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gloom:

When left by honor, and by sorrow spent,

Unused to pray, unable to repent, The nobler powers that once exalted high

Th' aspiring man shall then degraded

lie:

Reason, through anguish, shall her throne forsake,

And strength of mind but stronger

madness make.

[From Edward Shore.]

SLEEP THE DETRACTOR OF

BEAUTY.

WE indeed have heard

To life's low cares will thy proud Of sleeping beauty, and it has ap

thought confine,

And make her sufferings, her impatience thine.

Evil and strong, seducing passions prey

On soaring minds, and win them from their way,

Who then to Vice the subject spirits give, [live: And in the service of the conqueror Like captive Samson making sport

for all,

peared:

'Tis seen in infants- there indeed we find,

The features softened by the slumbering mind;

But other beauties, when disposed 10 sleep,

Should from the eye of keen inspector keep:

The lovely nymph who would her close her mouth, but not conceal swain surprise,

May

her eyes;

Who feared their strength, and glo-Sleep from the fairest face some

ry in their fall.

Genius, with virtue, still may lack the aid

Implored by humble minds, and hearts afraid:

May leave to timid souls the shield

and sword

Of the tried Faith and the resistless Word;

Amid a world of dangers venturing forth,

Frai!, but yet fearless, proud in conscious worth,

Tili strong temptation, in some fatal time,

Assails the heart, and wins the soul to crime;

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Is all intent on duties of the day;

No more the tyrant stern or judge

severe,

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But they who read must first begin to spell;

There may be profit in these arts, but still,

Learning is labor, call it what you will;

Upon the youthful mind a heavy load,

He feels the father's and the hus-Nor must we hope to find the royal

band's fear.

road.

Ah! little think the timid, trem-Some will their easy steps to science

bling crowd,

That one so wise, so powerful, and so proud,

Should feel himself, and dread the

humble ills

Of rent-day charges and of coalmen's

bills;

That while they mercy from their judge implore, He fears himself

-a knocking at the

door: And feels the burden as his neighbor

states

His humble portion to the parish

rates.

They sit the allotted hours, then

eager run,

Rushing to pleasure when the duty's done:

His hour of pleasure is of different kind,

And

Ah!

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Must learn by labor, and must live by

care.

[From the Gentleman Farmer.]
FOLLY OF LITIGATION.

WHO would by law regain his plundered store,

Would pick up fallen mercury from the floor;

If he pursue it, here and there it slides,

He would collect it, but it more divides;

This part and this he stops, but still in vain,

It slips aside, and breaks in parts again;

Till, after time and pains, and care and cost,

He finds his labor and his object lost.

[From The Gentleman Farmer.]

AGAINST RASH OPINIONS.

The Sunday pew she filled with all her race,

Each place of hers was now a sacred place,

That, while it called up sorrows in the eyes,

Pierced the full heart and forced them still to rise.

O sacred Sorrow! by whom souls are tried,

Sent not to punish mortals, but to guide;

If thou art mine, (and who shall proudly dare

WHEN men in health against phy- To tell his Maker he has had his

sicians rail,

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Still let me feel for what thy pangs

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[From The Village.]

APOSTROPHE TO THE WHIMSI-
CAL.

SAY, ye opprest by some fantastic

woes,

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Je knew

it seems, the one

In his best days, beneath whose care he grew.

At. this his terrors take a sudden flight,

He sees his native village with delight:

The house, the chamber, where he once arrayed

His youthful person; where he knelt and prayed;

Then too the comforts he enjoyed at home,

The days of joy: the joys themselves are come;

The hours of innocence; - the timid look

Of his loved maid, when first her hand he took,

And told his hope; her trembling joy appears,

Her forced reserve, and his retreating fears.

All now is present; -'tis a moment's gleam

Of former sunshine-stay, delightful dream!

Let him within his pleasant garden walk,

Give him her arm; of blessings let them talk.

Yes! all are with him now, and all the while

Life's early prospects and his Fanny's smile:

Then come his sister, and his villagefriend,

And he will now the sweetest moments spend

Life has to yield;- No! never will he find

Again on earth such pleasures in his mind:

He goes through shrubby walks these friends among, Love in their looks and honor on their tongue:

Nay, there's a charm beyond what nature shows,

The bloom is softer and more sweetly glows:

Pierced by no crime, and urged by no desire

For more than true and honest hearts require,

And those live lucid jellies which the

eye

Delights to trace as they swim glittering by:

Pearl-shells and rubied star-fish they admire,

And will arrange above the parlor fire,

Tokens of bliss! -"Oh! horrible! a

wave

They feel the calm delight, and thus proceed, Through the green lane, then lin- Roars as it rises ger in the mead,

Stray o'er the heath in all its purple bloom,

And pluck the blossoms where the

wild bees hum;

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She

save!"

save me, Edward!

cries: - Alas! the watchman on

his way

Calls, and lets in-truth, terror, and the day!

[From The Lover's Journey.] EXTERNAL IMPRessions depEN

DENT ON the soUL'S MOODS. IT is the Soul that sees: the outward eyes

Present the object, but the Mind descries;

And thence delight, disgust, or cool indifference rise: When minds are joyful, then we look around,

And what is seen is all on fairy ground;

Again they sicken, and on every view Cast their own dull and melancholy hue;

Or, if absorbed by their peculiar cares, The vacant eye on viewless matter glares,

Our feelings still upon our views attend,

And their own natures to the objects lend; [sure,

Sorrow and joy are in their influence Long as the passion reigns th' effects endure:

But Love in minds his various changes makes,

And clothes each object with the change he takes;

His light and shade on every view he throws,

And on each object, what he feels, bestows.

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