The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1869-08-02
Select Poetry
A COLUMN OF GOOD THINGS.
HUNTED UP ny wurADAM.

A COLUMN OF GOOD THINGS.
HUNTED UP DY wUFADAM,
Industrious wisdom often does prevent
What lazy folly thinks inevitable.
There is no vice so simple, but assumes,
Some marx Of virtue on its outward parts.
Work for some good bo It ever so slowly,
Cherish sonie flower, bc It ever so lowly,
Virtue, tho chained to earth, will still liv
free,
And hell itself must yield to industry.
When devils will their backest sins put on
They DO suggest nj first With heavily show
Absence Of occupation is not rest
a mind quite yacant is mind distressed.
The trucst characters of ignorance
Are vanity, pride and arrogance.
Nature, in spite of Fortune, gave no minds,
That cannot, like our bottles, be cnthralled.
Immolest words admit of no defence,
For want Of decency is want Of sense.
lnchnstancy is bu name,
To fright poor lovers from better choice.
Q how rorieniious is prosperity.
Low c>mel-l.ke, it threatens while it shines
True happiness, iftndcrsto ood,
Consists alone in doing good.
Oft when blind morlals think themselves Sc.
cure
In height of bliss, they're on the brink ol
ruin.
Hatred is by far the longest pleasure
Men love i'll haste; but they lctcs. at leisure,
Mine be the heart that can itself dcfcnd-
Hate to the foe-Icvo,:on to the friend
To reign is worth ambition, though in hell
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
a wits te,t'lcr. and chief rod
An honest mans the noblcst work Of God.
Multiplying wishc; is dirsc,
That Keeps the mind perpctually awake.
With what lcaden and rctarding weight,
Does expectation load tue wing OF time.
When the heart is light
With hope, all plcascs, nothing comes nmiss
Work without hope draws nectar in seive,
And hope without an object cannot live.
Humility is eldest born Of virtue,
Aud claims The brthright ut the throne Of
Heaven.
lTew close the line,
lie, the chips fall where they may.
There is tide in the affairs Of men, which,
Taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
Rumor is pipe.
Blowl by surmises, jealOusics, conjcctures.
Often, vice. provoked to shame,
Borrows the c1lor Of yirtuous deed.
For gold the merchant ploughs the main,
The farmer p!ougl,s the manor.
Whom do we dub rs gentlemen! the knuYe,
lte fool, the brute
If they hut own full title Of gold, and wear d
eourtly suit.
Lay this unto your brcLst:
Old friends like old swords, still are trusted
best.
When Fortune means TO men most good,
SIC l9oks upon them with y threatening eye
Young men soon give and soon forget afIront
Old age is slow IN both.
'Tis easier for the generous 10 forgive,
Than for offence ~ ask It..
Oi all wild beasts. preserve me from tyrant
And Of all tlme-a fittercr.
Trust rcposcd in noble natures,
Ubligcs them tue more.
What Faies impose, that men must need.
abide;
It boots not to resist both wind aud tide.
"fashion,' n word which knaycs and fool.
may use,
Their knivery and folly to excuse.
All impedimen.sin in faney's course,
Are motives Of more fancy.
The evil TINT men do, lives after them;
The good Is oft Inferred within their bones.
Mems evil manners live in brass their virtue
We write In water.
Fame is public mis,ress-=n ne enjoys,
But luUre or less his rivals peace destroys.
Il floats a moment, ahd Is seen no more:
One Ceasar liyes-a thousand are forgot.
The sting Of falseliood loses half It's pain,