Now, closed in sleep, no longer dart
The light of love to melt the heart,
Or flash with passion's bickering flame,
Or shine with memory's milder beam;
Yet o'er her bright expressive face,
Breathes a serene and heavenly grace,
That like a watchful spirit tells,
An angel in this temple dwells.
So when the Sun, Creation's eye,
In glory leaves our western sky,
A softened light new charms reveals,
And o'er the magic landscape steals.
Triumphant o'er the Paphian boy,
Cause of the fall of heaven-built Troy,
The God of sleep now silent reigns,
And binds with flowers his golden chains;
For still he gives each blissful dream,
That lovers view by haunted stream,
And still in swift succession, roll
Visions of rapture o'er her soul.

Now on the beach Leander stands,
And lifts to heaven his suppliant hands:
"For thee the stormy deep I brave,
Waft me, O love! across the wave."
Instant he cuts the surging tide,
The billows flash on either side,
Swift through the foam he oars his way,
And casts behind the sparkling spray.
Now o'er the deep, and round the sky,
Night hangs her ebon tapestry-
No lingering flush of western light
Skirts the darkening robe of night;
No dewy star of eve appears,

Like Beauty's eye through Pity's tears ;
No moon lights up the blacken'd ocean,
Heaving with the wild wind's motion;
No watch fire gleams, a guiding star,
From vessel or from tower afar;
Nor "half uncurtain'd window's light"
Streams cheerful through the gloom of night
Love hears his dauntless vot'ry's prayer;

Love sees the sleep-entranced fair;
Instant, on lightning wings, he flies,
Like flashing meteor, down the skies;

A moment wafts him to that isle
Where Love and Beauty ever smile ;
There in the Paphian porch was plac'd,
With radiant gems and sculpture grac❜d,
A golden lamp, whose rosy flame
Glow'd like the burning blush of shame :
Eternal lives the sacred light,

In storms, in calm, by day, by night;
Graceful in vernal breezes waving,
And winter's howling tempest braving.
This prize he bears with rapid flight,
Till high Abydos meets his sight,
Where ever restless billows roar,
And dash and foam on either shore.
Swift by the slumbering maid he stood,
An angel form presaging good;
And mid her faithless dreams of joy,
Burst on her sight the monarch boy.
One hand his mantle round him folds,
A golden lamp the other holds ;
Its weight three polish'd chains suspend,
And in a ring of silver end.

Graceful wave his golden curls,
His azure scarf the breeze unfurls
From limbs as morning blushes bright;
Around him streams a rosy light,
And tints his wings of snowy hue,
And mantle of meridian blue.
A rose bud glows on either cheek,
His eyes the God of Love bespeak,
Piercing as the lightning's gleam,
Yet pure as Vesper's lucid beam.
66 Arise, devoted maid," he cries,
"A moment-and Leander dies;
But trust my counsel, and he lives,
"Tis love that calls, 'tis Cupid gives ;
Asunder burst the bands of sleep-
Fly, fly, to yonder towering steep,
This friendly beacon there display,
And light Leander's gloomy way."

She heard-she snatch'd the proffer'd gift➡
Instant she mounts the watch-tower clift,
Naught can she see but drifting clouds,
Like routed hosts, or flying crowds;

Naught hears she but the awful dirge
Of wailing winds and groaning surge.
Leander sees, with wild delight,
This love-created star of night;
Hope lights anew his fading fires,
And every limb with life inspires.
White streaks divide the ocean's gloom,
Like snow upon the raven's plume;
The billows swell and rage in vain,
Cleft by a Lover's arm in twain-
A moment-and he treads the sands;
Another-on the steep he stands:
And then what countless moments see
The lovers clasped in extacy!

Charleston, S. C. 1815.

ZERBINO.

A neatly-printed volume of Poetical and Moral Pieces, by Lydia Huntley, a young lady of Connecticut, has just made its appearance from the press of Sheldon and Goodwin, Hartford.

