A PORTRAIT.
Sketched in the year of the world, 5831; and, of my bachelorship, 24.
(For the Mirror.)
Chaste, as the icicle,
That's curded by the frost from purer snow,
And hangs on Dian's temple; Dear—old maid.
SHAKSPEARE'S Coriolanus.
Sed mihi vel tellus optem prius ima dehiscat,
Vel Pater omnipotens adigat me fulmine ad umbras,
Pallentes umbras Erebi, noctemque profundum,