To the EDITORS of the MASSACHUSETTS

MAGAZINE.

GENTLEMEN,

The author of the following lines, attributes the whole of their merit to the elegant lady

[parts, Oh he's the man of the most brilliant

Hearts.

YOUR fervant gentlemen--your servant

ladies,

1'm come to fee how Little Doily pleases. I want no answer from your tongue,not I, I understand the language of the eye, For that's an organ that will feldom lie. You've teen to night what pafs'd upon our stage [and age; With males, and females, and with youth, And, if I ween aright, I judge you guess, Our Tex have much the advantage in addrefs: Doily had parts--and was in love with letters, [ters. His daughter dup'd him, as fhe did his betWhen the fly Gypley Charlotte, gave her hand,

The fcholar found his faculties expand

He took the fhock, as from electrick wire, And felt the force of the Promethean fire. Oh, Oh my confcience, gents, you're all alike,

Mere iron you--we heat, and then we ftrike; We mould, we make you whatfoe'er we please,

And what is more, we do it all with eafe. You men, are just like cards with which

we play,

And fool away our time on feeling gay.

And now we're on the fubject, you shall fee, How very pertinent my fimilie!

The blushing blade, with ill bred booby ftare,

The King of Clubs, will fit him to a hair; But when he's fly, and meaning to deceive, You find him aptly figur'd by the Knave. The fober, plodding drudge, who tricks and trades, Spades; Suppofe we make him King or Knave of The Knave of Diamonds--let him henceforth shew,

The felf conceited, brilliant,fparkling beau; But he who's form'd by nature, and by

rule,

The very oppofite to knave and fool, Who, of his perfon takes peculiar care,

For the MASSACHUSETTS MAGAZINE. LINES on a SISTER'S BIRTH DAY. Compofed at Sea, May, 1791.

In Imitation of Horace, "Pone me pigris,&c."
SEND me where no vernal breeze
Perfumes the wither'd leaflefs trees;
Where mountains wear perennial snow,
And icy feas forget to flow:

Or place me where the glowing days
Are fcorch'd in fol's meridian blaze;
Yet fhall thy mem'ry be impreft
In latting traces on my breaft;
Whofe tender fmiles fo oft could cheer
The brow of care, and heart of fear;
Whofe gentle voice, with counsel kind,
Could footh the furges of the mind.

Remote from thee and Britain's coast,
Amidst the furious billows toft,
I welcome this thy natal day;
And witnefs in the diftant lay,
Nor clime, nor ocean can remove
A brother's joy, a brother's love.
ACADEMICUS.

To the EDITORS of the MASSACHUSETTS MAGAZINE.

GENTLEMEN,

Please to infert the following Lines (wrote after
Recovery from Sickness,) and oblige
A. B.

MERG'D from forrow's gloomy cell,
To cheerful fcenes they'd have me
fly;--
Each melancholy thought difpel,
And heave no more, the heartfelt figh.
Say, can the heart by anguish torn

So foon its native haunts refign? Or thofe, to no misfortunes born,

The pangs of tortur'd hearts define? No,--unto thofe, it beft belongs

Who've deeply drank of mis'ry's bowl, By famine chas'd,--purfu'd by wrongs, Without one ray, to cheer the foul:

Hence

Hence--I at once, the task refign--
To ane, more wretched be it given,
For ftill, the best of joys are mine,
Sure faith in Chrift--and hopes of heaven
ELIZA.

July ift, 1791.

For the MASSACHUSETTS MAGAZINE. EXTRACTS from the ZENITH of GLORY; a MANUSCRIPT ODE. Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.

ON Dover's cliff, Britannia ftood,

Her eye

the darted o'er the flood,

Nor wave nor wild between,
Percluded ken of diftant war,
Where Freedom drove proud vict'ry's car,
Triumphant round the scene.

Here rofe to view
mound,
Where proftrate legions bit the ground,
In agonies of pain.

