The sneer of malice, the rebuke of pride:
A wretch opprest by sorrow's galling weight,
Deplored his ruined peace, his hapless fate.
His was such anguish as the guilty know,
For self-reproach was mingled with his wo.
He dared not fortune's cruelty bemoan--
The error, the offence, was all his own.

There are also scattered over the volume several epigrams, one of which
is headed thus: "On a Lady who married her Brother-in-law."

After so many tedious winters past,
The lovely S---- has caught a swain at last--
A swain who twice has tried the marriage life,
And now resolves again to take a wife.
Behold! behold _the new-made_ mother runs,
With ardour to embrace--_her nephew-sons_!

The second volume commences with a poem of considerable length,
entitled, "Salamis," with a notice that "The foregoing poem was
presented to his father, by John William Smith, January 23d, 1821, the
day on which he completed his twelfth year." The following is "The
Argument of Canto I:--

"Themistocles lying awake in the night, is surprised by the
entrance of Aristides, who informs him that the Persian fleet had
completely surrounded them. Themistocles tells him that this was
effected by a device of his own, to prevent the Greeks from
deserting the Straits, and sends him to Eurybiades, calls a council
in the morning, in which it is resolved to attack the enemy, and