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VALEDICTORY LINES.

"O reminiscences of youth! ye charm

The years of manhood, soothe the aches of age;
Your pencil paints the pleasures of the past
In liveliest hues, while many a rueful pain
Ye darken o'er with shade."

From an unpublished Poem.

YE MINSTRELS of MELODY! CHILDREN of SONG! A moment yet more I the strain must prolong. Yes, lovely ENCHANTERS of Wood and of dell! One moment yet grant me to bid you FAREWELL.— One moment to thank you for much of delight ;· For much ting'd with rapture, by hope colour'd bright;— What time I have listened, in glens and in groves, In moorlands, in meadows, to songs of your loves;How often the Lapwings have heard on North-moor! How often the Rooks, at my NATAL COT's door! And both those and the Ring-Doves, at Petherton-Park, While o'er the rich meadow sang sweetly the Lark! And the Thrush's, the Black-bird's, and Red-breast's

soft note,

Seem'd, buoyant like bubbles, on ether to float ;-
The Cuckoo's loud monotone spake of delight ;-
Of May time the Nightingale sang at midnight;-

Or, while the TENTH WAVE✶ rising roll'd on the shore,
And, lifting his head, gave a loud hollow roar,
Have heard the wild sea-bird's loud screaming, not

song,

As I wander'd with pleasure the sea marge along.
In youth, ere Experience, with look sedate, chill,
Fix'd on Feeling the rein, there I wander'd at will,
While the young laughing Love, with his sinuous art,
Threw his magical sympathies over my heart.
In manhood less rapture, more pleasure, my share :
For reason had taught me your feelings to spare;

* The tenth wave has excited the attention of the poets. MATURIN Somewhere speaks of the "tenth wave of human misery.” In turning over lately some of our older poets, I met with an allusion to the ninth wave; in whose works I do not now recollect. OVID has the following passages relative to this subject:

Qui venit hic fluctus, fluctus supereminet omnes ;

Posterior nono est, undecimoque prior,

Tristia Elegia, 2.

Vastius insurgens decima ruit impetus undæ.

Metamorph. Lib. xi.

This notion concerning the tenth wave has also been long entertained by many persons conversant with the sea-shore: I often heard it when I was a boy, and have repeatedly watched the waves of the sea when breaking on the shore, (for it is to this particular motion that the tenth wave, as far as I know, applies,) and can state that, when the tide is ebbing, no such phenomenon as the tenth wave occurs; but that, when the tide is flowing, some such is often observable; it is not, however, invariably the tenth wave: after several smaller undulations, a larger one follows, and the water rises. This is more distinctly

Of your HOMES and your LITTLE ONES often I thought; For your pleasures, your wrongs, too, I manfully fought;

And, now I am come to the threshold of age,

For You I a war still am willing to wage.

But no more! of your SONGS-of the meadow, or dellNo more ye wild WARBLERS! I bid you FAREWELL! And FAREWELL, too, to SONG!-for your minstrel grows old,

And the world, frowning o'er him, looks callous and cold.

No more he, perchance, shall awaken the lyre,

But in this, his last song, his last thoughts may transpire.

When he sleeps in yon woodland, will you, in the spring,
O'er his sod, in remembrance, a requiem sing;-
Will you visit the woods where he once touch'd his
shell ?-

Ye MINSTRELS of MELODY! HAIL! and FAREWELL!

seen on a sandy, or smooth muddy shore of more flatness.

or less

I take occasion to observe here that the SEA is a subject of intense interest, solemnity, sublimity, at all times; but, perhaps, most so on a still evening about high water, when it makes no noise except at intervals, as its wavy yet smooth undulations break with a peculiar and indescribable hollow sound as they roll over on the shore, reminding us of

"Eternity, eternity, and power."

PROCTER.

A GLOSSARY OF TERMS

USED IN THIS WORK.

A few other words of rather uncommon occurrence will also be found in the preceding pages, but, as they have a place in TODD's JOHNSON'S DICTIONARY, it has been thought unnecessary to explain them in this glossary. The ANGLICIZED words are accented.

Alcad. A bird of the auk tribe.
Alcada. Birds of the auk tribe.
Alembical. Having the shape
of an alembic.

