Say, when contentious CHARLES ronounced a throne, The still retreats that soothed his tranquil breast The social tribes its choicest influence hail:- Then did his horse the homeward track descry, The track that shunned his sad, inquiring eye; That his charmed hand the careless rein resigned, Yes, though the porter spurn him from the door, With that mute eloquence which passes speech.- Yet who shall bid the watchful servant fly? The blasts of heaven, the drenching dews of earth, The wanton insults of unfeeling mirth. These, when to guard Misfortune's sacred grave, Will firm Fidelity exult to brave. Led by what chart, transports the timid dove The wreaths of conquest, or the vows of love? Monarchs have gazed, and nations blessed the sight. Pile rocks on rocks, bid woods and mountains rise, Sweet bird thy truth shall Harlem's walls attest, When, with the silent energy of grief, With looks that asked, yet dared not hope relief, "Twas thine to animate her closing eye; Alas! 'twas thine perchance the first to die, Crushed by her meagre hand, when welcomed from the sky. Hark! the bee winds her small but mellow horn, Blithe to salute the sunny smile of morn. O'er thymy downs she bends her busy course, And many a stream allures her to its source. Its orb so full, its vision so confined! Who guides the patient pilgrim to her cell? Who bids her soul with conscious triumph swell? With conscious truth, retrace the mazy clue Of summer-scents, that charmed her as she flew. Hail, MEMORY, hail! thy universal reign. Guards the least link of Being's glorious chain. PART II. Delle cose custode e dispensiera. TASSO. ANALYSIS OF THE SECOND PART. She THE Memory has hitherto acted only in subservience to the senses, and so far man is not eminently distinguished from other animals: but, with respect to man, she has a higher province; and is often busily employed, when excited by no external cause whatever. preserves, for his use, the treasures of art and science, history and philosophy. She colors all the prospects of life; for we can only anticipate the future, by concluding what is possible from what is past. On her agency depends every effusion of the Fancy, who with the boldest effort can only compound or transpose, augment or diminish the materials which she has collected and still retains. When the first emotions of despair have subsided, and |