The recollected stream, thought's busy train

Shall glance like pictured shadows o'er his mind;

Each airy castle of enthusiast youth Shall dawn upon his fancy, like the towers That sparkle in some forest of romance; Each shade of circumstance that marked

the scene

Of young existence, touched with fairy tint Sheds beauty not its own; that life of hope And generous expectation, when the man Was teeming in the boy, and the young mind

Pleased with its own exertion, and acted o'er

Each future impulse, and put forth the germs

Of native character. It cannot be

Unless his heart is deadened by the touch Of that mere worldliness, which hugs itself

In a factitious apathy of soul;

Unless, in vain and vacant ignorance, He wondering smiles at those high sympathies,

Those pure, unworldly feelings, which exalt

Our nature o'er the sphere of actual things; Which lend the poet's gaze its ecstacy, And bid the trembling note of musick steal Tears down the listener's cheek;-it cannot be

But his whole heart must soften and relent

Amid these peaceful scenes; but the deep griefs

Which time has stamped upon his furrowed brow

Must, for a moment, smooth their thought

ful trace;

And e'en the long remorse wild passion leaves,

Rest from the goading of its secret sting. Scene of my boyish years! I not disown These natural feelings. Let me rest awhile Here on this grassy bank; beneath these elms

Whose high boughs murmur with the leafy sound

That soothed me when a child: when, truant-like,

Of the dull chime that summoned me afar Nought heeding, by the river-wave I lay, Of liberty enamoured, and the muse.

With sweet sensations; for the simple child Is all unconscious of his pleasant lot;

His little world, like man's vast universe, Is darkened by its storms; and he, like man,

Creates his own disquietudes and fears; And oft with murmurings vain of discontent,

Or bursts of idle passion, personates
His future part; the character of man.
No-'tis the cant of mock misanthropy
That dwells on childish pleasures; which
the child

With light insensibility enjoys,
Or rather scorns; while on his eager view
The future prospect opens, still in sight,

Now, we'll fancy the judge in his fullbottomed wig,

Assisted by most of the quorum, Whilst counsellor Buz, and young counsellor Prig,

Vehemently argued before 'em.

The rusticks all gaped, and took mouthfuls of law,

As they listened to Buz and his brother; Not a whisper was heard, they were brimfull of awe;

Now admiring of this, then of t'other. But Buz warmer grew as the cause on

ward went.

His arguments seemed quite convincing;
Behind stood a client, who, when he
seemed spent,

Took this method to keep him from
wincing.

Whene'er his loud voice seemed to shrink
to a squeak,

Five guineas he slipped 'tween his fin
gers;

These gave him new powers and forced
him to speak

Loud as Grub street's stentorian singers. This was done many times, my story says ten,

And I see no cause why I should dock it; And as oft as he felt them, he at it again,

And slipt them quite sly in his pocket. Now Prig feeling no such strong reasons as these,

Slackened much in his learned haranguing;

Whilst Buz gained the cause with comparative ease:

Thus cash, sometimes saves men from hanging!

Now Buz felt a longing to count over his gains;

For Buz was a lawyer most thrifty; And thought, for the trouble he'd given his brains,

He deserved at least forty or fifty. So behold, when the court was broke up, home he hied,

To his neat first floor room of a lodg ing;

Like a ghost through the streets and the lanes did he glide,

And escaped his acquaintance by dodg ing.

Now observe him alone, seated snug by the fire,

From behind his best spectacles peeping;

But, lo! he soon found a misfortune most dire,

And he scarce could refrain from loud weeping.

For though seldom outwitted by limbs of the law,

Whom he treated like so many ninies; He now found, yet could hardly believe what he saw,

All but two were base counterfeit guineas!

Nov. 18, 1810.

J. M. L.

Washing Colours, for Ladies' Wear. "Your cottons," said Flavia, 66 are cheating vile trash!

See! the colours all gone, though you said they would wash !"

"Yes, madam," the shopkeeper answered-" no doubt,

I said they would wash: but I meant, they'd wash out." GERRO..

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