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ORIGINAL POETRY.

GLEN-HYVOCH.-A SCOTTISH LEGEND.

"WHY, shepherd, from the vale below,
Where Spring's unbounded beauties glow,
Withdraw your flocks at even?
See, for their thirst a streamlet flow,
Serene as air, and cool as snow,
And couches 'neath the blossom'd sloe,
Secure from all the blasts that blow

From every point of heaven :
And say-for I have smiled to see
The milk-maid, tripping merrily

Home with her brimming pail,
Suppress her rural roundelay,
And urge with hastened step her way,
Till safely through that vale;
Then lilting as before, proceed
With lightened heart across the mead :
And oft, as in a musing mood,
By yon low grassy mound I stood,
Where smiling to the starry skies
Within his mossy cradle lies

The infant spring, if chance conveyed
Some lated rustic down the glade,
Soon as I met his startled eye,
He turned and fled, I knew not why-
-Then say, good shepherd, why you shun
The loveliest vale beneath the sun ?"

His hand upon his brow he laid,
Then twitched his plaid, and thus he said-
"Not many years are flown
Since Helen was the fairest maid
The sun from east to west surveyed,
And gentlest too that ever made

A lover's heart her own:
'Twas said of gentle blood she came→
She bore her foster father's name,

No other sire she knew ;
And when old Owen's neck around
Her filial arms his darling wound,
She wept for gladness when she found
How near his heart she grew.

"He, too, a stranger 'mong us dwelt,
As one who had the rudeness felt
Of this distempered scene;
Retiring to our lonely glen,
Far from the rage of ruthless men,
'Mong whom his lot had been.

At first we deemed him stern and rude,
A hater of his kind,
Who in congenial solitude

Concealed a gloomy mind:

But he, perchance, had wounds of heart,
For which no balsam grows,
And bitter tears to shed apart

O'er consecrated woes :

For griefs there are which can to heaven
Alone in confidence be given,

And woes which must not be expressed,
Nor by a stranger's hand redressed.

"And yonder, where the murmuring brook, Receding, leaves a sheltered nook,

An humble cot he reared,
And drew a slender fence around,
To shield some roods of garden ground,
Where flowers, and plants, and herbs,
abound,

And trees, the choicest to be found,
In skilful ranks appeared.
This garden seemed his only care;
Till Helen rose, his heart to share ;
And, smiling in his sight,

Still as that blossom spread and bloomed,
His mind a milder mood assumed,
Like some dark mountain when illumed
By Cynthia's silver light.
No more upon the midnight hill

He wander'd sad, and lone;
Or mused beside the moonlight rill,

Like figure changed to stone;
Nor on the village evening walk
Disdained to join the rural talk,

All sterner thoughts resigned:
The storms that racked his bosom cease;
She was the olive branch of peace
Between him and mankind.

"And who, when smiling years had shed Matured enchantment on her head,

That maiden looked upon,
Could fail to bliss the very earth
That to such loveliness gave birth,

Had borne a heart of stone.
Her marble neck, and bosom fair,
Embraced by clouds of sunny hair,
Her shining brow, and graceful air,
Might be an angel's guise;
Meek and affectionate, her mind,
Of sweetest elements combined,
With all the love of womankind,
Illumed her melting eyes.

As clasp the woodbine's tendrils small
Some ancient temple's columned wall,
Till even the ruin smile;

So clung she to the reverend sire,
And kept his life's decaying fire
Alive a little while.

And many an ardent lover sighed
In vain, to win her from his side;
Averse, she every suit denied ;

Though Owen oft would say

And kissed his daughter's forehead mild-
O ere I leave my orphan child,
Through this dull world so dark and wild

Choose one to guide thy way.'

Then, blushing thro' her tears, she'd throw Around his neck her arms of snow"Where thy love planted me I'll grow,

Nor ever from this breast

Shall mortal hand thine orphan tear!
The stroke of death shall reach me there,
And lay us both to rest.'

"One autumn eve, while yet each height
Swam in a sea of purple light;
And not a breath the aspen shook,
Nor sound, save of the rushing brook,
Or blackbird's solitary song,

Was heard, the woods or hills among,-
As wont, before his cottage gate
The hopitable father sate,

And round his rustic chair
The patriarchs of the village met,
And on the grass in order set,
Partook his kindly fare:
When sudden by their side they spied
A weary horseman with his guide.
"The stranger had a haughty mien
And swarthy brow, as he had been
Beneath a burning sky:

Of bearing stately, cold, and stern,
He looked around, as if in scorn
Of all that met his eye.

