Thou, as a gallant bark from Albion's coast (The storms all weathered and the ocean crossed)

Shoots into port at some well-havened isle, Where spices breathe, and brighter seasons smile,

There sits quiescent on the floods, that show Her beauteous form reflected clear below,

While airs impregnated with incense play Around her, fanning light her streamers gay; So thou, with sails how swift! hast reached the shore,

"Where tempests never beat nor billows roar";

And thy loved consort on the dangerous tide Of life long since has anchored by thy side. But me, scarce hoping to attain that rest, Always from port withheld, always distressed,

Me howling blasts drive devious, tempesttossed,

Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost,

And day by day some current's thwarting force

Sets me more distant from a prosperous

course.

Yet, O, the thought that thou art safe, and he!

That thought is joy, arrive what may to me. My boast is not that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the

earth;

But higher far my proud pretensions rise, The son of parents passed into the skies. And now, farewell!

run

--

Time unrevoked has

His wonted course, yet what I wished is done.

By contemplation's help, not sought in vain, I seem to have lived my childhood o'er

again;

To have renewed the joys that once were mine,

Without the sin of violating thine;

And, while the wings of fancy still are free, And I can view this mimic show of thee, Time has but half succeeded in his theft, Thyself removed, thy power to soothe me left.

REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE.

NOT TO BE FOUND IN ANY OF THE BOOKS.

SETWEEN Nose and Eyes a strange contest arose,

The spectacles set them unhappily

wrong;

The point in dispute was, as all the world knows,

To which the said spectacles ought to belong.

So Tongue was the lawyer, and argued the

cause

With a great deal of skill, and a wig full of learning;

While Chief-Baron Ear sat to balance the

laws,

So famed for his talent in nicely discerning.

"In behalf of the Nose it will quickly appear, And your lordship," he said, “will undoubtedly find,

REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE.

29,

That the Nose has had spectacles always in

wear,

Which amounts to possession time out of mind."

Then holding the spectacles up to the court, "Your lordship observes they are made with a straddle,

As wide as the ridge of the Nose is; in short, Designed to sit close to it, just like a saddle.

66 Again, would your lordship a moment suppose

('T is a case that has happened, and may' be again)

That the visage or countenance had not a

Nose,

Pray who would, or who could, wear spec

tacles then?

"On the whole it appears, and my argument shows,

With a reasoning the court will never con

demn,

That the spectacles plainly were made for the Nose,

And the Nose was as plainly intended for them."

Then shifting his side (as a lawyer knows how),

He pleaded again in behalf of the Eyes : But what were his arguments few people know,

For the court did not think they were equally wise.

So his lordship decreed with a grave solemn tone,

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Decisive and clear, without one if or but, That, whenever the Nose put his spectacles

on,

By daylight or candlelight Eyes should be shut!"