American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1827-04-24

Still let "Jorersr" yibra,e on thine ear
1t is not thine to raise
To yon pure heaven, thy calm coniding gaze.
No CLEAN reflected from that realm Of rest,
Steals on The darkness Of thy troubled breast;
Not for thine eye shall Faith dvinely shed
Her glory round the image of the dead
And il, when sumber's lonely couch is prcst,
The form departed be thy spirits guest
1t bears no light from purer worlds to this;
Thy future lends not cen dream Of bliss
For relief the infidel is referred to the Christian
religion, in a strain, which untes the fervor of
devotion with poetic sensibility.
But perhaps the skeptic scorns the advice, and
like the heather who was chained to rock to be
the constant prey Of the yulture, for whom he him.
self produced sustenance, the pride of reason may
support the infidel principles which gnaw at his
heart. 10 him the mrth of frenzy, the laughter
of dclrious despair must read lesson.
They tell thee, reason. wandering from the ray
of Faith, the blazing pillar of her way,
In the mid darkness of the stormy wave.
Forsook the struggling soul she could not save
Weep not sad moralist DER desert plains,
Strew'd with the wrecks Of grandeurnoaderng fsnes,
Arches Of triumph long with weeds oergrown,
And regal cities, now the serpeHts owns
Earth has more awful ruins-one lost mind,
Whose star is qnench'd hath lessons for mankind
Of deeper import than zach PROSTATE dome,
Mnghlg its marble with he dust of Rome
The poem proceeds to depict in forcible man.
ner, the unfortunate state Of mind, which &C
aives salvation, and having gained possession of
the secrets of all ages, and communed with the
majestic minds that shine along the pathway of
time, elects nothing but eternity. Such an one,
in the season Of suffering. finds relief in suicide,
and escapes to death az to an eternal rest. The
thought Of death recurs to the mind OF the poet,
and calls forth a fervent prayer for the divine
presence and support in the hour of dissolution
for the hour, when the soul is brought to the mys
terious verge Of another life, is all awful 0ne,'
SIN the pride
OF youth and health, by suffcrings yet untried
We talk OF death, as Something which 'twere sweet
In Glorys arms exutingy TO meet,
A closing triumph, majestic scene.
Where gazing nations watch the here's mieni
As undismsy'd amidst tho tears of all,
He folds his mantle regally 10 fall!
Hush, fond enthusiast, still obscure and lone.
Yet not less terrible because unknown,
Is the las, hour of thousands they retire
From fe's throngd path, unnoced to EXPIRE
As the light leaf, whose fall to ruin bears
| Some trembling insects little world Ut cares
Descends in silence--while around waves on
| The mighty forest, reckless what is gone!
Such is mans dosm-and, ere an hour be flown.
Start not. thou triaer !-such may be thine own
| This is followed by an allusion to the strong
love of life which belongs to human nature, and the
instructive apprehension with which the parting
mind musing on its future condition, asks of itself
Itnysc questions, that it cannot solve. But through
the influence Of religion,
He, whom the busy world shall miss
Than morn dewdrop from her countless store,
! Earth's most neglected child, with trusting heart,
Calld to the hope Of glory, shall depart
After some lines expressing the spirit of English
patriotism, in manner, with which foreigners can
only be pleased, the poem closes with the picture
iof mother teaching her child the first lessons Of
religion BY holding up the divine example OF the
Saviour.
4 We have been led into longer notice Of this
poem, for it illustrates the character of Mrs. Hem.
! ans's manner. We perceive in it holiness o.
purpose, an earnestness of thought, sometimes
J tmade more interesting by tinge OF melancholy
Ia depth OF religious feeling, mind alive to all this
interests qualifications, and sorrows of social life.
! The Siege Of Valencia is dramatic poem
but not intended for representation. The story il
extremely simple. The Moors, who besiege Va
encia, take the two sons Of the governor, Coma
ez, captive, as they came TO visit their father; ant
now the ransom demanded for them is the surren
der of the city they to die. IT the place ia no
welded up Emina, the mother of the boys, ant
Xmena, their sister, are the remaining member
of family, to which 80 dreadful an option is sub
y mitted. The poem is one of the highest merit
The subject is of great dignity, being connected
with the defence Of Spain against the Moors, AM
at the same time it is Of the greatest tenderness
: offering a succession of the most moving scene
T. that can be imagined to occur in the bosom OF
family. The father is firm; the daughter is hero
! ic the mother falters She finds her way to tn
+" Moorish camp, sees her children, forms plan TO
I betrayiny the town. and then ~ not able to con
{ ceal her grief and her design from her husband
, He Immediately sends a defiance to the Moors
his children are brought out and beheated sorti
is made from the besieged city; finally the kin