But oh, how blest they sink to rest, O'er his watch-fire's fading embers Now the foeman's cheek turns white, When his heart that field remembers, Where we tamed his tyrant might. A chain, like that we broke from then. May we pledge that horn in triumph round!' Many a heart that now beats high, In slumber cold at night shall lie, Nor waken even at victory's sound :But oh, how blest that hero's sleep, O'er whom a wond'ring world shall weep! AFTER THE BATTLE. NIGHT closed around the conqueror's way, Stood few and faint, but fearless still. The last sad hour of freedom's dream, And valor's task, moved slowly by, While mute they watch'd, till morning's beam Should rise and give them light to die. There's yet a world, where souls are free, Where tyrants taint not nature's bliss ;If death that world's bright opening be, Oh! who would live a slave in this? "TIS SWEET TO THINK. "Tis sweet to think, that, where'er we rove, We are sure to find something blissful and dear, 1"The Irish Corna was not entirely devoted to martial purposes. In the heroic ages, our ancestors quaffed Meadh out of them, as the Danish hunters do their beverage at this day."-Walker. 2 I believe it is Marmontel who says, " Quand on n'a pas ce que l'on aime, il faut aimer ce que l'on a.”—There are so many matter-of-fact people, who take such jeux d'esprit as this defence of inconstancy, to be the actual and genuine And that, when we're far from the lips we love, We've but to make love to the lips we are near. The heart, like a tendril, accustom'd to cling, Let it grow where it will, cannot flourish alone, But will lean to the nearest, and loveliest thing, It can twine with itself, and make closely its own. Then oh! what pleasure, where'er we rove, To be sure to find something, still, that is dear, And to know, when far from the ips we love, We've but to make love to the lips we are near. "Twere a shame, when flowers around us rise, To make light of the rest, if the rose isn't there; And the world's so rich in resplendent eyes, "Twere a pity to limit one's love to a pair. Love's wing and the peacock's are nearly alike, They are both of them bright, but they're change able too, And, wherever a new beam of beauty can strike, To be sure to find something, still, that is dear, And to know, when far from the lips we love, We've but to make love to the lips we are near. THE IRISH PEASANT TO HIS MISTRESS.' THROUGH grief and through danger thy smile hath cheer'd my way, Till hope seem'd to bud from each thorn that round ⚫ me lay; The darker our fortune, the brighter our pure love burn'd, Till shame into glory, till fear into zeal was turn'd; Yes, slave as I was, in thy arms my spirit felt free, And bless'd even the sorrows that made me more dear to thee. Thy rival was honor'd, while thou wert wrong'd and scorn'd, Thy crown was of briers, while gold her brows adorn'd; sentiments of him who writes them, that they compel one, in self-defence, to be as matter-of-fact as themselves, and to remind them, that Democritus was not the worse physiolo gist, for having playfully contended that snow was black; nor Erasmus, in any degree, the less wise, for having written an ingenious encomium of folly. * Meaning, allegorically, the ancient Church of Ireland. She woo'd me to temples, while thou lay'st hid in caves, Her friends were all masters, while thine, alas! were slaves; IT IS NOT THE TEAR AT THIS MOMENT SHED? Yet cold in the earth, at thy feet, I would rather Ir is not the tear at this moment shed, be, When the cold turf has just been laid o'er him, Than wed what I loved not, or turn one thought That can tell how beloved was the friend that's fled, from thee. They slander thee sorely, who say thy vows are frail Hadst thou been a false one, thy cheek had look'd less pale. They say, too, so long thou hast worn those lingering chains, That deep in thy heart they have printed their servile stains Oh! foul is the slander,-no chain could that soul subdue Where shineth thy spirit, there liberty shineth too!1 Or how deep in our hearts we deplore him. "Tis the tear, thro' many a long day wept, "Tis life's whole path o'ershaded; "Tis the one remembrance, fondly kept, When all lighter griefs have faded. |