Southern telegraph., 1837-07-11


POETRY.
/ As Sir David Brewster has started a
new candidate for the honor of the author.
ship Of JuHius,' We have thought it wonlC
bo well to publish Byron's happy bur
lesquo on the whole subject, as we'll as
his hypothesis on the authorship of those
celebrated letters. We make the extract
from sThe Vision Of Judgment page
ass, Of Dcarborn's New York edition OF
Byron's Works. Our readers will recoIleci
the story,-Gcorge I'll. was Contonding-lor
his right Of entry into Heaven, with Mi
chael, the archangel, for an advocate; which
right the Devil was contestng. Junius
was one Of the witnesses called BY the lat
ter celebraied counsellorl-E9. Tel.
"Cail yanius From 4hecrowtla shadow stalll'l,
And the name there wasa general sqaeczc,
50 that the yer1 CHESTS % longer wpik'd
] In comiort al their onn mral ease.
But weFe allrqmm'a jamla'a fAHI a
AS We shan sccl anll
Like wind compress and IS
Or Ikea human collie,
The shadaw caIae lall. iss
Thatlook'd as It bad been i sha..e 8. SIS
Quick in its motions with m air Of xigor,
i Bat naught 70 mark iis brceiIipe a. Il birth 4,
Now i waS'd little, then il grew bigger,
With now an air o. gloom or savage mirsh
Bnt as you gaz'd upon Is featmcs, they
Changed ev'ry instant -to lplqt. none could say.
The more intentIy the ghosts gaz'iI GA les
Could they Distinguish whose llo fealiirs were
The BegilbimAelf seem',l puzzio4 Even 70 shess
TIleyyafisI sIlike aslfaah, now berr NOW there
Ana several people sitord ff6a 6bl lhd nag
They knew hin perlccty and one eqlld sweat
fTeRas his iathcr. upon which apothcr 4
WAS sure he was lis ihoshef's caasin's hrasher
| AA # M &AB@NsA
Another, thathe was a dukcnr knight, " 'iss
An.orator, n lawyef, or pfinst,
Alnahob. q man-p,idwifn; bnt thes,Eight
Mysterious chang'd his coanf enanec.at least
As oft a. they their minds: though ii full sight
lie stood, the puzzIc, only was increased
The man whs a phantasmagoria in
lIimself-he was so volatile and thin.
The moment that yOu had pronounced him onr
Presto! his face changed, and nc was another
And when that change was hardly well put on,
II varied, till don't think his own mother
(If that he had n mothcr,) would her son
Have known, he shifted so from one TO to'thor
Til guessing from a pleasure grew a task
At this cpistolary 'Iron Mask
For sometimes he like Ccrh"rne would seem
'Threc gentlemen Mt once, (as sagc1y says
Good Mrs. .Malnprop@ then you might deem
@That he was not even onC; now many rays
Were flashing round him; and now thick steam
Hid him from sight, like fogs on Lonilon days
NowBurk ,nowTOokc,h he grew to peoples lancic
And certcs often like Sir Philip Francis.
I'vo an hypoihcsis-'t is quite my own;
never let il out tillnow, FIR fear
Ofdoing people harm about the throne,
And iniuring some minister or peer,
On whom the stigma might perhaps be blown;
Itis-my gentle public, lend thine car!
''Ts that what Iunius we arc wont to call,
Was really, truly, nobody at all.
don't sec wherefore letters should not he
Written without hanIs, since VIC daily view
Thrm written without heads; aud books VIC sec
Arc frd as well without the latter too:
And really till VIC fix on somebody
For certain sure to claim them as his due,
Their anlhor, like the Myers mouth iIlhothc
The world to say if there be mouth or author.
'And who g. what art thou ? the archangcl said
'For Tint You may consult my title page
Replied this mighty shadow of a shade:
HfI have kept my secret half an age,
scarce shall tell it now 'Cnnst thou upbraid,
Continued Michael, 'Grorgc Rex, or alIcgc
Aught furtIlcrr Jun's answered 'You had bette
First ask him for his answer to my letter:
my charges upon record viii outlast
! The brass of both hi. cpitaph aud tomb.'
'Ropent'st thou not said Michael, ,'of some pms
Exaggcraton? something winch may doom
Thyscl:i false, as him if true? Thou vast
Too bitter lis it not so?-in thy gloom
4 Ofpassion !'-'Passion!' cried The phantom din
n loved my country, and hated him.
What Ihavc written, have written: let
The rest he on his head or mine , SO spoke
Old 'Nominns Unibra;' and while speaking ye
Away he melted in celestial smoIo."
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