POETRY. THE SWALLOW. BY CHARLOTTE SMITH. THE gorse is yellow on the heath, But if, as colder breezes blow, You hide, tho' none know when or how, The banks with speedwell flowers are In the cliff's excavated brow, gay, The oaks are budding; and beneath, The hawthorn soon will bear the wreath, The welcome guest of settled spring, And hailed her as she passed. To my reed roof your nest of clay, The Hindostani woods among, I wish I did his power possess, I would a little while restrain Your rapid wing, that I might hear The wind your charioteer. Through spicy bower, and palmy grove, Were you in Asia? O relate, If there your fabled sister's woes She seemed in sorrow to narrate; Or sings she but to celebrate Her nuptials with the rose? I would inquire how journeying long, And linger torpid here; Thus lost to life, what favouring dream, Bids you to happier hours awake; And tells, that dancing in the beam, The light gnat hovers o'er the stream, The Mayfly on the lake? Or if, by instinct taught to know Approaching dearth of insect food; To isles and willowy aits you go, And crowding on the pliant bough, Sink in the dimpling flood: How learn ye, while the cold waves boom Alas! how little can be known, Her sacred veil where Nature draws; Let baffled Science humbly own, Her mysteries understood alone, By HIм who gives her laws. POOR BARLEY CORN. FROM FARLEY'S BRISTOL JOURNAL. The following beautiful tribute to the genial virtues of our old English beverage, likely soon to be known rather by memory than taste, was written in the days of Charles II. and has probably remained in MS. to this day. WHEN the chill north-east blows, Ale, that the absent battle fights, And forms the march o' the Swedish drum, Disputes the prince's laws and rights, What's gone and past tells mortal wights, And what's to come. Ale, that the ploughman's heart upleaps, Ale, that securely climbs the tops When the Septentrion seas are froze, To keep unpinched the Russian's nose, Oh! give me ale. Grandchild to Ceres, Barley's daughter, LINES, By angels sweetly sung. What if the cheek of roseate hue, Free let her talk the live-long day, Oh! let her tongue but move: The lark and linnets song; One purs, the other barks; Fie, fie, conceited sparks! But, can ye talk so well? Loud is your speech, as cataracts deep, Whilst lovely woman's accents glide Care flies at her mellifluous voice; If her sweet tongue lies still? To forests drear let them be sent, DEATHS, WITH BRIEF CHARACTERISTICKS. Drowned by shipwreck, off Memel, Colonel Pollen, only son of the Rev. George Pollen, of little Bookham, in Surrey. He was in the 33d year of his age, and, possessing a fine and vigorous understanding, highly improved by education, and by his extensive travels, there is no doubt, if he had returned to his native country (as he was attempting to do when this dreadful accident put a period to all his hopes) he would have proved a distinguished ornament to it. In 1796, on his coming of age, he opposed the interest of the Duke of Norfolk, for the representation of the populous borough of Leominster, which he carried by a majority of one. He afterwards raised a regiment of fencibles at his own expense, for the service of government, and attended with it on its being ordered to Halifax, in Nova Scotia; but for several years he has been constantly travelling on the continent. At St. Petersburgh, he married one of the daughters of Sir Charles Gascoigne (sister to the countess of Haddington, now married to VOL. I. Mr. Dalrymple) who was with him when the wreck took place, but who appears to be happily sa ed. At Elynhill, Staffordshire, in the 86th year of his age, John Brotherton, labourer, a native of the parish of Cullybackey, Ireland During eighteen years of his youth, he served his country in the grenadier company of the 37th regiment, and fought with that corps in the battle of Minden. Boldness and intrepidity strongly marked the countenance of Brotherton. There was something noble in his whole appearance. An anecdote illustrative of the care of Divine Providence, deserves to be recorded in this account. Immediately on his leaving his native cottage to enter the army, Brotherton took with him a small Bible, determined to make it the constant companion of his marches. Previous to an engagement, he put the book upon his breast, between his coat and waist-coat, a practice to which he once owed the preservation of his life. 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