And Rupert, as he gazed upon
The loosely-vested dame,
Thought of the marble statue's look,
For hers was just the same.

Behind her walked a hideous form,
With eyeballs flashing death;
Whene'er he breathed, a sulphured smoke
Came burning in his breath!

He seemed the first of all the crowd,
Terrific towering o'er ;

"Yes, yes," said Rupert, "this is he,
And I need ask no more.

Then slow he went, and to this fiend
The tablets trembling gave,

Who looked and read them with a yell
That would disturb the grave.

And when he saw the blood-scrawled name
His eyes with fury shine;

"I thought," cries he, "his time was out, But he must soon be mine!"

Then darting at the youth a look,
Which rent his soul with fear,
He went unto the female fiend,
And whispered in her ear.

The female fiend no sooner heard
Than, with reluctant look,
The very ring that Rupert lost
She from her finger took.

And, giving it unto the youth,

With eyes that breathed of hell, She said, in that tremendous voice Which he remembered well:

"In Austin's name take back the ring.
The ring thou gav'st to me;

And thou'rt to me no longer wed,
No longer I to thee."

He took the ring, the rabble passed,
He home returned again;

His wife was then the happiest fair,
The happiest he of men.

SONG.

ON THE BIRTHDAY OF MRS.

Written in Ireland.

Of all my happiest hours of joy,
And even I have had my measure,
When hearts were full, and every eye
Has kindled with the beams of pleasure:

Such hours as this I ne'er was given,

So dear to friendship, dear to blisses; Young Love himself looks down from heaven, To smile on such a day as this is!

Then oh my friends, this hour improve,
Let's feel as if we ne'er could sever;

And may the birth of her we love

Be thus with joy remembered ever!

Oh! banish every thought to-night

Which could disturb our soul's communion! Abandoned thus to dear delight,

We'll e'en for once forget the Union!

On that let statesmen try their powers,

And tremble o'er the rights they'd die for;

The union of the soul be ours,

And every union else we sigh for!

Then oh my friends, this hour improve,
Let's feel as if we ne'er could sever;

And may the birth of her we love

Be thus with joy remembered ever!

In every eye around I mark

The feelings of the heart o'erflowing; From every soul I catch the spark

Of sympathy, in friendship glowing!

Oh! could such moments ever fly;

Oh! that we ne'er were doomed to lose 'em!

And all as bright as Charlotte's eye,

And all as pure as Charlotte's bosom.

But oh my friends, this hour improve,
Let's feel as if we ne'er could sever;
And may the birth of her we love

Be thus with joy remembered ever!

For me, whate'er my span of years,
Whatever sun may light my roving;
Whether I waste my life in tears,

Or live, as now, for mirth and loving'

This day shall come with aspect kind,
Wherever fate may cast your rover;
He'll think of those he left behind,

And drink a health to bliss that's over!

Then oh my friends, this hour improve,
Let's feel as if we ne'er could sever;
And may the birth of her we love
Be thus with joy remembered ever!

TO A BOY, WITH A WATCH.
WRITTEN FOR A FRIEND.

Is it not sweet, beloved youth,
To rove through Erudition's bowers,
And cull the golden fruits of truth,
And gather Fancy's brilliant flowers?

And is it not more sweet than this,
To feel thy parents' hearts approving,
And pay them back in sums of bliss
The dear, the endless debt of loving?

It must be so to thee, my youth;
With this idea toil is lighter;

This sweetens all the fruits of truth,

And makes the flowers of Fancy brighter!

The little gift we send thee, boy,

May sometimes teach thy soul to ponder,

If indolence or siren joy

Should ever tempt that soul to wander ;

"Twill tell thee that the winged day

Can ne'er be chained by man's endeavour;

That life and time shall fade away,

While heaven and virtue bloom for ever!

FRAGMENTS OF COLLEGE EXERCISES.
Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.-Juv.
MARK those proud boasters of a splendid line,
Like gilded ruin, mouldering while they shine,
How heavy sits that weight of alien show,
Like martial helm upon an infant's brow;

Those borrowed splendours, whose contrasting light
Throws back the native shades in deeper night.

Ask the proud train who glory's shade pursue. Where are the arts by which that glory grew?

The genuine virtues that with eagle gaze
Sought young Renown in all her orient blaze!
Where is the heart by chymic truth refined,
The exploring soul, whose eye had read mankind?
Where are the links that twined, with heavenly art.
His country's interest round the patriot's heart?
Where is the tongue that scattered words of fire?
The spirit breathing through the poet's lyre?
Do these descend with all that tide of fame
Which vainly waters an unfruitful name?

Justum bellum quibus necessarium, et pia arma quibus nulla nisi in armis relinquitur spes.-Livy.

Is there no call, no consecrating cause,

Approved by Heaven, ordained by Nature's laws,
Where justice flies the herald of our way,

And truth's pure beams upon the banners play?

Yes, there's a call sweet as an angel's breath
To slumbering babes, or innocence in death;
And urgent as the tongue of heaven within
When the mind's balance trembles upon sin.

Oh! 'tis our country's voice, whose claim should meet
An echo in the soul's most deep retreat;
Along the heart's responding string should run,
Nor let a tone there vibrate-but the one!

SONG.

MARY, I believed thee true,

And I was blest in thus believing;
But now I mourn that e'er I knew
A girl so fair and so deceiving!

Few have ever loved like me,

Oh! I have loved thee too sincerely!

And few have e'er deceived like thee,
Alas! deceived me too severely!

Fare thee well! yet think awhile

On one whose bosom bleeds to doubt thee;
Who now would rather trust that smile,

And die with thee than live without thee!

Fare thee well! I'll think of thee,

Thou leav'st me many a bitter token;

For see, distracting woman! see,

My peace is gone, my heart is broken!-
Fare thee well!

SONG.

WHY does azure deck the sky?
'Tis to be like thy looks of blue;
Why is red the rose's dye?

Because it is thy blushes' hue.
All that's fair, by Love's decree,
Has been made resembling thee!

Why is falling snow so white,

But to be like thy bosom fair? Why are solar beams so bright? That they may seem thy golden hair! All that's bright, by Love's decree, Has been made resembling thee!

Why are Nature's beauties felt?

Oh! 'tis thine in her we see! Why has music power to melt?

Oh! because it speaks like thee. All that's sweet, by Love's decree, Has been made resembling thee!

MORALITY, A FAMILIAR EPISTLE. ADDRESSED TO J. ATKINSON, ESQ., M.R.I.A.

THOUGH long at school and college dozing,
On books of rhyme and books of prosing.
And copying from their moral pages
Fine recipes for forming sages;

Though long with those divines at school
Who think to make us good by rule;
Who, in methodic forms advancing,
Teaching morality like dancing,
Tell us, for Heaven or money's sake,
What steps we are through life to take :
Though thus, my friend, so long employed,
And so much midnight oil destroyed,

I must confess, my searches past,

I only learned to doubt at last.

I find the doctors and the sages

Have differed in all climes and ages,
And two in fifty scarce agree
On what is pure morality!

'Tis like the rainbow's shifting zone,
And every vision makes its own.

The doctors of the Porch advise,
As modes of being great and wise,
That we should cease to own or know
The luxuries that from feeling flow.