Turn we, to survey Where rougher climes a nobler race display; Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread, Yet still, e'en here, Content can spread a charm, Redress the clime, and all its rage disarm. Though poor the peasant's hut his feast though small, He sees his little lot, the lot of all; Cheerful at morn, he wakes from short repose, Breathes the keen air, and carrols as he goes. At night returning, every labour sped, He sits him down, the monarch of his shed; Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round surveys, His children's looks, that brighten at the blaze; While his lov'd partner, boastful of her hoard, Displays her cleanly platter on her board; And haply too, some pilgrim, hither led, With many a tale repays the nightly bed. _Emerald_, II-119, Mar. 7, 1807, Boston. RUNIC ODE. THE HAUNTING OF HAVARDUR. By C. LEFTLY, Esq. _Balance and Columbian Repos._, VI-144, May 5, 1807, Hudson, N. Y. [Also in _Port Folio_, II-415, Dec. 31, 1806, Phila.] FOREIGN POETICAL, POLITICAL SUMMARY. PRUSSIA. * * * * * Still like a Bur she clings and sticks; To Russia tho she grins and kicks, Holds by the fur, which yet may fail, For bears, alas, have got no tail. * * * * * HOLLAND. Let Mynheer Vanderschoffeldt flout, And swear and rave for sour krout; Nay kick his frow with solemn phiz, To make her feel how goot it ish. Yet after he has gorg'd his maw With puttermilks and goot olt slaw, Let him remember times are such, The French have Holland, not the Dutch. GERMANY. With roaring blunderbuss and thunder All Germany is torn asunder; How num'rous circles near and far Encircl'd in the arms of war; Her Hessian bullies one and all, Pay homage to the spurious Gaul; And John Bull's farm, a goodly station, Makes soup to please the Gallic nation. _Norfolk Repos._, II-232, May 26, 1807, Dedham, Mass. ON THE BATTLE OF HOHENLINDEN. By T. CAMPBELL. _Weekly Inspector_, II-272, June 20, 1807, N. Y. [Thomas Campbell, _idem_. Battle of Hohenlinden, Bavaria, was fought Dec. 3, 1800, between the Austrians under Archduke John and the French under General Moreau.] THE SORROWS OF SWITZERLAND.