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FORTIFICATION.
The walls of Tenchira, in Africa, form one of the most perfect remaining
specimens of ancient fortification. They are a mile and a half in
circuit, defended by 26 quadrangular towers, and admitting no entrance
but by two opposite gates.
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MEDIOCRITY, in poetry, is intolerable to gods and to booksellers, and to
all intermediate beings.
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SONNET TO THE CAMELLA JAPONICA.
BY W. ROSCOE, ESQ.
Say, what impels me, pure and spotless flower,
To view thee with a secret sympathy?
--Is there some living spirit shrined in thee?
That, as thou bloom'st within my humble bower,
Endows thee with some strange, mysterious
power,
Waking high thoughts?--As there perchance
might be
Some angel-form of truth and purity,
Whose hallowed presence shared my lonely hour?
--Yes, lovely flower, 'tis not thy virgin glow,
Thy petals whiter than descending snow,
Nor all the charms thy velvet folds display;
'Tis the soft image of some beaming mind,
By grace adorn'd, by elegance refin'd,
That o'er my heart thus holds its silent sway.
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