The Mirrour — Concord, N.H., 1793-11-18 00:00:00, page 4

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From the EAGLE, &t.
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I. A SONG.
YE Fair, wbejo, in Cynthia's reign,
And than the level, blufoing worn, ;
Spurn not at once my artlefsftrain,
Nor treat thefriendly Muse with farn,
Wbo bids you all, with ber, prepare
Totafte the balmy morning air.
Hygeia haunts thefywery fields,
E'er Sot's fierce beams theirfacets exhale ;
The goddessthen her treefare,ields,
To tbtfemho court thefragrant gale.
Haftethen,, eNYMt?di3, to meet her there'
Amity? the balmy morning air.
A Eden's loft delicious bower.
Where tbefyjl wedded pair, reclin'd,
Adam awakes, at fol, hour,
. The beauteous mother of mankind.
Haft, lovely Eve, fo th'fields repair,
And taste the balmy morning tir.
Welye the time to mark, hirwlpring
Our tended plants, nor do ace freed
Horn Nature lays her colours on ;
What drops the myrrh, and balml, reed;
Haste to, on citron'grove, m,jair,
And tafts the balmy morning air.f
Then, CELTA, leave th, down, bed,
When fa Jhrill Lark awakes the dawn,
Nor fear the dew, vale to tred,
Or tr^acrof the flower, lawn,
Leaveraprice, whim, and bravely dare,
To taftetheaALMY morning^air.
PASTORELLA
* There £ in the morning, a healing
balm, that arises from the fields and
gardens, which may be called thefriend
of health. {
Tissot.
f The foregoing passage is dressed in
Rhyme from Milton.
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From the (Btfoa) HBB.AiD of FREEDOMS
IN David's Psalms a* over fight,'
£ B,bsfound one morning at bis tea,
Alas ! why did not David write
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Ths ruminating on his,at, ^ > '?
Ambitious thoughts at length prevail'd,
Tbehard determin'd tocompleat.
The part Therein the prophet fail'd, .-'
Hefa awhile andffrok'dbis mufe;'
dhen taking up his tuneful pen,
Wroteafew ft antasfor the use
Os bis jea faring brethren,-
The tajk perform'd the bardtontent,
• Well cbof en was each flowing word.
Oil a fart voyage bimflf he Went,
To bear it read andJiflsgto board.
Moftfriouiebrifians db aver,-
Their credit fare We may rely on,
, In former times, that after prayer,
The, us'd tofag afo^g of Zion..
Our modernparfen having pray'd,
Uklefs loud fame burfaith beguiles.
Sit down; took out bis book Ond'faid, >
Eefffag apfalm of Mariber Byles.
At'firft wfo he begun tofead,
-The qfablies beads ttydownward bung.
But be with boldness did proceed,
.And thud thef redd, diidlbuslbty^^
The Psalm. .
I±T[TH ^aft amazement we purvey, 4
The 'wonders ofthe deep, 4
Where mackrA Jium and,or,us ,laj,
And crabs and lowers creep.
Fife of all kinds inhabit there,\
And throng the dark abode,(
There haddock, hake and founders are,
And eels and perch, and cod.
From raging winds and tern,efts free,
' So fmodihly as we pdfs.
The Joining furface jeems to be _^
Apiece of Briflolglafs. Q
Butraheu tFe curmdi and^mfeefl
And foaming bidowsfivill,
The vtfls mount above the Jkies,
And lower fink than hell.
Our heads the tottering motion feel,
%Arid quickly que^eceme",
• biddy as new drap'd calves, andreel
Ljkelnd^^^ ' \
Whgtpraijes then are &that we
Thusjar have jafAy got,,
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And tribe rfh^blcot..
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stable, with many frivolous queftions,j,
more to shew his office than his wit ; one<
pf which was, " If they were not afraid to
go home at that hour of the night ?"— 1
They anfweied no: " Well then, said he, 1
I shall let you pass for this time, but if |
you should be killed before you get home, f
you canhotbutfo there was a good watch
kept in Moorfields."
