Flower of a noble field! thy birth
Was not where spears have cross'd,
And shiver'd helms have strewn the earth,
'Midst banners won and lost:

But where the sunny hues and showers
Unto thy cup were given,

There met high hearts at midnight hours,
Pure hands were raised to heaven.

And vows were pledg'd that man should roam
Through every Alpine dell,

Free as the wind, the torrent's foam,
The shaft of William Tell.

SEAMEN ASHORE.

BY LEIGH HUNT, ESQ.

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The first object of the seaman on landing is to spend his money but his first sensation is the strange firmness of the earth, which he goes treading in a sort of heavy light way, waggoner and half dancing-master, his shoulders rolling, and his feet touching and going; the same way, in short, in which he keeps himself prepared for all the rolling chances of the vessel, when on deck. There is always, to us, this appearance of lightness of foot and heavy strength of upper works, in a sailor, and he feels it himself: he lets his jacket fly open, and his shoulders slouch, and his hair grow long, to be gathered into a heavy pigtail; but when full dressed, he prides himself on a certain gentility of toe--on a white stocking and a natty shoe, issuing lightly out of the blue flowing trowser. His arms are neutral, hanging and swinging in a curve, aloof; his hands, half open, look as if they had just been handling ropes, and had no object in life but to handle them again. He is proud in appearing in a new hat and slops, with a Belcher handkerchief flowing loosely round his neck, and the corner of another out of his pocket.

Thus equipped, with pinchbeck buckles in his shoeswhich he bought for gold-he puts some tobacco in his mouth,

not as if he were going to use it directly, but as if he stuffed it in a pouch on one side, as a pelican does fish, to employ it hereafter and so, with Bet Monson at his side, and perhaps a cane, or whanghee, twisted under his other arm, sallies forth to take possession of all Lubberland. He buys every thing that he comes athwart, nuts, gingerbread, apples, shoe strings, beer, brandy, gin, buckles, knives, a watch (two if he has money enough,) gowns and handkerchiefs for Bet, and his mother and sisters; dozens of superfine best men's cotton stockings,' dozens of superfine 'best women's cotton ditto,' best good check for shirts-though he has too much already-infinite needles and thread, to sew his trowsers with some day, a footman's laced hat, bear's grease to make his hair grow-by way of joke-several sticks, all sorts of Jews' articles, a flute -which he cannot play, and never intends-a leg of mutton which he carries somewhere to roast, and for a piece of which the landlord of the Ship makes him pay twice what he gave for the whole ;-in short, all that money can be spent upon, which is every thing but medicine gratis; and this he would insist on paying for. He would buy all the painted parrots on an Italian's head, on purpose to break them, rather than not spend his money. He has fiddles and a dance at the Ship, with oceans of flip and grog; and gives the blind fiddler tobacco for sweetmeats, and half a crown for treading on his toe. He asks the landlady, with a sigh, after her daughter Nance, who first fired his heart with her silk stockings: and, finding that she is married and in trouble, leaves five crowns for her; which the old lady appropriates in part payment for a shilling in advance. He goes to the port playhouse with Bet Monson, and a great red handkerchief full of apples, gingerbread nuts, and fresh beef;-calls out for the fiddlers and Rule Britannia ;-pelts Tom Sikes in the pit;-and compares Othello to the black ship's cook in his white night-cap.

When he comes to London, he and some messmates take a hackney coach, full of Bet Monsons and tobacco-pipes, and go through the streets smoking and lolling out of window. He has ever been cautious of venturing on horseback; and, among his other sights in foreign parts, relates with unfeigned astonishment how he has seen the Turks ride ;only," says he, guarding against the hearer's incredulity, they have saddle boxes to hold 'em in, fore and aft; and