The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1792-11-07 00:00:00, page 4

In silence, louder than Divines can
preach ;
Hear what it fays—ye sons of folly
hear !
It speaks to you—O! give it then your
ear!
It bids you lay all vanity aside,
O! what akaure this for human pride!
The clock ttrikes twelve—how foleinn
is the found,
Hark! haw the strokes from,hollow
vaults rebound !
They bid os haftea to be wife & show
How rapid in their course the minutes
See yonder ,ew how it lifts its head !
Around their gloomy fhadethe branch
es spread!
Old and decay'd,it still retains a grace
And adds more solemn horror to the
place.
Wbofe tomb is this ? it fays, 'tis Mira's
tomb,
Deck'd from the world in beauty $
faireft bloom,'
Attend ye fair ! ye tho'tlefs & ye gay!
For Mira dy'd upon her rubrial da, !
The grave,cold bridegrom! clafp'd her
in his arms.
And the worm rioted upon her charms.
Jo yonder tomb the old „
Once he was rich, the world etteem d
him wife: •
Schemes unaccomplifhd labour din
bis mind.
By the Rev, Mr. Moore of Cornwall,
STRUCK with religious awe, and
solemn dread,
I view these gloomy mansions of the
dead,
Around me tombs inmixtdiforder rife,
And in mate language teach me to be
wife.
Time was these afar liv'd—a time must
be
When others thus may Hand —and look
as you;
These hollow facets two bright orbs
contain'd,
Where the loves sported, and in tri
umph reign'd ;
Here glow'd the lips, there white as
Parian stone.
The /ze/A difpos'd in beauteous order
ihone.
This is life's good—no farther can we
at me ;
Alarming tho't! no wonder t'is we
dread
O'er these uncomfortable vaults to
tread,
Where blended lie the aged and the
,*%
The rich and poor an undiftinguifh'd
throng ;
Death conquers all,and time's subduing
hand.
Nor tombs nor marble statues can
withstand—
Mark yonder afees in confofion spread !
Compare earth's lining tenants with
her dead !
How firiking the resemblance, yet how
just!
Once life and foul inform'd this mass
of dust;
Around these bones now broken and
decay'd,
The flreams of life in various channels
plat'd,
Perhaps thatfo// so horrible to view,
Was some fair maid's, ye Belles as fair
Seat of the Muses.
view,
Beyond it all is wonderful and new:
O ! deign some courteous ghost ! to let
us know
What we mu.l fartl, be, and you are
now !
Sometimesyoo warn us of approaching
fate,
Why hide the knowledge of your pre
jent Bate ?
With joy behold us tremblingly ex
plore
The unknown gulf, that you can fear
no more !
The grave has eloquence—its lectures
teath
A SOLILOQUY,
Writen in a Country Church-Yard.
Remarkable fegacity of a DOG.
THE following Anec
dote is translated from
awork lately published at
Paris „Some years since,
when afire broke otit at
Pera, in the suburbs of Con
stantinople, the house of a
Greek interpreter burnt
with fuehfingular fury that
the family deferred it, and
left a young child in the
cradle. No .person would
venture into the house, and
the unhappy parent believ
ed his child was a victim to
she flames. Ona sadden a
large dog, which he owned,
was feerrrunning before
the house with the child,
whiehhe held faft by the
clothes, in his jaws. The
And all his tho'ts were to the world
confin'd ;
Death came uniook'd for—from his
grasping bands
Down dropt his bags and Mortgages of
lands.
Beneath that fculptur'd,pompous,mar.
ble stone
Lies youthful Florio, aged twentyone ;
Cropt like a flower, he wither'd in his
bloom,
Tho' flatt'ringlife had promis'd years
to come:
Ye Glkeri sons ! ye Florio's of the age.
Who tread in giddy maze life's flow'ry
Rage !
Mark here the end of man, in Florio
fee.
What ypu, and all the funs of earth
shall be 1
Where low in dull the vain Hortenfa
lies,
Whose splendor once we view'd with
envious eyes :
Titles and arms his pompous rouble
grace,
With a long hift'ry of his noble race :
Still after death his vanity survives,
And on his tomb all of Hortenfa lives,
Around me as I turn my wand'ring
eyes,
Unnumber'd graves in awful profpea
rife,
WhofeWoffles fay only when their owners
dy'd
If young or aged and to whom ally'd.
On others pompous epitaphs are spread
In mem'ry of the virtues of the dead,
Vain waste of praise! lince flatt'ring or
sincere
The judgment day alone will make
appear.
