The Wheeling repository — Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.], 1807-04-09 00:00:00, page 8

ORIGINAL POE TP T.
the complaint concerning a cer
tain SHORT VISIT.
Undressed to the four strangers new pre
paring to leave Wheeling.
And would the hard, my friends, trans
By suffering you to go away, [gnu ,
Without endeavouring to express
His feelings, in a farewell lap?
I es, yes, ye say, good manners ask
Some memorandum, ere we part ;
Aud Friendship, which injoins the task,
Demands the language of his heart.
V. ell J t0 mv doom since I subiv.it,
(Not venturing rashlv to appeal-}
You must, instead of sparkl'iay \i it,
Accept plain sense—and no great deal.
■- hen let meask,wny, homeward bound,
^e turn,yri»i z. v, so soon av.a ?
And why, with us. is nothing 1 and
I'o urge you to a longer stay-*
Is it because our fields, unp.ovJ'
\ on sullen skies,these hills’ rough slopes,
* he sweetness of your minds have sour’d.
And bal.. d anticipated hopes ?
Reflect, 'tis wintry weather vc‘,
And Winter is not always jiiild :_
Ah ! if ye leave us nou\ Rhgri r
May tell how soon ye might have smilM.
For Spring, on yon steep mountain-sides,
'Ihe sleeping germ begins to must ;
And Summer comes, with hastv sn ides
To spread around lier leafy bough*.
Then stay awhile till Nature change
Her dark brown for her light green suit.
Inviting to a mountain range,
And proffering unforbi'hhn IVuit.
No rambles can ye boast at home
So lofty and so wide as these;
For there ye have not room to roam
Among so many hills and trees.
And ash rfruity our gooseberries,graocr.,
J he wild tomutee, rich pnpaw,
In point ol flavour, sizes, shapes,
ijhow what, at home, ye never saw.
too, in their native waste,
C/ive music far surpassing yours_
Yet let me not offend a I a'sti:
Which art, not Nature, most allures:
Tour Taste I mean, which sadly errs
And wide from purity departs,
If ;t, to Nature’s charms, prefers
i he meretricious gloss of Art’s.
....But me no sanguine hopes beguile
I o look for converts, gain’d !>v song ;
For Prejudice, I know, can smile
Against mere facts, however strong.
I hen go, and from our rude demeans
Withdr aw at once your wearied sight;
And let Ac. cosh nut’s polish'd scenes,
Charm with their round of stale delight:
Or where his way Codorus shifts
Through many a cultivated spot,
And Y ORK her gilded turrets lifts
Above the neighbouring peasant’s cot:
/here, while the eve's cxactcst gaze,
\ our landscapes, farms, Jx gardens scans,
And each beholder gives the praise
T o Art, and Art's in ipid plans—
i In pin spare us ! Spare that Taste
hich love ; these hills yonder wood,
liomantic haunts ' by Nature graced
\\ it\\ freedoon, peace, and solitude.
Ihesr yet arc ours. And when, at home,
' e shall have search'd f.>r those, in vain,
\\ ho knows but y n> . re long,will come.
To share them w ith \ our friends again?
.... 1 his secret hope sustains us now,
And calms this parting interview ;
Clse, faltering with ail. ction, how,
j Say, ho tv could we pronounce adieu?
Tin KF.ci.usr.
SJXC.CLAk Al)lv:RTISEMEX7
7b Dram-Drinkvrs a::,/ Dram-ScILrs.
Win re as the subscriber, through the
pi rnicioMs habit of <lt inking, has greatly
hurt himself in purse and in person,and i
rend.red hitnseii odious to all his ac
c; .aintances ; Hading there is no ’ /,ss|
bility of breaking o{f from tlv sai 1 prac
tice, but through impossibility to get li
quor: he therefore begs and earnestly
prays, that in future no person will sell
him either for money, or on trust, an.
i sort of spiriious ii juor—is he will not ,
1 in future pay for i:—but will present a- j
j ny such one Ibr an action of damages !
j against the temporal and eternal inter st
| of the public’s hiiml.l •, serious, sober
servant, James' ii.m mfrs.
[Genius 'f Ether*it.]
anecdote or w. cow pi:r.
Th predominant g nitts of a man
may, in tno^t cavs, be triced to same
early incident in his life, Cownor it
lrom his childhood devoted
to meditati >n and seclusion, and endued
v.ith antip ttn_\ to every noisy concourse
' or merely lucrative pursuit.
This temper was strengthened by an
attachm-r.t between him and the daugh
ter of a nc ighbouring family. The usual
objections on the score of birth and for
tune, did not exist in this case, and nei
ther family v\ as averse to this connection.
It was necessary, however, in the opini
on of Cowpcr’s father, that the union
should be postponed till the young man
had established himself in some Gainful
and honourable profession.
For this end the youth was sent to
London, and placed at the temple. To
this fane of subtlety and science, all his
rural dispositions accompanied him—
Tiie cultivation of literature and poetry*
r e. i .bed his attention away from the
^ . a and Cirthh'rvs of his library, and
..is Hours v re spent in composing ten
der ditties for his mistress, instead of
transcribin , into his common-place book
' rs and narralios of the law.
gti.s lather, whose heart was set upon
seeing hi; son Will me clay adorned
! with th Mowing and well-povv<lercd ho
nours c.l a Chancellor, was extremely
displease cl at this infatuation and supine
1 ncss* IL tri l various expedients to a
waken in his heart a more profitable am
bition. At length he fancied that he
discovered the source of all t lie sc unge
nci ms yensities, in the affection
vvniclm. illi on had so assiduously* fos
ter-.d for tlie country maid. lie resolv
ed, therefore, to put an end to his hopes;
and by studi i incivilities to the lady’*
1 imi:v, excited t.u ir resentment so far,
tuat tne girl was prohibited from fui then
intercourse.
i disobedience to this mandate pro
dtired theusual stretches of part ntal
tyranny. I he victim was restricted in
lv. r walks ant. vi .its, and finally impri
son s in her chamber, i he gentle spi
tit \>.is sorely bruised by this rod.—*
^‘n' * * '• I m dan, holy were succeeded
^b' understanding, and an un<
tio ■ iv do e was put it) her existence i^
tn cells oi a private madhouse!—Such
:i ' h r* policy? and the effect* of
it upon the son’s happiness and destiny
are generally known.
J V II Ii Ii I IN G,
(OHIO COUNTY, VIRGINIA,)
Ptinted iiy A. ARMSTRONG