When the bride unluckily got into the ancient chest,


"It closed with a spring. And, dreadful doom,
The bride lay clasped in her living tomb,"


so that her lover "mourned for his fairy bride," and never found out
her premature casket. This was true romance as understood when Peel
was consul. Mr. Bayly was rarely political; but he commemorated the
heroes of Waterloo, our last victory worth mentioning:


"Yet mourn not for them, for in future tradition
Their fame shall abide as our tutelar star,
To instil by example the glorious ambition
Of falling, like them, in a glorious war.
Though tears may be seen in the bright eyes of beauty,
One consolation must ever remain:
Undaunted they trod in the pathway of duty,
Which led them to glory on Waterloo's plain."


Could there be a more simple Tyrtaeus? and who that reads him will
not be ambitious of falling in a glorious war? Bayly, indeed, is
always simple. He is "simple, sensuous, and passionate," and Milton
asked no more from a poet.