Old Owen, starting from his seat,
Went forth to give him welcome meet,
And beg him to alight-

But gazed a space, then backward sprung
As if his foot an adder stung,

Or demon crossed his sight.
'Abhorred destroyer art thou there!
Avaunt, these aged eyeballs spare!'
No word the stranger spoke,
But from his eye a spark of ire,
That seemed his murky brow to fire,

In sullen silence broke!

He turned his steed, and from our sight
Vanished amid the shades of night.

"At midnight gusts of wind and rain Ravaged the woods, and drenched the plain,

And through the echoing heavens amain
The rapid thunder rode :

'Twas said that doleful shrieks were heard,
And in that glen dark forms appeared
To travellers late abroad.

At dawn old Owen's house was found
Defaced, and smoking on the ground;
And by yon little well,

His corse the affrighted shepherds spied,
Breathless, in blood his garments dyed-
A dagger wound was in his side,-
-By human hand he fell.

Of Helen not a trace was seen-
Some silken ringlets on the green

Might from her head be torn:
In vain we searched for many a day-
And what her fate was none may say,
Nor whither she was borne."
Oct. 7, 1817.

SONG FROM THE GAELIC.

Air" Mary Luoch,"

O my lovely Mary,
Mary of Glenfyne,
O delightful Mary,
Mary, thou art mine!

O my charming Mary,
Thou dost far outshine
All the girls that tarry
In this glen of thine!
Sweet in Barva's wild-wood
Young affection grew,
Ere our simple childhood
Love's dominion knew-
Kindness then grew stronger,
It was greatly more
Than e'er was felt by lover
In the world before!
Minstrel voices singing
Ne'er were half so sweet
As the wild notes ringing
When my love I meet!
Linnets, with their wooing,
Thrushes on each spray,
Ring-doves, with their cooing,
Blithly hail the day!

Sweet are Barva's bowers
When the sun is high,

Fresh the leaves and flowers
That our couch supply;
Kings I do not envy,
Splendour has no charms,
Which I'd take for Mary
Folded in my arms!

O my lovely Mary, &c.*

HIGHLAND SONG.

Air-" Mo nighean dhu." O sweet is she who thinks on me,

Behind yon dusky mountain ; In greenwood bower at gloaming hour

We'll meet by Moran's fountain.

My hounds are on the hills of deer,
My heart is in the valley,
Where dark-hair'd Mary roams to hear
The woodlarks singing gaily.
O sweet is she, &c.

My hawks around the forest fly,
And wonder that I tarry,
While lone on thymy banks I lie
And dream of dark-hair'd Mary.
O sweet is she, &c.

Her step so light,-her eye so bright,
Her smile so sweet and tender,-
Her voice like music heard by night
As o'er the wilds I wander !
O sweet is she, &c.

For this and the following song we are indebted to the kindness of Mr Campbell, the ingenious editor of "Albyn's Anthology." The first is said to have been composed many years ago by a clergyman in Argyleshire; the other was written expressly for Mr Campbell's work; in the second volume of which both will appear, along with the original words and music, early in the ensuing winter.

Her neck which silken ringlets shroud,———

Her bosom's soft commotion,

Like sea-mew hovering in the cloud,
Or heaving on the ocean!
O sweet is she, &c.

Her heart is gay as fawn at play,
Among the braes of braiken,-
Yet mildly dear as melting tear
That minstrel tales awaken.
O sweet is she, &c.

And she is mine-the dark-hair'd Maid!
My bright, my beauteous Mary !—
The Flower of Ardyn's lowly glade,
Shall bloom in high Glengary!
O sweet is she, &c.

SONNET.

Addressed to a Lady whose Husband was then on a Visit to the West Indies.

O LADY! dost thou see yon setting sun Descending glorious in the western sky, With crimson car, and gorgeous pageantry, While rosy eve her empire has begun ? And wakes yon sinking orb thy sighs for One

Whom he is gone to visit o'er the seas, Lone, wearied, wakeful, chiding oft the breeze,

While all his thoughts on thee and rapture run!

The sweet West Wind, fair saint, shall visit thee

With balmy breath, to fan thy flowing tear!

Even now it meets thee on thy bended knee, And like a seraph's voice salutes thine ear; For it hath floated o'er the wide wild sea, And soothingly it sings," Thy Lord will soon be here!"

STANZAS.

WHILE thou at eventide art roaming Along the elm-o'ershadowed walk,— While past the eddying stream is foaming,

And falling down,-a cataract,-
Where I to thee was wont to talk,
Think thou upon the days gone by,

And heave a sigh!