Breed's death fraught

There bursting thro' the foreft's gloom,
Pale fpectres flit athwart the tomb,
And preft to Abraham's plain.

Again the look'd, her Howe's retreat,
Lord Dunmore's, § Campbell's, fad defeat,
In quick fucceffion rofe:

Whilft bold Sir ¶ Peter's fhatter'd line,
And Clinton's Royals deem'd divine,
Swift fled exulting foes.

As fell Hyæna's furious race,
Foams, maddens, mid the life aim'd chace,
And burns with tenfold ire,
What time the hunter's twanging bow,
Speeds the barb'd fhaft:-Or wounds the foe,
By fure directed fire.

Pity for the fufferers, mixt with indignation at the violence, and heightened by apprehenfions of undergoing the fame fate, made the affair of Lexington (and Breeds hill) the affair of the continent; every part of it felt the fhock, and all vibrated together."-Vid. Payne's Crifis, No. 3.

+ Innocence ought not to fuffer with guilt. The brave men that marched from Gardiner's town, through the wilderness for Canada, are here alluded to.-Vid. Gordon's Hift. Am. War. Vol. 1ft.

General Howe, by neglecting to occupy the heights of Dorchefter, which he had conftantly before his eyes for ten months, and which he knew from the first the Americans intended to poffefs, was forced to fly with ignominy from Bofton, and with all the precipitancy of a man completely difcomfited abandoned 100 pieces of cannon and mortars, great quantities of military fores, and even provilions. Brit. Review Gen. Howe's, Am. Campaigns.

Lord Dunmore, the Royal Governour of Virginia, collected a number of tories and negroes, to oppofe the fpirit of the people: But after committing great depredations, was finally obliged to quit the continent.-Vid. Gordon, and Hift. of the War by Entick.

Lord William Campbell, of South Carolina, attempted to raise commotions in that province. The vigilance of the Carolinians rendered all his plans abortive.-Vid. Ramfay's Revol. So. Carol. 1 Vol.

Sir Peter Parker's attack on Fort Moultrie, in June, 1776, mifcarried. His lofs in men, and naval damage, was great.—Vid. Gen.Lee's letter to Cong. July, 1776.

Sir Henry Clinton's expected cooperation with Commodore Paiker, amounted to a cypher,

Thus Britain rag'd :-In pomp fublime,
Hert Faucet haftes to ev'ry clime,
With human butchers ftor'd,
Demanding troops, imploring aid,
From fea rais'd Belgium's highland blade,
To Mofcow's barbarous hord.
Repuls'd with fcorn: His laft resort,
Was Hanau's, Caffel's, Anbolt's court,
Whole petty Landgraves hold,

A right in wrong, unknown befide,
(The brat of avarice spawn'd on pride)
To barter men for gold.

Fleet as the light'ning's flame rapt form
(Dire prefage of impendent ftorm)

They fwept th' Atlantic flood.
Jerne's, Scotia's, Heffia's train-
Athirst to fwallow havock's plain,
Already pant for blood.

Great in this hour, as all the past,
Nor fhrinking back from rumour's blaft,
That fwell'd the loaded gale,

Firm ftood the grand Thirteen :—unaw’d(Belov'd at home, rever'd abroad)

They trod death's darkest vale.
Thus Apalachia's mift capt mound,
Where brooding tempefts rave around,
The rattling storm defies;

Nor heeds the raging whirlwind driven,
In eddies down the vault of heaven;
Nor all th' embattled skies.

Prompt to defend; repel; oppofe;
In arms, Columbia, inftant role;

The world's great caufe he fought;
Life's only good employ'd her foul;
And fellow man from pole to pole,

Was clafp'd in one big thought.
As erft on Sinai's awful mound,
Loud and more loud the trumpet's found,
Long notes awakening roll'd:

So freedom's mighty clarion blown,
With potent archangelick tone,

Shook, rous'd the young, the old.
And yet, affection's long urged claim;
The charities of Britain's name ;
With moving pathos plead :
Dear, tender ties of fire, and child,
First fofter'd on the defart wild,
Soft, balmy influence thed.

