The Sun.
London, England, 1825-08-19 00:00:00

POETRY,

LINES TO A FAITHLESS HUSBAND:.
Can the voice of reason reach you,
In the midst of frantic joys,
If it can, all' let it teach you,
What my peace of mind destroys.
Oh 'tis not the wrongs you've done me,
Prey upon my wounded mind,
But the heart, with which you won me,
To another you've resigned.
Souls more gross than mine may pleasure, •
Feel in what the brutes partake,
But to me the dearest treasure,
Was the faith which ne'er could break.
Let the syren, who's ensnared thee,
• Glut upon the grosser part,
If„you only could have spared me,
All I wish'd to have, your heart.
But too well I know, that never,
Stich a partnership can be,
Soul and body ne'er cam sever,
Until death has set thee free.
That I lov'd thee, ah how dearly,
Heaven knows who heard my vows,
That my faith I've kept sincerely,
Self-approving conscience knows.
Not by merely chastly keeping,
That each matron ought to do,
But my thoughts, awake or sleeping, -
Never once have stray'd from you.
Oh you had (cease teen from flowing),
A heart so tender, and so true ;
Eyery joy of heaven's bestowing,
All were center'd, once in you.
While I write, my babe lies sleeping,
Cradled by its mother's arms;
unconscious that her eyes are weeping,
O'er the author of his charms.
But no more, the' thus I've,slieWn thee,
All that rends may heart in twain,
Think not that I will ever own thee,
Or receive thee, back again.
The die is cast, for I can never,
Sue for a divided heart :
Nor imagine time can ever,
Sooth my soul or ease its smart.
Yet 1 wish thee, every blessing,
Heaven can give, or man receive,
And the' absent, still possessing,
All those joys, for which I grieve.

ANECDOTES, &c.

ANTIFATHIES AND FEARS.—It is difficult to account for
the dislikes Which some persons tale to those things which arc
pleasing in themselves, and generally admired. The celebrated
Marquis de la Roche Jacquiline, though he stood undaunted
in the field of slaughter, always trembled and turned pale at
the sight of a harmless squirrel.—The Cardinals Condona and
Cavassa, and a Venetian Nobleman of the family of Barbaragi,
as well as Lady Heneage, one of the Maids of Honour to Queen
Elizabeth, invariably swooned at the sight of a rose.--A family
of rank, resident in Aquitane, had such an antipathy to apples,
that at the sight of that fruit their noaes would bleed profusely.
Various similar instances of unaccountable antipathies and dis.
like, might be adduced on tle authority and credit of celebrated
Biographers and Historians.

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SECOND APPEARANCE.—A young Lady recently made her
appearance at one of our Theatres, not one hundred miles from
Covent-garden, but with indifferent success, and was not of
course called on by the Manager again. She from time to time
pressed the Theatrical Monarch to say when she should make
her second appearance. " Your second appearance," said he
one day musing, " let me see, why as soon, Madam, as the
public shall have forgotten your first."
NAVAL ANECDOTE.—During the American War, Sir
R IctrAirn frioTHAm and Captain FANstrAwr, then eom-
mandim, two frigates, were ordered to land solue British troops
they had on hoard up Iludson's River, in a narrow part of
which the Americans had thrown up two strong batteries,
Which completely commanded the navigation. Capt. Hotham,
who was ahead, first discovered the danger, which he soon
after communicated to Captain Fanshawe, and requested his
opinion as to the prudence of the attempt; to which the latter
replied, " My dear fellow, we are ordered to put these men on
shore at a particular spot, and if I had been ordered to land
them in bell, by God I would have a thunder at the gate." An
hour after the batteries were passed without material.injury, and
he troops safely landed.