Stock-doves and turtles tell their amorous pain, And, from the lofty elms, of love complain. TITYRUS. The inhabitants of seas and skies shall change, And fish on shore and stags in air shall range, The banished Parthian dwell on Arar's brink, And the blue German shall the Tigris drink, Ere I, forsaking gratitude and truth, Forget the figure of that godlike youth. MELIBEUS. But we must beg our bread in climes unknown, Beneath the scorching or the freezing zone: And some to far Oaxis shall be sold, Or try the Libyan heat or Scythian cold; The rest among the Britons be confined, A race of men from all the world disjoined. O, must the wretched exiles ever mourn, Nor after length of rolling years return? Are we condemned, by fate's unjust decree, No more our houses and our homes to see? Or shall we mount again the rural throne, And rule the country kingdoms, once our own? Did we for these barbarians plant and sow? On these, on these, our happy fields bestow? [flow! Good Heaven! what dire effects from civil discord Now let me graft my pears, and prune the vineThe fruit is theirs, the labor only mine. Farewell my pastures, my paternal stock, My fruitful fields, and my more fruitful flock! No more, my goats, shall I behold you climb The steepy cliffs, or crop the flowery thyme! No more, extended in the grot below, Shall see you browsing on the mountain's brow The prickly shrubs; and after on the bare, Lean down the deep abyss, and hang in air. No more my sheep shall sip the morning dew; No more my song shall please the rural crew; Adieu, my tuneful pipe! and all the world adieu! TITY RUS. This night, at least, with me forget your care! Chestnuts and curds and cream shall be your fare; The carpet-ground shall be with leaves o'erspread, And boughs shall weave a covering for your head. For, see! yon sunny hill the shade extends, And curling smoke from cottages ascends! HERBERT'S "NORTHERN SPRING." A DESCRIPTIVE IDYL. YESTREEN the mountain's rugged brow Was mantled o'er with dreary snow; The sun set red behind the hill, And every breath of wind was still ; But ere he rose, the southern blast A veil o'er heaven's blue arch had cast; Thick rolled the clouds, and genial rain Poured the wide deluge o'er the plain. Fair glens and verdant vales appear, MELEAGER'S "SPRING." AN IDY L. TRANSLATED BY REV. J. S. BUCKMINSTER.1 Now Winter's storms, which chilled the sky, In meads, which quaff the morning dews; The race of warblers' pour their throats;" Does, then, the green earth teem with gladness? 1 Meleager was a Syrian, of Gadara, one of the ten cities of Decapolis, east of the Sea of Galilee. He wrote in Greek, and first collected a Greek Anthology. The translation was made by that elegant scholar, the lamented pastor of Brattle-street church, Boston, and first appeared in the Literary Miscellany, 1805. Armstrong's "Art of Health." "AIR." ADDRESS TO HEALTH. HER ATTRIBUTES AND POWER. DAUGHTER of Pæan, queen of every joy, Hygeia; whose indulgent smile sustains The various race luxuriant nature pours, And on the immortal essences bestows Immortal youth; auspicious, O descend! Thou, cheerful guardian of the rolling year, Whether thou wanton'st on the western gale, Or shak'st the rigid pinions of the north, Diffusest life and vigor through the tracts Of air, through earth, and ocean's deep domain. When through the blue serenity of heaven Thy power approaches, all the wasteful host Of pain and sickness, squalid and deformed, Confounded sink into the loathsome gloom, Where, in deep Erebus involved, the fiends Grow more profane. Whatever shapes of death, Shook from the hideous chambers of the globe, Swarm through the shuddering air: whatever plagues Or meagre famine breeds, or with slow wings Rise from the putrid watery element, The damp waste forest, motionless and rank, That smothers earth and all the breathless winds, Or the vile carnage of the inhuman field; Whatever baneful breathes the rotten south; Whatever ills the extremes or sudden