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

| Transport vour wealth and children lar away;
| But unbarrd gates and doors will safely keep
| Your golden treasures, aud your chldrens sleep.
! i'rqce here the cause, for verify you can,
| The magic art, OF multiplying man.
| We are right heartily rejoiced, TO Gnj that Mr.
| DEAN has discovered different kinl OF doors or
gates those which widely differ from those which
wide open stood, because they could not c'o-e."
| 1t appears TO our mind to lie door invented by
ngularly gifted genius, and ought TO be secured b.
! copyright Hear what he says
| "But unbarrd gates and doors viii safely keep
Year golden treasures, and your childfea's sleep.
A valuable invention truly! for they not Only pre-
vent those who break through and steal, although
they are unbarred, from stealing gold and sill
yer, but from robbing the little CHI iers" Of that
| very valuable commodity sleep."
| As he is a man of science, he opens our eyes TO
| all the inventions Of the age an could, if he
thought proper, solve "Me magic Grt ofmultiplyiag
| man. This art although mystery in the Popu-
lous Village, is pretty well understood in this quar-
| ter; were il not, doubt If our population
would have increased the last seven years, nearly
| thirty per centum. And we doubt If the art j,
not understood by yfeW of the inhabitants OF tho
| Populous Village. ifindeed, they be not Shaki4g
! Quakers.
| 1.-The humblcst souls that e'er on Heaven called
Here sought the freedom which wss there enthrald,
Built up their atars as their conscience tade,
And found 10 Church nor tyrant 10 invade.
| Ii wonld not be worth ones time, to notice these
lines, did they not contain false metre, and foul mea-
| sure.
&" The humhlcst SOUL that e'er on heaven calld,
| Here sought the freedom which there enthTalu.
| "Enhrald" and 4" called" rhyme about as well
as muffin md dumplin. The slanza is altogether
faulty is forced one, and discovers paucity of
pottical talent. The first line is too short by one
| syllable to thyme with the second lfit were writ
ten thus, il would measure with its successor:
The humhlest soul that e'er on hea ven had called,
Here sought the freedom which was there enthalG d
{" Hail happy Village! fvorte Of the west !!
| In thee our fond affections find their rest
| In thee the bright reality, that seemed
| A phantom, tho divinest Plato dreamed.
| We see ;he basis, broad and deep, and sure
| On which thy hdppiness may rest secure
! The government which equal laws restrain,
| And caprice can miugle with their reign:
J Laws, that op nature and on reoscp rest
Long tried, ant sanctioned by Religion test,
| The wholesome customs, awed by fear u vine;
| The decent manners, which the whole refine;
| Plenty full that Usef forgetS 10 steal,
| find iolClcsS phtndtr can no motires feel;
| And conscious peace, dlstendIng every breast
| Redoubled all, that neghbors too are blest;
| And squalliu want, emacated care,
| And wandering ocggary are unknown there.
| We ask not where Thy happuessis is found,
| 'Tis full and free pervad'ng all around
We shall be under ceaseless obligations to Mr..
| DEAN if he will raise s. ommittee of ways and
means" to assist in unluthomng the four first
| lines of this cxtract-thus they stand:
! " Hail happy village favorite Of the west
| In thee fond affections find their rest
| In thee the bright reality, that seemed
| A tslantom, tho divnest Plato dreamed"
If we may be permitted to guess-and we must be
| allowed 10 guess, TO enable us to come to any kind
Of conclusion guess that Mr.. DEAN means
| this;-We find in the Populous Village rest for
fond affections, and realize all that Plato dreamed
The lines, 10 make the best Of them, exceed
insly ambiguous, and we confess that after reading
them six and thirty times, backwards and forwards,
| up and down, down and up, we have not been
abled TO come to any other conclusion, than that
which we have recorded
The whole ofi'.:s extract is very ambiguous, il
not absurd, and is unworthy Of ballad monger, il.
we except the two following lines, which partake
largely of the perspicuous the lofty, and the beau,
HGM:
"Plenty so full, that Mejl forgeis to steal
| find la,oiess plInder can no mo.ives feel"
What very happy state Of society there must ex-
ist in the Populous Village! Theft forgets 10 steal.
and lawcss plumber motives feel" Now,
as said in preceding paragraph, We know not
| where this said Populous Village is located-but
led to believe, that its polity established
the Owen System, where the property OF the COM
muuity is held in common, and where there is moth.
| ing known, but one eternal season Of JOY, cares
sing, and kissing. We had thought that Auburn,
| in the State of New ork, had been kindly dubbed
by our author, " the Populous Village )" but when
| we came TO reflect that an extensive prison house
has been established in that place, containing some
hundreds Of thieves we have been compelled TO be-
lieye that that is not the happy village. We do
mos, sincerely doubt if" theft has forgot TO steal,"
or il. plundcr' ceases to have motive for action
The figure, if it can be called figure is false ana
extravagant and not sanctioned by the laws of poe
| try and fiction.
| " No bloated landlord meets you at the door,
| Whose rank excess steams forth al every pore;
No sootv liar -roum there, every side