Reflected images are seen Upon this transient stream of Time, Then let us rightly learn to know And e'en when clouds roll o'er our head, PROPHETIC. [Lines written on the window-glass of an Inn in England during the author's travels through Europe in 1774—5. BY GULIAN VERPLANCK. HAIL happy Britain, Freedom's blest retreat; And when that time arrives, the lot of all, When Britain's glory, power, and wealth shall fall; Then shall thy sons by Fate's unchang'd decree In other worlds another Britain see, And what thou art, America shall be. LINES [Suggested by a Perusal of "The Life of Chatterton."] BY A. L. BLAUVELT. AND yet there are, who, borne on fortune's tide, And when the north wind rages through the sky, From the high boon a sterner fate derive, And suffer most, to suffering most alive. THE MAGIC DRAUGHT. [Addressed to a young Lady who gave him Seltzer water to drink.] BY DR. S. L. MITCHELL. BRISK sparkled the liquid, most lively and fine, Pursuant to order, he drank in a trice, Full confidence in his physician he placed; For who that is favour'd with lady's advice Can ever refuse their prescriptions to taste? Unconscious what mischief within it might lurk, Suspecting, at last, from his feelings unus'd, A trick on his faith had been wantonly play'd, "Some philter or potion" he swore "was infused, Some magic or poison instilled by the maid." "Not this a Nepenthe the mind to compose, Which Helen at Sparta employ'd in her feasts, But a draught such as Circe, the sorceress, chose, Transforming the drinkers to four-footed beasts." "Not a worse composition did Shakspeare behold, Thus railing and raving, awhile he went on, No water from Seltzer the vessel contain❜d, Nor has Pyrmont or Spa such a remedy known; For she candidly, since the prescription, explain'd, Prepar'd by a process entirely her own. The tears which at church on Good Friday she shed, This 'kerchief, to bleech in the sunshine was plac'd, And moisten'd as often hy dew-drops of May. In ether's high region, where thunders prevail, And twice in the rainbow's refraction been warm'd. Collecting these drops on their fall from above, This potent elixir, he plainly observes, Of his head and his heart has pervaded the whole; Excites every fibre, and quickens the nerves, With sweet agitation delighting the soul. Yet he fears its effects on his temper and health Nor seek to be crown'd with the laurels of Fame. Nay-an antidote sovereign he long has possess'd, Pre-occupied, heart winning Sh by thee. [On Miss IMPROMPTU. -'s paying the tribute of a tear to a scene of distress.] BY JACOB MORTON.-1790. SOFT as the dews of evening skies Which on the flow'ret's bosom fall, Ah! may that tender, feeling heart, Nor sigh-but for another's wo. |