The Mirror — Concord, N.H., 1799-04-01 00:00:00, page 4

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THE Bibutet
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Or, Morality, Christianity, &
Masonry United.
By Brother N- >C .
No man a dif-iple can be
Os the author fopreme who's above,
Unless he can folly agtee,
Wah harmony, friendship and love.
Hi~ steps must agree with the plumb—
And batons conform to the square.
Before to the Temple he come,
' For no founding hammer is there.
vHh love uriverfal must flow—
Which none (h^ld attempt to confine,
Tho' a priest or a levi:e fay no--
He must pour in the oil and the wine.
Must find himfelf werthkfs and blind ;
Must knock and he ne'er must give o'er—
The truth must encircle the mind,
Before he can enter the door.
Nor will ihe refulgence of light
Afford him a full cheering ref,
Until he feeing bicoming to light,
That part which shill never decay.
When guided thro' datknefs unknown,
And light on him suddenly beam.
He'll smile and deride the fad tomb,
When th' ark of his fafety is seen.
With love to the grand archited,
And faith in the essence of love,
Disciple he'll be an ele&—
Os th' author supreme who's above.
Then he's like a mason free born,
Who's level and plumb does revere,
With trowel who works in due form,
And walks within compass and square.
So dangers no one need to fear,
When aid of a brother is nigh ;
Who washes th' unfortunate tear,
From widow and orphan's fad eye.
How happy and cheerful is he,
From whatever distance he come,
To know birtfelf welcome and free,
And find himfelf always at home.
Pure joy and felicity flow
From harmony, friendship and love ;
Then taste of the streams here below,
And feck for the fountain above.
May peace universally reign,
And love as extensive abound;
Our pillars and lodges remain,
Till difeord no more can be found.
Then let us mske vocal our song,
For nature in concert will join;
Let's touch a foft note on the firing,
And all in a chorus combine.
LINES,
Addrtftd to a young Lady.
THINK not the world's delusive joys,
Or pomp, or bolting power,
Ever my fuelling heart employs,
Or fills one fleeting hour.
Alive to joys that friend (hip yields,
I set! the kindling fl±me,
My heart teach sweet emotion feels
At fair Lurancy's name.-
No guilt can harbour in my heart,
Where fc'ch a friendflMp lives ;
The world can no such bliss impart,
Pomp no such transport gives, ,'
But Poverty forbids the ilime, ,
With her 1 ftih must live; {
This ft, oh crud, meager dame,
The kunij pang you give.\
The following beautiful liars were written
in a Hermitage.
TIRED of falfe hopes, complaints fin
• cere,
Os love, of fortune, and the great}'
Without a wi(h, without, fear.
For death in this retreat I wait..
SENTIMENTAL MEDLEY.
Ifflfftellhnp.
FOR THE MIRROR.
1 Mr. Davis,
TWAS vexed at the ungen-
A erous, ftrangc remark of
f my neighbour Lazy, to whom
I read in your paper of the
4th inst. a very polite hint to
delinquent Customers, con
eluding with a wish that
“ those in arrear for la/t year's
papers would read the essay,
• I confider its meaning and ap
I plication." I told him I paid
Ithe Printer regularly every
year flhat it was a good prin-
Icipk to " live and let live ;"
I allied him how his accompts
stood ? heigh ho! I don't
; know," said Neighbour Lazy,
'tis a year and a half since I
Ifettled, but the Printer teems
I to be a very civil obliging
I man, I guess be will wait till
Ifpring." 'Tis ungenerous in
I the extreme, I replied, that
goodness & forbearance Should
Ibe thus abused. Lazy said,
at any rate he must continue
I to take the papers, to fee how
I the French come out : One
I delinquent he thought would
not make,much odds; but I
I finally reasoned him into the
Iparting with some money,
I which he had with him to
I buy brandy, and which I en-
Iclofe to you with the above
I lines, that others may do
\ likewise.
I For. K, Heigh ho !—!!—??
I DELINQUENT Customers must know
IThat Printers live on " milk and meat;"
Like us, they " eat & drink, & Sleep."
I Then while to feaft our mireds,
I You labour night and day,
I To get year wants fapplied.
We'll make you Honrst Pay.
I N. H. March '%.
I P. S. If we would have a
I Lamp give us light, must we
I not supply it with oil?
I [, The answer to the above question
lisI is obvious, and needs no demonstration.
I The Printer would 61k in return— Is not
I " the labourer worthy of his hire ?" why
I then do ye not pay him ?— Do ^ou ima
I gine that he can subsist, like aca&fo,
I upon air ? or like a conjurer, can make
paper out of netbing ? or like meat, dig
| gers, can find dollars- in the earth ?)—
' "FOR THE MIRROR.
' '° r Ladies
|T° rec ° mm ^nd themselves
1, by comely dress and man-
Iners, to the attention and fan
cy of gentlemen upon the look
out, is very well ; but when
many single gentlemen de
-Icline or defer a married state
Ifrom apprehensions of its ex-
Ipenfivenefs, it would also be
I very well for those dressy la-
I dies to recommend themselves
I to the judgment of those look
ers out, by laying hold the
Idiftaff, and gaining to them-
" TO RAIS# THE GENIUS, AND TO MEND THE HEART."
lelves the character of being
notably induflrious. Try it, if
you please, despairing Miss,
and the next winter ,ou shall
be more comfortably lodged
than the past, or lam no,
, TRUE PROPHET.
