ALPHABETICAL ALLITERATION.

THE SIEGE OF BELGRADE.

An Austrian army, awfully arrayed,
Boldly, by battery, besieged Belgrade;
Cossack commanders cannonading come--
Dealing destruction's devastating doom;
Every endeavor, engineers essay,

For fame, for fortune-fighting furious fray :-
Generals 'gainst generals grapple-gracious God!
How honors Heaven, heroic hardihood!
Infuriate,-indiscriminate in ill,

Kindred kill kinsmen,-kinsmen kindred kill!

Labor low levels loftiest longest lines

Men march 'mid mounds, 'mid moles, 'mid murderous mines:

Now noisy, noxious, noticed nought

Of outward obstacles opposing ought:

Poor patriots, partly purchased, partly pressed:

Quite quaking, quickly quarter, quarter quest,

Reason returns, religious right redounds,
Suwarrow stops such sanguinary sounds.

Truce to thee, Turkey-triumph to thy train!

Unjust, unwise, unmerciful Ukraine !

Vanish vain victory, vanish victory vain!

Why wish ye warfare? Wherefore welcome were
Xerxes, Ximenes, Xanthus, Xaviere?

Yield! ye youths! ye yeomen, yield your yell!
Zeno's, Zapater's, Zoroaster's zeal,

And all attracting-arms against acts appeal.

THE BUNKER HILL MONUMENT CELEBRATION.

Americans arrayed and armed attend;
Beside battalions bold, bright beauties blend.
Chiefs, clergy, citizens conglomerate,—
Detesting despots,-daring deeds debate;

Each eye emblazoned ensigns entertain,

Flourishing from far,-fan freedom's flame.

Guards greeting guards grown grey,-guest greeting guest. High-minded heroes, hither, homeward, haste.

Ingenuous juniors join in jubilee,

Kith kenning kin,-kind knowing kindred key.
Lo, lengthened lines lend Liberty liege love,
Mixed masses, marshaled, Monumentward move.

Note noble navies near,-no novel notion,-
Oft our oppressors overawed old Ocean;
Presumptuous princes, pristine patriots paled,
Queens' quarrel questing quotas, quondam quailed.
Rebellion roused, revolting ramparts rose.

Stout spirits, smiting servile soldiers, strove.

These thrilling themes, to thousands truly told,
Usurpers' unjust usages unfold.

Victorious vassals, vauntings vainly veiled,

Where, whilesince, Webster, warlike Warren wailed.

'Xcuse 'xpletives 'xtra-queer 'xpressed,

Yielding Yankee yeomen zest.

PRINCE CHARLES PROTECTED BY FLORA MACDONALD.

All ardent acts affright an Age abased

By brutal broils, by braggart bravery braced.

Craft's cankered courage changed Culloden's cry;

"Deal deep" deposed "deal death"-" decoy," "defy:" Enough. Ere envy enters England's eyes,

Fancy's false future fades, for Fortune flies.

Gaunt, gloomy, guarded, grappling giant griefs,
Here, hunted hard, his harassed heart he heaves;

In impious ire incessant ills invests,

Judging Jove's jealous judgments, jaundiced jests!
Kneel, kirtled knight! keep keener kingcraft known,
Let larger lore life's levelling lessons loan:
Marauders must meet malefactors' meeds;

No nation noisy non-conformists needs.

O oracles of old! our orb ordain

Peace's possession-Plenty's palmy plain!

Quiet Quixotic quests; quell quarrelling;

Rebuke red riot's resonant rifle ring.

Slumber seems strangely sweet since silence smote

The threatening thunders throbbing through their throat.

Usurper! under uniform unwont

Vail valor's vaguest venture, vainest vaunt.

Well wot we which were wise.

War's wildfire won

Ximenes, Xerxes, Xavier, Xenophon :

Yet you, ye yearning youth, your young years yield
Zuinglius' zealot zest-Zinzendorf zion-zealed.

CACOPHONOUS COUPLET ON CARDINAL WOLSEY.

Begot by butchers, but by bishops bred,
How high his honor holds his haughty head!

ADDRESS TO THE AURORA, WRITTEN IN MID-OCEAN.
Awake Aurora! and across all airs

By brilliant blazon banish boreal bears.
Crossing cold Canope's celestial crown,
Deep darts descending dive delusive down.
Entranced each eve Europa's every eye
Firm fixed forever fastens faithfully,
Greets golden guerdon gloriously grand;

How Holy Heaven holds high his hollow hand!
Ignoble ignorance, inapt indeed—

Jeers jestingly just Jupiter's jereed:

Knavish Kamschatkans, knightly Kurdsmen know,
Long Labrador's light lustre looming low;
Midst myriad multitudes majestic might
No nature nobler numbers Neptune's night.

Opal of Oxus or old Ophir's ores

Pale pyrrhic pyres prismatic purple pours,——
Quiescent quivering, quickly, quaintly queer,
Rich, rosy, regal rays resplendent rear;
Strange shooting streamers streaking starry skies
Trail their triumphant tresses-trembling ties.
Unseen, unhonored Ursa,-underneath
Veiled, vanquished-vainly vying-vanisheth :
Wild Woden, warning, watchful-whispers wan
Xanthitic Xeres, Xerxes, Xenophon,

Yet yielding yesternight yule's yell yawns
Zenith's zebraic zigzag, zodiac zones.

