Hath now shock'd you!

Go, coward soldiers, seek your captain out,660. Mayhap he'll medicate your heart's disease: And, doctor'd, ye may be brave soldiers yet!

And now the army from the field withdraw, Shrunken and pale, with drooping hearts and heads,

Poor breathing corpses without shroud or grave!

Noah sacrifices to the God of heav'n,

And chants high praise for preservation's boon!
And the bright sun, emerging from the east,
Him and his family conducteth home.

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REFLECTIONS arising from the retrospect of the late earthquake. Odin discovers Mirandah in a grove-speaks to her, and thus commences a long dialogue of a theological, political, and hymeneal complexion, which terminates in a matrimonial alliance between the pair.—Odin, nine days after marriage, remembers the depression of his ragged army, so recently unnerved by the earthquake, and sends for one, Muddiduck, a popular geologist, to come and dispel their fears-the geologist answers the invitation in a very flattering epistle.-A brief comment on the evil associations of evil men is made an introduction to that awful epoch when God said, "I will destroy man from off the face of the earth."-Thunder is heard, and God gives to Noah directions for the building of an ark.-Noah sacrifices-is apprised by letter of the connubial union between Odin and Mirandah-various conjectures are made by the Patriarch and several members of his family as to the truth of the story, after which they go forth (Mirandah only missing) to the duties of the day.—A panygeric on employment prepares the way for Odin's gang, who now come hastening to the geological lecture.-Here follows a description of Muddiduck and his apparatus, and a full report of his lectureits effects apparent in political violence, drunkenness, and debauch.-The whole concludes with an apostrophe.

NOAH.

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WHILE nature throbs, man trembles and is

sad;

But when convulsions are no longer felt,
A giddy thoughtlessness enshrouds the past,
And present scenes are sun-lit, and look gay.
Then

goes the farmer to his farm, and then
The trader to his counter; and the fop
Struts forth and snuffs, nor e'en with aid of glass

In right eye stuck, perceives ought drear or dread!

The lover woos his mistress in the grove! 10. And birds, full plumag'd, carol thro' the air! In such a grove walks Odin, and espies

The young Mirandah 'neath an elm-tree's shad
On bank of rill, whose bright transparent wave
Mirrors the beauteous image of the fair.

Odin, arrested by the sight, stands still;Anon he speaketh to the girl, and saith, "Hail, fairest damsel!-'tis a pleasant thing T'enjoy the shade at such a sultry hour! "Tis pleasant sometimes to avoid the sun!" 20. So saying, he sits down the lass beside:

She gazes fondly, and thus answer makes:
"Yes! 'tis delightful to outdo the sun,
When he so boldly stares one in the face!
But more delightsome to escape the frown
Of dotard guardian bigotted, and vain
Of odd traditions, musty, and ill match'd
With modern skill and intellectual schemes.

Our's are enlighten'd days, and he who dares

28.-Our's are enlighten'd days." We live in an enlightened age" is ever on the tongue of those who are the most pitiably be. nighted. There is in the moral aspect of the present time much that is indicative of a vain desire for independence, and vain