Where is the dream of bliss by Summer brought?
The walk along the rivulet-watered vale?
The field with verdure clad, with fragrance fraught?
The sun mild-beaming, and the fanning gale?
The weary soul Imagination cheers,

Her pleasing colours paint the future gay:
Time passes on, the truth itself appears,
The pleasing colours instant fade away.

In different seasons different joys we place,
And these will Spring supply, and Summer these;
Yet frequent storms the bloom of Spring deface,
And Summer scarcely brings a day to please.

O for some secret shady cool recess,

Some Gothic dome o'erhung with darksome trees, Where thick damp walls this raging heat repress, Where the long aisle invites the lazy breeze! But why these plaints?-reflect, nor murmur more Far worse their fate in many a foreign land, The Indian tribes on Darien's swampy shore, The Arabs wandering over Mecca's sand. Far worse, alas! the feeling mind sustains, Racked with the poignant pangs of fear or shame; The hopeless lover bound in Beauty's chains, The bard whom Envy robs of hard-earned fame:

He, who a father or a mother mourns,

Or lovely consort lost in early bloom;

He, whom fell Febris, rapid Fury! burns,

Ór Phthisis slow leads lingering to the tomb-
Lest Man should sink beneath the present pain;
Lest Man should triumph in the present joy;
For him th' unvarying laws of Heaven ordain,
Hope in his ills, and to his bliss alloy.

Fierce and oppressive is the heat we bear,
Yet not unuseful to our humid soil;

Thence shall our fruits a richer flavour share,
Thence shall our plains with riper harvests smile.

Reflect, nor murmur more-for, good in all,
Heaven gives the due degrees of drought or rain;
Perhaps ere morn refreshing showers may fall,
Nor soon yon sun-rise blazing fierce again.

Ev'n now behold the grateful change at hand!
Hark, in the East loud blustering gales arise;
Wide and more wide the darkening clouds expand,
And distant lightnings flash along the skies!

Ó, in the awful concert of the storm,

While hail and rain and wind and thunder join;
May deep-felt gratitude my soul inform,
May joyful songs of reverent praise be mine!

AUGUST.

SEXTILIS was the antient Roman name of this month, being the sixth from March. The Emperor Augustus changed this name, and gave it his own, because in this month Cæsar Augustus took possession of his first consulship, celebrated three triumphs, reduced Egypt under the power of the Roman people, and put an end to all civil wars. 'The Saxons called August arn-monat (more rightly barnmonat), intending thereby the then filling of their barnes with corne.'

Remarkable Days.

1.- LAMMAS DAY.

THE name of this day is probably derived from an old Saxon term, signifying Loaf Mass; as it was customary for the Saxons to offer an oblation of loaves, made of new wheat, on this day, as the firstfruits of their new corn.

*2. 1100.-HENRY I BEGAN TO REIGN. Henry was of a middle stature, and robust make, with dark brown hair, and blue serene eyes. He was facetious, fluent, and affable to his favourites. His capacity, naturally good, was improved and cultivated in such a manner, that he acquired the name of Beau Clerc by his learning. He was cool, cautious, politic, and penetrating; his courage was unquestioned, and his fortitude invincible. He was vindictive, cruel, and implacable, inexorable to offenders, rigid and se

vere in the execution of justice. His Norman descent and connexions with the continent inspired him with a contempt for the English, whom he oppressed in the most tyrannical manner.-Smollett.

*3. 1770.-FREDERICK WILLIAM IV, KING OF
PRUSSIA, BORN.
6.-TRANSFIGURATION.

*6. 1637.-BEN JONSON DIED.

To my BOOKSELLER.

Thou that mak'st gain thy end, and, wisely well,
Call'st a book good, or bad, as it doth sell,
Use mine so too: I give thee leave; but crave
For the luck's sake it thus much favour have,
To lie upon thy stall, till it be sought;

Not offered, as it made suit to be bought;
Nor have my title-leaf on posts, or walls,

Or in cleft sticks, advanced to make calls
For termers, or some clerk-like serving man,

Who scarce can spell th' hard names-whose knight less can.
If, without these vile arts, it will not sell,
Send it to Bucklersbury, there 'twill well.

