They saw'd it in planks, and its bark they did strip,
And with this tree and others they made a good ship.
The ship, it was launch'd; but in sight of the land
Such a storm there did rise as no ship could withstand.
It bulg'd on a rock, and the waves rush'd in fast:

The old raven flew round and round, and caw'd to the blast.

He heard the last shriek of the perishing souls-
See! see! o'er the topmast the mad water rolls!

Right glad was the raven, and off he went fleet,
And Death riding home on a cloud he did meet,
And he thank'd him again and again for this treat:

They had taken his all, and revenge was sweet!
We must not think so; but forget and forgive,
And what Heaven gives life to, we'll still let it live?

MUTUAL PASSION.

Altered and modernized from an old Poet.

I love, and he loves me again,

Yet dare I not tell who:

For if the nymphs should know my swain,

I fear they'd love him too.

Yet while my joy's unknown,

Its rosy buds are but half-blown :

What no one with me shares, seems scarce my own.

I'll tell, that if they be not glad,

They yet may envy me:

But then if I grow jealous mad,

And of them pitied be,

"Twould vex me worse than scorn!

And yet it cannot be forborn,

Unless my heart would like my thoughts be torn.

He is, if they can find him, fair
And fresh, and fragrant too;

As after rain the summer air,

And looks as lillies do,

That are this morning blown!

Yet, yet I doubt, he is not known, Yet, yet I fear to have him fully shewn.

But he hath eyes so large, and bright,
Which none can see, and doubt

That Love might thence his torches light
Tho' Hate had put them out!

But then to raise my fears,

His voice-what maid so ever hears Will be my rival, tho' she have but ears.

I'll tell no more! yet I love him,

And he loves me; yet so,

That never one low wish did dim.

Our love's pure light, I know——

In each so free from blame,

That both of us would gain new fame,

If love's strong fears would let me tell his name!

ERRATA.

Page 15, erase the 2d stanza, A gust of wind. &c. 18, last line but one: for cloud read load.

35, 1.7: for The r. Brown.

57, 1. 13: r. (They) for (and.)

88, 1. 1 and 4: r. incautum and veniam.

93, last but 1: r. good-natured.

96, 1. 14: for betrayed in r. betrayed by.

98, 1. 4: for four r. three.

108, 1. 15: for were r. was this intolerance in.

119, 1. 3: for Are all r. All are.

126, 1.16: for Slush r. Hush.

130, 1. 15: for stream r. brook.

133, 1.6: for thy r. my; and instead of lines 14, 15, and 16,

read as follows:

How soon to re-unite! And see! they meet,
Each in the other lost and found: and, see!
Placeless, as spirits, one soft Water-sun
Throbbing within them, Heart at once and Eye!
With its soft neighbourhood of filmy Clouds,
The Stains and Shadings of forgotten Tears,
Dimness o'erswum with lustre!-Such the hour
Of deep enjoyment, following Love's brief feuds!
But hark! &c.-and for came r. come.

134, 1.4: for Beneath r. At.

138, 1.1: r. And to that covert by a silent strcam.
1. 2: for o'er r. near.

155, 1. 8: omit the full stop after guest.

157, 1. 13: for fear no sting r. ask no sting.

168, 1. 9: for livery r. living.

1. 15: for once more r. thou too.

176: from the 9th line r. as follows:

O! the one Life, within us and abroad,

Which meets all Motion, and becomes its soul,
A Light in Sound, a sound-like power in Light,
Rhythm in all Thought, and Joyance every where-
Methinks, it should have been impossible

Not to love all things in a world so fill'd,

Where the breeze warbles and the mute still Air

Is Music slumbering on its instrument!

And thus, my Love! &c.

180 for the last line but four substitute

Praise, praise it, O my soul! oft as thou scann'st.

187, 1. 1: r. Idolo.

Page 189, 1. 3: substitute Beauties and Feelings, such as would have been.

-1. 6: substitute Friends whom I never more may meet again.

191, 1. 10: for wild r. wide; and the two following lines thus: Less gross than bodily and of such hues

As veil the Almighty Spirit.

192, 1. 21: omit the before Light.

195, 1. 10: for guard r. guage.

207, 1. 2: punctuate thus, reading Sound for sounds;
And one low piping Sound more sweet than all-

211, 1. 10: for fair day r. Fair-day.

1. 11: for sweet r. wild.

212, 1. 2: for dead r. deep.

1. 3:

for Fill'd r. Fill.

r. psychological.

240, 1. 15: r. Life, and Life's Effluence, Cloud at once

and Shower.

242 in the Note for wind r. Storm-wind,

257, 1.8: for their r. thy.

1. 14 read Ah! that once more I were a careless child! 269, 1.8: r. a mark of interrogation after self.

276. The metre of this ode, especially in the fifth line of each stanza, is written with a foreknowledge of the Tune, and must therefore be read as it would be sung.

282, for 8 and 9, substitute:

The substance from its shadow. Infinite Love,
Whose Latence is the plenitude of All,

Thou with retracted Beams, and Self-eclipse
Veiling revealest thy eternal Sun.

283, 1. 20: for rebellions r. rebellious

287, 1. 12: for mortal ministers r. human ministers.

298, 1. 1: for blended with the clouds r. looming on the mist.

for 10 and 11 substitute:

The power of Justice, like a name all Light,

Shone from thy brow;