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Etteraturr.

POETRY.

DEATH SCENE.

" O Day ! he cannot die,
When thou so fair art shining !
0 Sun, in Inch a glorious sky,
So tranquil:), declining.

He cannot leave thee now.
White fresh west winds are blowing
And all around thy youthf .1 brow
Thy cheerful light is glowing 1

Edwar 1, awake, awake--;
Thy g,.lden t vening gleams
Warm and bright on Arden's take—
Arouse thee ircm thy dreams!

" Bes de thee, on my knee,
My dearest ! I pray
That thou to cross the eternal sea,
Wuuldst yet one hour delay.

f. I hear its billows ronr—
I see them foaming. high ;
But no glimpse of a further shore
Ha, blest my straining eye.

" Believe not what they urge
Of Eden isles beyond
Turn back, from that tempestuous surge,
To thy own native land.

"It is not death, but pain •
That struggles in ,hy breast ;
Nay, rally, Ndward, rouse again—
I cannot let thee rest !

" One long look.that sore reproved me
For the wce I could not hear—
One mute Took of buffeting moved me
To repeat my useless prayer ;

" And, with sudden shock, the Leaving
Of distraction passed away ;
Not a sign of further grieving
Stirred my soul that awful day.

Paled, at length, the sweet snn setting ;
Sunk to peace the twilight breeze ;
Summer dews. fell a it y wetting
Glen, and gh de, and sLent trees.

" Then his eyes began t weary,
Weighed beneath a mortal sleep ;
And their orl,s grew st.artgely dreary,
Clouded even as they would weep.

" But they wept not —but they changed not—
Never moved. and never closed
Troubled still. and still they ranged not—
Wandered not, nor yet reposed I

" So I k ew that he was dying—
Str oped, and raised his anguid head ;
Felt no breath, and beard no sighing—
So I knew that he was dead.''

Ellis's Poems.

NOTICES.

Sharpe's London Magazine. London :T. B. Sharpe
and Co., 15, Skincer-street, Snow-13111.—We have before
us the half-yearly volume of this interesting miscellany,
which certainly increases in merit as it progresses. For
miscellaneous read,rig it is certainly one of the cheapest
and best works extant. The illustrations are of a very
high character, and would a few years ago have been
deemed worthy of admiration in a work of ten times the
price. The volume, a noble royal octavo of upwards of
four bundr 'd pages, is charged a very low figure indeed.
Dublin University Magazine. Dublin : James M
'llan, 21, D'Oilier-street.—The present number is first-
rate, in talent and interest. The first article, " Evenings
with our Younger Poets," is evidently the work of a man
of highly poetic feeling, a poet, although, perhaps,
" wanting the faculty of verse." Some of his prose
poetry is very beautiful, .nd his selec'ious from the poetry
under notice full of fine discrimination. " The Shannon,
chapter x," is as good as any of its predecessors ; and
that is saying much in its behalf. " Our Portrait Gal-
lery" contains an excellent sketch of Sir Henry Pottin-
get's career, with an etching. Mr. Carleton's " Black
Prophet" is continued with increasing interest; and the
other articles are above the average standard of periodical
literature.

Fraser's Magazine. London : G. W. Nickisson, 215,
Regent-street.--Fraser this month contains some inte-
resting papers, although nothing of a very striking cha-
racter.—The first chapter of a new tale, entitled " The
Rector's Daughter," promises to be very interesting;
and • " Contemporary Orators," Mr. Wakley end Dr.
Bowring being the parties sketched, is done in a mere
than usual masterly style.
Blaekwood's Magazine, October.—lt is refreshing in the
present number to meet again the fine dashing pen of

Christopher North himself, which has recently been. want-
ing in this magazine. He is on a congenial subject, more-
over, having put on his sporting jacket to review St.
John's wild sports and the natural history of the High-
lands. The number contains more than its usual quan-
tity of matter interesting to the general reader. Amongst
the contents of this class we notice a review of " Hoche-
bga, or England in the New World," by Eliot War-
burton ; a " New Sentimental Journey," and " The
Conde's Daughter." ." Elinor Travis" is concluded

very -much to our satisfaction. The characters of the'
tale and the incidents are too extravagant. " Poems, by
Elizabeth B. Barrett," are marked with great originality
of style and beauty of thought and conception. As a
whole Blackwood is more than usually good.
The Fortunes of Torlogh O'Brien, No. VII.:
M'Glashen. D'Olier-street, Dublin, continues its stirring
interest. The characters of Tyrconnell and Myles
Garrett are strongly drawn. and their joint villainy is the
prominent subject 01 the present numt,er.
The Church of Englund Quarterly Review, Oct.,
London : W. E. Painter, Strand. This excellent Re-
view has just come to band and contains some valuable
articles, the first. in particular, a Review of Anderson's
Annals of the Bible, will be read with great interest. We
must, however, devote some further time to a careful
perusal and notice of the whole number.