away from them; one by one, into the darkness of the stormy distance. .Many birds came close tome as if to flap me with their large

nreading wings, screamed round and round

me, and then flew av.av in their strength, and beauty, and happiness.

I now felt in) sen indeed dying. A calna T II " 1 A' I"

came over me. l prayeu ucvouuj ioi io;giveness of my sins, for all my friends oi earth. A ringing was in my cars, and I re

member onlv the hollow fluctuations of the sea with which I seemed blended, and a r ink-

ins: down and down an unfathomable depth, which I thought was death, and into the kingdom of the eternal future. I awoke from insensibility and oblivion with a hideous racking pain in ir.y head and loins, and in a place of utter darkners. 1 heard a voice say, "Praise the Lord' My agony was dreadful, and 1 cried aloud. Wan, glimmering, melancholy lights kept moving to and fro. A hideous din was overhead, and around me the fierce dashing of the waves. I was lying in the cabin of a ship, and kindly tended by a humane and skilful man. I had been picked np apparently deal and cold. The hand of God was there. LEGISLATIVE DIGXITY. The New-York Statesman, in giving a history of the proceedings of the New-York legislature, now in session, relates the following incident:

whole passe

ve-

breast, as I felt myself about to lose hold of j and cursed them by fit. till every emotion

of my soul was exhausted, and I clung in

sullen despair t o the wretched piece of wood that still kept me from eternity. "Was it not strange, that during all this time the image of my friends at home never came to my mind? My thoughts had never escaped beyond the narrow and dim horizon of the sea, at least never beyond that fatal ship. But now I thought of home and the blessed tilings there, and so intensely bright was that flash of heavenly images, that for a moment my heart was filled with hap

piness. It was terrible when the cold and dashing waves broke over me in that insane dreaming fit, and awoke me to the conviction that there was nothing in store for me but an icy and lingering death, and that L who had so much to live for, was seemingly on that account most miserably to perish. What a war of passions perturbed my soul?

Had I for this kept my heart full of Tender

ness, pure, lofty, and heroic, for my best beloved and long betrothed? Had God kept me alive through feers and plagues, and

war and earthquakes, thus to murder me at

last? What mockery was all this What

horror would be in my gray haired parent's

house when they came to hear of my doom?

"0 Theresa! Theresa!' and thus I wept

and turmoiled through the night. Some

times I had little or no feeling at all sullen

and idealess, I wished myself drowned at

once yet life was still sweet; and in my

weakened state, I must have fallen from my frail vessel and been swallowed up, had I not, though even now I cannot remember when or how, bound myself to it. 1 had

done so with great care but a lit of des-

v7 pair succeeding, I forgot the circumstance.

and in that situation looked at mvself with

surprise and wonder.

That I had awful thoughts of the eternity

into which I felt gradually sinking, is cer

tain; but it is wonderful how faintly I thought of the future world; all such

thoughts were overthrown by alternate hope

and despair connected with tins hie. 1

heard the shrill cry of sea-birds Hying over

mv head, and instantly returned again to

the hope of life. O, for such wings! but

mine I thought were broken, and like a

wounded bird lay floating powerlessly on the

waves. The night before I had had a severe rhcu

matism in my head, and now remembered

that there was a phial of laudanum about me. I swallowed the whole of it and ere long a strange effect was produced. I fell

into a delirium, and felt a wild pleasure in

dancing over the waves. 1 imagined m

self in a vessel, and on a voyage, and had a dreamy impression that there was connected

with it something ol glory. 1 hen suddenly

a cold tremulous sickness would fall on me; a weight of sadness and despair. Every now and then there came these momentary flashings of reality; but the conviction of my personal indentity soon gave way to those wilder fits, and I was drifted along through the moonless darkness of the roaring night, with all the fierce exultations of a raving madman. No wonder. The laudanum, the wet, the dashing, the buffeting, the agony, were enough to account for all this, and more than my soul dare even now shadow out to her shuddering recollection. But as God pitied the miserable, so also has he forgave the wicked thoughts of that unimaginable night. During one of these delirious fits, whether it was a dream or a reality I know not, methought I heard the most angelical music that ever breathed from heaven. It seemed to come on the winds to rise up from the sea to melt down from the stormy clouds. It was at last like a full band of instrumental music, soft, deep, wild, such as I have heard on board a ship of Avar. I heard a rushing noise with the music, and the glorious ghost of a ship went roaring past me, all illuminated with lamps; her colours flying; every sail set, and her decks crowded with men. Perhaps a real ship sailed by with festivity on board. Or was it a vision? Whatever it was, I felt no repining when it passed me by ; it seemed something wholly alien to me : the delirium had swallowed up all fear, all selfishness; the past and future were alike forgotten, and 1 kept floating along, selfquestioned no longer, assured that I was some how or other a part of the waves and the tempest, and that the wonderful .and beautiful vision that had sailed by me was an aboriginal of the ocean. There was unspeakable pride and grandeur in this delirium. I was more intensely conscious of a brighter existence than I ever was in the

