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 "I grant to the wise his meed, 
 But hia yoke I will not brook, 
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 l.ottcr to a Friend. 
 
 A Fragment. 
 Tjmc Suggested by street scenes in Boston 
 
 THE ADVEXT 
 
 Letter to a Freind. 
 
 Poem. 
 
 ]^le: Hures of Ikflcction 
 A belief God intuitive. 
 EUar ON Lucy m. Donald. 
 Psalm. 1 , 
 A Letter 
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 Happiness 
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 A Contrast. 
 
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 Trust not yourself, but yjir <lottJJt^ to kuow 
 Make use of every frioiid, and every foe. " 
 So said I'ope, than wIkuu few. ever undcrsood poetry iis an 
 art, better. 1 begin })y <juoting tluH couplet, so that if any 
 unfriendly critic n]u>uld deign to notice these desultory 
 piccoH, he may h.'ive the comfort of knowing, thiit lie is 
 enabling the author to avail himself of the counsel of a great 
 erotic, by thus showing hiui his defect'^. As for friends, if he 
 have any, he cannot, as some authors do, lay the blame of 
 being tempted to the crime of authorship, on them. By say- 
 ing that, " It was only thr »ugh the fl itc<j;'y. and persuasion 
 of friends, that he was indm ed to think of presenting any 
 thing to the public" «S:e. The author of these poems is very 
 thankful that his friends are t"0 honest to flatter him, and 
 most of them, too wise to advise him to engage in any surh 
 Quixotitc enterprise as autiuu'ship. 
 
 The sanity of a " namelci^s wight " like the author of 
 these pcices, might well be (juestioned. who would think any 
 scintillation of iiis genius bright enough to obtain even a pas- 
 sing notice in an age like this. \v hen books issue from the press 
 like sparks from a burning building. .Some fall ins; immediatly 
 lost in invisibility. S )mc rising till they disapear in smoke. 
 While a few only, grow brighor as tiiey rise till they seem to 
 lose themselves among the brotherhood of stars that shine in 
 the firmament of fame forever. More especially is this true 
 of poetry. There are a few inspired singers whom the jniblic 
 seem at once to appreicate ; But of the class called Ehymers, 
 few perhaps, recieve sufficient pecuniary compensation to 
 pay the printer, and publisher. And if fame at all, it is 
 generally ill fame. Nor are men of genius always exceptions , 
 
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 Milton sulJ tlie cojp} right (if his iminnrtal poem for .£2.S. 
 There arc 8omc liuk} cx(.-oiitiv»ns. the jioct HryMiit was him- 
 self one ; Yet thetjo lines of hin are as true, a.s beautiful. 
 
 •' Poetry, though heavenly born, 
 
 consorta with beggary and Hcorn. 
 
 Cowpcr wa8 so discouraged by the attacks of the reviews 
 that he had concluded to give up authorship: till he chanced 
 to sec an article in some of the periodicals of the time, by the 
 great American phiosophcr. {"rankliu, expressive of his gene- 
 rous admiration of some of the poets works ; when Covvper 
 took courage, anil cuuipleated his lask. It may seem strange, 
 that the world .-iK-uid owe so much to one man: biit &o it is. 
 The aame hand that " grasped the lightening's firy wing," 
 fanned anew the I'lomethcan fire that illumunates, almost 
 every line of the "^sk "' And to the same man, who was one 
 of the most intelligent champions of liberty, in the age 
 to which he belonged, the world, perhaps owes that trumpet 
 denunciation of oppression ; "Oh for a lodge in some vast 
 wilderness: " iS:c. The poet Cowper, by awakening the nens- 
 ibilties of many a heart in early boyhood, hath often taught 
 an abiding principle of humanity not to be eradicated by any 
 hardening prosses that the world may apply in after life: and 
 so has often, not only, sto 'd betwixt the oppressor and his 
 human prey : but has often "Stood between an animal and 
 woe;" as well, by teaching the heavenly docteriue that, 
 "'Ihe meanest thing that lives 
 la free to live ,and to enjoy that life 
 As God was free to make it at the first. " 
 
 But Cowper' s is no exceptional case. The great Peasant 
 Toet of Scotland, remained without patronage, till a blind 
 
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pocTii for ,£28. 
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 of tlic reviow.s 
 till lie chanced 
 Hi time, by the 
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 ■••ccin strange, 
 li: bill so it is, 
 g's firy wing," 
 iJiiiatcs, almost 
 , who was one 
 ill the age 
 J that trnmjiet 
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 reat J^easant 
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 man saw the beauties of tlio^e wonderful poems, which have 
 been the admiration of tlie critical world for aliout a centu- 
 ary. But now, tliat the aforesaid world has discovered, that 
 •Though on hanieiy fare he dined; 
 Wore li v^wdtii giay ana tliat." 
 he was a — "King omen for a tint ' It is lo marval 
 to find some "l)irlvie ea'd a lord, " honoring himself by 
 presiding at a Burns' Festival — No poet ever denounced the 
 insolence and oj)prcssion of eastc in more scathing invectives: 
 Or appealed to the human heart in strains of more melting 
 tendernesM. Xone ever sang of love, and, mirth more 
 passionately: <»r took the citadel of symj)athy by storm 
 more feucecssfuly. than liurns. And Tvho, if not he, might 
 expect, "reason for his rhyme ' .' Y'et we find him, a little 
 before his death, when t(jo ill to attend to any bus«incs«, 
 writing to 'Ihumpson, for whose collection of Scotish songs 
 he had contributed some of its rarest gems, "If you can 
 lend me £i) you will save me from the horros of a jail, and 
 the blessing of him that is ready to jjorish will rest on you. 
 
 Kirke White is another example of the world's treat- 
 ment of poets. — He says of the first review of his works, 
 " This Review goes before me wherever I turn my steps, 
 and 1 am persuaded that it is an instrument in the hand 
 of Satan to drive me to distraction. No wonder the poet 
 thus expresses himself. 
 
 Now surely, thought I, there 's enow 
 
 To crowd life's dusty way 
 
 And who will miss a poet's feet. 
 
IV 
 
 PREFACE 
 
 Or wonder where they stray 
 
 So to the woods, and wilds I'll go, 
 
 And build an osier bower. 
 
 And sweetly unto me shall flow 
 
 The meditateive hour. 
 
 Yet Byron says of Uhite. "His poems abound in such 
 beauties as must impress the reader with the liviliet rergret 
 that 80 short a period was allotted to talents which would 
 have dignified even the sacred fuctious he was destined to 
 assume. " Byron himself had his own life embittered by 
 the repeated attacks of the reviews: and it was said that the 
 reviewers killed poor Keats, whti was among Jlngland's 
 sweetest singers, and— Who would be a Poet after that? 
 1 might extend this account of the unjust treatment of 
 poets, indefinitly; liut 1 have already given sufficient 
 examples to thow that reviewer, and critics, generally, 
 are not infallible. 
 
 But some Beader will say. "What h:is :.ll this to do with 
 these few rude rhymes before us? Dncs the author presume 
 to class HIMSELF among the iuspiicd singers he talks of ? 
 No indeed! Header — the author does not pkksume to class 
 himself at all. — He probably belongs to the Genus, Phymer ; 
 But whither to the SjclIcs, I'oet, or no; those who read 
 (if any ) must decide. 
 
 As the author of these [(neiiH, (^ il" they may be dignefied 
 with that appellation )— was never passed through any of 
 the great public Factories for makiug scholars and gntle- 
 men. And neither can he boast (^ as some of our political 
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 inference, therefore, muHt be, that lilfe other poets he Avan 
 born. And if so, the aphoriHni, " I'octa nascitur non fit. " 
 may fit him as well as any other fellow. 
 The author is aware that there are a class, whom the world 
 delights to honour, who manifest their superlative contempt at 
 the very mention of rhymer, or poet, which in their estimation 
 i.i only a synonym lor va£rr:iut, tr.unp. &c From the-e 
 worshipers of Alammmi. who think noihing worth thcr notice 
 except it come in a siiccial car attended, by some score 
 oi'MuukicK. he hath nothing to ask, except it ))e the recj-uest 
 that Eiogencs prcfcvod to Alcxa<lner. when the con^iucror 
 of the world asked the surly iJynic, what ho could do for 
 him? — " You can stand ou'i fiiini betwixt me and the sun "! 
 And what would tw rc^rardcii as the highest praise wliich 
 this class of citizens cuKi U'.-iow, ou these {)ieces, would 
 be the encomium of the banished duke, on the winter 
 wind — "This i.^ ui Iwf'not flattery " 1 
 
 Form the fasti-lious critics who guard the rcmple of Fame 
 from the approach of vulgar feet, the author of these })oems 
 expects no approval : uor doc.^ he vety much v^luc it. 
 
 His ambition is, mthcr, to appeal to the sympathies 
 of hnmanitv uuiver^ al. uutrammled bv those conventional 
 opinions which often compel men of pl;«co, and education to 
 think according to an ap[)roved motic! — Vo tha': principle 
 in every man's nature which approves of the good, and disa- 
 proves of the evil whether he will or no, and other things 
 being equal, takes si^es with the weak and unfortunate against 
 the prosperous and powerful . If in an age of mammon worship, 
 when hunderds of subi^idised pens are busy writing up some 
 great One! and a sycophantic mobility are crying out, ,, great 
 is somebody, of some place — If anything in this little book 
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 i^ervility — " We dare be poor for a that. " Or if anything' 
 ^u it h;ith a tcni.lcncy to induce anyone to respect the image 
 uf (lUiA in hnrnanity ( uiarcii and bloated though it may be,) 
 more than the trapings uf wealth, and titles; which are at | 
 best but the insignia of Miinnnon. and are move used as in- 
 strument!-; of oppvc.'ision. than of benefieence. Or if it should 
 tend to inspire any of his fc] low-workers with a lovcof lil:>ei-ty, 
 in the possession of which nione. a man can follow the dic- 
 tates of his conscience witlout fear of interference from any 
 earthly master — if it should, at all. induce any to cultivate 
 an habitual sympathy with Nature, and eujov the delights 
 of poetry, and to sock an aaquaintance with some of the 
 masters of song : as Shakspearc, Mifton. 'l'ho7up-ou, Burns, 
 Cowper, Bryant, Whittier &c. If any of these ends Ix' attained, 
 the labour is not in vain. There are times, when ail obtain 
 glimpses of the Eden from which we were banished. Sometimes 
 it is in the past: Sometimes it is in the future. Soinctimes it 
 is in the distant: and Sometimes, though seldom, it ia here, 
 and now, And at such times, all men. women, and chidren 
 are poets, when as Coleridge says. 
 
 ., The massy gates of Paradise are thrown 
 Wide open, and forth comes in fragments wild. 
 Sweet echoes of unearthly melodies. 
 And oders snatched from beds of Amaranth, 
 And they, that from the crysal river of life 
 Spring up on freshen'd wing, ambrosial gales! 
 The favor'd good man in his lonely walk 
 Perceives them, and his thristy spirit drinks 
 Strange bliss which he fchall recognize in heaven." 
 At such times poetry is the natural language of every human 
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 pusscbbiuu of the good thingb of this life; and as Pope has 
 
 it exclaiming. 
 
 " For mo kind Nature waked her genial power 
 Suckles each herb, and spjeads out every flower. 
 
 Or with Thompson, rising above disappoiutraents: 
 
 "I care not Fortune what you me deny ; 
 
 You cannot rob me of free uat ure's grace. 
 
 You cannot shut the v/iudows of the sky 
 
 Through which Auroia shows her brightening fu^e. " 
 
 The writer believing that he is only giving poetic expvess- 
 tiou to the as aspirations of vav.vry of his cn;iipcars of the shop 
 and farm. And believing uitli Cariylc that " 'I'he great 
 law of culture is; Let euch Itccome all that he was created 
 capable of beiLg; expand, if po^^^slblc to his full growth; re- 
 sisting all impediment, casting of all foreign, cs]:)ecially all 
 noxious aJbcsiot^s, and show himself at length n his own 
 shape and stature, be theee what they may. " 
 
 With these views, and feelings, the writer now lanches his 
 little book on the public, with Komcthing of the same anxiety 
 which the schoolboy, on yon pebbly beach, lanches his toy- 
 boat on the great sea. Whose f:ite, to all but himself, is a 
 matter of the most perfect indifiercjice. And in which, even he 
 durst not set a foot : And the success, or fialure, of which, 
 will not, perceptabaly, aifect his future destiny. 
 
 The writer does not think nesscsary to offer an apolagy for 
 being a pokt, if he be- one: or even for being a rhymer, or 
 for being in the world at all, if he is only a tramp — But 
 would remind those who think nothing worth respect but 
 wcaltli, and social possition that the gentleman who occupies 
 the highest place in the Dominin is a rhymer ! we don't say 
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 If thiy ! title book shouUl cHect any of the purposes, refoicd 
 to, in any decree: or induce any one with more genius and 
 Letter opp♦rt,un^tic^H, to p:i\ e voice to the American worker, as 
 Burns hath given to the ^y»^^tish, he will have an ample 
 reward for collecting, and printing — h s for composing — he . 
 can honestly say that, wooing the Muse batii !*ce.n one of Hio : 
 greatest pleasures of a not very uuhppy life, and tliouMli ?hc 
 may sometimes have jilt-ci him, she h;v< been the jnost con. 
 stant of his lady friends ( exr.ept, pcrhap-^, Miss Fortune.) | 
 The writer might appeal to the yymp.Hthies of the public ! 
 Ly a long naration of calauiities that have Ijefallen him, iiuch 
 as — Building h<juses, nuci others inhrtbiting them, rianting ' 
 
 orchards, and others eati'-g the iruit i^f tl cm tSrc 
 
 But aeccording t-; ihe latest accounts he is still a bachelor, 
 and as the poet (.ireen says of himself. 
 "Han't by venturing on a wife 
 Yet run the greatest risk in lilb, 
 And still with care such lotteries shuns, 
 Where, a prize miss'd, one 's quite undone. ' 
 If he had ever had a wife, and by any untoward event, been 
 deprived of that blessing, no doubt he might have reckoned 
 on the sympathies of the Ladies, (for some of them at Icist 
 are not without sympathy for a lone man I) — It is to be 
 hoped, however, that they will not withhold their fellowfeelmg 
 on that account, bnt t.o.ir in mind what Tennyson says — 
 •' T'is better to have lovc<l, and lost: Than never to have 
 loved at all." So hoping he may share in their good wisheS' 
 the writer would inform any one who may take any interest 
 in hiin, that he will regard it as a great favour to be aumited 
 to her noupoiR, oven in the shape of a dry pamphlet. 
 
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 purposes, reibrcd * 
 more genius and 
 icrican worker, as : 
 I have an ample 
 :' composing— ho 
 ^'con niio of Hio 
 and thou:rli «}ic 
 !n the .Miosf, oon- i 
 .Mis8 Fortune.) 
 es ui" the public 
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 ard event, been 
 ' have i-ccki)ned 
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 ) — It is to be 
 3ir fellowfeeling 
 nnyson sayai — 
 never to have 
 sir good wishes, 
 ^e any interest 
 r to be aumited 
 ' parai)hlct. 
 
 Aleve of the approval of our fell* \vs is a natural feelin.)- 
 and any who would affect to contemn it. show ei titer their 
 ignorance of the elemenal principles of the mind, ov then- 
 want of candour,. That the wise, and /jood offer priisc (o 
 THE DEITY, is evidence that they do notluhtly cstcciu if. 
 
 Yet, there is no more debasing appetence of the soul (h;m 
 a cowardly fear of the censure^-, .or opinions of men: or ;i 
 morbid lust of praise; from which we may well prav to 1 c 
 delivered. The reason seems to be that we cannot honesty 
 accept paaise, and doing so has all the wickoduoss. and 
 meaness of a lie. The wickedne-is of ![i.-ol. rt'Mi-;r/i,l •i,)r ii 
 
 his oratiion, it would appear, : but in hi- ajquie-ei c m tii.; 
 infamous flattery of the people. 
 
 What so delusive as Popularity I whicli flnnts lil;c tVoth on 
 the troubled waters of society. I'hc spcach, so iipio uiously 
 applauded at the hustings, no one would have the piticneo 
 to read a month after: when the orator w.is in:it;i'leil in 
 office, and was quietly applying the thumb-screw of t;!xation 
 that he migLt indemnify himself for his o'coti 'U bribes 
 and so, have his own with usua'-y. 
 
 Though it is true that men die and their tlioutrl.tr peri.sh . 
 Yet the the thoghts of .some seem t) be coexist mt with this 
 state of things. And though populai-ity is the most ])oi-i..hblc 
 of posEessions, there is an homage jciid to grcatocus that 
 is perennial. This is what the );oets with theii' usum 
 
 licsence, call immortality — Who cvu- thinks of Homer, 
 Shakspere or Ikirns being forgotten : because their fau.e has 
 its foundations in the depth of human nature, and those 
 agitation on the surface of the sea of life which dashes the 
 froth of popularity with all its bubles to pieces, affects not 
 his fame, to whose call, the passions of humanity which are 
 
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 Avith great. 'i hough tlic / ntlior of tliosc ])icccs c: | c i 
 
 1^0 enduring fanic: yet lie may s.iy witlinut ])rcsuming:— 
 J f they have aiiythiiiL' of nature or ))octry iu them they will 
 be remeinhc .e'l us louii; as they ought. Jl' not, the sooner 
 they are f"rgotten the better. ■ hy shoidd they reuiaiu to 
 another ugr. a monument i>i' (In'lnehs. aiwi inanity. 
 
 And now, l\ea<'er, let me loncluiio these prefatory remarks 
 with a story whioh 1 have heard, but for the truth of 
 which, 1 will not vouch 
 
 There was once a student in some of the universities, 1 
 believe' in Edinburgh, who outsuipte i ill his compeers in 
 the classes wliicli they were att', uling; whether oi" Philo- 
 sophy, ]]elle lettres, or .Meta])hysics, ai.d not^ithstandiiii: 
 the keenest rivalry, carried off most of the ('ollege honors. 
 
 At length, elated, perhaps by success, he l>cgan to shine, 
 not at college only — "Hut with such rays 
 
 As set the midnight riot in a hlaze. " 
 But soon, like some burnt-out sir, dis-ippcarcd from the| 
 horizon, going no one knew viliethcr. After con; iderablo time -^ 
 another student, from whom our hero h;'.d oft<;u borne the ; 
 prize: having c<jm])leated his college cour^e with credit,' 
 went to London ; and while walkih.^- rjir. u^h sov)c tif tlic 
 poorer streets, where stands were allo-vcd. he spied hi: old .i 
 friend of the college in mean attire. Ic-ii'ea stand selling/^ 
 ties! It was he! no don-x of it — I'or a nicmeut, like the i 
 
 sell^gratulating })harisce, he lelt thankful lie was not like ] 
 some other men: Uut sujiressing all such feeling, like a '>ravo j 
 and good man as he was, he walked up to the stand and 
 addessing his old friend with cordiality, and kindness, said. 
 
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 as this! Voii who to^k the first place as :i scholar — Selling 
 ])iesl how is this? "I'hcmuu with the pics ve])lieil. •' "lis a 
 long story, and not worth the telling. ""Well" said the other 
 '• let me assure you that you have my deepst sympathy. " 
 Here the n\an with the pics intcruptiiig him. said. "Hothcr 
 to your SYMPATHY — l)uy a pie! 
 
 So the Author would say t.» any who m;iy expres.s 
 sympathy tor him l')uy a Hook '. 
 
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 When the Wcss'J sun affords but light for toil, 
 And sleep denies his soporific balm ; 
 'Tis sweet to leave the busy world's turmoil, 
 And walk alone by moonlight's holy calm . 
 
 To wander out when all is dark and still, 
 And think the labor of one day is done, 
 And watch the moon slow rising o'er yon hill, 
 Pale as the ghost of the departed sun . 
 
 Hushed are the busy children of the day — 
 
 I only hear the dash of distant floods, 
 
 The brook complaining of its rugged way, 
 
 Or murmur of the night-wind through the woods . 
 
 Thou changing moon that now with freckled face, 
 Look'st from the cloudy curtains of the sky, 
 Tinging the fields and floods with yellow rayn, 
 "Why gaze on nature with a jaundiced eye? 
 
 Arise fair Queen and cast that gloom aside, 
 The bird of night will hail thee from afar — ■ 
 Art thou not miijtress of the ocea i wide? 
 AiihC and take thy plnco among the KtnrH . 
 
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 'i liou lookcst down tliri'u::li the Mik (k'|(tli ot'lic i\'e:i. 
 Ami the dark world l'kiws Icaiitcous in tliv ii::lii . 
 
 \inazed I itoiidcr thy my.-tcrious ways, 
 And think it stnm/jic tluit dno .so still and lair 
 Should, b}' her silent and attractive ^uze, 
 liaiye tides at sea and tcniiicsts in the air. 
 
 Oil 'tis a sight to make the envious grieve — 
 'J'o sec tliec with thy starry host advance. 
 And watch the swelling Lrea^t of i)cean heave 
 W ith passion's iiuimlse at thine amorous glance . 
 
 Queen of Stars ! wldle 1 thy glory sec, 
 Let inc not at obscurity repine; 
 I'or thou an cnibleni art of such as nie, 
 Although alas 'tis not my trade to shine. 
 
 l-'or though thou now appcar'st so bright and round. 
 I'/cr tAVO weeks pass thou'lt .vanish from the view ; 
 So sunk in Earth or in the Ocean drowned, 
 'Jen weeks of years shall end my orbit too. 
 
