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THE SORCERESS:
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O R,
WOLFOLD AND ULLA.
OH! how he lies; his cold pale cheek
Lies lifeless on the clay;
Yet struggling hope —o day spring break
And lead me on my way.
“ On Denmark’s cruel bands, O heaven!
Thy red wing’d vengeance pour;
* Before mv Woifwoid’s spear be driven—
O rise bright morning hour!”
Thus Ulla wail’d, the fairest maid
Os all the Saxon race;
Thus Ulla wail’d, in nightly shade,
While tears bedew’d her face.
When sudden o’er the fir-crown’d hill
The full-orb’d moon arose,
And o’er the winding dale so still
Her silver radiance flows.
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No more could Ulla’s fearful breast
Her anxious care delay,
But, deep with hope and fear imprest,
She holds the moonshine way.
She left the bower, and all alone
She traced the dill so still,
And sought the cave with rue o’ergrowu*
Beneath the fir-crown’d hijl.
Black knarcs of blasted oak, embound
With hemlock, fenc’d the cell: *
The dreary mouth, half under ground,
Yawn’d like the gate of hell.
Soon as the gloomy den she spy’d
Cold horror shook her knee,
And hear, O Prophetess, she cry’d,
A Princess sue to thee.
Aghast she stood! athwart the air
The dismal screech-owf flew,
The fillet round her auburn hair
Asunder burst in two.
Her robe of softest yellow glow’d
Beneath the moon’s pale beam,
And o’er the ground, with yew-boughs strew’d,
Effus’d a golden gleam.
The golden gleam the Sorceress spy’d,
And in her deepest cell,
At midnight’s magic hour she try’d
N A tomb o’erpowei ing spell.
When, from the-cavern’s dreary womb,
Her groaning voice arose,
fi O come, my daughter, fearless c®me,
And fearless tell thv woes.”
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As shakes the bough of trembling leaf,
When whirlwinds sudden rise,
As stands aghast the warrior chief,
Wiien his base army flies,
So shook, so stood, the beaufeous maid,
j When, from the dreary den,
A wrinkled hag came forth, array’d
In matted rags obscene.
Around her brows, with hemlock bounds
Loose, hung her ash grey hair;
As from two dreary caves profound
Her blue flam’d eye-balls glare.
Her skin, of earthy red, appear’d
Clung round her shoulder bones,
Like wither’d bark, by ligntning sear’d
When L'ud the tempest groans.
A robe of squalid green and blue,
Her ghostly length array’d,
A gaping rent full to the view-
Her furrow’d ribs betray’d.
“ And tell, my daughter, fearless tell,
What sorrow brought thee here:
So may ray power thy cares expel,
And give thee sweetest cheer.”
“ O Mistress of the powerful spell,
King Edric’s daughter see,
Northumbria to my father fell,
And sorrow fell po me.
<c My virgin heart Lord Wolfwold wqn;
My father on him smil’d:
Soon as he gain’d Northumbria’s throne.
His pride the youth exil’d.
u Stern Denmark’s ravens o’er the seai
Their gloomy black wings spread,
And o’er Northumbria’s hills and leas
Their dreadful squadrons sped.
“ Returp, brave Wolfwold, Edric cried,
O generous warrior hear!
My daughter’s hand, thy w illing bride,
Awaits thy coquerh\g spear.
£< Hie banish’d youth in Scotland’s court
Had past the weary year,
And soon he heard the glad report,
And soon he grasp’d his spear.
“ He left the Scottish dames to weep,
And wing’d with true love speed;
Nor day, nor night, he stopt to sleep,
And soon, he cross’d the Tweed.
“ With joyful voice, and raptur’d eyev
He press’d my willing hand;
1 go, my Fair, my Love, he cries,
To guard thy father’s land.
“ By Edon’s shore, in deathfui fray,.
The daring foe we meet,
Efe three short days 1 trust to lay
My trophies at thy feeu
a Alas, alas; that time is o’er!
And three long days beside; 1
Yet not a word from Edon’s shore
'. Has cheer’d his fearful bride.
“ O, Mistress of the powerful spell,
v His doubtful fate decide;’’ —
“ And cease, my chikl, for all is web,”
The grizly Witch replied.
