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they seat themselves to the wholesome meal , and here closes the first part * The remaining portion of the poem is divided into five parts . We regret that bur limits prevent a full . analysis * The Swiss relates , in compliance with the request of the shepherdj the sufferings of his country during the invasion and conquest of it by the French . The notorious injustice , the savage inhumanity and ambition which could thus overturn these peaceful abodes of honest industry and virtuous independence , hitherto amidst the contentions of Europe deemed sacred , or at least permitted to dwell in quiet > have almost compelled the virtuous to execrate the man whose mind devised such
destruction * The manner in which the account is here related will accord with the feelings of every heart friendly to liberty , and by being united with the private history " ahd sufferings of the narrator and his family , it is rendered in the highest degree interesting . In the fourth part , tne wanderer gives an account of the death of his son Albert , and the circumstances attending it . The
influence which this " calling their sorrow up afresh" would naturally have upon the listening group is most highly wrought ^ and a striking instance of the author ' s power in the pathetic * At the close of this book , the family retiring to rest 5 the shepherd and the wanderer being left alone , he pursues his piteous
tale /* indulging now without restraint his injured feelings . la the last book he relates his determination to follow the example of many of his countrymen , and to seek an asylum in some part of America , concluding with this noble sentiment combined with this amiable faltering reflection :
** Switzerland is but a name- ** — Yet I feel where ' er I roam * That my heart is still the same , Switzerland is still rny home .
Most of the other poems in the volume have appeared before the public , and have already received the meed of praise from those who are quick to discern and forward to acknowledge merit . We indulge our readers with an extract , we may not quote the whole ,, from The Ocean . "
O , Britain ! dear Britain ! the land of my birth ; O , isle most enchantingly fair ! Thou pearl of the ocean ! thou gem of the earth O , my mother ! my mother I beware -
For wealth is a phantom , and empire a snare . O , let not thy birth-right be sold For reprobate glory and gold ! Thy foreign dominions like wild graftings shoot , They weigh down thy trunk 5 they will teat uj > thy roof * 3 C 2
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Montgomery * $ Po % m& . 379
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1806, page 379, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1726/page/43/
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