my poem, I should have been tempted to add my feeble tribute of applause to the more solid recompense which the virtuous man finds in the recollection of his own motives. Mr. Severn can dispense with a reward from "such stuff as dreams are made of." His conduct is a golden augury of the success of his future career may the unextinguished Spirit of his illustrious friend animate the creations of his pencil, and plead against Oblivion for his name!

ADONAIS

I WEEP for Adonais

I

- he is dead!

Oh, weep for Adonais! though our tears

Thaw not the frost which binds so dear a head!
And thou, sad Hour, selected from all years
To mourn our loss, rouse thy obscure compeers,
And teach them thine own sorrow! Say:
"With me

Died Adonais; till the Future dares

Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be An echo and a light unto eternity!"

II

Where wert thou, mighty Mother, when he lay, When thy Son lay, pierced by the shaft which flies In darkness? where was lorn Urania

When Adonais died? With veiled eyes, 'Mid listening Echoes, in her Paradise

She sate, while one, with soft enamoured breath, Rekindled all the fading melodies,

With which, like flowers that mock the corse beneath,

He had adorned and hid the coming bulk of death.

III

Oh, weep for Adonais - he is dead!

Wake, melancholy Mother, wake and weep!

Yet wherefore? Quench within their burning

bed

Thy fiery tears, and let thy loud heart keep
Like his a mute and uncomplaining sleep;
For he is gone where all things wise and fair
Descend. Oh, dream not that the amorous

Deep

Will yet restore him to the vital air;

Death feeds on his mute voice, and laughs at our

despair.

IV

Most musical of mourners, weep again!

Lament anew, Urania!

He died,

Who was the sire of an immortal strain,

Blind, old, and lonely, when his country's pride The priest, the slave, and the liberticide Trampled and mocked with many a loathed rite Of lust and blood; he went, unterrified,

Into the gulf of death; but his clear Sprite Yet reigns o'er earth, the third among the sons of light.

V

Most musical of mourners, weep anew!

Not all to that bright station dared to climb; And happier they their happiness who knew, Whose tapers yet burn through that night of time

In which suns perished; others more sublime, Struck by the envious wrath of man or God, Have sunk, extinct in their refulgent prime; And some yet live, treading the thorny road, Which leads, through toil and hate, to Fame's serene abode.

VI

But now, thy youngest, dearest one has per

ished,

The nursling of thy widowhood, who grew,

Like a pale flower by some sad maiden cherished

And fed with true-love tears instead of dew;
Most musical of mourners, weep anew!

Thy extreme hope, the loveliest and the last, The bloom, whose petals, nipped before they blew,

Died on the promise of the fruit, is waste; The broken lily lies the storm is overpast.

VII

To that high Capital, where kingly Death
Keeps his pale court in beauty and decay,
He came; and bought, with price of purest
breath,

A grave among the eternal. Come away!
Haste, while the vault of blue Italian day
Is yet his fitting charnel-roof! while still
He lies, as if in dewy sleep he lay ;
Awake him not! surely he takes his fill
Of deep and liquid rest, forgetful of all ill.

VIII

He will awake no more, oh, never more!
Within the twilight chamber spreads apace
The shadow of white Death, and at the door
Invisible Corruption waits to trace

His extreme way to her dim dwelling-place;