I 1
Circle of Human Life.
THE seven (Lget of life, from
the firft dawn of life to the
g^ei of death, ate thus described
by Gratian, ai under the influence
of the seven planets.
Childhood is governed b, the
moon, and with her influence re
ceives her imperfedion#. Its light
is ftiot tod watery, without hear
enough to produce diftina ideas.
It is changeable too, and neither
know, wha^ agreed with or ap
pastes it. Yielding like wax to
all impreffiooi, and mouldable at
paste, it puffer gradually from the
dark est of total ignorance, to a
twilight of apprehet lion..
From ten to twenty, Mercury
fucceedi co the charge, io/piriog
that docility with which the boy
trikes the learning that is given
him, and too often that which he
will with to unlearn. He riles in
the school, and fills his underftand
iog with truth and fallhood, a#
chance determines the place of hit
education.
At twenty Venus take# the seep
ter and reigns with tyranny till
thirty, makes cruel war against his
youth, breathing into him her hot
left fi r es, and feaftbg his imagina
tion with ideas of gallantry and
love.
At thirty, the fun tifei, and dif
fufei that light aod heat which
warms and irradiates the meridian
man, and makes him pant for
worth, fame mod diftinaioQ. He
undertakes honourable employ
ments with spirit, becomes solar
orb to his family and country, and
illumines, ripens and perfefts eve
tf 'hing.
At forty, Mars owns him for
his fubje&, infufrs into him cour
age rightly tempered, and gives
him commied in the field. He is
punailiou, mettlesome, haughty,
fierce and boisterous, apt to quar
rel, and ready to repel revenge and
injury^
At fifty, Jupiter succeeds, the
lord of his afeendant, conferring
stare and fovereigoty. Man is
now tin fter of bis anions, he
fem and ads with ^uhoriry,
does not rake it well to be con
troled by others, but afpirei after
uriverfai dominion {takes his ref>
olurioos upon himfett, and executes
his own fuggeflions. In this stage,
reason and ^inue are triumphant.
At sixty, the melancholy Saurn
makes it night with mao ; his
morning returns no more ; but
diseases and fullenneh succeed. He
fees his own end near, and he with
es that the world may end with
him. He lives tired by, and tiriog
every body, peevish and fosrliog,
tike an old cur, gnawingche pres
ent arid licking over the ptft. —
Languid and fluttering in his
Speech, flow to undertake, and in.
effiau&l in his endeavours, sordid
THE
; aid narrow in hUixpeofea, difaft.
f fol in his perfoo, csteieft of hi
, dreft, defiirote of feefibirir,, com
[pricing at all hours god of all
ithings. Thus he lives on till fey
eoty, and may perhaps fometimea
languid) till eighty ; but from
thence lot ward all is pkin and mifi
ery, not life but death.
After the expiration of the rfign
of Saturn, the moon refomei her
influence over his fccond cso
hood. Now returns inUocy with
all the paios cfdecrepitude. His
time is come round, Ike 1 wheel,
to the feme point ; and ending as
he began, he may be figured by
the serpent biting his tail ; ingerri«
out hieroglyphic of the circle ce
fcribed by human life!
MISERLY KN^E.
THE mifaly knave is a ptft
to focie.y, and a cwte to
himfeifi An infitiable thirst for
money ever keeps his fcul co the
wreck, whilst ht avaricious dtfite
is ioc^ble of being fatiified. The
necefyy of the poor he turns m
his own advantage, and draws their
hard earnings from them by mesne
the most detestable. He grafpa
wfh iroo hißd the Lift mice of the
widow's dower end orphan's pat
rimony, and with unrelenting hea<c
cot fines the iofoWent debtor in the
dark rooms of a damp ptifon.—
Hit hired labourers are cheated out
of their just waget, and rhe' unwea
ry dealer feels the fad effefta of hi,
damnable knavery. The fight of
a penny in the hands of a neigh,
boor, sets hit greedy mind on the
torture, till he has got it into his
own possession, but whether by
honesty or dithonefty, he caret
cot. The life of this delpicab'e
wretch is replete with crimes the
most oifgracdu; his head loaded
with the curses of the wronged
and oppressed, arid hi# final exit,
fir from being lamented, fills the
hearts of his newest relations with
j°y. A.
Banquet o F Camus. °
BttCT—fo
A Certain clergyman being at
a borfe-rice on Saturday af
ternoon, inftetd of being in hit
study, a droll genius; who kept ad
inn not far from the coorfc, steps
io, and ebfervieg his Sermon just
began, frem these words, '' The
rigtara fall flowifo like a per#
ba, wrote " Horse," ioftud of
" tree," at the end of the a- finith -
cd sentence. The Divine, on hit
return not perceiving i; very
gravely went on and fioifhed ha
Difcoorfe by cand e light, and next
day read io his People the text,
viz. " The righteous Jhall farife
like & green bay borfe I" On which
the afaw&d Parlon dop'd (hart,
and Uys, 6$ Herfel herft! barfed
IS#—,and I coofefi it is my own hand
writing, my Hearers; but it must
be a mithke, for which I most
humbly crave your pardon."
cQ *' lll y^f .^:y”>-U
"0 Dear," fri4 a firguhr flee&,lov
ing tired traveller, cs he hid himfelf
down for hit rented rest-." The bto,
whoever he w^s, thatfi ft inmte^^
ought to be bifad,ii mi man &."