 But though I sink unknown beneath the iiarth — 
 ^or marble crag my place of setting n««hk, 
 .May I enlightened by the Sun of Life, 
 Shine in yon heaAcns when all on earth is dark. 
 
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 M1{ITT1;N i»N' A Ni'.^V YKAU'S \)\\ 
 
 I OK A I,\I>v",- SiKAl'llOOK. 
 
 poar l-iitly. wlicvcfoio t-liciild I tuH 
 A litci-K.v {lavluiid, 
 
 'lluit faciei like all tl'.o I'lcAVcrs \\c I'lill 
 At lioivic ov in a far-land . 
 
 Well : ifit fadc^, Avluit fa'lcth not V 
 There's nothing here enduring; 
 What life sustains from day to day 
 Wo spend onr lives procuring. 
 Who'd not hale life with its srtale jo^s, 
 And old detested sorrows. 
 And ghvring suns tliat o , j set 
 'I'o rise again to-morrow ? 
 
 'I'he gilded hall and Low polite 
 'I'cinpt but to dissipation: 
 I'.ven lovely woman's eyes arc bright 
 With serpent fascination . 
 
 The poor liavc little else in view 
 r,ut working, toiling, serving: 
 Yet hope to make the winter through 
 ];y jobbing and by starving. 
 
 llis richer neighbor better off, 
 
 N. r poverty nov conscience, . 
 
 Ivvn break tip L'leasure's dizzy waltz, 
 
 As long as he is on shins . 
 
 Hi^ time is portioned, not amiss, 
 
 "I'wixt sleeping and. enjoyment;^ 
 
 And how to gain the greatest bliss 
 
 Is all his dear cn.ploynicnt. 
 
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 For tli'iH be various hoard assi<^n8 
 To (IniK'iug. riding, walking, 
 An*.l ijpciulb the bahiuce ot" hi;j time 
 lu talking, talking, talking . 
 
 Another hot in chase of wealth, 
 1;^ gambling, bartering, buying; 
 Eegardlesshow- ho gathers jclf, 
 Hy betting, cheating, lying. 
 
 Now is tho merry breathing time, 
 
 With business a vacuity ; 
 
 Xow mirth and sadness meet and mix 
 
 Ju queerest incongruity . 
 
 Now fiddles squcel an' horns an' pii)es 
 A merry tune are blowing, 
 An' monie a kick the auld year gets 
 As down the hill he's going . 
 
 Now nature in her winding sheet 
 Jlay preach memento mori, 
 And Sol in suit of cloudy gray 
 Looks down in stormy glory . 
 
 "While business men and pleasure men 
 And women too cry - 'Go it,* 
 "With leafless trees and flowerlcss fields 
 What is there for the poet ? -^ 
 
 AVill he not go to some saloon, 
 And quaff some vile infuscmcnt, 
 Or have recourse to balls or dice, 
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 Hay yc, who jiuljjf of what Ls wrong, 
 ^\ oiild it not be u caper, 
 To leave the lofty hightsof song. 
 And Hhuillc painted paper? 
 
 W iLh those who do the deal and all, 
 I'heir worthlcsH time deuoiving, 
 1 or^etful liow these silent hourn 
 
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 arc weavin<r, 
 
 Not thiulciuii', as thc^ deal and deal, 
 'Die gauic is everlasting; 
 While all unseen another hand 
 Another die is eastin,^: . 
 
 As thus we watch the stream of time 
 (Hide fcwiftly on before us, 
 The undeveloped future hangs 
 In awful mystery o'er us , 
 
 Then give mc life with its joya untried 
 And its old familiar sorrows : 
 Von glorious sun. so latoly -ct. 
 Will rise ajraiu to-m'^rrow. 
 
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LLNE^ IN MEMOKY OF MKS. W . I, . <. 
 
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 Vhl'e otheri-- eulogize a great man's uanic, 
 Vud Kv.ell vith trumpet's bouncl tie roll of fame, 
 \ round his bier their floral oircrings spread. 
 vud him they censured livii)g, praise when dead. 
 .1.1 strains not less .sincere, althouijh more rud«^, 
 ^'hile others praise tlie great, I'll praise the good, 
 .•in with the I'liends who mourn her and repeal — 
 A gentle, loving heart hath ceased to loat . 
 
 }"or thouih her name might not Le known nfar 
 31io shone at home, a bright domestic star, — 
 Her living image on each heart impressed 
 i .'oved the most by chose who knew her best. 
 
 A liusbaud mourns a gentle, loving wife, 
 . lie de.ir companion of a busy life. 
 ;cr wonted place views with abstracted air. 
 Vnd sees, with tearful eye, her vacant chair. 
 \nd all the blessings Fortune can confer, 
 cm reft of half their worth, unshared by her, 
 ^d friefid? retained in love's enduring band, 
 ould gladly clasp agaiu that loving hand. 
 
 or though her presence ".as more felt than heard. 
 I ere woe a quiet wisdom in her words 
 hat had the power desponding souls to cheer, 
 io cherish hope to banish grief and fear: 
 \rr svrapathy to brok"U hearts wa-; b:ilni 
 .nd tiJHiV.M spirit." Mt Oi'^ inf'"''"n'Mi,- r';il);) 
 
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 Disi-eiiyintr happiucs-; with little noise, 
 She h.-st her sorvovrs in another's joys 
 
 oil rime! Oh Oenth! why bear ye day by day, 
 ■| he lli-'ht of eyes, the hjve of hearts away V 
 i iii.iimmed by Selfishness, unstained by criuif, 
 Like pearla they glitter on the shores of time, 
 Ihough beautiful they i-ecm in love'd own light. 
 S'jine wave of aoriow, HWCcpH them from our sigiit ; 
 ■u vain v\e seek our loved ones to recall, 
 'I'he Pant — thcunrc'ieutingl'afet — hath all. 
 A lid ;<he, the inubjout ol" tliis cdmple yon.u;, 
 I iic loved, the honoied. to the past bcion^^j. 
 
 Our grief is vain we know — we need not afik 
 Ouulit at thy hand inexorable l'a;st ! 
 'Ihi'U uivot not back our loved ones, though wr wv*;]). 
 '! hiiic uthcc only i^^ — unchanged to keep — 
 
 (. Ubtodian of the loves of other ycarH, 
 
 Thou give.-t not back for mortars prayer^; or tear;-. 
 
 h.top tl (m, Oh Patt! for ihcy are veiy dear. 
 
 Keep them from change — for all are changing; here. 
 
 And wlion we're tired of life's unfinished scheme,, 
 Jiecioic ihem oitcn to our waking dreams — 
 \\ lun v.cary wandering in life's crooked wayw, 
 ^^'lan liu}-c hath ceaecd to promise better days. 
 Hicn uii;} \,o look iVora earth, to worlds fin hlid". 
 ■Ku-.i hc;ii,(' t('i Vi'iM't Tiiciii in <he (H''-i;ni( !-K\ . 
 
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 Yet T/ho the uccp meaniug vixw tell, 
 W'licu breathed in a skh from a depolatc heart, 
 
 Of a ([uietly wliisperod farcvveU. 
 
 As we met shall we part'.' need acquaintance so short 
 Denitmd or a thought, or a rhyme '? 
 'I'll iii'ih pleased with each other we talkcl and wc laugael; 
 Vet our friendship was but for a time . 
 
 .'\. icY. da\s of the world with its bustle and strife, 
 
 And we'll be as we never had met: 
 As wc float down the eddying current of life, 
 
 How easy it is to forget ! 
 
 V( t oft, when the present 's with sorrow o'ercast, 
 .\niX wc think of the times that have been, 
 
 J ON/ gladly we'd meet with those friends of the pakjt: 
 JUit alas! what a gulf is between . 
 
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 'two rivals seek the homage of one heart. 
 And each her own peculiar joys impart; 
 Though different as is heat and cold, you'll find 
 The one suggests the other to the mind: 
 Though one delights in pleasure, one in pain, 
 Jjoth often fail their object to outaiu; 
 The one delights to prai-c, the other blnme; 
 Both lead to honor somclinios- fronictimcs Bhauic 
 Nov/ Gentle P.oadcr can vmh IcU ^hoir namo'-''.' 
 
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 WlUTlJ'iN ON J^KiaSU TlIK I'llOTOGItAI'H OF ^JA1JI.I, i(il.\(i, 
 A CHILD HUITOPED TO BE MUUDKKK]), IN A CliniCIl BKLrilY 
 IN DOSTON . MAY LSTT) . 
 
 1 Bce iu this aiauU spot of light and .shade, 
 A ohiUl of wonderous loveliness portrayed, 
 And while 1 think of her myatcnouH death ; 
 J alnioat lose in mankind all my faith: 
 Dark dccda I know arc done in pasaion's ^;torIll. 
 But cannot think that one in human form 
 <,H)uld bce this cherub, and with witkci vill, 
 Would brave the gallows causclca.sly to kiil, 
 
 Some CJhoul like those which Kdgar Toe hath bL«.j.«.. . 
 
 'i'o dwell "up in the ateeplc all alone; 
 
 'I'hat arc neither man nor woman 
 
 That arc neither l)rutc nor hunuiu" 
 
 But are ghouls 
 
 Of whic'a detective bt-aglor' liikc no heed. 
 
 And not a hunmn being did thi -cod . 
 
 S<jmc ghoul that thought that cr.t ,?: . -r vct and niild. 
 
 Was much too fair to be a human tii;! I : 
 
 Deemed her some angel who hud Icn lur ..j.l < re 
 
 And thought perchance she had no ' li.nn^. t > xv. 
 
 A truant from a haj'pier world thun ii i,- , 
 
 And rudely hurried her to realms^ ot iiii.-- . 
 
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 From corde aiv.l eccante, tangents, arcs and i-men, 
 Kectari{.:;Ieb', ni\ 'cs, straight and crooked lir.ei:;, 
 In GoidLiu tuiigles. and from trutlia hcnice true, 
 I turn my ilioujilii-' t^ ("'iiiicr days, and you. 
 
 rft liavc \\e .^ cue an Lour in triendly talk, 
 Oft teri.niLIcd thrMUgL the \voo(irf to enjoy a \v;i!k, 
 Scaiclicd iLc dvi k ... .ciub, olomL iliC .>ui;ny bill, 
 For idle Maudering way our pleifui' snT; 
 In the Eccicty of oiic i^; oiLt.'r. 
 Fatli tL. ii|.]it Le i.ad ;. fiichd, almoyt a brother — 
 'Jhe m^e 6 lore, ikc lani'h ci thunling «ong, 
 WaB ftill our theme these vaid-. and woods amon.^, 
 Nov thou/rht v,e then,, how a few years c .. '; chuL;!,;,^ 
 lui v< y i-e'.vcB, and all v^e loved e.stiaiue: 
 ],ike k'.,vc.-:, by an autumnal tempest hurled, 
 Yt'e'rc bKi',,n aboiii ihi.:. ever chaujjiui!; world. 
 
 Oh happy ye I wh-.^o ic.'i'e lau'la supply, 
 Vi'hut, the mevhanic'H ua^es cannot buy 
 The comfort.-' of a home — i;<a- h, .c yc iieed, 
 Wauderii^g f;<'m !;■ u c .' i. i.'C, 1 > h(..;k your bread; 
 \Vi He vii.c.-; t.nd «'..vo pii.i..K^. .•■ t mu.«" j ur door, 
 "\^liat isf there yet, that ye could \'.\>]\ f^r laorc? 
 
 Oh love ! thou t>un of life thy ^hcOiii.,.; . -ya 
 Can scatter flov.erets o'er life'a thorny m>i.:e; 
 \\ithoat thee, what a Avastc were human life? 
 Oh \* hat were wealth, or fame, without a v. ife ; — 
 Si-v 3'c. f.r whom i.ove'y sparkiiu^" eyes arc bright. 
 Who sun yourbolvofl in that ma^notio li;2;ht. 
 
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 ua «rv(. J oomiii ' iri, yi- n^irh' c^ipy ? 
 
 B\uh u- iheiv lato, tinIjo turn :n adder eur 
 'In tli' cb'.viJ (v'k viice, und i till refuse to lo;\r: 
 Wbo i;d iiv,;;y tho Ivjauurui undd-riKht . . 
 Am- l.iite vhe u.y, leeaubc lh'.;> luvo \.< night; 
 Who. 1'- ' -i wile should iiiuko ';hc ,;■'¥:; of Life lo^i, 
 8'. ill li'>t vii, jo\less, hopele.s.s. homcieo.S: v, ifoltw:-! 
 
 linX V, '.■ilc i write, the rapid uiiuuted t\j, 
 'i he !-iu;. iti tli^ii g ilown you icy nky, 
 'i n' ;;.id;JMis* i" tiie ^vor;'l v.ili he iorgot, 
 Aiv; fh ..'•.: - 'u) 'vc wivtri, ub if they had them not — 
 
 Iota K" p'oa::urcs, av:! not what they nceiu. 
 Aid lift- iwcir :.' hut a :cvcr"dvftam — 
 
 BiK. - i.i <•' I Wii^o my time is ilji;.'!; tci . 
 For;-ive ..w haMe ~ aI'.cuI dear O'leud, adier ! 
 
 Av, iho : oe .■:;;;;. If.n til-j uectarcoushalm, 
 AVhen uvhi^ .ixc ouir.iy, ,rua ^.vho-i :-kiotj aro cal<i^. 
 And; fc;''^-'-CG in wsscu ic ■eiv..ii-; avuiy, 
 I;Ji:■.'^,h ;o sol- - mI-iV;. a. ^^•Iutery <liy; 
 So. \, i etu-i: . ..U "li .:! i!e.v-iuc'o tnuinieut flow o'-'s, 
 A ba' widi width Hop.- tivrcetens jrylen. bourj; 
 U- !.<■'■ l:ove. iV/it ohf^cvHin spue of !?:iier\iiid pam — 
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 How swift itf Time ! the startled rcvcltM-nry, 
 As dawn breaks up a night of revolery : 
 IIow swift is Time! the business man rojicatH. 
 A fl one, two, three, the town clock hammer beat^ : 
 Ho, punctual Time with needless haste upbraids, 
 While thinking on banks closed, and bills unpaid . 
 
 Brethren the time is (short, the preacher cric.^, 
 I'or f.iuful pleasure let the past suffice — 
 linn for your lifes, run earnestly run well : — 
 The prize is heaven the forfeiture is hell — 
 Eternal issues hang on time so short. 
 There 'a little left for triffling, or for sport . 
 
 The dying man who sees with feverish eyes. 
 Tho sun slip inch by inch adown the skies ; 
 While time draws near to render his account. 
 And Conscience tells him of the dread amount 
 Of sins forgotten, and of buried gifts, 
 Cries Oh how swift is Time ! how very swift — 
 
 The assassin sees the morning star n]^pcar, 
 V.'hich tells him that the day will eoon be heic, 
 To pour Heaven's light on some unfinished crime, 
 And mutters curses on the speed of Time . 
 
 i he poor condemned, whose lot it is to dwell 
 For a short space in yon dark prit^on cell, 
 Scarce hears the murmur of them as they cro — 
 Tho busy crowds that huriy to au'l fro. 
 And thinks in agony he ne'er again 
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 The patch of sky, .-ct'ii liuuugh liis pri.son bars, 
 Is glorious with its multiiuJc of staiM; 
 Those Estav;^ v.hich in the lifjuid diytunce swim. 
 Arc bcaniilul— - I'ut have no charms for him; 
 E'en fvrm the h"'e'-j-'c^(l .' mi l.c turns away, 
 And hates th.c ubtru i \c rrlories of the day, 
 Those lights cannot dii-pe1 hi-: bn;=r.ra's gloom, 
 "Where one drnad thou'Tht, and one il.ono li.xs room 
 "When crnci r. .>v. ds '2n]'''t''M:t v.uit Lo see. 
 His living foim writhe on lie ;^r.1!: vrs-.tree, 
 And while the city clock, from ycnilev tower, 
 W/ih solemn warning tolls the paoi^ir.j^- hour, 
 He thinks in his dread prison all alone 
 Another of his numljcred hours is gone , 
 
 But why, you'll ask, of guilty wretches sing? 
 To them. Time flic.^, indeed, on raven wing — 
 They dread his flight, although they hate his stay; 
 For dark with omen is each passing day : 
 Thus hath it ever been, and ever will — 
 An evil cousjicn.c bodeth sorrow still . 
 
 ? or this alone — whatc'er wc value here, 
 M'hate'er delights us, whal.-oc'cr is dear: 
 When pleasure's draught we '.juuii:' without alloy, 
 Time dashes from our lips the cup of joy ; 
 And leaves us mourning o'er our lost delight, 
 Sighing, and murmuiing. at his rapid flight . 
 
 The very thought of time, w^ill drive a'.vay, 
 
 The revcb-^r's niircli; ho knows it cannot stay . 
 
 But fficiid, the RXM'ot of all earthly bliss, 
 T? in forgotting vivuil., but minding (his — 
 
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 If you wowid huve y'uu j >yrf a momeut lust, 
 
 Iguoro the I'uturc and lurpet the past ; 
 
 Think not of what ui;iy bo, or wlint has been; 
 
 But catch the infectious glucluusis of the scene. 
 
 If Time knock at thy door — ^\'lly let him stand — 
 
 AYith Hcythe, and \vin.<r-i, and ebbing glass of .-.'.nd; 
 
 If Htill he knocks, the ho, ^ part Ijc thine — 
 
 Instead of sand — give him a jibiss of Aviuc : 
 
 And Kince hid btay is likely to l)c brief, 
 
 A kindly welcome give the hoary Chief: 
 
 And when he will go — Why just let him go — 
 
 He'll take your joy, but may not leave your woe ; 
 
 You cannot move him by your prayers a* tears, 
 
 He flies, and mows, but neither sec?, nor hoars, 
 
 While metii g out our modicum of hours. 
 
 Omnivorous he every-thing devours ; 
 
 As tree, and river, mountain sea. and plaoo 
 
 Are swallowed up by alldcvouring space . 
 
 The joys which please us, and ihc carcy v.l 
 Alike, win cease to please us, and perplex — 
 We laugh, wc weep an hour, and all is gone ; 
 Time, like a river rushes on, and on . 
 Vy'o tire of lovely scenes, — of pleasures too. 
 And passionately long for something new ; 
 For other scenes, and other pleasures sigh ; 
 Till sick of life, v,e with impatience cry — 
 Glide like a meteor through yon slues, sun I 
 And bring me bettor d:iy.s — or bring me none- 
 A.t Shakitpcnre truly say-^, iV'-i-n yoiiih ^^i a^'c 
 
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 Arc wild, and lu^isclcs-!, as a i»oet'f* drcuniH . 
 \\ c btiivc I'or vcalth, and honor, — love, and hate 
 With human hands, oppo.sc resititless Fate, 
 And when our little hour of acting's done, 
 We end with nothing ; as we first began : 
 The crowds may laud, or hi.ss, but still the heart 
 lb cheered, it' we have noted well our part . 
 
 One sneaks in rags, and shuns a brother's eye : 
 One struts, in all the tinsels wealth can buy — 
 Stand ragged wretch I and go not near his horue. 
 The bay of }on grim liiastilf, means, begone ! 
 For thou wiih him hast neither lot nor j^art. 
 And he with thee, no sympathy of heart . 
 
 In town, or couiitry, whercsoc'er v.-e go, 
 Sleu drink life's mingled cup of joy and woe. 
 Care dwells, a guest umvelcomc, 'neath yon dome, 
 And visits oft the quiet rural home, 
 Strolls, with the UstlcsH rustics tliat you meet, 
 And walks among the crovvds that throng the street ; 
 For human still their passions, acting, aim, 
 The scenes arc diflfcreut — actors much the same . 
 
 See ! through the streets what nameless numbers ''o 
 
 The multitudes, composing lilo's dumb show . 
 
 See there ! one seeks for '..cakh — and wiib it po-.ver 
 To lord it o'er his fellows, for an hour : 
 
 Unheeded now a voice from Heav'n may crv 
 
 S^ll not. for woalih, a treasure in the nkv — 
 
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 I'or though he luitca proiimity to j :iii3, 
 He hears the voice of borrow plc;.i iu vain : 
 Sworn devotee — hiy Hympatliics iinJ time 
 He now must immolate ut mummou'a Bhrine — 
 What cares he for the envious cynic's laugh ; 
 "While hatlosa heads ])ow to a golden calf: 
 Though prating preachers fenrfiil stories tell, 
 And conscience whispers — all m ly not be well, 
 He kuowH. all men desire, for gold is bought — 
 Say, Whit cm gold procure? What can it not ! 
 All good things of this life — he knows it "/m 
 Buy — "wine that ihcor.s the hc.irt of God and man, " 
 "What though his li;iir is gray, and heart is cold. 
 He knows for wealth that woman's love is sold ; 
 Tl-at, pretty little misses in their teens 
 Will smile upon him as a man of means — 
 
 AVealth is the talisman, whose power can draw. 
 On purselcss waifs, the lightnings of the law . 
 Wealth is the spell whose magic charm can make 
 The heartless villain honored for its sake! 
 And if there 's oug'^t that heart could wish for more, 
 'Tis hid, from vulgar gaze, by yon tall door, 
 In yonder regal mansion's lofry hi-dit. 
 Where jets of gas emit a sunny light: 
 From that delicious awv ■ cry, > -l. I ow sweet ! 
 To hear all night, tlie tramp of hor."'.c!css feet — 
 
 NoAv drop the curtain — raise a.„'ain — now view 
 Another scene, and other actors too — 
 'Tis not the time when changing seasons bring, 
 ^ ith irnothoning divK i\\Q yvonv.^CH of spring. 
 
