"Save the young vines, the vineyards, from their spoil,
"And to my love present a fertile soil."

I am my love's, and my beloved mine :
The sweets of lilies on his lips combine;
Till breathe the morning, and the shadows fly,
Blest in my beating bosom shall he lie.
Return! return! let eve thy love bestow!
Haste as, o'er Bether's hill, the bounding roe!

COLLOQUY between KING SOLOMAN and his ROYAL BRIDE.

L'

[From the same.]

KING SOLOMAN.

ET dreams or dangers menace as they may,

Still shall these arms, my love! the tempest stay.
Look down from Amana, from Shenir's height,
Where savage howls disturb the drowsy night;
From tangled Lebanon, from Hermon come,
From pards, from lions---here behold thy home.
My heart is thine, my sister-spouse! my dove!
My panting heart is ravished by thy love!
Thine eye but glances, and my spirit burns;
Thy graceful neck subdues me as it turns.
How dear to me the thought that thou art mine!
How more delicious than the choicest wine!
How sweet thy fragrance; to my soul that yields
A balm beyond the spices of the fields.
Thy lips with dropping honey-combs are hung,
Milk, milk and honey dwell beneath thy tongue;
And Lebanon, in luscious odours drest,
Pours all his incense o'er thy bridal vest.
My bride! my love! in thee perfection meets;
A garden art thou, filled with matchless sweets;
A garden walled, those matchless sweets to shield;
A spring inclosed, a fountain fresh and sealed;
A paradise of plants---where all unite,

Dear to the smell, the palate, or the sight:
Of rich pomegranates, that at random blow;
Cyprus and nard, in fragrant gales that flow;
Nard, saffron, cinnamon, the dulcet airs,
Deep through its canes, the calamus prepares;
The scented aloes, and each shrub that showers
Gums from its veins, and spices from its flowers ;---
O pride of gardens! fount of endless sweets!
Well-spring of all in Lebanon that meets!

ROYAL BRIDE.

Awake, O North-wind! come, thou southern breeze!
Blow on my garden, and refresh its trees;

That

That my beloved through its bowers may roam,
Feast on its fruits, and here elect his home.

KING SOLOMAN.

Into thy garden am I come, my love!
And gather balsams from each spicy grove:
On milk I banquet, on the honied comb,
Rills of rich wine, and here I fix my home.

ROYAL BRIDE.

Eat, O my friend! O drink with ample draught,
Deep be the bowl by my beloved quaffed.

To an UNKNOWN FAIR.

{Translated by Mr. Good, from the Persian of KHAKANI.)

WHO

[From the same Work.]

THO art thou?-say-with cypress shape,
Soft, jasmine neck, but flinty heart:

Tyrant from whom 'tis vain to escape-
O tell me who thou art?

I've seen thy bright narcissus-eye,
Thy form no cypress can impart:
Queen of my soul!--I've heard thee sigh-
O tell me who thou art?

Through vales with hyacinths bespread
I've sought thee, trembling as the hart:
O rose-bud-lip'd! thy sweets were fled---
Tell, tell me who thou art?

Wine lights thy cheeks---thy steps are snares;
Thy glance a sure destructive dart:
Say, as its despot-aim it bears,

What fatal bow thou art?

Thy new-moon brow the full moon robs,
And bids its fading beams depart:---
Tell, thou for whom each bosom throbs,
What torturer thou art?

Drunk with the wine thy charms display,
Thy slave Khakani hails his smart:
I'd die to know thy name!--then say
What deity thou art?

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ODE for his MAJESTY'S BIRTH-DAY.

[By H. J. PYE, Esq. P. L.]

I.

S the blest guardian of the British Isles,
Immortal Liberty, triumphant stood,
And view'd her gallant sons with favouring smiles,
Undaunted heroes of the field or flood;
From Inverary's rocky shores,

Where loud the Hyperborean billow roars,
To where the surges of th' Atlantic wave
Around Cornubia's western borders rave;
While Erin's valiant warriors glow

With kindred fire to crush th' injurious foe;

From her bright lance the flames of vengeance stream,
And in her eagle-eyes shines Glory's radiant beam.

II.

Why sink those smiles in Sorrow's sigh?
Why Sorrow's tears suffuse that eye?
Alas! while weeping Britain sees
The baleful fiends of pale Disease
Malignant hovering near her throne,
And threat a monarch all her own---
No more from Anglia's fertile land,
No more from Caledonia's strand,
From Erin's breezy hills no more
The panting legions crowd the shore:
The buoyant barks, the vaunting host,
That swarm on Gallia's hostile coast,
The anxious thought no longer share;
Lost in a nearer, dearer care,

And Britain breathe's alone for GEORGE's life her prayer.

