Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1811-09-05


For ever roar and rave!
How hope to cross the dreadful ocean,
Der which eternal shadows dwell,
Whose secrets none return to tell
The lines which follow are as tender, a
musical, and as graphically descriptive a
any in Scott, and describe the meeting o
Yedillian with her husband and daughter
Three happy beings are there here,
The sire, the maid, the glendoveer
A fourth approaches,....who is this
That enters in the bower of bliss
No form so fair might painter find
Among the daughters of mankind;
For death her beauties hath refined,
And unto her form hath given
Framed Of the elements of heaven;
Pure dwelling-place for perfect mind.
She stood and gazed on sire and child;
Her tongue not yet had power to speak,
The tears were streaming down her cheek;
And when those tears her sight begulled,
And still her faultering accents tall,d
The spirit, mute and motlonless,
Spread out her arms tor the caress
Made still and silent with excess
OF love and paln1ul happiness
The maid that lovely form surveyed;
Wistful she gazed, and knew her not;
But nature to her heart conveyed
A sudden thrill, startling thought,
A feeling many year forgot,
Now like a dream anew recurring,
AS if again in every vein
Her mothers milk was stirring.
With straining neck and earnest eye
She stretch'd her hands implorlngly,
AS if she fain would have her nigh,
Yet fear'd to meet the wish'd embrace,
AT once with love and awe opprest.
Not SO, Ladurlad he could trace,
Though brighten'd with angelic grace,
His own Yedillian's earthly face:
He ran and held her to his breast!
Oh ioy above all joys of heaven,
By death alone to others given,
This moment hath to him restored
The early-lost, the long deplored.
Lovely vert thou, o flower of earth !!
Above all flowers of mortal birth;
Bst fostcred in this blissful blower
From day to day, and hour to hour,
Lovelier grew the lovely flower
O blessed, blessed company
When men and heavenly spirits greet,
And they whom death had severed meet,
And hold again communion sweet -"
0 blessed, blessed company
The sun, careering round the sky,
Beheld them with re oicing eye,
And babe his willing charioteer
Relax their speed as they drew near;
Arounin checked the rainbow reins,
The seven green coursers shook their name:
And brighter rays around them threw:
The car of glory in their view
More radiant, more resplendent grew;
Ard Surya, through his veil of light,
Beheld the bower, and blest the sight.
The lord of night, as he sail'd by,
Stay'd his pearly boat on high;
And, while around the blissful bower
He babe the softest moonlight flow,
fingered to see that earthly flower,
Forgetful of his dragon foe.
WHY will not Mr.. Southey more fire
oucntly give US such melody as this, o
why will he not adopt, at least in his de
scriptions, the measure and the stanza q
Spenser which has been farther ennebie
by the Muse of Thompson, Beattie an
Campbell, and which is beyond compar
the most majestic and harmonious of al
orr modes Of versiiication Fiat lie doe
not move unsracefuliy in the letters
regularly Iegittaate netre, the tOliowin
lines will abund. ltiy testify.
Evening comes on: arising from the stream
Homeward the tall hamingo wings his flight
And where he sails athwart the settln
beam,
His scarlet plumagc glows with deepe
light.
| The Waterman, at the wish'd approach {
night,
Gladly forsakes the field, whcre he all da
To scare the winged plunderers from the
prey,
With shout and sling, on yonder clay -bui
height,
Hath borne the sultry ray.
We are not however disposed to b
greatly dissatisfied with the versifcatio
of the Poem before us: Kehama is in thi
respect wonderful improvement on Tha