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 Th'it w:ikcs tVo'.ii wluicr'fl riloep the Httlo rills, 
 
 Alii (-rncls ihcm dauciug down the sunny hiila, 
 
 VVhc.i 11. 'c wil.! floweri: <>[ ut, numbered dyea, 
 
 Peep through the vvithert'.l leaver, with Htarry eyes, 
 
 Audv'olcts, vv;\keucd by ilic genial beams, 
 
 Lo \'. with their }>lue eyes, ou the waudciing streams, 
 
 N IV time, when trees unfui'l tlicir leafy sails, 
 
 To 'Itp, and flutter iu the pluvial ^alcs; 
 
 When to reward the fanucr'.s t^il ajipcar 
 
 The first green blades — the promise of the year : 
 
 >Vhcn woodland choirs assembled, blithe, and glad 
 
 That winter 's past, in gay regalias clad, 
 
 Av.'X all the winged minstrels sing in tune. 
 
 The loves, and ecstasies of leafy Juno . 
 
 Buc, 'tis the season when the smoky sky, 
 
 And flowery fields, announce midsummer nigh : 
 
 When Sol assumes his undisputed reign, 
 Th:! ownership of sky, and hill, and plain : 
 
 Not as in \\ inter — timorously, and shy. 
 
 He hkulkn along the borders of the sky ; 
 
 As one, who feels that hin reception 's cold, 
 And doubts, himself his right to have, and hold ; 
 
 But mounts, triumphant up heaven's lofty dome. 
 
 And takes possession, of his skyey home . 
 Now, the hot winds blown o'er the misty sea. 
 Their languid influence breathes o'er lawn, and lea; 
 Now, weltering in the pool the bristly hog 
 ForctelU tho nearness of those days called Dog, 
 And brooks from leafy dens, reluctant run ; 
 
 While, liko ft furnaoo glows — (<ho groot. ro«l, t^m . 
 
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 Now, to the town, and let us join the throng, 
 Where human flooJy, in confluence pour along; 
 Where painted >vooil-work, gaping in the blaze, 
 Abaorhs oalorio, from the smoky rays, 
 And heated brick intcn^^er heat imparts, 
 And nought around is cold — but human hearts. 
 A soldier sits — now safe from war's alarms — 
 With basVct fastened to his h-mdless arm; 
 Who, vii precarious chaiity would live — 
 Would take the wretchcJ pittance few will give . 
 
 In yon recess, an aged jie liar shows, 
 His wretched wares, to tempt the passing beaux: 
 But all in vain his pleadinp', and his tears — 
 They hear him not, nor heed him if they hear . 
 
 In yonder current of the eddying throng — 
 A '.• uman singer trills a merry song : 
 T)ut th' ugh she sings a song of loves, and joys ; 
 'i'heie is a sadness in the raiustrcl's voice — 
 few care, of all the crowds that throng the street. 
 The inf ' ous sorrow of her eyes to meet : 
 So, hetjdless of the weary minstrel's si/ih, 
 T) e.y hear the music, and they hurry by — 
 Kuw sinks the sun — but we will view again. 
 An evening scene amidst this mart of men, 
 And p^easu-e's votaries follow to their den . 
 
 Kow issuing from yon barber's shop, you meet, 
 Some bare-faced rascals, pacing down the street ; 
 Jet conscience sleep — go with them where they go 
 If you their pleasures, and pursuits would know . 
 
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 Jie street ; 
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 In j^n Haloon — although 'tis rather dear, 
 Is wine, and brandy, pin, and lager-beer, 
 There fifty cents will buy a cup of tea, 
 Or glass of wine ; t'\ough nought but love is free — 
 TLeie sf^ucaks the fiddle — there twangd the guitar. 
 And mustaclicd dandiea sujk at their cigars ; 
 Then ihiough the darkness hie to yon retreat, 
 ^Vhcvc fallen angels promenade tho street, 
 The cyprian nymph yoa fi ii, as frail as fair, 
 In beauty — not of holiness — is there . 
 There humar vermin wriggle in some hole, 
 W hcie lust, and avarice, divide the soul ; 
 Nur think how end the course they thus begin ; 
 Till, spotted with the leprosy of sin ; 
 A\ hich brings the poet's dreadful words to mind . 
 " All ye that enter here ! leave hope behind " — 
 
 F-ut now you'll ask me, how it fares with mo, 
 ^ho drift a \^reck o'er life's teniicituous sea? 
 Once on a day — In life when I was young, 
 And hope's bright halo ever o'er mo hung . 
 I gazed witli rapture on a lovely form 
 Nor deemed it was the signal of a storm. 
 I dvcara'd of quiet, and a country life, 
 An honnr'd nime, and friends — forsooth a wife — 
 These Fortune hath denied: but Time instead, 
 Hath pla; ed a crown of glory on my head . 
 On mc, TxO oye« with partial fondness beam — 
 Yox me no fields with plenteous harvests t.oam — 
 
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 And no'.v. per;liin:e, thiv.^c '^lavlla^ hopes are gone 
 Well 'tis K'' lo.ittcr! I can live alone — 
 I'll not iO|iiue at Fate — So farewell then ! 
 Tlie love of Woman, and applau-e of men . 
 
 Spirit of Song be with me ! Oh vyiiohsafo I 
 rbc joys that 1 with thee, was wont to have . 
 And while I view life's drama's varying scene, 
 And act. myself, apart Icliinil the screen: 
 I'll wat;h tins raov^ing show of woe and crime; 
 Till the last act^r leaves the stage, and Time 
 Shall sweep these wref hcu pag'^'inls all away, 
 Lei fall the euitain, und \, 'it out the day, 
 When weirder scene-i h\ str.aigor light shall rise, 
 We, other actors, bee with other eye.) . 
 
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 'Tie Sabbath, and the dewy fields are bright, 
 The summer sun is shining in his might. 
 And all around aglow, with yellow light . 
 
 Oh Sabbath day ! of all the daj s the best, 
 Thou type, ' nd earnest, of the heavenly rest : 
 Thou briug'st to weary workers a release: 
 One day — their Siayphusdikc labors, coa^e 
 The multitudinous voioc of tiduoh-j ..ud; 
 The rumbling wagon, un.i the cl. nKug mill : 
 And men, and wumcu don their best attire, 
 And i\io*^ who work. a« well, as those who hire, 
 
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 lu cheerful couversiition take the road, 
 And quietly gather at the Hoube of God ; 
 As scholars gather at the hours of sc^hool, 
 Or noisy brooks, collect iu quiet pool ; 
 Aud those, who rest, and solitude may choose ; 
 Can sit, and read, or better, sit and muse : 
 Or walk in places lone, and softly tread, 
 1 ike loving children when some friend ia dead, 
 Who softly walk, and speak wiih voice suppressed 
 For fear they break the sleeper's endless rest . 
 There comes a swell of music on the breeze 
 From birds, that cing among the leafy trees, 
 "Whose bursts of song in a glad cadence die ; 
 And not like human minstrels'— in a sigh . 
 They sing, as those might sing, that understood — 
 Or if they knew not— felt that, "God is good," 
 No dread of soitow checks their tuneful breath, 
 Nor fear they the dread mystery of death, 
 That horrid t^pectre, that before us moves ; 
 "Whose ureadful shadow — rests on all we love . 
 For glorious man, who might be King, and Priest : 
 Alas ! is oiten, only king of beasts : 
 The sum of all whose knowledge, is to know : 
 This world of gladnes:;, is a world of woe . 
 
 "*'e pampered paras/LCs* of Power ! who praise, 
 The light, and frcciom, of these latter days: 
 Who, from the pit of vice, the wretch to draw. 
 Would, load him with the .heavy chuias of law: 
 Who, think the plague of I'in can best be healed 
 By human law, f^nn''.\M, or rf-poalod ; 
 
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 Forpiot tbe spi:i' vvA v,''.]i wicked will 
 
 Retain tLo k-ttei of the law that kill:-: 
 
 Tc hypocrites — 'tirf iov-e the law fulfills . 
 
 Though churches rise. .indgilueJ steeples shine, 
 
 S'.ill wrc'o.'l:cJ '.nei in •c'It urpiis'us pine; 
 
 >VniIc, B'tip}' waLwhiiieu u'; ; <'-'» ^^iuu'n towers, 
 
 Nor knuw, nor cave, how piss th' eventful hours; 
 
 Nor e'er f^r morning cast a wistful eye, 
 
 Nor mark the rednedS of the eastern y Vy ; I 
 
 While Murder there performs his horrid work 
 
 Ihc chribtain'e muideier — the cruel Turk — 
 
 "Whom England's blood , and treasure, saved from harm, 
 While England's polity, sustains his arm . — 
 
 Ye preachers of smooth things ! when will ye cej.30 
 To whisper your delusive song of peace ? 
 Nor wait for breaking day, or rising star ; 
 Bui etill cry peace ! while all is woe and vvar — 
 Ye t:.lk of light — while all around is dark — 
 False prophets ye ! Dumb dogs, that will not bark ; 
 That live deliciously, and dare not ask 
 Oppression to re'.ax his iron grasp . 
 
 While some cc.uiuond the lash, — and some the rope 
 
 I shud;leriii5 ask — God is there no hope ? 
 When sorrow, like a delajc floods the land. 
 And V/oc, and \Vi;;kcaue.is go huud in hand. 
 While uougbo but^'oom on cve.-y sile I see — 
 Hope of the world 1 we turn our eyes to Thee. 
 Aiise Oh Sun of llighteou;iuess ! and bring, 
 Light, love, and hope, an.! healing en thy wing; 
 Till o'er v.Li.s wiiitry \urld thy jowerbe felt: 
 
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 Thy Ti^ya eiiagbteii now, but let tbcra melt ; 
 Ihct' c acts of :iii, .aid sovrov; drive away, 
 Aiid Ui^iicr m the ioi.^ uiillcuuiiU day . 
 
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 There was a time — one land on Earth was free ; 
 When Israel's Childreu lov'd their Jubilee; 
 Vt'tc.ii those oppression had compelled to roam, 
 Eo;.:.ued with shouting to their Father's homo 
 Auu icil iv, to the King Unseen was vowed, 
 ]\re .< a-.'-iu'ri sous to Roman Ceasar bowed. 
 J3ut liitia iTi power e<^w darkened every land, 
 Acd gi.A,'-- ti {^'.i peoples in its bloody hand, 
 Au.l in the dibunjc. Judah's matrons hear, 
 'Iho;c ru".iig!in^; ^uuucls of w:u- that mothers fear, 
 \^hi e oov il v'l hii.d «l.o Panmii Lagle flings, 
 The con( :, •>'-: r a'ow irom its blooiy wings, 
 And ior^ici t. uh.e uucouijuered .-;pirit 's broke, 
 And luletly they v.ear the Roman yoke . 
 A caim cusues — all wuvs and tumults cease, 
 Bcloio '.le A'Hcnt of the I'rince of rcace ; — 
 "Hili-i*. '.he u.iu be.'Vne the thunder stroke — 
 lie <tuij.ci.ls lull— Icl'jic the carthqu:<ke shock — 
 '1 ho visiuiis I CISC — the Oracles ore dumb — 
 ileu think that shiloh is a))out to come — 
 Each <!uj, they hypo, vill S"rae deliverer bring : — 
 While f<i.itiifvd JeA- awaitti tic Anointed King — 
 
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 Aiiioug the sons of men ho stood alone, 
 While an uueavthly glory round him shone, 
 No royal robe, he o'er his shoulders fliuga, 
 Although descended from a line of kings ; 
 But meek, and pure as lily of the dell, 
 Hin Rtrange, glad tidings, to the people tells: 
 Hut yet, to thoFe, who widows' homes devour, 
 rhese strangf , wild words, have iigutniug.acathing''puwer, 
 In him r.p| car strange works oi' k'\c uud i^ight — 
 The sick arc Iical'd, the Lliad receive their sight, 
 The dumb demoniacs speak — some call him Lord, 
 Aud ears long deaf, now hear his gracious word . 
 He borrows nought from earthly pomp, or state, 
 Nor courts alliance with the rich, and great, 
 Aud seeking not to dazzle men with show, 
 Selects his followers from the poor, and low . 
 
 Earth's meanest children have their place of rest — 
 I'oxes their holes, and birds of air tlicir nests, 
 But He whoisc hand tl^c hungry thousands fed, 
 Huth not a place himself to lay his head — 
 The night is dark — and sudden tempests wake, 
 The waters of the Galilean lake — 
 The wave J swell high — no human hand can save — 
 The affrighted fish era fear a watery grave : 
 When He, whose picscnce oft hath cheered their sight. 
 Comes welkin^', on tVc waters, through the night — 
 He speaks his wonted words of love, and cheer — 
 The iempp;i« ooaHo;- • — nnd i^o rcnpe iJicir frars . 
 
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 'i Lcio is a h.jiue his presence ot'i halh hle.ssO'.l ; 
 
 Jlut one — a, brother — loved, and mourned, and missed, 
 
 Hath died, and Death that wrings so many tears 
 
 Iti master now ; — the ^Master was not here : 
 
 But comes ti^^ain with words of hope, and cheer . — 
 
 See tlie dead Laz'rus ! from his funeral cave — 
 
 (.'oiues in the fearful vesture of tlic grave ! 
 
 How strange I tliat one whose work was doing good, 
 
 Sh<;uld he maligned, and hated, and withstood, 
 
 And all his works of power, and mercy past ; 
 
 Should die upon the cruel cross at last ! 
 
 While Hiiiteful priests reiterate " crucify, " — 
 
 .And c-lam'rous multitudes, rcjcat the cry . 
 
 While men on earth, possessed by liends beneath, 
 
 tJnash on the Holy One, with wollish teeth, — 
 
 A darkness terrible I enshrouds the skies, 
 
 And th' Eurth shudders — and the dead arise : 
 
 Ah on the cross, the Man of Sorrow dies ! 
 
 Drunk is the cup, and passed the bitter hour : 
 VoY Death, o'er Him, had but a transient power . 
 A mighty angel, in the keeper's sight, 
 \\ ith lightning countenance, dressed in robes of light, 
 liolls from the tomi), the pond'rous stone away. 
 And shows His followers Vvhcrc the body lay : 
 But He liath risen ; for 'tis the iippointcJ day. — 
 And they shall meet him where the wavelets break 
 I'pon the lonely margin of the lake, 
 And in the room — and sweciL'r, grander still, 
 SIihII meet on Olivet's familiar hill . — 
 
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 iSliuU meet him there, — the ciucilicd and slain : 
 
 He who waa dead, — and is alive again! 
 
 Dh! sweet is pleasure after sorrow i)ast; — 
 ]5ut this was joy too heavenly far — to last ; — 
 \\'hile his commnnds, attentively, they hear, 
 And drink his gracious words, with thirsty cars — 
 As o'er the past, their basy memories run, — 
 'i'liey think of all that he has tauglit, and done, — 
 He stilled the storm : — carrcsscd a little child — 
 NTas loved, and hated, — w^orshipcd, and reviled, — 
 ijidurcd the thorny crown, — the torturing imI, — 
 And died at last forsaken of his God 1 
 Drank, to the dreg-J ailliction's hitler cup, — 
 Hut while they listen — he is taken up I 
 They gaze with wonder, sorrow, and delight — 
 'I'ill cbuds of heaven receive him f*rum ihcir s.'glit. — 
 Homes of the Happy ! Mansions of the Pdest ! 
 \\'clcomc to Glory ! I^arth's rejected Guest . — 
 
 Their loved, — their honored j\[astcr, now i;; gone. 
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 Dear — y, .Miice I saw you lust, 
 1 )ays, weeks, autl even mouthy, have glided past — 
 " rrocrastination is the thief of time " 
 1 should have written, though 'twas not in rhyme . 
 Then the " J^ast minstrels " of the summer sung. 
 And the red berries in the jungles hung . 
 Warm winds came fragrant from the new-mown liay, 
 And iiclds. and woods, were d)cst in green array . 
 'I he sun looked large — and not .-o very high 
 Dilated, by a hazy fcummersky. 
 N'uw all are changed — the birds uo iMigei' slug : 
 Hut flutter round as if to ti-y their wings ; 
 
 No song is hetvi'd: liufchcd every note of mirth ; 
 
 As if some evil had befallen the earth, 
 
 The woods uo more repeat their songs of joy, 
 
 But emigration all their thouglits cmplo}'' . 
 
 The skies no more retain their summer hue. 
 
 But seen through elouds, — aj)pear intensely bhu; — 
 
 The Sun, himself, ai:)pcars like one astray, 
 
 And wanders weary, o'er heaven's pathless way . 
 
 I'rom the wide forest con;es a stormy noise, — 
 
 A deeper murmur has the cataract's voice, — 
 
 fmbrowned with spoils from many a stately tree, 
 
 The rain-swollen river hurries to the sea, 
 
 And while all round is changed, — How is 't with thee".' 
 
 Does l;'ortune crown each effort with success. 
 As onward, onward, onward ;4i!l ynu press'.' 
 
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 With wciiUli ill i»rospect, and \Yitli pleasure near, 
 
 Aihl each delight, that mortals value here, 
 
 ^^■ith faithful friends,— and one than friend more de;'.i 
 
 What with the M'orld ! its pleasure, care, and strife, 
 
 F()r<ret awhile the vanity of life, — 
 
 And while time dances l)y with son^ and glee, 
 
 \\ astc not a single thought on one like nie . — 
 
 But 'dii'tli, and Sadness are twin sisters born; 
 As without night, we c'ould not hu\o a morn; 
 I iiiie hurries past the busv, and tlie ulad, 
 
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 It' yoU re disposed to murmur at your lot — 
 < > then 1 say, Dear I'ricnd forget me not . 
 
 Curst be the wealth which chills, and hardens 
 \\ hich truest friends, and fondest lovers parts, 
 liy its chill influence, lilxc a wintry frost, 
 The worth, and sweets, of lowly life are lost : 
 \\'here little flowers bloomed sweetly on the ground, 
 it casts its dull, cold, withering glare around: 
 Yet to the friendless, friendship must be de:ir. 
 For all who love the poor man are sincere . — 
 
 It may seem ariogant for me to claim 
 Your friendship. 1 who 'ave neither weaUh, nor name, 
 ^'or power, nor influence, nor ought men prize, 
 Nor ought that 's precious in the worldling's eyes . 
 
 Well if it is — impertinence let it be, 
 
 1 've sjicnt some very happy hours with thee. 
 And on the soul impressed and ne'er fui .>. t, 
 l8 every hour of high, and holy thought. 
 
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 Thcfc'C hours arc past — \\c ne'er again mij meet 
 
 To spend a friendly hour in eouniicl s.veyt; 
 
 But though our hot be east far, far apart, 
 
 Can time or distance change a friendly lie.irt '? 
 
 1 owe you much — Avl.en friendless, and ;dono, 
 
 Your sympathy, and kindness cheered me on ; 
 
 And now wince widely diftcrcnt is our lot, 
 
 Shall I not be content to be for :ot ? 
 
 No,— I '11 believe that you are still my friend, 
 
 And if my liberty of speech offend ; 
 
 This once forgive mo — I 'U offend no more. 
 
 And all our correspondence shall be o'er . — 
 
 Hence with the thought . — 
 
 ^!y Friend hast thou e'er known 
 What 'tis to live in every sense alone, 
 Witliout an aim, — a friend, a smile, a tear, 
 And almost too, without a hope, orfe:;r? 
 A longing anxious look, didst thou o'er est, 
 From the dark Future, to the dreadftd Pa;:!:, 
 Endless, and unbeginnlng — tlmo appj^.vj, 
 A dark, interminable waste cT Aear.i : 
 And as you'tliink, and ponder o'er, and e'er. 
 Seems it not to you you have lived before ? 
 Life has no color then, or green, or blue; 
 But a dim outline, for we see it thruu::>;u: 
 Mirth Bccms but madness, nor cm lovo itr.')..r. 
 One thrill of pleasure to the palsied heart- 
 And rip-irkl-Lu;^ eyes thAtc'aarju us Ij 1/ luld 
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 When early lifc'H romaTitic drcuras arc o'er, 
 A nil hope — that best of flattercra lies no more,— 
 >cems it not worse than useless to endure 
 A llunis-and illi^ which only death can cure — 
 While knife, and rope, and mu<ldy p'^i'-d supply 
 That boon of wretchedness— tlie means io die ? 
 Oh ! is there nouprht this hectic can con! vol, 
 Or nil this hated vacuum of the soul *, 
 Oh ! who is he that would wiLhout ;. high, 
 Live unbelov'd, and unlamcntcd die ! 
 'i'hrough the low vale of life, ini^lorious creep. 
 His oidy liope— an ovorlastin'g sleep ! 
 It is Religion that ^nust ])ring the cure. 
 x\nd fill the soul with holy thoui^Iits. and pure ; 
 And thougli Eternity's great sea ai>pears, 
 Mngulling all our days, and months, and years : 
 We'll keep the promises of Faith in view. 
 And live, and die. believing they are true; 
 And if thought pcrisli like a. taper's gleam — 
 We'll never know ouv hone was all a dream . 
 And Poetry ! thou too hast magic power, 
 'I'o sootlie, and sweeten, many a bitter hour: 
 From the lone flov/er that lifts its lovely head. 
 To the great sun that steeps the skies in red. 
 AVhithcr w^inds whistle, or ioud thunders roll. 
 All I all ! have rapture to the poet's soul : 
 'Tis sweet to feel the freshness of the hills; 
 'Tis sweet to wander by the wandering rills: 
 These joys. Dear Friend, Fve felt, and fcit v ii.h 
 
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 J'uigivc lue, fricuds, if for ii momcut's lime, 
 1 ,'iHk your patience to a homcHpun rliynic : 
 Ankcd to recite, auJ rising at your call, 
 1 HtaiiJ, almost a stranger to you all ; 
 Tor though with most of you I've bought and t>old, 
 Asked liow you prospered, and perhaps been told ; 
 Yet here as elsewhere, 'tis my lotto rove, 
 A man whom few may hate, but fewer love . 
 Hut, why this egotism, some will .say, 
 \\ hi) cares about you, be you what you may? 
 Rut friends, if friends yc be, let me explain — 
 J'ruiii Sympathy — proceeds our joy or pain ; 
 This is a power men use for good, or ill — 
 ]Jy this we comfort, and by this we kill . — 
 
 "Why pleads a Duff, or Carey with thethron". 
 Till by the tide of feeling borne abug, 
 Th'arc with the impassioned speaker ibrced to join, 
 And from their lingers drop tlie needed coin,— 
 
 'J'hc ])leadcr lias been sick, and found a cure 
 
 And now he bears good tidings to the poor. 
 
