O DE ON THE DEATH of Mr. THOMSON. By Mr. COLLINS. [The scene of the following stanzas is supposed to lie on the Thames near Richmond.] I N yonder grave a Druid lies, Where slowly winds the stealing wave! The year's best sweets shall duteous rise To deck its Poet's sylvan grave! In yon deep bed of whispering reeds His airy harp * shall now be laid, That he, whose heart in sorrow bleeds, May love thro’ life the foothing shade. * The harp of Æolus, of which fee a description in the CASTLE OF INDOLENCE. Then maids and youths shall linger here, And while its founds at distance swell, Shall fadly seem in Pity's ear, To hear the Woodland Pilgrim's knell. Remembrance oft shall haunt the shore When Thames in summer wreaths is drest, And oft suspend the dashing oar To bid his gentle spirit rest ! And oft as Ease and Health retire To breezy lawn, or forest deep, And 'mid the varied landscape weep. But Thou, who own'st that earthy bed, Ah! what will every dirge avail ? Or tears, which Love and Pity shed, That mourn beneath the gliding fail ! Yet lives there one, whose heedless eye Shall scorn thy pale shrine glimm’ring near ? With him, sweet bard, may Fancy die, And Joy desert the blooming year. * RICHMOND Church. But thou, lorn stream, whose sullen tide No sedge-crown's Sisters now attend, Now waft me from the green hill's fide Whose cold turf hides the buried friend ! And see the fairy valleys fade, Dun Night has veil'd the solemn view! Yet once again, dear parted shade, Meek Nature's Child, again adieu ! The genial meads aflign'd to bless Thy life, shall mourn thy early doom, Their hinds and shepherd-girls shall dress, With simple hands, thy rural tomb. Long, long, thy stone, and pointed clay, Shall melt the mufing Briton's eyes; O! vales, and wild woods, shall he say, In yonder grave Your Druid lies! AN ON THE miration, but such a mature enquiry into the principles far it deserves to be received as a model for future atproportion to the degree of skill and judgment with E S S A Y a work of art to masterly execution adds novelty of defign, it demands not only a cursory adupon which it has been formed, as may determine how tempts in the same walk. Originals are always rare productions. The performances of artists in general, even of those who stand high in their respective classes, are only imitations ; which have inore or less merit, in OF WHEN |