Attributed Pieces. [The following are very generally attributed to Mr Moore, and thongh not acknowledged by that gentleman, their wit, grace, and spirit, sufficiently attest the truth of the report, and sanction their insertion in a complete collection of his Poetical Works.] A VOICE FROM MARATHON. O FOR a voice, as loud as that of Fame, Te who have hearts to strike a single blow, Ye who have hands to immolate one foe, From the dim fields of Asphodel beneath, Of those who love their country still in death,- These are not hands for earthly wringing-these!- Yet here I stand, untomb'd MILTIADES, Hear Weeping-arise! arise! ye the groans that heave this burial-field?-- Cry from the dust-« Fight on! nor DARE to yield! << Blunt with your bosom the barbaric spear! Then come, brave Greek! and join your brothers here Shall modern DATIS, Swoln with Syrian pride, Ay-let them cover it, both far and wide,- Much has been done-but more remains to do- The trump that, on the Egean, glory blew, Asia's grim tyrant shudder'd at the sound, Murmur'd his horse-tail'd chieftainry around « Another Marathon!» Dodona, 'mid her fanes and forests hoar, Heard it with colemn glee: And old Parnassus, with a lofty roar, Told it from sea to sea! High-bosom'd Greece, through her unnumber'd vales, Broke forth in glorious song! Her classic streams that plough the headlong dales, But there's a bloodier wreath to gain, oh friends! If ye fight now no fiercer than the fiends, The feverish war-drum mingles with the fife And Moslem strikes at liberty and life,— Hark! how Citharon with his earthquake voice While Pluto bars, against the riving noise, Athenè, tiptoe on her crumbling dome, The stone first brought, his living tomb to close, Matrons of Greece! will ye do less for foes Than she did for her child? Let boyhood strike!-let every rank and age Strike deep-strike home-strike through! I teach but what the Phrygian taught of old- Hallow'd in life, in death itself, is he A light, a star, to all futurity THE ghost of Miltiades came at night, The Benthamite, yawning, left his bed- And oh!'t was a sight for the ghost to see, (As we see, in a glass that tells the weather, He smiled, as the pale moon shines through rain, you The ghost of Miltiades came once more ;~~ MORAL POSITIONS. A DREAM. His Lordship said that it took a long time for a moral position to find its way across the Atlantic. He was sorry that its voyage had been so long, etc.-Speech of Lord Dudley and Ward on Colonial Slavery, March 8. T' OTHER night, after hearing Lord Dudley's oration I dreamt that I saw-what a strange operation! As their Rev'rences know, that in southerly latitudes There stood my Lord Eldon, endorsing it « Glass,» Though-as to which side should lie uppermost doubling. The freight was, however, stow'd safe in the hold; The winds were polite, and the moon look'd romantic, While off in the good ship the Truths we were roll'd, With our ethical cargo, across the Atlantic. Long, dolefully long, seem'd the voyage we made;For the Truth,» at all times but a very slow sailer, By friends, near as much as by foes, is delay'd, And few come aboard her, though so many hail her. At length, safe arrived, I went through « tare and tret,» Deliver'd my goods in the primest conditionAnd next morning read, in the Bridgetown Gazette, « Just arrived, by the Truth,' a new Moral Position! << The Captain»-- here, startled to find myself named As the Captain» (a thing which, I own it with pain, I, through life, have avoided), I woke-look'd ashamed-Found I was n't a captain, and dozed off again, THE TWO BONDSMEN. WHEN Joseph, a Bondsman in Egypt, of old, But more than all riches he valued his fame. They should sternly decree, 'twixt your namesake and you, That he was the Christian, and thou wert the Jew. 1 Remote posterity-a favourite word of the present AttorneyGeneral's. REFLECTIONS. SUGGESTED BY A LATE CORRESPONDENCE ON THE CATHOLIC QUESTION. Poor Catholics, bitter enough, Heaven knows, are the doses you 've taken; Fit subjects for nought but dissection, To tell them they 've lost his protection! Ye sects, who monopolise bliss, While your neighbours' damnation you sport on, Know ye any damnation like this To be cut by the Under Sec. HORTON? CROCKFORDIANA. EPIGRAMS. Mala vicini pecoris contagia lædunt. J. WHAT Can those workmen be about? Why thus your houses fall.- Than have no pull at all.» 2. SEE, passenger, at CROCKFORD's high behest, 3. Impar congressus―― FATE gave the word-the King of dice and cards 4. Nullam simile est idem. 'Tis strange how some will differ-some advance LINES WRITTEN IN ST STEPHEN'S CHAPEL, AFTER THE DISSOLUTION. BY A MEMBER OF THE UPPER BENCHES. THE King's speech toll'd the Commons' knell, Where Britain's wise men congregated. No longer throng'd with curious folk, Happy to their good half-crown pay To hear bad speeches badly spoke. The Treasury seats no placemen show, Clear'd is each Opposition bench; And even never-ending Joe No longer cries-« Retrench! retrench!» Fred. Robinson no more his skill 1. Really the Hon. Member for Montrose should take a little breath; his objections are most unfair; and what is worse, they are never-ending.-See the Chancellor of the Exchequer's speech in reply to Mr Hume, Feb. 23, 1826. Dick Martin now no plan proposes To aid the brute part of the nation, 'T was a good joke, forsooth, to think And jobbing in committee-rooms ?? I look around-no well-known face For all have other fish to fry. And Lord John Russell never heed: Let gold alone choice control, your « The best man's he who best can bleed.3 But if, too timid, you delay, (By Bribery Statute held in awe), Fear not-there is a ready way To serve yourselves and cheat the law. Kind souls! at two pounds ten a-head.4 Thus may we hope for many a law, And many a measure most discreet, When-pure as even the last we saw Britain's new Parliament shall meet. Then haste, ye Candidates, and strive Collective wisdom-welcome back! ་ Mr Brogden said « be certainly should not refund the money. cause, by so doin, he should convict himself.--See the Report of i Meeting of the Proprietors of the Arigna Mining Company. The barefaced system of voting at private bill committees, with out having beard an iota of evidence for or against, forms a distin guished feature in the history of the late parliament. 3 A maxim which has been pretty well acted on in the present elections. 4. During the election at Sudbury, four cabbages sold for 14 and a plate of gooseberries fetched 251., the sellers where these art cles were so scarce being voters,»-See the Times of Friday June 25 5 The day on which the writs are returnable, and the new pariiament is to meet pro forma. THE END. |