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"The Days of Chivalry are gone." Burke's Letter on the French Revolution. See! now the landscape fades away, As westward flies the orb of day: See the solemn night appear, With silence her sedate compeer. Hark! the surgy shore resounds, As from the rocks the wave rebounds: Rocks, on whose o'er-hanging brows, The ragged surf-fed samphire grows. Lo! the beacon's distant rays O'er the waste of water plays, Friendly to the port-bound bark, On his watch, the seaman's mark. Mark! yon dreary Gothic pile, --Where murder oft did glut and smile,-- Dungeons dire of vanquish'd hosts, --Hark! the screams of wandering ghosts!-- Now a double gloom is spread O'er each turret's murky head, While from th' Owlet's dismal cry Intruding joys affrighted fly. Ye vengeful walls for ruin built! Scenes accurs'd of hell-born guilt! Direful were your fierce alarms-- Hist! the sentry calls--"To arms!" How many barons here were slain, In coats of armour lock'd in vain!-- How many feudal vassals dy'd, Ebbing here life's crimson tide! What secret woes lay close immur'd! What anguish wretches erst endur'd! When in your sable cells confin'd Oppression's chosen victims pin'd. How sullen stands yon rugged tow'r! Seems it not on the cot to low'r? As it looks, with proud disdain, O'er the wide-extended plain. Here the feudal times I trace; The lordling's power--the poor's disgrace-- Here while it moulders, all may see "A Monument of Chivalry." Aug. 13, 1796. ORLANDO. _Weekly Museum_, IX, Aug. 13, 1796, N. Y. PEASANT OF THE ALPS. _Phila. Minerva_, III, Aug. 19, 1797, Phila. [Also in _N. Y. Mag. or Lit. Repos._, III-443, July 1792, N. Y.] BY THE LATE KING OF PRUSSIA. _Rural Mag._, I, July 21, 1798, Newark. [Same as _The Relaxation of War_ in _Amer. Mag. or Mo. Chron._, I-440, June 1758, Phila.] THE WATER-KING. A Danish Ballad. By the Author of Alonzo the Brave. [The poem follows.] Since writing these stanzas, I have met with two old Scotch ballads which have some resemblance with "The Water King"; one is called "May Colvin," and relates the story of a king's daughter who was begu
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