Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1842-01-08
From the v. Y. Sunday Mercury
short Patent Sermon.
ny now, in.
Love is witty,
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Love Is charming while it's new,
But 1t soon grows old,
And wakes cold,
And fades away like the morning dew.-ANoN.
Ny HEARuRs-Thcre is a mistake
about Loves being pretty, coaxing and
fascinating; but for all this, it is awful
ly dangerous stuff to meddle with. No
one ought ever to approach it, unless
he is provided with 4 box Of matrimo-
NAL pills. Oh my heart sinks clear
into my trowsers' pocket when | think
of all the mischief that Love has stirred
up in this amoricious world Love,
like the boys candy, is too good to last
long. Soon after marriage il is apt to
grow cold, and fade away from the
full blown blossom of the heart, as fades
the morning dew from the damask CO.
rolla of the rose; but before the afIec-
tons are bound in the nuptial wreath,
there is no danger of Loves dying a
natural death. On the contrary, he
becomes more and more obstinate in
his attacks, and will hang on like an
eel TO dead 'possum. advise you.
my young congregation, to beware of
pianoforte music and moonlight cven>
ings, if you have touch of the tender
lurking about your vitals; for they are
sure to call that little rascal Cupid forth
in quest OF prey, and when he comes,
your breasts are made pin-cushions of,
in less than no time. lie shoots his
arrows with unerrng aim as he flies,
and mocks at the agones Of his woun-
ded victims. He is the mischieE-ma> :
king child of Venus, that artiul daugh.
ter of Jove, who used TO sport her gol.
den chariot, drawn by sparrows over
the fleecy clouds of heaven-whose
railroad track down to Olympus consis-
ted of the rainbow. She was the mo.
ther of all firts, and created more trou.
BILE in the courts Of love than ever Lu>
cifcr kicked up in the temple of righte.
BUSINESS. But she is dead now, and her
son Cupid rcigneth in her stead,
My dear young friends-you must
contrive to love moderately if you wish
TO have it last long, and not grow cold
with the wane of the honey-moon-jus
as Mrs. Dow and did when she wa.
pretty Miss Betsey Wheeler. w,
didn't squander all our affections amid
the foolish axtravagancieso of courtship
but let off little at time, and they con
scqucntly lasted the longer. Like cat
tie that masticate their food n seconC
time, so we, till the day Of death brough
in a bill Of divorce in her favor, could
sit beneath the bowers of canubial hap
pnesS, and chew the cud of our tirs
love over and over again. Why don
you do likewise, and thus ensure many
days OF comfort and happiness, rather
than dry up the fountain of future at
tachment by indulging for a short tim(
in searching ecstacy, Moderation
should always be your guide in the at
fairs of love; no matter whether tha
love be sexual, traternal, alcoholical OF
spiritual. BY drinking too deep from
the cup of either you become intoSica
ted, and are soon compelled to swallow
the bitter dregS of woe and despair.
is melancholy truth, | have cvei
known persons to become so inebrintet
with the love of religion, that their rea
son has left them in disgust, and sough
an asylum in the desert region of ne
where; but love of morality, virtue ano
honesty is subject to no such excuses
and the stronger your affection for then
is, the wiser and happier you must be-
don't care who says to the contrary
but in your love for the sexes, pluml
pudding and spurious holiness, be care
ful-be moderate and you may make
it hold out till you are borne to tha
land where love never fades away, mol
even waxeth old. So mote it be