The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-11-28

In tones as audible-as clear,
As when in days gone by,
We wandered Oa the green hillside;
Or meath the elm trees spreading wide
We spoke of HIN on high.
And when alone, or mid the crowd
Where pleasures laugh rings light and loud,
Thou speakeSt STILL
The picture presented, and the moral inculca-
ted in this opening stanzas of ''Lsve's Appeal"
will be recognized and felt by every one. Here
they are;
ga mother with a rod in hand
Stood over her offending child,
In the Stern aspect Of command,
And manner resoute and mild,
Sh babe the little sinner ask
Forgiveness of the guilty deed;
ItscOTned obedience to the task,
Aad dared the high upli.ted reed.
"Affection moved the mothers soul,
Her better sympaihes stirred
The heart that dared her stern control,
Was humbed by single word.
From her sad heart the warm tears gushed-
Her rising grief she could not stay;
Into her arms the victim rushed,
And wepl his stubbOrncss away"
''Who shall be First" written Immediately
after the dedication of Green Mount Cemetery,
is ameng the authors happiest efforts. 1t opens
thus:
''Who shall he first in snowy shroui,
forest beneath the pail and pIume;-
Silent amid the weeping crowd,
4 lonely tenant of the tomb?
Borne silently along The wood,
Some lonely sleeper soon must be;
To rest in dreasless solitude,
Meath loHly shrub, or lofty tree"
Mr. McJilton INDUCES sometimes, in the hui
morous as wei as in the grave and pathetic
His address to 'The Aching Tooth" is quaint
enough
s'Wby ar thou so rsbciaus, 5aging TOOTH
Why break tine peace that pleasantly prevailed,
And raise such warfare in ny warm abode:
There's room enough for thee and chance as fair,
As any Of thy fellows may possess.
And there you all might dwell, happy band
In the firm brotherhood that nature formed
When she permitted you to take the place
Ofthat coifederacy, which she had trisd,
And proved TOO weak 10 stand the powerful test,
Ofspreading bone and sinew:-On the soil
Where reigned and ruled the Aborgines
That were your predecessors;-you have
Power to cluster undiSiusbed; succeeding foes
May never push you from your gifted tights"
1EWhat cause have you for quarrel in your ranks:
What party ieuds tn rouse you up to fight
| You have 30 Clay among you,-though too soon
Too sOon-alas. you may be in the dust.
| And you've no Webstcr, though perhaps the we5
! Cfdark oblivion over you may stir,
! Ere many years of aching you may know.
| No Benton asks your favor, yet it seems
| As some fyOu were ben ton raising up
| In wild conspiracy, To make Erpu1ge
The watch-Word,-a the hue ami cry TO raise
OfdTa'rirS.-not lines OF black with pen and ink,
But cldret with the foreeps and the Key"
We should like to copy 'EMy First New Hat''
entire, but the number of extracts already made
fill up the room we can now spare We are
pleased to observe that this volume is well spo-
ken of in Boston and New York. The following
from the New York Commercial Advertiser is
hearty praise:
! 'sHere is a charming volume of three hundred
and fifty pages, filed with poetry. Aye, genu-
inc poetry, we are 40 judges OF the article
The pieces are mostly short-there being nearly
one hundred and fifty in the collection. The
author informs his readers that he wrote not for
fame, but solely for his own pleasure. He never
contemplated publishing collection ofhis poems,
and has only done it in self-dcfence, somebody
else having threatened to make the collection
from the fugitive publications in which many OF
them have appeared, should he decline the task
We. doubt not the truth Of what he saws. II
must have been pleasure to write such poetry.
Open where you wiI-at every page-and the
eye will rest upon passages that go thrilling d.
rect to the heart N o matter what is his theme
the genuine feeling of poetry gushes forth clear
as from the rock OF Helicon itself. In Gueneyer
we have ballad In the old English style.
which might almost wake the spirit of Herrick.
or even Of old Godfrey Chaucer himself"
1t is but justice to say, that this book, so beau
tifully printed, was executed by Woods and
Crane, Of this city.