The pure white cloth above the shrine
The consecrated bread and wine-
All was the same--I found no trace
Of sorrow in that holy place.
One hurried glance I downward gave
My foot was on my brother's grave!

And years have past—and thou art now

Forgotten in thy silent tomb— And cheerful is my mother's brow,

My father's eye has lost its gloom,
And years have past-and death has laid

Another victim by thy side ;
With thee he roams, an infant shade,

But not more pure than thee he died.
Blest are ye both! your ashes rest
Beside the spot ye lov'd the best;
And that dear home, which saw your birth,
O’erlooks you in your bed of earth.
But who can tell what blissful shore
Your angel-spirits wander o'er?
And who can tell what raptures high
Now bless your immortality!

My boyish days are nearly gone,

My breast is not unsullied now;
And worldly cares and woes will soon

Cut their deep furrows on my brow
And life will take a darker hue
From ills my Brother never knew.
And I have made me bosom friends,

And lov'd and link'd my heart with others; But who with mine his spirit blends,

As mine was blended with my brother's!

When years of rapture glided by,

The spring of life's unclouded weather,
Our souls were knit, and thou and I,

My brother, grew in love together.
The chain is broke which bound us then-
When shall I find it's like again?

M.

November, 1820.

E TONIA N.

No. II.

NOVEMBER, 1820.

Contents.

The King of Clubs :

Mr Oakley's Essay on the Art of saying "No.".

..105 Success of No. 1. - Opening of the

A Lapland Sacrifice

.111 Green Bag.–Mr Oakley's avowed Ode to Despair ..

.113 Predilection for Tea. – Election of Turn Out.....

..,115 Sir Thomas Nesbit.-The Inaugura- Letter from a Correspondent, containing tion Ceremony.-Mr Burton's Sondet

a Description of the Miseries of Christon the Asses' Bridge.- Mr Burton's

mas Holidays in the Country. ....121 Proposed Epic.-Mr Burton's Mis

The Confession of Don Carlos (loosely behaviour productive of an Import- imitated from the Spanish)........127 ant Motion. -- Future Prospects.- Solitude in a Crowd

J29 Articles in Preparation.–Tbanks of Politeness and Politesse,

.134 the Club.-Alarming Discovery. 83 A Windsor Ball ....

,138 On Wordsworth's Poetry

99 Sir Thomas Nesbit's Definition of “ YES AND No:

Good Fellow”......

.144 Mr Lozell's Essay on the Art of say- Lovers' Vows

.147 ing “ Yes.” ..105 | Godiva, a Tale.

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No. III. Will be published on the First of December.

ETONIAN.

No. II.

The King of Clubs.

SUCCESS OF NO.

Jovis 90 die Novembris, 1820. All preliminaries having been discussed, (N. B. By preliminaries I mean a good substantial dinner, composed of beef-steaks, and a Mrs. Garraway pudding) Mr. Golightly prepared the punch-bowl, and Mr. Courtenay, after ringing for the Secretary's pen and ink, produced his Green Bag, and informed the Meeting that he was ready to proeceel to business. Some time elapsed before silence could be obtained, as Sir Francis was engaged in an argument with Mr. M. Sterling upon the expediency of the Bill of Pains and Penalties, and Mr. P.O'Connor was loud in a dispute with Mr. Golightly upon the propriety of adding another lemon to the punch. When these difficulties were surmounted, and order finally restored, the PRESIDENT rose and opened the business of the evening in the following manner :

“Gentlemen,-The first topic to almost unnecessary to add that our which I request your attention, is sale has been astonishingly rapid the success which our first Number (Hear! hear! hear ! from Mr. has met with (Hear, hear, Burton.)-It is allowed by every hear!) That success, Gentle. one that our pages, considering the men, has been more complete, quantity of matter contained in more decisive, more generaly that them, are unusually cheap'; new the most sanguine well-wisker tovertheless, our sale has been so our design had reason to expect. extensive, that no demand will for Wherever the Etonian” has the present be made upon the made his appearance he has been Privy Purse (Repetted cries of received with unanimous applause. hear! hear from Mr. Burton):Oppidan and Colleger, Sixth Form I have in this Green Bag, Gentle and Fourth, Dandy and Bargee, niien, various communications upon have united in a feeling of pass the subject of “ the Etonian ;'* tiality to our work and its con many of them, however, are too ductors :-( Hear!) - We com complimentary for a public readu plain of no caluinny--no detrac- ing: I shalli therefore proceed to tion-no prejudice. In tlie 'Tutor's submit to you such only as con study, and the Beauty's houdoir, tain objections to the plan or exe at the Schoolboy's and the Oficer's cution of the work, in order that mess, we have experienced the we niay have an opportunity of same kindness, and we owe the replying to them.” (Hear, hear, same acknowledgments. (Hear!) hear:) Having premised thus far, it is

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