The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-27 00:00:00

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VERSES ADDRESSED TO THE EDDYSTONE

LIGHTHOUSE.

For the Liverpool Standard.
Thou massive pile, that from the ocean's bed,
In conscious strength uprear'st thy stately head,
The furious winds that o'er creation storm,
In vain with ire assail thy stately form ;
The raging seas, the lightning's deadly flash,
The rushing thunder-bolt, all vainly crash
Against-thy rocky sides, thy stormy front,
Firm, and unshaken, braves their furious brunt.
When murky midnight broods upon the waves,
And o'er the sea the headlong tempest raves;
Brightly, and blazing burns thy friendly light,
'Midst all the gloom, and horrors of the night;
The storm-pressed seaman on his homeward way,
Sees, and rejoices at thy warning ray;
Long may'st thou stand, amidst the rushing tide,
The sailor's friend, his guardian, and his guide.
Liverpool, 1842. R. C.

A CLAIM IN AN ALLEGORY.
BY ELIZABETH B. BARRETT.

Grief sate upon a rock and sighed one day—
Sighing is all her rest.
" Welav;ay, welaway ! ah, welaway !"
The river beat the rock, and she her breast—
" Ith, welaway ! las me! ah me, ah me !"
How sorely sighed she.

A Cloud spake out of heaven, softly as rain
That falls on water—" Lo,
The IN inds have wandered from me—l remain
Lone in this skiey waste, and cannot go
To lean my whiteness on the mountain blue,
Till wanted for more dew.

" The Sun hath struck my brain to weary peace,
Whereby constrained and pale
I spin for him a larger golden fleece
Than Jason's—yearning for as full a sail.
0 Grief, when thou hast sighed to thy mind,
Give me thy sighs for wind,
" And let them carry me adown the west."
But Love—who, prostrated,
Lay at Grief's foot, his lifted eyes possest
Of her full image—answered in her stead :
" Now nay, now nay ; she shall not give away
What is my own, for my Cloud that flieth !
Where Grief makes moan,
Love claim his own—
And therefore do I watch here all the day,
Eking my life out with the breath she sigheth."

LITERARY NOTICES.

England in the Nineteenth Century. Lancashire, Northern

Division; part 7. London : How and Parsons.

The present number contains a description of the country,
baronial halls, antiquities, and present condition of the
neighbourhood of Blackburn, Chorley, Preston, Lancaster,
Fleetwood, &c.; and abounds in interesting descriptions
and excellent wood-cuts of the principal objects worthy of
notice. In the explanatory pages appended is a mass of
highly important statistical information.

The Book of British Ballads, Edited by S. C. Hall, Esq.

No;, 2 and 3. London: How and Parsons.

The spirited publishers of this magnificently illustrated
collection of our British ballads have adopted, apparently,
the opinion that gems of price should be richly set. To the
noble strains of departed chivalry and romance which, res-
cued from oblivion by the labours of Percy, Ritson, Scott,
Motherwell, and others, were familiar to our youth " as
household words"—strains which alternately stir the heart
"as with a trumpet call"—or steep it in sorrow and " dole"—
we have nothing in our modern literature at all comparable.
They mingle with all our happiest memories ; they are twined
up with all our purest and happiest feelings ; they bring back
to us, fresh and near, those days which we have dreamt away
in the intoxication of romance, and the forms of those, now
scattered through the world's wide waste, who shared with
us the delight with which we wove vision after vision of
" moving accidents by flood and field"; of helmed knights and
veiled ladies,