CONTENTS. 20. 164 To a Brother, who had been afflicted with a long The Show, an English Eclogue, in hexameters Omar at the Tomb of Azza. By GEORGE GOODWIN 219 Markoff, a Siberian Eclogue. By JOSEPH COTTLE 223 A Winter Sketch. By WM. CASE, Junr. Fire, Famine, and Slaughter. A War Eclogue An Elegy written in a London Church-Yard. Parody. 247 The Haunted Beach. By Mrs. ROBINSON CONTENTS. Designed for a Tablet over the Grave of my little Lines on the Portrait of a Lady Written at Tenbury, Worcestershire, on disturbing Communications for the third volume of the St. JUAN GUALBERTO. Addressed to a FRIEND. I. The work is done, the fabric is compleat; Must toil for many a league and many an hour. II. Long were the tale that told Moscera's pride, What intersecting arches graced its gate; III. Yet while the fane rose slowly from the ground, But little store of charity, I ween, The passing pilgrim at Moscera found; And often there the mendicant was seen Hopeless to turn him from the convent door, For this so costly work still kept the brethren poor. IV. Now all is perfect, and from every side They flock to view the fabric, young and old. Who now can tell Rodulfo's secret pride, When on the sabbath day his eyes behold The multitudes that crowd his chapel floor, Some sure to serve their God, to see Moscera more. V. So chanced it that Gualberto pass'd that way, Since sainted for a life of holy deeds; He paus'd the new-rear'd convent to survey, And, whilst o'er all its bulk his eye proceeds, Sorrows, as one whose holier feelings deem That ill so proud a pile did humble monks beseem. |