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ODE TO JEHOVAH,

IN high JEHOVAH's praise, my strain
Of triumph shall the chorus lead,
WHO plunged beneath the rolling main
The horseman with his vaunted steed.
Dread breaker of our servile chains,
By WHOM Our arm in strength remains,
The scented algum forms THY car!

Our father's GOD! THY name we raise Beyond the bounds of mortal praise, The Chieftain and the Lord of war.

Far in the caverns of the deep

Their chariots sunk to rise no more;
And Pharaoh's mighty warriors sleep
Where the Red Sea's huge monsters roar.
Plunged like a rock amid the wave,
Around their heads the billows lave;
Down, down the yawning gulf they go,
Dash'd by THY high-expanded hand
To pieces on the pointed sand,
That strews the shelving rocks below.

What lambent lightnings round THEE gleam,
THY foes in blackening heaps to strew!
As o'er wide fields of stubble stream
The flames, in undulations blue.
And lo! the waters of the deep
Swell in one enormous heap,
Collected at THY nostrils' breath.

The bosom of the abyss reveal'd,
Wall'd with huge crystal waves congeal'd,
Unfolds the yawning jaws of death.

"Swift, steeds of Egypt, speed your course,
And swift, ye rapid chariots, roll!
Not ocean's bed impedes our force;
Red vengeance soon shall glut our soul:
The sabre keen shall soon embrue
Its glimmering edge in gory dew”-
Impatient cried the exulting foe ;-

When, like a ponderous mass of lead,
They sink-and sudden, o'er their head
The bursting waves impetuous flow.
But THOU, in whose sublime abode

Resistless might and mercy dwell,
Our voices, high o'er every God,

With grateful hearts THY praises swell! Outstretch'd we saw Tar red right hand, The earth her solid jaws expand; Adown the gulf alive they sink :While we, within the incumbent main, Beheld the tumbling floods in vain Storm on our narrow pathway's brink. But, far as fame's shrill notes resound, With dire dismay the nations hear; Old Edom's sons with laurels crown'd, And Moab's warriors melt with fear. The petrifying tale disarms

The might of Canaan's countless swarms, Appall'd their heroes sink supine;

No mail'd band with thrilling cries The might of Jacob's sons defies, That moves to conquer Palestine.

Nor burning sands our way impede,

Where nature's glowing embers lie; But, led by THEE, we safely tread Beneath the furnace of the sky.

To fields, where fertile olives twine Their branches with the clustering vine Soon shalt THOU Jacob's armies bring;

To plant them by Tax mighty hand Where the proud towers of Salem stand; And ever reign their God and King. Far in the deep's unfathom'd caves

Lie strew'd the flower of Mazur's land, Save when the surge, that idly raves, Heaves their cold corses on the sand. With courage unappall'd, in vain They rush'd within the channell'd main; Their heads the billows folded o'er : While THOU hast Israel's legions led Through the green ocean's coral bed, To ancient Edom's palmy shore.

ODE TO AN INDIAN GOLD COIN. WRITTEN IN CHERICAL, MALABAR.

SLAVE of the dark and dirty mine!
What vanity has brought thee here?
How can I love to see thee shine

So bright, whom I have bought so dear?—
The tent-ropes flapping lone I hear
For twilight converse, arm in arm;

The jackal's shriek bursts on mine ear
When mirth and music wont to charm.
By Chéricál's dark wandering streams,

Where cane-tufts shadow all the wild,
Sweet visions haunt my waking dreams
Of Teviot loved while still a child,
Of castled rocks stupendous piled
By Esk or Eden's classic wave,

Where loves of youth and friendship smiled, Uncursed by thee, vile yellow slave !

Fade, day-dreams sweet, from memory fade!-
The perish'd bliss of youth's first prime,
That once so bright on fancy play'd,
Revives no more in after time.
Far from my sacred natal clime,
I haste to an untimely grave;

The daring thoughts that soar'd sublime
Are sunk in ocean's southern wave.
Slave of the mine! thy yellow light
Gleams baleful as the tomb-fire drear.-

A gentle vision comes by night

My lonely widow'd heart to cheer; Her eyes are dim with many a tear, That once were guiding stars to mine: Her fond heart throbs with many a fear!

I cannot bear to see thee shine.

For thee, for thee, vile yellow slave,
I left a heart that loved me true!

I cross'd the tedious ocean-wave,

To roam in climes unkind and new.

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STAR of the wide and pathless sea,
Who lovest on mariners to shine,
These votive garments wet, to thee,
We hang within thy holy shrine.
When o'er us flash'd the surging brine,
Amid the waving waters toss'd,

We call'd no other name but thine,
And hoped when other hope was lost.
Ave Maris Stella!

