ON a soft sunny m in to indsor Castle. It is a place full of storied and poetical associations. ternal aspect of to inspire . It rears its irregular e, s royal banner in the surrounding world.

        On t voluptuous vernal kind    romance of a mans temperament, ?lling o quote poetry and dream of beauty. In    saloons and long ecle I passed raits of atesmen, but lingered in ties resses, and ter Lely, ed rays of beauty. In traversing also t;large green courts,"    turf, my mind e, but    s about tripling days, whe Lady Geraldine--

        "it up unto tower,

        it;

        In tical susceptibility, I visited t keep of tle, land, ttiss and orians, ate. It is a large gray to ood t of ages, and is still in good preservation. It stands on a mound    above ts of tle, and a great ?igeps leads to terior. In t of armor    to James.

        ed up a staircase to a suite of apartments, of faded magni?ce, oried tapestry, e and fanciful amour, ory try and ?.

        tory of t unfortunate prince is ic. At tender age of eleven,    from    III., ained for t, to be reared ureac surrouland. It o tained prisoner by anding t a truce existed betries.

        telligence of ure, ing in train of many sorroers, proved fatal to ;t; old, "o give up t into ts t attended    being carried to ained from all food, and in t Rot;*

        * Buan.

        James ained in captivity above eig, ty, reated    due to aken to instruct ivated at t period, and to give al and personal apliss deemed proper for a prince. Per    age, as it enabled o apply o , and quietly to imbibe t rico c tastes o ure draisorians is ivating, and seems ration of a er in real ory. , old, "to ?go joust, to touro le, to sing and dance;    medier, rigy in playing bote and ruments of musid    in grammar, oratory, and poetry."*

        * Balleranslation of or Boyce.

        ition of manly and delicate apliss, ?tting o sive and elegant life, and calculated to give ense relise must rial, in an age of bustle and co pass time of onous captivity. It une of James, o be gifted icy, and to be visited in    inspirations of tive, uy; otable; but it is ture of t to bee tender and imaginative in t. s upon ts, and, like tive bird, pours forth his soul in melody.

        Even th prove

        t all rees, range.

        Indeed, it is ttribute of tion, t it is irrepressible, unable--t , it    create a self, and, iake solitude populous, and irradiate t t lived round tasso in    Ferrara, y at indsor, as anotiful breakings fortraint and gloom of the prison-house.

        t of t, daug, and a princess of tivity.    gives it a peculiar value, is, t it may be sidered a transcript of true feelings, and tory of unes. It is not often t sns e poetry or t poets deal in fact. It is gratifying to to ?nd a monarc o , and seeking to o    is a proof of t equality of intellectual petition, rappings of factitious dignity, brings te doo a level o depend on ive poin. It is curious, too, to get at tory of a monard to ?nd tions of ure t James    to be a poet before y, and reared in ts.

        Monarcime to parley s or to meditate to poetry; and    up amidst tion and gayety of a court, we sy, he Quair.

        * Quair, an old term for book.

        I icularly ied by ts of te ts ing uation, or ment in toantial truto make t ive in ations.

        Suc    ed ting t ill mid-igars,    of ;t; less, and took a book to beguile tedious ius solations of Pers of t day, and ed by    prototype, C is evident te volumes ext-book for meditation under adversity. It is t, puri?ed by sorroo its successors in calamity t morality, and trains of eloquent but simple reasoning, by o bear up against t is a talisman, e may treasure up in ly pillow.

        After closing turns its tents over in o a ?t of musing on tuudes of    aken ender youto matins, but its sound, g o e ory. In t of poetic errantry ermio ply imation; akes pen in    a sign of to implore a beion, and sallies forto try. tremely fanciful in all t is iing as furnisriking aiful instance of trains of poetical t are sometimes aerary enterprises suggested to the mind.

        Io lonely and inactive life, and s up from t animal indulges urainess, s; tations of an amiable and social spirit at being des kind and generous propensities; ted; tural and toucoucy.

        trast ?nely e and iterated repinings    ry, ting, aing tterness upon an unoffending e sensibility, but ioo brood over unavoidable calamities.    breaks forto plaint,    must be t extorts tic, active, and aplis off in tierprise, ts of life, as on, alive to all ties of nature and glories of art, oned lamentations over ual blindness.

        James evinced a de?cy of poetic arti?ce,    tion    as preparative to test se of ory, and to trast    refulgence of lig exing apa of bird and song, and foliage and ?o. It is ticular, le keep.    daybreak, acc to , to escape from tations of a sleepless pillo;Be;for, tired of t, and ; o to indulge tives miserable solace, of gazing fully upon t t of to , sered spot, adored from trees and horn hedges.

        No by towers wall,

        An arbreen h wandis long and small

        as all t,

        t lyf* here forbye,

        t mig espye.

        So the leves grene,

        Grohere,

        t.

        Righeir song----

        * Lyf, Person. + tis, small bougwigs.

        ations is generally modernized.

        It erprets tio the language of his enamoured feeling:

        ors lovers be, this May;

        e, summer, e, t season and sun.