These little productions, though perhaps not calculated to attract great attention, are nevertheless very pretty specimens of the good sense, ingenuity, and taste of the author, and are capable of imparting both entertainment and instruction; especially to youth. The pieces in verse are, in general, smooth and melodious; and the style of the prose is distinguished for its peculiar neatness, not to say, elegant simplicity. "The destruction of the Inquisition at Goa," " Malta," and "The giving the Bible to the Esquimaux," contain many lines of very good poetry, and some that are entitled to still higher praise.

The prose compositions, consisting chiefly of addresses to youth on education and morals, and of meditations on worldly vanity, do great credit, not only to the pen, but to the heart and understanding of the author. The meditation on the 119th Psalm, "the end of all perfection," ought particularly to be mentioned as possessing great beauty and simplicity, both of thought and language. With a heart full of tenderness, benevolence, and friendship, and a mind purified and warmed by religion, her effusions all appear to be tinctured with these virtues; and though not perhaps aspiring to gain a wreathe of lasting renown, yet we think she has succeeded in weaving for herself "A garland of domestic flowers,"

that will win affection, though it may not command applause.

The Digest of the Law of Maritime Captures and Prizes, by Henry Wheaton, Esq. announced for publication in our December number, will be immediately put to press by Messrs. M'Dermut & Arden, of New-York. The publication has been delayed in order to embrace all the decisions which have taken place during the war just terminated, upon questions of prizes in the courts of the United States. It is conceived that this will enhance the value of the work, whilst the intervention of peace will not materially diminish its utility, since the principles of public law which are developed in it are of permanent importance, and will serve to illustrate various questions of municipal law, in which the merchant, as well as lawyer, is deeply interested; and, at the same time, to fix with accuracy the relative rights of war and of neutrality-a difficult and doubtful subject, on which the talents of statesmen have been long exercised.

Lately published in Boston, "A Concise View of the principal Point of Difference between the Baptists and Pedobaptists," by the late Rev. Caleb Blood, of Portland, to which is prefixed a memoir of his life.

Horatio G. Spafford, of Albany, has lately published a pamphlet entitled," Cursory Observations on the Construction of Wheel Car

ridges, with an Attempt to point out their Defects, and to show how they may be Improved." This little tract is designed to suggest a mode of combining the acknowledged advantages of high carriage wheels with the security of those commonly used, and at the same time to obviate the inconveniences arising from too high a line of draught. This Mr. S. proposes to do by using high wheels (seven feet) with a crooked or cranked axle, on which the load may rest, below the direct line of the axes of the wheel.

Miss Thompson, of Albany, has translated "The History of Tekeli," from the French of Le Brun. It will shortly be published in one vol. 12mo. of about 200 pages.

In the press," A Cursory View of the Peace lately concluded between Great Britain and the United States," by a citizen of Philadelphia, in which will be examined the manner this event will operate on the commerce of America; in what manner it is likely to produce benefits or evils to merchants, manufacturers, agriculturalists, and distillers; how it will affect the tonnage interest, embracing generally the various influence it may have on the destinies of the United States in their future connexions, political and commercial, with the rest of the civilized world.

The Rev. Dr. Romeyn, of New-York, is preparing for the press two volumes of Sermons.

The Rev. Thomas Y. How, D. D. of New-York, has ready for publication" A Vindication of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in reply to some late writings of the Rev. Dr. S. Miller." It will be published in one royal 12mo. vol. of about 400 pages.

T. & J. Swords, of New-York, have in the press, a volume of Sermons, on Regeneration and Renovation, in which the Doctrine of the Protestant Episcopal Church on these subjects is explained, vindicated, and enforced, by J. H. Hobart, D. D. Assistant Bishop of the Protesfant Episcopal Church, in the state of New-York.

FOREIGN LITERATURE AND SCIENCE.

A humorous work has been lately published in England, entitled The School for Good Living; or, A Literary and Historical Essay on the European Kitchen, beginning with Cadmus, the cook and king, and ending with the union of cookery and chemistry.

In August was published, Part I. of the Dictionary of the English Language; by Samuel Johnson, LL. D.; with numerous corrections, and with the addition of many thousand words, by the Rev. Henry J. Todd, M. A. F. S. A. Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty, and Keeper of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Records.