Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1841-07-09
SHORT PATENT SERMONS.
by now JR.
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Late sitting up has turned her roses white,
Why went she not to bed because twas night
My hoarers,--in my last discourse treat
ed upon the beauties of morning, and limited
at the necessity of early rising. will now
nouch upon the loveliness, and solemness, OF
tight and show up the too prevalent prac-
tico of sitting up late Night, my friends,
was invented solely for the quiet repose OF
us. poor day worn mortals instead of tres
passing upon the sacredness of its peace, we
ought all to lie down, at a reasonble hour,
beneath its dusky quilt, and be prepared to
rise when the first flames of morn are kind
led upon the oriental hearth. Yet how ma
nyyoung bipedowlcts do see around me who
will not 90 to bed, merely because it is night
who regard not their healths, their rcpu-
taton, nor their pockets and willingly per-
init the worm Of corruption TO grow at their
already nioti-caten morals! All! their name
is Lcgion-and the way they are all streak
ing it down the dark road to ruin is sorrow
full to steam locomotives. The purple pop
pies of evening shed no opiate upon their
eyclids and the cypress gloom which sur
rounds them, only serves to render more
conspicuous the blue bazes of deviltry
which burn upon the brazen affairs of their
hearts. The iron tongue of midnight re-
sounds in their ears, but they heed it not !;
aye it even knocks at their tenantless bo-
SONS, and finds their thoughts absent from
home or drowned in the oblivion of drunk
enncss. find belonging to the anti-go-to-
bcd-early-socicty not only careless and
reckless young candidates for dcs-
truction, but men of maturcr ycars-mcn
whose minds were first moulded in the ma
trix Of virtue, but have become warped be-
fore the scorchng fires ofhabilual dissipation
between whom and the grave, the dusky
curtain of night can fall but few times more
men who are old enough to knew better
than to shake off the bamy dews of sleep
from their eye lashes, in mockery TO the
supplcations of declining old age. see be-
fore me now one upon whose head the boar
frosts Of time are fast descending, who never
thinks of retiring to his solitary couch till
the midnight bell has ceased to toll. Then
he sprituazes in an cxtacy of bliss; then
his soul swells within him till he is Obliged
TO intuition his waistcoat wnen superabun-
dance ideas flows in every direction, like
water from gardner's pot and then, when
he finds that exhausted nature can no longer
wrestle with the spirit, he gropcs his way to
bed singing
'Fal de raj, fal de raj, fal de raj ri do,
We all love drop now and then"
All that will never do. He takes too
long bitches at a time towards his own sep
ulchre ; and must try to preach reformation
into his system, and thereby spare him the
pain of offering SO many morning apologies
10 his injured conscience and eventually
save him from going down to the grave with
the blue mould of disgrace upon his venera-
Bile brow.
My dear frendS-many of the fair sex
Of Gorham are also running themselves by
keeping late hours. | don't mean those
whitc-washed moving monuments of female
beauty who wander at the dead hour ofmd-
night up Broadway to Anthony street to de-
struction-for they are ruined already. |
have reference to those who still cndeavor
to ornament the gay circle of society with
their radiant charms. Whenever enter
the dazzling arena of fashion, | behold on
every side such faded specimens of feminine
loneliness as to convince me that the deadly
upas ofetiquctte is preyIng upon their deli
cate vitas. Decked with the costly trap
pings of alicctation and pride, they look |
tempting indeed to the infatuated Worship
pers OF women; but to an experienced Judge
like myself, of female flesh and virtue, they
appear as cold and inanmate as so many
awning posts hung round with dry goods
The roses upon their cheeks have been blan-
chcd by the midnight breeze, and the lus,re
of their eyes has been dimmed by the lurd
gas iigh'si folly's saloon. They go to their
parties, their balls, and their assemblies, and
barter away their beauty for few hours of
nocturnal enjoyment, sacrifice health at the
shrine of foolishncss They sneak home
TO their pillows of rest before Aurora pokes
her head out of her chamber window and
bushes upon them for shame and yet they
will not 60 TO bed IN season for fear of being
thought vulgar! o my friends, the enlioht.
eminent of this world is compound of dark
ness and damna,on.
My iriends-night is said to possess charms
Tor many, which accounts for their watch
fitness. know it isoverllowing with beau
ty; but it is such an order as should de an
preciated by the serious and sober. Its love-
illness is associated with solemnity and all
its spendors are calculated to drag the
thoughts out of the mud, and hang them up
TO dry against the blue vault of heaven. In
the solemn stiffness of night, contamination
should spread her airy pinions, and visit til,
golden palaces Of hope which adorn the ten
thousand emerald isles in the vast ocean of
eternity. Then, too, we should be remind
cd that soon the darkness of the tomb will
overshadow us all, when sounds shall disturb
our sumbers in the dust, till the arcbanoel,s
trumpet re-echoes through the silent valley
OF death. SO mote it be.
l have been much indisposod during the
past week, which must account for the short
ness my discourse. The flesh fails me,
and the spirit shrinks from the task. don't
expect to wear out much more shoe leather
in this flint paved world. A few more SER
mons and then--Hic Jacet.-N. Y. Sun,lay
Mercury.
THE PLAYER AND THE PHRENOI. OCJST
well-known eccentric commedian once
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