        As ens to tes of to one of tender and unde?nable reveries, whis delicious season.

        ten read, and ure iasy and song. If it really be so great a felicity, and if it be a boon to t insigni?t beings, s enjoyments?

        Oft    may this be,

        t love is of sud kynde?

        t    h care and charge,

         + to him, or done offense,

        t I am t large?

        * Setten, ine.

        + Gilt, w injury c.

        In t of s ;t and t young ?oure" t ever    is to enjoy ty of t "fres; Breaking t in a moment of loneliness aed susceptibility, s once captivates tic prince, and bees t of he sn of his ideal world.

        t resemblao t of Cs tale, y of tual fact to t    in ion of turesque and minute manner of er, and, being doubtless taken from t portrait of a beauty of t day. icle of    of pearl, sple    ed o t;goodly c;* about , t seemed, e bosom. e tissue o eendants, and about ed a little ed alian e symmetry    among t times.

        James closes ion by a burst of general eulogium:

        In y, ,

        isdom, largesse,+ estate,++ and ing& sure.

        In word, in deed, in senance,

        t nature might no more her child advance.

        * rought gold.

        + Largesse, bounty.

        ++ Estate, dignity.

        & ing, discretion.

        ture of ts ao tra riot of t. its t emporary civity, and o loneliness, noenfold more intolerable by ttainable beauty.

        t , and , ;bade fareo every leaf and ?o; ill lingers at tone, gives vent to a mingled ?oil, gradually lulled by te melanco a vision, ory of his passion.

        rance, ony pillo, full of dreary re?es, questions , eo fort and assure ter,    some token may be sent to    turtledove of t    ts upon ten, iers of gold, tence:

        t blissful is and sure

        Of t; now laugh, and play, and sing,

        ure; and t token of ic ?, or o be determined acc to te or fancy of timating t tored to liberty, and made .

        Sucical at given by James of ures in indsor Castle.    is absolute fact, and    of fancy, it is fruitless to jecture; let us not,    every romantit     as inpatible    let us sometimes take a poet at iced merely ts of tely ected oed at t day. t and antiquated, so t ty of many of its golden p t day, but it is impossible not to be t, tful artlessness and urbanity, . tions of Nature too,    is embellisrution, and a fres cultivated periods of t.

        As an amatory poem, it is edifying, in to notice ture, re?, and exquisite delicacy    expression, and presenting female loveliness, clots ctributes of almost supernatural purity and grace.

        James ?ouris time of Cly an admirer and studier of tings. Indeed, in one of anzas ers; and in some parts of races of similarity to tions, more especially to tures of resemblan temporary aut so mucimes. riters, like bees, toll ts in te ions, tes and ts current in society; and tion ures in oic of t lives.

        James belongs to one of t brilliant eras of our literary ory, aablisry to a     participation in its primitive    a small cluster of Englisers are stantly cited as t Scottis to be passed over in silence; but ly    little stellation of remote but never-failing luminaries    of literature, and oget t daish poesy.

        Suc be familiar tisory (t e been ivating ?    a universal study) may be curious to learn somet ory of James and tunes of    ivity, so it facilitated    being imagined by t t a e taco its oerests. imately restored to y and croland, and made    tender aed wife.

        fusion, tains aken advantage of troubles and irregularities of a long interregnum, tt to found tions of taco ion of abuses, temperate and equable administration of justice, t of ts of peace, and tion of every t could diffuse fort, petency, and i enjoyment t ranks of society. ed tered into ts, and ts; informed s, and    be patronized and improved; and , c eye over t of s. rong in ts of turned o curb tious nobility; to strip ties    offences; and t to proper obedieo time t    impatiend broodiment. A spiracy    lengt    t Ste, Earl of Atoo old ration of tigated    Ste, toget Grae, to it to    t near Pert-repeated ender body betual attempt to s    until sorn from    the murder was aplished.

        It ion of tic tale of former times, and of ttle poem, o made me visit terest. t of armor    and embelliso ?gure in tourney, broug and romantic prince vividly before my imagination. I paced ted co persuade myself it ed by    upon t    rains of liquid melody; every ting into vegetation, and budding fortender promise of time, o obliterate     terner memorials of o ly over ttle se of poetry and love, and to ing uries    till ?ouris t of to occupies    of ts ed by dividing    otill tered, blooming, aired. t t t ed by tsteps of departed beauty, and secrated by tions of t,    is, i of poetry, to    moves; to breature an odor more exquisite to s a tint more magical the blush of m.

        Otrious deeds of James as a or; but I ed to vie, stooping from ate to so ?ory and song in t to cultivate t of Scottis erner regions of tilizing arts of sout. o o t, ale arts, er of a people, and iness of a proud and . e many poems, ely for t to till preserved, called "Cs Kirk of t; sly ed ic sports and pastimes, ute suctisry; and    simple and er into ts. ributed greatly to improve tional musid traces of ender se and elegant taste are said to exist in tcill piped among tains and lonely glens of Scotland. ed ever is most gracious and endearing in tional cer; ed o after-ages in treams of Scottision of t my , as I paced t se of . I ed Vaucluse    t Loretto; but I    more poetical devotion templating totle garden at indsor, and musing over tic loves of t of Scotland.
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