The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1830-07-01
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MONOS AND DAIMONOS-.1 Legend.

uOANOS AM bathO>oo-si Lsgc"u'
by ruE AUTHOR or rELRAs.
am English by birth, and my early
years were passed In ~FNN~. had neither
brothers nor sisters; my mother died when
| was in the cradle; and found my sole
companion, tutor, and playmate in my IA
Their He was younger brother of a no
ble aud ancient house: what induced him
10 iorsake his country and his friends, 10
abjore all sucieiy, and TO live on rcck, is
4 story Ia itself, which has nothing TO do
with mine.
AS The Lord livcth, believe The tale
;ha, shall tell you will have sufficient
clain, on your attention, without calling in
the history os another to preface its most
exussits details, or 10 give interest TO its
most amusing events. ! said my father
ftged On rock--the whole country round
seemed nothing but rock WASTES, bleak,
blank, drcary; treas stunted, horbage bias.
ted; eaycrns, through which some black
aud wild stream that never knew stor or
sunlight, but through rare and hidcous
ch0sms Of the huge stones above it) went
daShing and bowling on it's blessed course;
vast cliffs, covered with eternal SHOWS,
where birds of prey lived, and sent, in
screams and discordance. grateful and
meet music IN the heavens, which seemed
too cold aud barren 10 wear even clouds
upon their wan, grey, comiot,'cRs expanse:
these made the characters OF that country
where the spring ofmy life slckencd itself
away. The climate which, in the milder
parts of s$%aN relieves The nine months Of
winter with three months of an abrupt and
nj lns Ia
10 the gen,le aud sweet region in which
nv home was placed. Perhaps, for brief
interval, the snow in the valleys melted,
and the streams swellcd, and blue. ghast
", unnatural kind of vegetation, seemed
here and there to mix with the rude lichcn,
or scatter grim smile over minute parti.
cles ofthe universal rock; but 10 these wit
nesscs Of the changing season were the
summers of my boyhood confined. My
father was addicted to the sciences--the
physical Sciences--and possessed but a
moderate share OF learning in any thing
clse he taught inc all he knew; aud the
est OF my education, Nature, 10 savage
and stern guisc, instillcd in my hear, Wy
silent but deep lessons. She taught my
feet to bound, and my arm TO t.nite; she
breaihed life into my passions, and shcd
darkness over my temper; she taught inc
to cling TO her. eycn in her most rugged
and unalluring form, and TO shrink from all
esc--from the companionship of man, and
the soft smiles Of woman, and the sbrill
voice Of cl,ildhood; and tho ties, and hopes,
snd sociaities, and objects of human eSis
tence, as from a torture and curse. Even
in that sulleu rock, and beneath that IN
genial sky, | had luxuries unknown To the
palled tastes of cities, or To those who woo
delight in an air OF odours and in land of
roses! What were those luyuries? They
had a myriad varieties aud shades of en-.
joyments- they had but "A common name.
What were those Injuries? Solitude
Ny father died when was eighteen;
was ira nsferfed to my unclc's protection,
aud repaired 10 London. arrived there,
gaunt and storm, giant in limbs & strength,
and 10 the tastos Of those about me, a saw.
age in bearing and in mood. They would
have laughed, but nwed them, they would
have altered me, but changed them;
threw damp over their enjoyment and n
cloud over thsir meetings. Though said
| little, though ! sat with them, cs,ranged
aud silent, and passive, they seemed TO
withcr beneath my presence. Nobody
conld live with me and be happy, or at ease.
] felt il, and hs cd them that they could
love not me. Three years passed. was
Of cge--I demanded my fortune--and
Scornng social life, and pining once more
for lunoiness, I resolved To Journey into
those unpeoplcd and far lands, which ifany
have pierced, none have returned To de-
scribe. SO took my leave of them oil,
cousin and aunt and when came to my
old uncle, who had liked NE less than any,
1 graspcd his hand with so friendly gripc,
that, well weeD, the dainty and nice mem.
bor was but little inclined ~ its ordinary
functions IN future.
! commenced my pilgrimago-I peirccd
the burning sands--l iraverscd the vas,
deserts--l cemc into the enormous woods
! of Africs, where human step never trod,
nor human voice ever startled the thrilling
and intsusc solcmniiy that broods over The
great soliiudcs, as II brooded over the
chaos before tho world was l-Thore the
primessl nature springs and perisbes IN.
disturbed and unvsried by the CONCLUSIONS
Of The surrounding world ; the leaf be
comes the tree lives through, its nrc1unt
cd ages, falls ard moulders, and rn,s md
vanishes, unwitnessed in its mighty and
mute changes, save by The wandering lion,
or the Wild ostrich, or that huge serpent
n hundred tunes more vast than the puny
boa that the cold limncrs Of Europe have
painted, and whose bones the vain student
has preserved. as miracle and marvel
There, too, as beneath the heavy aud dense
shade couched in the scorching noon,
heard the ,rsmpling os of an army, and
the crush and fall Of the strong trees, and
beheId through the matted boughs the be.
hemo,h pass on its terrible way. with ifs
eyes burning as the sun, and its white teeth
arched and eiistcning in the rsbid Jaw, as
pillars of spar glitter IN cavern; the mon