Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1824-06-29

yore;
And many deaths do they escape by this
The death of friends, and that which slavs cen
more,
The death offriendship, love, ioy, all that is,
Except mere breath-and since the silent shore
Receives even those who NAV the longest mss
the old archer's shafts; perhaps the early grave,
Which we mourn over may De meantto save"
These are the word. OF a great poet,
whose untinely death they cannot make
US cease 10 dep ore; however forCea5ly
they may impress Us with the emptiness,
the transIenlneSs, ibe noth'ngness, OF all
that mus, endesrs 10 US existence. Yet they
may serve 10 soften The shock, which at
least, every votsry OF the muses. must 'eeI
at hearing that GEORGE GORDON LORD
BYRON IS NO MORE! He recently died al
the new metropolis of renovated Greece.
The calamitous event has interrupted the
jubilee of freedom, g. the patriotic rulers of
the regeperated land have proclaimed, that
the Songs of their country's triumph should
universally sink into the dirge OF the min!
s'rel-hero. Another occasion, or another
paragraph may serve to relate the nature,
cause and progress of the fatal malady, the
circumstances of the dissolutios, and the
honors paid TO the mortal remains, OF one,
immortalised in embalmjng numbers
&c r..
snail be found among men, unrequited love
and elevated genius. Broken hearts will
forever be soothed. and gifted minds har-
monised and exalted, by his song. His
image is reflected in the lake & flung upon
the SUBMITS OF the mountains-w ill haunt
siernalIy the "Ionely shore" and The track.
less torest-frown from the craigy preei-
pcc, and smile in the gentle vale--repose
, by the bubbling fountain, and stalk on The
stormy sea. The earth and sky have been
enbellisbed by bis genius-the moon and
: stars looked brighter through his verse. to
. which the sun himself is indebted for some
rays ofhis surprising glory"
The ardent zeal OF Byron for the Gre
cian republic. renascent from Ottoman ~
ranny, could not de,ain bis last thoughts
from the objects which should have bless
ed bis life, and miiigated the psngs of bis
dissolution. In hat solemn nome ut,
his mind wandered from the monuments
o! Grecisn art and the hopes OF Grecisn
liberty, to the Gothic scenes OF News'ead
Abbey; and he exhausted his latest breath
) 10 assevera,ions of the utmos, tenderness
for his sister, bis daughter and his wife,
Our knowledge of his entertaining this
sentiment, so natural, nay, so necessary, TO
a heart, which thousand immortal Wit
nesses, speaking every where in his poems,
inc onlestsbly Prove to be so true to nature,
make US lament that the hour oil his depsr-
ture could not have been embalmed in the
tears of reconciliation between objects,
whose best duty il is, as It should be their
greatest bliss, to confer mutual happiness.
And yet II is some consolation to those who
mourn over the extinction OF life ~ a hu>
man being, whose transcendent genius has
diffused him throughout the universe, and
made his fame the bright b. i,age OF ages,
to recollect that be persisted IN the most
sacred OF causes and hallowed of chimes.
The champion OF freedom tell in the coun-
try OF Harmodius-,he author OF Childe
Harold finally reposes 10 the native groves
of the muses.
The information contained in The very
interesting Letter from Lieut. SLoAT, whose
attentions to The African colony have been
already acknowledged, has been tor some
days in the possession OF the Board of Ma
nagers of the American Colonization Soci
ety. A vessel o. war is about TO sail from