Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va.) 1802-1810, 1804-12-28

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,s.ssssssssssesse sssssss.ssss
conscience.
a. zethesgh. the billssus speke, and told
ne gift, Q-.5 T-z =5-zzss5 {. i
" Tie reinds dld sing itmt, and tir thur
/" That deep nddreadYR organ, pipe, pro-
neunc'd E5e.z III u %, n
" The name d Prosprro.r TEsirEsT.
THE loss Of fortune, dignity, glory
and all the pageantry Of earthly grandeur,
is comparatively trilling when put in COM
petition to that oEvirtuei when the hu-
man mind FIRST stoeps to debasement,
and wanders in the paths ofimpiety, its
progress to misery, although gradual,
Is too fatally inevitable the smallest
crimes BY becoming habitual, increase
in time to the crimson tints Of atroeity 1;
then, Q Conscience thou most intss-
saint and excrutiating torturer, thou me-
yer falling monitor, 'tisthen thine admo.
ais;ons wound with remorse the breastof
conscious vice thouss establishes thine
awful tribunal on the ruins Of neglected
virtue, there to iniiicta punishment far
more severe than aught invented by the
ingenuity Of man. ~ ~ ~ = -. VI. IN 81
:. When lulted In apparent security, and
revellingin the round of transitory plea
sure, thine awful presence intrudes IL
self upon the harfassea Imagination, and
bids the lofty sinner reflect on the acts
ofinlustice ofwhich he has been gailty.
The veil Of oblivion, which, with all the
precaution Of vice, he has endeayoured
to cast over his crimes, thou canstsin
one unguarded moment cause himself to
remove his deeds OF darkness, so eau
tiously inveloped with the spacious garb
Of dissimulatiot and hypocrisy, Nas< fire.
quently by thee laid open TO she saruti-
nising eye Of justice. His most secret
recesses thou canst penetrate, his every
Joy embitter,, and render him. who was
once hardened in iniauitv, susceptible to
the slightest emotions of fear. The man
whoonce was callous to the tender plants
Of misery and injured innocense, viii,
when under thy influence, start at sha-
dow, tremble at an . unreal mocEery,o
and Imagine the most trivial sound a sos
lenin SUMMONS of tetribition. Such, o
Conscience is the form in which thou
visitest the child Of iniquity: such the
shape in which thou: approaches. the vo-
tary ofxiee how happy then the man,
who, void of guile, breads not thy re-
proaehess who supported By the consci-
business ofunspotted innocence, enjoys
uninterrupted serenity and peace ofniind,
whose siumbers are undisturbed blythe
phantoms of q disordered imagination,
and who looks forward with the ardonr
Fof hope and expectation tothe time when
The virtues and vices efmankind shall re-
ceiye their just reward.
onsarth there's aothins spsrth possessing,
or can the iis Of hits begiiiif. zE5Eff
Without that dearest, stveefesf biessing,
The magic q g -Doman's smile.
4He XH1C ~ tOrossWS ttse PgmsR gLJtNttS
.Aresenseless treasures, jogiess, vie
IRE 6aubles Ipith q splendid name,
Without the charm Of iDonian's smiie.
The aomons clouds u motley care,
Thai thicken round our iois atl'hils,
Lie morning MIST, dissolve IN ar .--
Before the bedms Of sDoman's snaiit.
Haw s4peet fhe mrs bright beam asslsf d
::adffer lang night % ze,n6las isle
RHf oh !,mllcb slprefer FIR % nj,
The suashiins gf q spoaaa,s sn.iLe.
Then place me, Fare, sphers'er yoH may,
MD dreary Ipasfe, or savags tsie.s
For Der my soui no Gloom can stray, =
! Rhiie Tam biesf svith .eoman's smiif.
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