Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1857-04-15
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ODE ON v1cIss1TUDE.

is in our estimation the most finished of En-
poets. Mark the purity of his thoughts ant
simplicity of his diction. Mark the precisit
his numbers and the easy flow of his versi6ca
Why is it, that Thomas Gray has no more il
tors? Because It is easier to write fulsome rh,,
than poetry Of the clear, crystalline kind. B
the Ode-its evidently the inspiration Of b
Spring morning and is appropriate to the seas
ED. ADV.
Now the golden morn aloft
Waves her dew -bespangled wing,
With vermeil cheek and whisper soft
She woocs the tardy spring:
Till April starts, and calls around
The sleeping fragrance from the ground;
And lightly DER the living scene
Scatters his freshest, tenderest green.
Newborn focks, in rustic dance,
Frisking ply their feeble feet;
Forgetful Of their wintry trance
The birds his presence greet:
But chief the sky-lark warbles high
His trembling thrilling ecstasy;
And, lesscning from the dazzlcd sight,
Melts into air and liquid light.
Rise, my soul Oh wings of fire,
Rise the rapt'rous choir among;
Hark tbs nature strikes the Tyre,
And leads the gen;ral song:
"Warm let the lyric transport flow,
"Warp as the ray that bids it glow;
"And animates the yernal grove
"With health, with harmony, and love-
Yesterday the sullen year
Saw the snowy whirlwind fly;
Mute was the music Of the air,
The herd stood dropping by:
Their rapturcs now that wildly flow,
No yesterday, nor morrow know;
IT'S man alone that JOY descrics
With forward and reverted eyes.
Smiles ON past misfortunes's brow
Soft reflections hand can trace;
And DER the cheek of sorrow throw
A melancholy gr: ce;
While hope prolongs our happier hour
Or deepest shades, that dimly lower,
And blacken round our weary way,
Gilds with gleam of distant day.
Still, where rosy pleasure leads.
See kindred grief pursue;
Behind the steps that misery trcads,
Approaching comfort view:
The hues of bliss more brightly glow,
Cbastis'd by sablcr tints Of woe;
And blended form, with artful strife,
The strength and harmony of life.
See the wretch, that long has to>s'd
On the thorny bed Of pain,
At length repair his vigour lost,
And breathe and walk again:
The meancst fowret of the vale,
The simplest note that swclls the gale,
The common sun, the air, the skies, y
To him are opening paradise.
Humble quiet builds her cell,
Near the source whence pleasure flows;
She eyes the clear crystalline well,
And tastes it as it goes.
willie far below the madding, crowd
Rush headlong to the dangerous food
Where broad and turbulent it sweeps,
Ard perish in the boundless dceps,
Mark where Incidence, and pride,
Soothd by fattery's tinkling sound,'
Go, softly rolling, side by side,
Their dull but daily round:
sTo these if Hebes self should bring
The purest cup from pleasures spring,
Say, can they taste the favour high
Of sober, simple, genuine joy
Mark ambitions march sublime
Up to powers ncrcdian height;
While pilc-eyed envy sees him climb,
And sickens at the sight.
Phantoms of danger, death, and dread,
Float hourly round ambitions head;
While spleen, within his rivals breast,
Sits brooding on her scorpion nest.
Happier lie, the peasant far,
From tic pangS of passion free,
That btca;i.cS the keen Yet wholesome air.
Of rugged penury.
lie. when his morning task is done,
Can slumhcc III the noontidc sun;
Aud l.c him home, at evenings cl"sc.
To sweet rcpast, and calm reioSe.
He. unconscious whence the bliss,
Feels. and OWLS in carols rude,
That all the circiing joys are his,
OF dear Vicissitude.
From toll he wins his spirits light,
From busy day the peaceful nshti
Rich, from the very want OF wealth,
In heavens best treasures, peace and Eealtl
aIlistellaneo}1s 5Reabl
ENDORSING NOTES.
Thcrc * n moral in the following well CO
cred remarks from the Philadelphia l..
which should he often pondercd:
at was we'll said, by a very shrewd obse
tb,t there are some things which every
has to learn for himself. 1t wonld seem
the folly of endorsing what is called acco'
VI. : ~ -. ,,,os one of them. Tens Of