Sam[ue]l L. Mitchill ALS, mutilated to [Catharine] Mitchill, March 8, 1802

Ode to the Morning.
Translated by Greswell - From Haminius, of the
fifteenth century.

In blushing beams of soften'd light
Aurora steals upon the sight :
With chaste effulgence darts from far,
The splendors of her dewy car ;
Chear'd with the view, I bless the ray
That mildly speaks returning day.

Retire ye gloomy shades to spread
Your brooding horrors o'er the dead ;
Bane of my slumbers, spectres gaunt,
Forbear my frighted couch to haunt!
Phantoms of darkness, horrid dreams -
Be gone! for lo! fair Morning beams.

Emerging from the incumbent shade,
Her lustre chears the brilliant mead : -
Haste, boy, --- the tuneful lyre, --- I long
To meet the goddess with a song; -
Haste, while the muse exerts her powers,
And strew her smiling path with flowers.

The violet charg'd with early sweets,
Fair Morn! thy chearful presence greets ;
The crocus lifts her saffron head,
And bloomy shrubs their odours shed ;
Ah! deign our incense to inhale,
Borne on the gently swelling gale.

When Morning's charm the song insp[ired]
Be mine to wake the warbling lyre ;
Oh, waft, ye breezes, to her ear
The mingled strains of praise and pray'r :
Bid her approve our faint essays,
And teach the offer'd gift to please.

For ah! thy beauties to portray,
Fair mother of the infant day, -
What time in mildest splendors drest
Thy lucid form appears confest, -
Still must the admiring bard despair, -
O Nymph - superlatively fair!

Thy crimson cheeks a blush disclose
More vivid than the opening rose ;
Thy softly waving locks unfold
More lustre than the burnish'd gold ;
The envious Stars their lights resign,
And Luna's beam is lost in thine.

Mortals had lain, without thine aid,
Ingulph'd in night's perpetual shade :
The brightest colours but display
A lustre borrow'd from thy ray ;
And every grace that art can boast
Without thy genial help were lost.

Fast bound in Lethe's dull embrace,
'Tis thine the sluggard to release ;
'Thou wak'st to life the torpid mind,
To deathful slumbers else consign'd :
And pleased to share thy tranquil smile,
Man with new vigor meets his toil.

Betimes the sprightly traveller wakes :
The sturdy ox his stall forsakes,
Patient his sinewy neck to bow,
And bear the yoke and drag the plough ;
His fleecy charge the Shepherd leaves
To graze beneath the sylvan shades.

Lull'd in his fair one's gentle arms,
The lover if thy voice alarms;
If with regret the attractive couch
He leaves, and blames thy near approach,
Still let him deem thy call unkind,
And cast the "lingering look behind."

His be the illusive joys of night ;
My boast shall be the chearful light :
Give me to watch the orient ray,
And hail the glad return of day; ---
And long, oh long --- ye pow'rs divine
May such reviving joys be mine!

The following, taken from Ames' well known Alman-
ack for 1763, we publish to oblige a friend, as it con-
tains a valuable period of Chronology in which our
Country was interested, and exhibits the poetry of
those times, as well as the prevailing sentiments of
the war.

1749. { Since first the Sparks of this dire War begun,
In this new World, which into Europe run.

1751. { Since the perfidious French in hostile Ranks
The English drove from smooth Ohio's Banks.

October 1753 { Since Washington enter'd the Lift of Fame,
And by a Journey to Lake Erie came.

May 24, '54 { Since he defeats a French detached Band,
Under the brave Junonville's Command.

June 13, '54 { Since Contrecoeur took hold of English Claim,
His Fortress builds & calls it Fort DuQuesne.

June 20, '54 { Since Beau te jour yielded to British Fame.
And Cumberland adorns its present Name

July 3, '54 { Since Fortune turn'd to Washington adverse,
Who makes good Terms with a Superior Force.

July 2, '55 { Since Braddock slain and all his Soldiers fail,
In a defeat near fam'd Monongahale.

Sept. 8, '55 { Since Dieskau dar'd brave Johnson to at-[tack]
Is taken, & his soldiers [driven back]

May 18, '56 { Since England's sprightly Trumpet from afar,
Sounded to France the signal of her War.

May 20, '56 { Since Byng for not engaging was so curst,
That to be a Coward since no Briton durst.

June 9, '56 { Since conscious France puff'd up with fell
disdain,
Sent back to us the voice of War again,

June 27, '56 { Since Fort St. Phillip, in Minorca taken,
Being of her Country's Succours quite for-
saken.

Aug. 14, '56 { Since the French Forces do besiege and take
Oswego Fort upon Ontario Lake. -

Aug. 29. '56 { Since the great Soul of Victory, Prussia's
King,
To Saxony does Martial Terror bring. -

Dec. 1, '56 { Since his strong Arm in Battle does annoy
Count Brown and all his boasted Schemes de-
stroy.

