In Ethics-'tis you that can check, In a minute, their doubts and their quarrels ; Oh! show but that mole on your neck, And 'twill soon put an end to their morals. Your Arithmetic only can trip When to kiss and to count you endeavour; But Eloquence glows on your lip When you swear that you'll love me for ever. Thus you see what a brilliant alliance Of arts is assembled in you— A course of more exquisite science Man never need wish to go through ! And oh! if a fellow like me May confer a diploma of hearts, With my lip thus I seal your degree, My divine little Mistress of Arts! SONG. SWEETEST love! I'll not forget thee, Yet, oh! yet again we'll meet, love, Still I feel my heart is breaking, Calm to peace thy lover's bosom- Farewell, Bessy! DID NOT. 'Twas a new feeling-something more Which then we hid not; And wished, in every half-breathed sigh, She felt my lips' impassioned touch; But whispered o'er my burning brow, AT NIGHT.* AT night, when all is still around, That foot that comes so soft at night! And then, at night, how sweet to say Oh! happy, too, the silent press, The eloquence of mute caress, With those we love exchanged at night! DEAR FANNY. "SHE has beauty, but still you must keep your heart cool; Thus Reason advises, but Reason's a fool, Dear Fanny, 'Tis not the first time I have thought so. "She is lovely; then love her, nor let the bliss fly; Love reasons much better than Reason. HERE'S THE BOWER. HERE'S the bower she loved so much, Here's the harp she used to touch- *These lines allude to a curious lamp, which has for its device a Cupid, with the words "At Night" written over him. Roses now unheeded sigh; Where's the hand to wreathe them? Songs around neglected lie; Where's the lip to breathe them? Spring may bloom, but she we loved Years were days when here she strayed, Here's the bower, &c. I SAW THE MOON RISE CLEAR. A FINLAND LOVE SONG. I SAW the moon rise clear That path which leads to you. LOVE AND THE SUN-DIAL. YOUNG Love found a Dial once in a dark shade, Where man ne'er had wandered nor sun-beam played; "Why thus in darkness lie," whispered young Love; "Thou whose gay hours in sunshine should move?" "I ne'er," said the Dial, "have seen the warm sun; So noonday and midnight to me, Love, are one." Then Love took the Dial away from the shade, And placed her where heaven's beam warmly played. There she reclined, beneath Love's gazing eye, While, all marked with sunshine, her hours flew by. "Oh how," said the Dial, "can any fair maid, That's born to be shone upon, rest in the shade?" But night now comes on, and the sunbeam's o'er. LOVE AND TIME. "TIS said-but whether true or not But short the moments, short as bright, When one begins to limp again, Then is Love's hour to stray; But there's a nymph, whose chains I feel, Who knows, the dear one, how to deal That Love with her ne'er thinks of wings This is Time's holiday; LOVE'S LIGHT SUMMER-CLOUD. Each hour I number o'er- Worthy of thee, If ever yet my bosom found Its thoughts one moment turned om thee, 'Twas when the combat raged around, And brave men looked to me. But though 'mid battle's wild alarm And then, when victory's calm came o’er LOVE THEE. OH, yes!-so well, so tenderly Were worthless without thee. Though brimmed with blessings pure and rare Life's cup before me lay, Unless thy love were mingled there I'd spurn the draught away. Love thee?-so well, so tenderly. Thou'rt loved, adored by me, Fame, fortune, wealth, and liberty, Are worthless without thee. Without thy smile, how joylessly 'Those worlds for which the conqueror sighs For me have now no charms; My only world those radiant eyes-- ONE DEAR SMILE. COULDST thou look as dear as when |