or

written a poem till past forty. If Burns had
been spared, what might we not have hoped?
What dramas from the author of the "Jolly
Beggars!" What Tyrtean strains, during the
peninsular war, from the author of the "Do,
Die," of Bannockburn! But these are but idle
suppositions. Let us be thankful for what we
have. The feast is plentiful and varied as it is.
He might have been unable to adapt himself to
the wonderfully rapid changes of public taste
which occurred under the pervading influence of
the struggle for life and death in which all our
faculties were called forth. He died, perhaps,
at the right time. Death consecrated him as a
classic, before he had time to wear out the sub-
jects in which he excelled, and which it is now
an anachronism in taste for any one to attempt.
Think kindly of the man while you judge ad-
miringly of the author. He was aware of his
failings more keenly than the bitterest of his foes.
Nobody could write such an epitaph as he com-
posed for himself. Let bigotry look on it and
relent; let the careless, the idle, the dissolute,
think seriously of the sad lesson it conveys :-
Is there a whim-inspired fool,

Owre fast for thought, owre hot for rule,
Owrę blate to seek, owre proud to snool,

Let him draw near;

And owre this grassy heap sing dool,

And drap a tear.

Is there a bard of rustic song,
Who, noteless, steals the crowds among,
That weekly this area throng,

O, pass not by!

But with a frater-feeling strong,

Here heave a sigh.

Is there a man, whose judgment clear,
Can others teach the course to steer,
Yet runs, himself, life's mad career,
Wild as the wave;

Here pause and, through the starting tear,
Survey this grave.

The

poor inhabitant below,

Was quick to learn, and wise to know,
And keenly felt the friendly glow,

And softer flame,

But thoughtless follies laid him low,

And stain'd his name!

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