The shatter'd fortress, whence the Dane All into midnight-shadow sweep, The prow wakes splendor; and the oar, Glad sign, and sure! for now we hail Oh blest retreat, and sacred too! A FAREWELL. ONCE more, enchanting maid, adieu! The sweet expression of that face, Yet give me, give me, ere I go, -Say, when to kindle soft delight, O say but no, it must not be. INSCRIPTION FOR A TEMPLE DEDICATED TO THE GRACES,2 APPROACH with reverence. There are those within Whose dwelling-place is Heaven. Daughters of Jove, From them flow all the decencies of life; Without them nothing pleases, Virtue's self Admired, not loved; and those on whom they smile, Great though they be, and wise, and beautiful, Shine forth with double lustre. 1 A phenomenon described by many navigators. 2 At Woburn-Abbey. TO THE BUTTERFLY. CHILD of the sun! pursue thy rapturous flight, Mingling with her thou lovest in fields of light; And, where the flowers of Paradise unfold, Quaff fragrant nectar from their cups of gold. There shall thy wings, rich as an evening-sky, Expand and shut with silent ecstacy! -Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept On the bare earth, then wrought a tomb and slept. And such is man; soon from his cell of clay To burst a seraph in the blaze of day! WRITTEN IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. WHOE'ER thou art, approach, and, with a sigh, Oh say, of Him now rests there but a name; What though with War the madding nations rung, 4 Alluding particularly to his speech on moving a new writ for the borough of Tavistock, March 16, 1802. 5 See that admirable delineation of his character by Sir James Mackintosh, which first appeared in the Bombay Courier, January 17, 1807. When in retreat He laid his thunder by, Blest were his hours within the silent grove, And they, by virtue and by blood allied, THE END OF ROGERS'S WORKS. Memoir of Thomas Campbell, It is not a little singular that the Tyrteus of his translations were said to be superior to modern English poetry should at the same time any before offered for competition in the Unibe one of the most tender as well as original of versity. Campbell thus furnishes an exception writers. Campbell owes less than any other Brit- to the majority of men of genius, who have ish poet to his predecessors or contemporaries. seldom been remarkable for diligence and proHe has lived to see his verses quoted like those ficiency in their early years, the lofty powers of earlier poets in the literature of his day, lisped they possessed not being exhibited until mature by children, and sung at public festivals. The life. Campbell while at the University made war-odes of Campbell have nothing to match poetical paraphrases of the most celebrated Greek them in the English language for energy and poets; of Eschylus, Sophocles, and Aristophanes, fire, while their condensation and the felicitous which were thought efforts of extraordinary selection of their versification are in remarkable promise. Dr. Millar at that time gave philo. harmony. Campbell, in allusion to Cimon, has sophical lectures in Glasgow. He was a highly been said to have "conquered both on land and sea," from his naval Odes and "Hohenlinden " embracing both scenes of warfare. gifted teacher and a most excellent man. His lectures attracted the attention of young Campbell, who became his pupil, and studied with Scotland gave birth to Thomas Campbell. He eagerness the principles of sound philosophy; he was the son of a second marriage, and born at was favored with the confidence of his teacher, Glasgow in 1777. His father was born in 1710, and partook much of his society. To being thus and was consequently nearly 70 years of age early grounded in the fundamental truths of phiwhen the poet his son was ushered into the world. losophy, and accustomed to analyze correctly, is He was sent early to school in his native city, to be attributed mainly the side in politics which and his instructor was Dr. David Alison, an indi- Campbell early embraced, and that love of freevidual of great celebrity in the practice of educa- dom and free thought which he has invariably tion. He had a method of instruction in the shown upon all questions in which the interests classics purely his own, by which he taught with of mankind are concerned. great facility, and at the same time rejected all Campbell quitted Glasgow to remove into harsh discipline, putting kindness in the place of Argyleshire, where the situation of tutor in a terror, and alluring rather than compelling the family of some note was offered and accepted by pupil to his duty. Campbell began to write verses him. It was in Argyleshire, among the romantic young. There are some attempts at poetry yet mountains of the North, that the poetical spirit extant among his friends in Scotland, written increased in energy, and the charms of verse took when he was but nine years old. They natural- entire possession of his mind. Many people now ly are childish, but still display that propensity alive remember him there wandering alone by for the muses by which at a remarkably early the torrent, or over the rugged steeps of that wild age he was so distinguished. For his place of country, reciting the strains of other poets aloud, education he had a great respect, as well as for or silently composing his own. Several of his the memory of his masters, of whom he always pieces which he has rejected in his collected spoke in terms of great affection. He was twelve works, are handed about in Scotland in manuyears old when he quitted school for the Uni- script. The "Dirge of Wallace" (given at page versity of Glasgow. There he was considered an 64), which will not be found in the London excellent Latin scholar, and gained high honor by Editions of his works, is one of these wild coma contest with a candidate twice as old as him- positions; and it is difficult to say why he should self, by which he obtained a bursary. He con- have rejected it, for the poetry is truly noble. stantly bore away the prizes, and every fresh It has hitherto appeared only in fugitive publisuccess only seemed to stimulate him to more cations and newspapers. ambitious exertions. In Greek he was considered From Argyleshire, where his residence was the foremost student of his age; and some of not a protracted one, Campbell removed to Edin |