Star of the vast and howling main!
When dark and lone is all the sky,
And mountain waves o'er ocean's plain
Erect their stormy heads on high,
When virgins for their true loves sigh
They raise their weeping eyes to thee;-
The star of ocean heeds their cry,
And saves the foundering bark at sea.
Ave Maris Stella!

Star of the dark and stormy sea!
When wrecking tempests round us rave,
Thy gentle virgin form we see

Bright rising o'er the hoary wave,
The howling storms that seemed to crave
Their victims, sink in music sweet;

The surging seas recede to pave
The path beneath thy glistening feet.
Ave Maris Stella!

Star of the desert waters wild,
Who pitying hear'st the seaman's cry!
The God of mercy as a child

On that chaste bosom loves to lie;
While soft the chorus of the sky
Their hymns of tender mercy sing,

And angel voices name on high The mother of the heavenly king.

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THE MEMORY OF THE PAST.
ALAS, that fancy's pencil still portrays
A fairer scene than ever nature drew!
Alas, that ne'er to reason's placid view
Arise the charms of youth's delusive days!

For still the memory of our tender years,
By contrast vain, impairs our present joys;
Of greener fields we dream and purer skies,

And softer tints than ever nature wears.Lo! now, to fancy, Teviot's vale appears Adorn'd with flowers of more enchanting hue And fairer bloom than ever Eden knew,

With all the charms that infancy endears. Dear scenes! which grateful memory still employ, Why should you strive to blast the present joy?

A MORNING SCENE.

Lo! in the vales, where wandering rivulets run,
The fleecy mists shine gilded in the sun,
Spread their loose folds, till now the lagging gale,
Unfurls no more its lightly skimming sail;
But through the hoary flakes, that fall like snow,
Gleams in ethereal hue the watery bow.
'Tis ancient silence, robed in thistle down,
Whose snowy locks its fairy circles crown;
His vesture moves not, as he hovers lone,
While curling fogs compose his airy throne;
Serenely still, self-pois'd, he rests on high,
And soothes each infant breeze that fans the sky.
The mists ascend ;-the mountains scarce are free,
Like islands floating in a billowy sea;

While on their chalky summits glimmering dance
The sun's last rays across the gray expanse:
As sink the hills in waves that round them grow,
The hoary surges scale the cliff's tall brow;
The fleecy billows o'er its head are hurl'd,
As ocean once embraced the prostrate world.

K

CHANGES OF HOME.

As every prospect opens on my view, I seem'd to live departed years anew; When in these wilds a jocund, sportive child, Each flower self-sown my heedless hours beguiled; The wabret leaf, that by the pathway grew, The wild-briar rose, of pale and blushful hue, The thistle's rolling wheel, of silken down, The blue-bell, or the daisy's pearly crown, The gaudy butterfly, in wanton round, That, like a living pea-flower, skimm'd the ground! Again I view each rude romantic glade, Where once with tiny steps my childhood stray'd To watch the foam-bell of the bubbling brook, Or mark the motions of the clamorous rook, Who saw her nest, close thatch'd with ceaseless toil, At summer eve become the woodman's spoil!

Green down ascending drink the moorish rills, And yellow corn-fields crown the heathless hills, Where to the breeze the shrill brown linnet sings, And prunes with frequent bill his russet wings. High and more high the shepherds drive their flocks, And climb with timid step the hoary rocks; From cliff to cliff the ruffling breezes sigh, Where idly on the sun-beat steeps they lie, And wonder, that the vale no more displays The pastoral scenes that pleased their early days. No more the cottage roof, fern-thatch'd and gray, Invites the weary traveller from the way, To rest, and taste the peasant's simple cheer, Repaid by news and tales he loved to hear; The clay-built wall, with woodbine twisted o'er, The house-leek clustering green above the door, While through the sheltering elms, that round

them grew,

The winding smoke arose in columns blue;-
These all have fled; and from their hamlets brown
The swains have gone, to sicken in the town,
To pine in crowded streets, or ply the loom;
For splendid halls deny the cottage room.
Yet on the neighbouring heights they oft convene,
With fond regret to view each former scene,
The level meads, where infants wont to play
Around their mothers, as they piled the hay,
The hawthorn hedge-row, and the hanging wood,
Beneath whose boughs their humble cottage stood.

Gone are the peasants from the humble shed,
And with them too the humble virtues fled.
No more the farmer, on these fertile plains,
Is held the father of the meaner swains,
Partakes, as he directs, the reaper's toil,
Or with his shining share divides the soil,
Or in his hall, when winter nights are long,
Joins in the burden of the damsel's song,
Repeats the tales of old heroic times,
While Bruce and Wallace consecrate the rhymes.
These all are fled-and, in the farmer's place,
Of prouder look, advance a dubious race,
That ape the pride of rank with awkward state
The vice, but not the polish of the great,
Flaunt, like the poppy mid the ripening grain,
A nauseous weed, that poisons all the plain.
The peasant, once a friend a friend no more,
Cringes, a slave, before the master's door:

Or else, too proud where once he loved to fawn,
For distant climes deserts his native lawn,
And fondly hopes beyond the western main
To find the virtues here beloved in vain.

