Full swift to the portal the young devils flew, And the long gloomy passage unbarr'd; When a lanthorn-jaw'd monster stood forth to their view, So meagre his figure, so pale was his hue, That the devils all trembled and star'd. All green were his eyes in their sockets decay'd, His nose was projecting and wide, In a dusty frock-coat was his carcase array'd, On his scull he a three-corner'd scraper display'd, And two volumes[34] he bore at his side. So foul were his breath and the words that he said, That his teeth had long rotted away-- And now to the devils a signal he made, To show him their master, the devils obey'd, And brought him where Beelzebub lay. Old Beelzebub rose, as the monster came in, And stood for a moment in dread, For they look'd like each other enough to be kin, Save that one had whole feet and a light-colour'd skin, And the other had horns on his head. 'Whence art thou?' said Beelzebub; 'stranger, proclaim, For if Satan can rightly divine, Thou art surely some hero of throat-cutting fame, For ne'er to these regions a spirit there came, With figure so hellish as thine.' 'No throats have I cut,' the lank goblin replied, With voice that was hollow and shrill; 'I have cheated, and bullied, and swindled, and lied, Sedition and falsehood I've spread far and wide, And in mischief I never was still. 'My name is ---- ----;' no sooner said he, Than Beelzebub rose with a grin; He embrac'd the foul monster, who also display'd His joy at the meeting; and both of them made All Hell echo round with their din. _Ordeal_, I-157, Mar. 11, 1809, Boston. [Footnote 34: I have not been able to discover what these volumes were. There is a short note in the German, which implies that they were entitled Dulder Soudth.] THE FOWLER. A Song. Altered from a German air, in the opera of "Dizauberlote." _Gleaner_, I-374, Apr. 1809, Lancaster (Penn.). [Also in _Mo. Anthology and Boston Rev._, III-591, Nov. 1806, Boston.] TO CHLOE. From the German of Gesner. [Prose translation.] _Visitor_, I-154, Nov. 4, 1809, Richmond. [S. Gessner, _An Chloen_.] SONG. From the German of Jacobi. _Boston Mirror_, II-88, Dec. 30, 1809, Boston. [Same as, _A Sonnet_, by Jacobi, in _Companion and Weekly Misc._, I-104, Jan. 26, 1805, Balto.] I publish the following new translation of "The Wild Hunter," first on account of its superiority over every other, and secondly because it is my intention in a future number to notice particularly this _chef d'oeuvre_ of the German poet. THE WILD HUNTER.