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    Sunday . A Poeta : By the Author ot ' l"h * Mechanic ' s Saturday Night . * And by the author , also , of * Saitit Monday ; a fact of which Mr . Brown ' s title-page omits to remind hisreacterrf , bat ivhich weshaM not allow ours to forget . The three poems ought to go together ; nor shall we complain if the author versifies all the week For us , and ! shows us the working-days in their succession , as well as pay-day , rest-day , and

    holyday . We have already made . the auiffor known td our readers , and trust that no further introduction is needful , as we can only bestow a brief and passing notice on his present publication . It is a more finished composition than either of * the preceding ones . There is more method , and the versification is polished to a high degree of smoothness and sweetness . The first litte , which offends by its redundancy , is almost the only faulty line in the poeftt ; and the spirit fa as gentle and benignant as the versification is mellifluous . He differs from Ebenezer

    Elliot , the great poet of his class , in not being a denunciator ; but -writing of evil , bitter and grinding though it be , ' more in sorrow than in anger . This is as it should be . He follows the tendencies of his own nature . He rightly feels that he too is an Artisan Bard ; and that his claim is good without imitating evert one who has forced the whole critical world to recognise him in that character , the poem is divided into three cantos , corresponding with the progress of the day . We are thus invited to

    * Breakfast with Nature : flowing to the brim With the first purple day-draught is her cup * And from it . poor etna rich are welcome all to sttp . The mighty Sun has risen t in a glare Of light immortal onwards cornea fair Day . The heavenly sunbeams , darting through the air , O ' er fields , and fiowfcrs , and trees , and streamlets play

    Oh ! now step forth , ye wise ones , who ne ' cfr pay Glory to God on high for eight or noon . Summer or winter , or the vernal ray , The fruits of autumn , or the fl 6 # © rt etf June , The zephyr ' s balihy breath , or tight of stars and inoon * Come , wait abroad with ine , wllere berries red And woodland bioMoms their yoartg graoetf show ;

    Or where the clear brooks ; in their pebbled bed * Through fields of oowslrps and of daisies tftfw ; Or where the peerless b ^ atitooum roses grow , And gorgeous tfalito and fair lilies spring ; Whore summer froit * in ftdtui ? riarmews glow Upon their native branches , and where cling The fruitful vine *; ana their large lutthxu * tohitteir * swing . * —p . 5 , 6

    TWe is then an argumenton , 4 &eispJ . ; kh& iJUndry sketches , amongst which those ot a Bird-catcher and a St ^ e ^ ma ^ r are conspicuous . Tha latter is a puftjri& # *? eilently hit off ; a claaa portrait , we mean ; it may perhaps have had an individual original * ^ , c . Vj v- ,. w m . ^^ 4 *>

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1835, page 623, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2649/page/59/