When the fresh breeze is fair as breeze may be, And oh, the little warlike world within! White is the glassy deck, without a stain, Blow! swiftly blow, thou keel-compelling gale! The flapping sail haul'd down to halt for logs like these! The moon is up; by Heaven a lovely eve! Long streams of light o'er dancing waves expand; Meantime Meantime some rude Arion's restless hand Or to some well-known measure featly move, Through Calpe's straits survey the steepy shore, Lands of the dark-ey'd Maid and dusky Moor, From mountain cliff to coast descending sombre down. 'Tis night, when meditation bids us feel Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy? Thus bending o'er the vessel's laving side, To gaze on Dian's wave-reflected sphere; The soul forgets her schemes of Hope and Pride, A thought, and claims the homage of a tear; To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, Converse with Nature's charms, and see her stores unroll'd. But midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, And And roam along, the world's tir'd denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless; One last long sigh to love and thee, With things that never pleas'd before: What future grief can touch me more? Then bring me wine, the banquet bring: In vain my lyre would lightly breathe! The smile that sorrow fain would wear Though gay companions o'er the bowl On many a lone and lovely night Alas, it gleam'd upon her grave. When When stretch'd on fever's sleepless bed, "That Thyrza cannot know my pains:" My life, when Thyrza ceas'd to live! My Thyrza's pledge in better days, Thou bitter pledge! thou mournful token! THE PATRON. From CRABBE'S TALES. A BOROUGH-BAILIFF, who to law was train'd, Had long resided with a rustic pair; All round whose room were doleful ballads, songs, Of lovers' sufferings and of ladies' wrongs; Of peevish ghosts who came at dark midnight, Love, marriage, murder, were the themes, with these, Robbers dom more than two in a house; for the servants, generally, sleep, upon mats, or dried hides laid on the floor.. The furniture consists of one or two chairs, a few stools and benches, one table, or perhaps two, a few coffee-cups and a coffee-pot of silver; a silver drinking cup, and, in some instances, a. silver wash-hand bason, which, when strangers are present,is handed round with great ostentation, and forms a striking contrast to the rest of the utensils, nos 8 a The general diet of the family consists of the same articles which have already been particularized in treating of St. Paul's. The only beverage is water; and nothing can be more frugal than the whole economy of the table. So intent is the owner in employing his slaves solely in employments, directly lucrative, that the garden, on which almost the entire subsistence of the family depends, is kept in the most miserable dis order. In the article of dress, they do not appear more extravagant than in that of food. The children are generally naked; the youths go without shoes, in an old jacket, and cotton trowsers; the men in an old capote or mantle wrapped around them, and wooden clogs, except when they go from home; and, on those occasions, they ap pear in all their splendor, forming as great a contrast to their domes tic attire, as the gaudy butterfly does to the chrysalis from which it springs. :* molt might be expected, that how ever penuriously the general concerns of the family were conducted, at least some degree of attention and expense would be bestowed on the dress of the females; for the test of civilization among all nations is the regard paid to the fair sex, on whom the happiness of domestic life depends. Yet the general poverty and meanness of their attire is such, that they reluctantly appear before any one, except the individuals of their own family. In short, in all those departments of domestic economy, which to the middle classes of other civilized nations are objects of expense, the Brazilians exercise the most rigid parsimony. At first, I was inclined to attribute this dis position to the love of money, which prompted them to avoid all extravagance; but, on closer observa, tion, I was surprised to find that it originated in necessity. They generally run in debt for the few articles they have to purchase, and sometimes find it difficult to maintain their negroes. If they purchase a mule, it is at one or two years' credit, and, of course, at double its ordinary price. In such a family as that above described, the sons, as might be expected, are brought up in idleness; they are merely taught to read and write; rarely do they ate tend to the mining department; they learn no trade, nor are they instructed in any useful employment; for a miner, perhaps an ensign or a lieutenant of militia, would think it a disgrace to put his son apprentice to a mechanic. suppose the father of this family to die when the sons have just attained the age of puberty. They are now for the first time obliged to think of providing for themselves. Educated in poverty and pride, they have learned to think all occupations servile, |