The Litchfield County post., 1826-09-12
FoR THE COUNTY POST.
SKETCH NO. II.

By Gregory Graphic, Esq.
What shall say her beauteous face was like,
In all the glorious light Of loneliness?
Is it the ray that streaks the eastern sky,
Stealing night of darkness from the world
Is it yon planet on the calm blue heaven,
Struggling in beauty from surrounding clouds?
Is it the snow in unsunn'd purity,
CONCEALED upon the Chinborazos top?
Is it the billowy oceans foam, when winds
In autumn's hour rage DER the rolling deep?
All this and more she was: so beautiful 2
The outline of her countenance, and form
Of her white bosenl's hcaving loneliness.
Why then do all turn in disgust away? i
Dirt is the cause; bunting the ray Of light
Upon the eastern sky with clond-like streaks;
Blurring the planets beauty, like the clouds
On Venus face to telescope eyes
Painting the purest snow with sullied stains,
And tinging oceans foam with hues of earth
Vain is the neck's fine form, or finer form
Of all that paradise of loneliness
Beneath, if hues of earth and stains of dirt
Contaminate the brilliant beauty there.
Beauties, go, wash lin humble prose we beg!
Use soap and tooth brush oft, lest lovers lips
Should taste the filth and think no heaven was
there.
Southey.-The literary habits of MIR.
Southcy, the poet laureate, and newly elect
ed member for Downton, are thus descri-
bed bya contemporary" He rises early,
and writes or reads till breakfast time. He
reads or writes after breakfast till dinner:
after dinner till tea, and from tea till bed
time
And followsso the ever running year,
With profitable labour to his grave
On Derwent's Bank. beneath the foot Of
Skiddaw, study serves him for business, ex-
ercise. and recreation. He passes from
verse to prose; from history to poetfy;from
reading to- writing-by q stop-watch. ~
How will Parliamentary hours and habits
suit such man?
WiLkes.-At the period Of Wilkes'pop-
ularity, every wall bore his name, and every
window his portrait. In China, in bronze,
or in marble, he stood upon the chimney
piece Of half the houses in the metropolis;
he swung upon the sign-post in every vii
lage, Of every great road through the coun-
try. He used himself to tell, with much
glee of a monarchial old lady, behind whom
he accidently walked looking up she MUIR
INJURED within his hearing, in much spleen,
'he swings every where but where he ought
| Wilkes passed her, and turning round, po-
litely bowed. ssS
Justice.-An anecdote communicated to
us by medical gentleman, who has FREE
quently had tho care of convicts to Botany
Bay, would lead to the inference that the
administration Of justice has lately gained
much in impartiality in ireland. On his
last trip to New South Wales, with aha
man cargo, the Sergeant Of the Guard, to
whom they were delivered over, who hap
tpened to be an Irishman, on looking over
the list of the Irish convicts, when he came
to four Protestant names, Black, johnson,
and two others we have forgotfen-fan
Irishman canEtell the religion from the
name, )he exclaimed "By the Holy, four
Protestants that is very odd. In my time
it would have gone hard with the conscien-
ces ola Jury, before they would have COM
victed Protestants of felony"
The late Sergeant Hill, of eccentric
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