The American Republican gazette — Concord, N.H., 1803-03-03 00:00:00, page 4

Invocation to POVERTY.,
OH!Prart, ! tf,^ mjfytiOT bee,
I, tbau delight', to,font me, fill in view ;
If still tb,,rfoce mts m, ft^attd.
At lea, continue wobat fa" °" —m, friend!, \
Wbm'tr example bi, me be vjnf,
False te m, miad, erfaitblej^e mj tru, ;
Bid me the baneful err, tydty Jee,
And Jbaa-the "world to falte,j bin tbee.;
Wbeavice to wealth would turn ih^afti, e,t,
Or ixt'r, fat m, ear to Sorrow's cty, \.
Or coartier's cuftra would m, reason b&id, \J,
M,felite flatter —§r deftrt m, friend ;
O,„e hind Poverty, tby temper'd Jbield,
And bear me c, wroanq^/b'dfrom the field.
' y^db fortune e'er return again, ~ {
With all her idle refflefe wanton trairt ;
Her magic glaffhuld fa^t ambition bold, .
Or tyv'rice bid me put m,jruf in gold;
To m, relief, tboa oirtieui g,d,e,ba,t, 'f
Ad^itb ibee bring th, daughters, ever cbafle ;,+
Health, Libert, and Wisdom — filers bright 4^.&
Wbefe charms can mfkt ibt werfl condition light.
Beneath the bardeftfae the mind can cheer, '',[
' Can beal offiaion, and dijarm dejpair,
'lse,aim, in torments, pleasure can bequeath, ff,
' And drefj in smiles ebe tyrant hour of death ! „
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ALBERT AND ELIZA.
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-EUZA considered herelf under
she highest obligations' to Blake.
He had extricated her from a
dangerous dilemma ;. and al
though she could not receive
him on the footing of a suitor,
yet gratitude forbade her, totally,
to refufe his visits. He was,
therefore, frequently at her un
cle's, and sometimes permitted to
attend her abroad. His conduct
now appeared disinterested. He
did not attempt to renew his ad.
tireffes, but behaved to her more
like a guardian friend and broths
er than a lover ; and io generous
ly candid were all his actions,
that she finally admited his visits
without reserve.
Winter came, and the time e
lapsed in which Albert was ex
, pe&ed. Eliza had, one day been
reading his letter, when she was
suddenly called away by her aunt,
on some business. In her absence
Blake entered theroom ; Albert's
letter lay open upon her dressing
table ; he hastily ran over the
contents —he was thunderstruck 1
A crowd of chaotic ideas fmlhed
into his mind. He found that
Palmer had been only the .osten
sible barrier to his wishes, and al
\though this obstacle was now re
moved, yet he had a more for
midable one to encounter. But
vwho was Albert ? He had never
even heard his name mentioned.
Whoever he was, it was certain
hehad not yet returned It was
possible he never might return.
Or if he fliould, it might not be
so soon as was e/pe&ed, in that
case, perhaps Eliza might change
her mind; at least his own hap
piness demanded that nothing
should be wanting on his party
tp influence her so to do. Blake
ferried away without feeing Eli
;za, revolving to pursue such
measures as future circumstances
Should require.
Eliza became dejected as the
months tolled away after the
time she had calculated for Al
bert to arrive. She framed a
thousand excuses for this delay,
and abandoned them almost as
soon as framed, the had written
to him, after receiving bis letter,
but had no answer thereto ; hence
she conclude: that he must be a
bout to return, or he would have
written to her; and though
gloomy presages often crofted her
imagination, yet she consoled her.
felfin assurances of his speedy ar
rival. ,h^^
^BldkeiWas cohftantly invent
ing fom^ new ehtertmprtient to
divert J^liza. Balls, feled par
ties and visiting were the amuse
ments of the winter. As Eliza
returned from a visit one evening,
attended r by Blake, she was a
greeably surprised to find her
father, who had just arrivedand
had come; upon l her reMm to
carry her home.
Eliza was highly plealed with
the idea of returning to her fam
ily, and again enjoying the pleas
ures of her native shades ; but
when her father's bufinels was
rhadeknown, her cotffins so ear
heftlfiurged her to tarry through
the winter, that, with her father's
leave, she consented. The old
gentleman, upon an invitation,
through Blake, waited on the
Governor, and in a few days re
turned to Long-Island.
1 The winter passed away, and
the spring arrived but no news
from Albert. Eliza became mel
ancholy, and could scarcely be
prevailed upon to fee company.
One afternoon, as she, with het
uncle's family and Blake was fit
ting in the piazza, in front of
the house. a welldrefled man ap
proached them, who very politely
enquired whether a gentleman of
the name of Blake was there.
Blake answered to the enquiry :
The stranger said he had just ar
rived from England, and had the
charge of a few letters ; one of
which was for him, he handed a
letter to Blake and then asked if
poft-offices were established in
this country, faying he had a let
ter from a young gentleman in
England to his father on Long-
Island, which he had engaged
should receive fafe conveyance.
