Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-02-21


) of this day. Sir, hope that the original bill
ported by the committee will be rejected, and
ne amendment with the substitute will prevail.
following lines and their happy transition from N.
aud solemn to the buresaue, mentioned in temsof
by Mr. Cooper IN the Travelling BaIheorl
LINES
U'riten at 4kuick CcsHe
Home Of the Percys high born race.
Home oitheir beautiful and brave.
Alike their birth md burial place.
Their cradle and their grave.
Still stcrnly Ger the castle gate
Their houses Lion stands in s;a,c,
rs IN his proud departed hours;
And warriors trown in stone OH high
And teudal banners float the sky"
Above his princely towers.
4 gon;lc hill its side inclinesJ
Lovely in England's fadeless green,
Tomcct the quiet stream which winds
Through this romantic scene;
As silently and sweetly still
As %hen at evening OH that hin,
While Summer winds blew soft and low.
Seated by gallant Hotspur's side
Ills Catherine was happy BRIDE
A thousand years ago.
Gaze on the Abbeys ruined pi.e.-
Does not the succouring Ivy, keeping
ITS watch around il, seem 10 smile
AS DER loved one sleepines
One solitary turret grey
Still tells, in melancholy glory,
The legend ofthe Cheviot day,
The Percy's proudest border story.
That day its roof was trumphs arch
Then rang from aisle to pictured dome
l he light step THE soldiers march,
The music of the trump and drum;
Ar 80" sire, the old, the young
q nd'tiO uDH hymn and minstfelssonR,
An pure KISS, sweet and long,
Welcomd her warrior home.
Wild roses by the Abbey towers
Are gay IN their young bud and bloom!
They were born ola race Of funeral flowers
That garlanded in long gone hours
Tculplars knightly tomb.
tic died, the sword in his mailed hand,
On the hottest spot Of the blessed land,
Where the Cross was damped with his d.
ing breath,
Nshen blood ran free as festai wine,
And the sainted air Of Palestine
Was thick with the darts ofdeath.
Wise with the lore ofcentuY,os.
What tales,--ifthere wele'tonrues i, ,-c,s.
Those giant oaks could tell,
Offerings born and buried he-eo
Tales of the Peasant and the Peer,
Tales ofthe Bridal and the Bin..
The welcome and farewell!
Since on their houghs the startled bird
First IN her twilight slumbcrs hca,d
The NormGns curfew bell.
I wauGcrd thro' the lofty haIa
Trod by the Percies orold fame,
And tracedupon the Chapel wals
Each high heroic name
FROM him who once his standard Sc.
Nhcre now DER mosque and minaret
Glitter the Sultan's crescent mooug,
TO him who when younger son
Fought for King George at Lexington
Major Of Dragoons!+
That last half stanzal! it mas dashed
From my warm lip the sparkling cup.
The light that DER my eye beam dashed,
The power that bore my spirit UP
Above this bank note world il gone;
And Alnwick's but market town,
And this, alas, its market day
And beast and horderers ,brong the VsY,
Oxen and bleating lambs in lots,--
Northumbrian Doors and plaided Scots
Men IN the coal and cattle line,
From Teviot's bard and hero land,
rom royal Berwick g beach of sand,
From Wooler, Morpeih, Hexnm, and
Newcastle upon Tyne!
Oh! these are rot the romantic times.
30 beautiful IN Spencer's rhymes,
30 dazzling TO the dreaming boyl
ours arc the days Of fact, not fable,
vi knights,-but not ofthe round tab!g,->
OF Baltic Jarvic not Rob Roy.
Tia what our President Monroe
Has called the EZRA Of good feeling
Z hc HiRhlander-tho bitterest foe
70 modern laws,--has felt their blow
Censented TO be taxed and vote,
And put on pautsloons and coat,
And leave of cattle stenlinr:
lord Stafford mines for coal and eat,
he Duke Of Norfolk deals IN malt,
Tho Douglas in rcd herrinQs;--.
hnd noble name, ond cultured land
arc powerloss 70 the notes Of hand
or ROthschild or tho Barings.
g he age Of bargaining, said Burke,
tins comc;-to-day the tuTband Tori
tSioop, Richard Of the lion heart!
Sleep on, nor from your ccarnent starr
Is England's friend and last nllyi
The moolom tramples on tho GTcek,
And on tho Cross and Altar stone,
And ChTistondom looks tamely on,
And hears the Christian maidcn shYick,
and Secs the Christian father do,
And not a eabrc blow is given
For Greece and fame---for faith aud heaven,