Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1829-01-03
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FROM the Liverpool -ddreTfiser
moNraoMERY'S UNIVERSAL PRAYER, DEATH, &c
The author of this volume, young author we
believe, has acquired an extraordinary degree o
reputation by former production of hi, pen; tn
OnniprtSenee of Tie Deity, which has gont
through several editions in very short period
The volume now before US is in the same serious
strain rs that work. II is noble assemblage o
the solemn thoughts which religion, informing
the poetic soul, creates. We have difficulty il
selecting such passages not too solemn 70,
the pages Of a newspaper. Take the following from
she poem on Death:
All that we love aud feel on Nature, face,
Nesf din relations y doom.
ss.ms. Ie.u ...s %'S st.$.
That how along in dying music,-leavss
OF Winter, there to mipsie with dead a6w.s.,-
Are all prophetic of our decay.
I'd who, when Snng enchanted DER some PASe
Where genius aa'he, from each living line,
Hath never wsndef'd to the tomb, TO see
The hand that penn'd Il, and the head tina; thought.
Yet, feelings. colour'd by the cloud Of de.,h,
With ,~ee, expressions Oft o'.raow the mind.
And os the .oassnee %Rsp
sasliuely mu'ins by the sounding deep,
T, where the ocean wed. the Ky, md thiu..
Thus roll away the restless hour; OF une!
Wave wind and thunder have departed. sunk
The visiond ocean from my view and 10.
A distant landscape, dswuiny forth amid
The bright suf,i.ion Of summer
an yondsr meade, that like a wudless lake,
Shines ia the glow Of heaven, eherub bOs
j, bounding, pla yfui breeze newborn
Light a. the beam that dances by hi, side.
Phantom OF bssu,y! with his tepidlocts
Cleaning like wstef- wv eaths-s flower oflile
T, whom the fairy world i, fresh the sky
glory, and the earth huge delight
Joy shaped hi, brow, and Pleasure roll. hi. eve
While Innoc snee, from out The budding lip
Dart, her young ,nile, along hi, rounded cheek
Grief hath not dn.m'd the hfightnes, Of hi. form
Love and Affection DER him spread THAR wing.
Aud Nature, like q nurse, attends him with
Her sweet looks. The humming bee will bound
From out the fower, .,ng his b,by HAND
The birds sing 60 hum from the sunny tree.
And suppliany the herce eyed ms.tiff fsvn
Beneath Ii. feet, N ecur, the playful touch
To rise all rosy from the arms of Sleep
And, like the stybrd, h,i the bright e6eek'i morn
With gieeful song, tuen DER the hsded mead
To chsee the blue-wins'd butterfly, or pl.y
With curly streams; or, led by wstchful Love
To hear the chorus OF the trooping waves.
When the young breeze. laugh them into life!
~ listen o the mimic rcer
Within the womb of spity .ea>.heil woye--
From sight and sound to catch intense desLt,
And infant glsdne., f on each happy faer--
There are the sueless dutie, ofthe days
And when at length repOseful Evening come.
Joy he nestles in the welcome couch,
With Kisses upon hi, cheek, 10 dream
OfheGven, tili -aornng wakes him IN the world
The s-ene n chang ed into eur,aind room
Where mouT nful glimmers Of the mellow
Lie dreaming the wslI yed and sad,
And dumb with agony, two parents bend
O'er paei image, al the coHn laid
Their infant once, the laughing iespng boy,
The paragon, and bursting Ot their sous
Death tnueh'd him. aud tue life glow aed away.
Swift q. gay hours fancy; fresh aud Geld
As Winters shadow with his eye-ds sealc,
Like violet lies at eve, he lie. enrolled
An Offering to the gravel but, pure a. when
II uing'd from heaven, his spirit hath r.turn 4
To li-p ,ts hsllelujihs with the ohoirs
or sinless babes, Unparalleled above.