Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1822-11-23
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GOOD OLD POETRY.
BY DR.. henry Mon Z, l647.
ssyVhatever man he be that dares to deem
True poet skill to spring Of earthly race;
I must him tell, that he doth m,sesteem
Their strange estate, and exc himselfe disgrace
By his rude ignofanee. Fos' there's no place
For forced labor or slow industry
OF Aaggins wits, IN that high fiery chace;
So soon as ofsthe muse they quickned be,
AT once they rise, and lively sing like lark in
skie.
ssLike to a meteor, whose material
is low nnwieldy earth, base unctuous slime,
Whose Inward hidden parts ethereail
Ly close uPwrapt in that dull sluggish fine
Ey fast asleep, till at some fatal time,
Great Phebus' lamp has hrd It's inward
spright, $50,
And then even of itself ON higk doth climb;
That earst was dark becomes all eye, all sight,
Bright Stare, that 60 the wise of future things
gives hight. ~
ssE.ven so the weaker mind, that laRsuid lies
Knit up in rags of dirt, dark, cold, and blind,
So soon that purer flame of love unties
blind,
Snee sores aloft for shee herself doth find
Well plumb; so raissd rpon her spreaden
wing. 49,
She softly playes, aud MARBLES in the wind,
And carols out her inward life and spring
OF OVERLOOKING joy, and Of pure love doth
sing !" '3ei. A~ -
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scan wares and iarres and fierce contention,
Swoln hatred, and consuming envies spring
From piety! No; tits opinion 40
That makes the riven Heaven with trumPets
And thundring engine murd'rous balls ont
sling,
And send mems grooming ghosts to lower
shade var
OF horrid hell. This the wide world doth bring
10 devastation, makes mankind to fade;
Such direful things doth false religion per-
swade. -
ssfsut true religion sprong from God above
Is like her fountain. full of charity,
Embracing all things witha tender love,
Full of good will and meek expectancy,
Full of true Justice and sure verify,
In heart and voice; free, large, even infinite;
Not wed cd in strait particularly, IA
But gvasping alliu her vast active sprlght,
Bright lamp of God! that men would joyin thy
pure lghtl'' z
ssLiket to hight fast lock- in lanthorn dark
Whereby, by night our wary steps we guide
I'm shabby streets, and dirty channels mark,
Some weaker raves through the black top DO
glide.
And husher streams perhaps from horny SIDE
But when we've past the PERIL of the way,
Arriv'd at home, and laid that case aside,
The naked hight how clearly doth it ray,
And spread its joyful beams as bright as sum-
mer's day. ~]3a a.'.t
SEVEN so the soul, in this contracted state,
Confn'd to these strait instruments of sense,
More dull and narrowly doth operate.
AT this hole hears, the sight must ray from
Here taste, there smells, but when she's gene
from hence,
Like naked lamp she is ons shining 'Phear,
And found about has perfect cognoscence
What ere in her horizon doth appear:
She is one orb of sense, all eye, ali airy ear
e. us
~Sfear, anger, nope, ueiSe Vengeance 'NA'N
sWoln hate, St}
Tumultuous joy, envie, and discomfort,
Self love, vain glory, strife, and tell debate,
Snsatiate covetise, desire impotent,
Low sinking grief. pleasure, lust violent,
Fond emulation all these dim the mind
That with foul filth the inward eve yblent,
That light that IS so near it cannot find
80 shines the sunne unseen on trees rugged
rind.
s.But the clean soul by virtue purifi'd,
Collecting her own self from the foul steen
OF earthly life, IS often digni6'd
With that pure pleasure that from God doth
streem,
Often's enhghtn'd by that radiant, BEAM,
Thac issues forth from his divinity"
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KENTUCKY COMPACT.
We lay before our readers the letter OF
MIR. Clay to the Legislature of Kentucky,
accompanying and explaining the articles
of Convention agreed upon by Mr.. Leigh
and himself. This letter has just reached
us through the Kentucky papers.-Mr.
McAiee, from the committee OF the ee-
nate, TO whom this subject was referred,
has laid the followine resolutions on the