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GRANTA. A MEDLEY.
Αργυρίαις λόγχαισι μάχου καὶ πάντα Κρατήσαις.

On could Le Sage's demon's gift
Be realised at my desire,

This night my trembling form he'd lift
To place it on St. Mary's spire.

Then would, unroof'd, old Granta's halls
Pedantic inmates full display;
Fellows who dream on lawn or stalls,
The price of venal votes to pay.

Then would I view each rival wight,

Petty and Palmerston survey;

Who canvass there with all their might,
Against the next elective day. 2

Lo! candidates and voters lie 3

All lull'd in sleep, a goodly number:

A race renown'd for piety,

Whose conscience won't disturb their slumber.

iLand H, indeed, may not demur ;
Fellows are sage reflecting men :
They know preferment can occur
But very seldom, now and then.

They know the Chancellor has got
Some pretty livings in disposal:
Each hopes that one may be his lot,

And therefore smiles on his proposal.

Now from the soporific scene

I'll turn mine eye, as night grows later, To view, unheeded and unseen,

The studious sons of Alma Mater.

There, in apartments small and damp
The candidate for college prizes
Sits poring by the midnight lamp;
Goes late to bed, yet early rises.
He surely well deserves to gain them,
With all the honours of his college,
Who, striving hardly to obtain them,
Thus seeks unprofitable knowledge :

Who sacrifices hours of rest

To scan precisely metres attic ;
Or agitates his anxious breast
In solving problems mathematic:

that the young poet seems to have drunk deepest of Lind Justration whose effects were to be so lasting; six short **uch he passed in her company being sufficient to the karadation of a feeling for all life. With the summer

* bara epshed this dream of his youth. He saw Miss ChaBence mare in the succeeding year, and took his last on of her on that hill near Annesley, which, in his of The Dream,' he describes so happily as crowned a peculiar diadem." In August, 1805, she was married Ja Musters, Esq.; and died at Wiverton Hall, in FeInay, 102, te consequence, it is believed, of the alarm and ager to which she had been exposed during the sack of -wick Hall by a party of rioters from Nottingham. The Fortunate Andy had been in a feeble state of health for ving rears, and the and her daughter were obliged to take the violence of the mob in a shrubbery, where, truckd, partly from terror, her constitution suss stuck which it wanted vigour to resist.] The Dable Boiteux of Le Sage, where Asmodeus, the pars Don Cleofas on an elevated situation, and the bexames for inspection.

On the death of Mr. Pitt, in January, 1806, Lord Henry

Who reads false quantities in Seale, 5
Or puzzles o'er the deep triangle;
Deprived of many a wholesome meal;
In barbarous Latin 6 doom'd to wrangle:

Renouncing every pleasing page
From authors of historic use;
Preferring to the letter'd sage,

The square of the hypothenuse. 7

Still, harmless are these occupations,
That hurt none but the hapless student,
Compared with other recreations,

Which bring together the imprudent;

Whose daring revels shock the sight, When vice and infamy combine, When drunkenness and dice invite, As every sense is steep'd in wine.

Not so the methodistic crew,

Who plans of reformation lay: In humble attitude they sue,

And for the sins of others pray :

Forgetting that their pride of spirit, Their exultation in their trial, Detracts most largely from the merit Of all their boasted self-denial.

'Tis morn: from these I turn my sight. What scene is this which meets the eye? A numerous crowd, array'd in white, 8 Across the green in numbers fly.

Loud rings in air the chapel bell;

'Tis hush'd: what sounds are these I hear? The organ's soft celestial swell

Rolls deeply on the list'ning ear.

To this is join'd the sacred song,

The royal minstrel's hallow'd strain; Though he who hears the music long Will never wish to hear again.

Our choir would scarcely be excused, Even as a band of raw beginners; All mercy now must be refused

To such a set of croaking sinners.

Petty and Lord Palmerston were candidates to represent the University of Cambridge in parliament.]

[In the private volume, the fourth and fifth stanzas ran thus:

"One on his power and place depends,
The other on-the Lord knows what!
Each to some eloquence pretends,
Though neither will convince by that.
"The first, indeed, may not demur ;

Fellows are sage reflecting men," &c.] [Edward-Harvey Hawke, third Lord Hawke. His lordship died in 1824.]

Seale's publication on Greek Metres displays considerable talent and ingenuity, but, as might be expected in so difficult a work, is not remarkable for accuracy.

The Latin of the schools is of the canine species, and not very intelligible.

7 The discovery of Pythagoras, that the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the other two sides of a right-angled triangle.

