GREEN wave the oak for ever o'er thy rest,
Thou that beneath its crowning foliage sleepest,
And, in the stillness of thy country's breast,
Thy place of memory, as an altar keepest;
Brightly thy spirit o'er her hills was pour'd,
Thou of the Lyre and Sword!
Rest, bard! rest, soldier!-by the father's hand
Here shall the child of after-years be led,
With his wreath-offering silently to stand,
In the hush'd presence of the glorious dead.
Soldier and bard! for thou thy path hast trod
With freedom and with God.
The oak wav'd proudly o'er thy burial-rite,
On thy crown'd bier to slumber warriors bore thee, And with true hearts thy brethren of the fight
Wept as they vail'd their drooping banners o'er thee. And the deep guns with rolling peal gave token, That Lyre and Sword were broken.
Thou hast a hero's tomb:-a lowlier bed
Is hers, the gentle girl beside thee lying,
The gentle girl, that bow'd her fair, young head,
When thou wert gone, in silent sorrow dying.
Brother, true friend! the tender and the brave-
She pined to share thy grave.
Fame was thy gift from others;-but for her,
To whom the wide world held that only spot,
She lov'd thee!-lovely in your lives ye were,
And in your early deaths divided not.
Thou hast thine oak, thy trophy :-What hath she?-
Her own blest place by thee!
It was thy spirit, brother! which had made
The bright earth glorious to her thoughtful eye, Since first in childhood midst the vines ye play'd, And sent glad singing thro' the free blue sky. Ye were but two-and when that spirit pass'd Woe to the one, the last!
Woe, yet not long!-She linger'd but to trace
Thine image from the image in her breast,
Once, once again to see that buried face
But smile upon her, ere she went to rest.
Too sad a smile! its living light was o'er,
It answer'd hers no more.
The earth grew silent when thy voice departed,
The home too lonely whence thy step had fled?
What then was left for her, the faithful-hearted?
Death, death, to still the yearning for the dead!
Softly she perish'd be the Flower deplor'd
Here with the Lyre and Sword!
Have ye not met ere now?-so let those trust
That meet for moments but to part for years,
That weep, watch, pray, to hold back dust from dust,
That love, where love is but a fount of tears.
Brother, sweet sister! peace around ye dwell:-
Lyre, Sword, and Flower, farewell!
By the REV. W. L. BOWLES.
SPIRIT and shadow of the ancient world,
Awake! Thou who hast slept four thousand years,
Arise! For who can gaze upon this vault,
Strewn with the fragments of a former world,
Swept to destruction, but must pause to think.
Of the mutations of the Globe;-of Time,
Hurrying to onward spoil;-of his own life,
Swift-passing as a summer-cloud away ;-
Of HIM, who spoke and the dread storm went forth!
Since then, these bones that strew the inmost cave
Have lain, the records of that awful doom.
When now the black abyss had ceas'd to roar,
And waters, shrinking from the rocks and hills,
Slept in the solitary sunshine,-HERE
THEY LAY; and when four thousand years had pass'd—
And the grey smoke went up from villages-
And cities, with their tow'rs and temples shone
Where Life's great hum was murmuring,
The crow sail'd o'er the lonely spot, the bents
Wav'd to the summer-air, yet, undisturbed
• In Somersetshire. See Dr. Buckland's interesting illustrations of these re mains of a former world. The bishop of Bath and Wells has built a picturesque and appropriate cottage near the cave, on the hill commanding this fine view.
They lay:-till lo!-as if but yesterday
The wave had left them,-into light again
The shadowy spectacle of ages past
Seems to leap up, as the dim cave unfolds
Its mystery. Say! Christian, is it true?
This cavern's deep recess, strew'd with white bones,
Faint echo to thy Bible! O'er the cave
Pale Science ruminates.
In silence on the scene below, and mark
The morning sunshine,-on that very shore
Where once a child I wandered :—Õh! return,
(I sigh) "return a moment, days of youth,
"Of childhood,-oh, return!" How vain the thought,
Vain as unworthy! yet sad Poesy
Unblam'd may dally with imaginings.
For this wide view is like the shadowy scene,
Once travers'd o'er with carelessness and glee,
And we look back upon the vale of years,
And hear remembered voices, and behold,
In blended colours, images and shades
Long pass'd, now rising, as at Memory's call,
Again in softer light.
Crowning the high hill-top, which overlooks
BREAN-DOWN, where in its lonelier amplitude
Stretches into grey mist the Severn Sea.
