I said (while

The moon's smile

Play'd o'er a stream, in dimpling bliss),

"The moon looks

"On many brooks,

"The brook can see no moon but this;*

And thus, I thought, our fortunes run,
For many a lover looks to thee,
While oh! I feel there is but one,
One Mary in the world for me.

ILL OMENS.

AIR.-Kitty of Coleraine; or, Paddy's Resource.

I.

WHEN daylight was yet sleeping under the billow, And stars in the heavens still lingering shone, Young KITTY, all blushing, rose up from her pillow, The last time she e'er was to press it alone.

* This image was suggested by the following thought, which occurs somewhere in Sir William Jones's works: "The moon looks upon many night-flowers, the night-flower sees but one moon."

For the youth, whom she treasured her heart and her

soul in,

Had promised to link the last tie before noon;

And, when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen, The maiden herself will steal after it soon!

II.

As she look'd in the glass, which a woman neʼer misses,
Nor ever wants time for a sly glance or two,
A butterfly, fresh from the night-flower's kisses,
Flew over the mirror, and shaded her view.
Enraged with the insect for hiding her graces,

She brush'd him—he fell, alas! never to rise— "Ah! such," said the girl," is the pride of our faces, "For which the soul's innocence too often dies!"

III.

While she stole through the garden, where heart's-ease was growing,

She cull'd some, and kiss'd off its night-fallen dew; And a rose, further on, look'd so tempting and glowing, That, spite of her haste, she must gather it too; But, while o'er the roses too carelessly leaning,

Her zone flew in two, and the heart's-ease was lost

"Ah! this means," said the girl (and she sigh'd at

its meaning),

"That love is scarce worth the repose it will cost!

BEFORE THE BATTLE.

AIR.-The Fairy Queen.

I.

By the hope, within us springing,
Herald of to-morrow's strife;

By that sun, whose light is bringing
Chains or freedom, death or life-
Oh! remember, life can be

No charm for him, who lives not free!
Like the day-star in the wave,

Sinks a hero to his grave,

'Midst the dew-fall of a nation's tears! Happy is he, o'er whose decline

The smiles of home may soothing shine, And light him down the steep of years :But oh! how grand they sink to rest, Who close their eyes on Victory's breast!

II.

O'er his watch-fire's fading embers
Now the foeman's cheek turns white,
When his heart that field remembers,
Where we dimm'd his glory's light!
Never let him bind again

A chain, like that we broke from then.
Hark! the horn of combat calls-

Ere the golden evening falls,

May we pledge that horn in triumph round!*
Many a heart, that now beats high,
In slumber cold at night shall lie,

Nor waken even at victory's sound :

But oh! how bless'd that hero's sleep,

O'er whom a wondering world shall weep!

* "The Irish Corna was not entirely devoted to martial purposes. In the heroic ages our ancestors quaffed Meadh out of them, as the Danish hunters do their beverage at this day." WALKER.

AFTER THE BATTLE.

AIR. Thy Fair Bosom.

I.

NIGHT closed around the conqueror's way,
And lightnings show'd the distant hill,
Where those, who lost that dreadful day,
Stood few and faint, but fearless still!

The soldier's hope, the patriot's zeal,
For ever dimm'd, for ever cross'd-

Oh! who shall say what heroes feel,
When all but life and honour's lost!

II.

The last sad hour of freedom's dream,
And valour's task, moved slowly by,
While mute they watch'd, till morning's beam.
Should rise, and give them light to die!-
There is a world, where souls are free,
Where tyrants taint not nature's bliss;
If death that world's bright opening be,
Oh! who would live a slave in this?