On a saint's day, the students wear surplices in chapel.
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ON A DISTANT VIEW OF THE VILLAGE AND
SCHOOL OF HARROW ON THE HILL.
Oh! mihi præteritos referat si Jupiter annos. — VIRGIL.
YE scenes of my childhood, whose loved recollection
Embitters the present, compared with the past;
Where science first dawn'd on the powers of reflection,
And friendships were form'd, too romantic to last; 1

Where fancy yet joys to trace the resemblance

Of comrades, in friendship and mischief allied; How welcome to me your ne'er fading remembrance, Which rests in the bosom, though hope is denied!

Again I revisit the hills where we sported,

The streams where we swam, and the fields where [sorted, we fought; 2

The school where, loud warn'd by the bell, we reTo pore o'er the precepts by pedagogues taught.

Again I behold where for hours I have ponder'd,
As reclining, at eve, on yon tombstone 9 I lay;
Or round the steep brow of the churchyard I wander'd,
To catch the last gleam of the sun's setting ray.

I once more view the room, with spectators surrounded,

Where, as Zanga, I trod on Alonzo o'erthrown;

1["My school-friendships were with me passions (for 1 was always violent); but I do not know that there is one which has endured (to be sure some have been cut short by death) till now."- Byron Diary, 1821.]

2 ["At Harrow I fought my way very fairly. I think I lost but one battle out of seven."- Ibid.]

3 [They show a tomb in the churchyard at Harrow, commanding a view over Windsor, which was so well known to be his favourite resting-place, that the boys called it" Byron's Tomb;" and here, they say, he used to sit for hours, wrapt up in thought.]

4 [For the display of his declamatory powers, on the speech-days, he selected always the most vehement passages ; such as the speech of Zanga over the body of Alonzo, and Lear's address to the storm.]

ΤΟ Μ

OH! did those eyes, instead of fire,
With bright but mild affection shine,
Though they might kindle less desire,
Love, more than mortal, would be thine.
For thou art form'd so heavenly fair,

Howe'er those orbs may wildly beam,
We must admire, but still despair;
That fatal glance forbids esteem.
When Nature stamp'd thy beauteous birth,
So much perfection in thee shone,
She fear'd that, too divine for earth,

The skies might claim thee for their own:

Therefore, to guard her dearest work, Lest angels might dispute the prize, She bade a secret lightning lurk

Within those once celestial eyes.

These might the boldest sylph appal,
When gleaming with meridian blaze;
Thy beauty must enrapture all;

But who can dare thine ardent gaze?

"Tis said that Berenice's hair

In stars adorns the vault of heaven; But they would ne'er permit thee there,

Thou wouldst so far outshine the seven.

5 Mossop, a cotemporary of Garrick, famous for his per formance of Zanga.

6 ["My grand patron, Dr. Drury, had a great notion that I should turn out an orator, from my fluency, my turbulence, my voice, my copiousness of declamation, and my action.". Byron Diary.]

7[In the private volume the two last stanzas ran "I thought this poor brain, fever'd even to madness, Of tears, as of reason, for ever was drain'd; But the drops which now flow down this bosom of sadness, Convince me the springs have some moisture retain'd. "Sweet scenes of my childhood! your blest recollection Has wrung from these eyelids, to weeping long dead, In torrents the tears of my warmest affection, The last and the fondest I ever shall shed."]

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When join'd with hope, when still possessing;
But how much cursed by every lover
When hope is fled and passion 's over.
Woman, that fair and fond deceiver,
How prompt are striplings to believe her!
How throbs the pulse when first we view
The eye that rolls in glossy blue,
Or sparkles black, or mildly throws
A bearn from under hazel brows!
How quick we credit every oath,
And hear her plight the willing troth!
Fondly we hope 't will last for aye,
When lo! she changes in a day.
This record will for ever stand,

"Woman, thy vows are traced in sand." 2

TO M. S. G.

WHEN I dream that you love me, you'll surely forgive;
Extend not your anger to sleep;

For in visions alone your affection can live,—
I rise, and it leaves me to weep.

Then, Morpheus ! envelope my faculties fast,
Shed o'er me your languor benign;

Should the dream of to-night but resemble the last,
What rapture celestial is mine!

They tell us that slumber, the sister of death,

Mortality's emblem is given;

To fate how I long to resign my frail breath, If this be a foretaste of heaven!

Ah! frown not, sweet lady, unbend your soft brow,
Nor deem me too happy in this;

If I win in my dream, I atone for it now,
Thus doom'd but to gaze upon bliss.

Though in vision's sweet lady, perhaps you may smile,
Oh think not my penance deficient !
When dreams of your presence my slumbers beguile,
Tu awake will be torture sufficient.

Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Bia tag some business, do intreat her eyes, Tu twinkle in their spheres till they return."-SHAKS. The fast line is almost a literal translation from a SpaLER ESTETU.

**or this" Mary," who is not to be confounded with the Bess of Annesley, or Mary" of Aberdeen, all that has bra stained is, that she was of an humble, if not equi

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In this life of probation for rapture divine,
Astrea declares that some penance is due ;
From him who has worshipp'd at love's gentle shrine,
The atonement is ample in love's last adieu !

