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ORIGINAL POE TR Y.
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v WEARY TRAVELLERS CHEERED
consideration that their long
journey had been undertaken from
motives of pure Ilenevolenco.
Addressed to M. M. and E. C.
* they, my valued friends, who flirt,
A1 ray d in Fashion’s gaudy trim,
About this little ball of dirt,
According to caprice and whim :
**r snch as round Ambition’s hive,
duzz with theirthousands at their heels;
; >r those who, pleasure-hunting, drive
—ust s gilded car w ith burning wheels:—
it these deluded mortals knew
Pure Piety’s heari-thrilling glow ;
Or tasted of that cup whic h you
Witness with sweets to overflow_
>Io\v gladly Would they throw a wav
Their long-priz’d heap of dung Sc dross,
And, following your foot-steps, slay
I heir sensual life upon the cross !
1 hen would the Gentile cease to gaze,
Astonish d, when he sees you roam,
Amidst these wilds and dreary ways,
Remote from all the joy s of home.'
What matters it,—lie well might sav,_
Whether amidst domestic sweets ’ ’
You pass the breath of life awav
Or toil thro1 Summer’s damps ik heats?
What, tho’ unusual ills beset,
And dangers lurk about your road •
Tho1 rains, by day, your bodies wet,
And bugs, bv night, oft incommode ?
For, whilst your Faith, with eagle eve
Pierces beyond these transient scenes,
Your patient minds shall profit bv
These spirit-purifying means -
Tlius points the needle to the pole
I rue to its bias, still serene,
I hough mountains rise, and oceans roll,
And huge volcanoes burst between.
r> l i-Ci ~ ^HE Recluse.
Banks of Vic Scioto.
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remonstrance to winter.
j• Montgomery.
“"‘““■"S »'inter I why
btill flags thy torpid wing V 7
rly, melancholy Season, fly
And yield the year to Spring.
tyrhig*—'.he young cherubim of lovfe,
An exile in disgrace,
Flits o’er the scene, like Noah’s dove,
Nor finds a resting place.
When on the mountain’s azure peak,
Alights her fairy form,
Cold blow the winds, St dark and bleak,
Around her rolls the storm.
It to the valley she repair
For shelter and defence,
Thv wrath pursues the mourner there,
And drives her weeping thence.
She seeks the brook—the faithless brook,
Of her unmindful grown,
Feels the chill magic of thy look,
And lingers into ; tone.
She wooes her embryo fiow’rs in vain,
I I~o rear their infant heads ;
Drat to her voice, her fiow’rs remain
Enchanted in their beds.
In \ ain she bids the trees expand
d heir green, luxuriant charms ;—
Bare in the wilderness they stand,
And stretch their withering arms.
Her favorite birds, in feeble notes,
I.ament thy long delay ;
And strain their little stamm ringthroats
To charm thy blasts away.
Ah ! IVintcr, calm thy cruel rage.
Release th«* struggling year :
Thv pow’r is past, decrcpid Sage '
.•trise and dibappear.
The star:, that grac’d thy splendid night
Are lost in warmer rays ;
The sun, rejoicing i,i his might,
Unrolls celestial days.
Then why, usurping Winter, why
Still flags thy frozen wing ?
Fly, unrelenting tyrant, fl\ —
And yield the year to Spring,
The assenting nod.
A monk that had intruded into the
chamber of a nobleman who was at the
point of death, and who had lost his
speech, continuedcrying out, “ Mv lord,
will you make the grant of such a thing
to our monastery ? it will |>L- for the good
of your soul.” The Peer at each mi- h
non nodded his head. The Monk, on
this turned round to the son and heir
who was m the room—“You sec, Sir’
my Lord, your noble father, gives his’
assent to my request.” To this tin* f,on
made no reply, but turning to his father
askec him, “ J*j it your will, Sir, that I
should kick this Monk down stairs &
T"e .no^ ot assent was given* and the
PoodwT PUt in practice With hearty -
OH HOPK.
In man’s journey through life, the nu
merous disappointments incident to
it, would reduce him to despair and
render lus existence miserable, did not
Hope when every probability failed
buoy his declining spirits. Even in the
fall trom riches to poverty, from liberty
to dependence, we constantly dwell ou
, e pleasing hope that in a future day
the burden of misfortune will be ligh
tened, and we, perhaps, be restored, to
our format condition.
Win n we anxiously expect the arri.
val of a dear friend, whose presence
would dispel the gloom of the mind ;
and his long delay inclines us to de
spond, a ray of hope beams upon its
surface and nourishes it into cheerful
ness.
Thus the anxious suspense of thr.
fond parent is mingled with a gleam of
pleasure, and the long absence of an 011
K child supported by the pleasing hope
tnat he will soon arrive.
A Sensible Keasot’er.
A ti Aveller expressed his surprise to
an inhabitant of Lisbon,that they should
have ventured to raise their houses tc
such a height in a town so lately over
thrown by an earthquake.
It i because it has been solately over
thrown lie replied, that we venture ; for
as other capitals in Europe deserve an
taithquake as much r.s Lisbon, it is
r asonable to believe that they all will
be overthrown in their turn, according
to their des i ts ; and, of course, it will
» a long time before it comes round to
Lisbon, agr.ii).
i axatbm is confessedly one of the
most difficult branches of Administra- %
tion, to know the e xact weight of im
post that every subject will bear_The
Arabian proverb, in allusion to this,
•says *• it was the Camel’s hair that broke
the Elephant's lark."
•C . J I run as II, Raich, an ingenious
a list ol Ni wburyport, has completed a
c mP"imd Magnet, which, by its attrac
tive powers alone, will raise 112 pounds
" ' ight.
WHEELING,
(OHIO COUNTY, VIRGINIA,)
Painted by A. ARMSTRONG*