Unwillingly to school.-And then, the Lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woful ballad

Made to his mistress' eye brow.-Then, a Soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard;
Jealous in honour; sudden and quick in quarrel ;
Seeking the bubble, reputation,

Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the Justice:
In fair round body, and with good capon lin'd;
With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut!
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part.--The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,

With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side;
His youthful hose well sav'd, a world too wide
For his shrunk shanks; and his big manly voice,
Turning again towards childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound.-Last scene of all
That ends this strange eventful history,

Is second childishness, and mere oblivion;
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing.

XCI. COLUMBUS to FERDINAND.

Columbus was a considerable number of years engaged in soliciting the Court of Spain to fit him out, in order to discover a new continent, which he imagined existed some where in the western part of the ocean. During his negotiation he is supposed to address king Ferdinand in the following stanzas :

LLUSTRIOUS monarch of Iberia's soil,
Too long I wait permission to depart;
Sick of delays I beg thy listening ear-
Shine forth the patron and the prince of art.
While yet Columbus breathes the vital air,
Grant his request to pass the western main;
Reserve this glory for thy native soil,

And what must please thee more-for thy own reign.
Of this huge globe how small a part we know—
Does Heaven its worlds to western sons deny !
How disproportioned to the mighty deep

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lands that yet in human prospect lie!

nthia, when to western skies arriv'd,

Spend her sweet beam upon the barren main,
And ne'er illume with midnight splendour, she,
The native dancing on the lightsome green?
Should the vast circuit of the world contain
Such wastes of ocean, and such scanty land?
'Tis reason's voice that bids me think not so:
I think more nobly of the Almighty hand.
Does yon fair lamp trace half the circle round
To light the waves and monsters of the seas !
No-be, there must, beyond the billowy waste,
Islands, and men, and animals and trees.
An unremitting flame my breast inspires
To seek new land amidst the barren waves,
Where falling low, the source of day descends,
And the blue sea his evening visage laves.
Hear, in this tragic lay, Cordova's sage:*

"The time shall come, when numerous years are past,
The ocean shall dissolve the band of things,
And an extended region rise at last :
And Typhis shall disclose the mighty land,
Far, far away where none have rov'd before;
Nor shall the world's remotest regions be
Gibraltar's rock, or Thule's savage shore."
Fir'd at the theme, I languish to depart-
Supply the bark, and bid Columbus sail;
He fears no storms upon the untravell'd deep;
Reason shall steer, and skill disarm the gale.
Nor does he dread to lose the intended course,
Though far from land the reeling galley stray,
And skies above, and gulfy seas below
Be the sole object seen for many a day.
Think not that nature has unveil'd in vain
The mystic magnet to the mortal eye,
So late have we the guided needle plann'd
Only to sail beneath our native sky?
Ere this was found the Ruling Power of all,
Found for our use an ocean in the land,
Its breadth so small we could not wander long,
Nor long be absent from the neighbouring strand.
Short was the course, and guided by the stars;

# Seneca, the poet, native of Cordova, in Spain.

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But stars no more shall point our daring way;
The Bear shall sink, and every guard be drown'd,
And great Arcturus scarce escape the sea,
When southward we shall steer. O grant my wish,
Supply the bark, and bid Columbus sail;

He dreads no tempest on the untravell'd deep,
Reason shall steer, and skill disarm the gale.

THE END

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9. Adventures of General Putnam,

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10. The Faithful American Dog,

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16. Story of Logan, a Mingo Chief,

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32. Account of a famous Grotto in the Island of Antiparos,

33. Extraordinary Bells in Russia,

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37. Lake of Constance,

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65. Dialogue between Blithe and Hunks,

66. Contempt of the Common objects of Pursuit,
67. Various Characters,

68. Description of a Storm of Hail,

69. Address to the Deity,

70. A Morning Hymn,

71. Hymn to Peace,

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