prits scorn,

Can raise, lay low, extirpate. or adorn.
But saw ye not with apoplectic might
The bloodshot agony o'ercast the sight?
Whilst yet before the execrating lip,
The chatt'ring weakness owns the fury whip
Of rage, retorting thro' the vengeful frame
That coward dreads, yet execrates, the
Name,

Call'd to no human inj'ry to relieve,
No tear to wipe, no charity to give!—
But crime gratuitous, in face of heav'n,
Stares gorg'd with murd'rous blood, and
driv'n

To its own Hell, in slumber † colourless, That can't e'en + vision's mimic shade confess

This, execrator, is thy penal self, And Guilt's own fall, its own rewarding pelf.

And now th' expanse of cavern'd world had wav'd,

Which swell inebriate gigantic lav'á! Now Nature's self from birth-pang was releas'd,

And from chaotic strife recumbent ceas'd, The storms forgot to urge their raven flight, And silence lull'd the voiceless waste of Night;

Till (whilst along the sev'nfold bound'ry, Morn, [born) In Sabbath's dawn ambrosial smile, is The voice of heav'n composing mandate sings,

And rest harmonious o'er Creation brings; Thro' six days' course when time has urg'd his wheel,

Ordain'd repose laborious' thou shalt feel; As o'er the seventh the workless tranquil calm [balm; (Recumbent world!) shall pour its sacred "Sev'nth is the Sabbath of our God, the Lord :" [word, No earth-born tongue shall dare the holy By mortal grasp untri'd, the strings refuse Th' unhallow'd efforts of the palsi'd muse; This day forbids the lab'ring voice intrude; And voiceless is the charm of gratitude.

I hear the voice that gives another life, That needs no claim from § "dull reluctant strife,"

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I hear "thy father and thy mother

honour," Man,—

Forgetful reptile of thy short-liv'd span, Will not thy blood its fountain heart re

trace,

And search instinctive nature, and solace?
I had a mother, and I hear her sigh,
As night eternal clos'd the setting eye!
O'er infant feelings as she look'd, and sent
Her dying blessing, mutely eloquent!
Nature fatigu'd the parting parent view'd,
And whelm'd with tears its parting self
bedew'd.

But other tones (that parent life command,
The coward raptures of th' assassin's hand
To curb) proclaim, "No murder thou
shalt do"-

Can Britain e'er that bravery forego? That brav'ry? at which continents grew pale,

[tale. And wash'd out Europe's guilt, and envy's But lurking guilt midst Rome's piazza gloom,

Now low'rs with death, yet shudders at the doom

§ Alluding to the conflict of the Deluge.

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ROYAL ACADEMY OF INSCRIPTIONS AND BELLES LETTRES, PARIS.

This academy has proposed the following question as the subject for the prize to be awarded in 1821:

"To compare the monuments which remain of the antient empire of Persia and Chaldea, either edifices, basso-relievos, statues, or inscriptions, amulets, engraved stones, coins, cylinders, &c., with the religious doctrines and allegories contained in the Zend Avesta, and with the indications and data which have been preserved to us by Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Oriental writers, on the opinions and customs of the Persians and Chaldeans, and to illustrate and explain them, as much as possible, by each other."

The prize is a gold medal of 1,500 francs value. The essays are to be written in Latin or French, and sent before the 1st of April, 1821. The prize will be adjudged in July following.

THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.

At its sitting of the 8th of November, appointed Sir Humphrey Davy to be foreign associate, in the room of the late Mr. Watt. The ordinance confirming this appointment was issued on the 17th of December.