most glorious dream, and instead of dreading

death, I felt as if 1 were immortal.

This delirium I think must have gradually

subsided during a kind of sleep, for I dimly

recollect mixed images of pain and pleasure,

land and sea, storm and calm, tears and laughter. I thought I had a companion at

my side, and even her I best loved; now

like an angel comforting me, and now like

mvself needing to be comforted, 1 ing on my

bosom, cold, drenched, despairing, and in

sane, and uttering, with pale, quivering lips, the most horrid and dreadful imprecations.

Once I heard, methought, a voice crying from below the waves, "Hast thou forgotten Theresa ?" And looking down, I saw something like the glimmering of a shroud come

slowly upwards, from a vast depth, to ihejty of flattery, said the lady. 'Not so,' resurface ot the water. I stooped down tojed the gentleman, 'for I vow you are as ??????

emnrace it, and in a moment a ghastly, blue. a partridqcJ 'At first,' rejoined the lad v swollen face, defeatured horribly, as if by k thought -ou guilty of flattery onlv. but

mi- gai iiiw leem oi muiiau: uasnea now 1 fcnd you actually make renne of me.

aii'iniai. mine; (Uiu us it suuk itgaui, i Knew

The committee of the

ral important bills, one of which was to change the name of Harriet Jane Perkins to Harriet Jane W inter. The bill provides that she should hereafter be known by tha name of Harriet Jane Winter, and none other. A member rose in his place, and moved to strike out the words Sand none other.' There was, in the opinion of the Lobby, much propriety in striking out this clause of the bill, as the young lady might hereafter negotiate a treaty of marriage, in which caset the husband would probably insist on her bearing his name; but if thus forbidden hy law to be known by any other name than that of Winter, she might never experience the Spring time of life, or the Summer of matrimonial felicity. The House manifested much gallantry on the occasion, not a singlz member having voted against the proposed amendment. Another member proposed to add after the words " shall be hereafter known by the name of Harriet Jane "Winter," the words " so long as she remains unmarried." Another member was opposed to this amendment, as the young lady might possibly many a gentleman of the same name. This was a sound objection, as in case of such an union it would soon be Winter, even though it should happen at so late a period as to justify the language of the poet "Winter lingering in the lap of May."

Another member thought there was no ne

cessity of this amendment; the bill was in the usual form, and left this young lady at liberty to change her name hy maniage if opportunity and inclination offered. The bill then passed to be engrossed.

Predictions for 182a. In the course of this spring and summer, many alterations will be made in the form and trimmings of the ladies head-dresses: I am not able at present to give an opinion whether their appearance will be improved by their alterations. Many people will take more strong liquor th an will be sufficient to keep them sober, and take more physic than would be- sufficient to keep them in health.

Hospitality and generosity will abound; dinners and entertainments will be given to those who have enough at heme; and the poor will receive gratis much good advice, medical and legu Incepted. A gentleman lately complimented a lady

uuyiuveu appearance, i ou are gnu-

well to whom belonged the black streaming

hair. But I awoke. The delii ium was gone, and I was at once a totally different creature.

jl awoke into a low, heartless, quaking, ouiv-

ering, lear-haunted, cowardly, and weeping despondency, in which all fortitude was utterly prostrated. The excitement had worn out my very soul. A corpse rising out of a cold, clammy grave could not have been more wo-begone, spiritless, bloodless. Eve-

D'rcption. The sentimental Sterne was correct when he said that "to deceive is a base trade at best; but to deceive those we love and value, is a folly so totally inexcusable, that I defy all the arts of sophistry to frame an argument in its favour.

ry thing was seen m its absolute dreadful1 hi-

When Anthony challenged Caesar to single combat, he only answered, "Anthonv

might think of many other wavs to end his.