Yes!

+ Col. Faucet, minifter plenipotentiary, to hire foreign recruits.

Great Britain applied to Holland, for the Scotch brigades in fervice of the Republick: They refufed

them.

A requifition for troops was made to Ruffia. It met with a cool reception.

The Duke of Brunswick Lunenburg, Count of Hanau, Landgrave of Heffe Caffel, Prince of Anhalt Zerbft, and other petty German and Hanoverian potentates, loaned their troops to fubjugate America. 30 Crowns was paid for each man as levy money: 30 Crowns for each killed or deferted: 30 Crowns for every three wounded. Befides clothes,fubfiftence, and wages; together with enormous fubfidies as gratuities to their makers,-Vid. Orig. Treat. Jan. 9. 1776.

I America, at the dawn of 1776, ardently wished for a reconciliation upon honourable terms.

Yes! hope remain'd, ah fond indeed, And priz'd above the nobleft meed,

By Alexander won,

That Truth, that Right, would still prevail; Strict Juftice balance Empire's scale;

And Peace throud War's red fun.

Thus thousands mus'd :-* And thus the good,

The wife, conven'd near Schuylkill's flood,
Who rul'd, fubmifs to man;
Columbia's pure, informing foul,
That mov'd fublime the complex whole,

Through fate's myfterious plan.
At once a rufhing beam of day,
More bright than fol's meridian ray,
Illum'd th' abode of Penn,
Where hoary patriots white with age,
And youth in garb of reverend fage,

Watch'd o'er the Rights of Men:

It fafh'd-'twas gone.-A living hand Came forth, and grav'd this high command "Diffolv'd be fealtie's tie."

"Obey, obey, obey, cried + Lee,
"Twast Randolph wrote the dread decree,
"Tis fanction'd of the sky."

Congress aftonifh'd gaz'd :-One hour,
Thought deep revolv'd on Albion's power,
Wheel within wheel felf mov'd:
Like vifions of the glorious throne,
By Chebar's ancient river fhown,
To Judea's feer belov'd.
They faw-emerging from the main,
Battle's wild courfer paw the plain,

Or fwallow fierce the mound :
And crush'd beneath his blood dipt hoof,
Whole hecatombs expiring, fnuff

The duft of havock's ground.
They faw thick crouding to the shore,
Battalions on battalion's pour,

In panoply complete :
And pureft ftreams of man's rich blood,
From Hudfon's wave, to Mary's flood,
Embathe the foldier's feet.
They faw the fquadron's bellying fail,
Loofe fpread to ev'ry floating gale,

Waft pain, deftruction, death:
And balls, bombs, fhells, difparting air,
Shriek, hifs, roar on ;--and light'nings glare
Confume the peopled heath.
They beard amid Canadia's wild,
Connubial pleasure's fainted child,

*Congress as a body, did not entertain the idea of independence till precipitated into it, by the armaments on the other fide of the Atlantic.

+ Richard Henry Lee, Efq. delegate from Virginia, Srft moved independence.

His Excellency Peyton Randolph, Efq. firft prefident of Congrefs. For the probable caufe of his death, which happened in 1775-Vid. Rush, on Infl. Revol, on Hum, Body.

America was invaded by upwards of 50,000 vetran troops, and nearly 100 fhips of war, when the declared herself independent.-Vid. Adams' mem, to the States of Holland,

Ibidem.

The author is poffeffed of documents, that abundantly prove the fcenes here defcribed. And fhould the ode be published entire, they will be faithfully handed to the publick,

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The fucking infant fcream :
Whilst the fond mother ftiff'ning, ftands,
And tear full eyes--and ftrong clafp'd hands,
Paint agonies extreme.

They beard--the captive husband, fire,
Groan, horrid groan, as mantling fire

Wreathes round his mangled limbs :
Whilft tawny tribes of favage foul,
Blow to a flame the burning coal;
And death in riot fwims.

