Tak tent, case Crummy tak her wonted tids', An' ca' the laiglen's treasure on the ground; Whilk spills a kebbuck nice, or yellow pound.

Then a' the house for sleep begin to green3,
Their joins to slack frae industry a while;
The leaden god fa's heavy on their een,
An' hafflins steeks them frae their daily toil:
The cruizy, too, can only blink and bleer;
The restit ingle 's done the maist it dow;
Tacksman an' cottar eke to bed maun steer,
Upo' the cod's to clear their drumly pow,
Till wauken'd by the dawnin's ruddy glow.

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Peace to the husbandman, an' a' his tribe,

Whase care fells a' our wants frae year to year! Lang may his sock and cou'ter turn the gleyb, An' banks o' corn bend down wi' laded ear! May Scotia's simmers ay look gay an' green; Her yellow ha'rsts frae scowry blasts decreed! May a' her tenants sit fu' snug an' bien, Frae the hard grip o' ails, and poortith freed; An' a lang lasting train o' peacefu' hours succeed!

1 Fits. The milk-pail.-3 To long. The lamp. - Pillow.Thick heads.-7 Ploughshare. -8 Soil, -9 Comfortable.

THOMAS SCOTT.

BORN 17-. DIED 17ー、

FROM LYRIC POEMS, DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL, LONDON, 1773.

GOVERNMENT OF THE MIND.

IMPERIAL Reason, hold thy throne,
Conscience to censure and approve
Belongs to thee. Ye Passions, own
Subjection, and in order move.

Enchanting order! Peace how sweet!
Delicious harmony within;
Blest self-command, thy power I greet,
Ah! when shall I such empire win!

The hero's laurel fades; the fame
For boundless science is but wind;
And Samson's strength a brutal name, nam
Without dominion of the mind.

PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE,

EARL OF CHESTERFIELD.

BORN 1694.-DIED 1773.

ON NASH'S PICTURE AT FULL LENGTH

BETWEEN THE BUSTS OF SIR I. NEWTON AND MR. POPE, AT BATH.

THE Old Egyptians hid their wit
In hieroglyphic dress,
To give men pains in search of it,
And please themselves with guess.

Moderns, to hit the self-same path,
And exercise their parts,
Place figures in a room at Bath-
Forgive them, God of Arts!

Newton, if I can judge aright,
All wisdom does express;
His knowledge gives mankind delight,
Adds to their happiness.

Pope is the emblem of true wit,
The sunshine of the mind;

Read o'er his works in search of it,
You'll endless pleasure find.

Nash represents man in the mass,
Made up of wrong and right;
Sometimes a knave, sometimes an ass,
Now blunt, and now polite.

The picture plac'd the busts between
Adds to the thought much strength;
Wisdom and Wit are little seen,
But Folly's at full length.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH.

BORN 1728.-DIED 1774.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH was born at a place called Pallas, in the parish of Ferney, and county of Longford, in Ireland. His father held the living of Kilkenny West, in the county of Westmeath. There was a tradition in the family, that they were descended from Juan Romeiro, a Spanish gentleman, who had settled in Ireland, in the sixteenth century, and had married a woman, whose name of Goldsmith was adopted by their descendants. Oliver was instructed in reading and writing by a schoolmaster in his father's parish, who had been a quarter-master in the wars of Queen Anne; and who, being fond of relating his adventures, is supposed to have communicated to the young mind of his pupil the romantic and wandering disposition which shewed itself in his future years. He was next placed under the Rev. Mr. Griffin, schoolmaster of Elphin, and was received into the house of his father's brother, Mr. Goldsmith, of Ballyoughter. Some relations and friends of his uncle, who were met on a social party, happening to be struck with the sprightliness of Oliver's abilities, and knowing the narrow circumstances of his father, offered to join in defraying the expense of giving him a liberal education. The chief contributor was the Rev. Thomas Contarine', who had married our poet's aunt. He was accordingly sent, for some time, to the school of Athlone, and afterwards to an academy at Edgeworthstown, where he was fitted for the university. He was admitted a sizer of Trinity college, Dublin, in his fifteenth year, a circumstance which denoted remarkable proficiency; and three years afterwards, was elected one of the exhibitioners on the foundation of Erasmus Smith. But though he occasionally distinguished himself by his translations from the

This benevolent man was descended from the noble family of the Contarini of Venice. His ancestor, having married a nun in his native country, was obliged to fly with her into France, where she died of the small-pox. Being pursued by ecclesiastical censures, Contarini came to England; but the puritanical manners, which then prevailed, having afforded him but a cold réception, he was on his way to Ireland, when, at Chester, he met with a young lady of the name of Chaloner, whom he married. Having afterwards conformed to the established church, he, through the interest of his wife's family, obtained ecclesiastical preferment in the diocese of Elphin. Their lineal descendant was the benefactor of Goldsmith.