“ Approach my cave, and where 1 place
The. magic circle, stand.
And tear not aught of ghastly face
That glides beneath my wand.’*
The grizly Witch’s powerful charms
Then reach the laboring moon,
And cloudless at-the dire alarms *
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She shed her brightest noon. .
The pale beam struggled through the shade,
That black’d the caverns womb, !
And in the deepest nook betray’d
An altar and a tomb. ~
Around the tomb, in mystic lore,
Were forms of various mien,
And efts and fcul wing’d serpents bore
The altar’s base obscene.
Eyeless, a huge and starv’d toad sat *
In corner murk aloof,
And man v a snake and famish’d bat
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Clung to the crevick’d roof.
A fox and vulture’s skeletons
A yawning rift betrayed,
And grappling still each other’s bones,
The strife of death displayed.
“ And now, my child,” the Sorceress said,*
M Lord Wolfwold’s father’s grave
To me shall render up the dead,
And send him to my cave.
“ His skeleton shall hear my spell,
And to the figur'd walls
His hand of bone shall point, and tell
What fate his. son befalls.”
O cold down Ulla’s snow-like face,
The trembling sweat drops fell.
And, borne by sprights of gliding pac,
The corse approach’d the cell.
And thrice the Witch her magic wand
Wav’d o’er the skeleton,
And sitfwly, at the dread command,
Up rose the arm of bone.
A cloven shield and broken spear
The finger wander'd o’er,
Then rested on a sable bier,
Distain’d with drops of gore.
In ghastly writhe* her mouth, so wide
And black, the Sorceress throws,
“ And be those signs, my child,” slie cr’.e%
“ Fulfill’d on Woifwold’s foes.
u A happier spell I now shall try;
Attend, my child, attend;
And mark what flames from altar high,
And lowly floor, ascend.
“ If of the roses softest red
The blaze shines forth to view,
Then Wolfwold lives—but hell forbid
The- glimmering flame of blue!”
The Witch then rais’d her haggard arm,
And wav’d her wand on high;
And while she spoke the mutter’d charm,
Dark lightning fill’d her eye.
Fair Ulla’s knee swift smote the ground,
Her hands aloft were spread,
And every joint, as marble bound,
Felt Isorror’s darkest dread.
Her lips, ere while so like the rose,
Were now as vi’let pale,
And, tumbling in convulsive throes, ,
Exprest o’erwhelming ail.
Her eyes, ere while so stariy bright,
Where living lustr.e shone,
Were now transform’d to sightless white,
Like eyes of lifeless stone.
And soon the dreadful spell was o’er,
And glimmering to the view,
The quivering flame rose through the floor
A flame of ghastly blue.
Behind the altar’s livid fire,
Low from tlie inmost cave,
Young Wolfwold rose in pale attire,
The vestments of the grave.
His eye to Ulla's eye he rear’d,
His cheek was wan as clay,
And half cut through his hand appear’d
That beckon’d her away.
Fair Ulla saw the woeful shade,
Her heart struck at her side
And burst—low bow’d her listless head,
And down she sunk and died.
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THE fubferiber is willing to appropriate part of his
time as a Negotiator of any honest Bu finds, as far
as relates to buying or felling any species of property, (re
tailing goods excepted) or the adjuftinent and fettiement
of any accounts that come within the compals of his pow
er, in or about Savannah, for any person that may have
confidence in him, and want assistance, for a moderate
compeufation. At present be is to be found on his little
farm opposite the plantation belonging to the Estate of
Hampton LilHhndge, efq. deceased, on the cafteriy road,
•ne mile from Savannah.
. . „ , PHILIP MILLEDGJE.
28 th july y (80-i-ft
;Wili be fold, at Public Auction,
On Monday- the jhjl day of March next , at the town
of Frederica ,
All the TOWN LOTS of that
place, that clear titles are not exhibited for to the Com
miffiontTs before the day of Lie, they having advertifod
agreeably to law. Conditions: One half the pin-chafe mo
ney to be paid down, for the remainder twelve mouths
credit, giving bond and mortgage on the property. Sale
to commence at 10 o'clock.
