Young land of beauty! 'neath thy sun-ting'd shades, Beside thy lake, crystal in roseate light, Enam'ring music breathes: there, raptur'd maids In dances, with adoring youths unite; There, magic voices sigh in song; and glades With birds and blossoms, all but vital, seem Entranc'd, like hermit in divinest dream! Young land of beauty! art thou but a ray Of intellect, emerg'd from one? and shrin'd, That thine immortal light may dim the day, Faint struggling thro' some lowlier, cloudier, mind: Dream of the painter-poet! oh! we'll say, Lur'd to ethereal musings by thy thrall, Tho' dream in part, no dream art thou in all! M.L.B * * * * * MARCH OF "IMPROVEMENT." _(For the Mirror.)_ An old Subscriber has sent us the following _questions_ on the improvement of the metropolis, which we insert as a castle-building _jeu d'esprit_ rather than as a serious matter. They will, however, serve for the _committee of taste_ to crack after dinner, and give a zest for their _magna bona_. Ought not the new palace to have been built in the richest Gothic style, so as to have deviated in appearance from every other edifice in the metropolis; and to have been erected on the north bank of the Serpentine?--And, if the _dome_ of the present erection is not to be removed, cannot it be ornamented?--Or could not the pediment, fronting the park, be raised another story, so as to hide it (the dome) from that side?--Indeed, would not the palace be much improved by such an alteration? I think if it be left as it is, when the wings are raised to the height of the body of the palace, (though they are a wonderful improvement upon those first erected) the whole will have a very flat appearance.--Are not the statues of Neptune, &c., much too small, and the other ornaments, consisting of representations of warlike implements, &c., much too heavy to look well?