The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1853-01-29
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The flower no more.
But the same thought brings home TO grief
A iadcless hope-a bright relief
Pleas sure is sad. In hours Of pain
Eve smiled and sighed when joys were free;
l felt that hour would fade a4aln
That joy would flee;
And this br0ueh, home in jos. in grief,
4 iadricss bopc-a bri sht rcnei.
Pleasure is sah--,hr lo: wc feel
When WE are gay :"r-ris It's power,
For memories u'rr our senses steal
II must b. DER;
And This same ,hou"ht brings home to grief
A tadcl.s. hopc--a bright rclicl.
Pleasure is sal--t! o one you lave
MAY pass from Earth soon. soon may die;
MAY find Home in worlds above,
Beyond the sky;
And the same thought brings home 10 grict
Immortal hope-a bright relief.
Pleasure is sad--the morrow's sun
May lish, you to y"ui lulur" home;
Yonr earthly mork may then be donc-
Non--in the tomb.
But this same thought brings home {" gricf
A ladccss hope--a bright relicf--.lN.
IT,. lpnie's" "Lcal' on the first page W i'll
be found an Interesting chapter.
Uy"Col. Benton has written 10 The National
InteIiiCeArer dclrniing himself against having
attacked ..th- dying Cahcnn.' After stating
that hc intended to have joined issue with hin
npon Il mun, itahe mise off, y very strong
phrase that Mr.. Benton, hut it isv"ly like one
used near century ago. In 11Gs, writer
".3ifirus" who was '.Jnmuy" under another
name, in an attack made on the English knG
and his cabinet. refers thus TO Lord Chatham
who al the time was cid, equity and iniirtn -
"Of Chatham lad much To sny, bat il were
inhumnu to prosecute when Providence la!
marked out the example to manklnd.'
TIVE see this paragraph going the rounds
,of the lnprr.:
pLAGiARIsM.--TI is sail that Mrs. Stowe I
character Of Iva in Inclr Tom. i. stolen liom
poem hy S,ba Smith, called the 'SinlesS Child
As To the plagiarism we do moi know. no
having read any Of the "uncle ,omiool"ry" O
other "ngeer literature" now 50 highly il
vogue. "1he Sinicss Child" however, wa
written by Mrs. Elizabeth Oakes-Smith, and i
genuine poem by Il woman Of rare genius
Still the paragraph comes within one of il,
Tor Mrs. 0akes-Smtl, notwithstanding he
compounded name, Is the wife OF Srha Smith,
and Scba, too, is person Of mark. as the autho
OF the original Jack Downing" letters.
GIVE are asked the name and address o
the Editor of the Southern Literary Messenger
md reply J r. Thompson, Esq, Richmond, Va
uy-Retcrence i, made in another place Il
Andy Job, the Hermit, and as some interest il
his case is now excited. there seems to be
general desire that our correspondent who ha
undertaken to furnish the facts OF his history viii
do so with as little delay as possible. He vii
see he is referred to in the extract we print to
day from The Register and Examiner.
r1'-our correspondent "M0udc" has attract
cd considerable attention. We have already pub
is another, received during our ABSENCE. AM
overlooked til! now. "Mande" will under
stand It to be criticism kindly meant, what
ever she may think OF the business OF it.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. II, '53.
Mn. EplroR:--By the kindness of a friend
occasionally, but much too seldom, am favor
ed with n g lance al your entertaining sheet
which is very pleasant to me as it gives hom
news.
have ust finished reading lfuudc's letter
AMI on prrnsins the entire epstle it struck me
that if the lady would but drop the affected "trip
perry Of jest, and vein her writings with sucl
passages, of which the one in the article il
question commencing "Now, Pve halfa min,
to tellyo something of our village" Is nea
specimen, flowing as il does with the pathetic -
] think she would be- more successful as cor
respondent.
Now, Mr.. Editor, do not accuse me of bein!
hypcrcritical, for these reflections come nvol
unfairly from my heart, after reading the epis
tie OF Maude, in n simple, homely spirit. Bu
there is 50 mnch ntieclalion. and IN no rrspec
more than in the affecting of wit and dashin,
hulaor. You must know from experience bu
few persons are tolerubIe in this state of action
The constitution of ones mind, mvaIiabl,
gives the real spirit, TO writings epistolary cs
recially such as,"Mauie's.' and you will fin
that nearly every one can pen IL pleasant an,
perhaps touching epis,le il they will but .'fol
10y pature.' coEcR,
UY-GM neishbor Of The Hurford Mmfi,oniai
has found Port Dcpcsit curresnonuCDt, VIII,