 And having seea the misery of the lost 
 
 Joins Mcrcy'fj enterprise, nor counts the cost . 
 
 And this the power, by whose inspiring breat! 
 The Warrior leads his hosts o'er acids of death • 
 Inspired by glory, and athirst for fame. 
 He mocks at death to earn a deathless name : 
 This is the guerdon that those great ones luive, 
 Who to be Kings— the King „f Terrors brave'. 
 
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 J'.ut for \lc c )i)U:-.:.n Sdl.'icv — V V.-t V lU claim, 
 'Moiif; C.ylw'j tl'.oufr..Vi.' 3 to a . Irnt- of t'tiLC? 
 buy, c:in ihc vi.i" gaxcttc a 0('.:;;.i v save, 
 
 i'.'n 1 liinj — hid mcmoi'v, !' 
 
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 AL 110 ! ii rvioiitl :ntiy \»((.';) a (r!ui: 'y tla^, 
 
 A Avife lu.iy i.kuh:! a IwcIscimi i.th — iir av.jiy; 
 But thitJ id all rcmuins of wh.M h:^;' ]'CO;i, — 
 l.'.c is lur;!;olu:\ crc liis ;;r.n e is ^ncon . 
 
 Yci ."-to IheUcr.cral huil lliat iivitii,^ mass! 
 ^^'hcl•c l)tiyoncts brist'c in 3011 troweled i,.i3,s; 
 Where even the loldt.stchaw u [lariiiig I icMh, 
 Ah round thcra Tills the thu!Kk'i--btoM:i i:t' death, — 
 It i» another's will impels them on; 
 A power resistless — to themselves unknown, 
 
 Jkittlicrc 's a power which more to me helono-s, 
 Of which 1 'd rather speak, — tlie power of j-ion;;;, 
 'ihis liavn I felt, as many an idle day 
 I 'vc Irang enraptured o'er some poet's lay, 
 And Hyuipathiiing with liim — felt in turn, 
 The power of "Ihouglils that hreathe ami words that burn," 
 Or walking out, I oft entranjed liivc stood 
 !Jy Iciicly l.roo!;s, that wander throu^'h the v/uod, 
 A!.'i h Icued to the storm- wind rushii.^ by, 
 i'ib.'.:.^ the o'oudi :don,f; the troubled .sky, 
 A:::! .•^?.•:o; in^ o'er the pine top< Avith a noise 
 Like MIImv.-;-' in-jj-erini^ at the teinncst's voice; 
 And lic'ird the thur.der i)ealin^- iur av/ay, 
 'Mong diiriing clouds tlu.t overhung the bay; 
 Or \v:i:,chcd the Star of Day lu glory ri-^c, — 
 Or riii^iiit' Tiloon a.loui) in iho dai-k bkiciri. — 
 
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 While Romc to happy homes retire, 
 
 And liio to rovcln Bomc: 
 1 sit beside a fading lire, 
 My liouv of musing 's come . 
 
 The pulse o» business sinks away, 
 
 And into stillness dies: 
 Now fades the glowing tints of day 
 
 In the calm evening skies. 
 
 'Tis pleasiint when in mood of song, 
 
 'I'o (liiuk of times long past; 
 Of Kor.ows tliat have tavricd long. 
 
 Of joys — that wouldn't last. 
 
 Of friends of other days, and lands,— 
 'i'he loved, the mourned, the raisseil, — 
 
 The manly grasp of friendship's hand, — 
 The lips, perchance, we've kiss'd . 
 
 A tearful glory round them seems — 
 The loved, tho tried, the true ! 
 
 They linger long — then pass like dreams, 
 In a dissolving view . 
 
 Tlie sorrows dreaded long ago ; 
 
 N\'o now uo longer mourn, — 
 Their shadows pass us ; but wc knov; — 
 
 They never can return . 
 
 And memorica of joys long past, 
 
 Aftord us still delight, 
 An<{, still, a twilight gladncM cast 
 
 Far iuto sorrow's niglit . 
 
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 'Tifi pleasant, in eome qui't retreat. 
 
 When gathering storms increase, 
 To hear the rain our windows beat, 
 
 When all within is peace . 
 
 Or hear the thunder's echoing crash 
 When clouds repeat the roar, 
 
 Or the long, rolling surges dubh 
 Ou a rough, rocKj shore . 
 
 'Tis sweet the opening flowers to :-yy, 
 And watch the unfolding leuvco — 
 
 Or hear the gentle isephyrs sigh 
 Among the waving tree.-i . 
 
 'lis sweet when absent many a year, 
 Amour our friends to stand, 
 
 The welcome voice of love to hear, 
 And clasp a loving hand . 
 
 But sweeter still when death is near, 
 When, dims the closing eye : — 
 
 That Hope, that whispers, Do not fear I 
 A ha4)pior world is uigh . 
 
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 Oh ! those are joys, of which T 'J almost say, 
 Tlio World can neither give, nor t:i]:o a\v<y: 
 IJut .still are left to me, — and having tho::'e 
 I'm not so wrctohcd as my foes suppose, 
 Nor will repine, tho' Ambition's glorious .schemes 
 Hope's airy castles, — Lovc'.s delicious dreams ; — 
 Yea, all the pleasures other men delight 
 Have riuuk in ruin from my aching sight. 
 .Vnd ye o})pressors, cowardly, and mean. 
 Who join, the petty pirate of the stream, — 
 Behold [ ftand! and shrinking not from f^.c — 
 I s<j<n'u for Hcorn return — and hate fur hate . 
 But I forget — lot not words o." spite ! 
 Or thought of wrongs e'er mar a festive ni;;ut, — 
 May Sympathy, her magic power supply, 
 Glow in each breast, and beam from every eye. 
 Till each forgets ho has been vexed, or sua, 
 A.ud in the common gladness — all be glad : 
 N"or let this thou'^ht one fcitivc o/enin-z s ) i;l — 
 To-raorrow comes, with all its jares, and t »il . 
 And you, to whom 1 owe my present cheer. 
 
 Who thought a stranger woith a welcome here- 
 
 /i poci,'a blessing on your kindness icst, 
 ind joja — if seldom relished, still tho best. 
 Tkiuo bo tho gladness sonj -loue iiK-pircs, 
 And thine, the common pleasure-; ull Jo ;iro: 
 Afl on the varying btroam of life you .'•;;-; [^ 
 May you ne'er mc'it m;.^^n■li;;lc'^! advc- :■ . .•;.].. . 
 Kuthand in hand, with some 'mv i! |»artucr n..aL. 
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 ill cirly life, a joyous view api»earH. 
 
 A :ili.--uil vista of loiiu;. liapjty years ; 
 
 Kvv. i> issiou yet has Kcath'd us, or tlie past 
 
 Hath i)"er the soul, its loug, death shadow east ; 
 
 .iiiiinuiii'/ (he light of all our present joys, 
 
 A\id (MlliiiL! to US v>il]i uueartlily s'oiec . 
 
 .;•..)'. tlic hilarious rcvol while you may ; 
 
 l;:it iJH.'S(\ \V.:c forinc'!' joys, will pass away — 
 
 Ye iiiuy luivc meriv uavN and nights of cheer ; 
 
 ]U\[ !!;;]i|t!ncss, i-v iioi a dwclh^v lioiv-. 
 
 Ami -:ily seen !y tliusc, wl)i» ea.-t their eyes 
 
 Til ilic j'.r worh;. ih:-.! wcrld beyond the skies . 
 
 To thc.iu the transient jdeasures of the hour 
 
 Seem ir;iil — tliuigh lovely as tlie fading flowers 
 
 'ill. '■■•.' evanescent iicautics, that di^])lay 
 
 '1 lieir speckled pe:;iis in a summer day ; 
 
 'I his is the reason why the christian, then 
 
 Can bear those griefs that madden other men, 
 
 Tur oarking cares tli;'! every day jnolest, 
 
 J^ndear the ].ros])eet • ' cit-rnal rest ; 
 
 ItJiit 'lis enough — 1 tr>' -::.-:> on your time, 
 
 i should noi preach, wnu '.'Ui) i.icaut to rhyme . 
 
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 Ifi eome dull* dreary day of rairt and twu, 
 Wktn clouds float low alon,'^ the plashy piain, 
 wLon til' h^]! tj.do of joy l>egm5 to eink, 
 Tliero oomca to every nar, a time to Dunk.— 
 'Wliila ia€C cliaso wealth., or wliiri in pleasure's daa^M 
 Tliia \70!:d'rou8 world may Ge«in tlio «'ork of Chaao«, 
 Ajid men, w'idlo liappj, buay, uud iit cac-* 
 Mty \7&lk tlie earth, ?.ud sail -jpor. the eea.^, 
 And eoe eacii day the -.Tondcra God uath >Troa:5hi4 
 ii^d Tst he i!:.ay j^c^i be in p11 tLeir thoughts. 
 
 But tJiere *s a 3oi:aciousiics5 that aoeus to g%y 
 That God is iiC73r Tsry far awcv: 
 Eut xuar us etjll -"o s-jccor and dcfeod, 
 /-cd nearer na than t?.ny earthly frieud: 
 jLlir.t sv'ry day rro live upo:'. his love — 
 Ij2 liim "we bsiug have, and Hvo and movo: 
 'Tia uji the fuxLctioaa of our lii i xamtab.^ 
 ijid that bii-CJ?.g3 m:oj:p^o»m raan ' suatalz;:; . 
 
 The heart, from youth till age, U uey«r a till 
 Yet mr.ds no capcrvhu-on of tJie Will ; 
 Uslika 'hfy u'&tch u.at cftci?. needa rcpau- 
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 Aviiiic eye, aiui car collect tne tr:v.$*!i:.<, am! sounils, 
 Aud alltlic wonders cf tuc v;orIu .irc'^ud. 
 Wlik^ tell u- that God's jcvc li ovt- n!'. 
 That 'tiii his 3un 7;'^:;^ :hine;', hiii-;^i;> v;]n,h LIU 
 
 ict jinon IIvo ?.th'wl.:!i li'Ci' — ^icr r-.co, n^T Iici'r 
 i.'-ocr.iiso thcj f-'hut .'h?ir 03 02.. "nd •-:ti^;p '.!x'*i' ears! 
 / r.d Ccnscicnco ;.' vo^oo kt .;':.ar:., is ,ie;;-i lu vi'mj, 
 Ev DCissioji'i? claaioiu* a::ovfncd. r'nd lu;-' uf Lridn. 
 
 A Fr.rmcY ■T'''"?'^2?--- hav^:^;; ^':Jod tuo roil, 
 
 Anc: cr ;•.^^ i::^:.'\d t ^-^ r.'^c-vy ;:.crvest^ 1: .-J.: 
 
 Yet re?c:rmscs no!-, -.'he -^c wcr ci Gc ' ! 
 
 Tho-^h fruits r^n,turo. ":.:d sun; n:;.y'. ' '::^! aluuc — 
 
 Uut ::.i -ic 'jliuh.t .•.>•: f-irs the ':?v a d-jvine. 
 
 A Savior vlj^it^ mzvy c dime, ojau ;jiv:re, 
 And hraves "-he tc-mpc^t:^ hoTvi, :j;:' i.i'L' -vs rucir, 
 Whither 'iiiOD<r icy cra^j the cuvi-or.t'.; rr.!i, 
 Or the docp ocean heaves beneath tliO buu: 
 Yet nD pves'diDg ro-n-ci', :hi QiJ Jy:! sees, 
 A;:d :uo:-;2ht deli-rht^ but Ticked rcvclro^:; 
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 Hij Providc^^jc— • -he Captain, :nd thc^roon: 
 i;ut vhci th? ten^^e^'ij t>";^s 'nvcs. t! ■; lihii^is. 
 Wh-i rufching in thol? r:i.;:ht, 'he hlllowj ris-; ; 
 V.'h::i through tj.j surf h';; -c./lIo di'h' . :i \y.c k, 
 y.::d fo;::,niy 'iri:,-. '^s Ccj.iih o'e/x it': ^ji-au'rh:.: dech- 
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 A Tyri.!'*: r.ila: ■■a Tricl^-^^nc:;?! '^uLlin.o 
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 liiii rav iii tvictcJ '.'V .■■nn-.:\::i jlo";l :r!i;' loncy — 
 IW.7 ':Tr • Oh L-^'-A '^v.m \ ■;<■■! t-^o •' .'-rt r-cl :irn.y, 
 TiU cv^lul Jlorc;; ctvoc;," ■■''' • 'r:c> -\ .ivvay — 
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 AT:d t^'r^j of joy :^;on ';.'udiH;.; i-rtca v. i hu.i.r, 
 
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 ^Taen b.eaTj foliage hatjgs on ctjj trci; 
 The ProTideacc thai: 's over r.ll wo nee. 
 The pulpy fruit Tyhjlo nouriaiilv.g its eccA 
 Aliorda a feabt; .lOr evsry taing ibst fecus, 
 VMiile otjaet seed on dov.-Bj lunioiis; go 
 In accarcb of a .oGgeuio.! p'.acc to grov:: 
 hj ail, in each tie r.^i'T'-lian Pov/e? i3 E€ea 
 Tha.t dc'Jisa the r.i:d osrth with livicg gres::; 
 E'ea Leea Mb T/inged ioisrscgGrs arc :nau3, 
 "VTaiLs follotrip-j c'-^Jiy 'lieir deiightfuil trada — 
 '.uIcBg MusHr.g fio-;iror2, op D^.caly 'wrings they rovo, 
 Ajid vfhiaj^' Azig D^.ir :!.: Tnzanzges of ic vo. 
 
 V7"bei t'lia ffir t.'c:.'1o., bj cou-rtesj c^II'd ovsa. 
 Is rlcii TTzta n^ut, r/Dd ;>2.'autiful iritli flowcTS; 
 Wlica jsL'cr/ autura ccracs io oroTrn tlic plan, 
 Ajicl fccc', rid glj.duess fill the hsart of D.ian;\ v^ 
 Eo77 bless'd are faej vrho Ciharo his I'ountj free 
 Tiiert tliDj ^4;^o lieav'nly :7atlier'fl childorn bo ; 
 Vr.io naJiCG Iiic Gua to liliiuc, Lla :ain to fail, 
 ilet en ti' r;ood cJoae; hut upon all. 
 
 Ard Happy thej 1 v/Iio eeek Lia gracious facs^ 
 Ax.d trinle tjjey share hia hounty, ishare hia graoo 
 And Hsppy I ! ^.vho eing thits serious song, 
 K tv that favoured curaber I belong — 
 True to myself, to others act unjust — 
 1 -fjruflt in hira in xrhom .t*3 caf^ to truai; 
 For 'tisia hiu wo live, ar.d have cur breath, 
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 the autjiob'b niece, aviio died. mar .2. 1878. 
 
 She livo'l unknown, aiul few could know 
 
 ^Vhcn J.ucy ccii.fccd to be; 
 Ijut alio is in the grave — tiUil 0]i! 
 I'he dilTcrcuce is to me. 
 
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 I left ]ior when yhe was a child, 
 Though fragile, Ijctfiitirul, and mild, 
 And more than the pure lily's grace 
 Vt'as in her pale, and modest face, 
 And blaiid, as is the summer skies 
 Th' expression of her thougtful eyes. — 
 
 Left, and to distant cities went, 
 And life in wasting turaoil spent ; 
 Where passion's storms^, that never rest 
 Beat on th' oppressor, and th' oppressed, 
 And found myself, altliongh too late, 
 A wreck upon the rock of fate. 
 
 Mcanv.-liile, to cheer me often came 
 Sweet missives signed in her own name, 
 Of wisdom, vud affection strong. 
 And sweet, mclodiotis ))ursts of song 
 r longed to see my strange young friend, 
 And claHp the hand tiiose letters pcned. 
 
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 When some decade of years had paissed— 
 Hctunicd to v.ell-kuo,vii {■(.•cncs at hit,t 
 I met the friends 1 used to know — 
 The friends that loved mo long ?go; . 
 And there throudi tear.-? of ]uy tOie .sinitod 
 Wliom I IvAd left vrhon hut a eliiM. 
 Such tears might Ujiglcs eyclit'S sivoi, 
 That o'er r'iurning siuucrt vccp. 
 
 How passing hoautifid she seemed ' 
 S >me aiigh3 ibrra of which I'd (he.iiuo ': — 
 Kcmo lovely i icing lent avrhilc 
 To cheer u^i with her hoav'nly hml'.o — 
 A gardian angle to console.. 
 (Ir rather, an embodied Soul — • 
 ^V boon by special favour ;Jv'n: 
 Xot all of earth, ncr all of hoav'n 
 And as the mondis sped fast away, 
 Became Gtili dearer cv'ry day. 
 
 Till Autu:u cam?, when tempest'-; ^ovror. 
 And wither mi.ny r. lovely il'-'v rr, 
 And bring Con3um]:t'cii i" thoi'- h'r.ui, 
 7Jhough known V; simio less dreaded n.-jic, 
 Persistent mcs.-;enger of Death 
 lio puts iujnv.-tion on tl'.c b'-ca.h, 
 And lays, life's functions tc arrc :t. 
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 ?!hc murmured not lit "cruel i'lite;" 
 
 But for the messac-c sccfjcJ to wait, 
 
 Xor c'oi- llio liuiTied summons sighed 
 
 But cheered lier wcopir<:^ friends— aud died. 
 
 Like dying euih^r Ijvi^litcr, grew 
 
 until hIiq vanished xroa our viow. 
 
 Yet whough Fo kind, !^o pure, to just, 
 
 A Saviour's !ovc was ?ll her trast. 
 
 She btidc odieu, and clasped each hand, 
 
 Then left us ''or the hotter !'and. 
 
 V'\i LuijI L.-'.cy! 'j.Ticu art gone. 
 
 And I am icft alono — ulone! 
 
 Life's weary vratch awhile to keep, 
 
 Ah-'uel ;".io';e! and thoii asleep; 
 
 J raourn for thee, but cannot wee;) ; 
 
 For sorrow like a fever dries 
 The t'jarful fountain of th.'> eyes, 
 
 \n\ vrorda afFordius no rcdres.-^, 
 
 i;efusc •'.he feelings to ?xqrcs,s. 
 
 Oh weep her all ye docrets v/ild ! 
 i'or she vvas Nature's dariinc; child, 
 And loved you from her earliest years 
 Oh weep for her in dcvry tears ! 
 
 Her Rcjuicm sing ye brcokn, and bees, 
 And winds that sl^h arr.oiig die trees — 
 Ye bird that used to wab.'u hc' slond. 
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 Tor her your swcctci-t rc([uicm .sing: 
 
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 riiOdC eyci «o wundciful, and Lh.o, 
 
 Nor timid creatures of the brook 
 SLall kivsim to meet that loving look. 
 
 No more, wl'cn f!;at]rring vapoura form 
 
 A panoi'ama of the f:torm, 
 
 Shall be unrolled before her eyes 
 
 The clov.dy canvas of the skies, 
 
 Sor r.aturc's harmony profound 
 
 i>o!ight her uith its blended sounds: 
 
 Nor I again that voice yhall hear 
 
 More Bweet than music to my car. 
 The flowers may sprii'g in ihwy hiwn, 
 And glittering in t;ic vernal dawn, 
 ••Shine in the morning'.s yellow rays"; 
 Hut, not to me, witli ligiit of other days : 
 For ne,er again, by garden, stream, or tree. 
 These eyes still dim witlitear-i, sliiil Lucy sec. 
 The bower hath lost to me. its wi.'hiu:^ spcl' — 
 That fairy bo\7cr sue used to love so well. 
 iiut Luoy, J.ucy ! thou art not fergot. 
 And iiiay be uoar, although I ecc thee not. 
 Oh may we meet thee on the happy slioro I 
 Where death is not, nor parting heard of luore — 
 That land of peace and everlasliiig re:-jt— 
 And Hco thee there, and live amoug the blot. 
 
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 ^Yllen Lncy ccaj-cd to ]jc; 
 i)iit alio i.i m tiio .^vavo— :.n.l Oh! 
 
 Tiie diiicrccijo :'« to lue. 
 
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 I left hor TvhcT) she waa a cMkl, 
 'J'lioii^h fragile, boautifiil, and luilu, 
 Ami .mere than the pure lily's gri.jc 
 Wss in aer pa to, and modest face, 
 Aud i.>U;ud, a« is 'h.o Kumincr eldca 
 TU' cxtrc^iilou Oi Uer taougtrul cjcs.— 
 
 Lcf^, r.'id to diistant cltica tvc:^'-., 
 And life In waiting tumoil spcsL; 
 V.'uorc ;ja:i..:ca's -tonus ^h-^t iicrc • res'. 
 Dci^t on th' cppre;?3or, end th' onprcs^icd, 
 Aud foand iDy.?olf, althop^h too late, 
 A wreck upon tLo rock of I'ate. 
 
