Yet jarring sects convulse a sister isle

And light with maddening hands the mutual pile.

"Tis done, 'tis past, since Pallas warns in vain; The Furies seize her abdicated reign: Wide o'er the realm they wave their kindling brands,

And wring her vitals with their fiery hands.
But one convulsive struggle still remains,
And Gaul shall weep ere Albion wear her chains.
The banner'd pomp of war, the glittering files,
O'er whose gay trappings stern Bellona smiles;
The brazen trump, the spirit-stirring drum,
That bid the foe defiance ere they come ;
The hero bounding at his country's call,
The glorious death that consecrates his fall,
Swell the young heart with visionary charms,
And bid it antedate the joys of arms.
But know, a lesson you may yet be taught,
With death alone are laurels cheaply bought :
Not in the conflict Havoc seeks delight,
His day of mercy is the day of fight.

But when the field is fought, the battle won, Though drench'd with gore, his woes are but begun :

His deeper deeds as yet ye know by name;
The slaughter'd peasant and the ravish'd dame,
The rifled mansion and the foe-reap'd field,
Ill suit with souls at home, untaught to yield.
Say with what eye along the distant down
Would flying burghers mark the blazing town?
How view the column of ascending flames
Shake his red shadow o'er the startled Thames?
Nay, frown not, Albion! for the torch was thine
That lit such pyres from Tagus to the Rhine:

Now should they burst on thy devoted coast, Go, ask thy bosom who deserves them most. The law of heaven and earth is life for life, And she who raised, in vain regrets, the strife.”

Notes to the Curse of Minerva.

I.

SOCRATES drank the hemlock a short time before sunset (the hour of execution), notwithstanding the entreaties of his disciples to wait till the sun went down.

2.

The twilight in Greece is much shorter than in our own country; the days in winter are longer, but in summer of less duration.

3.

The kiosk is a Turkish summer-house; the palm is without the present walls of Athens, not far from the temple of Theseus, between which and the tree the wall intervenes. Cephisus' stream is indeed scanty, and Ilissus has no stream at all.

4.

This is spoken of the city in general, and not of the Acropolis in particular. The temple of Jupiter Olympius, by some supposed the Pantheon, was finished by Hadrian; sixteen columns are standing, of the most beautiful marble and architecture.

5.

His lordship's name, and that of one who no longer bears it, are carved conspicuously on the Parthenon; above, in a part not far distant, are the torn remnants of the basso-relievos, destroyed in a vain attempt to remove them. [In another place there was deeply cut lin a plaster wall the words

"QUOD NON FECERUNT GOTI,
HOC FECERUNT Scoti."]

6.

"Irish bastards," according to Sir Callaghan O'Brallaghan.

7.

Mr West, on seeing the "Elgin Collection," (I suppose we shall hear of the "Abershaw" and "Jack Shephard" collection) declared himself "a mere tyro' in art.

8.

Poor Crib was sadly puzzled when the marbles were first exhibited at Elgin House; he asked if it was not "a stone shop?"-He was right; it is a shop.

9.

[The affair of Copenhagen.]

ΤΟ

"Blest paper credit! last and best supply,
That lends Corruption lighter wings to fly.

II.

The Deal and Dover traffickers in specie.

-POPE.

THE WALTZ:

AN APOSTROPHIC HYMN.

Qualis in Eurotæ ripis, aut per juga Cynthi,

Exercet Diana choros."-VIRGIL.

"Such on Eurota's banks, or Cynthia's height,
Diana seems and so she charms the sight,
When in the dance the graceful goddess leads.
The quire of nymphs, and overtops their heads."
DRYDEN'S VINGIL.