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' THE
WHEELING REPOSITORY.
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(Vol. I.) Thursday, 7th April, 1808. (No. 48,)
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miscellany
From the Port Folio.
To his Friends,
C)n the return of Spring.
O Juices Comitum valet? Coetus.
Catullus*
*TIS true I love with mirth elate,
The sparkling glass to circulate,
And laugh my cares away:
But comrades of the least attend,
Forbear the nights in mirth to spend,
When pleasure rules the day.
For now the Spring revives the year,
And equinoctial tempests drbar,
With March forsake the plain ;
The forest breathes a rich perfume,
The flowers put on their vernal bloom,
The landscape smiles again.
The herds no more delight in stalls, >
But graze the mead ; and April calls
The ploughman to the field ;
The swallow leaves her watery bed,
\\ here long she laid, by instinct led,
From wintry snow conceal’d.
Now jocund youth delights to rove,
Ka;-h breeze inspires new life and love
While inusick wakes around ;
jind village lads and maids arc seen
T:> dance by mo<%ilight fin the green,
With rustick garlands crown’d.
I heir vows now whisp’ring lovers plight,
Whilst evening shades, & friendly night,
The v irgin blush conceals ;
At first abash’d the maiden shrinks,
Then on his raptur’d bosom sinks,
And all her love reveals.
i*astc to my close & clus’tring bowers*
And cull a wreath of choicest flowers,
To grace ray Chloe’s hair.
But no—the useless task decline,
Art cannot make her more divine,
The lovelii st of the fair.
*Tis now the veteran seeks new scars,
And poets mount amid the stars,
On Fancy's wing sublime.
The vernal hours, the ides of May,
The fleeting years glide fast away ;
Ah f seize the present time.
Then comrades of the feast attend,
Forbear the night in mirth to spend,
When snows do not detain.
W’hen Winter’s clouds obscure the day,
We’ll laugh and drink his storms away*
Till spring returns again.
Indi anus,
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To the Editor of the Wheeling Repository.
SiR,
Having determined to desert
from the Drunken corps, I take the
liberty, through the medium of your
paper, of inviting my numerous bre
thren, in the town of Wheeling, to fol- !
low mv example. And as protesting,
is the order of the day, I invite them,
one and all, to join in the subjoined pro
test. I found it by chance in an old
1 newspaper, and committed it to memo
! ry. I have derived some advantage
from it, and therefore recommend offi
cers and privates of the Drunken corps
to commit it to memory, & govern them
selves by its precepts. Perhaps it may
also have some effect on those batchelors
and young men, who appear to be can
didates lor admission into the corps.
Rioarundus.
1 he Protest.
1 I protest that no more I’ll get drunk—
’Tis the curse and the plague of my
life,
It ruins my credit, my health and my
purse,
My peace and my comfort—and what
is still worse,
It destroys the peace of my wife,
I />rofrA-fthatno more I’ll get drunk—
1 It torments and embitters my life.
' I o ruin ’twould hurry its vot’ry head
long,
And reason declares that Pm quite in
the wrong ;
Anti so do the tears of my wife.
I protest that no more I’ll get drunk—
Nor kad such a wretched vile life ;
Its attendants are poverty, shame and
disgrace j
D isease and despair stare me hard in the
face,
And point to my heart-broken wife f
I protest that no more I’ll get drunk—
’Tis the spring of allevih in life;
’Tis the curse of all curses! of mischief
th^ worst t
’Tis the plague of all plagues 1 ’tis a de
mon accurst 1
And makes me mistreat my poor
wifei
I protest that no more I’ll get drunk—
For I find it the bane of my life ;
Henceforth I’ll be w atchful* that nought
shall destroy
That comfort and peace that I ought to
enjoy
^In my children, my home, and my ^
Remark.
Some men use no other means to ac
quire respect than by insisting on it;
and it sometimes answers their purpose*
as it does a highwayman’s in regard to
money.
Misapplicat ion of words.
A person giving an account of an en
tertainment to which he had been invit
ed, said, that the dinner was desperate
well cooked, the wine was terrible gqod,
Mr. -was dreadfiil polite, and his
daughters were cruel pretty, and abomi
nable line.
Calculation in Printing.
It appears by a calculation made by
the printer of Stephen’s edition of Shake*
spear, that every octavo page of that
work (text and notes) contains 2,68®
distinct pieces of metal, which in a sheet
amount to 42,880 ; the misplacing of
any one of which would infallibly cause
a blunder. With this curious fact
before our eyes, surely the accurate
state of our printing in general, is to bt
admired.