To a Brother, who had been afflicted with a long The Show, an English Eclogue, in hexameters Omar at the Tomb of Azza. By GEORGE GOODWIN 219 Markoff, a Siberian Eclogue. By JOSEPH COTTLE 223 A Winter Sketch. By WM. CASE, Junr. Fire, Famine, and Slaughter. A War Eclogue CONTENTS. Democritus Junior, or the Laughing Philosopher. Designed for a Tablet over the Grave of my little Lines on the Portrait of a Lady Written at Tenbury, Worcestershire, on disturbing Communications for the third volume of the St. JUAN GUALBERTO. Addressed to a FRIEND. I The work is done, the fabric is compleat; Must toil for many a league and many an hour. II. Long were the tale that told Moscera's pride, What intersecting arches graced its gate; 2 III. Yet while the fane rose slowly from the ground, But little store of charity, I ween, The passing pilgrim at Moscera found; And often there the mendicant was seen Hopeless to turn him from the convent door, For this so costly work still kept the brethren-poor. IV. Now all is perfect, and from every side When on the sabbath day his eyes behold V. So chanced it that Gualberto pass'd that way, Since sainted for a life of holy deeds; He paus'd the new-rear'd convent to survey, And, whilst o'er all its bulk his eye proceeds, Sorrows, as one whose holier feelings deem That ill so proud a pile did humble monks beseem. |