Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-06-15
Extracts from BlaekSUoOd's Edinburgh Magasaae'
NOTES AMBROSIAN, Z.

NOTES AMBROSIAN, L.
Norib-Soring 10 with me the happisst sea-
SON of the year. How tempting the young escu-
Tents, as they spring up in their ,lrsinily along
the needless garden beds! Then the little lat
,ening twin lambs, James, racing on The sunny
brae, how pleasing TO the poeticai palate!
Shsphsrd-Though tauld you ma to be sem
,imenlal, did ma bid you be sensual
Morrill, sit corrected. Lo, winter is over
and gone.
Shepherd-Na--
wunter lingerin' chills the lap o May.
But May is merry month, and ken ma whe-
Their the smiles or The frowns on her face be the
mair beautifu'-just like naughty damsei, IN
the pride o. her teens, sometimes flingin' a
scornfu' look 10 you over her shouther, as At
she despised a. mankind: and then a a, ance,
as If touched BY gentle ,hochts, relaxia' intIil
burst O. smiles, like the sun on hall stormy
day, comm out suddenly frae amang the break
in clouds, & changing al ance earth INTO hea>
ven. =, Sir, bu, the Lodge is 6onny place
moo!
Morrill, love suburban retirement, James,
even more than the remotesI rural soi'ude' III
old age, one needs to have the nelghoorhooo oil
human beings to lean upon; and In the stiffness
of awakening morn or hushibg eve, my spirn
a relief from all oermas,ering thoughts, in It's
fellowship with the busy mul,i,udes sailing
along the many streams of life, too near TO be
wholly forgotten, and yet far enough of no, TO
harass or disturb. In my most world SICK
dreams, never longed to be a hermit IN the
cave. Mine eyes have sill loved the smoke oil
human dwellings,; and when my intrmi'ies
Keep me from church, sitting here IN this ar
bour, with Jenny TayIor's Holy Living and
Dying, perhaps, on The table before me, how
solemn, how sublime, the sound OF the sabbath
bells Whether the towers and spires oil the
house Of worship are shining IN the sunlight,
or heard each in its own region OF The conse-
Grated city, through a sofeniog weight oil mist
or clouds from the windy sea!
Sisphsrd-For my ain part, Mr.. North, tho
I loe the lochs and moors, and mountains, as
well as do the wild swans, the whawps, and the
red deer yet could I, were there necessity
fort, be every Bit as happy in Hat on my TIM
mer tenement in the darkes' lane o Aud Ree-
kis, as in Noun, Benger i,sell, that blnks sac
bonnily on its ain green knowe on the oroao
bosom o. na,ur Wherever duty cas- him aud
binds him down, there may man be happy,
ay, even at the bottom o coal pit, Sir, that
rims a mile aneath the sea, wi waves and ships
roarin' and rowin' lhousan' faIhom over the
shaft.
Norh-The philosophy Of human life.
SAepAerd--Bet,er still {: its religion. Wo Tor
US were there not great happiness and great VIZ
tue i'm toous and cities! lie, but the faculties
Of the mind be occupied for sake O. the atiec>
tons o. the heart, and Jour ee may shine as
cheerfuliy on a smoky dead brick wa within
three yards % your nose, as on ledge o livin'
rock formin' an amphirheatre roun' looh or
ali arm o the sea Wad loe my wife and my
.weans the less in the Grassmarkrt than In the
forest! Wad be affected otherwise by bury
ing ane O. them should it please God) in far-
roy kirkyard than in The Greyfriars? IT my
sons and my daughters turn out weel IN life,
what matters il TO me il they leeve by the sill
yer streams Of the dry Nor-loch! Vice and
misery as readily, as inevitably, BETA mortal
creturs in the sprinkleG domieiles, that frae
the green earth look up through amang the
trees TO the blue heavens, as in the dungeon like
dwallins, c.ooded ane aboon anither, in closes
WHARF it's ave a sor, o. glimmeriug night. And
Death visits them a alike wi as sure a foot
and as pitiless an &c. And Whenever, and
wherever, he comes, there's an end o. a. distinc-
,ions--o' a differences o. outward and material
things. Then we maun a alike look for COM
fort to ae source--and that's no the skies their
sells, beau,ifu' though they may be canopyn'
the dewy earth wi curia ain wrought into end
less figures, a BRIGHT wi the rainbow hues or
amaist hidden by houses free the SIGHT o them
tina: are weepin' amang the din city lanes-for
what is'r in either case but mere congrega-
zion o. vapors? But the mourner maun be
able, wi the eyes o. faith, to pierce through il
a, or else Of his mournin there will be no end
nay, nay, Sir, the mair beautifu' may be the
tent in which he ta5ernacles, the mair hGeous
the bell within his hear:! The contrast atween
the strife o. bis ain distracted spirit, and the
crawn o the peacefu' earth, may otherwise
drive him mad, or, il not, make him curse the
hour when he was born into warld in vain So
beau ifu'
Aorth--I love TO hear you discourse, James,
"On man and nature and on human life,
Ausing in soEtude."
NIethinks that poetry, 81 late years, has dwelt
too much on external nature. The worship of
poe S, if not i1olatry, has been idolatrous--
SaepheYd-Wi ats the differ renee!
North-Nay, ask the Bishop Of Oxford.
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