of morning's glorious light;
I mark thee maddened in thy fall, and pale with hoary rage,
And fretting in thy passion, that hath boiled from age to age.

Like thunder on my startled ear, thine everlasting roar
Hath broken, and reverberates from shore to echoing shore;
Continuous and fearful, with dread power in its tone,
That shakes the earth's foundations and rives the solid stone!

How tremulous beneath the shock the fearful earth hath grown!
Reeling beneath the mighty plunge, it sighs with ceaseless moan;
Now rush thy waves, with frenzy wild, in foam of dazzling white,
Now, placidly they sweep along, with ever-changeful light.

O, wondrous Power! O, giant Strength! how fearful to behold,
Outstretched on yon o'erhanging crag, thy mad waves downward rolled:
To look adown the cavernous abyss that yawns beneath--
To see the feathery spray flash forth in many a glittering wreath!

Voluminous and ceaseless still, forever swift descend
The waters in their headlong course, then turning, heavenward wend:
Now, disenthralled, their essence hath its spirit-shape resumed;
Bright, bodiless and pure, its fright to yon empyrean plumed!

_The Falls, 1842._ CLAUDE HALCRO.

TO MARY.

I wonder if the magic spells
That in the days of yore
Bewitched so oft poor harmless folks
(Unlucky wights!) are o'er?

I can't believe it, for I've felt
The witchery of thy smile;
I've felt thy magic arts, and yet
I've loved thee all the while.

Is it the gleam of snowy teeth,
Or wave of silken tress,
That brings me to thy side, to gaze
Upon thy loveliness?

It cannot be, for I have seen
Full many a maid as fair;
I've seen as ruby lips before,
I've seen as glossy hair.

Some dark enchantress has bequeathed
To thee her magic art,
And thou hast bound me with thy spell,
And stolen all my heart.

HORACE.

LITERARY NOTICES.

CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE, AND THE LITERARY CHARACTER ILLUSTRATED. By
I. C. D'ISRAELI, Esq., D. C. L., F. S. A. With Curiosities of American
Literature. By RUFUS W. GRISWOLD. Complete in one volume. New-York: D.
APPLETON AND COMPANY, Broadway.

The ensuing remarks refer rather to the Supplement to D'ISRAELI'S
'Curiosities of Literature,' edited by Rev. RUFUS W. GRISWOLD, than to the
well-known wor