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Zaeraturr.

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lotions. A Poem. By John Tod
Seeley, Burnside, and Co.

V/
London

.ct of the reverend writer of the poem before us
ce the views,of the Evangelical Alliance, and
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ce all classes of Christians to lay aside their dif-
s in non-essential points, and to unite in an effort
note the spread of real religion amongst mankind.
he feasibility, or the reverse, of such an effort, we
s critics, nothing to do. Our business is with the
tion as a poem, and with the way in which the
of the writer has been handled.
Brown addresses himself, at the commencement
work, to the administering of a castigation of what

with which various sects are

[I towards each other; and, in doing so, is not

iring in his hits. Popery, in especial, receives no
ess at his hands, and Episcopacy very little. The
tg is his treatment of the latter, which certainly
t seem to us very likely to conciliate matters, or
about the Christian union desired :

Lo! there Episcopacy struts supreme!
Rapt in her antique, apostolic dream ;

of state

a with well feathered claws,

She crows o'er all conventic.
Prompt to transfix, with talon-tests,
A lordly ruff encompasses her neck,
lawn and luxury bedeck ;
.er monstrous maw with sinecures is stuffed,
Her pompous head pith crown and mitre coifed;
Crane-like, she looks but little to her toes,
The citrates, though on them her reverence goes
A cuckoo wight she shelters 'neath her wings,

:e jackdaws,

and laws;

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That roundelays of Rome devoutly sings,
And fraudulently hatches in her nest
A brood that her authority contest:
Strange I that with lips of holy things which speak,
Puseyites the pay of perjury should seek :
Strange ! that their step-mother gi% es bed and board
To those who 'gainst her whet their traitor sword!"

aptist, too, his a rude hit administered in Stanza

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tic waddles o'er the ground,
Which ne'er is right, till half in water drowned;
Not cf the genus goose, and yet allied,
A strange embodiment of humble pride;
If as a duckling wetted, 't will not do,
The full.grown duck must get a ducking too;
As if the sign of grace forbidden were
To babes, who grace confessedly may share I"
e other passages, in which the writer describes the
of things to arise when the union of Christians is
ted, are written in a much better spirit and are in
taste. The following is one of those to which we

' But let thy meditative eye alight,

And one sole spot arrest thy stedfast sight;
Britannia's glory and disgrace,
Shouldst thou be crowned the Capital of grace,
Thy teeming streets, thy squares of dusty green,
(Each in itself a town and rural scene,)
Thy monuments of vast masonic art,
Thy river highway, and thy monied mart,
Thy giant bridges, that their isthmus stretch,
An i fleets that of the world the commerce fetch,
Might all remain :—But Man, mysterious Man—
Boundless as space, yet bounded as a span—
A seed the sport of every wind that blows,
And yet the tree immort'"
Plaything of Time, e'
Or spurned as dross, or set in diadem—
Ah ! what the change that would transfigure Thee,
Wert thou with Scripture's second sight to see!
No more would counters, spread with rich and rare,
Furnish of Vanity the gaudy fair;
No more would Luxury's ignoble skill
Larders and cellar, with its dainties fill,
Nor helpless Art (like streams that cannot rise
Above the source in which their birth-place lies'
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y that grows;

limental

uer marble, or -ours mix,
And vainly strive the Beautiful to fix ;
Nor Intellect her God-like powers employ,
To frame a law-suit, or to mend a toy ;
Nor Poe,l, her magic lantern trim.
To paint a butterfly, or sketch a whim ;
Nor Music of the heart each fibre thrill,
With fancies—fairy harbingers of ill;
Nor Eloquence, with wild rEolian note,
Grandiloquent o'er straws and air-bells float ;
Nor trifling Legislation condescend
To vote a nuisance, or a highway mend.
Oh not Were Christ king of all hearts, each rule
Supreme would issue. from his rightful school,
And Parliaments and Judges only meet,
To seat them at His equitable feet ;
And noons now spent in bars -'

allowed air,

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