III.

Her prayer is heard-The Almighty Power,

Potent to punish or to save,

Bids Health resume again her happier hour

And, as across the misty wave

The fresh'ning breezes sweep the clouds away
That hid awhile the golden orb of day,

So from Hygiea's balmy breath

Fly the drear shadows of disease and death.
Again the manly breast beats high,
And flames again the indignant eye;
While, from the cottage to the throne,
This generous sentiment alone

Lives in each heart, with patriot ardour warm,
Points ev'ry sword, nerves ev'ry Briton's arm,

"Rush to the field-where GEORGE and Freedom lead,
Glory and Fame alike the warriors' meed,

Brave in their country's cause-who conquer or who bleed."

ORIGIN of VEGETABLE and ANIMAL LIFE.

[From DR. DARWIN'S TEMPLE of NATURE.]

"F"

IRST, if you can, celestial Guide! disclose From what fair fountain mortal life arose, Whence the fine nerve to move and feel assign'd, Contractile fibre, and ethereal mind:

"How Love and Sympathy the bosom warm,
Allure with pleasure, and with pain alarm,
With soft affections weave the social plan,
And charm the listening savage into man."

GOD THE FIRST CAUSE!-in this terrene abode
Young Nature lisps, she is the child of Gop.
From embryon births her changeful forms improve,
Grow, as they live, and strengthen as they move.

"Ere Time began, from flaming Chaos hurl'd,
Rose the bright spheres, which form the circling world;
Earths from each sun with quick explosions burst,
And second planets issu'd from the first.
Then, whilst the sea at their coeval birth,
Surge over surge, involv'd the shoreless earth;
Nurs'd by warm sun-beams in primeval caves
Organic Life began beneath the waves.

"First HEAT from chemic dissolution springs,
And gives to matter its eccentric wings;
With strong REPULSION parts the exploding mass,
Melts into lymph, or kindles into gas.

ATTRACTION next, as earth or air subsides,
The pond'rous atoms from the light divides,
Approaching parts with quick embrace combines,
Swells into spheres, and lengthens into lines.
Last, as fine goads the gluten-threads excite,
Cords grapple cords, and webs with webs unite;
And quick CONTRACTION, with ethereal flame
Lights into life the fibre-woven frame.-
Hence without parent, by spontaneous birth,
Rise the first specks of animated earth;

From Nature's womb the plant or insect swims,
And buds or breathes, with microscopic limbs.

"In earth, sea, air, around, below, above,
Life's subtle woof in Nature's loom is wove;
Points glued to points a living line extends,
Touch'd by some goad approach the bending ends;
Rings join to rings, and irritated tubes

Clasp with young lips the nutrient globes or cubes;
And urg'd by appetencies new select,
Imbibe, retain, digest, secrete, eject.
In branching cones the living web expands,
Lymphatic ducts, and convoluted glands;
Aortal tubes propel the nascent blood,

And length'ning veins absorb the refluent flood;
Leaves, lungs, and gills, the vital ether breathe
On earth's green surface, or the waves beneath.
So Life's first powers arrest the winds and floods,
To bones convert them, or to shells, or woods;
Stretch the vast beds of argil, lime, and sand,
And from diminish'd oceans form the land!

"Next the long nerves unite their silver train,
And young SENSATION permeates the brain;
Through each new sense the keen emotions dart,
Flush the young cheek, and swell the throbbing heart,
From pain and pleasure quick VOLITIONS rise,
Lift the strong arm, or point the inquiring eyes;
With Reason's light bewilder'd man direct,
And right and wrong with balance nice detect.
Last in thick swarms ASSOCIATIONS spring,
Thoughts join to thoughts, to motions motions cling;
Whence in long trains of catenation flow
Imagined joy, and voluntary woe.

"So, view'd through crystal spheres in drops saline,
Quick-shooting salts in chemic forms combine;
Or mucor-stems, a vegetative tribe,

Spread their fine roots, the tremulous wave imbibe.
Next to our wond'ring eyes the focus brings

Self-moving lines, and animated rings;

First Monas moves, an unconnected point,

Plays round the drop without a limb or joint;
Then Vibrio waves, with capillary eels,
And Vorticella whirls her living wheels;
While insect Proteus sports, with changeful form,
Through the bright tide, a globe, a cube, a worm.
Last o'er the field the mite enormous swims,
Swells his red heart, and writhes his giant limbs.

"ORGANIC