 ]\lcan\vhilc, tc cheer mo often eamo 
 Svvcot niiaaivca signed ;.u her own name, 
 Of "".vloioni, ?-ud affection strong, 
 A'.id s\v:;ct, mclodions huvsts of Bong 
 r lcc<;;;cd '.o 2:e iny strange young fric':?.d, 
 Aud clasp tlic L-ud those Icttcra pcncd. 
 
 
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 ^Oflnil'd" rouuJ on spotf-cd wing, 
 i'oY I'cr 30U1* &T\'c:iCfct rcniucm sing: 
 For uo'cr tigain Kuaii look ur you 
 Thoi-o cyei uo ro!?.c^.?rful, anu blue, 
 Xor timid cronturoi' of the 'ji'ook 
 Sliali Bwim -^0 mcettl:?.i loving* lool;. 
 
 No coro, Trlicn f^ath'nnr; vajiouiii form 
 
 Shall ';jo xnrolled ceforc her eyes 
 'I'hc cloudy canvas of 'la sjiics, 
 -I'or nab.ire's harsaony pro.fo..iud 
 J)eli,Tht her rith itf? 11 ended Eouudi: 
 Nor I cgaia *h3t voice t-balihcar 
 
 Jilors sweet than raiislc to my car. 
 Tho flovrcrs laay epring in dewy lawu, 
 And ^Uttering in the varur.! dawp, 
 '•Shino in the !norulDp;'s yollcvv- ray.s"; 
 Bnt, r.ot to mo, ritii ]lyiit oi'cVacr d:iy.-i: 
 For nc^r r-^ain, hy <7?rd<».n, stream, or t.'-^e, 
 These eyes still dim v;itht:ai-s, i-h.ull Lucy hcc. 
 Tho ho'.Tcr hath lost to u\e. [■: wl-.-hitr^ :!;x'!l— 
 That fairy hoTei* she as'^ 1 ■'o 'ovc so well, 
 Ikv: iiucy, Luc^! Ihj-i :.rt rot fcy<i:ot, 
 And may he near, altJiovgh I t^ec Ihce not. 
 Ch j.\ay V,-; neet vhce en the h".p]iy Hhoro I 
 Vrhcre d^^ath is not, nor r-r-L'ug heard of uiore- 
 That hjind of peace and everh'stiiig rcst- 
 And K'C thrc thcTc. a'jd live among tho llc.st. 
 
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 PilcHscd is the man who standcth uot 
 TVhcrc wicked men repair; 
 Nor in th' un'j^odly's ^onnsil walks, 
 Nor sits in scorncr's chair. 
 
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 Bnt in the holy law of (iod 
 He takes su])rcmc delight; 
 
 Jle loves it, and he meditates 
 Ipnu it day and night. 
 
 Like bomc fair tree, that 's planted by 
 
 A river, he shall grow, 
 Nor leaves shall wither, nor fruit fail, 
 
 Nor any Might shall know. ■» 
 
 Bnt the ungodly 's like the chaff 
 Which winds thi\c OiF vj dust: 
 
 So they in judgement shall nut stand, 
 Nor sinners 'mong the just. 
 
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 (.iod knows the ways of righlious men. 
 
 And rightiou:; deeds will chcrrish : 
 Not so with the ungodly man — 
 His wicked ways shall perish. 
 
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 50. LETTFR TO FllEINC'^ Oi\ THE 
 DEATH OF AN INTETESLING CHILD. 
 
 Beyond the flight of time, 
 
 Beyond the realms of death 
 There surely is some blessed clime 
 
 A'here life is not a breath, 
 Nor life's affections transtient fire 
 whose sparks fly upward and expire. 
 
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 DKAR FlUEXDS. 
 
 Fm grcved to hear Death hath removed 
 The darling little one 1 know you loved; 
 But death, of which hard things are said, and sung 
 Spares not the fair, thr lovely, or the young ; 
 We know, but scarce dare think death always near 
 Till startlecd when we find he hath been here — 
 Here in the very house in which we dwell, 
 And killed the very one we loved so well : 
 We sob with grief that almost chokes our breath ; 
 And cry in agony. Oh cruel Death ! 
 For well we know when weeping eyes are seen. 
 And wailin<; heard the phuc where Death hath been, 
 He waits his orders on whom next to fall- 
 Waits but a little while, and waits for all. 
 Nor leaves us, from our airy castles hurled. 
 Or place, or portion in this breathing world. 
 
 Ye who condemn some wretch to death for crime 
 Remember it is but a thing of time ; 
 
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 For while to death the trcml>lii.g wretch ye doom, 
 Yourselves proceed, or follow to the tomb. 
 
 i\ndye whoover-r;de tJic I'niritruto throng 
 v.'hilc in triumphal chariots borne along 
 Shall perish, having spent life's transtiant day, 
 And all your pageantry shall pass away. 
 
 The marble palace., and the rock-built tower 
 Shall vanish like a summer cloud, or ilower, 
 The prison's ji'oii d'inr.s dist-olve in rust. 
 'I'heir j/ranit wails shall crumble into dust. 
 And they who guaru the prisouca a drcay den, 
 Whose "duty" 'tis to torture shackled men, 
 Shall like their prisoners die. ard be beforgot, 
 And like tucmseivcs, the tyrant's name shall rot 
 And they who stre'..ed with death the ensagulned plain 
 The mighty slayers shall by death be slain. 
 But will th' incxorabi'lo hand nf fate 
 E'er cancel all we love, and all we hat*; 
 And nought in space, all boundles, and inane 
 But lleav'u's eternal throne alone remain 
 And will these souls of ours become extinct — 
 Our living, conscious selves that feel and think 
 Like !/Iiium'ring watch-lights on a stormy sea 
 Be bloated from among the things that ])e? 
 Or shall we live in some pure realm of thought? 
 When all terestial things shall be forgot: 
 In joy and love, uumixt with pain ariU strife, 
 With ilim who is the way, the truth lif 
 
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 why do the heatlicn rage, ana , s 
 Hie people foolish things dc\i > 
 l.arth's kings and jiotcntates against 
 
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 vd and his Anuintcd rise. 
 
 And joined in ;in nidioly league, 
 While t iking <'<nnisil thug they say; 
 I.ct u^ isundc"' Itieak their hands, 
 And lot us cnst their cords auay. 
 
 He tlrit in he.iven sits shall laugh — 
 The Lord, their lolly shall deride; 
 Then shall he speak to thcra iu wrath 
 ^ nd in liis sore displeasure chide. 
 
 Yet I'vo -'wv lcin<jr on /.ion set. 
 And I will puhlish the decree, 
 Thou art niv well-beloved Son ; 
 This d;)v I have hejrottea theo. 
 
 A^k o^ nic and for hci'if 
 
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 The heathen 1 will give to thee, 
 And for possesion thou shalt have 
 The distant isles beyond the sea. 
 
 Their kiuirdonis thou shalt break up small. 
 And dash in ]>icccs with a stroke: 
 As when with blow of iron rod 
 A potter's brittle war') is lu'oke. 
 
 J>e wise ii(p\v tliercJort U ye kings '. 
 Judges of earth instruction hear I 
 liejoise before tbc Lord, but still, 
 Forget not in your mirth to fear. 
 
 Kiss ye the Sou, lest he be wroth, 
 And lest ye perish from the way, 
 If once his anger burn at all : 
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 () Ifappinci-s where is tliy ihvclliiig? 
 
 With the child in the Hpria;.' of the year? 
 when e;i(.'h liDur sntnc tjweet story is telling, 
 And there .s no place but here. 
 On ;i carpet of flovrci's he reposes. 
 
 Nor ever anticipates night; 
 For the ap})!c-trce 's hanging with roses, 
 
 And life is delight. 
 
 Or dwell'st thou with yon little imidca 
 
 whose eyes beam with plcisure and love ? 
 While tl;c flowers all :<round her are spreading, 
 
 And the a.'.urc above. 
 lu her garden by huuiniing-birds haunted 
 
 Her life seems a ha?ipy .snrpriMO. 
 And her bower seems a castle enchanted, 
 
 And heaven in her eyes 
 
 Or dweU'st thou with Tollv and Fashion ? 
 
 In the region of Lau:.ditcr, and Song 
 When life is a whirlwind of ]';is^ion, 
 
 And the days seem not. long. 
 With the Vouth in yon parlour d.iy-dreaming 
 
 With the Lady that stands by her glass ? 
 When the future with brightness is beaming 
 
 And they sigh— but it is not — Alas 1 
 
 With the scholar who strives to achieve all 
 The wonders which scienee hath brought 
 
 By the knoledge of good, and of evil 
 From the arehivcs of thought ? 
 
 Doest thou visit the bard in his sadnesa, ? 
 Whcu love, and delight come along 
 
 
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 Tn a visiori of ^lory and trladness, 
 \\"]t]\ the voices of Song. 
 
 AVlien the Muso hatli some fivoin- e-: tended. 
 
 Anl earc h>st its power to annoy. 
 And evil hy good i» tran.-^cnded, 
 
 And sorrow hy joy. 
 
 Or does Happiness dwell with the banker — 
 
 With the man of eonimeic:al cniprisc: 
 AVhile gold, that bceomes oft a canker, 
 
 Has charms in his eyes. 
 Wlii'o men of each climate, and ("i"in'j 
 
 brings him tribute from sea, and from Imd ; 
 And money, that answcreth all things 
 
 Is at his command. 
 \\ hile he looks o'ea his meadows, and foresta 
 
 As he sits in his mansion of stone, 
 And Power is within easy purchase. 
 
 And wealth is his owu. 
 
 Or is Happiness found with the warrior. 
 
 Whose glory is other men's shame, 
 To wiiom stains of blood is no buriior 
 
 'l"o honor, ami fame. 
 Tor not with such nloasure the farmer 
 
 I-ooks over his liarvcsted grain; 
 As the crested mid sliiuing iu ai'mour 
 
 O'er his harvests of slain. 
 AVhiio around in confusion aie lying 
 
 On the field wlicre the batt'e hath sj)eil, 
 The heaps df the dead, and the <lviii:r. 
 
 Where the martyrs of S itau have ble I. 
 Oh leave him whose glory disgraces 
 
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 AikI i''uiir.iniie smne sa<l. sick y fm-os 
 
 With tlio liL'lit nf fliy smi c 
 Aiiil. Ki't t<> tlic ])nis|u;niiis oiilv. 
 
 Oil llajipiJicsH ! faviMirs iiii|i:irt 
 Hut vi.>it tlic outcast — the loiiolv — 
 
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 Thou desire of all hc.irt^ 
 Where the broad, sjiottcd nnoon liatli arson. 
 
 Enligt'ning yon shadowy .slope. 
 Look in through the hnvs of von prl^/m. 
 With thy twin sistor IIo]k'. 
 
 How near is his irla-l lihoration. 
 
 Lot yon lonely jtrisnnor s»>c. 
 And walk in ir'a*! anticipation 
 
 The fio' Is with tho t'nic 
 And thonirh the cold world disappovcth — 
 
 What r-arcs lie — his arms -hall embrace 
 And the tears of the one that btill lovcth 
 
 Sh;dl moisten his face. 
 But iiappninesa! though thou to many 
 
 Tmpartest occasi mal cheej, 
 'Tis but tarnsient. Thou dwell'et not with any- 
 
 Thy home is not here. 
 
 EVENING THOUGHT. 
 
 Once more the gaiish day i« done, 
 Behind yon hill hath sunk the sun. 
 The sober cv'uiug is begun. 
 
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 ^lult, sigh he winds; l)ut hoarjcly fret 
 The leaves, l.-y dews (Cc/niiv.' \vct, 
 Too young, and soft to rustle yet. 
 
 Sweet is the music of the bogs; 
 From reedy pools and mossy logs ; 
 No matter if from newts or frogs. 
 For discords wild of cheep, and crock, 
 That music's rule's might t-eem to mock, 
 The Swv;Ctcst harmony evoke. 
 
 Tho wounded heart that yearns for calm 
 In Nature symj>athetio psalm 
 Oft fiiids for giief a heavenly ba'm. 
 But what the trotib'ed wretch can heal? 
 That 's tossed about lill o'er him steal 
 A (juict that he shall Tiai feel. 
 
 ihcn what is wealth or j'loasurc worth? 
 Yea what arc all the jnys vi Karth ! 
 Though bright eyes luam with love and mirth 
 ,Tis nought to him whcse day is done 
 Thorough stars their idle circles run, 
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 The sclf-denyitig virtuosi miud 
 We eaiuiot but approve ; 
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 Along the link'd. electric chain of thought — 
 Joys that can ne'er k'eturn, nor be forgot. 
 
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 The burn, the stream, the river 
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 And 'vill glide on forever 
 
 The Rhone, the Tiber, Thames, an Tay 
 Glide sweet in classic sang; 
 
 An Burns's burns as sweetly rows, 
 The o aisled kuowes amang. 
 
 Tut here is auc, unknown to sang, 
 "^\'i nionic a bonie lake, 
 
 That trails the grassy meads amang, 
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 r-.ir Kcne 1 thou 'a a bonie stream: 
 
 I*d ping t^ J fame wi pleasure; 
 
 Bxxt -'.'ha cnald set thy barbarous name 
 '.?'■> ojio cltj^io measure. 
 
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 T'lo vilc, bugh-luged, rcd-skin'd whalp ! 
 That g'!c'.i th-^e :5io a name. 
 
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 There 'n Lsavhin? in a name ava; 
 
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 'Tie anid. the man that 'b slow to wrath 
 Ib Htrongcr than the mighty ; 
 So calmly on thou keep'st thy path, 
 Though brawliu brookri incite tbee. 
 
 "When gurly wins drive great, wat cluds 
 Alang the lift fu stormy : 
 
 When bnmAnpatient, loup ower lins, 
 An muddy spates deform thee. 
 
 When, white wi faem, the burnies spout 
 Frae mouie a bosky thicket, 
 
 Wi din, an bussle bickerin out ; 
 Like sheep out o a wieket. 
 
 Thou calmly spaeads owcr marsh, an meads, 
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 Till like a vera sea thou rows 
 In a thy quiet grandure. 
 
 Clear be tny waters ! smooth thy bed ! 
 Thy meadows white wi iiill's-een, 
 
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 Be either dams, or mill seen I 
 
 An while thy gently heaving breast 
 Keflects thy banks sae hilly, 
 
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 \Vi gniccfu motion sail. 
 
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 An on thy fertile hovvms, a round, 
 Wha+ itlicr walth surpasses, 
 
 A raoe o manly bids bo found. 
 An blithe, leal-hearted lasses! 
 
 An niny the farmer's heart itjoice, 
 Owrc fields he lau^ has wrought in 
 To hour the welcome rustlin noise 
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 Now genJe river clear an strongi 
 Be then my kind adviser, 
 An as thou hast inspired my Honjj; 
 Instruct me to be wiser. 
 
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 — •• "Pis iii»r unjusi imr iiusui 
 I'o Moi/e the proper time lor li most spleen. 
 An oj»en eandid I'oe I eould iku IkiIo, 
 Nor even insult (lie base in hinnliled state : 
 Hut tlnivin;.' nialiee tamely to lbr;;ive — 
 'Tis somewhat late to bo so primitive . 
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 ' Tirt straii^fe to hear, 
 lliiw dilleient thiuf^s to dillerent men appear — 
 How right with wrong — how truth with ermr mix I 
 W hat tlillercut buundaries dillerent men will lix I 
 Thus meeting lurrents mix, and with th< u\ bring 
 Tir impure bog water and the li\ ing spring . — 
 I hus in the twilight's dim, delightful liours, 
 When bats tli( out, ;ind howli^ts leave thoir l»owers — 
 riir day 's not ended, till the night \s begun. 
 .\iid light and ilarkne.ss mingle into one : 
 heline the dillerenee with what eare you may, — 
 One says 'tis night — and one a-!.Herts 'li.'^day . 
 In the last days, as ancient rr(»jiliets write. 
 \ time shall eome tliat 's neither day, woy night, 
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 But evil men who act from wiolzcl will, 
 Unchaiif^cJ by knowledge shall he wiihcd Mtill . 
 
 Tliat time has come, and old opinions tried 
 l'>v homo new test are being thrown aside ; 
 I'hiloHoiih}' has little to propound, 
 The pulpit utters an uncertain wound, 
 And we arc Icit . guess, and lo .surmise. 
 And know not what is truth, or what are lies. 
 Wo seem to stand upon the wreck of time 
 Surrounded by a seething sea of crime, 
 And know not if this dawny, dou1»tfnl light. 
 May end in day; or deepen into night . 
 Wo fear — but know not what may next betidu, 
 And welcome any one that seems a guide; 
 And here they come to put us on the road — 
 The paper boys, — the press gang are abroad ! 
 rronounccd by boyish voices, shrill and clear 
 "The morning Herald," everywhere you hear: 
 For two poor cents, the precious sheet you buy, 
 And what a world of wonders meet the eye ! 
 
 ))rcoiouH IForald ! what strange news I trace, 
 l\l.urders, and horrors, in youv si)otted face ! 
 What devil's doings, and what works of grace I 
 The moral lights . — The monsters of the age . 
 Moody and Sankey . — Pomroy and r.apagc . 
 1 long to see your licll-broth "boil and bubble," 
 Vour imps dance round, and sing of '•toil and trouble ;" 
 Each printer's office may one devil claim ; 
 Hut ye have many — legion is ♦heir naiac. 
 
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 Tell (if Htraiif^o women, and of i.ieu more atran^o; 
 
 I'cll us of lieecLcr, if ho prcudi, or rcat, 
 
 ()n the Twin Mountains, or some woman's hreasc; 
 
 Tell na of all the opprcs.siou!^ wliich arc done, 
 
 Or at Fall River, — or beneath the sun,— - 
 
 Of rebel weavers — wcddiu^^s in hi;!]i life — 
 
 Where Home rich bride, becomes a rich man's wife ; 
 
 With all the pageantry, that wealth can elaim, 
 
 And "trusting I'rovidcnce," assumes a name, 
 
 Wiii^h Slander may not blight, with puisouou.s breath; 
 
 And, — wail of workers, slowly starved to death! 
 
 Who t^ign away their rights; then guieving stand, 
 
 And say with Craumcr — "this unworthy hand." 
 
 Of ri)igs and forgeries, )iou8CS to be Bold, 
 Anil how to turn the rich man's rags to gold, 
 •M)f honest money" — "something that is sure" — 
 With all the juggleries that ehcat the poor . 
 Tell us of all, — no matter, truth or lies, — 
 And advertise, yc gents, — O advertise! — 
 
 Uovival meetings ! in the halls, or camps — 
 Ami "Teeth," and "Uair," and "Dogs" to worry tramps. 
 Swords, and traumatics, — antidote and baue,— 
 Magnetic women, — and repulsive men,— 
 The hand that heals us, and the arms which kill : 
 And every sort of male, and female pill : — 
 Tell us the whole dear Herald, — tell us all 
 About the sorts of poxes, — great and small I 
 The general pymptom — tlio particular ease. 
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 'iill better game Ic fouud: — but liow for nport! 
 A HK strect-walkcr, drugs a she to court; 
 He caught her in the very act of ill, 
 And jiroml us turkey couk t^truta to the Mill : 
 Krjiortcrs now 'h your time ! let car aud sight 
 I'.o wide awake, — ye rca<ty writcra write — 
 And sliuw yourselves adepts in (hat line art, 
 Of adding Horrow to a bruken heart . — 
 
 for a ptiK'il like l.andfccer'a! to dr;iw 
 His Honor seated laying down the law, 
 And all the mockery of a court, — in which 
 A paek of bull-drgs! worry one poor b~-ch. 
 She has no friends — j'e'rc safe to call her wh— o; 
 For Black Maria'n wniling at (he door. 
 Let all her misery, all her crimes bo told, 
 Pecaune, forbooth, bIic 'h ugly, poor, and old ; 
 But 'twixt ourselves dear Herald let mo say, 
 That dogs an well as b— dies ha,ve their day, 
 And that whirh moves thy most malignant sneer. 
 Thy mother did, or thou hadst not been hero. 
 Yes, modern rhariisecs, I sec yc grin, 
 And bless yourselves, because ye liuvc no sin: 
 Thank (jod, while leering at the prisoner's den, 
 Yo'rc not like publicans, or other nioi. — 
 Or yon poor outcast — seen bchiml the bar.*^. 
 Aud if yc liavc no God — ye tiumk your HtiirA. 
 Ycft, doulitlcs.s, ye arc righteous. ]>urc, I'lid jubt I 
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 Nor lying luherli.semcnlB print for \y.\y -. — 
 
 But ere you ndvertisc for girl« — Oh think ! 
 