DUEL no DUEL! ~ '
IT has been whijpered in several newspa
pers, that at Windsor, Vermont, on the I
ift inst. Gen. Tichenor twfed Gen. Al- |
len's nose — A challenge to a DUEL was,
the consequence—which was accepted by ,
the former —We bear that they met in the
,'door yard of Gen. Chafe, in.Cornifh, in <
Newhampfhire.—We are happy to add,-
that in this War among Generals, NO lives] ।
were /^— none endanger'd—and but little
blood fpilt—as they agreed NO Fto fight,
but adjourned the DUEL, fie die!! <
I Both of the Duffs were Members of the ।
honourable Gen. Affembl, of Vermont.,
J KEEN TRICK.
Five criminal prisoners, in the 1
new jail of Philadelphia, one day 1
last week blackened their tongues,
and otherways To well counterfeit
ed the common symptoms of the
yellow fever, that, for fear of in
fecting the prifbn, they were con
veyed, leemiogly in a low date, so
the hospital on Bush-hill.—Here
they took, the, firft opportunity to
make their escape, not however
,without firft robbing the nurfei of
a considerable sum of money. One
of these perlons, we are told, is
since retaken, and carried back to
jail. OR. 19.
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MISCELLANY. 1
From the EAGLE : or, DARTMOUTH
CENTINEL.'
FARRAGO.
lam context, !do not care,
ihg as A wil/,lbe,worlds
When fret and fume we* all m, fare,
Lgot no gr**^,as Lcould fee : ;
r So, whenaway m, Faring weal, ,
I counted cofl, and was content. ~^
old ballad.
THOUGH rarely displaying it
myfelf, I have always admir
ed, in others, that indifference to
the ^wand wbe# of life, which is
the firft axiom in a Frenchman's
philosophy. lam too zealous an
affertor of the system of Epicurus
to revive the stoicism of ZENO ;
but! applaud a disappointed lover,
I laughing at the perfidy of his mis
<re(s, or a politician Numbering in
' his elbow chair, though his labours
:for the common weal are rejeaed.
When the burden of life galls us, it
^igwain for us co. curse and,wear;
By laughing we (hall lighten the
load. Surly Care is not proof a
g^nft ridicule. Hi, intfufonsare
invited by our frowns, but mirth is
the surest method to vanquish our
foe, and, like exorcisms and holy
water in the Romifh church, will
lay the devil, or drive him away.
Let the sickly sentimentalist chaunt
hymnsto sensibility, and bless God
that hit feelings aremot coarse, that
he is not callous, or even as “ lbis
publican." Be it mineto cultivate
careleb iodifference, to whistle and
ling, when in the &ge, ~d,,itk
pithyß&NZoO laud that man,
who firft invented deep,^ If pleaf^
ure exceeded pain, thrilling nerfa
would be inestimable ; bpr, as in
walking through the wilderness of
this world, our sense is oftener
winded by the thorp, than regale
fed by the rose, it is impryd^
with, even /with Sterne, to be
" tremblingly alive all o'er." Even
when in doubting castle, in the cul
tody of giant Despair, ioftead of
knocking our anxious headiagainft
the grate, let us eagerly search for,
feme erfony, through which we
may snatch a glimpse of joy.
I have recently converted with a
French cavalier, once of the arif
tocratical party in France, riowe
vountary exile from that kingdom.
This vivacious Parisian is a perfect
example of this gay philosophy. In
the course of five years, he has wit
nessed every rotation of fortune's
wheel. He has feeri the downfall
of an hereditary monarch, a gallant
nobility, and a venerated church; —
He has Teen the fabrication of a
new engine to decapitate a prince,
once considered inviolab'e ;i
mighty nation, pitoverbially 1oya!
for centuries, in a moment tram
pling on crowns, and repeating the
wildest of Rousseau's paradoxes
in favour of equality ; the olive
yielding no oil, and, the vine of his
mountains (bedding her. withered
clusecs, while the hand of the peafr
ant was tinged wjrh other blood,
than that of grapes. He has pot
only witnessed calamities, he has
felt them. The 166 of an honour
able and lucrative post in the royal
household was followed by three
wounds, in the carnage of the ioth
of Augufl. His name was then
enrolled in the tablet of proscrip
tion, and a price set : upon hi, head.
