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(Vol. 1.) THURSDAY, ijd April, 1807, (Xo. 8.)
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[From the Port Polio.]
THE LAY PREACHER.
44 LET US GET VV EARLY.”
The wisest man of Palestine, among
other valuable legacies, has left us this
admirable injunction. He was, him
~.elf, an early riser, passionate in his love,
and persevering in the pursuit, of Wis
tlom. In his celebrated song, Which
stamps him the Ovid of Judea, one of
the first petitions to timid beauty, which
the ingenuity, not less than the ardour
of the Lover devised was, that she
would “ rise vfi and come away.” At
flay break, and while the shadows of
nit;ht are retiring, he impatiently awaits
the Sun, with healing in his beams, to
direct him to w the orchard of pome
granates,” the well of living waters, and
streams from Lebanon.
Salomon would hardly have written
three thousand proverbs, and a madri
gal to Ids love, with such wisdom and
wit, if he had not, by the air and scene
ry of the morning, corroborated his
health, and \indled his fancv. Whe
ther active as a king, or indolent as a
lover, he perceived that early hours
were auxiliary btfth to business and plea
sure, and, tht refore, judiciously advises
to tise with the lark.
In our climate, a midsummer morn
ing's dream not Sn ikspf. ark himself
should be permitted to tell. Blankets
and pillows look so dull and warm, and
green grass and trees so cheerful and
refreshing, it is wonderful the sluggard
cannot, even with half shut eves, discern
such wide extremes, and prefer strolling
in the fields to tumbling in bed.
But in the course of my parochial
visitations, my early tap at many a door
is often answered by a voice exclaiming
from behind a curtain; it is the voice
of the sluggard. The cock has crowed
thrice, and certain robins have sung two
hymr.s and a ballad before half my ac
quaintance have “ girded their loins,”
buckled their shocr;, and combed their
.hair. Yet these creatures, not content
with the naps of the night, swathe them
selves, like so many Egyptian mummies,
in a sheet, four hours after sun rise, and
then have the impudence to rise and talk
of business and the beauty of the day.
The princely poet, author of our ex
cellent tekt, when exhorting to summer
enjoyments, points not to the night sea
son, nor to the “ inner pavilion’’ of the
palace, but informs bs that his 41 bed Is
ijvve/j,” and his love displayed in the
open air.
The gallant Solomon invites theblush
ing belle of Egypt to a morning's ram
ble into the vine-yard, and gives her his
love »mid the dews of dawn. Well
wert thou called wise, thou Sensitive
Prince, if it were only for thy knowledge
of the female heart. Well didst thou
know that the buds of beauty, like the
blossoms of Shinar, stealing fresh vi
gour from repose,expand all theirsweet
ness to the morning rav. In modern
times, the torpid lover snores, amid the
evening fog, the praises of his mistress.
while the sprightly strains of his sere
n?tde are obtunded by the mists of mid
night. Or, perhaps, with that ideal and
metaphysical love, which tormented
Don Quixote, and other hair-brained
knights of chivalry, he merely dreams of
an absent mistress, and leaves to the ear
ly and active wooer to experience the
charming vicissitudes of genuine pas
sion.
In close parlours and the long winter’s
eve, we may pore over rent rolls, and
engross marriage settlements. Let the
decayed gentleman,in corksoaled shoes,
goloshoes and flannel, court the delicate
I maiden, in the close cap, and comfort
able bed gown. But he, who would
woo thee, buxom Health, must
“Brush, with hasty slep, the dews away,
And meet the sun upon the upland lawn.'
He mustnetseek thee behind fire screens,
or lolling on a sofa* but must erect a.
lodge in the village ; and before the day
break, and the shadows flee away, when
the rose aud the mandrake give a sweet
smell, listen to the jocund song, tilings
ling with the matin of the lark.
But the morning air breathes not for
lovers alone. If the Philosopher will
arise and meditate at the morning tide,
though lie may not rival the fame, he
may attain the old age of Chancellor
Bacon.
The Divine, by the light of the rising
sun, may ratch hints from creation,
which May serve to raise the affections
of his flock to Him, who divided the
light from the darkness.
The Merchant who opeils his coun
ting house windows to the breezes of
morn, may perhaps find a reward in the
custom of the early purchaser.
The Lawyer, who has groped, the.
preceding day, in the intricacies of spe
cial pleading, when he views the peace
ful face of morning, and is enlightened
by the beamy sun, may perchance, from
the serenity of the hour, be led to con
the culogium of u Blessed are the peace
makers.”
While the blythe husbandman, whom
Providence has ordained to mingle plea