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      Telling tb £ while of hopes , and joys , and fears , Of pleasure ' s rosy smiles and sorrow ' s tears— . And I will listen to their voice , ai * d meet - With humble heart the tale of other days , Mingling a prayer of penitence and praise , S-

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      Poetry . —Lines or * Gree £ e .-f-77 ie Falling Leaf . 705

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      ^^^^^^¦^^^^^^^ . i ¦ , . . . - THE FAL 1 I 4 &G LEAF . By Mr . Montgomery . ( From the London Magazine . ) Were I a trembling leaf On yonder stately tree , After a season gay aud brief ,

      Condemn'd to fade and flue ; I should be loth to fall Beside the common way , Weltering iu mire , and spurn'd by all ,

      Till trodden down to clay . I would not choose to die All on a bed of grass * Where thousands of my kindred lie , And idly rot in mass .

      Nor would I like to spread My thin and wither'd face , In hortus siccus , pale and dead , A mummy of my race . No , —on the wings of air -Might LheLleft 4 » fly , 1 know not , and I heed not where , A waif of eafrth and sky ! Or , cast upon the stream , Curl'd like a fairy-boat , , As through the changes of .-a . dream , To the world ' s end I'd float .

      Who tha ^ t hath ever been , Could bear to be no more ? Yet who would tread again the scene He trod through life before ? On , with intense desire , Man ' s spirit will move on ; It seems to die ; yet like heaven ' s fire It is not quench'd , but gone . ]

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      LINES ON GREECE . ( From the Edinburgh Magazine . ) There is a land , a lovely land , : Where everlasting Summer reigns ,

      Where all that ' s beautiful and grand Breathes from her mountains and her plains ; Where placid seas in brightness sleep , Around her gardens of the deep ;

      Her Eden Isles—for ever fair , As when th' Immortals linger e d there ; Where columns , lonely , dim and dread , Speak loucjly of the mighty dead , Whose fame , an everlasting gleam Sheds over mountain , gulf and stream .

      That land is Greece— - Of Sage and Hero but the grave , And "birth-place only to the Slave ; Upon her sons , degenerate g *» wn , The mighty mountains seem to frown ; Her waters , as they wander , For parted glory make their moan ; Each ruin ' s sombre stern remains , Mocks at the wretch v $ ho brooks his

      chains ; Seems to rebuke tl > e suffering slave . ;—Yet now , fair FafcfcDojH's flag once more Waves on her long-ters ^ kea fkhore ; The patriot flame fft last ha ^ burs t On Turkish Tyratu || accurst ;

      But not a helpingJii | nd is nigh , To strike for strfi ^ Rug liberty !—O England ! in tM catidjf Of Kings , Thy blood hath HowOT from countless springs ; > m And dost thou shun tojUKid the van , In cause of Freedom artft tlf ] V in ? And calmly see the M ^ ifein Horde Ooom babe and mothe ^ iS the sword ?

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      Oh ! wake—and bid thy thunders knell- — Their lightnings blast the Infidel : —• Swe ^ p bipa from Europe ' s fair domains—Sweep niin from Grecta ' s classic plains—From lands of fame aud hallowed climes , Too long polluted with his crimes .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1822, page 705, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2518/page/49/