 Yc wretched prostitutes ! of pen and ink, 
 
 What crowds, on crowds, aro brou.^ht by you nfrcwb, 
 
 To till thia horrid mart of human flc <h . 
 
 lie 'a not a man, oven though of woman Iwrn, 
 Who hohls a friendless woman up to rfcorn, 
 Because he kccs that his unmanly jcst^, 
 Please obscene fools, and gives his paper /.cif . 
 While Mr. Nui^ator sucks his cigir, 
 And reads his paper ridinj; in the car, 
 And rubs his fini^cra as ho had the ii -b. 
 And lauf^hs witli glee, and aAci, "() aitit that lob 
 But to depict n\oro clear, ho\7 matters go, 
 bet one example, one of many ahow 
 }\>>v/ advertising, used by reckless hand.^, 
 l{c(OTft«s( fi y<^// curse that bV)'jChl.A the iaul 
 Ih' cxior(v/ti/^0 f,cir\r} it strengrticns t — b;. 
 rrocurcr, nud p(j<:\ifC 4 y'/ their tnulo , 
 rhc advertiser, with f/.-i /i^iH/j (ynW, 
 Waits but for work — tho i%/mM 'A ^hcir w- — 
 Print what you may — a host t^ A 'J^m 1 « - 
 ilclial begets, — the paper man couo«i>-/*» — 
 Joined in one purpose, only give them tim*, 
 And tliey 'II bring forth the full developed crime; 
 Say not that this, or that 'a, the more unjust: 
 Their niolivo difTer flightly — gain or lust . 
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 AtkI mund the indenting capes, and lieadhindtt roll 
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 'J'he rugged, rocky elitln of Hlomiih'n . 
 ThcM-e lived a la.s.s, of f'a'-e, and fona ('i.iii)'i< e. 
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 Hi- ('(juntenanee was open — niMiiy, hr.ivc, 
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 II. ■ was, in sooth, a V(!ry K'ingof men. 
 And had a [Mict's hea; , if not his pen: 
 And having said so mu(d», — I need not (ell, 
 That DonaM Moran loved his .Mag.lalen well, 
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 And iJonald, though ke missed his much loved lad, 
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 TliC poet'ej vibion loved, butfiiilcil t«> find 
 A living hnman lover to her mind: 
 Yet welcome at each rustic feast, or hall. 
 She was the (^iiccn of hearts, l)clovcd iiy all ; 
 Where'er she went — talk had a merry sound, 
 Slio spreafl a sympathetic gladness ruund. 
 Her visits often brought the sad relief. 
 Her presence secmod an antidote for griof . 
 W hen neighhors mot to have a merry time, 
 Nor counted laughter sin, or mirth a ; .ijii"i; 
 If some one entered voiced like u hat;, or ". 
 With visage crontoured like the waning moon, 
 Antl told of ills to come upon the land. 
 Or pestilence, or famine near at hand, 
 Or told of some ship's crew hy pirates slain, 
 Ordhost seen wandering in the haunted lane. 
 Or human body walking in its shroud I 
 Or j)liantom ship seen in some watery cloud I 
 Or told of fearful sounds, or honid sigl)ta 
 Which made each countenance grim, like yellow light : 
 Ilcr cheerful, beaming eyes, dispelled the gloom. 
 And lightened, like a Drummond's lamp, the room . 
 On scenes like thcso 'twero pleasant long to dwell. 
 Of rustic sports, and rural pleasures tell ; 
 Where Nature's hamW, her priceless gifts bestow?, 
 I'ar from the city's splendid vice, and woe. 
 Where toiling men, condemned by a<lvcrsc I'ato. 
 rill the j)lcthoric purses of the great, 
 And women earn a temporary dower. 
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 Mc!i f'cll their votes — aud eainiiihitOK their bouls: 
 
 r.ut to |irocee<l, — One hazy iiutiimu day. 
 Sec ! Moran'H Kttle boat rock in the hay . — 
 He stands upon the dock, and takes a view, 
 With two tried comrades — hoth good men, and true, 
 Along the horizon's brim their cycH they rnn. 
 Whore gauzy clouds bedim the rising ftun. 
 And f<eem in doubt to hoist, or furl the sail : 
 Ah somewhat fearful of ihc litful gale : 
 
 Hut wait not long — they soon make uj) their mind. 
 And trust their little ves^oI to the wind : 
 And Magdalen walks u))on the j)cl)bly strand. 
 An<l waves goodbye, with kerchief in her luind, 
 And watclies till the sails appear to awini. 
 Like sherrls of clouds upon tlio ocean's brim, 
 And still she watches, till they disaji|icar ; 
 Inconscious that her eyes are dimmed with tears . 
 A strange prophetic sorrow iills licr mind. 
 'I'hat bodes disaster near, — though undclinc<l : 
 Again she looks, waked from her revere — 
 Hut all have sunk bcoeath the convex sea . 
 
 \N hat ails thee girl ? Why dost thou linger liore \' 
 'I'hcrc is no cause for sadness, grief, or fear — 
 For Nature dons her robes of 'ovclicst light, 
 And all around is beautiful, and bright ; 
 See ! by thy path the feathery g)ldcn-rod — 
 
 Sec ! by thy door the sleepy poppies nod 
 
 See! yonder tall, important looking iiowcr. 
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 Hath nut \vith«lniwn his gaze Binco day ho^'un, 
 IJut out of couiitciiuiiL'o .stares the yellow sun, 
 And chililreii ah')iit to thee in cliiMish glee — 
 Why linger hy the lonely, awful s'a! 
 Awhile in iiraycrt'ul attitude she sfan<ln, 
 t'oniniitrf her friends to His Almiglity liand, 
 Whose providence the wandering sailors kccpi. 
 While doing business on the iniglity deep ; 
 Then hies lier liomc, and opes the lowly door, 
 A spot of •iunlight sleeps upon the floor, 
 And near the little lire, upon the mat, 
 rhe guardian of the house — a spotted eat. 
 Hor household cares arc summarily dismissed. 
 She takes her favourite Coleridge from the chest, 
 ■j'ries to compose herself as well 's she may, 
 And soon is lost in his weird, wonderous lay. 
 
 The sua now shone from his meridian height, 
 The centre of a I'ng of hazy light — 
 r.clogged himself, and all aroun 1 distressed, 
 He hurries to his home in the far west — 
 As hostile elements in war engage — 
 The curtain drops Ijcforc lie leaves tho stage: 
 I'or scarcely had tho sun the zenith past, 
 ■\Vhcn — su^ldenly the sky is overcast — 
 Tho wind, that lately whispered,— now Is high, 
 And has a whistle like the eca-guH's cry — 
 I'ar out at Ocean, — o'er you stormy ( 'ajio, 
 The clouds assume fantastic, fearful f;hapr=?. 
 Kike great sea ni«uisters! from the waters ri o. 
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 And foamy surges dashed against tlic rocks; 
 
 An.l Magdalen tveml.loH at the tempest's sweep. 
 
 As niglit, and davknc.^.; settled ou the Deep ; 
 
 And thinks on tliat tremendous sea afloat 
 
 Is her leur Father in his little boat. 
 
 All night she listened paraly/cd with fear, 
 
 'I'he many voiees of tlic Deep to hear — 
 
 At dawn of morn she hurries to the IJeaeh 
 
 Anxious to know — what Time too soon will teach; 
 
 Looks o'er the misty waters — hut to sco 
 
 (ireat, created, rolling waves, where clouds miglit he: 
 
 Krao'iucnts of wreck were strewn along the shore, 
 
 Mut lifcihcr, or his vessel came no more. 
 
 Thus have ye seen in suiniy, sheltered nook, 
 Wild lilies grow beside a mountain brook; 
 lluve marked their silent progress, hour by hour, 
 I'rom swelling bud to lovely, full-blown flower: 
 Their habits, and their habit- t ye knew. 
 And watched the lovely lilies— how they grew — 
 When suddenly there sweeps across the plain 
 The gusty tempest, and the driving rain ! 
 Again ye seek the lilies lonely spot — 
 Ye seek the lilies, but ye find them not — 
 They are not there — not where yc saw them last, 
 Their leaves were strewn upon the stormy blast. 
 Thus by the sounding lihore, or (juiet ilell. 
 Oft rural worth, and pure aflection dwell ; 
 \\ here just enough of blis;s on earth is given, 
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 Vdor Majrdalen! strctchc<l upon the cruel racl: 
 'Twixt hope, and fear — Her father eoiue.s not ha.-k 
 The agony of that prolonged Huspenso, 
 Ah, turns tho wheel of time, becomes intense. 
 I'ear takes the idace of hope, and grief of fear. 
 As pass the days, the wcck^, the months, the year; 
 I'ntil this dreaded truth is all too plain — 
 That he hath perished in the stormy main ! 
 '!his truth, If known at lirst, her heart had hruke. 
 As glass is shattered hy a sudden stroke; 
 lUit if you roast it in the torturing lire. 
 It takes whatever form you may desire. 
 
 Now sad and 'eerie' at her little home. 
 In whieh kIic Htays, dejected, and alone — 
 The wind-waved trees like human voices sound. 
 Their shado-vs seem like phantoms wandering round; 
 Until she longs to lose in other scenes, 
 Distracting thoughts that seem like waking dreams; 
 And knows, and fooLs how vain it is to mourn 
 I'or one so dear who never can return. 
 
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 And often called tho lonely girl to see. 
 Ami often brought what sympathy imjiarts. 
 Some free-will ollering of a loving heart. 
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 And stops to while away the weary day, 
 And kindly whispers hope, and gou.saA,;v ; 
 I'hon Magdaleu turus to talcc another look 
 At her friend's gift, a ribbon, and a '.. rjk, 
 (jays past the little gift with grateful slj,]i , 
 'f hen at the wrapping paper ca-ts lief eye, 
 jieads as the wrinkled paper she unfurls — 
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 And she is one at length she thinks trho'l! i^ >, 
 
 Shake off if possible eorroding woe ; 
 Tis not her nature to repine and sigh, 
 And sudden imj)ulse prompts to do, or die 
 Sue 's none t' advise her — s) appeals to lot, 
 The answer is, — Sail in to-morrow's boat; 
 So she resolves at length to try her fate 
 She takes her passage, for she takes the bait, 
 And to the steamboat office wends her way - — 
 Five hundred girls are not found ev'ry day . 
 An hour or two she with her neighbors s})eu(ls ; 
 Commits her little house to faithful friends, 
 Then leaves with beating heart her cottage door. 
 Her home behind her, and the world before ; — 
 And feels that after months of mental pain, 
 She is an orphan ; but herself again . 
 
 With eatables her little satchel stored. 
 She finds the steamboat wharf, and steps aboard . 
 Loud sounds the gong, — and very soon afloat 
 See ! dashing through the waves the gallant boat, 
 And men, and women, heedless where thcv "o. 
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 And find affinities where'er they may . 
 
 Soon .AL^gdalen iind;] a friend she le a-us ;■' hrhr., 
 
 A gor j , orphan gi"^ with soft blue ej'es; 
 
 And groups of girls she fiads — resolved to try 
 
 If possible, the needed girls t' supply, 
 
 .\nd all alike the victims of a lie . 
 
 Now let us leave our heroine on tlie deep, 
 To sit with new found friends, and talk, or sicc[». 
 And forward liy in space, though back in time; 
 For there arc wings as well as feet to rhyme . 
 I'ly to the town of churches, and of schools, 
 Where men are either women, knaves, or fools! — 
 That famous city oft surnamcd the Hub, 
 \\'here boys arc licked to shape like she-bear's cubs ; 
 And in that street, named for the cherry ho}'^ 
 Who could'nt lie ! but men, and trees destroy I 
 V'ou find a store where ladies often call, 
 Who deal in female wigs, and waterfalls — 
 There stuck on plaster pates, and hung oii strin ;:<•;, 
 You sec all sorts of curls, and hairy thini;-; — 
 Like Churchill's webs of more than commnii ^;,^._ 
 S[iread not f)r luiuimers but for bu/:zy ilicc. ; 
 Here the propriet >r in confab sits 
 With jtiirtiier laiu returned, who seems a wit : 
 
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 Wlio Ikis l)ccn out to enjoy the country uir, 
 And if not Avise, like Daniel, fresh and fair: 
 And, not to indulge in any heathen whim, 
 I'll give them christian names — say, Tom and Jim. 
 "Well Tom, I hope you've had a jolly time, 
 Though pleasure now is almost deemed a crime : 
 Time was one might awhile his business shirk — 
 Now competition leaves no choice but work . 
 The trouble is we can't want female help. 
 Nor lick a girl as though she were a whelp. 
 Goods arc not safe with them upon the shelves ; 
 They seem intent alone, to help themselves. 
 They w^ill not work unices they get their pay,— 
 And if you scold them — why, tliey'U run away ! 
 And flirt about the streets." 
 
 " Well let them flirt. 
 I know a trick will make them cheap as dirt," 
 Said Tom, — " for Nova Scotia girls we'll advertise ; 
 Let's have a choice of temper, shape, and size." 
 Jim thought a little — "I suppose wo might ; 
 J nit we want only three — would this be right ?" 
 " Of course it would be right !" his friend replies 
 " The life of business is to advertise." 
 
 Now let us leave Tom polishing his beard. 
 Nor brand a wretch whose conscience has been seared • 
 Nor tell him some stern truths he may not know : 
 But with them to the paper ofiice go. 
 They call, and wait,— the paper man appears 
 Absorbed in business over head and cars ; 
 At length he blandly asks them what they want 
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 Tom sayrf, "We deal in switches, and in curia — 
 We want live hundred Nova Scotia girls : 
 Print if you can iu th' issue of to-day 
 This advertisement, Sir, and here 's your pay." 
 
 We'll leave them now i' their cunning to exult. 
 And watch, and chronicle the sad result . 
 The net 's been spread a week, — but yet there 's none 
 Been caught as yet — When — Lo they come ! they come ! 
 They crowd the offices — They throng the streets — 
 A wandering girl in every lano you meet — 
 There stands a girl in every vacant nook, 
 There is a girl wherever you can look ! 
 We know not whence they come, or whither go, — 
 Know not their fate — and almost fear to know ; 
 Nor good, nor ill of them can we aver — 
 But hero 's our Magdalen — let us follow her ; 
 She walks with steady step, though beating heart — 
 The " Piece" is new ; but she can play her part . 
 A vail of sadness o'er her face is cast ; 
 In which you see grief overcome — not past. 
 Beside th' aforesaid hair-store sec her stand, 
 The employment Agent's paper iu her hand ; 
 A perfect woman-form with glorious eyes ! 
 For some rich libertine — Oh what a prize ! 
 While self-absorbed amidst the press, and noise. 
 She looks a moment at the hairy toys, 
 And sees those wonderous words emblazoned there ! 
 And reads — great sacrifice op human uaiu !! 
 Then steps into the store — with, head inclined 
 Before the counter stands, — and Tom behind, 
 
 
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 Turn lirst breaks silence, with obse(.|uious bow, 
 Says " Madura, please, can 1 do ou^Lt for y(jnV'" 
 
 "I seek employment Sir, I understand 
 That you have advertised for female hands. 
 Employment Agent C. gave me your name — 
 I saw your advertisement, and I came." 
 
 "We did, but bless you, wo have sent away 
 Some twenty girls that wanted work to-day ! 
 I'd like to hire but scarce know what to say." 
 
 A moment, j\[agdalen waits — she does not know 
 What next is best to do, or where to go, — 
 That moment Tom improves her form to scan. 
 In such a way as woman fancier can. 
 She looks —• How mean he feels in his disguiire I 
 As she turns on him her calm, thouglitful eye.s. 
 'Tis not a bunch of crinoline, and lace — 
 A pretty living thing, with painted face — 
 But one, who while she may entreat, commands, 
 A woman — not a lady ! by him stands. 
 
 Tom thinks he Tl hire, — but Avants it understood 
 He does n't need — but wants to do her good . 
 She turns to leave — Tom anxious to detain. 
 Begins to talk, to question and explain. 
 
 ''You've tried the employment Agents ? can't they find 
 A place for you that 's suited to your mindV" 
 
 "I've tried them," Magdalen said, "nor need repeat 
 Th' experiment to know they're all a cheat." 
 
 They seem to think us wandering girls their prcj-, 
 
 Flatter with hopes of work to get their pay. 
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 '•Girls \\'aiited at this office," they advertise, 
 And fabricate a web of wilful lies ; 
 Then like the villain spider watching there, 
 They catch th' incautious victim in their snare." 
 
 Quoth Tom "I know the times are hard just now, 
 And business decent pay will scarce allow ; 
 Ikit if you choose to try a month or two, 
 And if you like the trade, and we like you, 
 We'll give a chance, and raise your wages too: 
 And that 's about the best* that we can do ." 
 
 As Magdalen knows she can't well longer wait, 
 And has no means to make her terms with Fate, 
 " I'll take your offer, Sir," she says, "and soon 
 I shall bo here, most like to-morrow noon." 
 
 Now let us not eventg to come forecast, 
 But call again when some few months have past. 
 And see her sitting in her little room, 
 Where sloping sunbeams dissipate the gloom f 
 And on the table there, beneath her hand, 
 You see the artificial flowers expand ; 
 And locks, that once adorned some living brow, 
 Wreathed, by her fingers, seem e'en lovely now . 
 
 No r when the usual hours of work were o'er, 
 When Magdalen wrought with others at the store, 
 In her small roonl she often plied her trade, 
 And lived in loneliness, and wrought, and read: 
 A simple girl she was, unlike the rest 
 With whom she lived, and often made their jest : 
 In store or attic, where'er she might be 
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 A tiny musk plant by the window hung. 
 
 And living roses to the casement clung, 
 
 And wreaths of flowers which seemed by fairies brought ; 
 
 Or like Kilmcny's, from the land of thought — 
 
 Some books and things are ranged along the shelf, 
 
 liut the chief interest centres in herself. 
 
 Deprived of one from early childhood dear, 
 She seemed attached to every object near ; 
 Her wistful look seemed everywhere to rove. 
 As if in search of something she ir.ight lovo ; 
 'ilien with a glance that took one by surprise, 
 ^^'ould turn on you her great magnetic eyes, 
 With look that sympathetic grief could bring, 
 Though beauteous as yon showery cluud of hpring. 
 Which seems an airy castle drawing nigh 
 And just a little bluer than the sky ; 
 And tells of fresh g^een fields, and leafy bowers, 
 And songs of birds and pretty, fragrant flowers ; 
 liut yet yc kno'., mat latent liglitnings there, 
 J\Lay flash u;.ou you ere you are aware ! 
 
 Now Tom oft noticed 'mong his band of girls 
 This pretty manufacturess of curls : 
 \N'ho all unconsciously, from hour to hour, 
 O'er her employer gained a certain power; 
 For though a villain on the cheapest plan, 
 Tom, had some instincts which belong to man . — 
 If ]\lagdalcn met him in the corridor. 
 Or as might chance, in business at the store, 
 Anil seemed retiring, reticent, or sliy. 
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 With courteous smile and bow and Wand reply, 
 Aud feeling happy, — thought not, — cared not why . 
 At length in evening's gray, convenient gloom, 
 On some pretence he called at Magdalen's room ; 
 Learned, what ostensibly, he called to know, ' 
 
 But lingered still, nor seemed in haste to go ; 
 Aud talked like one who was not quite at ease, 
 /v nd only talked with an intent to please : 
 In earnest little said, but much in jest, 
 And talked like one who tried to talk his best : 
 And Magdalen watched Lim with attentive eye, 
 Seemed pleased to listen and In turn reply ; 
 Till words came from the lip j which reached the heart, 
 And both seemed pleased, and both seemed loath to part 
 At length Tom said "'Tis time that I should leave, 
 I've spent, but seldom, a more pleasant eve ; 
 But though I may not longer now remain. 
 If you'll permit me, I will call again." 
 "You shall be welcome,'' Magdalen said ; 
 
 '''Tis sweet, 
 With any friend thus socially to meet ; 
 For few have had much interest ia mo 
 Since Father perished in the stormy sea ; 
 I know few friends, and am by fewer known. 
 And 'tis by perference that I live alone; 
 But though much company I'd rather shun, 
 There is no reason I should be a nun." 
 
 Encouraged thus, Tom called, and called again ; 
 Would come at early eve, and long remain. 
 Till he forgot the ebbing tide of time, ~ 
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 Ami much the wise remember — " :.i '"<•' ot! 
 
 ¥oTS,oi the theatre — Forgot the ball — 
 
 Korgot Misa CroesuB, marble block, and all! 
 
 lorgot his fav'rite scheme of m.-^rrying wealth — 
 
 A nil loved the lonely girl despite himHclf . 
 
 Kill though an heir of wealth to beposRCHsed, 
 
 Insatiate avarice would not let him rest; 
 
 1 01* making money was to him aa food — 
 
 'I'ho root of evil— was aib greatest good ; 
 
 > -id in his thoughts of busincHd, or a wife, 
 
 'I'hia was the ruling paatiion of his life. 
 
 'i'o him those maxims thrifty men have priced 
 
 Seemed Wisdom's self condensed and crystallized, 
 
 Till all the doctrines worldly wisemen teach 
 
 f Were woven in the fal^ of his speech : 
 
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 What wise old kingt- or wise old printer saya 
 
 In ancient times, or in more modem days ; 
 And now he'd quote from Solomon, and now 
 Refer to Franklin's simile of the sow : 
 ^g — «'Wine" he'd say "may mirth and laughter bring, 
 liut money buyeth every pleasant thing." 
 "Yet do not buy your whistle, if too dear," 
 But mind, "A pin a day 's a groat a year." 
 He is a fool who at his lot repines — 
 "He 's wise who makes his haj when the sun sLinea." 
 ^ "I tell you, friends" he'd say, "life is a game; 
 And if we're losers, we've ourselves to blame: 
 To lose is easy ; but to win is hard — 
 Yes, life 's a game, and marriage the ti-ump card . 
 So mind your hand! don't cast a.^ick away I 
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 Trust not to worth for office or for place, 
 "J'iH not on worth men now bestow their t,raco; 
 Take my advice, get money if you can, 
 Then buy your way to office like a man 1" 
 
 liut now Tom's partner has returned from Home 
 To see how business has progressed at home ; 
 He'd been at places some folks call remote, 
 And set his boot on many a classic spot. — 
 Wan at the farm where Virgil used to stay, 
 And walked the celebrated "Appihn Way;'V. 
 Hiid been at iEtna — walked the cirtci" roond. 
 And heard a fearful grumbling under ground, 
 Like what was heard on that eventful day 
 When Butler passed the bill for the back pay^ — 
 Seeu where Diogenes dwelt in a tub, '^.^ ,»; 
 
 And now returns to business a(|^ the Hub . 7," 
 He'd been five months and somefWld 'Greeks away. 
 Which was, for him, a somewhat l»Ugthy,||tay - 
 Received a welcome to the temperance V&|5^ 
 Deemed, by his brethren a most worthy ma^,; 
 Who hated levity, detested rum, *"^' ' 
 
 Had treasure in this life and that to come — 
 Who ne'er in folly's path was known to stray. 
 But strutted stiffly up the narrow way . 
 
