From the Connecticut Mirror.


TO THE MOON.
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tIan beauteous and inconstant!-Thou who


roll'st


Thy silver car around the realm Of night.
Queen of soft hours! how f,nciful art thou
In equipage and vesture.-Now thou comst
With slender horn piercing the western cloud,
AS erst IN Judahs hills, when joyous throngs
With triumph and festival salu,ed thee;
Anon thy waxing crescent mid the host
Of consultations like some fairy boat
Glidcs DER the wavelcss sea;-then as bride
Thou bowest thy cheek behind heecy veil,
Timd and fair;--or bright in regal robes
Dost bid thy fulorb'd chariot proudly roll
Sweeping with silent rein the starry path
Up to the highest nodc,-then plu1 ging low
TO seek dim Nadr in his misty cell
--Lov'st thou our Earth, that thou dost hold


thy lamp


To guide and cheer her, when the wearied Sun
Forsakes hcr?-Sometmes, rowing on, thou


shed'st


The eclpsing blot ungrateful, on that Sire
Who feeds thy urn with light,-but sinking deep
Meath the dark shadow Of the Earth dost mourn
And find thy rctribution.


--Dost thou hold
Dalliance with Ocean, that his mighty heart
Tosses at thine approach, and his mad tides
Drinking thy favourite glance, more rutlely lash
Their rocky buwarkf-D thy children trace
Through chIystal tube our coarser-featurd ort





Perchance, from pole to pole, her sphere they


span


Her sun lov'd tropicks-and her spreading sea-
Rich with their myriad isles. Perchance they


mark
Where India's cliffs the trembling cloud invade
Or Andes with his fiery banner floats
The empyrean,-where old Atlas towers,--
Or that rough chain, whence he of Carthage
pourd


Terrors ON Rome.-Thou too, perchance, has
nurs'd


Some bold Copernicus,-or fondly calPd
A Calico orth,-thosc sun-like souls
Which shone in darkness, though our darkness
faipd
To comprehend them.--Can'st thou boast lk
earth
A Kepler, skilful pioneer and wisel- .e
A sage to write his name among the stars
Like glorious Hcrschcll--or dynasty
Like great Cassini's which from sire to son
Transmitted Science as birthright seal'dl
--Rose there some lunar Ho1rox,-to who's
glance
Resplendent Venus her adventurous course
Reveapd, even in his boyhoodl--some La Plac
Luminous as the skies he sought to read!-
Thou deign'st no answer,-or fain would ask