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The glow of passion's quickening blood,
And cherished fantasies which press
The young lip with a dream's caress,—
The heart's forecast and prophecy
Took form and life before my eye,
Seen in the glance which met my own,
Heard in the soft and pleading tone,
Felt in the arms around me cast,
And warm heart-pulses beating fast.
Ah! scarcely yet to God above
With deeper trust, with stronger love,
Has prayerful saint his meek heart lent,
Or cloistered nun at twilight bent,
Than I, before a human shrine,
As mortal and as frail as mine,

With heart, and soul, and mind, and form,
Knelt madly to a fellow worm.

WAR.

Brutal alike in deed and word,

-Ibid.

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God be praised for every instinct which rebels against a lot

Where the brute survives the human, and man's upright form is not!

As the serpent-like bejuco winds his spiral fold on fold

Round the tall and stately ceiba, till it withers in his hold,

Slow decays the forest monarch, closer girds the fell embrace,

Till the tree is seen no longer, and the vine is in its place,

So a base and bestial nature round the vassal's manhood twines,

And the spirit wastes beneath it, like the ceiba choked with vines.

-The Slaves of Martinique.

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COLUMBIAN POEMS.

HAIL, COLUMBIA!

HAIL, Columbia! happy land!
Hail, ye heroes! heaven-born band!
Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause;
Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause,
And when the storm of war was gone,
Enjoyed the peace your valor won.

Let independence be our boast,
Ever mindful what it cost;
Ever grateful for the prize,
Let its altar reach the skies.
Firm, united let us be,
Rallying round our Liberty;
As a band of brothers joined,
Peace and safety we shall find.

Immortal patriots! rise once more,
Defend your rights, defend your shore;
Let no rude foe with impious hand,
Let no rude foe with impious hand,
Invade the shrine where sacred lies,
Of toil and blood, the well-earned prize.
While offering peace sincere and just,
In heaven we place a manly trust,
That truth and justice will prevail,
And every scheme of bondage fail.
Firm, united let us be, etc.

Sound, sound the trump of Fame!
Let Washington's great name

Ring through the world with loud applause,
Ring through the world with loud applause;
Let every clime to Freedom dear
Listen with a joyful ear!

With equal skill and godlike power,
He governed in the fearful hour
Of horrid war; or guides with ease
The happier times of honest peace.
Firm, united let us be, etc.

Behold the chief who now commands,
Once more to serve his country stands-
The rock on which the storm will beat,
The rock on which the storm will beat;
But, armed in virtue firm and true,
His hopes are fixed on heaven and you.
When hope was sinking in dismay,
And glooms obscured Columbia's day,
His steady mind, from changes free,
Resolved on death, or liberty.

Firm, united let us be, etc.

JOSEPH HOPKINSON.

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