"Haste! and above Siberian snows
We'll sport amid the boreal morning;
Will mingle with her lustres gliding
Among the stars, the stars now hiding,
And now the stars adorning.

"I know the secrets of a land
Where human foot did never stray;
Fair is that land as evening skies,
And cool, though in the depth it lies
Of burning Africa.

"Or we 'll into the realm of Faery,
Among the lovely shades of things;
The shadowy forms of mountains bare,
And streams, and bowers, and ladies fair,
The shades of palaces and kings!

"Or, if you thirst with hardy zeal Less quiet regions to explore, Prompt voyage shall to you reveal

How earth and heaven are taught to feel

The might of magic lore!"

"My little vagrant Form of light,

My gay and beautiful Canoe,

Well have you played your friendly part;

As kindly take what from my heart

Experience forces, then adieu !

*Tempration Darks amceg your words; But wile these pleasures you're pursuing

Lacu impediment or let,

No wonder if you quite forget

in the Earth is doing.

There was a time when all mankind

Dud Isten with a futh sincere

To umefal wagoes in mystery versed;
Them Poets fearlessly rehearsed
The wonders of a wild career.

*Ga—but the world's a sleepy world,
And tis I fear, an age too late.)—
Take with you some ambitious Youth!
For, restless Wanderer! I, in truth,
Am all is to be your mate.

Long have I loved what I behold, The night that calms, the day that cheers; The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,― her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears.

"The dragon's wing, the magic ring,
I shall not covet for my dower,
If I along that lowly way

With sympathetic heart may stray,
And with a soul of power.

"These given, what more need I desire

To stir, to soothe, or elevate?

What nobler marvels than the mind

May in life's daily prospect find,
May find or there create?

"A potent wand doth Sorrow wield What spell so strong as guilty Fear! Repentance is a tender Sprite;

;

If aught on earth have heavenly might "T is lodged within her silent tear.

"But grant my wishes, let us now
Descend from this ethereal height;
Then take thy way, adventurous Skiff,
More daring far than Hippogriff,
And be thy own delight!

"To the stone-table in my garden,
Loved haunt of many a summer hour,
The Squire is come: his daughter Bess
Beside him in the cool recess
Sits blooming like a flower.

"With these are many more convened;
They know not I have been so far;
I see them there, in number nine,
Beneath the spreading Weymouth pine!
I see them, there they are!

so 2 Tear and his Dame;

Axi zer ny mod end, Stephen Otter; Ai e ne imt af evening fail,

en must ate the Tale

It Beer Bed me Porter."

Of Sew the Boat-away she flees,
Scarning her Sr with indignation!
Amis vai as I was able,

In 20 your legs award my stone table
Lmgei a via sure verstion.

• WE TE WADZI Saxously and long,” They med and a around me throng, File of tem or more!

← Seprach me wc-your fears be still,—
Be that we again have met; —
Resume, ny Friends! within the shade
Your seas, and quickly shall be paid
The well-remembered debt."

I spake with faltering voice, like one
Not wholly rescued from the pale
Of a wild dream, or worse illusion;
But, straight, to cover my confusion,
Began the promised Tale.

PART FIRST.

ALL by the moonlight river-side

Groaned the poor Beast,· alas! in vain ;
The staff was raised to loftier height,
And the blows fell with heavier weight
As Peter struck, and struck again.

"Hold!" cried the Squire, "against the rules
Of common sense you're surely sinning:
This leap is for us all too bold;

Who Peter was, let that be told,
And start from the beginning."

*

"A Potter, Sir, he was by trade,"
Said I, becoming quite collected;
"And wheresoever he appeared,
Full twenty times was Peter feared
For once that Peter was respected.

"He two-and-thirty years or more
Had been a wild and woodland rover;
Had heard the Atlantic surges roar
On farthest Cornwall's rocky shore,
And trod the cliffs of Dover.

"And he had seen Caernarvon's towers,
And well he knew the spire of Sarum ;

* In the dialect of the North, a hawker of earthen-ware is thus designated.