Literary cadet, and Saturday evening bulletin. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1826-1827, 1826-11-18


four quarters of the globe, cmbatted fortress"
reaching TO the sky. 1t may be tina, there is one,
and we will not dispute with the poet for lie un-
loubtedly made a minute investigation, before he
hazarded the assertion.
Yet sure twas here opposing armies stood
That is the stream that redeemed with his blood
It was from thence the wild mans warwhoop rose,
And here he stemm'd the onset of the foes /;
Bnt 10 ! the PLAIN, hll, valley, all around,
With the bright PoP'Lous VILLAGE now are
crownd.'
The most remarkable passage in this extract, is
hat which informs us that the Populous Village,
which has elected the oltest strains OF the gentle
mans muse, covers the plain, Hill, valley, all
around" from which we infer it must be pretty
large village, if not town. But as the gentleman
has right TO make his villages just as large or
small it suits his time and convenience, IT would
be improper to cavil about the subject. Let that
PASS. Wen have another extract:
There, here the solitary wiswam steod,
Uncouthly iorm'd of stakes aud leaves and mud,
Whose door stool wide, deeaase ii could not close,
10 welcome weary wild men TO repose.'
1t appears from this that the oor Of the wig am
stood open wide because il could not close" Very
door stood open because it could not close We
have heard of door, that would not close, because
it would not open; but we meyer before heard OF
that stood wide open because il could not close.
| That Mr.. DEAN has uttered matter of fact we
cannot doubt, and will not be rude as to ques
ton his proposition. A friend who now stands at
our elbow, has given us some light the subject,
after attentively reading the extract two and TWEEN
" hours, by Shrewsbury clock" And thus he
solves the problem; in those days, when the Abo-
riginals erected their wigwan's, hinges were un-
| known to the world hence the door porta-
bic kind of thing, which, like Mrs. Carey's pot
| Id, answered for the whole community. As the
door not attached to the portols by hinges, it
always vide open stood, because it could not
cCse.' This, we presume is correct solution; ; at
any rate, We shall remain content with il, till Mr..
| DEAN advises us to the contrary.
" Around where ignorance had takn her stand.
| NNh reign primeNal. Ger the darkend land,
| See Learning's nurseries at ev'ry turn,
! Where every urciin finds he means TO learn
| And onward, see the high schools spacious halls,
And onward still, the prouder College walls"
We are at loss TO say where this Populous Vii
lage stands, where are seen "learnng's nurseries
at every turn, where every u:chin finds the means
to learn" Ii cannot be located in Foster; Meth.
er it be Noose-Neck Hill or Little Rest, in
which latter place resides gentleman, who of late
has given us sundry specimens of his literary and
political proves. 1t cannot be located in any part
of Rhode Island, for here we have no nurseries of
the mind 1t must be in the land Of Nod, it, indeed
it be located in any part OF the globe. But this is
not important.
" Here busting Trade is laden with his baes
| There Commerce spreads her wings, uniolds her
| sails,
Here on canals, deep freighted barges toll;
There groaning wancs with products ofthe soil;
| The thronging streets what busy numbers fill !!
| What tides of passengers r, II onward still
| Not fed from want, but drawn by interests bond,
To visit peopled regions far beyond
There is something altogether mysterious in
these eight lines, and confess that entire
ly in the dark concerning them. Here" says MI.
DEAN, "on canals, deep freighted barges toll
There groaning wancs, with products of the soils
Now, to our minds, all sorts of employment except
grooming, may wane but in this age, it actually
increases or fills its horns :" and we undertake to
| say, that as the world advances in population,
groanng. in proportion, increases-and the Lord
| help US when it The last line is par
tcularly Objectionable and indefinite" To vi
sit people far beyond"' Beyond what? Perhaps
beyond the worlds jumpng-of place.
The terrors Of the wilderness are fed,
| And Niagara's ihunders lose their dread;
| Down its deep chasnl, no hazard OF his life,
| Goes the soft cit. and zen his softer wife,
This extract is peculiarly sniff; for here we have
soft cit and his sof'r wife," who walk together
into the chasms OF Niagara, dash through the waters
of the tremendous cataract, without hazarding their
lives Soft creatures, indeed; exceedingly s9f
they must have been, when they went in and yet.
how much softer they must have been when they
came out. Alas! all's son, scjf, soft!
| .ook on this generous soil, peoducing bread,
| That even surplus millions might be led;
| see here no want, to stint The human frame,
| Nor toiis ercessire, 10 impair the same
In this extract we find nothing very remarkable.
save an attempt at rhyme, in the two last liHcs,
which results in the writer's making his lines ex-
ceedingly lame and ridiculous
| "See here no want, to stint the human frame
Nor tolls excessive TO impair the same
| The word same, in this instance, is luSged IN
merely for the sake Of rhyme, aud was eViden'ly
used as last resort, after the poet had cudjeed his