Notes: In the original, the Arthur Plantagenet segment is missing the words “over-joyed and”; the name is spelled “Cinan Ceffutus Judæus”.


For the New-York Weekly Magazine.


DEATH.

“————’Tis thy delight to make us sad;

To blast our joys, and mock our every hope;

To wretched man new miseries to add,

And sling fresh gall into life’s bitter cup.”