The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-05-07 00:00:00

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POE'I'RY.

SWEET BUDS, YE ARE BURSTING.

The following beautifol s'anris were written in the spring of
last year. by r. ROBERT ,TORY, author of The Isles are
Awa:.e." a d several other stirring and animated pieces of
poetry The author is a title son of genius. and was placed
in a humble lot; in this pretty effusion he describes the ne-
glect which he had experienced from those whom, he con-
ceived. shoo d have ex.en.led to him their protection. We.
are glad to say tam Sir Robert Peel. some time ago, conferred
upon the hot* au appointment in one of the government
offices.

Sweet buds, ye are bursting profusely to sight,
Th earth is becoming one fairy domain
And the hearts of its thou ands re touched with delight,
By your promise of spring and het beanties again
But my heart

yet, Oh no ! I will welcome ye still,
Sweet heralds 01 joy—not to me or to mine :
For. talk of bright days to the world as ye will,
To us ye ,peak neither of bloom nor of shine.

No summer to me shall the summer restore.
But one comfortless desert all wintry qnd hare;
And hopeless, an, heartless, and nerveless. no more
I battle with fortune, or cop with despair.

Perchance too much heat in the advocate woke:
'fwas ar. ; for lam not, and ca. not be, one
Who flings o'er his thoughts and opinions a cloak,
Standing fair with all parties, but skiing with none.

Yet I sang not for party, though p rtisan cAled;
But l sun.• what I test—wh t each Briton should feel,
When at archy threatened and peril appalled— •
My arty, my country ; my motive, her weal!

And for this lam crushed! Yet I blame not the men,
Destructives. indignant at missi-g their end :
It is human to crush an oppon nt ; nut then
Is it n3t so to shield and to succour a friend?

It is, and 'tuere godli e, and worthy of those
V►ho have gained the high tower of their hopes, to declare
That each step of the ladder oy w ich the) arose,
The lowest—the weasest—may challenge their care.

Vain hope ! The protection to principle due,
Some rebel may Ket ; nut the patriut and bard
Shall die--bearinz witness that loyalty true
Is its own—and is ever its only reward!

N 0 1' I C E S.

The Library of Travel.

We have received Part I. of a neat and interesting work
under this title, Ming " A po,iular Description of Foreign
Countries, ediied by Walter K. Kelly," and have been
much pl•ase.i with a hasty glance at its pages. It is ex-
ceedingly well, and, we may add, elegantly written, the
object of Vie editor being to supply the very gist and mar-
row of the neat modern narratives of travel and adven-
ture, with reminiscences cf the past; and judging from the
sp-cimen before us, we should say th,t he deserves the
highest success. This part is occupied with Syria, and
mare especially Beyrout, tclig the commencement of
" Syria and the Holy Land." Tne appearance of the
country--the town—the varied and motley inhabitants,
and their equally varied and somewhat antagonist man-
ners and customs, are all intere4'ngly described, with
moving incidents interspersed, which impart to the whole
a peculiar degree of vivacity and entertainment. The
book, which is of very moderate price, is illustrated with
numerous well executed wood-cuts, of scenery, figures,
Br.c. In the prospectus forming the cover, the editor
states—

"Topography-, archaeology, and all other matters that
come within the sc,ipe of a traveller's speculations, will
enter of course iiit the composition of our mosaic; but
they will be treatei popularly, and al.vays with reference
to the main purpose of the pu' lic.it on, which is to pre-
sent to the reader's imag,in mon, nut the bloodless ab-
stractions of science, but the Lying and breathing forms
of nature and of men. In a word, it wilt be our endea-
vour to picture foreign scenes, and those who dwell in
them, as they meet the eye of the visitor ; to reflect in our
pages the striking feature. of nature and of art in distant
lands—'he peculiar, social, domestic, and personal habits
they display—the ways of thinking and acting of their
people, and all the pleasures and crossings, the perils and
adventures, the poetry, and romance, the whims, hu-
mours, and surprises incident to the traveller's career.''
Au extract or two will be found elsewhere.