Pale-eyed Affright, his heart of silver hue,
In vain assailed her bosom to acale.1

She heard unflemed2 the shrieking voice of woe,
And sadness in the owlet shake the dale.
She shook the burlèd3 spear;

On high she jeest her shield;
Her foemen all appear,

And flizz along the field.

Power, with his heafod straught5 into the skies,
His spear a sun-beam and his shield a star,
Alike tway brenning gronfires rolls his eyes,
Chafts with his iron feet and sounds to war.
She sits upon a rock;

She bends before his spear;

She rises from the shock,
Wielding her own in air.

Hard as the thunder doth she drive it on;
Wit skilly wimpled' guides it to his crown;
His long sharp spear, his spreading shield, is gone;
He falls, and falling rolleth thousands down.
War, gore-faced War, by envy burl'd, arist,
His fiery helm nodding to the air,

Ten bloody arrows in his straining fist.”

What a picture in the last line! With no other evidence before us than is afforded by this and the other antique pieces which we have quoted, one may assert, unhesitatingly, not only that Chatterton was a true English poet of the eighteenth century, but also 3 Armed. 4 Tossed. 5 Head stretched. 7 Closely covered. 8 Armed.

2 Unterrified.

1 Freeze.
6 Two burning meteors.

that, compared with the other English poets of the part of that century immediately prior to the new era begun by Burns and Wordsworth, he was, with all his immaturity, almost solitary in the possession of the highest poetic gift. Pope, Thomson, and Goldsmith, were poets of this century; and no sensible man will for a moment think of comparing the boy of Bristol, in respect of his whole activity, with those fine stars of our literature, or even with some of the lesser stars that shone along with them. But he had a specific fire and force of imagination in him which they had not; and, when one remembers that he was but seventeen years and nine months old when he died, and that most of his antiques were written fully a year before that time, little wonder that, with Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Keats, one looks back again and again on his brief existence with a kind of awe, as on the track of a heaven-shot meteor earthwards through a night of gloom.

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