June 21, '57 { Since He too bold and rash advances made,
Got check'd by Daun and rais'd the siege of
Prague

July 1757. { At Hanover since England's noblest Duke,
By French 'Etrees receiv'd a sad Rebuke.

Aug. 9, '57 { France by Montcalm does William Henry
take,
And Savages the sacred Truces brake. -

Oct. 7, 1757 { The British Force from Rochefort do return,
One small Fort only to reduce and burn.

Oct. 21, '57 { Brave Forrest fights the French with force
uneven,
With four ships only fully beats their seven

Nov. 5, '57 { Confus'd, dispers'd the French and Austrian
train,
From Prussia fly in bloody Rosbach Plain

Dec. 5, 1757 { Fresh Laurels now the Prussian Monarch
Crowns,
Beats Daun at Lissa, and his Hosts con- ^[written above: founds].

Dec. 21, '57 { This warlike King a glorious Progress makes,
Fame calls aloud and Breslau he retakes

Feb. 28, '58 { Osborn at Sea in fearful Pomp does ride,
With Foudroyant and Orphee by his side.

May 1, 1758 { The English Conquests reach the Africk
shore,
Where Senegal surrenders up her store

June 3, 1758 { Since at St. Maloes, Marborough did pre-v
ail
And of their Shipping burnt an hundred sail.

June 23, '58 { Prince Clermont at Crevelt by Ferdinand,
Was fairly beat with all his Warlike band

July 5, '58 { Since noble Howe lay prostrate on the ground,
And the whole Armies Soul fled through his
wound.

July 8, '58 { Since at Ticonderogue in Battalians array
Our Soldiers Lives were vainly thrown away.

July 26, '58 { Cape Breton's Isle taken the second time,
For which our men with Godlike honor shine.

Aug. 8, '58 { The Gallick Coast by us again annoy'd,
And Cherburg taken, and its Pier destroy'd

Aug. 27, '58 { Since Fortune Bradstreet's tiresome March
did own,
Who Fontenack reduc'd to England's ^[written above: Crown].

Sept. 25, '58 { The Prussians now the Russians quite defeat
At Zorndorff, why ? the Prussians always
beat

Oct. 14, '58 { Since Daun surpriz'd the Prussian Camp by
Night,
Slew Marshal Keith a wondrous Man in ^ [written above: Fight].

Oct. 20, '58 { His Life to Fate Marlborough at Munster
gives,
But Marlborough of immortal Fame yet ^ [written above: lives].

Nov. 24, '58 { Since General Forbes the Fort DuQuesne
obtains,
A Key to all the rich Ohio's Plains. -

Dec. 29, '58 { Of Goree too the British Conquests boast,
A noble Isle on Golden Guiney's Coast.

May 2, 1759 { On General Barrington the Heavens smile,
Who conquers Guadaloupe a spacious Isle.

July 5, '59 { Since bursting Bombs torment the bellowing
Air,
At Havre-de-Grace, & fright the Poltroons ^ [written above: there].

July 25, '59 { Niagara Fort the first of Victory's here,
By Johnson won in this auspicious Year.

July 28, '59 { No Frenchman yet can Amherst's Fame
withstand,
Ticonderoga yields at his Command.

Aug. 4, '59 { To take Crown Point an arduous work begun
Long since, at last was in a Moment done.

Sept. 13, '59 { A Battle fought on height of Abram's Plain,
Where great Montcalm and greater Wolfe
were slain.

Sept. 17, '59 { Fame stood amaz'd at our victorious Troops,
When proud Quebeck unto their Capture
stoops.

Feb 28, 1760 { To Plunder Ireland, Thurott was employ'd,
Who meeting Captain Elliot is destroy'd.

May 6, '60 { The French discourag'd from before Que-beck,
Raise their long Seige and hastily flee back.

Sept. 8, '60 { Hail Victory! behold Montreal's fall,
Who can do more, Amherst has conquer'd ^ [written above: all]

Oct. 25, '60 { Since Death's dark shade eclips'd
King George's Light,
Whose setting Sun shin'd gloriously bright.

Dec. 25, 1761 { Elizabeth the great Czarina dies,
And Peter 3d to Russia's Throne does rise.

Jun 18, 1762 { Spain unprovok'd (to their eternal shame)
A War with us unjustly do proclaim. -

Feb. 12, ' 62 { But George the third his Grandsire's steps
pursues
And Martinicio's People'd Isle Subdues. -

June 28, '62 { Since Peter's Queen his Subject's Treason
own,
Slips him aside and Mounts her Husband's ^ written above: Throne].

June 27, '62 { France does but ask and take our Newfound-
land,
None there oppose or do the Foe withstand.

Aug. 12, '62 { Britains strike home a glorious Conquest make,
They do the rich and great Havannah take.

Sept. 18, '62 { Another Amherst Newfoundland regain'd,
Sent home the French confounded & asham'd