 As business now demands his primal care, 
 Ho seeks his office, finds his ledger there, 
 And o'er its pages runs his practiced sight. 
 Well pleased to find the balances 'all ilght :' 
 Well pleased the purchases, and salsd to scan, 
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 , To enjoy or to c:idiii'' ):'. \>oddcd life ; 
 
 For fslic lad money ^'oth to^ op, and lend, 
 
 .uiu was lui Ixiresfc .: i bis)* 'rtncr's friend. 
 
 -lim thou^Ixt if Tom'^ nl*- woo he'd wed at Icngtli, 
 Ai;d wisely judged, "lu uurm tboro is strength ;" 
 And so resolved his partner's moves to watch 
 And, if he could, fajililatc the n.utcli . 
 
 Now there was ono eniployed to oversee, 
 \\ ha'd interest in tlie lii.ra as well as he, 
 (A female foremaii, it each thing can be,) 
 \\ ho noticed L.vdy KOiiic disturbing force 
 Had drav?n our hero frcin his normal course: 
 Cubcing hi,j Lcroscopo c.^v with regret, — 
 Mcrcur}', and Vcnua in conjunction met — 
 Tiic aspect Hired not, iiid began to fear 
 'I'ora's aberralions fx^y^ his normal sphere 
 Alight, not iilre moaiitcinj only bare a mouse, 
 liut bring ^onie h'.^ :u;:;aster, on the house:— 
 As Tom v» a:, went to i^^.arties near and far, 
 /•o-,/ shone le'JS frcquout as an Evening Star, 
 Siie jujgel t-iis oc'iutation had a cause 
 WLicL mxi^'i depend upon attraction's laws. 
 And rightiy ^alculii : I — INFagdalcn was — 
 Aud Jii.:- i_.ormed, who scarce at first believed, 
 Lixd when conviiicGi at length, was vexed, was grieved, 
 And in the matter, .. carcely l:ucw to move : 
 I'ov both agreed it was a dangerous love — 
 
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 Agreed I'uiu liui.st be \ViiI;oiicd tVom this drcaiu, 
 Or else, good bye the Croesus m. iuge acliemc . 
 
 'I'lic ovcrsecress lirdt proposed a plan, 
 ( l''or woman's wit outruns the wit of man, 
 lli.s pond'rous engines oft he can't command 
 ]3ut her light arms arc always found on hand,) 
 Said she "This love of Tom's is scarce a crime, 
 And needs no cure like fever lit but tiw c: 
 'I'om 'h ])lcascd to see his power o'er female hearts, 
 And fee! the excitement passiou can impart ; 
 
 I'ut he 's too wise a lady's hand to miss 
 
 And lose an heiress for a waif like this: 
 
 Hut meantime dilhculties may arise, 
 
 Tom may perchance bo watched by jealous eyes 
 
 That easily penetrate love's thin disguise : — 
 
 So we must use our utmost caution here 
 
 i-cst wo precipitate the event \vc fear. — 
 
 I-ct's look a moment how these loves begin 
 
 l-'rom which proceed such deeds of shame and sin ; 
 
 A man and woman, in the car or street 
 
 ]\leet first by chance, and then of purpose meet. 
 
 Till passion has attained to welding heat : 
 
 Now if to separate them you rashly go — 
 
 You strike them — and they 're welded by the blow ; 
 
 But if you wait till either party 's cooled, 
 
 Or make the woman think that she 's befooled — 
 
 They will renuiin dissevered in your spite — 
 
 Though pressed together — they will not; unite. 
 
 Il'you discharge the girl Tom wont api>rove — 
 
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 \\ bile by the hands you'll secretly bo curst, 
 And the last end be worse than was the first, 
 I therefore counsel, — at an early day, 
 i'rom six to eight, you in the office stay, 
 iVnd freely talk with Tom and lead him on. 
 And I'll keep Magdalen, when the girls are gone. 
 To fitay in the next room on Korae pretence — 
 We may accomplish much at small expense . 
 She loves Tom for the attentiops he has paid. 
 P>ut only loves him in his masquerade: 
 Could we but cnrn her idol inside out 
 She'd hate the man "he thinks so much about." 
 
 The plan 's agreed on now, — the plot is Inid — 
 The time is fixed, and all arrangements made — 
 Actors and actress now are at their post — 
 The play to be performed, "Love's labour lost." 
 Each acts a part, not yet to him revealed — 
 Behind a screen tlie promptress sits concealed, 
 You see two men in a small office sit. 
 While in the adjacent room a woman knits . — 
 The men seem not aware a listener 's near 
 And freely talk as there was none to hear — 
 You hear Tom say, "I think you must confess 
 That I have made the business a success ." 
 
 "Tis true you have," says Jim, " but likewise true, 
 I hear some rather strange reports of you ; 
 'Tis said you often visit in disguise 
 One of our girls ! Tom this is most unwise ; 
 'Tis said, when night has spread a vail of gloum, 
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 Now this is worse than folly in the extreme, 
 'Tis madness to indulge in such a whim; 
 You must be prompted, or by love, or lust: 
 If love, how can you trifle with such trust ! 
 Even if you think that you have found a pearl, 
 You do not mean to wed this beggar girl I 
 If lust, 'tis worse, 'tis infinitely worse! 
 This is the curse of youth — of age the curse! 
 For which men lose both character and place. 
 And pay their money for their own disgritcc ; 
 And sink, and sink, and sink until they come 
 To seek enjoyment at the vilest slum." 
 
 Tom feels the truth of what his friend has snid, 
 And does not like, himself, the bed he's made ; 
 Would like the matter were no further pressed, 
 And tries to turn th' affair into a jest. 
 And says, "1 grant there's truth in your remark; 
 Although 1 think you paint it rather dark ; 
 I hit grant, I've called, and stayed as you aver. 
 To amuse myself; not that ^ cared for her; 
 iiut if I did, and 1 admit it all; 
 it was no worse and cheaper than a ball — 
 Morality as well miiy take its chance 
 With one — as many women in the dance." 
 
 His friend rcj>lies, "You treat it as a joke 
 lUit will MissCriv;sus of the marble block? 
 I'o-i'le^!. my fiii*;'. I. you may get in a scrape: — 
 Tlio-o slcii'Ier d:i'n. cis sometimes change their shape ! 
 l.v imi-.'smu.-. i.'ii, ; -iic iii.iy appeal to law; 
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 Now take advice and think on what I say ! 
 Or you may have to marry, run, or pay." 
 
 This struck with more effect than all beside 
 The key-note of Tom's avarice, and pride: 
 He turned defiant on his friend, and fate — 
 His love for Magdalen was transformed to ho.te: 
 
 With sternness almost scorn, his friend he eyed. 
 And in a bitter sarcasm replied. 
 " If so it happen, and there is a chance — 
 A man must pay the piper if he dance ; 
 I'm in a fix — I can't well run away — 
 That scarce will do, and curse me ! if I pay. 
 I have a thriving business, and some stock; 
 Of course 1 marry her and end the joke — 
 I'll wedlock try awhile — and at the worst 
 'Tis no great matter — I can get divorced." 
 
 Here Magdalen rose, and cast her work aside, 
 Nor such masked battery longer could abide; 
 I'rora love's endearing debt she felt exempt, 
 And all her passions merged in one — Contem])t: 
 She sees her idol stripped of his disguise 
 r>ecome a thing of loathing in her eyes . 
 
 Hut Oh how drear life's pleasant places seem 
 To one just waked from love's delightful dream : 
 Has one proved false in whom she put her trust I 
 \\'ill others be less cruel, or unjust ? 
 Why wish in such a world to live and move. 
 With no one loving her and none to love? 
 Oh for some place where grief might find retreat - 
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 Oft walk by uight and sell their love for pay . 
 
 How often pride the broken heart conceals, 
 And covers wounds it has no power to heal ! 
 'Tis not a robe of righteousness — but still, 
 It can important offices fulfil : 
 Thus wraps the traveller round him, as ho goes, 
 His mantle closer as the north-wind blows, 
 And feels the warmth its woolly folds supply, 
 And looks defiant on the scowling sky: 
 AVith feelings like the traveller's JVEagdalcn stood 
 In all the dignity of womanhood, 
 A simple, noble girl, — and nothing more, 
 And like Poe's raven tapping at the door. 
 She stands revealed to Tom's astonished sight — 
 A thing of mystery from the shore of Night ! 
 
 Tom views her with chagiin, almost with fear, 
 And don't know how the Devil ! she got here : 
 Yet still, no doubt, 'tis Magdalen that he sees ; 
 Though none but he, and Madam had the keys: 
 At length said Magdalen, 
 
 "Gentlemen I see, 
 This conversation was not meant for me. 
 You haply did not know that I was near ; 
 I listened not — but could not choose but hear. 
 And this is all your fond attentions prove? 
 And this is what a gentleman calls love ! 
 Who for a lady's hand would give a glove. — 
 Your labor now is lost — for though I found 
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 And never care to sec your face again ; 
 
 Fui'ewell dear dangler ! once again farewell ! 
 
 Go buy her hand, who has no heart to sell !" 
 
 "Farewell!" said Tom "but you may well be told 
 
 That, you were hired to "Work — not love, or scold." 
 So Slagdalen leaves, nor calls the following day, 
 
 But takes a wretched pittance for her pay. 
 
 And through the darkness seeks her little room 
 
 And finds a kind of gladness in its gloom . 
 Delusive Love ! in thee thy votaries find 
 The bane or the elixir of the mind, — 
 .loys fair as Sodom's apples to the sight 
 
 \Miich turn to smoke, and ashes when we bite . 
 
 'Tis sweet to love! 'Tis sweet to clasp the hand 
 Of one that loves us in a foreign land ; 
 At first there's nothing more— at length we kiss. 
 xYnd do forbidden things in search of bliss . 
 Thus, may a boat of pleasure seekers seem 
 '1 float with joy adown Niagara's stream : 
 
 Why should they fear down the smooth wave to float 
 
 Some vigorous strokes can soon reverse the boat: 
 
 At length the level line appears to bend, 
 
 The sparkling fluid plain — in nothing end. 
 
 While swift, though smooth, the rushing waters glide, 
 
 And stcepy rocks arise on either side. 
 
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 There 's no escaping and there 's no retreat, 
 
 With staring eyes, raised hands, and bated bi oath 
 
 They plunge into the fearful gulf of dcalli . 
 
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 Yc nymphs ! whose love some scliish churl inspires 
 To be the lady's-man ye all admire, 
 As plastic under love's transforming power 
 He's moulded by the occasion and the hour, 
 Take warning from the " Fable of the snake, " 
 jN'or such cold vermin to your bosoms take : 
 But I must tell you what that fable is ; 
 Though when I mention snake perhaps ye'll hiss . 
 
 A traveller once upon a wintery day 
 Espied a frozen serpent on his way, 
 Ly'ng like discarded whip, or rotten string, — 
 An ugly, long, detested, tangled thing: 
 And picked it up, and put it in his breast, 
 And warmed, and patted it, and all the rest . — 
 The sequel is, the beast a snake remains. 
 And stings its benefactor for his pains . 
 And so ye'll find the human serpent will 
 Remain unchanged, a crooked serpent still : 
 Though warmed on beating breast he's still the same 
 And all his wriggling properties retains, 
 Cold to the touch, and hideous to the sight — 
 Ijcware ! Beware ! the " cursed" thing will bite . 
 
 But to our story, ]\lagdalen now discharged 
 With means diminished but with mind enlarircd. 
 ]• or, though she stands upon starvations brink, 
 J-lnforced leisure gives her time to think. 
 She sees that, if a former mate she meet, 
 She 's scarcely recognized upon the street, 
 And v,iiat the master says, the himds must cbinie, 
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 \\ hilo some Iduk at her with insulting atiirc, 
 hiic hccks, })(>or girl ! employment everywhere, 
 And the stime (Questions everywhere receives, 
 Whore were you hist V autl wherefore did you leave? 
 I I(>r small reserve is wasted day by day, 
 hlmploymcnt agents cheat her for their i)ay, 
 Although she scarce believes a word thoy say : 
 As the dyspeptic knows that <{uacks will cheat, 
 Vet hvyti a peck of pills he cannot cat; 
 So. Magdalen knows the employment agents will, 
 Vet pays her money, and is cheated still . 
 A nd day by day that weary column reads. 
 Which "I'emale help" "the lioston Herald" heads; 
 
 Where those who want a partner or a wife ; 
 
 A "fancy woman " or a drudge for life, 
 In this, or in the "personals" advertise. 
 
 Of that veracious sheet, that's "not all lies" 
 
 Where private want to public view 's displayed, 
 And male, and female assignations made ; 
 And what one scarce durst whisper in the car 
 Proclaimed, as from a housetop, all may hear . 
 As Magdalen reads the various lists of wants 
 
 Of " help" from those "in panniers and in pants" 
 
 There 's one she r.oticcs, in which 'tis said, 
 
 "A Nova Scotia girl for chambermaid 
 
 Wanted at such a place, in such a street, 
 
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 A protcstaut, and one that will not lie, 
 
 But none without credentials need apply, " 
 
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 But there arc mauy things which ahc can do. 
 Can she not make a bed, or dust a shelf? 
 She thinks that she can recommend hei-gelf — 
 She sees a tall policeman in his beat, 
 And asks for that aristocratic street ; 
 \\ hose name resembles one, which brings to mind 
 " The wisest, greatest, meanest of mankind.—" 
 She finds the number, 10 x -f 4 — 
 A timid little maiden opes the door, — 
 Whose words arc half a whisper, half a sigh ; 
 As conscious of some dreadful presence nigh . 
 
 When Magdalen told her story to the maid 
 In tones of wondrous sweetness Effic said, 
 "I'm sorry ma'am the Mistress has gone out 
 But she'll return at five or thereabout 
 You see yourself you'll not have long to wait," 
 And kindly pointed Magdalen to a seat ; 
 Who sees upon a massive table, spread 
 A literary feast for heart, and head ; 
 Sees poet and historian side by side. 
 And sage Philosopher, the wanderer's guide 
 And book of sacred song, and books of prayer. 
 And in the midst the Book of life is there, 
 With scroll of precious promises unfurled. 
 Whose leaves arc for the healing of the world. — 
 
 While Magdalen sits, she takes a close survey 
 Of the grand mansion, and its rich array — 
 But see, she comes, 'the lady of that ilk' — 
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 On Magdalen casts a cold tiuspicious look ; 
 Which when interpreted, just means " I can't,—" 
 
 Says, •' You're on business ma'am ; what do you want? 
 
 "i saw by advertisement," Magdalen says 
 ♦' A chambermaid was wanted at this place." 
 
 The la^y looked again as if afraid 
 Magdalen m'ght be a chamberer — not a maid — 
 Then says with look that scarcely could be borne, 
 ( A look of cruel concentrated scorn, ) 
 " Who recommends you?" Magdalen answers '•none." 
 " You see the advertisement there '? — Begone !" 
 
 Magdalen without reply 
 Bows to the little girl, and passes by : 
 
 ricased, though misfortune's tempests round her lower, 
 To think she 's not in this she-devil's power. 
 But see her now, her stock of money spent. 
 With nought to live on, or to pay her rent. 
 Misfortune's own adopted daughter roam 
 'I hrough the great city with its myriad homes; 
 Where steeples towering o'er the dwellings ri.sc 
 To point the homeless wanderer to the skies — 
 But days of hospitality are o'er 
 And few to the poor wand'rer ope the door, — 
 Folks drive them from their gates — and so they 
 Can entertain an angel unaware — 
 For fear that wanderer might be drab or soiimp. 
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 Jlcavcu gave one tulant, aud its uae dv/inansdH 
 The power to earn her bicad with her own hiuuia . 
 O for some plaoe that's not already girlo<l , 
 Or Hobde.s.H hole to crawl out of the world : 
 For now ahe must her quiet room resign , 
 And cheaper lodging in an attic find ; 
 lint Oh the Muorificc ! at what a cost 
 To m9>utatve miuda iu qaict lost ? 
 
 In near proximity to where men quaff 
 Their liquid mcrth, she hvoA>i th' explosive htugh 
 Of foolish men made lunatics from choice 
 And th' big billy'tJ loud unmeaning voice 
 
 As one impatiant of corroding grief 
 Walks round, round his room to find relief; 
 So Magdalene mingles with the hurrying crowd 
 Some silent, walking on- some talking loud; 
 Hut feels that sorrow 's here, aud kouows 'ta there 
 Vca ev'u in the gay crowdl 'tis every wohro. 
 
 She hear the female outcast's frantic mirth- 
 The laugk that owes to broken heart it birth. 
 Sh« sees tbio man of money iu the throng 
 Conscious ef his importance walk along 
 Nor e'er reflects- he in his pocket bears 
 Those legal racks that wring from women tears. 
 And wriug from hardeBd'^>and3 the toil years. 
 
 One ev'ning Magdalene weary, finds a seat 
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 Atu] Magdalen feels as lonely , with a f\^h 
 SliC scfs the well dressed liidy'ri-uaii Pass by 
 Wiih ballroom mien, an 1 f.i-br>(j.i!)'e stride 
 He jdattlen to the la iy by bin hide; 
 Ihc .\ir rt'clR close- no leaf o'crli^ad is stirreri- 
 A si ckn«'.i.h of tbc liCait by h(*pc defoirtd 
 CVec|i8 or hor- or 'twas wc.Jryneeei | crchuiitc— 
 S ' it.stfer — in a ^-yrux^pe, dream or tiaii »• 
 T^M* 'i'ht biin>ii dim. the wky in orcrcnst, 
 \n^ [j/ouodtii 1^0:11 the prf •<'^Mt vvicii the pi'^t: 
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 In liiAoly light, and droadt'ull «badc apnear 
 /*uuiiuiny/iM/3^. ana mho Keerud *-o h^.ir and, e«« 
 1 i.c ru«hiTtg tcmpeiit. and the rolling soa 
 ili Ut elouds of foam along the rocky cuawt. 
 And 8omc one iioera« to say - Your father 'm lost, 
 1'hen comes a voice that tteems to break the upell. 
 And kindly whjspers— Lady yon're not well, 
 Korgive me Lady if T. am to blame ! 
 
 I flaw you falling from your seat and oame; 
 Put you are better now, as I epiac 
 But I had better fetch a glass wine. 
 8o Krro went, in haste and soon returned 
 Anl pleased to think his kindness was not spumed 
 He qui'tly took his scat at Magdalen's nide 
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 And Ma^daline thanked hira : felt hewM«enere' 
 That afTetaion wa4P not nerded here ; 
 At in the light her new-found friend she leeit 
 She vaye I'll rest awhiU — Then if yon pleane. 
 
 Awhile they fit, and confidently talk 
 Then leaning on hti arm tkcy homeward wulk 
 > ti^Tunge iUHgiieiiism ^re can' t explain 
 Made bj h diidr t meet ix» friendi again. 
 I'lum one kind act thin frioudifihip was begun. 
 Or clbe a common Horrow made them one: 
 Fur liufieriug like enjoyment men unite, 
 'Ihe Noldier loves hiv eomri^de!i of the fight. 
 The »aiIor hi* coppaniou of th* wreck. 
 And need no pledge each other to proteol. 
 
 ThuH fare our wandcri on — Till Magdaline aaid. 
 Tid Here — Alas! 'twae the poor deu in whiuh she eayed. 
 A place where peneeutcd trampi retreat, 
 V^ here thoee may lodge who ea'nt afford to eat 
 A place the homeleie Kretch awhile may stay, 
 A place where hunted dears may etand at bay. 
 Where wretched outcavte draw malarioue breath. 
 The half-way-houNe to prison, and to death • 
 
 \» Krro looks around and by degrees 
 The wretched place and its surroundings sees. 
 Awhile like on< in dreamy trance he stands , 
 I hen olaNpnig in h\N own both Magdaline's hands. 
 He tiboke like one just waking from a ^pell-— ' 
 AUs poor girl ! And is it here jou dwell? ' 
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 No longer time iu uet(lK>'' talk wa^ spent, 
 A time was fixed to meet, .nd, Erro werut. 
 #ith Errw kere we have tot rauc\ to de: 
 But »«p«e 'tie said — Gire eron the T^tril W4 due ; 
 hxtA »^«aV a» kindlj of him an we e^ti 
 He wa» a itraufr eroettric, worth!e«« man, 
 
 Ae fianitvriug with leig hair, and awkward fait; 
 k «kin«: tkat deevnt folke decpiKe. aad hate: 
 jet ho«Klli)( •f cl>eii fio^ru ke kumx a eon^, 
 And childe-Mi Ko^^k kia ai ke walki aleag . 
 Ofi> TPlght toa se^ kirn oa a windj daj 
 Stroll tkrougk the wood, and chant Rome poet's laj^ 
 Qr ia a tkongbtleue dreamy rererie 
 Qaae on rieing Sub, or rolling sea 
 Or walkiog by some brook the flagi among 
 fw\ out the drowniug flieri »hat float along, 
 Or fttnndin,; Like a fool a striken hour 
 Leokin^ with woader at a npottod flower. 
 
