Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-02-22
The Philosophers Stone.
ny ELIZA COOK.


o, what can that be, that with earnest endeavor
We seek for in vain, yet keep seeking for evcri
o, where is the charm that has bafiied for ages
The wise and the witless, the saints and the
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We 20 on pursuing we go on believing, lau'
Sill ardcntly woOing some thing that's decoiv-
ing; u
And behold in its shape the Philosophers
Stone" ~aj ss rfe iaT
Tho child looketh out on the sunshine and moth.
And he sees what the alchynist tolls for in both (;
Let him play in the beam, let him capture the
fly, ~
And tho world wears mantle that dazales his
But tho heat and the light makes him weary
full soon,
And he finds VIC may tire of tho summer days
noon
Tho insect is crushed, and he sittcth alone, boo.
Signing over his childhood's Philosophers
Stone" i5
The man in his prime is still doting and drcam-
ing,
ing, ans ~ q
And he thinks the Alembic yields all he desires,
When Affections elixir is formed by its fires:
He has seized on the charm, but he liycth to
prove M
That some dross Is not even transmitted by Love-
And full many bosom will mournfully own,
1t was cheated the most by this meteor Stone.
Old Age in ripe Wisdom concciveth, at length,
That the gold in itself holds the spell and the
strengths M.
And he scrapcs and he gathers, in Golfers and
lands, ... Nt.-. rf rl illyHo
And imagincs he then has tho charm in hi'
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But he findcth, alas that he cannot miss all
OF Mortalty's cypress and Misery's gall;
! Though monstrous and mighty his heaps may
Even wealth is failing Philosophers Stone
We pant after that, and VIC toll after this,
And some wisp-likc dolusion still bcacons tc
bliss;
/ We hang over Life crucibles, fovered with care
/ Ever eager to find tho great talisman there.
/ We get sweet Installations and magical fumes,
The rich fragrance bcguilos, and the yapol
illumes; Htrr uanlyuual. .
But we find, when tho perfume and mist-clOud
have flown, .,vt..4 40 81
That VIC have not secured tho "Philosophcr''
Stone"
o | what folly II seems to be striving TO gain
Heavens alchymy-secrct with efforts so vain
Why struggle for bloom of celestial birth,
While negccting the gay flowers beside US on
earth .-.4..I
Let us keep "good conscience, this tails
man seems
To como highest the charm of our chemical
dreams;
'Tis the ray most direct from the Infinite Throne,
And the only enduring philosophers Stone.
llunht
YoUn NEIeuBoR's IIENs.--Mr. A. kept
his hens shut up. lie WINS not going to have
his garden destroyed 10y his own or his neigh.
bor's hens. One morning he saw coupl,
digging in his early pea bed, and out h,
went with murder in his henrt, but the hem
few over into neighbor -Bs garden; where
upon A. called over to him very angrilsftha
he would shoot the next hen he saw Oh hi
side of the fence il he did not shut them M
which B. declared he would not do, and
| A. was fool enough TO shoot them he Nigh
do it, for all he cared. A. was us good a
his word, and day after day B. wos salute
with the smell of gunpowder, and messing
thrown over the fence with every fat pule
There's another chicken for your dinner
until at length, not finding the usual supply
/. B. called over one morning TO neighbor "A
4 TO know the reason. This awakened inqui
nv, when il was discovered thut A. had Deel
shooting his own hens, as they occasionally
escaped through hole in the coop, and, il
his anger at his neighbor for the supposed
trespass, had furnished him with sllndr,
good dinners. No doubt he was q liiil,
angry at first, and thought any cunning tricl
after that better than shooting his neighbor'
hens.