Delaware gazette and American watchman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1837, 1832-11-06

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Awake my muse, and plume thy idle wing.
Why wilt thou slumbere Nature bids thee sing
o. take thy harm and touch its chords with ease,
For laboured notes the idle never please
Since last thou sung for me enc cheerful lay.
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I And hung the forest with the gafb-of grief i
Cast its brown mantle lightly Ger the plain,
To vail its verdurs and its bloom again:
Painted the forest leaves in yellow-red
And every varied shade upon them spread.
Ills thus thro' life our farest hopes we've seen,
BY time frost6itten as those leaves--once green;
| 'rs thus-that nature points to reasons eye,
And shows the world, all mortal things must die.
But come my muse-come to some cheerful theme,
Let pleasures sun upon thy pnions beam;
Oh. rise above each sad reflections right,
| AS beams the moon above the shades of night,
Like her dispel this melancholy gloom,
And spread halle even DER the tomb.
No farther now the worlds sad side pursue,
But hold its cheerful-only to my views;
| Or rather leave the world where discord reigns,
A scene of transient joys and lasting pains;
Bury this scene in deep obyion's urn,
And to our village now thy pnions turn.
This village which has many charms for me,
| And dear in memory shall it ever be,
Long known to memory as the home OF health.
| Where ALPS COMPREHENSIVE pines for wealth.
No wretched howell by palace side,
Degrading poverty or lofty pride,
| Where science spreads her mild and lucid beams,
And darkest minds are brighten'd with her CLEANS,
| Where revelation sheds her heavenly ray,
And pure religion has her happy sway;
Where liberty, to every breast is known,
And none beneath oppressioA's shackles groan
Science has here temple Of much fame,
Which long has lourished with goodly name;
Within its walls have thousands learned to tread,
Through those deep languages. to nature dead;
To trace the ancient poets in their flight,
Through depth of thought-imagination hcightj
!, To Gull and gather into learning's store,
Modern flowers with the fruits of yore.
Here too a seminary worthy praise,
Whose origin has been in later days;
Tho young in years already high in fame,
And merits more than can now proclaim.
, The gentle sex-the beautiful and fair,
last 5sst eqtTgi Sssr e mans
Such nature has assigned their proper parts;
+ To guide the pencil with peculiaP skill,
And hours of leisure with soft musick fill;
f Tho in strict justice should say much more,
\ Lest grow tedious, / must pass this Ger:
d Nor stop to be minute in what say
Of parsons or Of people by the way.
But then the charms societies afford,
The inviting fare which crowns each social board,
Deserve more time than can give to tell,
Their stores of pleasure-which I've known so well
s How oft I've spent social evening there,
+, And found refuge from each worldly care
n And here again must not pay what's due,
!, But bid farewell, and my course pursue.
g Out DER the fields my muse go spread tiny wing,
= There like the lark high pois'd in air to sing.
If Unbounded prospects meet the ravish'd sight,
If Enrapture fills the soul with new delight.
< There hills and vallies like the ocean deep
Tost by tempest from its briney sleep.
And whilst its mighty waves in tunult roll,
One breath from heaven should CONCEAL the whole.
Here wide extended plains are smothely spread,
Far as the weary sight can DER them tread:
: The north and south are skirted by those hills,
Which gave rise to many chrystal rls.
And at each border by those hills firm basis,
, pure clear flood IT'S rocky pathway traces.
!. There farms and forests stud the hilly chains
And here they intersperse the level plains.
- Pleasing prospect-happy people, long
n. May you enjoy more than the poets song:
Il. Those sacred blessings which descend in love,
i From Him whose throne is boundless space-arount
q. above.
Mt Thy task is done sink to thy humble home,
Come hither-take thy rest-and cease to roam
hs CLAUDIUS