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Where is she ? Ask the storm \ for he No single tear bas shed ; And he ? Go . ask the silent sea-Its echoes answer Dead 1 '
I held communion with its waves , But could not find the lovers' graves . "
Pp . 154—156 . This ballad approaches the excellence of the noblest effusion of the kind with which we are acquainted , Campbell ' s most splendid , powerful , and pathetic story of " Lord Ullin ' s Daughter . " We iqsert a dedicatory Sonnet by the Translator in the conviction that its last three Hues have only the inspiration of poetry , and not that of prophecy . There 4
can be no < happier lot" than his in the course which he has chosen , even though he should not reap so much as he deserves of that kind of recompence from the public which is often bestowed on works less useful in their tendency , and
less felicitous in their execution . " TO FK . J . SCHEDEl . " I follow in thy footsteps , yet afar , Thou hear ' st the voice—I but the echoes hear , Of the time-consecrated Magyar ; And while they vibrate in my spirit , bear
The music , ere it dies upon the ear , To the old halls of England — where there are Spirits of love , of sympathy sincere To welcome , as from some new-beaming star , All I can bring of beauty , light ,, and song . Say to Hun gar ia , she shall stand among The lands which Poetry with glory girds ; And if not urine , some happier lot ' twill be To fling the wreath of fame o ' er her and thee , With sweeter harmony and loftier words . "
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regarded among ourselves ; and our young people have been obliged to look abroad , for the gratification of a taste which the possession of pure religion * principles , and some considerable degree of intellectual superiority , should have enabled us to satisfy . We are obliged to those who endeavour to supply the deficiency , and to prove that our religion contains wherewithal to interest the af *» fections as well as to satisfy the reason-. We subjoin a specimen it * proof : " A Midnight Meditation . " Now in the deepest hour of night , While sinks the moon , and sleeps the wind , When light-winged slumbers take their flight , What solemn thoughts steal o ' er the mind !
How sweet to meditate on thee , Bless'd guardian of my peaceful bed ; Before whose view night's shadows flee , Whose arm of power is o ' er me spread ! This hour of stillness is thine own ; No cares intrude , no passions swell—I feel myself with thee , alone , And still with thee , my God , would dwell .
The world ' s tumultuous din is spent , No sounds I hear of strife or woe ; Uubroken peace and sweet content , Like Eden ' s waters , round me flow . O ! could I breathe a calm like this In every scene my feet must trace ; The earth would yield no purer bliss , But prove a heav ' n in ev ' ry place ! This may not be—some clouds will fall ,
With low ' ring aspect o * er my way ; Yet faith in thee will beam through all , Which cheers e ' en midnight with ita ray . "—P . 29 .
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Art . VI - —Poetical Pieces , chiefly on Devotional and Moral Subjects . By Hugh Hutton , M . A . Hunter , 1830 .
The first requisite of compositions of the class announced in the title , —a devotional spirit- —is found in the poems before us : not only in the hymns , which form a large proportion of the volume , but in the sketches of nature and of human life which constitute the remainder . While among other sects , poetry is made ar powerful means of attracting the attention of the young to subjects of the highest importance , and of gain-ing over the imagination to the side of religion , this mode of influence hae been too little
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Critical Notices . —Miscellaneous * 187
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Abt . VII . —Narrqtwe ' of the Disco * very of the Fate of La Pirouse . By Chevajier Captain P . Dillon . 2 Vols .
The lovers of hair-breadth escapes and cannibal adventures will find this work quite a bonne boucbe ; " it is not , " says the author in his preface , ' * ac- » count of nations which resemble ourselves in manners and civilization / ' but
of ' * human nature under a new aspect /* described by a living witness who has had ample opportunities of studying the character of the savage tribes whom he describes , and 4 < who had nearly fallen a victim to their cannibal propensities . " The adventure here alluded to . took
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1830, page 187, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2582/page/43/
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