With this last kiss on thy unsullied brow, And oa thy pale calm cheek, these contrite tears, I yield thee to thy maker! Husband-Now my wife Thine own meek boliness beams forth once more Agnes-My Edmund, where Where wilt thou lay him? Husband-Seest thou where the spire Of you dark cyprus reddens in the sun To burning gold?-there-o'er yon willow tuft? Lies his lone bed. Our Hubert, since the dawn, Hath lined it closely through; and there breathed forth, As wails a wood bird to the thrilling leaves, Agnes. My gentle son! Th' affectionate, the gifted! With what joy- Would spring from rosy sleep, and playfully In that kind youthful breast? Oh, now no more- (Bending over the child.) Once more, farewell! After a short pause. Husband-Then strength be with thy prayer- (He goes out with the child. Agnes kneels in prayer. After a time, voices without are heard singing The Funeral Hymn. Where the tall reeds quiver, Where the pines make moan, Sleeps our babe alone. England's field flowers may not deck his grave, Cypress-shadows o'er him darkly wave. Woods unknown receive him, Our tears gushed o'er his lovely dust, Though his eye hath brighten'd Half our heart's dismay, Still in hope we give back what was given, Yielding up the Beautiful to Heaven. And to her who bore him, Her who long must weep, From his pale sweet sleep; Those blue eyes of Love and Peace again Through her soul will shine, undimmed by pain. Where the long reeds quiver, Earth to earth alone; God and Father! may our journeyings on Lead to where the blessed boy has gone! From the Exile's sorrow, From the Wanderer's dread Thou hast call'd him to a sweeter home Pindemonte's Sonnet on the Hebe of Canova. Translated by Mrs. Hemans. Dove par te, celeste ancella, or vassi? Whither celestial maid, so fast away? What lures thee from the banquet of the skies? 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It is desired that the subscription papers be returned by the 25th of September, as the publication will be commenced on the 5th of October, directed to P. D. CARRIQUE, Office of the Hudson Gazette. No subscriptions recived for less than one VOL. I. OR, LITERARY TABLET. Published Semi-Monthly, at One Dollar Per Annum, in Advance. HUDSON, NOVEMBER 2, 1833. Malvezzi,-the Usurper of Piza. A VENETIAN LEGEND. deeply expressed. No. 3. but seldom rivalled. Bianca's eyes were soon lightened with a smile, and she replied on her part, in a manner at once natural, easy, The annals of Venice record that towards had in vain pressed his suit with her since her and graceful. A young Venetian noble who the conclusion of the sixteenth century, there arrival at the city, was offended at the evident arrived at that celebrated city, a lonely stran gratification with which she listened to the ger, who speedily purchased one of the most words of a stranger, and approaching, joined gorgeous pallazi,near the Rialto, on the Grand in the conversation in a manner which partook Canal, and hired a train of domestics, whom of the nature of insult. Bianca blushed with he attired in the most splendid manner. indignation; the stranger levelled at the At that time a new Doge was just elected, young patrician a biting sarcasm, which, and a superb feast was prepared on the occa-unable to answer in any other way, he resion.-In some of the old chronicles a very plied with a blow. Swords were drawn, and minute account is given of the riches of the ere the gay crowd around them could sepamasquerade, the delicacies of the banquet, rate the combatants, the Venetian received a the exquisiteness of the music, and the con-wound in his right arm that disqualified him sequent approbation of the numerous guests. from fighting for a year at least. Amongst these was our mysterious stranger. Such hazard undergone in her cause, renHe wandered about amidst the crowds of dered it impossible for her to refuse giving splendid masques with a vacant and careless the stranger a general invitation to her paair, till he approached the lovely Bianca di azzo, even if she had been previously indisGonzaga, at that time the loadstar of all eyes posed to the measure. It was given, and the in Venice. At the sight of her his hitherto stranger, for the next month was always at listless features were animated with a dark her side. Her partner in the dance, her comand fiery glance, and he bent on her a look panion in the song, he displayed a perfection in which the most powerful interest was in these accomplishments which few could boast. In a week or two, his songs, however, Bianca di Gonzaga was indeed a lady never began to turn always on love; his guitar was to be passed without interest. Even if her never touched but with some plaintive tune, figure had been less faultless, her countanance in which a despairing knight was the subject, less heavenly, the mournful circumstances of