Literary cadet and Rhode-Island statesman. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1827-1829, 1828-01-05

obscured aud buried in the lapse Of years,
Or ehronicied alone by anliquarians,
Whose works with Time are constantly at varianeej
Except a certain elias, of them-thc moths
Who, ~ each rare and venerable tome,
Are more destructive than the ancient Goths
And Huas and pandais, when they ransscked Rome,
So that upon the whole, the moths are friends,
foresialhhg the detruclion Time intends.
/ wish they would consume Tom Painss Theology
One moieiy OF Moore the Boak IF Martyrs,
All volumes that discourse OIL Demonology,
And let alone the History OF the Ia,tarsj
The good John Bunyan, at their feasting ffolic,
Might, with an o.ioh,-not p, oduce the cholic.
Moths are descendants OF ia, CaiipA Omar,
Who burnt the Library of the Ptoiomies:
They have a TASTE for tiga, Pope and Homer,
A, hungry rats (confound lh,ml have for cheese.
And they deyour no,oiOgy, geography,
Pneunalies, by dro'tiiies aud typography,
Just a, a school-boy swallows plumcake., pies,
Tafis, curd' aud jel!i.s-,ans discrimination;
And, while each dainty dish il palate tries,
Deigns not 10 give his wagsing mouth vacation.
To tell the downright truth, Il is a question,
Whether such heterogeneous food promotes digestion.
The Spanish proyerb says that time prove, all things,
Eut can he prove a knave an honest man!
And could mention several Other small things,
Which do not fall within our present plan;
They may take place but these events ale hidden
To mortal eyes, Goin future scenes forbidden.
Yet some would know what Time will bring about,
That may affect them in their future li,eS;
Ladies are very anShnu, 10 find out
Their destined hu, Islands; men, their destined wives.
II would be best to give the (iiey scope
Ponstra, ing scenes agreeable 10 hope;
For there il pleasure in unce,iainty-
Nov, " my trotb, that is a pretty theme,
On which a bard might make some poetry, .
Some half dozen sheets, perhaps a ream;
But AL cannot 'Pme my old friend, Time,
l shall not throw away a single rhyme.
He hath seen many changes in his course,
or which Tradition hath not told a third,
Since first he sprang from his piimeyal SOU ee,
When Chaos changed TO order, at the Word
OF all things, no doubt he could compile
True narrative like that oi Captain Riley.
o! what a tale would he Ia US reveal,
Ofby gone ages when the world was new.
Thou hoary Sire thine oracles unseal!
Display thy past experience 10 our view.
For thou hast seen proud empires rise and fall
Before the deluge overwhelmed them all.
Thy visionary form before me now
Appears as Neptune from the main arose,
The mi,ts IF ages hang upon thy brow,
SPecires Of ruined things thy tain compose;
The verdure shrinks and wiihers at thy tread,
And crowds Of noItals number with the dead!
Tell US the story OF those eastern nations,
To whom the arts and science. were known,
Ire Philips son commenced his operations,
Or his precursor, Cyrus, was o'erthrown.
Fable sits brooding over them, and mystery
Involves the scanty records Of their history.
-,
Historic truth devoid of fabrication,
1 wait with eager mind and ready quill,
To give symbolic form to thy narration;
iniuse my INK with all Thy gathered store,
Ana in". IRON dGrfftSS light ssAli -piinS once more!
yy,o r..r., N. .o, ,.o, MIS-. .h...
M, .aaa ~ n,od"u Ipoa - sno,e,
The Savage, skilrd in Legendary lore,
Hath no tradition from his ancestry.
oDhvion blooms upon me buried brave,
Lake Desoialioh on q D1t'ds grave
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III, sna roI,nh,s 1ad,,L M, h.ui,,h.r
Inauguration hath some strange yasaries)
~ h'o.1 : VI men eN's,ru mere
,v.n.P, ~, ~, a !, nun v'.'"y ',iuSe o,Ten'
y" u" "e1 ""'' u III i"o'dHs heaven.
IN, Ia, ~. ,,r, 70 ma, hocor. ,L.n Al
Tia, good m;IIenn,,I r,ca af ~ 10,
"0Gih ,hey net 'PuIn me present Pigmy brood
vi shoi' nNtu oeing', u they could De told
now 'hey .neT uansiiory term abuse!
Aiay GO" u ever nave ue ofueS
Did thew Of wore. like mod.,r ,o,ou.,. ,.,
Their ,onc . i',cnc. ,,;,ho", ~, Jh"o.is
GsP,e with ennui, and wish that thou would't haste
my speed, ana bring about some distant season,
W"en P'ese"' P''"' would fiPen 10 a head!
VI dHa hey pass one nall their lives ab,d!
xu... h-n,,,,
ma aGar a,. r 'inI uI you'n'.' "nsy o'e",
or dd they. IKE the Hebrew leader, view
Ala me promised onyect, aud expire
before they g'a'Ped u Such the fate OF all
VINO grover now on this terrestrial ball!
A,,o,.h
W. rn,o 49,; %e SUI ~" '"i OIL e'i,
wishing each tardy minute To the devil,
Because we deem the next will crown our hope,
But ma, when TN, brief life is nearly ended,
o"r great soiiciIude IN vain expended!
Y..
~, .ss !. y. 10 KNOW
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Men marked my periods in their silent flow:
How wan thou valued was thy loss lamented!
ihou ecuii:t resolve some problems in cosmology;
Are the Ihiness correct IN their chronology!
re,n'P, une eye, are now a h!''e DINNER,
Since hrst l saw thee pictured in the primer,
WIN wings IKE Msrray y, at either shoulder.
uhon hadst an hour glass and a swinging scylhe.
"h'ch o'en CAUSED my lender nerve, to wrilhc.
In,,,
phaa ~ .n..'" nours l hai 'one droll and
Where The .ai We. n.J "P.osr1 70 U s"d'
And hat the hour pla,.. .i.tio,.d h, ,hv ~.
Was 10 denote he proy,c,. of ihe ill., "'
A thou art old, thine npe SHOULD moe, ro.pec,.
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