There, mingled with the clouds, old Cambria draws
Her line of mountains, fading far away;
There sit the sister Holms, in the mid-tide
Secure and smiling, though its vasty sweep,
As it rides by, might almost seem to rive
The deep foundations of the Earth again,—
Might scorn its shatter'd limits, and ascend
O'erwhelming to these heights, to bury there
Fresh welt'ring carcases, and leave their bones
A spectacle for ages yet unborn,
To teach its sternest moral to the heart.
'Tis well we hear not the fleet wings of Time.
Enough, if while the summer-day steals on,
We muse upon the wreck of ages past,
And own there is a God who rules the world.
[N. B. The Figures with crotchets refer to the History.]
ACCIDENTS: fall of an embankment
near Crewkherne, 1; irruption of
water into the Thames Tunnel, 4;
accident of two actresses at the Bath
theatre, 9; fall of a house in Palmer's
Rents, 10; an infant killed by a ferret,
12; forty-seven persons drowned at
the launching of a vessel at Man-
chester, 20; fall of the new Bruns-
wick theatre, ib.; fall of part of the
cliff at Hastings, 26; Limerick mail,
56; a Brighton fly,' with three la-
dies, falls down the cliff, 58; man
killed by a fall from a tree in a rook-
ery, 59; explosion of fire-damp in the
Flint colliery, 66; fall of the gallery
in Kirkaldy church, 75; boy strang-
led while suspending himself by a
towel, 100; accident of the Devon-
port mail, 106; explosion of a powder
waggon at Vincennes, ib.; Mr. Bever-
idge killed by his gun going off, 107;
Poole mail, 109; Barnstaple mail
upset, ib.; Mr. Gun, capt. Lloyd, &c.
drowned at the bar of Beal, 110;
W. Lee accidentally shot by R. Parr,
while the latter was firing at a mark,
ib.; boat upset at Windsor, and nine
persons drowned, 111; the Lady of
the Lake steam boat upset on Loch
Lomond, and several persons drowned,
112; boat sunk at Connaught, 114;
fall of houses in Charter-house-lane,
116; bursting of the boiler of the Duke
of Sussex steam packet, 117; Mr. Ro-
bertson's fall from a balloon, 123; fall
of two houses in Exeter-street, 124;
Kilcoleman church injured by light-
ning, 131; explosion in a coal mine,
163
Acts of parliament, list of, 289*
Althorpe, lord, proposed by Mr. Tier-
ney as chairman of the finance com-
mittee, [3]; objected to by Mr. Her-
ries, [5]; why, [48]; Mr. Tierney's
account of the nomination, [49]; lord
Althorpe's, [51]
America, North. See Mexico, United
States.
America, South. See Bolivar, Bolivia,
Brazil, Buenos Ayres, Chili, Colum-
bia, Guatemala, Peru.
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Anglesea, marquis of, lord lieutenant of
Ireland, his letter to Dr. Curtis,
[149]
Annuities, loss to government from,
· [71]; Mr. Finlayson's calculations, ib.
Anspach, Margravine, death of, 244
Antiquities: Roman pavement dis-
covered at Gloucester, 68; Duncan's
coffin discovered in the ruins of Elgin
cathedral, 112; a rose noble dug up
in a field, 121; examination of a
mummy, 132; American antiquities,
536
Artillery, Perkins' steam apparatus for,
529
Assizes and Sessions :-
Abingdon: S. Brinklett, killing lord
Mount Sandford, 89; G. White, mur-
der, 91
Bury St. Edmunds: J. Bullen, and O.
Bush, burglary, 104
Chelmsford M. Cashon and J. Brien,
robbery, 176
Cheshire: S. Burgess, poisoning game,
Chester J. Clagg, murdering his wife,
113
Glasgow: A. and A. Waddell, sheriffs'
officers, false imprisonment, 184
Gloucester: J. and D. Jones, stealing
brasses from tombstones, 54; Morris
v. Davis, question of legitimacy, 109
Guildford: Dunn v. Davidge, perform-
ing regular dramas at an unlicensed
theatre, 100
Kingston: T. Irons, murder, 46
Lancaster: Jane Scott, poisoning her
mother, 40
Lindsey: Lydia Hart and Isabelle Payne,
robbery, 146
Maidstone: T. Austin, deputy treasurer
Greenwich Hospital, embezzlement,
179
Middlesex: H. Holme, &c. cutting off
the head of a corpse, 159; W. S.
