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    As on the driving cloud the shiny bow , That gracious thing made up of tears and light , 'Mid the wild rack , and rain that slants below , Stands smiling forth unmov'd , and freshly bright : As though the spirits of all lovely flowers , In weaving each its wreath and dewy crown , Or ere they sank to earth in vernal showers , Had built a bridge to tempt the angels down . E ' en so , Eliza ! on that face of thine , On that benignant face , whose look alone ( The soul ' s Jranslucence through her crystal shrine ) Has power to soothe all anguish but thine own .

    A beauty hovers still aud ne ' er takes wing But with a silent charm compels the stern And fost ' riug genius of the Bitter Spring , To shrink aback and cower upon his urn . Who then needs wonder , if ( no outlet found In passion , spleen , or strife , ) the Fount of Pain , O ' erilowing beats against its lovely mound , And in wild flashes shoots from heart to brain ?

    Sleep , and the Dwarf with that unsteady gleam , On his rais'd lip , that aped a critic smile , Had pass'd : yet I my sad thoughts to beguile j Lay weaving on the tissue of my / dream : Till audibly at length I cried as though Thou hadst indeed been present to my

    eyes , 0 sweet , sweet sufferer \ if the case be so , 1 pray thee be less good , less sweet , less wise ! In every look a barbed arrow send , On those soft lips let scorn and anger live , Do any thing rather than thus , sweet friend ! Hoard for thyself the pain thou wilt not give !"

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    The Bijou gives a ttuly delightful letter of Sir W . Scott ' s , explaining his family picture , of which there is an engraving . His Majesty and the late Duke of York are in Mr . Pickering ' s list of contributors ! that is , he has picked up two

    translations of theirs from the Latin , as exercises for their tutors' eyes , which ought never to have been submitted to any others . We shall conclude our notice of the literary part of this work with some verses by the Ettrick Shepherd , beautiful from their simplicity .

    " An Aged Widow s own Words . Versified by James Hogg , the Ettrick Shepherd . Oh is he gane , my good auid man ? And am I left forlorn ? And is that manly heart at rest , The kindest e ' er was born ? We ' ve sojourned here through hope and fear

    For fifty years and three , And ne ' er in all that happy time , Said he harsh word to me . And many a braw and boardly son And daughters in their prime , His trembliug hand laid in the grave Lang , lang afore the time . I diuna greet the day to see

    That he to them has gane , But O ' tis fearfu' thus to be Left in a world alane . Wi' a poor worn and broken heart , Whose race of joy is run , And scarce has little opening left , For aught aneath the sun . My life nor death I winna crave , Nor fret nor yet despond , But a' my hope is in the grave , And the dear hame beyond .

    There are 15 Embellishments of the Bijou . The Frontispiece is " The Child aud Flowers , " from Sir Thos . Lawrence , by Humphreys ; a very pleasing engraving : this young artist promises well . The next plate is that referred to , •* Sir W . Scott and Family , " by Worthington , from Wilkie . This is altogether Interesting : the faces and the expression are

    satisfactory ; but there is a meagreness in the back-ground . The finest plate iu the volume is " Sans Souci , " by Braudard , a very young man , after a picture by Stothard , the most elegant and poetical painter of the English school . If Mr . Brandard go on , as he has begun , he will be one of our first engravers . In " The Suitors Rejected , " Is there not a transposition of the names of the painter and engraver ? We make this

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    Critical Notices . 923

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1827, page 923, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1803/page/67/