^ What is the gentleman ? s
name ?" aiked Blake. He men
tioned the name of Albert's fath
er. “Is the young man about
to return to America ?" enquir
ed Eliza's uncle. "I believe he
will not soon return," answered
the stranger ; “ he went over to
take poffeffior. of an estate which
defeended to him from his ances
tors, and which he obtained."-—
" You knew him, then !" inter
rupted Eliza's aunt. —" Knew
him, madam ! very well indeed ;
he is my particular friend.—Had
it not been for my advice, he
would mot so easily have made
his fortune. A younflady, with
thirty thousand pounds in her
own power, fell desperately jn
love with him ;he made some
scruples, and talked of attach
ments in this country, but we
soon jeered' him off of such fill,
notions; he married the lady,
'and now ^feures ; away in {his
coach and fix, among the firft'
charafters in London."
During this short narration,
Eliza, with all the fymptpms of:
the keenest anxiety, Kept her eye
fixed upon the speaker, until he
^mentioned the marriage of Al.
bert, when, suddenly, a death
like paleness overspread her fate,
intermingled, with slashes of
glowing red; she was finking
from her 'feat, when her aunt
took her arm and assisted her in
to the house and the stranger de
parted. ;
For several days, Eliza did not
leave her chamber,' Mhd could
scarcely be prevailed upon to
take any kind of nourishment.
She gave herielf up to the keen
est refleaions, and the fev^reft
anxieties of grief, which,
——« Likeaworm in the bud,
"Fed on the damajk cheek."
As the tide of sorrow gradually
abated, she was left a monument
of its ravanages, On that coun
tenance where jay and delight,
late sported with athoufand va
rying graces,, pale melancholy
now fat enthroned, in gloomy
1 silence The wound which Al
- bert's perfidy had infli&ed in her
bosomy was too deep for the Bal
sam of time to heal. —Could
it be possible that he should
prove thus faithlefs ?——Could
Ihe give that hand to another,
I which the most solemn adjura-
I tions, he had devoted to her?
could that heart become iufcept
ible of other impressions, which
once glowed only with her
charms, and Beat for her alone ?
‘ Cruel fortune," she would ex
claim, " how wretched haft thou
deceived me I Thy gold thy tin
sel, and thy Iplendors, have al
lured him from the path of rec
titude ; for although he has giv
en his hand to another, his heart
is still with Eliza ; and though
he may, for a while, riot in lux
urious dissipation, yet shall the
pangs of repentence wring his
bosom, when the gay, defeeptive
objeas which now surrounded
him, shall be ftript of their delu
sive power to charms !"—lnfa
tuated girl! thou haft yet but
partially experienced the fafcinat.
ing influences of grandeur and
of novelty. Thy thoughts are
innocent ; deception finds no
place in thy breast. Speh was
Albert when he left the peaceful
shades of this rural dwelling.—
He loved, and his love was as sin
cere as thine. But so sudden a
transition from the simple walks
of Nature, to the most exalted
refinements of Art ; his imme
diate acquisition of property ;
frequent intercourse with fafh
ionable circles; the long absence
and the wide distance which se
parated him from the maid of his
early choice ; and, and above all,
the delicate and irrefiftable attrac.
tions/and tender solicitudes of
female blandishment, must unless
Albert possessed more than hu-{
man firmnefs weaken, at least,
if not totally disengage, all prior
attachmants. This extenuation
however, did not prefect ftfelf to
the anguished mind of Eliza
She considered him as the mur
der of her peace, and as the affaf
finatior of all her future prof
of happiness. Recollection
and the disappointed delufic&
of anticipation constantly har
rfflfl^te^^ and fh6 kn
, guifhed under all the biternefs of
Ithe most poignant sorrow.
But the storm of grief began,
•at length, gradually 'to subside.—
;Pride came to theaffiftance of
disappointed hope,, and a delicate
refehtment, prompted by a deep
sense of injury, succeeded to fe,n.
fations of the most ardent' affec
tion. Was Albert capable sos
such perfidious volatility ?— —
Could he, in defiance ofahemoft
iacred obligations and feemingiy
sincere profeffions, thus abandon
her to misery and wretchedness,
for the paltry cotifideration of
property' and fame? Or was it
more probable that the brillian
cy of new objects had railed a
•new passion in his bosom r Amid
the conftellated beauties of ^on
don, some one had been fo^nd
whose charms and graces had
dissolved the ties between herfelf
and, Albert, by changing his
boAfted sincerity into inconfiften
}cy, and rendering the simple Eli-
I za, the object, perhaps of ridi
cule and contempt ; at least of
cold inattention.——Whatever
Was she cause, his affections were
how, inviolably the property of
I another,- Ind she determin
lately resolved , °
- '' To drive him out from alkher
thoughts,
"As far. as fee was able.". —, —
After taking this firm resolution
she became more cbmpofed but
was averse to receiving ariy kind
of company. Blake had frequent
ly called,and was told she was in
difpoled ; but as soon as she was
able to walk out he was permit
ted to attend her. Their walks
were, by her delire, in the most
lunfrequented parts of the city,
land generally in the twilight of
I the evening. When she was not
I dlfpofed to walk, he would fre-
Iquently fit in her room and read
Ito her passages from some amu
sing book, which tended to exhi
lirate her spirits, detach her ideas
from gloomy fubjefts, and lead
them to the more briliant fields
of fancy;—Sometimes ihe con
sented to ride out with him, a
little distance from the city, in
his coach—By such attentions he
became her principal confidant ;
but flie did not entrust him, or
any other perlon with the affair
of Albert.—Her uncle and aunt
had some little kowledge of the
circumstance ;.her cousins knew
nothing of them.—tier indispo
sition was imputed to other caul,
es ; her aunt, however had ?rea,
sons for a different opinion.
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