-And now, with web-foot oars, she gains the land, And foreign footsteps press the yielding sand: -The Communes spread, the gay Departments smile, Fair Freedom's Plant o'ershades the laughing isle : -Fired with new hopes the' exulting peasant sees The Gallic streamer woo the British breeze; While, pleased to watch its undulating charms, The smiling infant* spreads his little arms. Ye Sylphs of Death, on demon pinions flit Where the tall guillotine is raised for Pitt: To the poised plank tie fast the monster's back †, Close the nice slider, ope the' expectant sack; Then twitch, with fairy hands, the frolic pinDown falls the' impatient axe with deafening din; The liberated head rolls off below, And simpering Freedom hails the happy blow‡! *The smiling infant-Infancy is particularly interested in the diffusion of the new principles.-See the Bloody Buoy;' see also the following description and prediction: Here Time's huge fingers grasp his giant mace, &c. &c. While each light moment, as it passes by, Botanic Garden. + The monster's back--Le Monstre Pitt, L'Ennemi du Genre humain. See Debates of the Legislators of the Great Nation passim. This admirable burlesque on Dr. Darwin's Loves of the Plants' is said to be the joint composition of Messrs. Canning, Ellis, and Frere. ELEGANT EXTRACTS. PART X. Ludicrous and Sportive. MONODY, On the Death of Dick, an Academical Cat. Micat inter omnes. Hor. lib i. ode 12. YE rats, in triumph elevate your ears! Mortals and mortal cats in Charon's boat: Where were ye, nymphs-when to the silent Of gloomy Acheron Dick travel'd post? Where were ye, Muses, in that deathful hour? Say, did ye haunt the literary bower Where Science sends her sons in stockings blue Nor, where no poet glows with kindred fire, Regardless of the meed that Fame bestows, The sable matron, from whose loins he sprung, 'Let cats and catlings of ignoble line Slumber in bee-hive chairs, in dairies dine; |