Regular, with alternate rhime. 742 Behold! what storms | are gathering round, Behold! the Frenchman is at thy door! Anapastic Verses to be scanned. See "Anapastic," in the Prosody, page 32. 743 The spirit of chivalry reign'd o'er the laws, When the glances of beauty decided the cause. 744 No arbour, no shade, and no verdure is seen; My temples with clusters of grapes I'll entwine; All bold and erect ev'ry ruffian we meet; [street. And the coachmen, in tremors, scarce trot through the 1 With a flourishing whip they once gallop'd along, While the chariot was whirling through foam and through smoke. 747 Let them talk of the beauties, the graces, that dwell I, too, of those beauties, those graces, could tell : I could say, that, in nature, each emblem is faint, Her form-oh! 'tis all that young Fancy can paint; But the frost of unkindness those blossoms can blight-Each charm, each perfection, can stain Make the sweet-smiling Loves and the Graces take flight, And ease the fond fool of his pain. Come, Mirth, and thy train! Of thy joys let me share- With these, I'll forget that my Phyllis is fair.- 748 Ye pow'rs, who make Beauty and Virtue your care; Let no blast of misfortune intrude on the fair, 749 I have march'd, trumpets sounding, drums beating, flags flying, Where the music of war drown'd the shrieks of the You' dying. 750.- Warranted Rasors. warrant those rasors which now I have bought?". "Yes, truly, I warrant them not worth a groat." 751. Robinson Crusoe*. - I am monarch of all I survey: That sages have seen in thy face? I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech * It may be proper to inform some of my young readers that the fictitious tale of Robinson Crusoe was built on the real story of Alexander Selkirk, a Scotchman, who had lived several years in total solitude on the island of Juan Fernandez. Upon kis return to England, he intrusted his papers to Daniel De Foe, to prepare them for the press, with the reasonable hope of deriving benefit from the publication of his extraordinary adventures. But De Foe, shamefully betraying his trust, stole from those papers the ground-work of his tale, which he published, for his own benefit, as an original piece---leaving poor Selkirk to Jament the confidence which he had unluckily placed in a man who could thus basely and cruelly rob him of all the advantages which he was entitled to reap from his past sufferings. I start at the sound of my own....... Society, friendship, and love, Divinely bestow'd upon men! Oh! had I the wings of a dove, How soon would I taste you again!...... Some cordial endearing report Anapastics to be versified. Anapastics of four feet. Each line to make a verse, and each couplet to rhime.-N. B. It is of no consequence whether the first foot of each verse consist of two syllables or of three, provided that the last syllable of that foot be accented.- See page 32. 752 Adieu to the woodlands, where, gay and sportive, 753 Adieu to the woodlands, where I have rov'd oft, And, with the friend that I lov'd, convers'd sweetly. 754 Content and joy are now fled from our dwellings; And, instead, disease and want are our inmates. 755. The French Revolution, Now chivalry is dead, and Galla run'd ; 756 No distinctions remain: lost is all order: Crosses, ribbons, and titles, obtain no rev'rence. All ranks, all ages, all nations, shall combine 758 Though, from dunghills, meteors arise with lustre, Is the filth, left behind, like the flame in the skies? 759 A singular custom prevails at Pavia, To protect, from jails and bailiffs, the poor debtor. In my eye there's no grief, though my cheek may be And 'tis seldom I give a sigh to sad mem❜ry. You'll soon fly afar from country and from friends, To havoc and to camps, to war and to rage. 762 His case I remember'd, though scant was my wallet, Nor, to his pitiful face, refus'd my last crust. 763 Blind, forsaken, and poor, where shall I now go? Can I find one so kind and faithful, to guide me? Her limbs could then no more support their faint And she sank on the floor breathless and exhausted, 765 The hotter the fight, we still grow the fiercer. |