Pulci, in his Morgante Maggiore, xxiii. 47, gives the following
remarkable double alliterations, two of them in every line :-
La casa cosa parea bretta e brutta,
Vinta dal vento, e la natta e la notte,
Stilla le stelle, ch'a tetto era tutta,
Del pane appena ne dette ta' dotte;
Pere avea pure e qualche fratta frutta,
E svina e svena di botto una botte;
Poscia per pesci lasche prese all'esca,
Ma il letto allotta alla frasca fufresca.

In the imitation of Laura Matilda, in the Rejected Addresses

occurs this stanza :

Pan beheld Patroclus dying,

Nox to Niobe was turned;
From Busiris Bacchus flying,
Saw his Semele inurned.

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Rare Remarks Ridiculously Repeated.
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Tremendous Thoughts on Thundering Topics.
Utterances from Uppermost for Use and Unction.
Valuable Views in Various Voices.
Wisps of Wit in a Wilderness of Words.
Xcellent Xtracts Xactly Xpressed.
Yawnings and Yearnings for Youthful Yankees.
Zeal and Zest from Zoroaster to Zimmerman.

COMPLIMENTARY CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING CHESS.

Cherished chess! The charms of thy checkered chambers chain me changelessly. Chaplains have chanted thy charming choiceness; chieftains have changed the chariot and the chase for the chaster chivalry of the chess-board, and the cheerier charge of the chess-knights. Chaste-eyed Caissa! For thee are the chaplets of chainless charity and the chalice of childlike cheerfulness. No chilling churl, no cheating chafferer, no chattering changeling, no chanting charlatan can be thy champion; the chival rous, the charitable, and the cheerful are the chosen ones thou cherishest. Chance cannot change thee: from the cradle of childhood to the charnelhouse, from our first childish chirpings to the chills of the church-yard, thou art our cheery, changeless chieftainess. Chastener of the churlish, chider of the changeable, cherisher of the chagrined, the chapter of thy chiliad of charms should be chanted in cherubic chimes by choicest choris ters, and chiselled on chalcedon in cherubic chirography.

Hood, in describing the sensations of a dramatist awaiting his debut, thus uses the letter F in his Ode to Perry :All Fume and Fret,

Fuss, Fidget, Fancy, Fever, Funking, Fright,
Ferment, Fault-fearing, Faintness-more F's yet:
Flushed, Frigid, Flurried, Flinching, Fitful, Flat,
Add Famished, Fuddled, and Fatigued to that;
Funeral, Fate-Foreboding.

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The repetition of the same letter in the following is very ingenious:

FELICITOUS FLIGHT OF FANCY.

"A famous fish-factor found himself father of five flirting femalesFanny, Florence, Fernanda, Francesca, and Fenella. The first four were flat-featured, ill-favored, forbidding-faced, freckled frumps, fretful, flippant, foolish, and flaunting. Fenella was a fine-featured, fresh, fleet-footed fairy, frank, free, and full of fun. The fisher failed, and was forced by fickle fortune to forego his footman, forfeit his forefathers' fine fields, and find a forlorn farm-house in a forsaken forest. The four fretful females, fond of figuring at feasts in feathers and fashionable finery, fumed at their fugitive father. Forsaken by fulsome, flattering fortune-hunters, who followed them when first they flourished, Fenella fondled her father, flavored their food, forgot her flattering followers, and frolicked in a frieze without flounces. The father, finding himself forced to forage in foreign parts for a fortune, found he could afford a faring to his five fondlings. The first four were fain to foster their frivolity with fine frills and fans, fit to finish their father's finances; Fenella, fearful of flooring him, formed a fancy for a full fresh flower. Fate favored the fish-factor for a few days, when he fell in with a fog; his faithful Filley's footsteps faltered, and food failed. He found himself in front of a fortified fortress. Finding it forsaken, and feeling himself feeble, and forlorn with fasting, he fed on the fish, flesh, and fowl he found, fricasseed, and when full fell flat on the floor. Fresh in the forenoon, he forthwith flew to the fruitful fields, and not forgetting Fenella, he filched a fair flower; when a foul, frightful, fiendish figure flashed forth: Felonious fellow, fingering my flowers, I'll finish you! Fly; say farewell to your fine felicitous family, and face me in a fortnight! The faint-hearted fisher fumed and faltered, and fast and far was his flight. His five daughters flew to fall at his feet and fervently felicitate him. Frantically and fluently he unfolded his fate. Fenella, forthwith fortified by filial fondness, followed her father's footsteps, and flung her faultless form at the foot of the frightful figure, who forgave the father, and fell flat on his face, for he had fervently fallen in a fiery fit of love for the fair Fenella. He feasted her till, fascinated by his faithfulness, she forgot the ferocity of his face, form,