Anat'id. A bird of the Duck tribe.
Anatida. Birds of the Duck
tribe.

Arldeid. A bird of the Heron tribe.

Ardeida. Birds of the Heron tribe.

AVES. Birds.

Bombycine. Silky, formed of silk.

Bn'cerid. A bird of the Horn-
bill tribe.

Buceride, Birds of the Horn-
bill tribe.
Capistrum. The face.

Caprimulgid. A bird of the
Goat-sucker tribe.

Charadriad A bird of the Plo-
ver tribe.
Charadriade. Birds of the Plo-
ver tribe.
Cin'nyrid. A bird of the Cin-
nyris or Sun-bird tribe.
Cinnyride. Birds of the Cin-
nyris or Sun-bird tribe.
Colum'bid. A bird of the Pi-
geon tribe.
Columbida.
geon tribe.
Colym'bid. A bird of the Diver
tribe.

Birds of the Pi

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Caprimulgida. Birds of the Corvida. Birds of the Crow tribe.

Goal-sucker tribe.

Carinate. Formed like a keel. Carunculate. Having caruncles. Cere. The membrane covering the base of the bill; the wax. Cereless. Without a cere. Certhiad. A bird of the Creeper tribe.

Cra'cid. A bird of the Curas-
sow and Penelope tribe.
Cracide. Birds of the Curassow
and Penelope tribe.
Cu'culid. A bird of the Cuckoo
tribe.

Cuculida. Birds of the Cuckoo
tribe.

Certhiade. Birds of the Creeper Den'tirost.

tribe.

A bird having a toothed bill.

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toothed bills. Expansile. Capable of being expanded.

Falconid. A bird of the Eagle or Falcon tribe. Falconida. Birds of the Eagle or Falcon tribe. Farinacea.

Those vegetables, particularly corn, which are mealy. Ferruginous. Having the colour of rusty iron. Filiform. Having the shape of threads.

Fis'sirost. A bird with a cleft or notched bill. Fissirostres. Birds with cleft or notched bills. Frin'gillid. Finch tribe. Fringillida. Birds of the Finch tribe. Frutescent. Shrubby. Fulvous. Tawny, mixed with red and yellow. Gape. The whole extent or cavity of the mouth. Genera. The plural of genus. Gralla'tor. A wading bird. GRALLATORES. Wading birds. Gressorial. (Gressorius.) Formed (literally) for stepping; but used by Linnæus, and some other naturalists, for hopping or leaping. Gru'id. A bird of the Crane tribe. Gruida. tribe. Gular. Belonging or attached to the throat. Halcyon'id. A bird of the Kingfisher or Halcyon tribe. Halcyonida. Birds of the King fisher or Halcyon tribe. Hirun'dinid. A bird of the Swallow tribe. Hirundinida. Birds of the Swallow tribe.

A bird of the

Birds of the Crane

Ingluvies. The crop.
Inses'sor. A perching bird.
INSESSORES. Perching birds.
Intratropical. Being within
the tropics.

Irids. The pinral of Iris. The coloured circles in the globes of the eyes surrounding the pupil.

La'niad. A bird of the Shrike tribe.

Laniada. Birds of the Shrike tribe.

Lar'id. A bird of the Gull tribe. Larida. Birds of the Gull tribe. Leguminous. Bearing pods. Lidden. A song; a note. Lobate. Divided into lobes. Lore. A naked skin between the eye and bill.

Lox'iad. A bird of the Gros

beak and Crossbill tribe. Loxiada. Birds of the Gros

beak and Crosshill tribe. Lunula. A small crescent like Lunule. theincreasing moon. Magnates. The great people; the nobility.

Mammalia, s. pl. Those animals which suckle their young, consisting chiefly of Quadrupeds and Man. Meliphag'id. A bird of the Honey-eater tribe. Meliphagida. Birds of the Honey-eater tribe.

Mer'opid. A bird of the Beeeater tribe.

Meropida. Birds of the Beeeater tribe.

Mer'ulid. A bird of the Thrush tribe.

Merulida. Birds of the Thrush tribe.

Mongamous. Confined to one sexual association. Muscicap'id. A bird of the Fly-catcher tribe. Muscicapida. Birds of the Flycatcher tribe.

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