"Oh no-begone! I'll hear no more." But, as he spoke, his voice relented. "That very look thy mother wore When she implored, and old Le Roc consented. -Nor can❜st thou, D'Arcy, feel resentment long; And that dear Saint-may she once more descend But now, in my hands, your's with her's unite. All hearts shall sing Adieu to sorrow!' St. Pierre has found his child to-day; And old and young shall dance to-morrow." Had Louis then before the gate dismounted, Lost in the chase at set of sun; Like Henry, when he heard recounted + The generous deeds himself had done, *Louis the Fourteenth. ↑ Alluding to a popular story related of Henry the Fourth of France; similar to ours of " The King and Miller of Mansfield." (That night the miller's maid Colette Sung, while he supped, her chansonnette) ODE TO SUPERSTITION.* I. 1. HENCE, to the realms of Night, dire Demon, hence! Thy chain of adamant can bind That little world, the human mind, And sink its noblest powers to impotence. Clot his shaggy mane with gore, With flashing fury bid his eye-balls shine; Thy touch, thy deadening touch has steeled the breast, At thy command he plants the dagger deep, * Written in early youth. I. 2. When, with a frown that froze the peopled earth, * And, brooding, gave her shapeless shadows birth. Ha! what withering phantoms glare! As blows the blast with many a sudden swell, And, thro' the mist, reveals the terrors of his form. I. 3. O'er solid seas, where Winter reigns, * Lucretius, I. 63. And, while the panting tigress hies Smit by the scorchings of the noontide beam. She hurls the torch! she fans the fire! She clasps her lord to part no more, And, wrapt in clouds, in tempests tost, Weave the airy web of Fate; While the lone shepherd, near the shipless main, Sees o'er her hills advance the long-drawn funeral train. II. 1. Thou spak'st, and lo! a new creation glowed. Was clad in horrors not its own, And at its base the trembling nations bowed. Grasped the globe with iron hand. • The funeral rite of the Hindoos. The Fates of the Northern Mythology. See MALLET'S An tiquities. An allusion to the Second Sight. |