The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-02-02 00:00:00

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POETRY.
[FROM A SERIE. OF PORNO, JUST PUBLISHED,
ENTITLED " ITALY."I
GINEYRA.
Hever you should come le Modena,
(Where among other relics you may ate
Tamers bucket—but 'tie riot the true one)
slop at a Palace near the Reggio-gate,
Dwelt iw of old by one of the Donati.
Its noble gardens, terrace above t ,
And rich in fountains, statues, cypresses,
Wall long detain you—but, before you go,
Eater the boos`--forget it not, I pray you—
Auld look awhile open a picture there.
'Ti. of a Lady in her earliest youth, 't "
The last of that illustrious family;
Dose lay Zsmpieri—bnt by whom I care trot.
He, who observes it, ere he passes on,
Gams his fill, sad comes and comes oohs,
That he may call it up, when far away.

She sits, iselinirg forward as to speak,
'Het Hps b ilf oriels, and her finger up,
As tbo' she said w Bewsrer her vest of gold
aceridered with dowers and clasped from head to foot,
♦a satarald stone in every golden clasp ;
Aed ea her brow, fairer than alabaster,
A coronet of petiole.

But thee bet face,
&lovely, yet so arch, so full of mirth,
the overflowing' age innocent ►eart—
lt harems tor still, lb& snaoy a year has Iled,
Like some wild melody !

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Alone it hangs
OSe► a mouldering hair-lows, its companion,
Aa oaken chest, half-eaten by the worm,
But richly d by Antony of Treat,
With scripture stories from the Life ut Christ ;
A chest that came from Venice mid had held
The ducal rubes of some uld ancestor—

That by the way—it may be tree or false—
Bat dJu't forget the picture; sod you will not,
When you base beard the tale they told me there.
sho was an only child—her acme Gi
The joy, the pride of an indulgent father;
And in her fifteeeth year became a bride,
Marrying at, only son, Francesco Doris,
Her playmate from her birth, sod her nest love.
Jest as she looks there la her bridal dress,
. She was all geotleoess, all gaiety,
Her pranks the favourite theme of every tongue.
But now the day was come, the day, the hoer;
Nuw frowning, smiling for the heasdredth time,
The nurse, that ancient lady, preached decorates;
And, in the low, of her yonth, she rave
Her hand, with her heart le it, to Francesca.
Great wu the joy ; but at the nuptial feast,
Wheis all este down, the Bride herself was wantiv.
Nor was she to be found! Her father cried,
" 'Ti. but to make a trial of our love!"
And filled his glass to all ; but his bead shook,
And soon from guest to guest the pack 'wad.
'Twits but that instant she And left Franceseu,
Laughing and looking beck and flying still,
Her ivory tooth imprinted on bis auger.

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Bet oovr, alas! she WM Isot so be Amend ;
Nor frees that hour could auy thing be guessed,
But that she woe uot!

Wary of his life,
Fraiteeteo flew to Venice, and. anbasking,
Flung It away la battle with the Tor*.
Donati lived—and long sight you have even

An old men ersuderinias iu qUeet of dome-thing,
Something he could not fiuil—be knew nut what.

When he was gone, the house remained awhile
Silent sad lenantleas—then weal to strangers.
Full fifty years were past, and all forgotten,
When on an idle day, a day of search
Mid the old lumber la the gallery,
That mouldering chest was noticed ; and 'lvan laid
By one as yorug, as thoughtless as Ginrvra,
" Why not remove it frutu its linking-place ?"
'Twat done as swot as said ; hut um the way
It burst, it fell; sod 10, • skeleton,
With here and there a pearl, an emerald-stone,
A golden clasp, clasping • shred of gold.
All else had perished—save • wedding-ring,
And a small seal, her mother's legacy.
Fug with a name, the name of both,

There fbi. had she found a grave!

Within that chest bad she concealed lime'',
Fluttering with joy, the happiest of the happy;
Wises a spriaplock, that lay its ambush there,
Faaatword bet down for ever ! •

Arrivals at Edioburgh—
Lady &noun; Sir Ronald C. Feretsrann, M.P.; Henry
Monteith, Esq. M.P.; and Lieutenant-Culonel
Departurev from the same place—
The Earl of Ro•sly•' Lord Loughborough, Sir David
Moisrreiffe, Sir James Writhe, the Hononrahle
Maule, M.P. the Hon. William Holm., !Well Fergus..
lon, Esq. of Keith, Mrs. Emission, Min Cleland, and
Captain Dunbiggin.
There are at this time only five of the theatrical
enntempormirs of Mr. GARRICK living. viz.—Mr.
WROUGHTON. MI.. HARTLEY, MI•. MATTOCKS,
Mr. WEWITZER, and Mr. QUICK ; the youngest of
whom has passed the 75th year of his age.
The funeral of the late Duchess of ST. A 1.11 AN'S
reached Lincoln on Tuesday forenoon from Lon-
don. The hearse was hung round with escutch-
eons, and attended by mourning casette., in one of
which was the usual solemn emblem of deceased
quality, the curtmet of her Grace. borne on a velvet
cushion : pliiipes and other sable hoitours closed
the melancholy procession. The body lay io state
all Tuesday at the White Hart tun above-hill, and
proceeded thence for Hedbourit 011 IVedneaduy.
Great Tom sent out his dolelul mood in the fore-
noon half-minutely, and the bells of the other
churches in Liuculu I:twilled as the procession
passed.

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