Who kneels to the god, on his altar of light
Must myrtle and cypress alternately strew :
His myrtle, an emblem of purest delight;
His cypress the garland of love's last adieu !

DAMÆTAS.

Is law an infant 1, and in years a boy,

In mind a slave to every vicious joy;

From every sense of shame and virtue wean'd;

In lies an adept, in deceit a fiend;

Versed in hypocrisy, while yet a child;
Fickle as wind, of inclinations wild;

Woman his dupe, his heedless friend a tool;

Old in the world, though scarcely broke from school;
Damatas ran through all the maze of sin,
And found the goal when others just begin:
Even still conflicting passions shake his soul,
And bid him drain the dregs of pleasure's bowl;
Bat, pall'd with vice, he breaks his former chain,
And what was once his bliss appears his bane. ?

All I shall therefore say (whate'er

I think, is neither here nor there)

Is, that such lips, of looks endearing,
Were form'd for better things than sneering:
Of smoothing compliments divested,
Advice at least 's disinterested;
Such is my artless song to thee,
From all the flow of flattery free;
Counsel like mine is like a brother's
My heart is given to some others;
That is to say, unskill'd to cozen,
It shares itself among a dozen.
Marion, adieu ! oh, pr'ythee slight not
This warning, though it may delight not ;
And, lest my precepts be displeasing
To those who think remonstrance teasing,
At once I'll tell thee our opinion
Concerning woman's soft dominion:
Howe'er we gaze with admiration
On eyes of blue or lips carnation,
Howe'er the flowing locks attract us,
Howe'er those beauties may distract us,
Still fickle, we are prone to rove,
These cannot fix our souls to love.
It is not too severe a stricture
To say they form a pretty picture ;
But wouldst thou see the secret chain
Which binds us in your humble train,
To hail you queens of all creation,
Know, in a word, 'tis ANIMATION.

TO MARION.

MARION! why that pensive brow?
What disgust to life hast thou?
Change that discontented air;
Frowns become not one so fair.
"I is not love disturbs thy rest,
Love's a stranger to thy breast;
He in dimpling smiles appears,
Or mourns in sweetly timid tears,
Or bends the languid eyelid down,
But shuns the cold forbidding frown.
Then resume thy former fire,
Some will love, and all admire;
While that icy aspect chills us,
Nought but cool indifference thrills us.
Wouldst thou wandering hearts beguile,
Smile at least, or seem to smile.
Eyes like thine were never meant
To ide their orbs in dark restraint;

Spite of all thou fain wouldst say,

St in truant beams they play.
Thy lips but here my modest Muse
Her impulse chaste must needs refuse:

She blushes, curt'sies, frowns

in short she

Dreads lest the subject should transport me;
And flying off in search of reason,
Brings prudence back in proper season.

In law every person is an infant who has not attained the kay vá "renty-one.

*("When I went up to Trinity, in 1805, at the age of seand a half, I was miserable and untoward to a degree. was wretched at learing Harrow-wretched at going to Care sige tristead of Oxford- wretched from some private math circuro stances of different kinds; and, consequently, aldas umacial as a wolf taken from the troop."-Diary.

More adds, "The sort of life which young Byron led the period. between the dissipations of London and of Cd, with a home to welcome, or even the roof

age relative to receive him, was but little calculated

TO A LADY

WHO PRESENTED TO THE AUTHOR A LOCK OF HAIR BRAIDED WITH HIS OWN, AND APPOINTED A NIGHT

IN DECEMBER TO MEET HIM IN THE GARDEN. 3

THESE locks, which fondly thus entwine,
In firmer chains our hearts confine,
Than all th' unmeaning protestations
Which swell with nonsense love orations.
Our love is fix'd, I think we 've proved it,
Nor time, nor place, nor art have moved it;
Then wherefore should we sigh and whine,
With groundless jealousy repine,
With silly whims and fancies frantic,
Merely to make our love romantic?
Why should you weep like Lydia Languish,
And fret with self-created anguish

Or doom the lover you have chosen,
On winter nights to sigh half frozen;
In leafless shades to sue for pardon,
Only because the scene's a garden?
For gardens seem, by one consent,
Since Shakspeare set the precedent,
Since Juliet first declared her passion
To form the place of assignation. ✦

to render him satisfied either with himself or the world. Unrestricted as he was by deference to any will but his own, even the pleasures to which he was naturally most inclined prematurely palled upon him, for want of those best zests of all enjoyment- rarity and restraint."]

3 [See antè, p. 387. note.]

In the above little piece the author has been accused by some candid readers of introducing the name of a lady from whom he was some hundred miles distant at the time this was written; and poor Juliet, who has slept so long in the tomb of all the Capulets," has been converted, with a trifling

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