TEVIOTDALE.

LAND of my fathers!-though no mangrove here O'er thy blue streams her flexile branches rear, Nor scaly palm her finger'd scions shoot, Nor luscious guava wave her yellow fruit, Nor golden apples glimmer from the treeLand of dark heaths and mountains! thou art free. Untainted yet, thy stream, fair Teviot! runs, With unatoned blood of Gambia's sons: No drooping slave, with spirit bow'd to toil, Grows, like the weed, self-rooted to the soil, Nor cringing vassal on these pansied meads Is bought and barter'd, as the flock he feeds. Free, as the lark that carols o'er his head, At dawn the healthy ploughman leaves his bed, Binds to the yoke his sturdy steers with care, And whistling loud directs the mining share; Free, as his lord, the peasant treads the plain, And heaps his harvest on the groaning wain; Proud of his laws, tenacious of his right, And vain of Scotia's old unconquer'd might.

Dear native valleys! may ye long retain
The charter'd freedom of the mountain swain!
Long mid your sounding glades in union sweet
May rural innocence and beauty meet!

And still be duly heard at twilight calm
From every cot the peasant's chanted psalm!
Then, Jedworth! though thy ancient choirs shall

fade,

And time lay bare each lofty colonnade,
From the damp roof the massy sculptures die,
And in their vaults thy rifted arches lie,
Still in these vales shall angel harps prolong
By Jed's pure stream a sweeter even song,
Than long processions once, with mystic zeal,
Pour'd to the harp and solemn organ's peal.

SERENITY OF CHILDHOOD.

In the sweet morn of life, when health and joy
Laugh in the eye, and o'er each sunny plain
A mild celestial softness seems to reign,
Ah! who could dream what woes the heart annoy?
No saddening sighs disturb the vernal gale

Which fans the wild-wood music on the ear;
Unbathed the sparkling eye with pity's tear,
Save listening to the aged soldier's tale,
The heart's slow grief, which wastes the child of wo,
And lovely injured woman's cruel wrong,
We hear not in the sky-lark's morning song,
We hear not in the gales that o'er us blow,
Visions devoid of wo which childhood drew,
How oft shall my sad heart your soothing scenes
renew!

CHARLES LAM B.

THE author of "Elia" was the son of JoHN LAMB, a scrivener, and was born in the Inner Temple, London, on the eighteenth of February, 1775. In 1782 he was admitted to the school of Christ's Hospital, where he remained until he had entered into his fifteenth year, from which time he was employed in the South-Sea House, under his elder brother, until 1792, when he obtained an appointment in the office of the accountant-general of the East India Company. He was in the Indiahouse thirty-five years, rarely absent from his post a single day, and fulfilling his duties with most exact fidelity. He lived meantime with his "gentle sister Mary"-neither of them being ever married-and had at all times a circle of ardent friends, embracing some of the most eminent persons of the country, as COLERIDGE, who was his schoolfellow, WORDSWORTH, HAZLITT, SOUTHEY, and Sergeant TALFOURD, his biographer. He continued nearly all his life in London, regarding it, with a sort of Chinese exclusiveness, as the only scene in which existence could be enjoyed, until within two or three years of his death, when he wrote to a friend that the town, with all his native hankering after it, was not what it had been in his earlier life. "The streets, the shops," he says, “are left, but all old friends are gone: I was frightfully convinced of this as I passed houses and places, empty caskets now. I have ceased to care almost about anybody; the bodies I cared for are in graves, or dispersed; my old chums that lived so long and flourished so steadily, are crumbled away."

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next year, "Rosamund Gray," a story after the manner of MACKENZIE, which was more popular. In 1807 appeared "John Woodvil, a Tragedy;" in 1808 "The Adventures of Ulysses," and at intervals came out his "Essays of Elia," the most remarkable of his compositions, which established his reputation on good and lasting grounds.

Besides the works already mentioned, LAMB wrote a farce entitled "Mr. H," which was acted at Drury Lane. Though ELLISTON personated the hero, it was for some reason unsuccessful. In America, however, it afterward had a great run, and was performed by Mr. WOOD, in Philadelphia, as many nights, perhaps, as any piece of its nature ever brought out by that excellent comedian.

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LAMB's poems, excepting the tragedy which we have named, are few and brief, and of less merit than his prose writings. "John Woodvil," however, contains passages which would not have done dishonour to the great dramatists of SHAKSPEARE'S golden age; and "The Farewell to Tobacco," in these pages, is such a piece of verse as one might imagine "Elia" would write. His letters and his essays belong to that small and slowly increasing body of works constituting the standard literature of the English language. Their bonhomie, exquisite humour, and tenderness, will make them as great favourites with successive generations of readers, as the living CHARLES LAMB was with his personal friends.

