The Litchfield County post., 1828-07-24
From the New- Fork O6server. POLLOK'S COURSE OF TIME.

thed hs life into his fiute and died victim to his enthusiasm. How fit the cOmparison we dO not know: but a remarkable fact, that Mir. Pollok whose for mer poems have galDed for him extraordinary ce- 3ebrty scarcely survived the completion this exait- ed effort. The Poem IS divided into Ten Books, and Sa the American edition makes l2mo volume of 295 pages.
 Unlike the masterpiece of Milton, the Course of Time is nartifcal tn its construction; but the filling up IS often bold and thrilling beyond description. We are at carried period far beyond the Day "of the Eternal DoOm," and into the world of light, where 1.-two youthful sons of Paradise, they walk 1.-the hills of immortality discover kindred spirit approaching from some distant world, and give him ''lhe hand of welcome, and the embrace sincere of holy love-" Discovering a strange his countenance,8 "unwont within that place." they anxiously enquire the cause, and arc thus answer ed:-
 Vrtue-I need not tell, when proved, and full Matured-inclnes us up to God, and Heaven, By law ofsweet cOmpllslon strOng and sure; As gravitation to the larger orb The less attracts, thro' matters whole domain. Virtue m me was rIpe-l speak not this In boast, for what am to God owe, Entirely owe, and ofmysefam nought. Equipped, and bent for heaven, leftyon world, My native seat, winch scarce your eye can reach, Rolling around her central sun, far out, On utmost verge of light: but first to see What fay beyond the visible creation Strong curosity my flight mpeed. Long was my way and strange. I passed the bounds Winch God doth set to light and life and love; Wheradarkne ness meets with day, where order meets DisordetdreRdful. waste and wild and down The dark, eternal, uncreated night, Veptufed alogn Long, long on rapid wing, l sailed through empty, nameIess regions vast, Where utter Nothing dwels uniformed and void There neither eye, nor ear, nor any sense Of being mos; acute, finds object; there For augh external, stlll you search in vain. Try touch or sight, or smell; try what you will, You strangely find nought but yourself alone. But why should in words attempt to tell What that is like which Is-and yet-is not? This past, my path descending still me led Der unclaimed continents of desert gloom Immense, where gravltation shifting turns The other way; and to some dread, unknown, Inernal centre, downward weighs; and now, Ear travelled from the edge of darkness, far As from that glorious mount of God to lights Remotest limb-dre sights l saw, dire sounds ! heard; and suddenly before my eye A wall of fiery adamant sprung up Wall mountainous, tremendous, flaming high Above all flight of hope. paused, and looked; And saw, whereer looked upon that mound, Sad figures traced in fre-not mOtionless- But initiating life. One remarked Attenuvely; but how shall describe What nOught resembles else my eve hath seen? Of worm or SCI pent kind ii something looked, But monstrous with thousand snaky heads, Eyed each with double orbs of glaring wrath; And with as many tails, that twisted out An horrid revolution. tipped with sngs And all its mouths, that wide and darky gaped, And breat1ed most poisonous breath had each sting, torkcd, and long, and venomous, and sharp; And in it's wrlthings infinite. 1t grasped Magnanty what seemed heart, swollen, black. Anu quivering with torture most intense; And stl the heart, with angush throbblng high, Made effort to escape, bat could not; for Howeer 1t turned, and oft 1t vainly turned, These complicated Holdings held fast. And still the monstrous beast with sting of head Or tail transpierced tt, bleeding evermore. What this could image much Isearched to know, And while stood, and gized, and wondered long, A voice, from whence l knew not, for no one saw, distinctly whispered m my These wOrds-ThiS Is the that never dies.
 Fast by the side of this unsighily thing, Another was portrayed, more hideOns stiil Who sees once shall wish to sect no more. Forever uaGescrbedl let it remain! Ony this much may or unfold Far out It thrust dart that might have made The knees of terror quake and on hung. Within the triple barbs, being pierced Thro' soul and body both; of heavenly make Orgnal the being seemed, but fallen, IAAd worn and wasted with enormous woe. And still around the everlasting lance 1t wrthed cOnvused, and uttered mimic groans And tried and wished, and ever tried and wished, To die but could not die-Oh, horrld sight, | trembling gazed and listened and heard this voice Approach my ear-ThiS is Eternal Death.
 Nor these alone-upon that burning wall, In horrible emblazonry, were limned All shapes, all forms, all modes of wretchedness, And agony, and grief, and ddesperateswo. And prominent in characters of fire, Where'er the eye could light these words you read, Amaz'd stood; and thought such imagery Fore-tokened, within, dangerous abode But yet to see the worst a wish arose: For virtue, by the holy seal ofGod
 Accredited and stamped, immortal all, And all invulnerable, fears no hurt.
 As easy as my wish, as rapidly
 | ttro' the horrid rampant passed, unscathed And unopposed; and, poised on steady wing, lowering gazed. Eternal Justice! Sons Of God! tell me, five tell, what then saw what then heard-Wlde was the place. And deep as wide, and ruinous as deep. Beneath saw lake of burning fire,
 With tempest tost perpetually and still
 The waves of fiery darkness, 'ganst the rocks Ofdark damnation broke, and music made Of melancholy sort and over head, And all around, wind warred with wind, storm howled To storm, and lightning forked lightning crossed, And thunder answered thunder, muttering sounds Of sullen wrath and far sight could pierce, Or down descend in caves of hopeless death, Thro' all that dungeon of unfading fire, saw most miserable beings walk,
 Burning continually, yet unconsumed;
 Forever wasting, yet enduring still;
 Dying perpetua.ly, yet never dead.
 Some wandered lonely in the desert flames, And some in fell encounter fercely met,
 With curses loud, and bIasphemies, that made The cheek of darkness pale; and as they fought, AOd cursed, and gnashed their teeth, and wished to