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Frsm Co,rley's Essays
THE DANGER OF PROCRASTINATION.
A LETTEH TO $. l..

A LETTER TO $. L.
am glad that you approve and applaud my
design of withdrawing myself from all tumult
and business of the world, and consecrating
the little rest of my time to those studies, to
which nature had so motherly inclined me,
and from which fortune like step-mother,
has SO long detained me. But, nevertheless,
(you say, which, but, is arugo mera,"
rust which spoils the good metal it grows
upon. But you say) you would advise me
not to precipite that resolution, but to stay
while longer with patience and complais-
ancc, till had gotten such an estate as might
afford me according to the saying of that
person, whom you and love very much, and
would believe as soon as another many "cum
dignitate otium.' This were excellent adj
vice to Joshua, who could bid the sun stay
too. But there is no fooling with life, when
it is once turned beyond forty; the seeking
for fortune then is but a desperate after
game: it is hundred to one if man fling
two skies, and recover all; especially if his
hand be no lucker than mine.
There is some help for all the defects of
| fortune; for it a man cannot attain to the
length of his wishes, he may have his RENE
DIV by cutting of them shorter. Epicurus
writes letter to Idomenneus (who was then a
very powerful, wealthy, and it seems, boun
tiful person) to recommend to him, who had
made so many men rich, one Pythocles, a
| friend of his whom he desired might be
made a rich man too! "but entreat You that
YOU would not do it just the same way as
you have done to many less deserving per-
sons; but in the most gentemanly manner OF
obhging him, which is, not to add any thing
to his estate. but to take something from his
desires"
The sum of this is, that, for the uncertain
hopes of some conveniences, we ought not
to defer the execution of work that is ne
cessary; especially, when the use of those
things which we would stay for, may other
wise be supplied, but the loss Of time never
recovered: nay, further yet, though We were
sure to obtain all that we had a mind to;
though we were sure of getting never so
much by continuing the game; yet, when the
light of life is so near going out and ought
tobe so precious, the play is not worth the ex-
pense of the candle: after having been long
tossed in tempest, if our masts DC standing,
and we have still sail and tackling enough
to carry us to our port, it is no matter for the
want of streamcrs and top gallants.
A gentleman, in our late civil wars, when
his quarters were beaten up by the enemy
was taken prisoner, and lost his life after
wards, only by staying to put on band, and
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AN EXTRACT.

In any adversely that happens to us in the
world, we ought to consider that misery and
afIliction are not less natural than snow or
hail and it were as reasonable to hope for
a wear without storms as for life without
troubles. Life however sweet it seems is
draupht to which bitter ingredients are min
rled-some drink deeper than others before
thew come at them; but ifthey do not swim
at the top for youth to come at them, it is ten
to one but old age will find them thick in the
bottom And it is the employment OF faith
and patience and the work of wisdom and
virtue, to teach us to drink the sweet parts
with pleasure and thankfulness, and swallow
the bitter without complaint or reluctance.
We generally fancy ourselves more miserable
than we really are, for want OF taking true
estimate of things; wherefore we fly into
transport without reason, and judge OF the
happiness or calamity of human life by false
lights. A strict inquiry into the truth OF
matters will help US in the one, and compa-
rison will set us right in the other.
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MARCH 10, 1925.

poor man in his.cottage, while he is steering
the sun and the moon in their course through
the heavens; into what establishment and
self humiliation do we fall!-Bcfore him all
our boosted knowledge is ignorance and our
wisdom is folly. Whenever we cast our
eyes on his works and ways, we find all
things adjusted in number, weight and mea-
sure; and after all that we can survey, Lo.
these are but a part of his ways;-and how
small portion has been hear of HIM
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DIR. wALUor.

