Ah, pause awhile, mid sounds of song and dancing, While thoughts of conscious beauty paint thy cheek, While eyes, admiring eyes, around thee glancing, Volumes of warmest admiration speak-- Think, if 'tis well for one whose faith is plighted, To shine among the free unfettered gay-- Think, should those lovely eyes with smiles be lighted At homage which no heart but one should pay? Oh keep those smiles, so full of light and gladness, To welcome one whom thou canst call thine own; And may no darkling shade of gloom or sadness Come o'er thy life, thou bright and peerless one! E. A. S. For the Southern Literary Messenger. LINES WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM. Eliza!--let thy generous heart From its present pathway part not: Being every thing which now thou art, Be nothing which thou art not. So with the world thy gentle ways-- Thy unassuming beauty-- And truth shall be a theme of praise Forever--and love a duty. E. A. P. For the Southern Literary Messenger. GENERAL WARREN. STORIES ABOUT GENERAL WARREN--By a Lady of Boston, 1835, pp. 112, 12mo. The sneers of those grown up readers,--who may choose to sneer at a review of so very juvenile a book as this, we brave, for the sake of bringing it, and its subject, somewhat into notice--pointing out some phraseological errors--doing justice to its merits--and, above all, freshening the memories, if not informing the minds, of the less fastidious among our countrymen, as to a few of the incidents preceding and attending the commencement of that great struggle, of which the cherished remembrance conduces so much to preserve in American bosoms a catholic, American, liberty-loving spirit. These incidents will be found naturally to imbody themselves in a brief account of the life of General Warren, drawn chiefly from the volume above mentioned. Those who may incline to despise either so simple a book, or a narrative of (to them) such trite facts, as these of which we shall speak, are probably not aware how shallow and narrow is the knowledge existing through the country, and even in some minds that claim to be considered as _enlightened_, with regard to our own history. "Mr. President!"--recently, at a public dinner in Virginia, vociferated a young orator of the Milesian school--a lawyer, we took him to be--"Mr. President! I give you, sir, the memory of the gallant General Warren, who fell at the battle of LEXINGTON!" And but a few months before, a friend as dear to us as ourselves, and whose age and opportunities should certainly have made him know better, confounded _Sir William Berkeley_, Governor of Virginia in the times of Charles I and II, with Norborne Berkeley, Lord Botetourt, viceroy of George III, in 1769 and 1770! It would not surprise us, to hear a lawyer or a physician--still less a gentleman at large--talk of the burning of Charles_ton_ as simultaneous with the battle of Sullivan's Island,