Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1823-09-12
LORD BYRoN's Don JUAN

CANTOS NT--NIt-- AND VII.
This Poem has Just appeared--it Will very It'll
contribute to the credit of The distinguished author
la ruh, like the nuItier ~ luts as the faatieI
q IS s'rtnge how different his practice should 10
from lbs theory: The very quality which he 50 high
W commended in Pope, viz. The moral strain of hi
Muse-Byron seems very tule Sulcitous display
The following lines Boon are pc, haps among th
least eXeep,iouabe in his whole composition
The town entered. oh Eternity -
- " God made the country, and made the town."
30 CowPer Says-and begin tu be
OF his opinion when see cas-, down
Rome, Babylon, Tyre. Garbage, Nineveb,
az walls men know, and many never known;
Ana bordering On the present ani the past.
10 deem tse woods shall be our home at last
OF all men, saving Syla the Man-slaver
. who passes ior in life and death most lucky,
Oi the great names which in faces stare
The General Boon back wuodsman of Kentucky,
was happieSt amongst mOrtalS where
, For killing nothing but a bear or huck, he
EnJsyed The lonely, vigorous harmless DAYS
ot his old age in Willis OF deepest maze.
Crime came not near him-she is the child
Ot Solitude health shrank nOt from hiul-lOr
her home = IN the rarely -trOdden wild,
Nv Where II men seek her not, and death he
lhetr choice than lite, forgive Them aS beguiled
- BY habit TO what their hearts ahhor--
IN cities Gagged, The present case in point
Gle IS, that Boon lived hunting up TO ninety;
And what's still stranger, len behind n name
- TOT Which men vSinly decimate tne thrung,
Not only famous, hut of that good fame,
Without which glory's hut a tavern sorg--
simple, serene the antipOdes Of shame
An active hermit, even IN ape the child 9
81 Nature, or the hlah OF Ross run Wild.
= suue ne shrank from men of his nation,
:, Whru they built up unto his darling trees
ne moved some hundred miles al, for a station
where there were fewer houses aud more easg
}he Inconvenience OF civilization
. Is that YOU neither can be pleased nor please,
bUt where he met the individual man
lie showed himself as Kind mortal can.
IL was not all alone; around him grew
a sylvan tribe uf children the cLace.
Whose young, unawakened world was ever netv
- Tor sword Hnr sorrow yet hath left a tran.
w her unwrinkird brow, could YOU view
A ifown on Natures human face go
ne ne IIee,horn forest fouud and kept thcm free
And fresh as is torrent a tree.
Aud tall aud strong md swift OF foot were they
"a heyonu the dWarhng city's pale ahortions
because their thoughts had never been The prev
w care or gam the woods were their purtous
no 'in"iug Spirits told them they grew prcy
.. 40 Nshiou made them apes uf her distortions;
.Ss,nplS ihey we're not savage; and their rifles
+"o"sh very true, were not yet used Tor tribes.
Sioion was 10 their days Rest i'm their SUMMERS
50 Auu Oheeriulness the handmade Of their toll;
NOT YET ton many nor too few their numbers;
- corruption could not make their hearts her soil:
~, Lust " hIch sungsi the Sprni1ur hich encounters
wan me Tree ioreSters divide no snuil; -
Serene nor sullen, were the so!itules
Oi this msighng people OF Tie woods
50 much for Nature;-by way of VARIETY
. no" oac9 10 thy great joys, Civilization
fti1 lhe sweet consequence uf large Societv
a., war; testlehce, the despOts dcsolaton
= he hinSly scourse the Last Of Notoriety
r ne millions slain by soldiers for their rttiou
w. nae Gatherings boudoir three-score
VIVA IsnlRif' storm 10 soften il the more.