The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1839-02-12
POETRY.
From the London Metropolitan
THE NEQUAL M ARIA G L
BY MRS. ABDY.

BY MRS. Abpf
"Joy-joy to the young md happy pair,
The youth is learned, the maiden fair,
They are rich in friends, and in gold and lands,
And love has united their willing hands"
Thus the smiling world in its sentence passed;
But tn honey moon has ceased to last,
And already contending views divide
The wearied bridegroom and sulen bridge.
From whence can such earthly jars proceed?
Alas the riddle too we'll read;
They share no feelings or thoughts IN kind
They are not linked in the chains of mind.
He has name and glory won,
Genius oxuts in her gifted son;
And she is sou!less, and weak and vain,
A cold, light daughter Of Fashions train
He loves to gather from Learning store
The treasures OF scientific lore;
Or truce the deeds of former age
In the classic or historic page;
And oft when the poets strain beguies,
lie ventures to seek the muses. smiles,
And the Tyre of few boast tone
So sweet and so perfect as his own.
She TO light trifes devotes her hours,
Waves in gay garands her green house flowers,
Turns the leaves of a vain romance,
Then bends on the mirror heightened glance
Perchance devislng some art of dress
To heightsn her native ovelness,
At the welcome time, when, observed of ALL
She shines in the bright and crowded hall.
Ills speech and his actions bear impress
OF The calm, deep power of holiness;
In ha ripu Of
He sought not pleasures delusive ways;
And though votve crowds his steps pursue,
His spirit is like the sunhower true
To earthly objects it is not given,
But it rests its steadfast gaze on heaven.
No thoughts sublime in her mind have birth,
Her hopes, her wishes ell of earth
She hears him dwell upon holy themes,
AS though his speech were of tabled dreams,
Oh the gifted feel pang intense,
When they lavish their burning eloquence,
To meet with the careless cold reply,
Of hardened and heartless levity
What marvel then, that his steps he bends
To the quiet hearths of congenial friends;
Or seek discourse with the wise and good,
In his stady's peaceful solitude;
She feels no JOY at his coming tread,
But turns in disquetude and dread
From the powers his varied speech displays,
To hang on a coxcomb's lisping praise.
Ye sons of mind, will my words avail
Will ye study the moral of my tale?
We are raised above our common race
Descend not then from your starry place,
To choose bride from grovelling sphere,
Who will shrink from your talents IN servile fear;
Lest, like Psyche, she die in blaze of light
Your welded bliss can be found alone
In her whose genius prize your own,
Your taste improve and your thoughts inspire,
With kindred spirit aud answering fire
The world may extol your honored name,
And bind your brows with the wreath Of fame;
Blu: its praise is light as the oceans foam,
Compared to the kindly words of home.
knowledge may surely some skill impart,
To teach you to read the human heart;
Oh! then, combine in your choice for life,
The enlightened friend and devoted wife
One who with glad exultng glow,
Will share your triumph and fame below,
But with hoer fervor and deeper love,
Assist your steps to a WORLD ABOVE.