Qityted in the habit of a groom
he reached the nearest port# and
friend less, pennylefs, unknowing
arid unknown, he fought an afflufo
in:AtiteLic&.W
been the language, what would
have been the conduct, of a haugh
ty Briton, or even a phlegmatic
Dutchman in, such a bitter reverse
of fortune ? Would fe not h^ve
cursed his baleful star, for shedding
foch malignant rays, and desperate
ly have cut his throat ? Our care
less cavalier ads quite as well.—
With inextinguishable, vivacity, he
recounts his own and bis country's
misfortunes, curses nothing but the
club of Jacobins, and anticipates
tftter days. Last night I heard
him singing under an old elm
" Baniffons la melancholic," and
soon after a French drinking song
burst from his jocund heart, the
burden of which, translated, was,
Let us gail, drink our rudd, wine, boys.
The philosophic Hume, who
praaifed i/hat he preached, tells
us, ttiat such a disposition is better
than an estate of ten thousands a
year. The phi';foph,Qf the schools
has been weighed in. the ballance,
and found wanting.——Cicero
wrote a book de confolatione, and
ISiNEca ranted concerning befefim
;tyd^
Iconduct ? Was not Tully, a child
Ifhrieking under the rod of Clodi
-lus ; and whcn solicited by Roman
;beggars, was not Seneca a miser?
: Let us therefore no longer wear the
!ftrrigh( laced ty of systems,
^which cannot enable ut'fy.mlk
; more uprightly than our unconfirm
ed neighbours. Let usno longer
q^^Wlfyrdf carefufoefi fbut
dririk our wine with a merry tieart.
England.
LONDON, August 10.
DiflreJsful occurence m'Pb-
LAND.
.The Count Largorifo, was one
of the few polish noblemen who
have fupporced the cause of the
people, against the encroachment of
despotism, and the attacks of ty
ranny, His estates were small but
his peasants were happy and con
tented. He had built a house for
the aged and infirm, to retire from
labour, and to fix thei[ thoughts
“on worlds beyond the grave."
There was also a seminary, at which
the sons of the peasants learned to
read, to write and ca^, accounts. —
There was another school, where
the oldest peafancs inftruaed the
young men in agriculture. Unhap
pily the Count's possession, were in
that part of Poland so ioiqu'noufly
seized by the northern tyrant.
The Ccuor's patriotism being
well known; various ihfulti were
offered to him. His peasants were
dragged from their grounds to fop
ply the arm,, and scarce any at
length remained but children and
old men. The Count, unable to
,endure the wretchedness to which
he ,was a witness, conceived the des
perate design of putting an end to
his exigence: He accordingly af
fembted all the old men, and took
a most tender fare wel' of them. He
committed to the care of the old"
est, a packet to be opened in four
d^ys. He then wrote the follow
ing note to the Kirig of Poland :
SIR,
" One of yeur bideft friends and
[ firmeft Supporters bids you adteu—•
: on the brink of the grave, he pauf
- les to tell you his last fentimenn.
'ln your situation, you ought to
: prefer death, to the submission to
• che Potentates who wish to dis
! member Poland. The nation, when
; it elected you King; elected you to
• preserve the constitution. Preserve
- it then by a brave refinance ; or,
'may the dagger of the assassin de
?prive you of that lifepf which you
i will be unworthy—Remember the
? last words of Largorifky."
1 The Count, the next day fell up
lon his (word, and was found dead
1 by the old peasants, who buried
I him according to his own desire, in
[the plainest manner, without any
Cinfeription. For, alas ! itehat in
>fcription could he want whole a&
were irideKbly indented in the heart!
>of all?
'Read this, ye despots of Austria,
'Ruffia and Prussia, and tremble at
I the recollection of that day, when
' stripped of your earthly diadems,
' the Almighty God shall demand
? why you have done these things ! !
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