(_To be continued._)
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LEDYARD TO HIS MISTRESS.
(_For the Mirror._)
Dost wish to roam in foreign climes
Forget thy home and long past times?
Dost wish to be a wand'rer's bride,
And all thy thoughts in him confide?
Thou canst not traverse mountain seas,
Nor bear cold Lapland's freezing breeze;
Thou canst not bear the torrid heats,
Nor brave the toils a wand'rer meets;
Thou wouldst faint, dearest, with fatigue
Trav'ling the desert's sandy league.
Pale hunger with her sickly pains
Will silence thy heroic strains;
Thy heart--now warmly beats--will chill
And stop thy lover's wonted skill.
He could not see thee pine and weep
Nor could he ease thy troubled sleep--
'Twould quite unman his firm resolve,
And with grief thy love involve.
TERRENUS.
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ROMAN ALTAR.
(_To the Editor of the Mirror._)
Enclosed I send you a drawing of a Roman votive altar, which was found in
digging a cellar about six feet deep, in St. Sepulchre's Gate, Doncaster,
in the year 1781. It is the oldest relic of antiquity which Doncaster has
yet produced, and is of exquisite engraving and workmanship.
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