Dr.. Wacot had great fondness for music.
Shields, the composer, and DR.. Jackson, OF
Exeter, were among his favourite friends.
The following beautiful pastoral, written by
Pndar, was set to music DIR. Jackson. The
ballad is entitled Marian, and the melody is
worthy of the words, which cannot be sur
passed for simplicity and tender pathos:
"Sincc truth has left the shepherds tongue,
Adicu the cheeful pipe and song,
Adieu the dance at close of day,
Adieu thou happy morn OF May"
sfIow oft he told me I was fair,
And wove garland for my hair;
How oft for Marian Guild the bower.
And filled her lap with every flower"
elbow oft he vowed constant flame,
And carved on ev'ry bark my name;
Blush Colin! that the wou,,dedhee
Is all that non remembers me-"
The following laughablc event took place
in the year 1897, and exemplifies much OF
the poets ready thoughts and active benevo-
lencc. He had been spending some days at
a gentleman's villa at Putney Common, and
had agreed to escort two ladies (who also had
been yisiters at the house) to London by wa
ter. These ladies with their man servant
and Dir. Walcot, took a boat at Putney
bridge. They had not proceeded far dowr
the river when the waterman exclaimed
" The Lord have mercy upon me!' his wea-
ther beaten countenance became distorted
with fear, and his ruddy cheeks turned pale
-" What the devil is the matter" cried the
doctor, "why FOUNDER be land-sharks, they
be after me, and if be catched Pm lost
man, and my wife and children will be lef
to starve.'' "Put away" cried the doc
tor, "and run the boat in among these rush
esq She was presently concealed by the
tall flags and willows that grew by the wa
ter's edge along the Bishops Garden at Full
ham, .'now dof your jerkin and hat, IN,
boy," and at the same time the doctor strip
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soNG-By 7. Moore.

wish was by that dim lake,
Where snfill souls their farewell take
0fths vain world and half way lie
In deaths cold shadow, ere they die,
There, there, far from thee,
Decctful world my home shall be
Where, come what might Of gloom and pain,
False hope should nc'cr deceive again!
The lfcless sky, the mournful sound
Ofunseen waters, falling round
The dry leaves, quvcring DER my head,
Like man, unquiet ev'n when dead
Thesc--aye-these should wean
Ny soul from lfe's deluding scene,
And turn each thought, each wish have,
Like willows, downwards to the grave.
As they, who to their couch ut night
Would welcome sleep, first qucnch the light,
SO must the hopes, that keep this breast
Awake, be quench'd ere it can rest.
Gold, cold, my heart must grow,
Unchanged by either joy orwo,
Like freezing founts, where all that's thrown
Within their cure mt turns to stone.
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THE SETTING SUN.

Regent oftlay farewell:
Thy fast declining rays
solemn moral tell,
OF mans fast heeting day.
They mark his fading glory here,
Which soon, like thine, shall disappear
With pleasure-thousands hailed
Thy mornings golden light;
naliy DER life they sailed,
Nor thought ofdeath's dark night;
Mhesc race is run, whose rays, like thine,
Are lost, on earth no more to shine.
Here, though alone stand,
And mark thy less'nng light,
Many throughout our land,
Admire, with me, the sight,
W. whose death bound eyes shall meier behold
my rising light Of fire and gold.
Emblem of purity,
>, In thee we may behold
The saints eternity,
When deaths dark gates unfold;
= they pass from mortal view,
10 blaze in light forever new.
IKE thee the saint shall rise,
IN resurrection's morn;
''ofy shall greet their eyes,
And all their SOULS adorn,
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THE WISDOM OF GOD.

When we view that immense structure
of the universe in which we dwell when we
think of him whose wisdom has planned the
system of being; whose mind compartments;
,vhoe. counsel directs the whole course OF
events from the beginning to the end OF time;
bv whom nothing is so inconsiderable as to
be overlooked or so transient as to be Tor
aottep; who attends to the concerns OF the
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.PO1HzE1RYe
Sc WHAT rs POETRY J"

Va, ask me "what is poetryn-A bird
If heavenly plumagc and an angel tongue
!. Ioyely flower batllcd in the blush of morn
And dropping honey from its golden cup:
4 sweet sound uttered in silver moonligt
On the still wave of evcnng;-A prsmatic shade
half light-half beauty A delightful thought
When the glowing mind on fancys wing
soars thro' the parting air midway to Heaven:-
4 nortrait of the hearts first favoritc
rirclcd with diamonds, and cnchascd with gold
clouds in the tnge Of morn'-the latest ray
ofmclting glory on the western wave
Looking sweet promise:-with fond farewell
All that is bright! all that is beautiful.
HANPDEN.
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Joy AND soRRow.-By Br@hs.

