Attend. The wind is high, and through the silent rooms

Murmurs his burthen, to an heedless ear Almost articulate.

Hesp.

Thou sleepest, fool,

A voice has been at my bedside to-night, Its breath is burning on my forehead still, Still o'er my brain its accents, wildly sweet, Hover and fall. Away and dream again, I'll watch myself.

[He takes the torch and turns to the hangings."

The horror of his reason is more distinctly avowed in his soliloquy. "Speak! who is at my ear?

[He turns and addresses his shadow. I know thee now,

I know the hideous laughter of thy face. 'Tis Malice' eldest imp, the heir of hell, Red-handed Murther. Slow it whispers me,

Coaxingly with its serpent voice. Well sung,

Syren of Acheron.

I'll not look on thee; Why does thy frantic weapon dig the air With such most frightful vehemence ? Back, back,

Tell the dark grave I will not give it food. Back to thy home of night. What! playest thou still?

Then thus I banish thee. Out, treacherous torch,

Sure thou wert kindled in infernal floods, Or thy bright eye would blind at sights like this.

[Dashes the torch on the ground. Tempt me no more, I tell thee Floribel Shall never bleed. I pray thee, guilty word,

Tempt me no more."

He now roams about in the darkness, sullen, fierce, and distracted; and hints are dropped, that there is a taint of madness in his mind. A great deal of fine poetry occurs in this part of the drama, but throughout either extravagant, or bordering on extravagance. It is, however, effective; and we quote, as a proof of this young poet's fine powers, the first scene of the third act.

"An apartment in Orlando's Palace. Hesperus seated. Attendants. Enter to them Claudio.

Claud. The bridegroom's here? Attend. Yonder he sits, my lord, And since the morn's first hour, without the motion

Even of a nerve, as he were growing marble,

Has sat and watched, the sun blazed in at

noon

With light enough to blind an eagle's ken, He felt it not, although his eye-balls gla. red

And I will thank thee for't; or if some horror

Has frozen up the fountain of thy words,
Give but a sign.
Claud. Lady, alas, 'tis vain.
Olivia (kneeling.) Nay, he shall speak,
or I will never move,

But thus turn earth beseeching his dull hand,

And let the grass grow over me. I'll hold A kind of converse with my raining eyes, For if he sees not, nor doth hear, he'll know

The gentle feel of his Olivia's tears.

Claud. Sweet sir, look on her.
Orlan. Brother.

Son,

Lord Ern. Kind heaven, let him hear, though death should call him.

Pause, a clock strikes."

Hesperus has now wrought his courage to the striking place, and goes to the cottage, where he had often been so blest, to murder Floribel. Perhaps, after Othello and Desdemona, no man should ever murder his wife more, except off the stage. Dr Johnson thanked God when he had done annotating on that dreadful scene. Mr Beddoes has here conceived something very fearful-in our opinion, much beyond what lately occurred near Gill's-hill cottage.

"Flor. Hence did I seem to hear a hu man voice,

Yet there is nought, save a low moaning sound,

As if the spirits of the earth and air

Were holding sad and ominous discourse. And much I fear me I have lost my path; Oh how these brambles tear; here twixt the willows;

Ha something stirs, my silly prattling

nurse

Says that fierce shaggy wolves inhabit here, And 'tis in sooth a dread and lonely place; There, there again; a rustling in the leaves.

Enter Hesperus. 'Tis he at last; why dost thou turn away, And lock thy bosom from my first embrace ?

I am so tired and frightened; but thou'rt here;

I knew thou wouldst be faithful to thy promise,

And claim me openly. Speak, let me hear thy voice,

Tell me the joyful news.
Hesp. Ay, I am come

In all my solemn pomp, Darkness and

Fear,

And the great Tempest in his midnight car, The sword of lightning girt across his thigh,

Or I must weep.

Hesp. "Twill serve to fill the goblets For our carousal; but we loiter here, The bridemaids are without; well-pick'd thou❜lt say,

Wan ghosts of woe-begone, self-slaughtered damsels

In their best winding-sheets; start not, I bid them wipe

Their gory bosoms; they'll look wondrous comely;

Our link-boy, Will o' the Wisp, is waiting too

To light us to our grave-bridal, I mean. Flor. Ha! how my veins are chilled—

why, Hesperus!

Hesp. What hero of thy dreams art calling girl?

Look in my face-Is't mortal? Dost thou

think

The voice that calls thee is not of a mouth Long choaked with dust! What, though I have assumed

This garb of flesh, and with it the affections,

The thoughts and weakness of mortality? 'Twas but for thee; and now thou art my

bride;

Lift up thine eyes and smile-the bride of death.

Flor. Hold, hold. My thoughts are 'wildered. Is my fancy

The churlish firmer of these fearful words,
Or do I live indeed to such a fate?
Oh! no, I recollect; I have not waked
Since Hesperus left me in the twilight
bower.

Hesp. Come, we'll to our chamber, The cypress shade hangs o'er our stony couch

A goodly canopy; be mad and merry; There'll be a jovial feast among the worms. [Aside.

Fiends, strew your fiercest fire about my heart, Or she will melt it.

Flor. Oh, that look of fury!

What's this about my eyes? ah! deadly night,

No light, no hope, no help.

Hesp. What! Darest thou tremble Under thy husband's arm, darest think of fear? Dost dread me, me?

I'll suck the madness out of every pore,
So as I drink it boiling from thy wound,
Death will be pleasant. Let me have the
hand,

And I will treat it like another heart.

Hesp. Here 'tis then. [Stabs her. Shall I thrust deeper yet?

Flor. Quite through my soul, That all my senses, deadened at the blow, May never know the giver. Oh, my love, Some spirit in thy sleep hath stole thy body And filled it to the brim with cruelty;

Farewell, and may no busy deathful tongue Whisper this horror in thy waking ears, Lest some dread desperate sorrow urge thy soul

To deeds of wickedness. Whose kiss is that?

His lips are ice. Oh my loved Hesperus, Help! [Dies."

The murderer buries his bridebut is seen by one Hubert and his huntsman, who think him a miser hiding treasure, and dig up the warm corpse. He is afterwards seized at his marriage feast.

He is tried, condemned, and brought out to the scaffold. There Floribel's mother, Lenora, gives him a bouquet of flowers to smell, impregnated with deadly poison, having herself imbibed the mortal fragrance; and they both die after a few words suitable to their respective characters.

This is a hasty and imperfect sketch of the drama; but we have said enough and extracted enough, to enable our readers to judge of the powers of this new aspirant after poetical honours. His language, it will be seen, ís elegant, and his versification constructed on a good principle. It is dramatic. He has no mean talents, keen perceptions, and fine feelings. He has evidently never once attempted to make his different characters speak naturally; they all declaim, harangue, spout; and poetize with equal ease and elegance; and when they go mad, which, towards the end, they almost all do, man, woman, and child, they merely become a little more figurative and metaphorical; but the train of their thoughts and feelings proceeds much the same as when they were in their sober senses. But to point out the faults of this composition would be absurd indeed, for they are innumerable and glaring, and the deuce is in himself and his play, before he is threeit, if Mr Beddoes does not wonder at and-twenty. Wonder he may and will,

but he need never to be ashamed of it, for with all its extravagancies, and even sillinesses and follies, it shews far more than glimpses of a true poetical genius, much tender and deep feeling, a wantoning sense of beauty, a sort of light, airy, and graceful delicacy of imagination, extremely delightful, and withal a power over the darker and more terrible passions, which, when taught and strengthened by knowledge and experience of human life, will, we hope, and almost trust, enable Mr Beddoes to write a bona fide good English tragedy.

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