The Sun.
London, England, 1818-10-05 00:00:00

1 OETRY.

ritlE TRIUMPH OF BACCHUS.

From " Entlynzion," a Poctic Romance',

ItY JOHN KEATS.

Beneath my palth trees, by the river side
I sat a weeping: in the whole world wide
There was no orie to ask tine why I Wept.

And I kept
Brimming the water-lily cups with team
Cold as my fears. •

And ail sat, over the iight blue hills
There came a noise revellers the rills
Into the wide stream came of purple hue—

"rwas &wows and his Crew !
The earnest trumpet spakei' and silver thrills
Ot kissing cymbals made a merry din=

'TwaS -Bitecttus and hiS
Like to a moving vintage, down they came,
Crown'd with green leaveS, and faces all on flame,
All madly dancing through the pleasant valley,
To scare thee, Melancholy!' -•• • '
0 then, 0 then, thou.wast a simple name!
And I forgot thee, as the berried holly
By shepherds is forgotten, %lien, in June,
Tall chesnuts keep away the sun and moon.—
I rush'd into the fully !

Within his car, aloft, young BACCHUS stood,
Trifling his ivy-dart, in dancing mood,
With sidelong laughing;
And little rills of crimson wine imbrued
His plump white arms, and shoulders, enough white

For VENUS' pea. ly bite :
And near him rode SILENUS„ on his ass,
Pelted witt► flowers as he on did pass,
Tipsily quaffing.

Whence came ye, merry Damsels! whence came ye!
So many, and so many, and such glee ?
Why hare ye left your bowers desolate,
Your lutes and gentler fate?
" We follow BAccHus ! BACCHUS on the wing,

A conquering!
riAccHus, young BAccuus !,good or ill betide,
We dance before him thorough kingdoms wide :
Come hither, lady fair, and joined be
To our wild minstrelsy l"

Whence came ye, jolly Satyrs ! whence came ye!
So many, and so many, and such glee ?
Why have ye left your forest haunts, why left

Your nuts in oak-tree cleft?
" For wine, for wine we left our kernel tree;
For wine we left our heath, and yellow brooms,

And cold mushrooms;
rot Wine we follow BACCHUS through the earth;
Great. God of breathless cups and chirping mirth
Come hither, lady fair, and joined be
To our mad minstrelsy !"

Over wide streams And mountains great we went,
And save where BAC(aiUS kept his ivy tent,
Onward the tiger and the leopard pants

With Asian elephants :
Onward these myriads.--with song and dance,
With zebras striped, and sleek Arabians'. prance,
Web-footed alligators, crocodiles,
Bearingitpon their scaly backs, in files,
Plunip infant laughers,tnimieking the coil
Of seamen, and stout galley-rowers' toil :
With toying oars and silken sails they glide,
Nor care for wind and tide.

Mounted on panthers'-furs and lions' manes,
From rear to ran, they scour about the plains,
A three days' journey In a moment done ; -
And always at the rising of the sun,
About the wilds they hunt, with spear and horn,
On spleenful unicorn.

I saw Osirian Egypt fall adown,
Before the tine-wreath crown
I saw parch'd Abyssinia rouse and sing

To the silver cymbals' ring! .
I saw the whelming vintage hotly pierce

Old Tartary the fierce ! .
The Kings of Inde their jewel-sceptres rail,
And from their treasures scatter pearled hail ;
Great Brahma from his mystic heaven groans,
And all his priesthood moans ; • '
Before young BACCHUS' eye-wink turning pale!
Into these regions came I following him,
Sick hearted, weary—so I took a whim,
To stray away into these forests drear,

Alone without a peer;
And I have told thee all thou mavest hear.

ELOPEMENT EXTRAORDINARY..

GUILDHALL—Satnrduy .a very . respectable
trades►nan in the City.applieij to the Sitting Ma-
gistrate, in his private room, to grant a warrant
for the. apprehension of his sister and a servant
man, with whom she I►ad thought proper to elope,
and marry wi!hont his consent or privity.

Magistrate.—" Pray, Sir, is the Lady a minor ?"
Applicant.--." A minor ! the d-1! she is within a year of
my own age, and 1 am nearly threescore !"
Magistrate.-.." I am afraid your application to me will be
of no use, for you cannot even show that you have any legal
controul over the Lady. You may, however, relate the cir-
cumstances, and it I can assist you I will."
The tradesman then with much warmth proceeded to inform
the Magistrate, that the lady in question had been his house-
keeper, his nurse, and his every comfort for more than 20
rears, for be binisrlftwas a bachelor. The only domestic in the
fatuity, with the exception of a cook ntaid, was a Mall axed
abort forty, of grave and soher habits, named Michael,
who- had beets all his lifetime in the service' of .the family.
His sister was constantly sou:lt-ling the praises of " steady
sober Michael:" and the result was, that. she eloped win*,
him, leaving a letter addressed to the complainant, stating,
that she could tint resist the entreaties of the " dear fellow"
to make bins happy. The fugitives were slow livinz in Al-
dersgate-street. He had solicited his sis,er to re; tots but to
this she would not consent, nuless accompanied by hrr hns-
bamt. He determined upon trying ,shether or not the late
could compel her to act as be wished, • and at the same time
punish the perfidious Mie'tael.
The Magistrate said he felt very ousels at his distress. but
he was swot iseti at his applica ion to ;Jim, as it was a matter
of which a Magistrate could nut
posslulyto a cog tizance. Fle
world Pecos mend bins to accept of the terms proposed by his
t
sister.

To this the applicant would not for A. aiocarot listen, and
deputediin bitter wroth, rowing yellgeauce Kim/ the head
of pour Michael.