DRURY'S DIRGE. By LAURA MATILDA. You praise our sires: but though they wrote with force, For that and more, by sweetness all our own. 1. BALMY Zephyrs lightly flitting, 2. Softly slept the dome of Drury, When Alecto's sister-fury, Softly slumb'ring sunk to rest. GIFFORD. 3. Lo! from Lemnos limping lamely, Lags the lowly Lord of Fire, Cytherea yielding tamely, To the Cyclops dark and dire. 4. Clouds of amber, dreams of gladness, Dulcet joys and sports of youth, Soon must yield to haughty sadness, Mercy holds the veil to Truth. 5. See Erostratus the second, Fires again Diana's fane; By the Fates from Orcus beckon❜d, 6. Lurid smoke and frank suspicion, While the God fulfils his mission, 7. Hark! the engines blandly thunder, And the firemen, mute with wonder, 8. See the bird of Ammon sailing, Sooths them with its bickering beak. 9. Juno saw, and mad with malice, 10. Pan beheld Patroclus dying, 11. Thus fell Drury's lofty glory, Levell❜d with the shuddering stones; Mars with tresses black and gory, Drinks the dew of pearly groans. 12.' Hark! what soft Eolian numbers, 13. Ha! I hear the strain erratic, Dimly glance from pole to pole, Raptures sweet and dreams ecstatic 14. Where is Cupid's crimson motion ? Billowy ecstacy of woe, Bear me straight, meandering ocean, |