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    Come I lope , and take sweet Comfort in thy hand , Thy lovely sister , of Religron born ; In every breast thy cheering power

    expand , And bid each soul prepare to hail the glorious morn , Cranbrook . S . D .

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    LINES—By Mrs . Opie . On the Opening ot a Spring Campaign . Spring thy impatient bloom restrain ! Nor wake so soon thy genial power ; For deeds of death must hail thy reign , And clouds of fate around thee lower .

    In vain thy balmy breath to me Scents with its sweets the evening gale ; Ip vain the violet's charms 1 see , Or fondly mark thy primrose pale . To me thy softest zephyr * breathe Of sorrow , soul disparting tone ; To me thy most attractive wreath Seems tinged with human blood alone .

    Arrest thy steps , thou source of love , Thou genial friend of joy and life ! Let not thy smile propitious prove To works of carnage , scenes of strife . Bid winter all his frowns recal , And back his icy footsteps trace ; Again the soil in frost enthral ; Awd check the * v ar-fiend * s murderous cha ^« .

    Fond fruitless prayer i Thy hand divine The smiling season on must lead ; And still at War ' s ensanguin'd shrine Must bid unnumber ed victims bleed .

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    Character of De Foe . —By Mr . C . Lamb . [ The following lines -were written , as © ur readers may remember , for a Pro * logue to Mr . Godwin ' s tragedy of Faulkener , which not pleasing the public taste , was no sooner brought forward than withdrawn . The

    character ok De Foe is so well described in Mr . Lamb ' s poetry , that we deem it worthy of preservation in our Repository . —Ed . J * An author who has giv ' n you all delight , 1 urnith' 4 the tale our Stage presents toni ght ;

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    Some of our earliest tears he taught to steal Down our young cheek ? , and forced us first t o fecL To solitary shores whole years confin'd Who has not read how pensive Crusoe pin'd ? Who ,-now grown old , that did not once admire

    His goat , his parrot , his uncouth attire ; The stick , due notch'd , that told each tedious day , That in the lonely island ^ wore away ? ' Who has not shudder'd , where aghast he stands

    At sight of human foot-steps in the sands ? Or joy'd not , when his trembling hands unbind Thee , Friday , gentlest of the savage kind ? *

    The Genius who conceiv'd that magic tale , Was skill'd by native pathos to prevail . His stories , though rpugh-drawn and fram'd in haste , Have that which chasms a manly English taste .

    What , though in some capricious sportive mood . He term'd cur countrymen a mongrel hroo : !; The spleen-born satire from our minds we cha < e : The men he libellM are a gen ' rous race , Can take ( though injured ) their tradu »

    cer s part , And own he had a true-born English heart ! His was a various pen , that freely rov'd Into all subjects—was in most approv'd . Whate v er the theme , his ready Muae

    obey'dLove , Courtship , Politics , Religion , Trade ; ; Gifted alike to shine in evVy sphere , Nov'list , Historian , Poet , Pamphleteer In some blest interval of party strife , He drew a striking sketch from private lue :

    Whose well-wrought scenes of intricate . distress We try , to-night , in a dramatic dress . JK real story of domestic woe , - \ Which ask » . no aid from music , verse , / or shew ; v But trusts to Truth , td Nature , and i JDe Foe .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1809, page 345, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1737/page/43/