who accused the cruelty of his lady. Bianca her sad story would have fixed attention. began to repent her encouragement of him, The descendant of a line of the most power-for knowing nothing of him save his person ful nobles in Italy, she had at one time been and accomplishments, and being betrothed to duchess of Pisa. A rebellion had arisen in another, she was by no means pleased at such her dominions, and a young baron had driven close attention. her from her throne to seat himself upon it. One evening, as she was seated at a window Alone, deserted by all her former friends, she overlooking the Grand Canal, on which many had filed to Venice, where her misfortunes busy gondolas, in their black coverings, met with sympathy, while her beauty excited might be seen gliding past, the stranger apadmiration. But the kindness of friendship proached on his usual visit. A short convercould not efface the remembrance of love.sation ensued; and after a few minutes, bendWhilst in possession of her ducal dignity, she ing one knee on the velvet foot: tool of Bianca, had been affianced to a prince whose domi he made a declaration of love. The suddennions bordered on her own, and it weighed ness of the address surprised her; in a huron her heart that he should coldly desert her ried manner she stated the many objections to when surrounded by her enemies; hence the match: her want of knowledge of his arose the air of sadness that clouded her mar- family, his fortune, his character, the espouble brow when the stranger first surveyed her sals of which an early age had made her the in the halls of Venice. It was true she had affianced bride of the Prince Adorno. At the never seen the prince, that he had never end of the speech the stranger's eyes flashed knelt at her feet to breath his passion; but with joy; he implored her to pardon the from infancy she had heard him spoken of as deception that love alone caused, and avowed one who was to be her future husband, and himself the prince. in that belief she had hung on every tale of The single word over-ruled every objechis growing valour which had reached the tion. It at once silenced every doubt as to court of Pisa. Report spoke him generous. his birth-he drew it from one of the loftiest feeling, enthusiastic, noble; and Bianca was lines in Italy; and although his fortune conin love with his image. sisted but of a paternal estate, and a sword The stranger approached her and com- that had already gleamed in numerous battles, menced a discourse to divert her melancholy, his fame far outweighed every paltry objecin which he displayed powers of conversation tion on that account. As soon as Bianca knew that she saw before her the young hero whom liest enemy dwelt within his walls-tell him, she had loved before she saw him, she at once to plunge him in despair, that he might have resigned herself to joy, and consented to be- seized, but did not, Malvezzi, Duke of Piza. come his bride. The wretched Bianca, had been at first "And yet," said she, as she surveyed the petrified at the conduct of the pretended manly figure before her, "they did not pic-prince; his concluding avowal opened her ture thee to me as thou art. They spoke of eyes to the misery of her situation. The vilblue eyes, thine are black as the raven's wing; lainous Malvezzi, so glittering without and so of light fair hair-how jetty is thine!" evil within; the unprincipled usurper of a "Doubtest thou that I am the prince?" said throne to which he had not the slightest the stranger, reproachfully: "behold then claim, had in reality, as she conjectured, inthese proofs !" As he spoke, he produced a tercepted some real letters of Prince Adorno's, letter to the Prince Adorno, and another declaring his intention of exciting a struggle signed with his name. The former was from in her favor. In the fear of being intercepted, a friend, and informed him of the rebellions Malvezzi had determined to attempt to gain her by which Bianca had been driven from the affections in disguise, and thus at once destroy ducal throne, concluding with an earnest re- every future idea of resistance to his power. Å quest that he would return instantly from his month had he spent in his task, and he immatravels, and assert her rights; the letter gined Bianca's heart must have been melted stated his determination of replacing her in by his numerous attractions. In this beher dominions. "This," said the stranger, lief, he declared his love. What was his as he presented it, I have yet found no surprise to hear her confess her affection for means of forwarding." Adorno! The strongest dissimulation, a vice After a few moments spent in the examina- which Italian statemen at that period almost tion of the documents by Biar.ca, who recog-considered a virtue, could alone prevent the nized the hand writing, the stranger