er and the time that it was published at Cambridge Aaron 152n a small, thin volume, he was recognized my to ligtest place in our poetical literature.-EDITOR.

en the first edition, read:

De tax stivers in the thunder-stroke.”

AGRICULTURAL ODE." Page 74.

no less than three odes for the Berkshire Agrithe welfare of which he took great interest. Only ~ght good enough to put in his book; but as the ed in country and agricultural papers, it may efects may be found in them, to give them in their irst was sung at the celebration of October, 1817.

Time was in his youth, and Earth

esh and beauteous from her birth;

e nan against his brother's heart
barbed the spear and fledged the dart,
calmly, to its latest rays,

Sure the long sabbath of his days!

ren to wave on martial brows
uitless laurel lent its boughs,

Ser or the triumphs of the sword

east was spread, the wine was poured,

Death on battle's cumbered plain

The harvest of the slain.

The second was sung at the celebration of 1818:

“Since last our vales these rites admir'd,

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ggs,

s the which

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nt of the Bryant ith the volume of

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ne in here:

.emes,

reams,

to speak," etc.

1 decay."

let,

prattle yet."

it crowd to drink oozy brink."

hall pass away."

"As if the indulgent Power, who laid
On man the great command to toil,
Well pleas'd to see his will obeyed,

Had touched, in love, the teeming soil.
"And here, while Autumn wanders pale
Beneath the fading forest shade,
Gathered from many a height and vale,
The bounties of the year are laid.
"Here Toil, whom oft the setting sun
Has seen at his protracted task-
Demands the palm his patience won-
And Art is come his wreaths to ask.

"Well may the hymn of victory flow,

And mingle with the voice of mirth; While here are spread the spoils that show Our triumphs o'er reluctant Earth."

"THE INDIAN GIRL'S LAMENT." Page ( "Her maiden veil, her own black hair.

The unmarried females have a modest falli over the eyes."-ELIOT.

"THE MASSACRE AT SCIO."

This poem, written about the time of the Sciotes by the Turks, in 1824, has been m poetical predictions. The independence of it foretold has come to pass, and the mass detestation of their oppressors, did much AUTHOR.