10y kneels at mornings rosy prime,
In worship TO the rising sun;
But sorrow loves the calmcr time,
when the day god his course hath run.
when night is on her shadowy car,
Pale sorrow wakes while joy doth sleep,
And guided by the evening star
She wanders forth to muse and weep.
Joy loves to Gull the summer flower
And wreath it round his happy brow,
But when the dark autumnal hour
Hath laid the leaf and blossom low;
When the frail bud hath lost its worth,
And Joy hath dash'd it from his crest,
Then sorrow takes it from the earth.
TO wither on her withered breast.
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SERIOUS REFLECTIONS.


Human existence seems to be made up OF
series of successive moments.-We use
these moments in recalling the fast; in con-
sidcring, providing for, and ordering, what
i8 to BE-. We arc often so lost in what has
been and is to be that we are unconscious OF
present existence. 1t is, at best mourntul
pleasure to look back. If it gives US any
pleasing emotions, it must be because, the
sufferings we endured, were kindly shared by
others; because, we have endeavoured to re-
lieve, or alleviate the suffcrings Of others; be-
cause, the blessings which we have had were
the best good of others. But in recalling the
scenes of the past how often do we find NTH
them only the memory Of those, who made
them dear Jus.
| In looking to the coming Our associates
who make the whole worth of life, how long
will they be such 10 us2 How many evils
we are sure will come, how many do zce fear
that will not come, but the fear Of which i'm
parts suffering, hardly less real than
would be felt, if they did; and how many
will come, wholly unlocked for OF the
good which we expect, how little comes ];
and that which does come, how unlike
is it, to that which it promised to be.
Such as it is, how often does it come, seem
inely, only to open the way Tor sorrow. Yet
we go on with hope that what we are to SUI
fer, will still be shared; and as though all
that we are to enjoy, will be made sweet by
accustomed associates.
But our companions faint by the way;
the home of our best feelings, and dearest
emotions, mingle with the past; the past
lengthens, and the coming diminishes We
exist, more and more in that which has been.
We look there to see what 7oaS; and we are
fcarfully reminded that all we are, and are
to be, will soon be there too. In this mourn
full waste, we still feel ourselves associated
with li,t4es, which were of the highest or
der that our nature can know; with Kindness
that was never wearicd; with intelligence,
that was always wise with Sweetness, that
lpan, and decay, could never subdue; with af-
fection, which likcth fragrance of the lilly is
not exhausted by being continually perceived;
with entire loneliness early gathered to the
tomb. But the recurring consciousness Of The
hresent, rouses the soul to the reality of its
desolateness, and bereavement.
If life were this-and no more, surely
"we would not live always" But we are gif'
ted to look beyond the succession of time
We can indemnity ourselves with state ir
which succession will be unknown;-and with
existence, when the organs, which enable us
to lift our thoughts to this awful elevation
will have persisted. 1t is the exercise o
this power, which enables us to look
with any composure on these wrecks of hopes
and affections, as they mingle in the past
But with it, we can feel assured that it il
not the dead, who should be monrned for; ant
by it we can wrest from the abyss of tim
gone by, the loneliness and excellence which
we have known, and connect them agar
with ourselves, in realities, that cannot chang
in duration that is imperishable.
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ELEGANT L1SEs--By Perciral