again hatred he instantly conceived for the duchess, addressing her, besoug t her to consent to a from glaring his deceiptful countenance. His plan he had formed for the nuptials. As there presence of mind suggested the thought of were so many of her lovers at Venice, he counterfeiting the prince. The intercepted wished to spare them the mortification of letters which he still bore about him, readily seeing her become his bride, and besought her furnished him with the means of strengthento consent to set out for his castle. A lingeringthe imposture in which he was unhappily ing consent was wrung from Bianca, and it too successful. Information had been instantly was agreed that next day they should sail despatched to Piza, to cause a band of down the river, and landing at some point spearmen that day to await him at the near his domains, proceeded thither as fast as hundred steps. The result was such as has possible. already been detailed. The next morning was one of exquisite The outlines of this dark and iniquitous beauty. Never was there a more cloudless scheme, flashed across the mind of Bianca, as sky or a brigher sun. The blue waves of the chains were placed upon her delicate hands, Adriatic seemed bluer than ever; the river. and guarded by the band of Pisan soldiers with its banks clothed with trees and verdure, she mounted the hundred steps. As the vilwas a perfect paradise. Embarked in a gal- lain Malvezzi followed, she darted at him a lant gondola, with a numerous train of do- glance that almost, like that of the fabled mestics, the stranger and Bianca sailed down basalisk, possessed the power to kill, but not towards Pisa, and when evening was ap-a word of complaint burst from her lips, proaching, the lady half-trembled as she saw, though her heart was full of torture. To rising on one side the stream, the domains of what dark dungeon was she now to be borne which she had once been duchess. At length by her rebellious subjects? Her eye asked they approached where, from the rocks that the question though her lips moved not.frown above, a descent of a hundred steps. Malvezzi, as they attained the lofty rock, hewn in the solid stone, conducted to a broad pointed to a gigantic castle glooming over the landing place. At the sight of this spot the distant wooland landscape, elsewhere splenstranger turned from Bianca, with whom he didly illuminated by the rays of the setting had been conversing, and wound a bugle horn sun, and said, in an accent of scorn, "There that hung by his side. A strange suspicion is your prison." crossed the mind of the Lady di Gonzaga, as Bianca recognized the time-worn fortress. in reply to this sound, another of a precisely In her youth, her father had once shown her similar nature was heard above, and a hun- the castle, from battlement to donjon keep. dred men came tramping down the rocky It contained the most loathsome dungeons in pass, fully armed and weaponed. Alas! these Piza-dwellings, where the wretched state suspicions were but too true! The stranger prisoners, who were confined there, clasping caught hold of her with one arm, as he drew the duke's knees, implored as a mercy, to be his sword with the other, and leaped on shore led to execution. Melting with pity, she had from the prow of the gondola. Safe on the implored and obtained that they should be land, he flung Bianca to the newly arrived removed to more lightsome prisons, and that soldiers, with a command to load her with no one should be confined here. How little chains. "Farewell!" he exclaimed to the at that time had she thought that it would domestics in the boat; "and back to Venice ever be her own lot to be immured in their as fast as you can. There, if the Doge asks dreary dungeons! Her heart sunk within you the reason of my conduct, tell him, that her as they approached, and she burst into for a month, without his knowledge, his dead-tears. From the mountain which they were "Yes, Adorno!" cried the prince," Aderno who comes to wrest the throne of Piza from the usurper." descending, the palace of Prince Adorno wes visible, and the reflection, that perhaps he might at that very moment be within her ken -unknowing her fate made her tears flow "By heavens! this exceeds my hopes," faster. shouted the treacherous bravo; "yield thyMalvezzi, meanwhile, was conversing with self, for it is impossible to escape; my guards a soldier who gave him some important infor-re all around." mation. The Prince Adorno was in reality "They were this morning," said the prince, returned-report said, that he was assembling but the strong detachment sent off to the his vassels to invade Fiza-that he had sent aandred steps enabled me to attack the castle messenger to Venice, to inform Bianca of his with success. It is now in the possession of arrival and intentions. "The lagging