The Table book; . tideas, that great source of our keenest plea-sures, may attach delightful images to thehowling wind of a bleak winters night,and the hoarse screeching and mystic hoot-ing of the ominous owl.* Winter. When icicles hang by the wall. And Dick the shepherd nail,And Tom bears logs into the hall,And milk comes frozen home in pail;When blood is nipt, and ways be nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-who;Tu-whit tu-who, a merry note,While greasy Joan doth keel the pot When all aloud the wind doth blow. And coughing drowns the parsons saw,And birds sit brooding in the
The Table book; . tideas, that great source of our keenest plea-sures, may attach delightful images to thehowling wind of a bleak winters night,and the hoarse screeching and mystic hoot-ing of the ominous owl.* Winter. When icicles hang by the wall. And Dick the shepherd nail,And Tom bears logs into the hall,And milk comes frozen home in pail;When blood is nipt, and ways be nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-who;Tu-whit tu-who, a merry note,While greasy Joan doth keel the pot When all aloud the wind doth blow. And coughing drowns the parsons saw,And birds sit brooding in the snow,And Marians nose looks red and raw:Then roasted crabs hiss in the nightly sings the staring owl, Tn-who ;Tn-whit tu-who, a merry greasy Joan doth keel the pot. Shahspeart. To keel the pot is an ancient spellingfor cool, which is the past participle oltlie verb : see Tookes * Diversions of Pur-ley, where this passage is so explained. • Dr. Forsterg Perennial Calendar. 126 THE TABLE MONUMENT AT LUCERNE, DESIGNED BY THORWALDSEN, To THE Memoey of the Swiss Guards who were massacred at the Tuilleries,ON THE Tenth of August, 1792. The engraving above is executed fromi clay figure, modelled by a Swiss artistfrom the original. It was obligingly sentTo the editor, for the present purpose, bythe gentleman to whom it belongs. Themodel was presented to him by a friend, who,m answer to his inquiries on the subject,wrote him a letter, of which the followingis an extract:—- The Terra Incognita you mentioncomes from Lucerne, in Switzerhind, and isthe model of a colossal work, cut in thewhd rock, close to that city, on thegroundof general Pfyffer. It is from a design fur-nislied by Thorwaldsen, which is shownclose by. The Lenvoi, as don Armadocalls it, is as follows:—The Helvetianlion, even ir. death, protects the lilies ofl-rance. The monument was executed byihe Swiss, in memory of their countrymen, who were massacred, on the 10th of August,at the Tuiller
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