change Of cold and hot, or moist and dry, produce; They fly thy pure effulgence: they, and all The secret poisons of avenging Heaven, And all the pale tribes halting in the train Of vice and heedless pleasure or if aught The comet's glare amid the burning sky, Mournful eclipse, or planets ill combined, Portend disastrous to the vital world, Thy salutary power averts their rage, Averts the general bane: and but for thee Nature would sicken, nature soon would die. HYGEIA'S AID INVOKED IN TEACHING THE LAWS OF HEALTH. Without thy cheerful active energy No rapture swells the breast, no poet sings, And let it sweetly teach thy wholesome laws : Of mortal man; in healthful body how 1 Hygeia, the goddess of health, was, according to the genealogy of the heathen deities, the daughter of Esculapius; who, as well as Apollo, was distinguished by the name of Pæon, Pæan, or Paeon. A healthful mind the longest to maintain.' TRIBUTE TO DR. MEAD. Nor should I wander doubtful of my way, Had I the lights of that sagacious mind Which taught to check the pestilential fire, And quell the deadly Python of the Nile. O thou beloved by all the graceful arts, Thou, long the favorite of the healing powers, Indulge, O Mead! a well-designed essay, Howe'er imperfect; and permit that I My little knowledge with my country share, Till you the rich Asclepian stores unlock, And with new graces dignify the theme. CITY AIR CONDEMNED. ITS COMPOSITION. HORRIBLE MIXTURE.CORRECTED IN PART BY THE COAL-SMOKE. Ye who, amid this feverish world, would wear That from a thousand lungs reeks back to thine, It is not Air, but floats a nauseous mass Or by the drunken, venous tubes, that yawn In countless pores o'er all the pervious skin, Imbibed, would poison the balsamic blood, And rouse the heart to every fever's rage. THE COUNTRY RECOMMENDED. - FAVORITE SITES FOR HOMES. While yet you breathe, away! the rural wilds Invite; the mountains call you, and the vales; The woods, the streams, and each ambrosial breeze That fans the ever-undulating sky; A kindly sky! whose fostering power regales WINDSOR RICHMOND; HAM; HAMPSTEAD; DULWICH. See where enthroned in adamantine state, Proud of her bards, imperial Windsor sits! There choose thy seat in some aspiring grove Fast by the slowly-winding Thames; or where Broader she laves fair Richmond's green retreats (Richmond that sees an hundred villas rise Rural or gay). Oh! from the summer's rage, Oh! wrap me in the friendly gloom that hides Umbrageous Ham! But if the busy town Attract thee still to toil for power or gold, Sweetly thou may'st thy vacant hours possess In Hampstead, courted by the western wind; Or Greenwich, waving o'er the winding flood; Or lose the world amid the sylvan wilds Of Dulwich, yet by barbarous art unspoiled. THE PLAINS OF ESSEX UNHEALTHY. — AGUE PERSONIFIED ; ATROPHY; DROPSY; JAUNdice. Green rise the Kentish hills in cheerful air; But on the marshy plains that Essex spreads Build not, nor rest too long thy wandering feet. For on a rustic throne of dewy turf, With baneful fogs her aching temples bound, Quartana there presides; a meagre fiend Begot by Eurus, when his brutal force Compressed the slothful Naiad of the Fens. From such a mixture sprung, this fitful pest With feverish blasts subdues the sickening land: Cold tremors come, with mighty love of rest, Convulsive yawnings, lassitude, and pains That sting the burdened brows, fatigue the loins, And rack the joints and every torpid limb; Then parching heat succeeds, till copious sweats O'erflow - a short relief from former ills. Beneath repeated shocks the wretches pine; The vigor sinks, the habit melts away; The cheerful, pure, and animated bloom Dies from the face, with squalid atrophy Devoured, in sallow melancholy clad. And oft the sorceress, in her sated wrath, Resigns them to the furies of her train ; The bloated Hydrops, and the yellow fiend Tinged with her own accumulated gall. WHAT SITE FOR A HOMESTEAD IS TO BE AVOIDED; MOIST SEA-SHORE