The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1822-01-01
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PORTLAND, TUESDAY, JANUARY /, l8.
Dunn loquimur, fugerit inrid.

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Dunn loquinur, tugerit inrid0
| .Etds, cdrpe diem.
The clock 'upbraids me with the waste Of time"
! IL IS usual, on the commencement Of the year,
to send congratulations to our friends; but VIC
! aPPrehend that, in most instances there j. but
little cause for congratulation. III living ID this
world IS BOOM, we cannot rejoice that new
year IS begun. for then we have one less Of ex-
istencc, for the Joys and the hopes Of Life if the
buoyancy Of youth, and its enthusiasm and eager
anticipation are sources Of animation and delight,
we have reason to be sorrowfll that every year
dir0inishes their ardour in short if all that we
have be worth enjoying, and If every year strikes
something from our joys and from our power Of
renewing them, then why should we rejoice at
new year, which only reminds Us that another
has passed, with speed which we dcprecate, and
With'a certainty, Of which even. hope will not
permit Us to doubt? It's certain that 10 its pas
sage it bears with it some thing of the pleasure
to which our hearts are allied-some Of the
friends whose existence is almost wrapt in our
own-tie gay illusions Of faney--the fcvsrish
time forms Of splendbr and delight, but which
continually recede and finally fade before the
maddening grasp Of disappointment !. all these,
sadly admonish US not 10 hail too ,oyfully the
Coming Of year. II these BE the melancholy
attendants OF Tins why do We rejoice At lis pro-
gress?
We believe that propensity Of the human
mind, the love Of novelty, which actuates Us on
so many other occasions, extends its influence
even to the vicissitudes Of life and that we are
animated with enthusiasm at the commencement
OF year, as we are witha new fashion or a new
friend, which we play with and humour little
and then rclinquish with Indifference We hone
that the year on which we are to enter, has in
store for us some pleasure which we cannot de-
hne--something TO which the warmth OF the most
raPturous cannot give habtation nor name ::
we anticipate that something may grow out Of Il
different and better than the last produced
and when il has passed away 10 the year. before
the flood, we find all our hopes deceived, and
that instead Of the godless which our magma
tons pictured to Us, we have embraced cloud
We therefore turn away with disappointment
from the past, and cherish again our wild wishes
for the future year
For Time Is like fashionable host
That slightly shakes bis parting guest b. the hand
And with outstretched arms, as he would fy.
Grasps in the conner. Welcome ever smiles.
And farewell goes cut signing.
We believe that scarcely any person arrived
at the years-o discretion, but on this day makes
some reflections on bis past life, and some good
resolutions for tic future. The season Of the
year in which it occurs, i peculiarly fitted for
such exercises. The EARTH oureommon mother.
has ceased 10 contribute to the sustenance other
cmldren-the vegetable world which. in Spring
and Summer and Autumn pours out 50 prod.rallv
ITS stores Of qualification to the sen.uat and ~
'cectuai tastes, ceases its ope ration-thc Beauty
o. The forest and the field i gons. and all the
hsely pictures with which inimitable nnh,re 70.
gales rs du'ing tire other seasons. have r,aad
and there remains upon the canvass but j drcar
and melancholy outline. The mental eve turns
IN sadness from this extent Of still and solemn A.
ISOLATION, tins emblem Of the last stage IL rnoral
iiie- inward upon the varied and abundant soprrcs
OF beauty and delight which spring ID II y !.
SOU and tas soul will darixo degree Of purity