Cold Winter is coming--take care of your toes-- Gay Zephyr has folded his fan; His lances are couch'd in the ice-wind that blows, So mail up as warm as you can. Cold Winter is coming--he's ready to start From his home on the mountains afar; He is shrunken and pale--he looks froze to the heart, And snow-wreaths embellish his car. Cold Winter is coming--Hark! did ye not hear The blast which his herald has blown? The children of Nature all trembled in fear, For to them is his power made known. Cold Winter is coming--there breathes not a flower, Though sometimes the day may pass fair! The soft lute is removed from the lady's lorn bower, Lest it coldly be touched by the air. Cold Winter is coming--all stript are the groves, The passage-bird hastens away; To the lovely blue South, like the tourist, he roves, And returns like the sunshine in May. Cold Winter is coming--he'll breathe on the stream-- And the bane of his petrific breath Will seal up the waters; till, in the moon-beam. They lie stirless, as slumber or death! Cold Winter is coming, and soon shall we see On the panes, by that genius Jack Frost, Fine drawings of mountain, stream, tower, an tree-- Framed and glazed too, without any cost. Cold Winter is coming---ye delicate fair, Take care when your hyson you sip;-- Drink it quick, and don't talk, lest he come unaware, And turn it to ice on your lip. Cold Winter is coming--I charge you again-- Muffle warm--of the tyrant beware-- He's so brave, that to strike the young hero he's fain-- He's so told he'll not favour the fair. Cold Winter is coming--I've said so before-- It seems I've not much else to say; Yes, Winter is coming, and God help the poor! I wish it was going away, _Nov 5th 1827._ C. COLE. * * * * * NAUTICAL PHRASES. (_To the Editor of the Mirror._) Sir,--The annexed _Definition_ of Nautical, Names, &c. will not, I dare say, to most of your readers, be uninteresting. G.W.N. _The Starboard_ is the right side of the ship, as the _lar_-board is the left. _The Parrel_ is a movable band-rope, used to fasten the yard to its respective mast. _Backstays_ are long ropes, reaching from the right and left sides of the vessel to the mast heads. _Travellers_ are slight iron rings, encircling the backstays, and are used for hoisting the top-gallant yards, and confining them to the backstays. _Rolling-tackle_ is a number of pulleys, engaged to confine the yard to the weather side of the mast; this tackle is much used in a rough sea. _Booms_ are masts or yards, lying on board in reserve. _The Courses_ are the mainsail, foresail, and the mizen. _The Staysail_ is of a triangular form, running upon the fore-topmast-stay, just above the bowsprit. _Reef-tackles_ are ropes employed in the operation of reefing. &c.