New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-01-06

But Habit, that compelling king,
Stern tyrant Of the Wills OF men,
Had frozen each pOetic spring,
And struck palsy III my PEN r..
Nv iius were mute, hut think not, o;s'
Thar time could blot trace, 2 tone,
o. her who was my light. my blIs5'
When all but her and nope were goHe'
Oh. true hearts feel in absence night
liz a,wrrs hat. though they love tie light,
Bo,in brightest when tie suns away
In DAVIS when misery ard pam
Had chained mo in their icy band
II was NV sweetest pdstlme. then,
1owaHder in the dreamy land,
To mouH5 the Tanbow-"urtanedc car
BIZ Fancy to her children gwen,
And IN the tNiuklIHg OF star
Shat out dull earth ana welcome heaFoH'
Well may yog guess my resting Place
Nv land OF bliss my fairy gIouH";
TIC hearts The forms that grt me round;
And IN that ideal land dwe!t
so long that had gained the ART
TOwaUder at MY vii, a.i iheit -
The ice that gathered round nv he3rt
In tho Llnd looks that Blessed mc here,
For they had power to drown nc PI7t
Ar( MONT 10 prospects bright ana IaU
70 bless the longing heart at last;
And sometimes when an earthly pam
Wnuid wake me FROM my dream oi bliss,
I'd call Gy pleasures back aE3ln
In some such idle rhyme as TINS.
Eonollv full of love and hope is this wrttento the
same relative:
The sun has abandoned his nome IN luc heaNcD'
But still from his blliowF urn
To Won moon few beams OF MS iuslre arc B'eh'
10 cheer Us TIL morn shall return.
So. Sis. when We sever in darkness and sorrow,
Nav hopo like tho heavenly ray,
A beam from the light of 1uturty borrow,
To brighten the gloom OF to-day.
The following two little trIlc6 are also published
now for the first time:
! chaS'd from the dew-moisten'd breast of n rose
A fly that attempted us nectar to SIP -,
And thought, as | gaz' on It5 dGh'%ie CLOVIS; -.
Ina The boom of its leaf was the blush Of thy lip
In n moment of fancy COVE to its brea.t
kiss Ike the one bestowed upon thee,
And felt rs my lin to ITS bosom was pTost,
That the fly and tic snail had erj)y'd II lko me.
rnvcil her mind, and hide her face,
And love viii necl 30 tU'l -
Alas, that such an ugly ease
Should hide 50 rich jewel.
Not fewer than twenty OF the poems in Judge
Ti!Iou's collection are marked "uupublishcd,'
which Mt tie first glance ls a very surprising fact
The surprise ceases However when VIC remember
that Drake printed his poems Only IN tho news
Qhpers. aud died TOO young TO give many Oh thom
even that kind of publication. Indeed, l believe
be withheld some of them dcsiencdIy, for II was
favoIite practice with him and with BIS friends to
circulate them in manuscript. Frequent allUNion
to THE uEpctIce made i'll the lathc prints OF the
time and II was on criticisms based upon such an
imperfect knowledge of his writings that MS Topu-
tatlon was made TO depend. liaAcchs coiircton,
made some years after brakes DEATH did htuc to
suppiy what WAS wanted for ltallock wan even moro
careless than Drake ia regard to lcr early Ioduc-
lions and many Of his trends verses escaped INN.
A few have been printed since one IN a sketch witt
ton by General Wilson. and enc or two in epheme-
raj publications.; hui there has never ben
an edition at all equal to tho mann
script collection in tho handwriting Of Judge
Tillou. The rolowine $. l,ctlons from this ma'1-
script now see the light after the lapse OF sixty
years. The longest OF these poems is 1"oaody on
the death Of George Clinton in 1872, written at tho
request Of Mrs Aby Allen. and addressed II her IN
prologue and epIoclc. II is here gwen exactly a.