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(Lit. Gaz.)

SIGNS OF RAIN;

An Excuse for not accepting the Invitation of a Friend to make an Excursion with him.

AN ORIGINAL POEM, BY THE LATE DR. JENNER.

1. The hollow winds begin to blow,

2. The clouds look black, the grass is low;

3. The soot falls down, the spaniels sleep,
4. And spiders from their cobwebs peep.
5. Last night the sun went pale to bed,
6. The moon in halos hid her head;
7. The boding shepherd heaves a sigh,
8. For, see a rainbow spans the sky.

9. The walls are damp, the ditches smell,

10. Clos'd is the pink-ey'd pimpernell.
11. Hark! how the chairs and tables crack,

12. Old Betty's joints are on the rack;
13. Loud quack the ducks, the peacocks cry;
14. The distant hills are looking nigh.
15. How restless are the snorting swine,
16. The busy flies disturb the kine;
17. Low o'er the grass the swallow wings;
18. The cricket, too, how sharp he sings;
19. Puss on the hearth, with velvet paws,
20. Sits, wiping o'er her whisker'd jaws.
21. Through the clear stream the fishes rise,
22. And nimbly catch th' incautious flies;
23. The glow-worms, numerous and bright,
24. Illum'd the dewy dell last night.
25. At dusk the squalid toad was seen,
26. Hopping and crawling o'er the green;

27. The whirling wind the dust obeys,

28. And in the rapid eddy plays;

29. The frog has chang'd his yellow vest,
30. And in a russet coat is drest,
31. Though June, the air is cold and still;
32. The mellow blackbird's voice is shrill.
33. My dog, so alter'd in his taste,

34. Quits mutton-bones, on grass to feast;
35. And see, yon rooks, how odd their flight,
36. They imitate the gliding kite,
$7. And seem precipitate to fall-
38. As if they felt the piercing ball.

39. Twill surely rain, I see, with sorrow;
40. Our jaunt must be put off to-morrow.

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LITERARY NOVELTIES.

There is preparing for publication, as we may venture to say, from the Pen of Mr. Thomas Moore, Memoirs of Captain Rock, the celebrated Irish chieftain, with some Account of his Ancestors; written by himself.

Mrs. Graham (relict of the late Capt. Graham; R. N.) has two distinct volumes in a forward state for publication, relating respectively to Brazil and Chili, and the revolutions in those countries.

We understand that a new translation of Josephus, the Jewish historian, has lately been undertaken by a Clergyman of the established Church. A classical version of this unique and celebrated writer has long been a desideratum in English literature;

and if the gentleman above alluded to suc ceed in his arduous enterprise, he will confer no mean obligation to his language and country.

Sir John Malcolm's Memoirs of Central India is about to appear in the French tongue. The French critics are a little splenetic about the original; and talk of John Company's devouring twenty kingdoms, and of merchants supporting dethrened princes and paying punctually the pensions of kings.

"Queen Hynde," an epic poem, by James Hogg, author of the "Queen's Wake," "Poetic Mirror," "Pilgrims of the Sun," &c. &c. is preparing in 8vo. and forthcoming in May.

END OF VOL. XIV.

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