fool," Bianca di Gonzaga. Yield thee, or die!" said Malvezzi with scorn; "had he but been a The astonished Malvezzi, fixed like a statue, day soonermy plans had fallen to nought-per-heard the fatal intelligence. At length, sudhaps I might at this moment have been cross-lenly rushing forward, he endeavoured to ing the Bridge of Sighs. By this time the stab Adorno; but the prince, wrenching the Council of Ten must know Bianca's disappea-dagger from his grasp, laid him prostrate at rance, and be conjecturing the cause-they his feet. With a groan of agony the wretch shall soon be informed." expired, while Adorno supported the fainting Night was now sinking, and the heavy Bianca. walls of the castle were almost towering above The news of Malvezzi's death opened the them. As they rode up the rocky path, at rates of Piza to the Dutchess. She long and whose summit frowned its black battlements, happily swayed the sceptre of her paternal the warder's voice echoed through the pass-dominions, and was not the worse princess "Who comes there?" that she had once known adversity. There "A friend from Venice," cried Malvezzi are few persons who cannot picture to themexultingly." selves, without assistance, the festivities at"Welcome!" said the warder, "you have tending her entrance into the city, and the been impatiently expected. By'r Lady, your expedition is miraculous." magnificence of her nuptials with the Prince Adorno, still more worthy in reality than fame proclaimed him. The heavy drawbridge dropped sullenly over the moat, the portcullis was raised with a grating sound, and Malvezzi entered, leading Bianca trembling with him. As his band A Rough DENTIST.—I was much amused were following, he heard a struggle behind. the last morning watch that I kept. We were The portcullis was dropped-the drawbridge stowing the hammocks in the quarter deck raised. "Some idle quarrel," fiercely mut-nettings, when one of the boys came up with tered Malvezzi. "This garrison is the worst his hammock on his shoulder, and, as he passdisciplined in Piza." And so saying, he strode ed, the first Lieutenant perceived he had a haughtily onward through the dark passage quid of tobacco in his cheek. "What have that led to the great hall of the frontier gar-you got there my good lad, a gum boil? your rison. cheek is very much swelled." "No sir," re In the hall a large table was spread, and plied the boy," there's nothing at all the mattorches were placed in the immense iron can-ter." "Oh there must be; it is a bad tooth dlesticks, that shed a broad flashing light then. Open your mouth and let me see."through the apartment. But no one was yet Very reluctantly the boy opened his mouth, assembled at the Banquet. and I discovered a large roll of tobacco leaf.— "Fellow," cried Malvezzi to his attendant."I see," said the first Lieutenant, "your striding into a neighbouring room, send your mouth wants overhauling and your teeth commander hither. cleansing. I wish we had a dentist on board, The miserable Bianca, whom Malvezzi had but we have not, I will operate as well as I can. never, from the moment of the warder's Send the armourer up here with his tongs." challenge, suffered to escape from his grasp. When the armourer made his appearance the sunk, overpowered, into a chair, whilst the boy was made to open his mouth while the villain, scarcely concealing his pleasure, sur-chaw of tobacco was extracted with his rough veyed from the great window, the rising instrument. "There, now," said the first moon, that having emerged from the black Lieutenant, "I'm sure you must feel better clouds which had for some minutes obscured already, you never could have had an appetite. it, now cast a bright radience into the room. Now captain of the afterguard, bring a piece Exulting in the success of his treacherous of old canvass and some sand here, and clean plans, he scarcely heard the door open behind his teeth nicely." The captain of the afterhim; but the step of an armed foot in the guard came forward, and putting the boy's room aroused him from his reverie. Hastily head between his knees scrubbed his teeth turning round, what was his astonishment to well with the sand and canvass two or three behold a warrior in complete steel, stand be minutes. "There that will do," said the first tween him and the entrance-indignation and Lieutenant. "Now my little fellow, your surprise painted in his noble countenance mouth is nice and clean and you'll enjoy your At the same moment that the exclamation of breakfast. It was impossible for you to have 66 Malvezzi!" burst from the lips of the stran-eaten any thing with your mouth in such a ger, Malvezzi himself starting back a few nasty state. When it's dirty again come to paces, uttered with astonishment the word me and I'll be your Dentist."-Peter Simple "Adorno!" in the Metropolitan. |