Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-07-21

Fallen, however, as il is, the poet au-
ours consolation and redemption of the glo-
ries of that state, from the muse, which, as
the attic muse makes Athens still live an
unimpaired fame, will hand down Venice
with lasting honor to an admiring posterity.
I" WHEN Athens armies fell at Syracuse,
And fetter'd thousands bore the yoke Of
war,
Redemption rose up in the attic muse,
Her voice their only ransom from atar:
See as they chant the tragic hymn, the
car
Ofthe o'er-mastey'd victor stops, the reins
Fall from his hands-his idle scimfar
Starts from his belt-he rends his captive's
chains,
And bids him thank the bard for freedom
and his strains.
"Thus, Venice, if no stronger claim were
thine,
Were all thy proud historic deeds forgot,
Thy choral memory OF The bard divine,
Thy love of Tasso should have cut the knot
Which ties thee to thy tyrant and thy lot
Is shameful 10 the nations,-most oil all,
Albion to thee the ocean qSeen should
not
Abandon oceans children: in the fall
OF Venice think OF thine, despite thy wa
terry wall.
"1 lov'd her from my boyhood-she TO me
Was as fairy city OF the heart,
Rising like water-columns from the sea,
OF 10Y the sojourn, and of wealth the mart:
And Otway,* Ratclitf,t Schiller,t Shak-
spear'sI art,
Had stamp'd her mage in me-and even
so,
Altho' found her thus, we did not part,
Perchance even dearer IN her day OF woe,
Than when she was boast, a marvel and
show.
can repeople with the past-and of
The present there is still tor eye and
thought,
And meditation chastened down, enough {;
And more it may be than hoped or sought;
And Of the harpest moments which were
wrought
Within the web of my existence, some
From thee, fair Venice have their colors
caught:
There are some feelings time cannot be-
numb,
Nor torture shake, or mine would now be
cold and dumb.
GO But from their nature will the tannen*
grow
Loftiest on loftiest and least SHELTERED rocks,
Rooted in barrenness, where nought below
Of soil supports them 'gainst the Alpine
shocks
OF eddying storms yet springs the trunk,
and Knocks
The bowling tempest, till its height and
Arc worthy OF the mountains from whose
blocks
OF bleak, gray granite into life il came,
Aud grew giant tree the mind may grow
the same.
Existence may be borne, and the deep root
Of life and sufieranCe make lis firm abode
In bare and desoIated bosoms: mute
The camel labours with the heaviest load,
And the wolf dies in silence-not bestowed
In vain should such example be; if they,
Il lilI1s vi lSIlbDIe VI VI sdNdSt iIOOi,
Endure and shrink not, we Of nobler clay
May tempcrit TO bear--it is but for day.
" All suffering doth destroy, or is destroyed,
Even by the sufferer; ami in each event
Ends:-some with hope replenish'd and
rebuoy'd,
Return to whence they came-with like in
tent,
And weave their web again: some how'd
and bent
Wax gray and ghasily, whitening ere their
time,
And perish with the reed on which they lean;
Some seek devotion, toll, war, good or crime
According as their souls were iorm'd TO sink
or climb.
*Veuice Prescwed.-t Mysteries OF T.
dolpho # The Ghost Seer Merchant
OF Venice, Oth~l'o.
"A species OF fin peculiar to the Alps,
which only thrives in very rocky parts,
where scarcely soil sufficient for It's nourl'h-
ment can be found.
IMPORTANT RECIPE.
On Thursday last, man in 0iiver-stree',