Thou canst not now drink dew from flowers, And when my lamp's decaying beam, Then will I listen to thy sound, Recal the many-coloured dreams, I love the quiet midnight hour, I love the night; and sooth to say, But see! pale Autumn strews her leaves, Dark rushing from his icy cave ; And in his train the sleety showers, That beat upon the barren earth; Thou, cricket, through these weary hours GENTLEMEN, For the Monthly Anthology. Several susceptible youths of your city having been lately employed in making woeful ballads to their mistress' eye-brow, it entered my noddle to at tempt something after their manner upon the interesting object of my tenderest attachments,.... Dolly. EPISTLE TO DOLLY. FROM the dark gulf of comfortless despair Like some twin cherry, by sweet zephyr mov'd, Lately discovered. Those gooseberry eyes with emerald lightnings big, Have burnt thy Neddy's heart just like, forsooth, Oh, oh those pouting cherry lips of thine, Dance sportive to thy throat's wild melody: There thinking on thy angel mien I toss in pain, How pleasant sitting at my cottage door SELECTIONS. [We anticipate the smiles and the thanks of our readers for the extracts, which follow from Montgomery's poems. Had it been in our power, the present bouquet should have been enlarged; but we love to be sparing of fragrance and flowers, and, surely, a daisy and snow-drop will suffice for October. There is a harmony in some of his lines, which is exquisite to a musical ear; and his figures and combinations indicate, that he is no copyist. His future productions will entitle him to an honourable rank. He has already written poems, which are consecrated to durable preservation in the brilliant and mighty mass of English poetry. But probably his prophecy is superiour to his fulfilment, and we are willing to believe, that his future greatness will advance beyond the just exactness of present anticipation. He is now a little Iulus; by and by he will reign on the throne of his forefathers. His general merit will be acknowledged by all; but difference of opinion begins with comparison. We do not pretend to decide his relative excellence, or the school, to which he belongs. We love to dwell on the purity of the snow-drop,' which is better than oxslips and wild thyme; and the field flower,' too, has perfume and tints, which are superiour to aromats and dyes from Ethiopia.] On thy state Whirlwinds wait; And blood-shot meteors lend thee light; Hence to dreary arctick regions; From halcyon seas Breath of heaven! benignly blow, Breath of heaven! unchain the floods, And make the mountains flow. Auspicious to the Muse's prayer, Embalms the vale, When the heart bounds with bliss, And joy that cannot speak! -When I meet thee by the way, Like a pretty, sportive child, On the winter-wasted wild, With thy darling breeze at play, Opening to the radiant sky All the sweetness of thine eye; Or bright with sunbeams, fresh with O thou Fairy-Queen of flowers! On the bosom of the year; All that wreathe the locks of Spring, Summer's ardent breath perfume, And breathes enchantment thro' the Or on the lap of Autumn bloom, air: On its wing Floats the Spring, With glowing eye, and golden hair : Dark before her Angel-form She drives the Demon of the storm, Like Gladness chasing Care. Winter's gloomy night withdrawn, And shine in FLORA's desart bowers, O welcome to our Isle, A precious dew-drop on thine head, -All to thee their tribute bring, Exhale their incense at thy shrine, -Their hues, their odours all are thine! For while thy humble form I view, The Muse's keen prophetick sight Brings fair Futurity to light, And Fancy's magick makes the vision true. -There is a Winter in my soul, O when shall Spring its rage control? When shall the SNOW-DROP blossom there? Cold gleams of comfort sometimes dart A dawn of glory on my heart, But quickly pass away: Thus Northern-lights the gloom adorn, -But hark! methinks I hear "A fiery Legion, at thy birth, "Of chastening Woes were given, "To pluck thy flowers of Hope from earth, "And plant them high "O'er yonder sky, "Transform'd to stars,-and fix'd in heaven." Vol. III. No. 10. 3U 538 THE BOSTON REVIEW. OCTOBER, 1806. Librum tuum legi & quam diligentissime potui annotavi, quæ commutanda, que eximenda, arbitrarer. Nam ego dicere vero assuevi. Neque ulli patientius reprehenduntur, quam qui maxime laudari merentur.-PLINY. ARTICLE 54. The Journal of Andrew Ellicott, late commissioner on behalf of the United States, during part of the year 1796, the years 1797, 1798, 1799, and part of the year 1800, for determining the boundary between the United States and the possessions of his catholick majesty in America, containing occasional remarks on the situation, soil, rivers, natural productions, and diseases of the different countries on the Ohio, Mississippi, and gulf of Mexico; with six maps, compre hending the Ohio, the Mississippi from the mouth of the Ohio to the gulf of Mexico, the whole of W. Florida, and part of E. Florida. To which is added an appendix, containing all the astronomical observations made use of for determining the boundary, with many others made in different parts of the country for settling the geographical positions of some important points, with maps of the boundary on a large scale ; likewise, a great number of thermo metrical observations made at different times and places. 1 vol. 4to. Philadelphia, Budd & Bar tram. 1803. GEOGRAPHY has been so assiduously cultivated of late years, that every work tending to its improvement has been received with more, than common interest. In the pursuit of this science, individuals have been tempted to brave the rigours of every clime, and their exertions have been protected by hostile governments. If then curiosity could be excited with regard to distant rivers, tracing their courses through savage deserts, with how much interest would they look forward to the attain ment of an accurate knowledge of the Ohio and Mississippi, rivers extensive in themselves, and the only avenues to the ocean of a ferformer river, and of almost boundtile and flourishing country on the less and unknown regions on the latter? At the moment of publied an additional claim to the concation, the Mississippi had acquirsideration of the American pub lick, by the recent cession of Louisiana. Mr. Ellicott, clothed in an official character, possessed during a period of nearly four years the tion, as would fully have gratified of obtaining such informathe publick expectation. To show how far these advantages have been means improved will be the object of the following review. A journal soon becomes dull, where we are neither instructed by important facts, nor amused with interesting anecdotes or observations. The reader is soon fatigued with passing over bad roads and down shoal rivers, where he has nothing but these necessary concomitants, teazing accidents, or the state of the weather, to amuse |