Weekly Review.


UGGOLINO.

MODERNIZED FROM THE "MONK'S TALE" IN CHAUCER.

(For the Mirror.)

Of Uggolino, Pisa's hapless Count,

How shall my Muse the piteous tale relate!

Near to that city, on a gentle mount,

There stands a tow'r—within its donjon grate

They lock'd him up, and, dreadful to recount,