ORRAR AND MUIRNE. [From the Irish.] 1. SHE comes along the flowery lawn— Her jetty locks in ringlets dance. 2. Ere yet my youthful arm could wave The deeds of Erin's matchless might; And burned for battle's fiercest hour; 3. Yet Muirne! oft has Orrar sought His country's foes-nor sought in vain ; Where'er this hand th' invader fought, His bravest, mightiest, strewed the plain. 1 Bin-Edur-the ancient name of the Hill of Howth. But never has my conquering spear 4. Sweet flower of blooming loveliness! Bright with young Passion's gentle fire! Sept. 7th 1833. EPIGRAM ON A WEALTHY AND PRESUMING UPSTART, "There is not, in the whole compass of nature, a more insufferable creature than a prosperous fool."-CiCERO. WHEN I meet Tom, the purse-proud and impudent blockhead, In his person, the poets' three ages I trace; For the GOLD and the SILVER unite in his pocket, And the BRAZEN is easily seen in his face. Feb. 16th, 1830. EPISTLE FROM DR. SOUTHEY, POET LAUREAT, AND AUTHOR OF THE 66 BOOK OF THE CHURCH," SIR, 66 TO THE EDITOR OF THE PARSON'S HORN-BOOK. "" 1 I suppose you'll feel somewhat surprised, By a mere stranger to be thus advised; But, if you wish, as well your own salvation, As that of Ireland and her "sister nation," No longer seek, with satire to destroy, But, in the Church's cause, your pen employ; Since, as I'll show, none like her qualifies The souls of sinful laymen for the skies. When the great author of eternal life Shared our afflictions in this "vale of strife," Saint Matthew tells us, that a certain Jew Asked, "what, to gain salvation, he should do?" "Keep the commandments," the Redeemer cried: "All, from my youth, I've kept," the Jew replied. Our Lord rejoined "If thou wouldst Heaven insure. Sell what thou hast, and give it to the poor!" But the young man, not liking what he heard, His treasures here, to those above, preferred. "Then," said our Saviour, "it is hardly given, That a rich man should ever enter Heaven; 1 For an account, and examination of the causes that led to the appearance, of this first effective publication against Irish Church temporalities and abuses, and its connection with the formation of the "Comet Club," and the " Irish Brigade," see the Postscript or Appendix to this Epistle, at the end of the volume. A camel may pass through a needle's eye, Our wicked hearts would lead us to the Devil; ! 2 Decius Mus, a Roman consul, who, after many gloriou exploits, devoted himself to the Gods Manes, for the safety of h country, in a battle against the Latins, 338 years B. C. His so Decius, followed his example, fighting against the Gauls an Samnites, B. C. 296. . This act of devoting one's self wa of infinite service to the STATE.--Lempriere. 3 Two Carthaginian brothers, justly celebrated for their patri otism. The Carthaginians and Cyrenæans, after a long and bloody war about the limits of their territories, being apprehen They, for thy welfare, met a living grave- sive that a third power might arise to avail itself of their mutual weakness by the injury or ruin of both, agreed to make peace on the following conditions. The two states were each to appoint ambassadors, who were to advance in a given direction from their respective capitals at a certain day and hour, and the place of their meeting was to be the boundary of their governments. Two brothers, the Philæni, were named as the Carthaginian ambassadors, and, either from the remissness of the Cyrenæan envoys, or their having been delayed by one of those formidable sand-storms, which, in the desert parts of Africa, are as dangerous to travellers on land, as tempests are to mariners at sea, the Carthaginians met their opponents somewhat within the Cyrenæan limits. The Cyrenæans, being consequently afraid of punishment, if they returned home defeated by their own acknowledgement, endeavoured to involve matters in clamour and confusion, that they might escape an impeachment by a rupture of negociations and a renewal of the war. For this purpose, they exclaimed against the Philani as having commenced their journey too soon; and, on the two brothers having honourably offered, for the sake of peace, to wave the advantage they had acquired, and to accept of any other terms consistent with equality and justice, the Cyrenæans proposed " Either that the Philæni should consent to be buried alive on the spot claimed by them as the boundary of the Carthaginian state, or that they, the Cyrenæan ambassadors, should be permitted to advance as far as they might choose, under the same penalty." The first of these proposals, it was anticipated, that the Philæni, from the penalty annexed to it, would on their own account reject, as they would be justified in doing. The terms of the second proposal, or that by which the Cyrenæans were to be bound, though appearing to contain the same penalty for them as the first did for their opponents, were, in effect, such, that, whether acquiesced in or rejected by the Carthaginians, the contrivers would be equally guarded against suffering either the penalty it contained, or the punishment they feared at home. For, if the privilege of advancing ad libitum into the Carthaginian territory should be unthinkingly acceded to by the Philani, the Cyrenean ambassadors might acquire the greater part, or, indeed, ALL its possessions from Carthage, to which city itself they might proceed -a submission to which war itself would of course be preferable. And, on the other hand, if the proposal involving such an absurdity should be rejected, it was calculated that a similar result would ensue, in a rupture of the negociations, and a renewal C |