How silent is this little fpet of ground !
How melancholy looks each objc&
round!
Here man diffolv'd in fcatterd ruin lies
So fail a deep—as if no more to rife ;
'Tis strange to think how tbeje dead
bones can live.
Leap into form, and with new heat re
vive 1
Or how this trodden earth to life shall
wake,
Know its old place, its former figure
take !
But where's these fears ! when the left;
trumpet founds
Thro' heaven's expanse to earth's re
motest bounds, 4
The dead shall quit these tenements of
clay,
And view again the long extinguish'd
day:
It mutt be fo,the fame almighty pow'r!
From dust who form'd us,can from dull
reflorCi
Chear'd with this pleasing hope, I;
fafely trust
Jehovah's pow'r to raise me from the'
dust,
On his unfailing promises rely,.
And all the horrors of the grave defy.
Whereas Samuel Leavitt
of Stratham, has a
Note of hand against me,
for Four Pounds lawful mo-
USSHER's
English Grammar,
TO BE SOLD AT THIS OFFICE.
Exeter, October „, 179 2 °
people endeavoured to lay
hold of him, but he escaped,
and run through many
streets to the house of his
master's friend, where he
laid down his burthen, and
waited until the door was
opened. What can it be
imagined was the reward of
this faithful quadruped ?—
The Interpreter killed the
dog, with his own hand,
and having prepared a
splendid entertainment, or
dered the dog to be drefled
and served up at table,
where he and his family ate
of the flefh.—," The animal
has a&ed too well," said he,
" to become the food of
worms—he is only fit for
the food of man, and will
render those who partake
of him, more fufceptible—
more virtuous !"
✓'''ASH and the highest
price given for Loan Office
and Final Settlement CER
TIFICATES—STATE NOTES—
CERTIFICATES—OId and New-
Emission MONEY, &c. &c.
3. WIGGIN.
Exeter, Sept. 27th, 1792.
ney —all persons are hereby
cautioned ngainft purchas
ing said-Note as it was frau
dulently obtained I am de
termined not to pay it.
BY the subscriber, the Farm
on which he now lives,and two or
three other final! tracts of land, well
fitoated for making small Tenements,
with good improvements-
SAYS Celia to the learned Dean,
" What reason can be given ;
Since marriage is a holy thing,
That there is none in heaven ;"
ALL persons having accounts
open with him are requested to fettle
them immediately.
AMOS MORRILL.
Epsom, Oaober yotb, 1792.
" There are no Women there," he
cry'd;
She quick returned the jest,
“ Women are there ; but I'm afraid
They cannot find a Priest."
JOHN SINKLER.
Stratham, October |6, 1792,
Unfunded Paper.
TO BE SOLD
EPIGRAM.
For Sale,
^ ^Oll A "°° D R 7 ^
' lying in Bar*-
fte'd on theprovip^e
&ol^%'° ad n ! ar Patman,
^^^^^^^^ '°" n lin^—it being
°ne Hundred and
Seventy Aerss, the greats parc „ nde ,
good improvement- a g%d HOUSE
and BARN thereon Any peifon
inclining to purchase said 'Farm, fol
be treated gentleman.like by the fab
fcriber.—
RICHAHD SINCLER.
Barnftcad, Oaober i^, i7g2.\
Runaway.
R ANaway from the
'fubferiber an appren.
" c ° Boy, named DAVID
PARSONS, in the {feven
(Lteenth year of his age, ihort
thick fellow, brown hair—
with a light coloured jacket,
and Striped trousers on when ce went
away All masters of. Vessels and
6 her perlons are cautioned against
harboring or carrying off said Boy, as
hey will abide the penalty of the laws
in hat case made and provided
If laid Boy fhoald be returned, he or
they ffiall have One Penny Reward sos
their trouble and no charges paid.
-JOSIAH JOHNSON.
Cbiebefler, Oaober 17, 1792.
ALL persons indebted to, or
having demands on the es
tate of Abraham Tilton,
late of Stratham, b!ackfmith, de
ceafed,are requested to fettle the
fame immediately with the sub
scriber.
Abraham Tilton, Ex'r.
Stratham, September 26 h. 1792.
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Just Published,.
By the Printer hereof, and fold at his
Office-
Rev. Mr. Morison')
Election Sermon,
Delivered at Dover,
State of New-Hampshire;
Before the Honorable
General- Court,
JUNE 7.1792.
Smith's Hymns
To be fold at this Office.
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