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He told me we should dwell with lore
In some most dear retreat ;
With evening's starry smile above,
And flowers around our feet ;
Mr faithful page his greyhound fleet,
O'er Nature's beauties free;
Whilst he would have attendants sweet,
The nightingale and me.

lie came : he hraught the laurel wreath—
But dim that altered eve ;
And the voire that loved to breathe
Of things that email not (lie.
Oh ! Death entwined his wreath of Fame
Which many a heart bereaves; ,
For, thowth there's ,lore in its name,
There's poison in its leaves.

THE PRINCE OP TIIE STORM.

BY TUB SAME?.
I was horn in a elOtlrl of sulploireous hue—
Darkness my' mother, :an•l Planoe my sire:
Tit,. earth shook in terror, as forth to its view
I sprang from mt• throne like a monarch .of .fire !
Aly brother, boll Thunder, hurray(' 113 I sped !
My subjects laugh'd wild, till the rim from their eyes
Roll'(l.hiat, as though torrents were.dash'd over=head,
Or an ocean had hurst through the hotindt.rtif-the skies !
lam Prince of the Storm—of the elontl—of the Air—
I strike the firm oak that (loth ages defy •
And lo! in an instant 'tis shatter'd and hare !
For the Lanceman of Death, the red Lightning am I !

Hurrah! what a whirling and rush o'er the land;
Like the cannon of battle the dark mountains roar;
Whilst around, with my lance of fire in my hand,
I scatter wild havoc behind and before !
Hurrah for the forest! with sounds like the ocean,
The boughs heave in billows and groan in the blast!
Theft, silent as death, not a branch seen in motion,
They breathles, look up when the tempest hath pased,
Oh ! I'm Printe of the-Storm—of the Air—of the Cloud,
I strike the tall rock that duth ages defy,
And lot in an instant shiver'd and bowed—
For the Lancemati of Death, the red Lightning am I!

LITERARY NDI7.ICES.

BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.
We have read, oil read with great interest, the last
number of Blackwood's gdinbaret Magazine. Many
Of the article's are of national importance, and are dis-
cussed with an ability that becomes that importance—
profound views correctly drawn, and ju,.! Sentiments ener-
getically expressed, distinguish this number. The first
paper itself is sutfijent tnitempt us Out beyond the li
mits of a newspaper notice—" State of gducation in
France." Whether that country, long the seat of civil
war, and still exposed to its convulsions, will submit to
have the minds of all its subjects disciplined according to
a national system of education, is to us questionable.
Perhapi the projector of the design took Sparta for his
model. But this is not to apply the steady light of his-
tory to illuminate succeeding generations; but to educe
from it an 4,,nis fatuus that will -lead to fatal issues.
There is no parity between France 'and I.arr-cedalon.
Perhaps some late, and not forgotten disorderi `in the
colleges of Germany, have led France to take the impor-
tant engine of education under its control, in order that
all its-moVements• may be subordinate to •state purposes.
But we must refer to the article itself fOr a Completnek-
position of the subjeet:
The article entitled " The House of Peers" deserves
a careful perusal by every one who wishes to form a cot
rectjudgment upon that important subject, from a well-
digested summary of past and pasSing'eventsit is full Of
Constitutional wisdom, and pregnant with 'great political
truths—the progress of conservatism in England is for-
cibly exhibited, and the best directory afforded to render
its advance still more rapid and successful.
• "-The World we' live in"—the next article—reminds
US 'of a poWerfril steam engine in action with only half
its work upon it. The style is graceful and powerful,
"without o'erflowinggfull ;"• and although the subjects
canvassed are greatly important in theirissues, yet there
is infused into the discussion of them so lively an 'inte-
rest, tint lie must be fastidious indeed who derives no
pleasure from their perusal. "To catch the manners
living as they rise" is always a pleasing ethployment, and
when " the world we live in" is laid under contribution;
and made to answer its exactions, as in this essay, read
lure to have variety and novelty sun:lent to keep up
excitement.
On the paper entitled the "Metaphysician" we dare
not enter with any minute particularity ;' the view taken
of " conception" is nearly identical-with that of Watts;
upon the subject of "jodguient" there is Some origina-
lity, but we do not exactly follow him to.his conclusion.
upon this interesting section of metaphysics we have
thought much and published something; and' should be
glad (were we to consult our own inelidation) to go -into
a critical examination of thiS 'part of this tell-written
and clear-headed paper.
The remaining articles of the magazine are all com-
panions moving in the same elegant circle of literature,
and worthy of that portion of the society of which we
have made a brief mention.