They beard--the rifled virgin's figh;
The ravish'd matron's madd'ning cry,
Afcend to heaven's dread bar :
Whilft infult, rapine, murder, luft,
And deeds which Moloc's felf had curft,
Stamp the grim front of war.

"Enough, no more, (the federate Congress
cried)

By thofe who've fought, and bled, and died,
By nature's King we fwear,

All former bands are rent in twain:
Diffolv'd is empire's binding chain :

The worst, henceforth we dare:

To footh, avert ambition's rage,
Petitions, prayers, have mark'd each stage,
Of injury, and wrong:

Scorn, keen contempt, malignant frowns,
And tyrant rule--the curfe of crowns,
Have goaded men too long:

Twice to the King was lodg'd appeal:
And twice Britannia rouz'd to feel,
Turn'd pale at North's mad plan:
Yet callous, loft to ties of blood,
Paffive, inert, the nation ftood,

And fmil'd on tortur'd man :

Hence nature, reafon, compact call,
Arouze, or elfe forever fall,

'Tis done, 'tis done; we rife:
The ftar crown'd eagle fpreads her wings,
She towers above the thrones of kings,
And builds in glory's skies.

What though, across the Atlantic wave,
Brunfwick's, Ierne's, Scotia's flave,

Rufh on with Britain's host:
Or woke to war, at Albion's will,
The Chactaw quits his native hill,

And fcalps the Southern coast:
What though, to heaven born pity feel'd
Ethiop's dark brood have took the field,

With fire, and fword, and death:
Or | Sachems drunk with life's hot gore,
From Lac du Bois far diftant hore,d
Advance to Bouquet's heath:

What though, poor captives feiz'd at sea, By dread oppreffion's harsh decree,

Their fires, their fons have fought:

Or

* Vid. Declaration of Independence.-Journals of Congress, Vol. 2d.

The Chactaws, Cherokees, and Creeks, did great damage, in Georgia and Carolina, about this time. Vid. Ramfay's Revol. So. Carol, 1 Vol.

The Northern and Western Indians.
Vid. Declaration of Independence,

Or fervants loos'd from law's reftraint,
Enfiam'd by drink, and mafk'd in paint,
Their mafters lives have fought a

What though, our charters reft in duft;
And plunder'd towns to flame accurft,
Amid fad ruins weep:

Or pris'ners fold for fordid ore,
On torrid India's health filed fhore,
Eternal vigils keep :

What though, dire poifons taint each gale,
Ride on the hill, pour down the vale,

And like the Scyroc, rive :
Or hulks and jails, of fatelefs maw,
Ope wide th' ingulphing, man fed jaw,
And thoufands crash alive:

Fear not, be ftrong, in GOD confide:
Virtue, as gold, is feven times tried :
Life, liberty deferve :

And, HE, whofe arm metes out the earth, (The facred judge of moral worth)

With ftrength, the weak, fhall nerve. A holy one has given command, Hew down the tree with mighty hand, Nor once the blow relax : Wake; rouze; live men; or nobly die: Burft fealty's oath ;-cut empire's tie:

Let fall th' uplifted axe.

This day perhaps completes our fpan;
Seize; grafp it; fill it full of man ;
And own no King but GOD :
All clad in arms to battle rife:
Your fathers thron'd in yon bleft skies,
The glorious deed applaud.

Life's, fortune's, honour's, pledge is given:
This awful oath is feal'd in heaven:

Jebovab's arm-it aids:

See rapid beams the rainbow'd morn,
'Tis bright, 'tis fair as cloudless dawn,
And calm as Eden's fhades."

From East to Weft, from South to North,
Attention wrap'd the fons of earth,

They heard with awe profound: Three millions caught the pæan'd ftrains : Columbia Independent reigns.

Shook the wide world around.

*Vid. Dr. Franklin's Letter to Lord North, and as a contraft, Col. Campbell's Letter to Gen. Howe. Alfo, Dr. Franklin's letter to Lord Stormont.