Come from thy home in the far blue sky,
Spirit Of beauty, and love, and song!
Hang on thy airy pinons nigh
When the dreams of my hayward fancy throne
Give them a brighter and gayer hue,
Shape them TO forms of finer mould,
Fairer than ever painter drew,
Brighter than all the gods ofold.
Lead me to that delicious cline,
Where the Banana swells and glows;
Law me beneath the Towering lime.
Where the dew in drops of nectar flows;
Thcreet the visions of beauty rise,
And float in fairy trains away,
Bright as their own unclouded skies,
And rich as the parting light of day.
Bring to nv heart the melting tone,
Once so sweet to my lingering ear,
Tho the days of youth have flown,
Still that tone to my heart is dear;
Now it seems to murmur by,
Soft as the wind in bed of howersl
Now the falling whispers die;
Gone is the dream of my f.irest hours
Dimly the visions of beauty fade,
Like the cloud that melts in the evening air.
When its colours vanish shade by shade,
Till the blue of the sky alone is there's
Ere they have wholly faded, throw,
Spirit of beauty! one glance to me,
Bright as the last and fullest glow
Ufthe setting sun on the golden sea.
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adjust his periwig: he would escape like
person of quality, or not at all; and died the
noble martyr of ceremony and gentility.
think your counsel o. " Festina lente" is as
ill to a man who is flying from the world, as
it would have been to that unfortunate we'll
bred gentleman, who was so cautious as not
to fly undecently from his enemies; and
therefore prefer Horace's advice before
yours:
's--sapere aude:
Incipe-"
Begin; the getting out of doors is the great
est part of the Journey. Varro teaches us
that Latin proverb, ''portam itineri longis-
siam esse = but to return to Horace:
Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise;
He who deters this work from day to day,
Does on rivers bank expecting stay,
Till the whole stream whiea stop'd him, should
be gone,
That runs, and as ii runs, for ever will run on.
Ortake the following, which is to the same
effect:
sscnAs TIE vIcrURuM" &c.
Tomorrow you will live, you always cry.
in what far country does this morrow lie,
That tits SO mighty long ere it arrive'
Beyond the Indies does this morrow lvel
IT'S so far fetch'd this morrow, that fear
Twill be both very old and very dear.
Tomorrow will live the fool does say;
To-day itsel's too late; the wise lived yesterday.
Martial, Lib viEpig. lix.
HGuINTILaSE, vAGE," &c.
Wonder not, sir, (you who instruct the town
In the true wisdom of the sacred gown
That may haste to live, and cannot hold
Patiently out, till grow rich and old.
Life for delays and doubts no time does give
None ever yet made haste enough to live:
Let him defer it, whose preposterous care
Omits himself, and reaches to his heir;
Who does his fathers bounded stores despise,
And whom his own too never can suffice.
My humble thoughts no glittering roofs require,
Or rooms, that shine with aught but constant fire.
/ will content the avarice my sight
With the fair gildings ofrefected light.
Pleasures abroad the sport of nature yields;
Her living fountains, and her smiling fields;
And then at home, what pleasure is't to see
A little clearly, cheerful family!
Which if a chaste wife crown, no less in her
Than fortune, the golden mean prefer.
| Too noble nor too wise she should not be,
No, nor too rich, too fair, too fond of me.
Thus let my life slide silently away,
With sleep all night, and quiet all the day.
Martial, Lib. ii. Epig. &c.
| *This translation gives the sense, but not the
grace Of the original. The following does more
justice to the Latin poet:
ssTo mend his life who has it in his power,
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sIoRCEAU.

As viewed the lofty mountain from the
lowy valley, saw the last rays of the setting sun
imparting farewell kiss and bidding adieu to
Nature.
Her sweet countenance, as he gradually reced-
ed from her sight was impressed with grey and
tender melancholy, and when distance threw the
mantle of obscurity over him she burst into tears
The Genii of flowers came on the wings of ST.
lence caught the precious drops as they fell, and
hid them in the bosoms of the rose and lily.
A deep and black gloom now spread itself over
her countenance The sister of her parent at
length appeared in the East beamng serenity
with soft refnlgence
Nature smiled in her tears and welcomed her
fathers resemblance; but Luna also followed her
brother, and descending yon towering mountain,
slept in the vailes of the west.
And now her fathers messenger, the bright
star of morn announced his return and near ar
rival.
The black weeds of despair were thrown off
the vesture of purple encircled her limbs, and
Joined by the harmony of the grove, she prepar-
ed to welcome her parent oflight
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Shall rise to set no more in night,
But shine in everlasting light.-YoUSe.
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When Milton was blind, he married 2
shrew. The duke of Buckingham called her
a rose 81 am no Judge of flowers replied
Milton;--"but II NAV be so.-~forI feel H,rns
daily
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*This translation gives the sense, but not the
grace of the original. The following does more
justice to the Latin poet:
ssTo mend his life who has it in his power,
Yet still defers it to a future hour,
Waits, like the peasent, till the stream be dried;
Still glides the stream, and will forever glide"
Mr. Nevile's Init. of Horace, p. 35.-Htrd.