teful strain,
To thee he bends the willing knee,
With all thy joys, with all thy pain.

Would Alwin that pure sense forego,
In tranquil apathy to rove?
'Ah! no,' he cries, 'with all thy woe
O stay and charm me with thy love!'

* * * * *

THE PARSON AND THE NOSE.

'Twas on a shining Summer's day,
As stories quite old fashion'd say,
A sleepy set of sinners--
To church agreed that they would go,
Their zealous piety to show,
When they had ate their dinners.

Scarce had the parson ta'en his text,
When he felt most confounded vext
To see his neighbours nod;
Proceeding with religious lore,
He quickly heard the sleepers snore,
Forgetting him and God.

When lo! descending from his seat,
The parson, full of holy heat,
At losing thus his labour,
Tweak'd one's stout nose, then graceful bow'd,
And said, "good sir, _you snore so loud,_
_I fear you'll wake your neighbour_."

J. M. L.

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_The advantages of solitude for Study._

My garden neat,
Has got a seat
Hid from ev'ry eye sir;
There day and night,
I read and write,
And _nobody's_ the wiser.

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_Favourite divertissements in Spain._

The theatres of this country, since the landing of the English, have,
among other dramas, called mysteries, frequently represented one
entitled _Las profecias des Daniel_ (prophecies of Daniel). No subject
can be better adapted than this, for combining a splendid variety of
pageantry in one oratorio, or sacred opera. The jubilee of adoration to
the golden colossus of Bel, the flaming _auto-de-fe_ for the refractory
holy children; the voluptuous dance exhibited during the meal of
Belshazzar; the sacrilegious use of the chalices of Jerusalem; the
sudden wrath of Heaven; the gloom of the thunder; the shadowy hand
writing on the wall, in characters of lurid fire; and the armed
irruption of the besiegers to renew a scene of purer triumph; all these
form a series of picturesque magnificence, which, says our
correspondent, you would enjoy to see some Sunday evening, at
Drury-lane. The popularity of this play may be ascribed to the continual
allusions of the Spanish patriotic writers to the seizure and supposed
profanation of sacramental vessels by the French.

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