I Vid. Gen. Washington's letters to Gen. Howe, on the fubject of an Exchange. And the reports of the commiffioners appointed by Congrefs to inveftigate the treatment of Prifoners.

Fled are the hours of th' enlivening fprings And loft thofe joys which flew on rapture's wing.

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Would I had ne'er feducing hope believ'd! She once had flatter'd, more than once deceiv'd !

But dear to thought, to memory ever dear, The various changes of thy fleeting year. Bramhall! thy grove the mufe had once. admir'd,

And often in thy deep recefs retir'd. When fummer's fun withdrew his noontide ray, [away, And fhades of evening chas'd his beams On his luxuriant spot the moon full shone, And eager fancy mark'd it as her own. Here trees majestick gracefully aspire, And glitt'ring ftars fhoot with celeftial fire: Unnumber'd flowers their balmy sweets exhale,

And form a carpet for the bill and vale.

Nodo coerces viperino

-fine fraude crines.--Horace.

10 friendship sacred, to affection dear,
Oh, hallowed lock! thy magick charm
impart;

Still warm my bofom with efteem fincere,
Inflame with pureft gratitude, my heart!
Beholding thee may each enraptur'd gaze
Recall anew the lovely Donor's name;
And fresh remembrance with ftill brighter
blaze,
[flame.
Kindle the fparks of friendship's heavenly
RUSTICUS.

Madness, defpair, and agony of mind O'er his whole form the robe of horrour

fpread.

Where is my Laili ? where ? The wretched victim cries, Alla the ruler of the skies,

From Hafez tore the fair.

All dreadful power! by love's ftrong oath,
Laili, thou know'ft was mine,
And that right arm of thine,

Though cloth'd with energies divine, Shall not divide:-Strike: Cut afunder both. He fpoke-then plunging down the steep, That rude projected o'er the billowy deep, "Laili is mine," the daring lover fung, And mad'ning curfes dy'd upon his tongue. SOPHIA.

To the EDITORS of the MASSACHUSETTS MAGAZINE.

GENTLEMEN,

The following piece is the production of a female pen. While in Europe, we bebold female genius, enervated by the gay diffipation of fashionable life; placed, as it were, in the bot bed of luxury, and flourishing with forced luxuriance, and exotick embel lifhments; bere, may we view it, expanded into bloom, and though neglected by the partial band of cultivation, yet, like an indi genous plant, congenial to its native foil, it bids defiance to the ftorm, and thrives amid the rude inclemencies of this boreal climate. This western world is predefined by beaven, as the feat of the mufes, and the empire of reafon, and of freedom.

CELADON. The PENSIVE MOURNER. By a young Lady.

UNK was the fun; ferene the evening [were feen;

SUNK Mky;

No lowering clouds, portending forms, Labour forfook each verdant dale and hill, And boys difported on the village green. The humble tenant of yon little mill, Retiring from its noile, fought bome felt blifs; Such as ambition's votaries feldom know, Contentment, health, and Sweet domeftick

peace.

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Hail, folemn glades, where oft I ftray forlorn, [dor fhed, What time the evening ftars their fplenWhattime inconftantCynthia's mildest beams Tip with pale luftre every mountain's head! And thou, lone Philomel, whose sweetest fong [breaft;

Is vain to foothe the troubles of my For ah, each day's return encreases pain, And my poor, tortur'd bofom knows no rest! Oft by this winding river's fedge crown'd banks, [ing moors, Whofe gliding waters lave the neighbourAt cheerful morn, or evening's mild return, Have I with Henry paffed the fleeting hours.

Fled are thofe vifions of unstable joys; Revers'd the feenes, that lately pleas'd fo well;

Since, by thy ftern decree, infatiate Death,
My lovely Henry bade the world farewell!
Let flowers perennial bloffom on his tomb,
Their rifing growth unceafing tears fhall
Let forrow there erect her ebon throne,
And guardian angels watch around his
grave !

love;