d the carnation warm,
Contending in harmony, flow'd.

And now did the portrait a twin-sister seem
To the figure of Geraldine fair:
With the same sweet expression did faithfully teem
Each muscle, each feature; in short, not a gleam
Was lost of her beautiful hair.

'Twas the Fairy herself! but, alas! her blue eyes
Still a pupil did ruefully lack;
And who shall describe the terrifick surprise
That seized the Paint-King, when, behold, he descries
Not a speck on his palette of black.

"I am lost!" said the fiend, and he shook like a leaf;
When, casting his eyes to the ground,
He saw the lost pupils of Ellen with grief
In the jaws of a mouse, and the sly little thief
Whisk away from his sight with a bound.

"I am lost!" said the fiend, and he fell like a stone:
Then rising the Fairy in ire,
With a touch of her finger she loosen'd her zone,
(While the limbs on the wall gave a terrible groan!)
And she swell'd to a column of fire.

Her spear now a thunder-bolt flash'd in the air,
And sulphur the vault fill'd around:
She smote the grim monster; and now by the hair
High lifting, she hurl'd him in speechless despair
Down the depths of the chasm profound.

Then waving, with smiles, o'er the picture her spear,
"Come forth!" said the good Geraldine;
When, behold, from the canvass fair Ellen appear!
In feature, in person more lovely than e'er,
With grace more than ever divine!

_Mo. Anthology_, VII-391, Dec. 1809, Boston.

[Washington Allston, _idem_. Cf. pp. 18, 19.]

[Footnote 47: This being a _free country_, I have taken the
liberty, for the sake of the metre, to alter the word
prismatick, as above!]

THE SQUEAKING GHOST.
A tale imitated from the German.

_Boston Mirror_, II-96, Jan. 6, 1810, Boston.

[Also in _Charms of Lit. in Prose and Verse_, p. 350, 1808, Trenton.]

THE PAINT KING.

_Something_, I-151, Jan. 20, 1810, Boston.

[Also in _Mo. Anthology_, VII-391, Dec. 1809, Boston.]

IV
LIST OF TRANSLATIONS OF GERMAN PROSE, AND LIST OF ARTICLES ON THE
GERMAN COUNTRIES

Many references to Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Holland, etc., are
to be found in the news sections of the magazines, but they are