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judgments ? The great matter of lan
guage and of song, is become silent as
the night that surround him.
—What is the world to them,
Its pomps, its pleasures, and its nonsense all ?
Who in their beds rs dust, in tiltnce laid,
Are fwiftly mould ring into native clay :
'Tis nought to them who bear the name of tings,
Or id'ly Ihara the miser's golden (lores;
Honor and wealth no longer's their pursuit,
"While,/fl7fare courts, and Leauty charms in vain,
For death has flruck his fare unerring blow,
Their race is run, and time's to thru no mere !
COULD we draw back the covering
of the tomb ! could we fee what those
arc now, who once were mortal. Oh !
how would it surprise and grieve us, to
behold the prodigious transformation
that has taken place on every individual
—grieve us to obfetve the dishonour
done to our nature in general, in these
fubrerraneous lodgements ? Here the
sweet and winning afpe&, that wore per
petually an attractive smile, grins hor
ribly, a naked, ghastly skull ! The eye
that outflione rhe diamond's luftre, and
glanced her lovely lightning into the
mbH guarded heart,: Alas ! where is
it? Wheie fball we find the rolling
sparkler ? How are all those radient
glories totally—totally eclipsed ? The
tongue that once commanded all the
charms of harmony, and all the powers
of eloquence, in this flrange land “ has
forgot its cunning." Where are now
those flrains of melody which ravished
our ears ? where is that flow of per
fiuafion, which carried captive our
Composed for the lute Anniversary of American In
dependence, at Wellington, 1, a Mr. LAW of
that City —and f.g by Co,. Tingey.
Wc are moral agents destined to pass a life
of change and trial here, and soon, very soon,
to land on the firm and immutable ground of
an eternal cxiflence. The happinels of every
part of life, depends much on our condud in the
preceding period ; in the fame manner the con
dition of the future on the general tenor.
THE cautious traveller, who is a stranger to
the way, will enquire which of the many
roads before him leads to the place of his defti
aaxion. He will walk with careful steps thro'
the different and untried places he has to go over
— His care and vigilance will be encreafed, as
those are multiplied.
Happy would it be for us, if, in the journey
of life, we used the fame precaution! Happy,
indeed, if to great prudence in common affairs,
we added the utmost deliberation and cii cum
fpediou in all our moral actions.
For want of this, how many times are we
obliged to "go back sorrowing" over the ground
we have incautiously trodden ! And frequently
cannot with all our repentance, repair the loss
and injury our imprudence has brought upon us.
How much caster to prevent by care, than to
remedy by repentance, the falle steps of hurry
and inattention !
THE MORALIST—No. 385.
But with thee, the meanefl Ration,
Humble weeds, and homely fare,
Still afford a consolation,
That we are a Father's care.
Come, thou source of purest pleasure !
Come, thou for row-toothing power I
Shed thy influence without measure,
Rain thy joys a ceaseless shower !
Fairest miniature of Heaven,
Spark cthcrial from above !
Let thy fwects profufely given,
Still my joy my bluffing prove.
Cherub, come with all thy graces,
Ever in my bosom reign !
Riches, honors, titles, places,
Are without thee, care and pain.
HAIL Columbia ! happy land,
Hail ye Patriots, heaven-born hand,
Who Independence firfl prochim'd,
Who Independence firft proclaim'd.
Immortal be that glorious day.
When fitft we call our chains away.
Let Independence be our boast,
Ever mindful what it cost,
Ever grateful for the prize,
Let its altars reach the ikiqs!
Firm united let us be,
Rallying round our Liberty,
As a band of brothers join'd,
•Peace andfufety we shall find.
All party toasts wetere disclaim.
Which join'd with wine the foul inflame,
And prove the source of civil broils, ,
And prove the source of civil broils,
Let us, this day that made us free,
Devote to social harmony.
So rapidly our States increafs,
Chcrifh'd by Freedom,nui^d in Peace.
If bumpers to each State we take,
Uproar might all our country fhakc.
Firm united, &c. &c.
111.
Vet one to KIM, we'll grateful give,
Who in our hearts must ever live,
Whose glorious name our city bears,
Whose glorious name our city bears.
Who such a noble race has run ?
Who so rever'd as WASHINGTON ?
Then let us Independence boast,
Ne'er forgetting what it cost,
Ever grateful for the prize,
Let its altars reach the Ikies!
Firm united, &c. &c.
IV.
Let us despise all party zeal,
Let us but one attachment feel.
Our Country's love alone prevail,
Our Country's love alone prevail,
Difeurd avaunt live scorn your arts,
No jealous doubts disturb our hearts ;
For lings and press while Europe fights,
Friendship and peace be our delights,
The nation's voice is in our Laws,
The na lion's will is Freedom's cause.
Firm uiited let us be,
Rallying round our liberty,
As a band of brothcis join'd
Peace and safety we shall find.
HAIL CONTENT, pure fount of pleafurc !
Sweetest b!ifs we mortals find ;
Some, thou dear, thou precious treasure,
Gently soothe my anxious mind !
Poetical Repository.
ODE to CONTENT.
