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O,RIG INA L POE TR Y.
.11 the Editor of the Repository think
tne lines I now send, worthy of a cor
ner, he may expect an occasional scr ip
h'orn one who wishes to shun the cue
of observation.
A : t ie Inapplicability the ter n ug’v
to Natural Objects.
Addressed to Jl/'*** J/** •
NI1EN Scepticism, with daring eyes,
The beauteous universe surveys,
How various are the means it tries
To lessen the C . eator’s p-.uise /
Much, ah/ how much/ I pity them
Who, when they take a walk abroad,
' ispi a . d with all th v see, contemn
A he beauty of the wor ts ol God.
A tulip or, perhaps, a rose,
Wears, they will own, a comely drpss ;
.As it whatever weed that grows
C ^ *'ue child of nature) vaunts of less/
How blind is be, who, with a glance
1 ravels o’er ocean, earth and, air.
^Jor findsQwhat d indues s equals man's?)
Une genuine gem o1 beaut; there/
And is he faultless who a/firms,
^ it!i Volney’s spirit, V olm v’s taste,
1.1 bold and acrimonious terms,
l his leal s tco broad, and that’s dis
placed?
•—-And art not thou, O man/ ashamed
y\ 'vam of judgment to upbraid,
5 hat Pow k which yon high mountain
framed,
^ctid c\ ei} sand and pebble weighed?
Where wast thou when the earth was
young?—
Alien yonder star began to blaze _
* Inn all Jehova’s children sung
Cu d anthems to their Makr;’s praise?
’ 11 ':.1;' *■» of beauty what thou know’st,
And, ii thou canst, the secret, why
i n< ranvow hues that glitter mint,
i'i'. ' captuato ^he human eve?
■VVj- U-arn, (—,md here I hut repeat
Wlwt theinspired HKv.ri.in savs—■)
Viat ;,il Creation rose co”n ri r
Kre Adam oped his eve to ’
rj:rr,/.,v; if ever;, thing wav cr,oJ_
All beautiful and all sublime_
Cess tlian Creative wisdom woud
Have made the Tasts ofot*n to diime.
—I’or, \is inferr’d, that Adam found,
A* iiere’er he saw Pc ejection's print,
fransCendant Beauties beaminground,
Until—his eye had learnt to squint.
But when the visual ul.ince was crook’d,
liis erring sight at random strayed,
And Adam iound, where’er he look’d,
M hat /ic, not his Creator, made.—
Hence ’tis that mortals mav suspect,
hen any thing appears cnver/,
! hat what offends as a defect,
Is never in the thing—hut cue*
I uen think not my position strati pr*,
(Howe’er the theme he dry and dull_)
llut own, that Nature, lull oi cli mgr,
I n e v ery i li an go i; 3 e a u t u ui .
T;rit Recluse.
Piquai Putins.
Mi s R. need n< t plum herself upon
I.e andev suitei mg, being made pub
lic. She will learn from the follov. -
in;-, that he is no longer the same
lovc-lern swain d scribed in the dole
J . dutyf published a; the last i?epo
sitorv.
TO MISS R.
H. nil at length shall see
Lean Ur lro:n thy fetters free,
l oo long tin iron chains he wore :
1 i:y scorn too long, he tameiv 5>orc,
Hat now, no mor-* with languid we:;,
A suppliant, at thy feet he lies.
Litpid, in pity for his grief.
Hath sent th. hapless vo.ith relief,
And jram his eves trnn liv'd 1 dart
1) ep in they lovely Latin's heart,
^ ‘ h >, sigh 1 >• i, his da.n • returns,
And with a mutual passion burns.
IIu; heart, grown wears- in thy toil
ib f ive-. rer.it lile irom T, ,urn's eiail.
With , i de is o\ rfioi
And pan-s fur her, an 1 her alone,—
lo e\ -ry fern ah bet >?v blind.
Hut charming J.aura, fair at .1 kind.
_ /,.
{ Jilt the f tj, it is, in every s /r*e of the \
terms, a dob fal ditty, aiul eeepre- ,*d in !
a doleful jargon of Ivor’s searce/u ini,;. ;
/iffi/dr. foisting such doleful .'lapso- |
<!>t of j in/finj* unmeant.r Jrnsrt, y.-'int;
the l s'vm Corner f the lld osHo
;•//, a. fill try, e > tiers a doleful dearth of
,)’-r tic a! ! reductions. Of, nn *>* tnt i < 7'
for publication, proves that sem -prr mi 1
rm ,ny us is f ,rn.i hrd it ;tk n abundant j
did f vanity and i^ncrcnce.
FOR THF. REPOSITORY.
It would be a pity not to preserve the
following Anecdote, which displays so
much of that accuracy of observation
which is known to be one of the cha
racteristics of our red brethren of the
West.
AN Indian upon his return home to
his hut one day, discovered that his ve
nison, which had been hung up to dry,
had been stolen. After making his ob
servations upon the spot, he set off in
I pursuit of the thief, whom he track ci
[ though the woods. After going some
distance he met some persons of whom
he inquired, if they had not seen a little,
old, xv/iite man, with a short gun, and ac
companied b\ a small dog, with a bob
tail '—i hen replied in the affirmative,
and up a the Indian’s assuring them
that the man thus clt scribed had stolen
h» • r.ison, they desired to be informed
h< \ 1 e was able to give such a minute
dt-jf. iption of a person, whom, it ap
p- aw i, lie ha 1 not seen. i he Indian
answer 1 thus-I he thief I know is a
HMe m i ' by his ha\ ing made a pile of
siones ir stand on in order to reach the
v; ni-op, : -vjin the height/hung it, stand
ing on the ground ;—that he is an old
man, l know by his short steps, w hich I
have traced over the dead leaves in the
wood' ; and that he is a white man, l
know/ by his turning out his toes when
• ' walks, v.run an Indian never do. s.
I-is gun I kno.v to be short, bv the mark
"hi' li th - nm/.’/.le made by rubbing the
b;>:\ of the toe ag-iiv t which it had
h meg ;—iba* Ills c! g in small, I know
by n n tram:, ; ;n 1 t’< at he has a bob tr.il,
I cl .cover d ov the mark it made in the
il ' h rc h wa, sit ting at the tit
hi * niastcr w;.s taking down the meat.”
VIST!' i \ \ ots T!fOUOHT3.
1 • 1 • >, ’• > "ni.< (1, that men in any
■ i nd the hours which
,K‘*“ri •*.illeii io repose, at the curd
/<■ oi any <nh, r nur w ry of prodigality
ai ■ 1 \ ’ '• e.
lc i. modi to !> • lamented, that men
in stra; n. j i ire.instances, who have
*ll ‘ l;i to pro\ :de for, seat tlierns lvc«
• t t i 'Vr / //■///■ at unseasonaM * hours,
h lily throw away wimt th -y lnd
1 i 11 h •» well as uhlit th mwives for
}' their ocnijwtti.ais regularly.
lh thus prevent tluomclvi s from dis
f 11 <• i n" n r their doty to tlieir cuatomcrs,
‘iim ieditor1, ”.iul ih< ir families.
w n i. r.~; / xc\
I'OHIO COUNTY, VIRGINIA,)
I>.inu.j> *y A. AKMSTHONG.