“On Death,” by D., in several respects is unsuitable for publication.
“On the death of an aged friend,” is received, and shall appear. We would request, however, the liberty of making a few alterations.
“An address to the Sun,” the counterpart of the “Apostrophe to the Moon,” from which we quoted in our first number. The author must have suffered from a ‘stroke of the sun,’ before he wrote his address, e. g.
“Great and glorious Sun!
High ’mid etherial mete
Thou dost wheel thy burning car,
And through all thine empire afar,
Dost diffuse light and heat,
For this begun,
Thy course is run,