SONG,
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DURING one of the boisterous periods of
the Athenian Commonwealth, the Philosopher
Heraclitus became melancholy and disconsolate
at the excesses of the people, and their viGblc
degeneracy into defpotil'm. This gave rife to
a belief that he was mad; and the famous Phy
sician Hippocrates, who resided at Abdera, was
sent for at the expence of the publicko cure him.
Hippocrates having questioned his patient, and
for some days attentively considered his case,
a little before his departure made a public and
candid declaration, that he found Heraclitus to
be the only man in Athens that had his RIGHT
SENSES ABOUT HIM.
AMONG a number of traits which do honor
to the Prince Royal of Denmark, the fol
lowing is one which deserves more particular
notice :—Befog in a situation, during the action
with the English, in which he was exposed to
the enemy's fhofi'feveral of his Officers intrefted
him to retire. But the Prince, with a dignified
smile, replied, * I thank you, Gentlemen, for
the care which you take for my personal fafety,
but when Providence placed me at the head of
so brave a nation, it was for the purpose if my
ffiewing them an example."
At a banquet, when solving enigmas was one
of the diverlions, Alexander fold &p his courtiers,
" What is that which did nut come last year,
has not come this year, and wiQ not come next
year ?" A distressed officer started up, said,
“It certainly muff be our arrears of pay." The
king was so diverted, that he commanded him
to be paid up, and alio inercafed his salary.
The following curious Story is related in
the Paris papers :
THE Curate of the village sf Crewdelt, in
the department of the Roer, having been
called upon about midnight, to visit a tick pcr
fon in a hamlet at ionic distance, proceeded to
the place accompanied by the churchwarden.—
His way lying near a foiitary farm house, he
was aftoniffied to fee a light in it, and the doors
wide open, at so late an hour. He went in
with his companion, and found the farmer and
his wife lying dead on the floor, and a servant
girl wounded and bound with cords. From the
latter he learned that the house had just been
robbed, and that among the robbers, she per
fe&ly recognized the Curate's own valet.
On returning to the parsonage house, he was
let in by this very valet. He pretended to be
furprized at finding him out of bed at that late
hour. The latter said, that he had been kept
up by his anxiety for his matter's fafcty,as there
had been so many reports of robberies flying
about.
The Curate thanked him for his attention,
and desiring him to bring up a bottle of wine,
followed him unobserved to the vault, where
the valet had no sooner defeended, than he let
fall the trap door, and after securing it, went out
to procure afliftance. On h&return the vault
was fcarched, and sixteen men, besides the valet,
were found concealed in it. These were the
fame persons who had robbed the farm house,
and who, at the inftigabon of the valet, had
come there to murder the curate in bed, and
plunder his residence. The whole of the party
are committed to prison and will speedily be
brought to trial.
TRAIT of the RUSSIAN CHARACTER.
The feadinefs of the Ruffian troops is one
of their firiking qualities. No danger
whatever can drive themfrom their posts,
or induce them to abandon any attempt
which they are ordered to make. The
following anecdote, in a French book of
travels, lately publijhed in London, af
fords a curious illufration of their char
after : —
" In the year 1777, a sudden inundation took
place at Peterfburgh. The Empress feeing
from her balcony, that the water was overflow
ing that place where the centinel before the
palace was Rationed, called out to him to take
shelter within the doors,which he refufed to do.
The Empress asked him whether he knew her ;
the man replied in the affirmative, arid added,
that nobody but the corporal could relieve him.
The water increased, and reached up to the
centinel's knees. The Empress sent several
roeffages to him, bur in vain. It was necessary,
therefore, to call the corporal, who was asleep
in the guard-house, and he was obliged to swim
to the relief of the honest private, who by this
time had only his bead and shoulders above
water, and would quietly have fuffered himfelf
to be drowned rather than quit his post, not
withstanding the repeated orders of his Sove
reign."
A heathen ph^ofopher was afced by one of
his disciples, why man was fur^Hhed with, two
ears and two eyes and but one mouth & tangue?
" I dont know," replied the Philosopher, " but
this we may learn from it ; that we ftiould hear
and fee at Icaft twice as much as we speak."
O
A poor fellow in Scotland, creeping through
the hedge of an orchard, with an intention to
rob it, was seen by the owner, who called out
to him, “ Sawney, hoot, hoot mon, where ate
you gauging ?" " Bock agen," fays Sawney.
The ancient Babylonians had a very fingnlar
method of providing for their unmarried wo
men. The moll beautiful were fold to the high
est bidder ; and a sum of money was then given
to whoever would take those that were ill-fa
vored , : so that they fell to the share of the per
son, who would accept them on the lowest
terms ; by which means, ail were provided for.
You will find great benefit by salting the
Miik as soon as it is taken from the cows at the
evening's milking, which is kept during the
night in pans and coolers, in order to be mixed
with the morning's milk, for coagulation.
The quantity of fait to be used is about a
table fpoonful to each gallon of milk,and the best
way is to sprinkle the bottom of the veffcl that
is to receive the milk, and then pour your milk
upon the salt, and they immediately become in
corporated. This method prevents the milk
from growing either four or putrid,in the hottest
night of fummet —it rather encourages coagu
lation, and very much promotes the separation
of the curd from the whey, which occasions a
great saving of the curd.
ORDAINED] — rtf Hunger, the 16th infant
Rro. Isaac Brigham, to the poforal care of the
Luplif Society in that town.
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