7.-NAME OF JESUS.

JONSON.

Before the Reformation, this day was dedicated to Afra, a woman who had been converted to Christianity by Narcissus, Bishop of Jerusalem, and who afterwards suffered martyrdom; and the Breviary was recognized by Paul V. Afterwards Donatus, who became martyr in the time of Julian, for refusing to sacrifice, was substituted in her place. Our reformers devoted it to the NAME OF OUR BLESSED Lord.

*9. 1783.-PELEW ISLES DISCOVERED.

10.-SAINT LAWRENCE.

St. Lawrence was, by birth, a Spaniard, and treasurer of the Church of Rome, being deacon to Pope Sextus, about the year 259. He was laid upon a gridiron, and broiled over a fire.

12. 1762.-H. R. H. PRINCE REGENT BORN.

*13. 1704.-BATTLE OF BLENHEIM.

With fire and sword, the country round
Was wasted far and wide,

And many a childing mother then,
And new-born infant died.

But things like that, you know, must be
At every famous victory.

They say

it was a shocking sight

After the field was won,

For many thousand bodies here

Lay rotting in the sun;

But things like that, you know, must be

After a famous victory.

SOUTHEY

*14. 1742.-POPE PIUS VII BORN.

15.-ASSUMPTION.

This is a festival in the Greek and Romish churches, in honour of the supposed miraculous ascension of the Virgin Mary into heaven.

*15. 1769.-NAPOLEON BONAPARTE BORN.

*16. 1678.-ANDREW MARVELL DIED.
Climb at court for me that will,
Tott'ring favour's pinnacle,

All I wish is to lie still.

Settled in some secret nest,

In calm quiet let me rest;

And, far off the public stage,

Pass away my silent age.

Thus, when, without noise, unknown,
I have lived out all my span,

I shall die without a groan,
A plain honest countryman.
Who, exposed to others' eyes,
Into his own heart ne'er pries,
Death's to him a strange surprise.

MARVELL.

*19. 1815.-COLONEL LABEDOYERE SHOT.

Two hours and a half after sentence had been passed upon him, he was hurried off to the plain of Grenelle, where two lines of gendarmes were drawn up to carry the sentence into effect. He refused to

have his eyes bandaged, and, taking off his hat, said to the soldiers, Surtout ne me manquez pas-tirez.' They fired,—and in an instant he was no more.

24. SAINT BARTHOLOMEW.

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He preached the Gospel in Armenia, converted the Lycaonians, and afterwards visited India.

The Dissenters observe the 24th of August as the day on which the Nonconformist Ministers were ejected from their livings, and appeal to the Nonconformists' Memorial as a testimony of their wrongs. But the Church also has her memorials to produce in Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy during the Usurpation. On both sides, no doubt, many suffered unjustly; and happy is it, that we live in times when we can think and say so.

*25. 1770.-CHATTERTON Died.

O! GENIUS, art thou to be envied or pitied? Doomed to form expectations the most sanguine, and to meet with disappointments the most mortifying? To indulge towards others the most generous wishes, to receive thyself the most illiberal treatment? Το be applauded, admired, and neglected? To be a friend to all, befriended often by none? O! thou creative, discriminating power, source of inexpressible delights, and nurse of unknown sensibilities, that perpetuate distress; Fancy shall embody thy form, and often visit the grave of Chatterton, to drop the tear of sympathy over that ingenious, unfriended, and unfortunate youth !-Dyer.

*27. 1748.-THOMSON Died.
Ah! what avails the largest gifts of heaven,
When drooping health and spirits go amiss?
How tasteless then whatever can be given !
Health is the vital principle of bliss,

And exercise of health. In proof of this,
Behold the wretch who slugs his life away
Soon swallowed in Disease's sad abyss,