We have seen the setting sun

Rise and shine with brighter beams;

Thy country soon shall break thy chain,

And take thee to her arms again.


For the New-York Weekly Magazine.


When the Author of the following Elegy finds it is committed to print, he will not, I am persuaded, be offended, after I remind him of the conversation we had some time since:—And also when he reflects on the injury he does the Public, by keeping any of his productions from their view.

ELEGY