IV. The Parson finding now, that all chance of tithe is failing, As passively resisting makes the bay'net unavailing, Becomes, since he can't help it, quite a model of sobriety, And, for want of cash and claret, joins-the Temperance Society! Oh! what a gag is the Temperance Society! Oh! what a gag is the Temperance Society! V. The saintly old maid who in private is so handy At warming her devotion with cups of tea-half brandy! Oh! what a gag is the Temperance Society! VI. So push the bottle on, my friends, and may we long be able We'll laugh at holy twaddle and-the Temperance Society. ORRAR AND MUIRNE. [From the Irish.] 1. SHE comes along the flowery lawn- 'Bin-Edur-the ancient name of the Hill of Howth. Less welcome falls the pearly shower 2. Ere yet my youthful arm could wave The deeds of Erin's matchless might; And burned for battle's fiercest hour; 3. Yet Muirnē! oft has Orrar sought His country's foes-nor sought in vain; 4. Sweet flower of blooming loveliness! Bright with young Passion's gentle fire! EPIGRAM ON A WEALTHY AND PRESUMING UPSTART. "There is not, in the whole compass of nature, a more insufferable creature than a prosperous fool."-CICERO. WHEN I meet Tom, the purse-proud and impudent blockhead, In his person, the poets' three ages I trace; EPISTLE 66 FROM DR. SOUTHEY, POET LAUREAT, AND AUTHOR OF THE BOOK OF THE CHURCH." SIR, TO THE EDITOR OF THE "PARSON'S HORN BOOK." I suppose you'll feel somewhat surprised, When the great author of eternal life 1 For an account, and examination of the causes that led to the appearance, of this first effective publication against Irish Church temporalities and abuses, and its connexion with the formation of the "Comet Club," and the "Irish Brigade," see the Postcript or Appendix to this Epistle, at the end of the volume Our Lord rejoined, "If thou wouldst Heaven insure, 1" Decius Mus, a Roman consul, who, after many glorious exploits, devoted himself to the gods, manes, for the safety of his country, in a battle against the Latins, 338 years B. C. His son Decius, followed his example, fighting against the Gauls and Samnites, B. C. 296. This act of devoting one's self was of infinite service to the STATE.-Lempriere. 2 Two Carthaginian brothers, justly celebrated for their patriotism.The Carthaginians and Cyrenæans, after a long and bloody war about the limits of their territories, being apprehensive that a third power might arise to avail itself of their mutual weakness by the injury or ruin of both, agreed to make peace on the following conditions. The two states were each to appoint ambassadors, who were to advance in a given direction from their respective capitals, at a certain day and hour, and the place of their meeting was to be the boundary of their governments. Two They, for thy welfare, met a living grave-- brothers, the Philani, were named as the Carthaginian ambassadors, and, either from the remissness of the Cyrenæan envoys, or their having been delayed by one of those formidable sand-storms, which, in the desert parts of Africa, are as dangerous to travellers on land as tempests are to mariners at sea, the Carthaginians met their opponents somewhat within the Cyrenæan limits. The Cyrenæans, being consequently afraid of punishment, if they returned home defeated by their own acknowledgment, endeavoured to involve matters in clamour and confusion, that they might escape an impeachment by a rupture of negotiations and a renewal of the war. For this purpose, they exclaimed against the Philæni as having commenced their journey too soon; and, on the two brothers having honourably offered, for the sake of peace, to waive the advantage they had acquired, and to accept of any other terms consistent with equality and justice, the Cyrenæans proposed-"Either that the Philæni should consent to be buried alive on the spot claimed by them as the boundary of the Carthaginian state, or that they, the Cyrenæan ambassadors, should be permitted to advance as far as they might choose, under the same penalty." The first of these proposals, it was anticipated, that the Philæni, from the penalty annexed to it, would on their own account reject, as they would be justified in doing. The terms of the second proposal, or that by which the Cyrenæans were to be bound, though appearing to contain the same penalty for them as the first did for their opponents, were, in effect, such, that, whether acquiesced in or rejected by the Carthaginians, the contrivers would be equally guarded against suffering either the penalty it contained, or the punishment they feared at home. For, if the privilege of advancing ad libitum into the Carthaginian territory should be unthinkingly acceded to by the Philani, the Cyrenæan ambassadors might acquire the greater part, or, indeed, ALL its possessions from Carthage, to which city itself they might proceed— a submission to which war itself would of course be preferable. And, on the other hand, if the proposal involving such an absurdity should be rejected, it was calculated that a similar result would ensue, in a rupture of the negotiations, and a renewal of hostilities! Thus, in either case, the crafty Cyrenæans had protected themselves from danger, and their country from any loss of territory, unless the Philæni should consent, contrary to all probability, to preserve the advantage they had gained for their countrymen and save them from a war, by agreeing to be buried alive where they stood! The two magnanimous brothers, however, assented to this dreadful alternative, and the Carthaginians evinced their gratitude to them by decreeing several honours to their memory at home, besides erecting altars over the spot where they were buried, which continued for many ages to be the eastern boundary of the Carthaginian dominions in Africa. Of these altars, entitled Aræ Philænorum, some remains, in the shape of sandstone pillars, with inscriptions nearly ob |