HUMIDITY. DROPSY, PALSY, GOUT, AGUE, SCURVY, CATARRH. In quest of sites, avoid the mournful plain Where osiers thrive, and trees that love the lake ; Where many lazy, muddy rivers flow : Nor, for the wealth that all the Indies roll, Fix near the marshy margin of the main. For from the humid soil and watery reign Eternal vapors rise; the spongy air Forever weeps; or, turgid with the weight Of waters, pours a sounding deluge down. Skies such as these let every mortal shun Who dreads the dropsy, palsy, or the gout, Tertian, corrosive scurvy, or catarrh ; Or any other injury that grows From raw-spun fibres, idle and unstrung, Skin ill-perspiring, and the purple flood In languid eddies loitering into phlegm. A SITUATION MAY BE TOO DRY. MELANCHOLY; FEVERS. Yet not alone from humid skies we pine; For Air may be too dry. The subtle heaven, That winnows into dust the blasted downs, Bare and extended wide without a stream, Too fast imbibes the attenuated lymph, Which by the surface from the blood exhales. The lungs grow rigid, and with toil essay Their flexible vibrations; or, inflamed, Their tender, ever-moving structure thaws. Spoiled of its limpid vehicle, the blood A mass of lees remains, a drossy tide That slow as Lethe wanders through the veins ; Unactive in the services of life, Unfit to lead its pitchy current through The secret mazy channels of the brain. The melancholic Fiend (that worst despair Of physic) hence the rust-complexioned man Pursues, whose blood is dry, whose fibres gain Too stretched a tone and hence, in climes adust, So sudden tumults seize the trembling nerves, And burning fevers glow with double rage. AVOID EXTREMES OF MOIST OR DRY. REMEDIES. - HABIT. Fly, if you can, these violent extremes But if the raw and oozy heaven offend, HUMIDITY DISPELLED BY GOOD FIRES. ROAST MEATS; You brace your nerves, and spur the lagging blood. REMEDIES AGAINST A TO0 DRY LOCATION. — FOREST; ARTIFICIAL PONDS; SUCCULENT VEGETABLES; SOUPS; BOILED MEATS. If droughty regions parch The skin and lungs, and bake the thickening blood; Here spread your gardens wide; and let the cool, DRINKS FOR A DRY CLIMATE. MILK. SHERBET. WINTER DRINKS. The fragrant dairy from its cold recess To drown your thirst; or let the mantling bowl Provokes to keener toils than sultry droughts Allow. But rarely we such skies blaspheme. THE ENGLISH CLIMATE DESCRIBED.A DISMAL PICTURE. Steeped in continual rains, or with raw fogs That drown or wither: give the genial west A CHOICE LOCATION DESCRIBED; WHERE MARJORAM, THYME, AND ROSES BLOOM. ASPECT.ITS LUXURIES. Meantime, the moist malignity to shun Of burthened skies, mark where the dry champaign ADVANTAGES OF A NEAR-BY RIVULET; IT KEEPS THE AIR IN MOTION. THE BREEZY RIDGE. The murmuring rivulet, and the hoarser strain Of waters rushing o'er the slippery rocks, Will nightly lull you to ambrosial rest. To please the fancy is no trifling good, Where health is studied; for whatever moves The mind with calm delight, promotes the just And natural movements of the harmonious frame. 1 The wild rose, or that which grows on the common brier. Besides, the sportive brook forever shakes THE HOUSE SHOULD BE DRY.-EPSOM; THE LEE; CHELSEA; BLACKHEATH.-COUGHS. LOFTY CEILINGS.-WINDOWS SHOULD BE OPENED AT NOON. But may not fogs, from lake or fenny plain, Involve my hill! And wheresoe'er you build, Whether on sunburnt Epsom, or the plains Washed by the silent Lee; in Chelsea low, Or high Blackheath with wintry winds assailed; Dry be your house: but airy more than warm. Else every breath of ruder wind will strike Your tender body through with rapid pains; Fierce coughs will tease you, hoarseness bind your Or moist gravedo load your aching brows. These to defy, and all the fates that dwell In cloistered air, tainted with steaming life, Let lofty ceilings grace your ample rooms; [voice, And still at azure noontide may your dome At every window drink the liquid sky. A SOUTHERN ASPECT RECOMMENDED. DEEP VALLEYS.- Need we the sunny situation here, |