Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-08-11

And now thy painful pilgrimage is DER,
May Envy cease to scowl upon thy lays,
And Genius Weld pittance from his store,
| A plain memorial o'erthy dust to raise! ID. b.
FOR THE rHENIx GAzErTB.
Notes and Reflections during ram6s in Germany.
BY the author Of Recoliections in The Peninsula,
&c. &c. Boston: s27.
(Conclu,leS from Yesterday
| Most Of our readers, we presume, have read
and admired Mrs. Heman's beautiful lines on
the tomb Of the Queen of Prussia. After they
have seen our authors description of it, they
will return with new delight TO the verses she
has so saee,ly sung:
"The tomb is in the garden Of Charlotten-
burgh. Acquainted with it by no previous de-
scriplion, / left the palace Of Charlottenburgb,
and walked down the garden alone, the person
in attendance having pointed out the direction,
| and promising to follow with the key. twas
not without surprize, that came suddenly a
mong trees, upon a fair white Doric temple
/ might, and should have deemed it a mere
adjournment ofthe grounds,-a spot sacred TO ST.
lecce or the soft breathed song; but the cypress
and the willow declare it as babita,ion oil the
dead. There was an aged invalid, busily occu-
,,isd ~L--. .I.--.sr.al, PING a.-----Aa-A-
| de ad and yellow leaves. which gathered there,
| and which the November blast, in mockery Of
his vain labour, drove back upon 1t, in larger
and louder eddies He shook his grey head at
me, and not seeing any body with me, warned
me petulantly away. Nay, when the guar.
dian came, it might be fancy, but he seemed
i'll pleased that the sanctuary should be vielat-
ed. Upon sarcophagus oil white marble, lay
a sheet; and the outline of q human form was
plainly visible beneath its folds. 1t seemed as
though he removed winding sheet, to show
beloved corpse, when the person with me reve.
,ently turned it back, and displayed the statue
of his queen. 1t is portrait statue recu rbent,
said TO BIZ perfect resemblance,-not as in
death, but when she lived to bless and be bless
ed. Nothing can be more calm and kind than
the expression Of her features. The hands are
| folded on the bosom; the limbs are sufficiently
crossed to show the repose OF Lille. She does
but sleep,--she scarce sleeps; her mind and her
heart are on her sweet lips.
How forcibly does this remind US Of Mrs
Heman's lines! We are almost ready to believe
tina, one suggested the other:-
| at stands where northern willows weep,
| Atemple fair and lone;
! Soft shadows Ger its mantle sweep,
From cypress branches thrown;
While silently around il spread,
| Thou feePst the presence Of the dead.
| And what within is richly shrined!
| A sculptured womans's form,
Lovely in perfect rest rccined
AS one beyond the storm:
Yet not Of death, but slumber, lies
The solemn sweetness on those eyes"
Our authors account of the two great capt.
tails, Vienna and Berlin, though not minute, is
sufficiently extensive TO give general idea 81
ther appearance, the character Of their inhabit-
ants, and their condition in several important
points Of view. He tells US that the aspect Of
Vienna is rather Italian than Germanic, that it
has no splendid squares, and that the palaces,
public buildings, and the mansions Of the nobi-
lily are decidedly inferior to the stately edi6ces
Of Florence and OF Rome. Yet (says hey
"There is one feature in this city which more
than redeems the tame character ofthe rest: the
august cathedral Of ST. Stephen stands lofty and
alone in the midst Of H. Upon its roof, paint
ed tiles glitter in the sunbeam, and seem gau-
der than the adornments Of so venerable pile
| should be- moreover, the taste for that style Of
roofing is strictly Moorish. Yet know not, If
this very thing gives it not new and peculiar
interest in The eye Of the traveller, he reflects
that the Ottoman has prapced fierce before it,
thirsting for its destruction. On the outside ii
NAV be said TO be encountered, but richly so,
with ornamental stone work For my own part,
l like thar lavish expenditure Of material, and
Of labour, which the Gothic nations bestowed
upon their temples. They built always with
costly, uncalculating devotion for thousand
generations. The interior of ST. Stephens is
grand and grave: the space and the gloom give
a liberty of thought to the spiritual minded, and
| afford shape in which the mourner may pray
unnoliced by the happy.