fond regret o'er Cooper's tomb;
Closed are those lips, and pow'rless that tongue,
On whose swift accents you've delighted hung.
Cold is that heart,--unthinking now, the brain,
But late the seat of thought's mysterious train,
For by the stern, relentless hand of death,
Is stopt the inspiring, animating breath:
And he whose powers of rhetoric all could charm,
Fail'd to arrest the Tyrant's conquering arm.
Cooper,--Farewell!--
Transient, yet splendid, was thy short career,
Unfading laurels twine thy early bier.
To mourn thy exit, how can we refrain,
For seldom shall we see thy like again!
Who, to deep learning, and the soundest sense,
Join'd the rare gift of matchless eloquence.
Thy wit most keen, thy penetration clear,
Thy satire poignant, made corruption fear.
And such thy knowledge of the human heart,
So prompt to see, and to unmask each art.
Oppression shrunk abash'd, while innocence
Call'd thee her champion--her sure defence.
Once more, farewell, long shall thy name be dear,
And oft shall Independence drop a tear
Of grateful memory o'er departed worth,
And selfish, wish thee back again to earth.
To abide the important issue of that cause,
Fix'd not by mortal, but celestial laws,
Thou'rt summon'd hence, may'st thou not plead in vain,
But from our Heavenly Judge acceptance gain,
And sure admittance to those courts on high,
Where term and time are lost in blest eternity.

APPENDIX.
THE LIFE OF LORD ERSKINE.
AS COMMENCED BY MY BROTHER

Thomas Erskine, the only advocate, and, almost, the only orator, whose
speeches are likely to survive the interest of the occasion that gave
them birth in a country, where forensic litigation abounds, and political
institutions render the study and exercise of eloquence important and
necessary, was born on the in --- the year 175, at ---, in Scotland; he
was the third son of the Earl of Buchan, by ---. This family is ancient,
and connects, with its pedigree, the sovereigns, both of Scotland and
England, related to the former. The marriage of the daughter of James
the First with the Palatine, mixed his line with the descendants, and,
consequently, united him with the family that now reigns in England. He
thus brought with him to the profession of the bar, the advantage of all
the prejudice in favour of illustrious descents, and found easier way
yielded to his powerful talents