Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1803-10-15
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No horns protect him, and no plumes adorn
No finer powers of n@arstril, ear, or eye,
Teach the young reasoner to pursue or fly.
Nervcd wits fine touch, above the bestlal throngs
The hand, first gilt of Heaven to man be-
Longs /:
Untipt with claws, the circling fingers close,
With rival points the bending thumbs oppose,
Trace the nice lines Of Form with sensc reh~'d,
And clear ideas charm the thinking mind.
Whence the fine organs of the touch ineafr
Ideal Squire, source of every art;
Tiirae, motion, number, Sunshine or the st ran.
But mark ~yaresies in Natures firm.
Slow could the tangent or,an wander Ger,
The rock built mountain and the winding shore;
No apr ideas could The pigny mite,
Or embryon emmett, to the touch excite (;
But, as each mass the solar ray reflects,
The eyes clear glass the s~rancient beams col
le0s,
Bends 70 their social point the rays that swcrye,
And paints the living image on the nerve;
So. in some village barn, or festive ball,
The spheric leas ~iullulles the whiten'd wall
O'cr the bright FIELD successive figures feet,
And motley shadows dance along the sheet.
Symbol of sound forms is color'd light,
And the mite language of the touch is sight.
Hence, in LIES p~ortico, stands young Sur
prise,
With step resreatng, and expanded eyes;
The virgin Novelty, whose radiant train
Scars DER the clouds, or sinks beneath the
man
With sweetly mutable seductive charms
Thrills the young sense the tender heart alarms.
Then Curiosity, with tracing hands,
And meeting lips, the lines OF form demands,
Buoy's on light step DER ocean, earth, and
sky
Rolls the bright mirror of her restless eye
While in wild groupes tumultLous Passions
stand,
And Lust and Hunger head the molly band (;
Then Love and Rage succeed, and Hope and
Fear,
And nameless Vices close the gloomy rear ;
Or young Philanthropy, with voice divine,
Convokes the adoring youth to Virtues
shrins ;
Who, with raised eye and pointing finger, leads
To ttaths celestial and immortal deeds"
70 the Editor 3me Alssandria A1Oertiser.
SIR,
The following trarflation from Freid- ad'deu, a
Perfan poet, who aouriihed in the twelfth cen
fury, traplatcd by Sir Vim. Ouley, contains
fomething 10 intcrcRing and fublimc, that I
have copied it for your paper.
4 Subscriber.
(" A certain youth, another Mejnoaa, ditratt-
ed by love, was wandering through the deiarr,
his head uncovered, and his feet barc-tormented
by hunger, and unable TO procure the fmallef
morfel, of bread, he murmured againR Providence
aud exclaimed" NJ creature IN The qvoya qU1s
in sanb quaat ef food."-At this moment a griny
and half famifhed wolf, ruined on the %afrighsed
wandcrcr and began, with horrid gsowlings,
to tear his garnents.-" Gracious God, (cried
he pardon my impious murmurs-Iife is fweet,
wretched as J am, let me not be dcfroyed !! ]
nov behold a creature more Afflicted by hunger
than myielf-hcnceforth / hall ak nought of thee
but life-thy jaRice hath c~onGgned m to the
Jaws of this rayenous beaf bu, thy mercy can
fill e~xtFicate me from them" When the prof.
trate youth had uttered thefe words, the wolf re-
treated from him and vanifhed in the dcfart.
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ON the Champion Hills Of Scotland are
mnumerable aocks Of sheep, and many
shepherds to tend them. One of those
men, one day took his young child with
him, an infant son between three and four
years of age, and, as usual, followed by
his dog. After trayersing the pastures
some time, without finding his sheep, he
found it necessary to ascend one Of the