But which (by absence taught) he now doth idolize. While the strain'd canvas courts the breeze, Who, to salute her lover, flies; Or rushes through the green-wood shade, Their long-lost sire they see. Orb of glory, to the west weep, Thou spread.st fast thy stately form, Th' imperious night-winds rouse the slumbering storm: Yet, as the clouds erect their throne Sun-beams still delight to play; In silent grandeur sends its lustre wide. Here behold, mid floods of light, Thou watry world, tho' grateful to our eyes Whilst the rich clouds of eve illume thy breast, Say, art thou not a monster in disguise That know'st no mercy, and that feel'st no rest? Do not the smiles upon thy brow presiding, Th'illusive prelude to some fiercer storm? In plaintive sounds, which lion hearts might feel. Abhorrent fiend, to thee are dear When didst thou stay thy foaming wave, Who, pendent from some jutting crag, espied When didst thou listen to the cry That, stemming thy relentless tide, Sought the near shore where safety beckoning stood? Ah, what a change is here! Fill'd with terror and amaze, The scene grows darker as I gaze, The hath left the western sky; The vent'rous sea-birds hurrying home. ward fly. The waves, that late in frolic play'd, Are now with tenfold wrath array'd, Darting quick flashes from their thousand eyes! With anger heighten'd by the wind, That fain their giant limbs would bind, When to fierce strife the heavens and ocean rise. Lo! sounding their defiance far, The ancient rivals rush to war: No common vengeance round is hurl'd; Sphere with sphere, and world with world, Dreadful in unavailing ire, Th' indignant winds awhile retire; Whilst the proud victor gazes round For some new foe, on whom to pour his rage. That other foe he now hath found : See, the combatants engage! Ocean, collecting all his might, With earth proclaims a baneful fight, And with inebriate reel assaults the shore; Earth, that many a shock hath stood From wrathful sky, and stormy flood, Smiles in her craggy strength, and braves his deaf'ning roar. No friendly moon, no stars appear: From dreams of death, roused by the stormy tide, The demons of the tempest ride Triumphant through the dark and troubled air; Or, hand in hand, A ghastly band, Whilst the sinking wretch they spy, Pace the ocean-beaten strand. main. Again! again! And what a sound Burst in lengthen'd peals around! Tho' fears, that spring from nature, move my soul, Terrific pleasures on that voice await. Allied to neither earth nor time, Which raise within me, as through heaven they roll, The thought in shadows dress'd, unutter ably great. When the elements conspire Hast thou left this stormy scene, For rivers smooth, and meadows green, Where Peace delights to rear her halcyon throne? Hither haste, thou being dear; A sight, a moving sight is here: The bark that long hath borne the beating wave, And now beholds her haven near, The warning gun, that doleful sound, Of heaven's fierce radiance, I behold The mariner, once brave and bold, Chain'd steadfast to the deck, in strange affright. Through distraction's starting tear, They view their wives and children dear, Whom they had fondly hoped ere long to greet With all a husband's, all a father's joy; And taste domestic comforts sweet, That end of all their toil, without alloy. But now, (whilst those they love, rejoice In the bless'd interview at hand, And every heart, and every voice, Already hails them to their native land,) They mark th' unruly sails disdain The weak controul of mortal rein, Dissever'd, on the blast they see them ride, Then sink in the conflicting tide. Whilst languid hope points to one glimm'ring beam, Forebodings stern disclose their wretched state; They view the sails plunged in the raging stream, And read their own inevitable fate. The lightnings, as they flash, display The fatal shore to which they onward drive; In vain with destiny they onward strive, Whilst Ocean fierce invokes his coming prey. Now swifter borne before the hurrying blast, (Their last brave anchor vainly cast) They view, dismay'd, the white waves glare at hand, Roaring o'er the rocky strand. To the near cliffs their course they urge,. Rend earth and sky,) Each palpitating heart must rest. Still nearer now the vessel draws; Fear suspends their labouring breath: A horrid pause! One moment more, The strife is o'er. Heard you that shriek? It was the shriek of death. LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS IN MARCH. 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WILLIAM MULLER, Lieutenant Dof the Royal German Engineers, and late First Public Teacher of the Military Sciences at the University of Gottingen, and author of several works on Military and Mathematical Sciences, published in Germany and France, has in the press a work entitled, the Elements of the Art of War; containing the established and approved modern principles of the theory and practice of the military sciences, relating to the ar rangement, organization, maintenance, and expences of an army; theoretical and practical field, and permanent fortifications, and theoretical and practical tactics; together with logistics and castrametation, the strategie, or the dialectics of war, and the conduct and management of armies, and military politics: illustrated by notices of the most famous battles, the most remarkable sieges, and other celebrated and memorable operations; and about One Hundred Maps and Plans. In three volumes. Dedicated by special permission to his Majesty. This work will be particularly distinguished, by being a complete Cyclopedia of the Art of War, and all sciences relating to it; as well as by numerous abstracts from foreign and English works on these sciences, by the Plans of about Seventy of the most famous Battles fought since the year 1672, and by short but correct notices and criticisms on those battles, and all other celebrated operations since that year. Previous to the appearance of this large work, there will be published a Grammar of the Art of War, on the same plan as the Grammars of Geography, Commerce, History, Law, Geometry, and Philosophy, which have already met with so favourable a reception. On the 24th of February, at an auction in the capital, there was sold a Greek manuscript, collected by one of his majesty's foreign ministers, at the island of Patmos, in the Archipelago. It is a folio volume, in appropriate classical binding, vellum, with rich gold Ionic border, and gilt edges, and contains upwards of seven hundred and eighty pages, on cotton paper; with, generally, twenty-nine lines of text, in a two-inch margin on cach page; illustrated by about sixty illuminated figures. The principal title is, ACHNAIOY DEPI MHXANHMATON, which is followed by several treatises on similar subjects, by other writers. Concerning the first author, Lempriere, in his Classical Dictionary says, "Athenæus was a Roman general, in the age of Gallienus, who is supposed to have written a book on military engines.” In Fabricii Bibliotheca Graca, vol. v. the title of this book stands No. 143 in the catalogue of Greek manuscripts belonging to the royal Neapolitan library. This manuscript is written in three different hands, but all fair, and thus dated at the end: "Finished on 7 May, 1545." But the characters at the beginning evidently denote an antiquity of at least a century anterior to that date; and it will doubtless occur to the recollection of the learned, that the late Porson pronounced Greek manuscripts of that age to be equal to Latin works of the ninth century. On the first page is written, in more modern Greek, "This present book belongs to the God-trodden mountain Sinai." The sum for which it was sold was sixty-one guineas. The Rev. WILLIAM BOWDWEN proposes publishing by subscription, in ten volumes quarto, a literal translation of the whole of Domesday Book, with the modern names of places adapted as far as possible to those in the record. An index will be given to each county, and a glossary with the last volume. Any one volume may be subscribed for separately. Mr. JESSE FOOT is preparing for publication, the Lives of the late ANDREW ROBINSON Bowrs, esq. and his wife the countess of STRATHMORE. A new edition of Dr. RUSSELL'S History of Modern Europe, continued to the Treaty of Amiens, by Dr. CooTE, will be published in a few days. Mr. B. STOCKER, apothecary to Guy's Hospital, has in the press, the New London Pharmacopoeia, enlarged from the last Edinburgh and Dublin Pharmacopoeia, and reduced to one common nomenclature, with an appendix of the genera and species of the different articles of their materia medica. Dr. MACLEAN will shortly publish an |