POETRY.

THE HAWARDEN HORACE.

AD CIOERONEM NOSTRUM.

MASESTIO Armitetead, colossal crony, Ever at shortest notice all ago

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for Brighton as my cicerone, For Gothenburg, Khartoum, or Sallybog,— Prepared, did Arctic fever fire my soul, To pilot me in person to the Pole A truce, old friend, to con- tinental touring ; Tempt me no more in foreign realms to roam ; To me incomparably more alluring Are the delights of Hawarden and of home : For I have crowded more into my span Than any mortal since the Ithacan. SEsrxmr, Gades aditure mecum at Cantabrum indoctum juga ferre nostra at Barbaras Syrtes, ubi Maura semper ..Estuat unda ; Tibur Argeo positum colono Sit men Bodes utinam senectte, Sit modus lasso marls at viarum Milititeque I

Thence if the savage Sassenach should hound me

Into the heart of gallant little Wales, 0 may some suitable retreat be found me Amid fair Cambria's enchant- ing vales ;

For I 'have ever been, and am, a glutton For all things Welsh—from music down to mutton.

Yes, Wales I love, home of the bilious bunny ; Home of my fiery namesake, Mr. Gee ; Whose heather yields the most , delicious honey, Whose Bards are countless as the sands o' Dee; Whose leek, to any educated nose, Is sweeter than the overrated rose.

There, to assuage the thirsty native throttle, My noble and accomplished friend Lord Bute* Grows splendid wine at nine- and-six the bottle—

A most refined and lucrative pursuit.

In fact, there's not "the differ of" a bouton

'Twixt Mouton Rothschild and this Cymru Mouton.

There Watldn's high but hos- pitable &bidet Will oftentimes invite us for a Climb By slow and easy stages from the valley, To hoary Snowdon's pinnacle sublime.

There let us live and die, and dying win Meet elegy from Morris of Penbryn. Uncle si Panto prohibent iniqum, Dulce pellitis ovibus Galresi Flumen et regnata petam Laconi Rura Phalanto.

Ille terrarum mibi printer omnes Angulus ridet, ubi non Hymetto Melia decedunt viridique certat Bacca Venafro.

Ver ubi longum tepidasque pra3bet Jupiter brumes, et amicus Anion Fertili Baca° minimum Falernis Invidet uvis.

Die to mecum locus et beats) Postulant arees ; ibi to ealentem Debits sparges lacrima, favillam Yetis amid.

CHARLES L. GRAVES.