Speaking of the "Farewell to Tobacco," reminds us of the most melancholy subject in LAMB's history-his intemperance. So far as we know, it was his only frailty, and it was one which he shared with COLERIDGE, the most intimate, as well as the greatest of his friends. Such infirmities of genius warn us of the necessity of preserving every guard to virtue, and teach the duty of charity and forbearance.

Mr. LAMB died suddenly at Edmonton, on the 27th of December, 1831, in the sixtieth year of his age.

FAREWELL TO TOBACCO.

MAY the Babylonish curse
Strait confound my stammering verse,
If I can a passage see
In this word-perplexity,
Or a fit expression find,
Or a language to my mind,
(Still the phrase is wide or scant)
To take leave of thee, great plant!
Or in any terms relate

Half my love, or half my hate :
For I hate, yet love, thee so,
That, whichever thing I show,
The plain truth will seem to be
A constrain'd hyperbole,
And the passion to proceed
More for a mistress than a weed.

Sooty retainer to the vine,
Bacchus' black servant, negro fine;
Sorcerer, that makest us dote upon
Thy begrimed complexion,
And, for thy pernicious sake,
More and greater oaths to break
Than reclaimed lovers take

'Gainst women: thou thy siege dost lay
Much too in the female way,

While thou suck'st the labouring breath
Faster than kisses or than death.

Thou in such a cloud dost bind us,
That our worst foes cannot find us,
And ill fortune, that would thwart us,
Shoots at rovers, shooting at us;

While each man, thro' thy heightening steam,
Does like a smoking Etna seem,
And all about us does express
(Fancy and wit in richest dress)
A Sicilian fruitfulness.

Thou through such a mist dost show us,
That our best friends do not know us,
And, for those allowed features,
Due to reasonable creatures,
Liken'st us to fell chimeras,
Monsters that, who see us, fear us;
Worse than Cerberus or Geryon,
Or, who first loved a cloud, Ixion.

Bacchus we know, and we allow
His tipsy rites. But what art thou,
That but by reflex can'st show
What his deity can do,
As the false Egyptian spell
Aped the true Hebrew miracle?
Some few vapours thou may'st raise,
The weak brain may serve to amaze,
But to the reins and nobler heart
Can'st nor life nor heat impart.

Brother of Bacchus, later born,
The old world was sure forlorn,
Wanting thee, that aidest more
The god's victories than before
All his panthers, and the brawls
Of his piping Bacchanals.
These, as stale, we disallow,
Or judge of thee meant: only thou

His true Indian conquest art;
And, for ivy round his dart,
The reformed god now weaves
A finer thyrsus of thy leaves.

Scent to match thy rich perfume
Chemic art did ne'er presume
Through her quaint alembic strain,
None so sovereign to the brain.
Nature, that did in thee excel,
Framed again no second smell.
Roses, violets, but toys
For the smaller sort of boys,
Or for greener damsels meant ;
Thou art the only manly scent.

Stinking'st of the stinking kind,
Filth of the mouth and fog of the mind,
Africa, that brags her foyson,
Breeds no such prodigious poison,
Henbane, nightshade, both together,
Hemlock, aconite-

Nay, rather

Plant divine, of rarest virtue;
Blisters on the tongue would hurt you.
"T was but in a sort I blamed thee;
None e'er prosper'd who defamed thee;
Irony all, and feign'd abuse,
Such as perplext lovers use,
At a need, when, in despair
To paint forth their fairest fair,
Or in part but to express
That exceeding comeliness
Which their fancies doth so strike,
They borrow language of dislike;
And, instead of dearest miss,
Jewel, honey, sweetheart, bliss,
And those forms of old admiring,
Call her Cockatrice and Siren,
Basilisk, and all that's evil;
Witch, Hyena, Mermaid, Devil,
Ethiop, Wench, and Blackamoor,
Monkey, Ape, and twenty more;
Friendly Trait'ress, loving Foe,-
Not that she is truly so,
But no other way they know
A contentment to express,
Borders so upon excess,
That they do not rightly wot
Whether it be pain or not.

Or, as men, constrain❜d to part
With what's nearest to their heart,
While their sorrow's at the height,
Lose discrimination quite,
And their hasty wrath let fall,
To appease their frantic gall,
On the darling thing whatever,
Whence they feel it death to sever,
Though it be, as they, perforce,
Guiltless of the sad divorce.

For I must (nor let it grieve thee,
Friendliest of plants, that I must) leave thee.
For thy sake, Tobacco, I
Would do any thing but die,

And but seek to extend my days
Long enough to sing thy praise.

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