Northhouse and W. Low, obtaining
money on false pretences, 166
Oxford G. Baker, &c. (poachers)
shooting at J. Mansel, 144
Salisbury: The King v. Seymour, 323
Shrewsbury J. Pugh and R. Cox,
murder, 349
Taunton: R. Gillam, murder, 49
Winchester: G. Harris, intent to kill,
32; Moses Sheppard, murder, ib.
York: W. and J. Dyon, murder, 42;
H. Walton, ditto, 96
Old Bailey: C. Stock, stealing an ink-
stand, 7; Joseph Hunton, forgery,
143, 150
Aurora borealis, 126
Austin, Mr. T., deputy treasurer of
Greenwich Hospital, tried for embez-
zling various sums, 179
Baden: edict against secret associations,
in consequence of the rebellion of the
students at Heidelberg, [216]
Balloons: Mr. Green's ascent with his
poney, 99; M. Garnerin's ascent,
106; Mr. Robertson's ascent and ac-
cident, 123; Mrs. Graham and Mr.
Pickering's ascent, Chichester, 138
Bank notes, trial relative to the recovery
of the value of one stolen, 28
Bank notes, bill to prohibit the circula-
tion of Scotch small, [79]
Bankrupts, table of, 258
Belfast, liberation of some slaves from
a vessel, 114
Bell, Mr. C., professor of physiology,
his opening lecture at the London
University, 129
Berington, rev. J., death of, 212
Bets, action for-the case not allowed
to be brought into court, 100
Bigg, W. R., artist, death of, 221
Bills of mortality, 258
Births, list of, 191
Blasphemy, sentence of R. Taylor for,
16
Blind, Mr. Gall's books for the, 55
Blomfield, Dr., his confirmation as
bishop of London, 108
Boats impelled by paper kites, 96
Bolivar: his address to the convention
at Ocana, [255]; the majority of the
convention hostile to him, [258]; it
is dissolved, ib. ; he is invested
with supreme power, ib.; conspiracy
against him at Bogota, [260]; punish-
ment of the conspirators, ib.; he de-
clares war against Peru, on the revo-
lution in Bolivia, [262]
Bolivia invaded by a Peruvian army,
[261]; insurrection against Bolivar,
ib.; the president returns to Colum-
bia, ib.
Bonington, artist, death of, 258
Botta's History of Italy under Napoleon,
extracts from, 466-87
Bouterwek, F., German author, death
of, 252
Bourbon, Marie Therese de, death of,
267
Bowles, rev. W. L., poetry by, 544
Bramham Park, fire at, 98.
Brazil: enters into a treaty of peace
with Buenos Ayres, [250]; agreed
that Monte Video shall be an inde-
pendent state. [251]; mutiny among
the troops, [252]; ditto suppressed,
[253]; change of ministry, [254];
treaty with the Hanse towns, 421;
Don Pedro's proclamation against
Miguel's usurpation in Portugal, 429
Bridge, the new London, key-stone of
the last arch fixed, 161
British Mining Company, bill filed by
the shareholders to compel a restitu-
tion of their money, 64
Brougham, Mr., his approbation of the
battle of Navarino, [29]; objects to
the duke of Wellington as prime mi-
nister, [30]; his remarks on Mr.
Herries' resignation, [58]; on Mr.
Huskisson and the new ministers,
[59]; speech in favour of the repeal
of the Test and Corporation Acts,
[95]; ditto on the constitution of the
common-law courts, [110]
Brunswick clubs formed in Ireland,
[137]
Brunswick theatre, fall of, 20
Budget, [79*]
Buonaparte, his entrance into Italy, in
1799, from 'Botta's History,' 475
Burglary in the cottage of an old wo-
man, 162
Burke, the murderer, trial of, 365
Buenos Ayres: treaty of peace with
Brazil, [250]; poverty of the state,
[254]; revolution in the government,
[255]; message of the executive to
the legislative, 431
Cameron, sir A., death of, 225
Canal, Kensington, opening of, 157
Canning, right hon. G., motion in par-
liament for a grant to his family, [72];
sir J. Macintosh's eulogium on him,
[77]
Canning, hon. W. P., son of the preced-
ing, his death, 263
Carmarthen, sir T. Picton's monument
at, 105
Carysfort, earl of, death of, 229
Caterpillars, mode of destroying, 523
Catholic Association, its hostility to-
wards the duke of Wellington, [122];
its unwarrantable assumption of pow-
er, [129]; conditions dictated to
parliamentary candidates, ib.; its
alarming organized plans for opposing
government, [131]; parochial clubs
instituted by it, [132]; their princi-
ples, ib.; Mr. Shiel's defiance of go-
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