When sails the moon above the mountains,
And cloudless skies are purely blue,
And sparkle in the light the fountains,

And darker frowns the lonely yew,-
Then be thou melancholy too,
When pausing on the hours I proved
With thee beloved!

When wakes the dawn upon thy dwelling,
And lingering shadows disappear;
As soft the woodland songs are swelling
A choral anthem on thine ear;
Muse for that hour to thought is dear,
And then its flight remembrance wings,
To by-past things.

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LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE.

SOME time ago Messrs Turnbull and Ramsay of Glasgow made a discovery very important to the arts, by purifying the pyroligneous acid or acid of wood, so as to be superior in every respect to vinegar made by fermentation from the vine, malt, sugar, or any other substance from which it is commonly obtained. Its colour is transparent, taste and flavour agreeable; it is not liable to lose its acid properties, nor become mouldy by keeping any length of time in any climate. By its superior strength and incorruptible qualities, it is admirably calculated for sea stores, for the preservation of vegetables in pickling, and animal substances. It has received the decided approbation of several of the Professors of Chemistry in the universities, as well as of many eminent medical practitioners and men of science, as pure acetous acid. This improvement is of great importance in a national point of view, by making pure vinegar from the brushwood of our own country, thereby not encroaching on the stock of human food, which at all times is of consequence, and particularly so in times of scarcity. With this acid Messrs Turnbull and Ramsay make saccharum saturni, verdegris, and all other combinations where vinegar is used, in the greatest perfection.

Mr Thomas Taylor has issued proposals for printing by subscription, in one volume octavo, Select Works of Plotinus, on the following subjects, viz.-On the Virtues ; on Dialectic; on Matter; against the Gnostics; on the Impassivity of Incorporeal Natures; on Eternity and Time; on the Essence of the Soul; a Discussion of Doubts relative to the Soul; on the Immortality of the Soul; on the Three Hypostases that rank as the principles of things; on the generation and order of things after the first; on Gnostic Hypostases, and that which is beyond them; that the Nature which is beyond Being is not intellective, and what that is which is primarily, and also that which is secondarily intellective; on Intellect, Ideas, and real Being; on the The Good, or The One: accompanied by Extracts from the Treatise of Synesius on Providence, translated from the Greek.

Nearly ready for publication, the Diary of John Evelyn, Esq. printed from the original MSS. in the library at Wotton: embracing the greatest portion of the life of the celebrated author of "The Sylva, a Discourse of Forest Trees," and other works of long established celebrity. This extremely curious and valuable journal contains his observations and remarks on Men, Manners, the Politics, Literature, and Science

of his Age, during his travels in France and Italy, his residence in England towards the latter part of the Protectorate, and his connection with the Courts of Charles II. and the two subsequent reigns, interspersed with a variety of novel and interesting anecdotes of the most celebrated persons of that period. To this will be added original private letters from Sir Edward Nicholas (Secretary of State) to King Charles I. during some important periods of that reign, with the king's answers in his own handwriting, now first given to the world; also selections from the correspondence of John Evelyn, and numerous letters from Sir Edward Hyde (Lord Clarendon) to Sirs Edward Nicholas and Richard Brown, during the exile of the British Court. The whole highly illustrative of the events of those times, and affording numerous new facts to the historian and politician. The work will be comprised in 2 vols. royal 4to, and will be embellished with authentic portraits, engraved by the best masters, partly from most exquisite drawings of the celebrated Nanteuil, now in the possession of the Evelyn family, comprising original likenesses of John Evelyn; of Sir Richard Brown, ambassador to the Court of France; of Mary his daughter, wife of John Evelyn; and of Sir Edward Nicholas: views of Wotton-house, one of which is worked from an original etching by John Evelyn ; and other interesting plates.

Mr Joyce Graves has just announced as ready for delivery, The Naturalist's Pocket Book, or Tourist's Companion; containing a brief introduction to the various branches of Natural History, with approved methods for collecting and preserving quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, insects, shells, corals, seeds, plants, woods, fossils, minerals, &c. with general outlines of the habits, economy, and places of resort of the various genera of Zoological subjects; embellished with plates illustrative of the particulars on which the generic characters are founded, and figures of instruments necessary in the different branches of Natural History.

