THE END.
[1] This account of the Stewart family is not fictitious, either as to name or circumstance.
[2] "The altar of the sun." Grieneus was one of the names of Apollo in the Grecian temples.
[3] Verbatim.
[4] The lower Irish, to the end of life, continue to call every body by the appellation they knew them in youth. Many a "Master Billy and Miss Jenny" are, with all propriety, fathers and mothers of large families. The wives of the peasantry are always called by their maiden names amongst their equals; and parents speak of "the boy," or "the girl," even when past the grand climacteric.
Adelaide
Whilst singing steals each list'ner's heart,
'Tis melody's refined part,
None can such melting strains impart,
As Adelaide.
Ye fair ones that, with agile bound,
Dance o'er this turf in frolick round,
Whose tender flowers scarce bend their head,
Beneath your footstep's airy tread;
Like you I once, with sportive mien,
Join'd laughing Pleasure's joyous train:
Then life and all its hopes were new,
And love its brightest visions drew:
Those joys are past—the vision's flown:
What now remains?—The tomb alone.
[7] Literally nearly thus:
Now beneath the beaming moon, Cytherean Venus leads forth the band. The decent Graces, joined by the Nymphs, strike the earth with alternate foot.
Wisdom's sublime, we still are told it,
Yet few admire, though all uphold it;
And but for thee we ne'er had prov'd,
How much e'en wisdom may be lov'd.
Thou art lovely—so is she,
Say, which should my heart prefer?
Cupid sure was fair like thee.
But his love was brown like her.
Many weddings have I seen,
By none of them I'm tempted;
Yet still full three fourths of mankind
Incur the risk—and still we find
Full three fourths have repented.
Printed by S. Hamilton, Weybridge, Surrey.
[Transcriber's Note: Hyphen variations within volume and between volumes left as printed.]