For virtue, freedom, human rights, to fall, Beseems the brave: it is a Saviour's death. Of heroes only the most pure of all, Thus with their heart's blood tinge the battle-heath. And this proud death is seemliest in the man Who for a kindred race, a country bleeds: Three hundred Spartans from the shining van Of those, whom fame in this high triumph leads. Great is the death for a good prince incurr'd; Who wields the sceptre with benignant hand: Well may for him the noble bare his sword, Falling he earns the blessings of a land. Death for a friend, parent, child, or her we love, If not so great, is beauteous to behold: This the fine tumults of the hearts approve; It is the walk to death unbought of gold. But for mere majesty to meet a wound-- Who holds that great or glorious, he mistakes: That is the fury of the pamper'd hound, Which envy, anger, or the whip, awakes. And for a tyrant's sake to seek a jaunt To hell ----'s a death which only hell enjoys; Where such a hero falls--the gibbet plant, A murderer's trophy, and a plunderer's prize. _Amer. Universal Mag._, I-141, Jan. 23, 1797, Phila. [G. A. Bürger, _Die Tode_.] THE LASS OF FAIR WONE. From the German of Bürger. _Amer. Universal Mag._, I-211, Feb. 6, 1797, Phila. [Also in _Phila. Minerva_, II, Dec. 17, 1796, Phila.] THE BROKEN PITCHER. From the German of Gesner. [Prose translation.] _The Key_, I-69, Mar. 10, 1798, Frederick Town. [S. Gessner, _Der zerbrochene Krug_.] LEONORA. [a]. A Ballad from Bürger. The following translation (made some years since) of a celebrated piece, of which other versions have appeared, and are now on the point of appearing, possesses so much peculiar charm and intrinsic merit, that we are happy in being permitted to present it to our readers. [The translation follows.] _Weekly Mag._, I-221, Mar. 17, 1798, Phila. [G. A. Bürger, _Lenore_. Wm. Taylor of Norwich, _Lenora_. _Mo. Mag. and British Register_, I-135, Mar. 1769, London. M. G. Lewis, _Tales of Wonder_, 1801, London. The translation appeared anonymously in the above mentioned, but was afterwards printed with several changes under the title _Ellenore_ in Taylor's _Historic Survey of German Poetry_, II-40. Also in _Tales of Terror and Wonder_, collected by M. G. Lewis. With an introduction by Henry Morley, 1887, London. Cf. Preface.] TO A LITTLE CHARMER. From the German of Lessing.