The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1850-08-31

BY Js 4 DlABh
Hay no restraint on those Hove, for those
Who lone me need none, having a care for nv
interest and pleasure as well as their own.
Life is the Development of the soul-the
unfolding Of its powers-the c%nacting of its
energies. 1t is a warfare between good and
evil passions; a struggle of the spirit to over
come all opposition. mot enjoyment and not
sorrow is life, hut a movment, a going for
ward, and pain and pleasure on the wings Of
the soul , on which it scars towards its emo
Element.
Imparting pleasure is like putting money
at interest lit benefits both lender and hors
rover at once. And no one can be long and
truly happy, unless Others sympalhizs in and
share that happiness. Thus it is that true and
enduring love is so unselfsh in its nature. II
will labor, aye, suffer alone and uncomplain-
ingIy, to prove he happiness of the beloved
one, and verify it hath its reward.'
Brainerd, all unambiriops and uupresuming
gave golden promise of what he might have
done, had he been longer spared to earth.-
Fond of a quiet, contemrlative, self %cultiva-
ting life, his poetry shows his love of his coun.
try, his friends, and his home; and that in him
all gentle and pure affections were ardent liv,
ing principles. He had his careless and his
playful moods, but his humor never sinks into
folly, his irony is never pointed by malice.
Coloridge seems to have the true convention
and command of the power of words, and
gives his thoughts in all their force and beauty
to the comprehension Of another. His Ian-
gnage was sugestive-it leads the reader to
think, it aids him to reflect for himself. 1t is
ever a Characteristic of the true poet, that he
clothes his conceptions in the only words
which will express all their delicate lights and
shades-'hat no other language can do this as
we'll as that employed.
Attraction Is a my steriois, all peryadinp in
tuence. All bodies obey its laws and even
the embodied are subjected to them. AS maj.
ter IS attracted by the finite to earth, so shirt
attracted by the infinite to heaven. Alost
tnat IN so many matter should predominate
over mind. Yet this must be so, or . their
would %o(tener raise from the contem-
pIation of the finite and perishlng to that off
the infinite and everlasting. Great minds are
ever aspiring-seeking to know and epioythe
pure, the empyrean delight.
Were there, as at twilight tonight, but one
bright star, what a wonder and a beauty thai
would beg Companion of tile crescent moon
walking through the blue by her side, height
shIog and gIorltylng the kingdom Of night;
SHOULD We not watch for its coming with rev,
'rent hearts, and almost worship It's transcen-
lent brightness? But now, from the cvnosure
o the southern cross, a whole zodiac OF inn
space is blazing with starry worlds;
nd think, 0 man,
low vast His pc wer, how glorious mpst Tie
be,
Who has with stars, as though With diamond
flowers,
'hirk SOW the regions immensity!
Think Of thy insIgniicance, aud yet again
hink, when all these are q~uenced and fled
by life will but have known its beginning, its
avn; its uoon-day, where! where can we
lace it in the cycle of eternity?
RoYALToN, N. Y. {