Samuel Wklght, T t ‘
James M'Leod,
J. MTntosh, >Commiiiioners. •
Ja-mes Shkarwood,
Joshua Morgan, J
January 4, 1802.
- SHERIFFS SALE. “
On Tuefdsy the 2 d day of February next, will be fold
by public outcry , at the Court boufe in this city ,
between the hours ofX and 111 o'clock ,
ALL tliat Trad or Parcel of Land, confiding of two
lots, No. 1 and 2, containing 100 acres each, fi.
tuate in the marlhes of Thunderbolt, in the county of
Chatham, known by the name of Cattle Park, with the
Improvements thereon, leized as the property of Mr. E
benezer Hills, by virtue of an execution obtained on a
mortgage. Conditions call).
T. Norton, s. c. c.
Savannah, 30 th December , 1801.
On Tuesday the 26 th day of January next, will be fold,
at the plantation of Hovel Hines, in the county of
Effingham, on the Lotiifuille road,
All the Real and Personal Proper
ty of David Hines, deceased, confiding of 16 or 17 likely
young Conditions call).
Hannah Hines, Executrix.
Dec. 26.
FOR SALE, 7
The Farm Lot, No. 1, Percival
Vvard, Holland Tithing, containing 45 acres old survey;
and
Two Farm Lots, Nos. 9 and 10,
in the \ illage of Hampftead, containing together low
acres old survey.
I he vicinity of the above mentioned lands to this city
muff render them an objedl to persons who wilh for fitua
tion* tor small farms near town. For terms apply to
JAMES ROBERTSON.
Savannah , 29 tb May , 1801.
Lands for Sale.
\ TRACT, containing 300 acres, in Glynn county,
■I a*, and another of 600 acres, both surveyed in 1769;
the former on a branch of the Buffalo swamp, and the
latter about 20 miles from Brunfvvick, equal in quality to
any in the county.
A tract of upwards 3000 ay res on Canonchie, excellent
pine land, on which was a mill feat before the revolution*
it will be divided so as to suit purchasers.
DAVID LEION, Broker.
To be fad at private fait until the frfi Tuesday iri
Februar y next, and \f not fold before that day, the
fame •will be then exposed to sale at public auSlion,
at the Gourtboufe in Savannah, between the hours
of XI and II o'clock,
ALL that Moiety of that Lot of Land, situated ill
Broughton street, city o-f Savannah, Laroche tith
’n§b Heathcote ward, and known by the number 2, being
the weflern moiety tliercof. “ l
. AH *ofe Three Lots of Land, situated in the.
city aforefaid, in Carpenter’s Row, and known by the num
bers 10, 11, and 12.
And also, All that T racl of Land, situated in the (■for
mer) parilh of St. Philip, containing two hundred acres,
bounded N. E. by Ogechee river, and on all other sides
by land vacant at the time of the original survey thereof.
Being Part of the Real Estate of Herman Hn son, de
ceased, and to be fold under and by virtue of authority
given in the will of the deceased.
For terms of sale apply to
John Herb, l
John WxsfcNnAKKR.J Ex ' cutors -
Johanna Herson, Executrix.
Oclober 5, 1801.
N 0 T J C~E.
ALL persons having demands against the Estate of
John Currie, efq. late of Savannah, deceased, are
requested to render them in, properly attested, to mr. A
lexander Currie, at the late residence of the deceased; and
all persons indebted* to the said Estate are called on to
make immediate payment, that provilion may be made
for discharging the debts and legacies.
Alexander Cprrie,') Adniiniftrators,
Joseph Miller, with the will
Andrew M‘Chedie, J annexed.
Savannah, \otb June, 1800.
ALL persons having any demands against the Estate
of David Manners, late of Glynn county, deceased,
are defireii to render t!<trni in, and all persons indebted to
the laid deceased are desired to make immediate payment,
to the fubferiber. John Miller, Adm’r.
Savannah, January 8, 1802.
V 0 be RENT ED, or for SALE,
A TWO STORY HOUSE on
the east common, with a good kitchen and other conveni
ent out buildings, tor particulars inquire of
TORN M‘FAD3EN.