Mr Doncaster, patentee of the Hydrostatic Ship, having lately effected an improved hydrostatic power, applicable to mill purposes, as well as to propelling navigable vessels, proposes to give shortly a second edition of his useful little tract, entiled

Practical Political Economy," in order to include it as well as a series of other improvements in its construction, apparatus, and materials. This pamphlet, which points out the means and advantages of effecting a supply of provisions to the London markets by water carriage, has al

ready, although but lately published, had the honour of originating the adopted measure of the junction of the eastern and western seas by canal communication between Carlisle and Newcastle upon Tyne; and it is by no means impossible it may, in due process of time, prove the means also of establishing a new northern and a western capital, in maritime situations.

The following arrangements have been made for Lectures at the Surrey Institution, during the ensuing season :—

1. On Ethics, by the Rev. W. B. Collier, D.D. F.A.S. To commence Nov. 4, at seven in the evening, and to be continued on each succeeding Tuesday.

2. On Chemistry, by J. Lowe Wheeler, Esq. To commence on Nov. 7, and to be continued on each succeeding Friday evening.

3. On the British Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, by Wm. Hazlitt, Esq. To commence early in January 1818.

4. On Music, by W. Crotch, Mus. Doc. Professor of Music in the University of Oxford. To commence early in February

1818.

A case which lately occurred in the Royal Dispensary for the Diseases of the Ear, where a boy born deaf and dumb was restored to the use of both hearing and speech, will shew the rapid improvement in the medical practice of the present day. The pathology of the ear, neglected till of late, has now attained a vast importance by the institution of a dispensary for its diseases; and the subject of deafness being now taken up by the Royal College of Surgeons as the theme of their annual prize, will tend to throw additional light on this interesting malady.

Mr Beauford, M.A. of Dublin, is preparing for the press a New Theory of Magnetism, especially the phenomena which relate to the variation of the magnetic needle; deduced from observation, and demonstrated on true philosophical and mathematical principles. In the investigation, magnetism in general is ascribed to the effect of caloric on the globe of the earth. In magnetism, at least as far as it affects the needle, (the author says,) there are four magnetic poles near the terrestrial poles; which magnetic poles in each class have a rotation from east to west, proceeding from the effect of the perturbating powers of the sun and moon, in the difference between the centripetal and centritugal forces. The revolution of the northern magnetic poles round the earth's axis and poles is complete in 1073 years, and that of the southern in 864 years. The northern affirmative magnetic pole has this year, (117,) at the time of the vernal equinox, lat. 71° 24 N. lon. 83° W.; the negative pole, lat. 82° 12' N. lon. 114° 19 E. The

southern affirmative magnetic pole has lat. 65° 56' S., lon. 156° 58' E.; the negative, lat. 76° 46′ S. lon. 264° 26' E. from Greenwich. And the places of the mean or operative pole derived from the effect of the four other poles, and to which the needle tends-northern lat. 73° 36' N. lon. 84° 54′ W.; southern lat. 68° 45' S. lon. 145° 30' E. From the effects and places of these mean operative poles proceed the various phenomena of the magnetic needle; as the variation, dip, position, nutation, rotation, and secular variation.

An account of the very extraordinary case of Margaret McEvoy, a blind young woman at Liverpool, who can read by the points of her fingers, has been transmitted to Dr Thomson by the Rev. T. Glover, and published in the last Number of the Annals of Philosophy. A publication on this curious phenomenon is announced, with which, when it appears, we shall take an early opportunity to make our readers acquainted.

Mr Thomas Yeates has constructed a variation chart of all the navigable oceans and seas between latitude 60° north and south, from accurate documents obtained of Spanish surveys in the Pacific Ocean; journals at the Hydrographical Office, Admiralty; and at the East India House; collated, with tables of the variation recently formed from the observations of different navigators. This chart is delineat ed on a new plan, all the magnetic meridians being drawn upon it throughout, for every change of one degree in the variation; and it will be elucidated with explanatory notes, and a brief statement of the late discovery of an aberration in the variation, resulting from the deviation or change of a ship's head from the magnetic meridian, accompanied by the rules invented by the late Captain Flinders, for correcting the

same.

The Duchess of Rutland has received the gold medal of the Society for the Encourgement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, for experiments in raising Oaks. Her grace's conclusion on five several experiments are, that the best method is "to sow the acorns where they are to remain, and, after hoeing the rows two years, to plant potatoes, one row only between each row of oaks, for three years; decidedly, in her opinion, the best method, as the facts themselves will prove. The benefit of the oaks from planting potatoes is incalculable; for, from the said experiments, and from others made at the same time, and with the same seedling oaks, planted with a mixture of larch, spruce, beech, birch, and other forest trees, and also with oaks only,— in all cases she has found that potatoes between the rows are so superior to all other methods, that the oaks will actually grow

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