Written on Good Friday, 1809. "Muse of sorrow, heavenly guest, Alas! see where, in manhood's bloom, The parent's hope profoundly sleeps; Which scarcely blossomed e'er it died. "Come then, soother sweet of grief, "But what sounds are those I hear, "Now, methinks I hear it say, "Hark! the kindred shade replies, As through yielding air it flies, ་ Yes, my brother, yes, I come Exulting o'er the rayless tomb: Summoned to an equal seat, Cherub may a cherub greet. "Yet, what means this hollow moan? Hovering round me in my flight "Cease then; cease, fond parents dear! Domestick Farewell to Summer. Sweet Summer hours, farewell! And every sylvan shade; The upland wood, the sheltered dell, And deep romantick glade; Already Autumn, pacing nigh, Bisplays his golden pageantry. No more the lengthened day With fond regretting eye, The fading charms I view: Earth's variegated livery, And heaven's refulgent blue; The genii of the Spring, 'Tis this on every bark, Some phantom bliss inscribes; With you, sweet scenes are fled, Is wreathed of feeble flowers; Dear moments, ere ye fly, Nor trace nor vestige leave, Then that same checkered shade, May flaunt and bloom-but still in vain; Beneath the billock green, Would change with magick touch the scene, To dark and horrid shade! Joyless, forlorn, repulsive, drear, Would every lonely walk appear. The gently sighing gale, No musick could convey; Hushed, every songster of the vale, Still, every dancing spray: To sorrow's ear, to sorrow's eye, Formless and mute does beauty lie! 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FROM THE MONTHLY REVIEW. The Remains of Henry Kirke White, of Nottingham, and late of St. John's College, Cambridge; with an Account of his Life. By Robert Southey. 4th Edition, corrected. 2 vols. 12mo. 14s. Boards. 1808. however congenial to the feelings of our nature, is in itself unreasonable: while it is impossible to conceive any thing more melancholy than the early dissolution of him who has lived just long enough to feel within him the highest intellectual endowments, and a full conviction that a prolonged life could alone be want ing to his attainment of a permanent and honourable reputation. The interesting subject of the volumes before us has bequeathed to us the most unquestionable proofs, not only of rare powers of mind, but of a disposition so gentle, amiable, bene. VOL. V. volent, and pious, that our regret for the loss of these talents and quali ties is enhanced by the persuasion that they would have been zealously employed in promoting the happiness, the virtue, and all the best interests of his fellow-creatures. He was bora in 1785, at Nottingham. His father, by trade a butcher, designed to bring him up to his own business, but was dissuaded from this intention by his mother, who quickly discovered, and carefully cultivated, the talents of her remarkable offspring. From his earliest years, he was a most persevering and ambitious student; and, though not so perfectly regular in his school exercises as to gain the favour of his instructers, his desultory lei6 Awas devoted to the acquisition richer and more diversified stores ofing and science, than many reach y constant attention during a life devoted to study. At the age of seventeen, he was placed, as a clerk, in the office of Messrs. Coldham and Enfield, attornies at Nottingham, and town-clerks to the corporation; the latter, we believe, the son of the late ingenious and amia ble Dr. Enfield. The indulgence of these humane and judicious masters . still allowed him many opportunities for pursuing his former studies, for increasing his stock of general information, and for improving his mind by elegant literature. He had access also to a good library: but he was unremittingly assiduous in his attention to the duties assigned to him, and (according to a letter from Mr. Enfield) particularly ready in acquiring the knowledge of them, as well as very useful in carrying them into execution. During several years he had been, and still continued to be, a favoured correspondent of some periodical publications, which hold out a laudable encouragement to the exertion of youthful minds, by offering books, medals, and other prizes, to the writers of the best essays on particular theses. The success of these smaller productions tempted him, in conformity to the advice of his friends, to prepare a volume of poems for the press, before he had completed his eighteenth year; in hopes that this publication might, either by its sale, or the notice which it might excite, enable him to prosecute his studies at college, and fit himself for the church:" for though he was still attached to the legal profession, and had even indulged the hope of one day rising to the degree of a barrister, an unfor. tunate and growing deafness destroyed all these views of advancement; " and his opinions, which at one time inclined to deism, had now taken a strong devotional bias." This advice to publish, though undoubtedly conceived in the spirit of kindness, does not appear to us to display judgment equal to its good intention, Few are the circumstances under which we can deem it beneficial for a boy of seventeen to exhibit himself as a poet to the publick eye. At that age of sensibility, the powers of imagination should rather be repressed than encouraged, in one who is destined for a grave and laborious profession. The regular prosecution of severe moted; and though an ingenious studies should by all means be proyouth can perhaps never be persua ded entirely to refrain from verse making, it is surely going far enough to connive at this as the occasional diversion of his leisure, without retion for his serious hours. The lite commending it as a proper occupa rary character ought in no degree to be staked on the crude composi tions of an unformed mind, however promising. On the one hand, the vanity of successful authorship may naturally beget a dislike for legiquiescence in the degree of profitimate labour, and a too easy acciency and celebrity which has been already attained: while, on the other, the mortification of publishing a work that failed to obtain praise might produce a still more fatal effect, by plunging the half-expanded faculties in listless and irrational despair. ble genius directs the youthful mind Where powerful and uncontrollato poetry, it will naturally seize on all those animating objects which stir the spirits and fascinate the ardent imagination, at that happy period: but, when the muse is courted rather from a general love of poetry and belles lettres, than from the inspiration of high poetical talent, a certain round of ideas is extremely apt to fill up the whole compass of the unvaried song. Churchyard scenes and cypress groves at the dreadful noon of night, silence, and egotism, with overpowering darkness, solitude, contemplation, melancholy, and fast approaching death-such is the funereal train that walks in sad procession round the sleepless pillow of the sentimental bard. Without insisting on the perfect exhaustion which this kind of poetry has undergone, particularly in our own language, let us consider, for a moment, what probable benefit familiar employment to a boy first can be expected from its supplying starting into active life. If such feel |