"Rememberest thou the boding fears That drench'd thy cheek with a flood of tears, It hath thinned our crew but scathed not me. "Health hath breathed on our ship again, Christmas approacheth- is here--is gone, Round the hearth his childhood's playmates meet,- Mother, his wanderings aye are o'er; Friends, he will meet ye on earth no more. Buoyant and fearless of future ill, He paced the deck,—his pulse beat high; Homeward he fled to the better shore, The toilsome voyage of life is o'er : He sleeps the sleep of the dreamless dead, THE CONTENTED SPOUSE. DAVID WILLIAM PAYNTER; DIED NEAR MANCHESTER, MARCH 15, 1823. WHILE striplings sigh in sugar'd verse, Invoking sylph and fairy, A husband, surely, may rehearse The love he bears to MARY. No puling vows he'll e'er employ, At home, abroad, in joy, or grief, Who yields not to this truth belief, Does wrong to him and MARY. Let courtly fools their vain intrigues He fondly boasts no amorous leagues, Five years, she now hath been his wife, But whilst he holds ose spark of life, HE WAS TOO BEAUTIFUL TO LIVE. FROM "IRWELL, AND OTHER POEMS," BY JOSEPH ANTHONY, 1843. My brother was a lovely child, His beauty language may not give; And joys alone those realms can give- My brother oft would ask the boon, To gaze on the resplendent moon, Or watch huge clouds before it flit; Or on some star his eye would rest, And once, I do remember well, Whilst thus his gaze intently set, Upon the bright and beauteous dome; And in these early days he died- THE UNFOSTERED APPLE TREE: Which regularly blooms, but never produces fruit, probably owing to its being planted in a rough, gravelly soil. DAVID WILLIAM PAYNTER. In vain thou blossom'st, hapless Tree ! E'en thus, while yet my Muse was young, But ne'er could ripen into Fruit. The preface to Mr. Paynter's volume of poems, The Muse in Idleness, is somewhat quaint and pleasing: "The heterogeneous children, disposed herein according to their respective temperaments, having lived for a considerable time, (several of them, indeed, longer than a seven-years' apprenticeship,) idle and unprofitable members of their Father's household,---are sent into the world, in order to make |