None but the arm of Might divine Son of the Morning: where art thou; Redeeming love is not for thee: All mortal joy and wo will cease; WILLIAM H. BRADLEY Was born we believe in Providence, Rhode Island, where he was educated as a physician. He died in the island of Cuba in 1825. He wrote Giuseppino, an Occidental Story, published in 1822, besides many fugitive pieces. GIUSEPPINO. To tell good stories is extremely pleasant; If Dan Apollo will but render me able, Authorship now is an improving business; If one can strike out matters that are novel. To knock out rhyme or prose, whether a hovel Yet wonderful it is, I sing and say, Most marvellous, what ever-varied changes As fancy, in her drunken frolics, ranges I sate me down, good folk, to tell a story, Of which, I own, the truth might be suspected, Even by credulous people; and, what's more, I Freely confess, I cannot recollect it: But yet it was a vision of such glory I scarcely can suppose ye would reject it. 'Twas all about a lady and a knight, Who said and did what I've forgotten quite In search of scenes and incidents I read Near half the old romances, through and through, Which Southey has brought forward from the dead, With most Galvanic labor, and anew, With steel clad wights, in peril was I led, Till weary of their toils and mine I grew: I found that many a literary chieftain, Had cull'd the gems from out this antique treasure; That what they left was by each humbler thief ta'en, To put in some new fiction at his leisure; I found-but guess!-no, you can't guess my grief ta'en, Had actually collar'd poor king Arthur. I next discover'd, that the folk of quality Had not, of yore, such numerous expedients To kill time and themselves, as the plurality Of modern genteel people. The ingredients With which they sweeten'd up the cold reality Were tourneys and such savage kind of pageants, Wherein legs, arms, and necks oft got a fracture, Although of the most giant manufacture. Sad was the situation of the fair, Long, while a Bolingbroke, or a Plantagenet Then was the ton, indeed a weighty matter, First coming out, wore the same woman's gears Which she wore on, (unless she grew much fatter) Till she was going out; when lo, appears Her daughter, deck'd in the same antique millinery, With much manslaughter and intent to kill in her eye. 'Twas better with them, as historians tell us, In bluff King Hal's reign, and some time before him, Though wives dared seldom flirt with civil fellows, In presence of their husbands, just to bore 'em. They fear'd to make the horrid creatures jealous, And females were taught notions of decorum, Stiff as their stomacher's tight elongation, Or neck cloths of this stiff-neck'd generation. -n, Oh, could they have made books like lady M- Had left us hard examples of their drollery, I bit my nails and pens, and then besprent all Tale, and set out in Travels to the East,' I form'd a plot, and laid the scene, at last, Somewhere between Calcutta and Aleppo, When I bethought me of my old friend Beppo. Then, as I opened wide the window-shutter,- (They had been once a goose's,) so, by Woden, I sate down, to soar far from dust or gutter, While my good Genius said: "Pray where's the good in Your knack at rhyming, if its versatility Can't afford matter for our risibility? The Beppo has outdone the Epic style.- And start before them, till you have your book in But how to make a story?-There's the puzzle! In fiction's storehouse:-Fate will yet compel us Your wings shall cease to soar where Fancy wanders. And here I humbly hint to Dr Brewster, To strike new subjects out, at every new stir, I'll try to coax one of them now a little For something queer, good people to revive you. Some tale of luckless love will not befit ill Your present taste, and this which now I give you If ye are young men and intend to wive you. This is the love which first inflames the bosom, But hold:-I feel myself too serious now, In brisk ottava rima, freely sauntering SAMUEL DEANE. THE Rev. Samuel Deane of Scituate, Massachusetts, graduated at Brown University. His poem of the Populous Vilage was published in 1826. THE POPULOUS VILLAGE. THERE was a time, and that within the span |