 Irraeibilc, though kiud to men and nxioe, 
 R«» lovo wax both hit virtue, and hii yioe: 
 Though oft admenished, wou^d itaj reprered — 
 But men, and do^s, and,eTen bitcka lored. 
 
 He spent his aimlcK^e life aui tale or soDg 
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 But <»he<c poor friendi ver« nol io virtue lo«t, 
 Their lov3 wai but l'U(.<;nic at tb« soo^it: 
 AqH II ye vraiit to havd a friendly walk, 
 Aud with »ome ilary. or aouio llfgdalin« l»lk, • 
 TL« hour •( DoltiDn mooui-light ia th^ b««t: 
 For liuna a^Mrayt rati reputed ehaat*. 
 And If 7« ok&nced to tbiuk while walking there 
 Tour friead. anJ jou ju«t m«ke a huiatn pair, 
 And think p^rchauce ye read aa in & book, 
 A fomething more than kindaeaa in her look; 
 
 If ye be treubleed, and would find a oare, 
 foa thongkta erotie, lawlis, or impure 
 Think if ye of^n apon the Day of Du^ni 
 Or gaze ten mioutca at tke pal? faced Ll'oon . 
 
 But to our story, tialutaicu passed. 
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 Bnt tome are wor^e and nh^ fehoul { I conjp';.ia? 
 The Power, Said Erro, That provide* for all, 
 Without Whose notice uoi a 8p- riow fallH, 
 Who feeda the little birds wlcu trees are b:-.re, 
 Directs the wandering wildgccse through air. 
 A nd teaches theu to southcro climes to fly 
 Whca tempOMts ihioken in the northern sky: 
 Who hears the raven's hoarse impaimt cry; 
 
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 But for myself when ha%e nouxht to do 
 Or nothing, but what othert* choose to give. 
 It seems almost a w^aryneri to lire. 
 
 Thi« is Said Erro, doubtless life's worut curse: 
 At leant I think so: for I know no worue - 
 We trample down each other for employ: 
 And milUioDS toil that thousands may eruoy 
 
 Who with the sp«jil kent back from ti»ilin^ han in 
 Buy God's free gifts the water, and the land. 
 Till there's no place on whieh to act or stin 1: 
 Then bire some lawirr to pfTvcrt a eau^o, 
 Or lajr.eslsfcr to enact bad laws, 
 Or paper kite to piik out p«»or men'H ryoa 
 And circuTate by th'-iusands their ehcan lies 
 Till wages fall, and slocks, and s\vln;^'e^ ris«, 
 And trade, and commerce feel the w'the-in r "nell. 
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 Then Fortune' ji niioionH watch the sihMjjicious hour. 
 And buy their way to OITicc iml. to power, 
 Aj)d those they i^piirn, t»ave rtn KJeotion Jay 
 !\uu at the,- hc«^U, mnl Bhuiit Ifnrr.i! iinriii! 
 Or luarch with flaring torohos to the tuno 
 Of Vjtnkcf i.>oo.llc, or the tjilrcr !«p'>on : 
 Till each mean minion that would sVin a Ioum 
 (jetb to tlut ] ile ( f ruMihh .chilcd tic Mouye 
 
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 IV'ome the IV p*- .%nd pillar* fifths; .St»te, 
 AnH thoMe wh" to be hated muMt he knomi 
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 .1 u-i\^i>ii fr>f f'ppMng Htrueture swings arwy — 
 And HO! Oot <^ut from under — in the cry. 
 When — cni'iibling bi'ttrew, pillar, post, and, wall 
 From very rotten-nens the fabric falls 
 And men at legnth percicve that all wai wron^ 
 
 And wonder How ! the D d thing stood §0 loag. 
 
 But I forget I to a Lady tpeak- 
 Though, women now art often politio. 
 Why should thay not? 8 -id MaSdalin. why Endurt? 
 The thrall of Laws we may not help to cure? 
 
 I've one objection. Erro said, that's all 
 I don't believe in human laws at all: 
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 All have an etjual riglit to draw a prize 
 I5ut aufirago viewed in reason's searching light 
 Ih thin and nothing m) re- that might ia right . 
 
 Kufc Pope says whatsoever is, is best, 
 If so then might is right as well 's the rest, 
 And those of little, principle or none 
 Who have net moral strength to stand slouc 
 Fur fear a pcreccution might betide 
 I A almost always fouhd on the strong Side; 
 " Jiut let 's leave luw and lawbooks on the shiver. 
 And strive to be a law unto ousselvos* 
 liase legal furmalism soar above, 
 And each true knight ptoteot his Ladv-lovo. 
 
 Jiac do'nt you think they are protected best 
 Whose rights aa with a rampart, law invests? 
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 1 do said Erro. If by law yci mean 
 what is, or ought to bo law's syuonym- 
 Th' eternal principles that reign above 
 The principles'of Justice, Truth, and Love- 
 That reign Supreme where human foot ne'er trodc: 
 Coeval with- Unchangeable as God. 
 
 Oh Justice I arbitress of truth* and right, 
 Thy laws are legeiblo in their own light; 
 
 Like axioms, obvious to the oanded mind. 
 
 And yet fools slander thee, andvoall thee blind — 
 
 They call thee blind because themselves ne'^^r saw- 
 
 Mistko thee for thy bastard sister I^aw 
 
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 LcM beantiftil thau Love: but mnr^ fublinv* — 
 Thou itrike'it with feAr the pn^pcriuuti viliiMi dumb. 
 And whiapen in his ear of woeii c«» uume: *.V; 
 
 Wheu Mer<7'M plea th' OpprcMur c»nnnt f(M»l -^ 
 
 Tkou make'iit U Henven'M hij|{h Court thy Ust appeaj, 
 Till oTeroome with fear he will not own ^ . 
 
 The Sceptered Ty:ant trembltit on hiv throne. 
 
 I don'ut know* Magiiiilen i«aid i 4uitA Agree , ^. 
 Though law 'm but a bleak bield fur w lifH like me. ' 
 Gathering the rich and pruMperout* in itH fold 
 It IcavaM uH waiiiivring t>ht.ep out in tho c<»id 
 A prey to humun woivei. aud when we ruuA 
 Afford uf nothing but a priitun h»iu^ j. 
 Exacts decorum of ui, audexpaoi^ 
 A vitue in um that it don't protect: 
 l^ut though the lawtf awards rnny be uucten* 
 is uot the law an ordinance of lieATcn? 
 
 Said £rro J. aw that uewcth every day 
 Which sevile mortals are compelled to oW^ 
 Which legislators, make, and courts enforet 
 Are often ehanged alas ! from bad to w.»rs«: 
 But Bighteouxness the law thaCs oaer all 
 Remains unchanged even though the heiTtns should fall 
 
 You speak of law's misstakes, and not its end: 
 We should not say apelish: But Cry: msnd 
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 Said Krr o On Monehi^ih Elecion day, 
 
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 Who tjbitik tiot.Bor iutellcgeatly swear 
 But fizzing with the froth of Iftgcr-hocr 
 A few Drofane. Male Oaths rtptat by roto, 
 Th»n for soofto caudiJat* hurr.ihl ati'l vot<i 
 And to him who get* aio8t votoj by hook, or claw 
 I'hcy delegate the rigk %<> mulce ilie law« 
 
 2!«ow »Rk two thirds of all that crowd you Vew 
 On A kit pretence thoy tbu» make iavrs for you? 
 Tbvy Boc'w irmulto I — Wonder why you "AX" 
 Thov kie u«'t ^To'uen. and kftve paid their tax. 
 
 Nmw wi.l V. u !:()ii.;ciea«.e. and .Heaven's law resgn? 
 And sav the l»w ihif rabblo Makes h9 mine 
 Buw lotiio inauv.htiiidoi uiutiHter's nod, 
 ^ud ciul liiat idiot yell tbe- ••Voice of God"? 
 In union, and in number thete it mijj^ht — 
 
 1 grant:; but doth it follow therefore; It is right? 
 A pack of wolvea have a coUecive will: 
 
 Thf-tr one united purpoit ii to hifl, 
 
 With martyr courage iu H)me bloody cause 
 
 They ''Howl let's have \ piece'' — With lupine jawa. 
 Itnt it ili rudnesa thus to talk to you: 
 
 So Kur'!W»ll — Politics: and Laws Adiou— 
 
 Kxoo;»i thosH liwri, all utbei' laws ab»vo, 
 
 Tin; i/iw of .lubticc, and the Law of Love. 
 
 Y<»ar words uro bitter, Magdaleu said, Yet kind 
 You oitcn bung my Father to my mind; 
 make an; your confident— Don*^ you conceal 
 8«*mi» grief a woman.s sympathy might heal, 
 The confidence oof love grief often cures: 
 1 told my story to you— Tell mc yours. 
 
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 I),'.r M I ^l;llino y ):i WO .ill hear my .storj ? — w«ll 
 Tujfo i:i not much of it I care, to toll! 
 i'uvo loved i>cicluinoa- I have been loved asjiiiii — 
 I've htiivon ibr C'>ui|)Ctonco uud strcvcu in vaiii, 
 Till all the fieshnedd of my life in lost 
 111 time's dicur' gulf thut cauuot bo reor ssed . 
 I've bceu my bard earned yavings melt away, 
 'i he toil of years bcooiac a viliian'w \nvy — 
 Seen lawyers bribed to give a ca8*e away 
 And thus betray their trust, and even more 
 Seen perjured witness stand, who swore aud, swoie ' 
 'iill wrong appeared &* right, and what was woiMt; 
 1 3, Yore uiyiclf: nor only a wore: but ourdt 
 The court — the pettyfojrging crew I saw , 
 And all the d — d machinery of law. 
 
 Yet once the world bad an erchantiBg view, 
 When 1 waa young, and every thing seemed now. 
 Ihe Earth seemed like a happy play-ground given 
 And very near, and all around was Heaven. 
 'Twaa Joy to see the beauty of a flower 
 Or dreadfull glory of tho tempest's lower 
 To wateh the clouds sail past the sun al noon* 
 Or spotted night-hawcks flit beneath the moon; 
 
 'Twas joy to sit lihe leafy trees among. 
 
 And read a page of Burns' or Thoupijii's arx^: 
 
 But when I ate of the forbid den tree 
 Of knowledge, and, could good and evil sec 
 It brought mo sorrow: but in reoompence, 
 l^erhaps it brought mo pleasure more intense, 
 'Ihus between right, and left, and right and wron^^ 
 I run: and solace sorrow with a song. 
 
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 i hcu like myself. Said MagJline. you scarce know 
 "\^ \i<k\. uext 'tis best to du , or Mlicre to go — 
 
 Quoth £rro id sad : but eveu bo— 
 'Twas ByroD said, if right* I call to ibiid 
 A fellow feeling makes us vronderous kind. 
 And thittLcu|:h t-aid in EaicsMii, ib titi. 
 So you must pardon me if I love you* 
 Atid if Miss Fourtune hedge us round with th rnj, 
 J.et,8 calmly wait th ' event nor fret nor monrn— . 
 Watch the developements of time, ao^ ehauce 
 Till life will have the intcrcot of romance ; 
 
 No matter— fail or prosper as we may 
 Lot's act as well 'b we can life'a changeful! play; 
 If the world hate us — love cau raike uuieul.s, 
 We both arc outcasts, may we not be fricmlr/ 
 
 we arc friends Maj[duUnc haid and, I would claim 
 If I kuew »uy a dtilj dearer name 
 
 1 thank you Erro said I've often proved 
 How very street it U to feci one 's I »ve I ; 
 >io marvel for I long have learnotl to prize 
 wore than the day the light of loving eyes . 
 
 Folks now do little else* but fret, an 1 3i;»h. 
 i\n\} hope, and wish that better times were nigh : 
 Tif4 time that woikeri ehould fostjoss the land; 
 With prunmng hooks, and ploughshare in their hands* 
 White some philanthropist bhould tn^c command 
 \Tid build for homcTcds heads a shcltoiiug bio, Id 
 A:ii loil \ h)it )f wji-kors to the field, 
 
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 L'litili mcu ahuut the harvet bomc ! aud gain 
 .V" iiu'wUivi's itiuui^'U o'vi' the w:ivy gram: 
 liii ihivAli^ v»f i..bor <ihall bu {*iizv<i , 
 Aua LX'ij.c a glorious Uraaiu i»c roili'^oil. 
 
 J hua mcu su.kll mcc ti^v truth.'^ H;^r:iii;iii.< tciuH, 
 /\u<i st«ii loi lijiacs bc^oji'i «>|»rcf*s»oii*8 rcxch — 
 'iiitu ll.ll;l•t^, ki.(i iv^& BK'iiliu fth.- II Ktaiid, 
 Ai.«i :.ii, l-\tii wt, mJ^Li i.uvc a |tlot of lauil 
 
 o y wouid y.»u chw.-'c -.uih au ■luuua jmxx uicc, 
 To St I _)i)ur e!i;i\:i.o at »o.uu ingaru tt luicc. 
 
 Uiiu yourowu bunas 'iwcic d»voct l> tili ;ho gruuiii 
 \\ ith j LiitH ff'i food uiid l.cnuty groiiig rnuiiti ; 
 While luvtl}' flnMi iH »fr Sdl tva*: iu the .*<kv, 
 Might spread their uewj l*oul» out to di j 
 While apuled uch , auu ii'.«, aud almost done ; 
 Hiiug cooking iu the j^lowiiijr autam Sua , 
 Aud vincj y .tur ittle «\itiMgi' m^uiliii" u or 
 wuuld hang their i-uri-Ic ciuater*« round your door: 
 
 Nor fc-ir if vimi ienuu mm aproaoh youroaiuM; 
 He 'h no poliiemuit but au houcdt tramp. 
 Who if he take the fiuit a wuudcicr nc«do, 
 r..y leave a jriic ett bbwirg iIiit'^ t^Uvil 
 There childctn hport . and men. aud women there, 
 live pure, and happy: liigjc or ii:puir«; 
 And Men from war, and other murdera ceaco 
 Nor own alUgiance save f th' riuyc OF I'KACE 
 Who hath those happy homes fhi« people given. 
 Ai.d promised litter, even than tljouc, in Heav'n 
 
 Oh Krro — Magdaline aaid ; Jf wuch a sehtmc 
 Could e'er be ought but a Utophian dream; 
 Ib.w many aching aoarttj aud, idle handn 
 Would find in thia* apportionment of Ian 1 
 A town of refuge from the hand of power 
 viheic pride eould not ineult nor groel do/jir. 
 
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 I'-r most w»nM r.-iHrr tliinl'-f. ni il si.ii vc .miki >iiik 
 
 lu'lt'W (lie (li;.',tii<v of iiirn. iii;iii tliink 
 
 i,>uotli llr.'io, W (MUCH inuvc tis .-is tlirv will 
 
 'rii(\v Ii;ivo(lu' power, (liry only w.int ihv .skill 
 
 To turn to virtue or In vi.e the mind: 
 
 For ";us tho twig in l»cut (he ticc 'h imlinrd". 
 
 "I'Ih nur H:ii<l M.'igd.ileno — Woirt»>n Will unite. 
 And indcviduiil iniluenec is ji uitte; 
 \N e move by Hyin]):itliett«5 lovo alorio 
 AggroHHivo aetion inuMt he all your own, 
 
 Quoth Krro— Wliiit cxecodM tlio power of jov-o; 
 "i'is by attraetioti every body moves. 
 
 Dear Erro I We're but wouUh produein;^ tooln, 
 (^rt but the <lupe8 of iiavcn, and toy.n of fooln; 
 Yuu court, and flatter u^ l)ut altei- all 
 The influcuoc of poor girl.s is Only hiu ill . 
 ^^ c women float like bubbleH down a Mtrcuin, 
 ^^0 Jauoo along, and very pretty seoiu 
 Absorbed in marriage Home — b^ y and houI 
 IJceome a Tart, and, parcel of tlie whole, 
 And Bomo float gaily on until they're broke 
 In foamy fiagnieutd on some Hianperous rook , 
 And some boiuo more fortuuabo; thougli li ^ht as air 
 rioat on and, on antl on 1 know not where: 
 Though men may flatter uh with mnay a lie, 
 Ti^ for the woiUhy UJy most men sigh: 
 Fow for Love's yako will o*sto or money loss , 
 Or the groit gulf ' twixt rich au i poor will cross. 
 
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 Tor IM it n«»t Iovc'h p<»w<'r tluil «nov««h Al'.' 
 'I'iH l.tvc that givcH UN l»ciu^. I ov« tliit gui"l«s, 
 l,(»v»' in the Vowvv that over all |m;Hi»i'«.-.; 
 Tor w»Mi»ai''N h>v«» how oft the !nith<»r wiitcH 
 'I hf st'holar Huulirs, and the m)Uli«'r tlghtM. 
 I or love the nicnhant homu hiw treaHuie hringH, , 
 and Oh how oft for U)vcl the poet niugH — j ^ ^ 
 |,o,>kH at hiH nii»tro«H n« at iomt fair Htar 
 Ilcr cycH to him' hcimii like Hcivenn gale ajar, 
 /ill week the approving Hrailo of woman'a oyo« 
 Kor wonian'H lovo \h still tho highcHt prize. 
 
 Some mount tho itump and spout while othorn giiHh. 
 And Homo get Mowrds. and into hatlle rush 
 Jlewlvod to murder, or ho murderod there, ' 
 
 None hut the bravo, they say, doHerve the Tiir 
 The lady,8-raau assumcn a killug air — - 
 waxes his maitaidio, And pcrfuuKv^ hii hair 
 In hm small way will please you. if lie (vmi— 
 lU anythif you pleawe — Kzcepi » Man . 
 But would improve, if you sikU liickf« Jildn.ncd, ^., 
 And, minuN drugs' his m.'iihond lu; restored. ,^ 
 
 'Tis woman makea the man. tn wdniaii munr. 
 She frhrinkM from viuU'iioe' yet prompH to u.um; 
 kisses the lip.** tli.%t is.suc wnr'n ('nmuuandN. 
 And fondly oUsps tho warior 's blood-.Si.unf,! JiaiKl-- . 
 Forgets his tratle in doaliux Death und I'aiu. 
 And welcomes liim wh<> hath hit (liousimds .siaiu. 
 
 The Soldio^ M:i.;da'eu, Kijd, i> wnm m \t ;' uifd. 
 What wonder if her love he his rowanl- 
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 Tk* b«l«kwg firt ftnd .ptioted tlctlt to fM« 
 ▲•4. 4m ft mtnyr for tkt kumaa rae«; 
 
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 ll»Mlkftr« bMB is d»ja of loig Af«? 
 W^M ia«tt for 1«T«. ••)« ptj, ••?• wool U fig ki 
 Att« •▼•r^ Ud; kftfl k«r ic*mrJiftD knigkt 
 IV hu brnAtlj fougkl Ur rik'kt agftiMt th« wroBf» ' 
 ▲I loMi *y M> i ■•* in r «m:ie« arii S«uif — — . 
 But wkfti ktvt MUiort aow Im Uo wiih rijtht? 
 
 i4 iialckeri kill fur pay: tkt Solditr Hgltti 
 A hftTtd br»Tt pt«d|rc<{ by oath tn kill , 
 And k»rf ao toiiieieaee but bi* Oapt<iin'< will: 
 
 Or m* re au>-<^niat«<n tn m%ro nr Htan<) 
 With he Ian* ar^rnrnent. tf kin$r« in h'u haud. 
 Or bow in Nerviie rtvereneo at at a nod 
 In konor of >iome ere it f impo^der fod. 
 
 Said Mtgdalei — Erro Thit is Molt uajtt 
 'Tit !■ the Dtldior that tke defeaelttn tnitt. 
 
 I «t«ld Btt Irro taid, blii;kt tke rentw* 
 Cr dim tht lutttr of tke Patriot't crotrn. '^•' 
 
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 Airfrtttive laatt proeeed dtfenirt war, 
 Aadifmea ftgkt, and tomt art tla^, ve tee 
 Tkat to»e. or all of them Mutt aardcrert be* 
 for BO obedieaoo to a Captaia'a will 
 Ca« eaatel that dread law "Tkou ukalt uot kill" 
 
 wkta aomt atrocioat deed of blood in dont» 
 Qr bj a bind of ruffia at, or bj ont. 
 And mto tudi^aot, witk luipeied breath 
 Tkiakofthe awfal a«t. and ciuttei- Dvuh'. 
 
 
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 'I'o ilo tl<c luug-m.tii'it liiaoUful wuik fur pay , 
 All xxcurato, cm rvptila 01' tho mud 
 And turo »l>horeut frgm the oian of blood. 
 
 >uw whj ithould there Le such a difference made 
 llctwizt the itoldier's . »nd tho ttangmau's trade? 
 
 1 it« haugmao kllli th« wretch ooudemcd fur crime, 
 
 And uuly kilts one rietut.i at a time; 
 
 Hut soldicffl iudeeoimatlj Mlay , . . '. 
 
 And huTO no Plea put tlus-r- we nxuat obejj 
 
 'iht>ii|b coDttceucf have teca sold or. given awajr 
 
 Whou ttome ambitioun geaeral , or fur npit^ 
 (K jtami. or faahiuD, or for pluDdur fight. 
 Or Some refructory uily cikuaot see ' 
 '1 hey uwe alle^aiuoo to wMne I'owota th.it bo : 
 Nor J'^ ulNiiitiitioe : to a bloui ixiud A'^Sl^. , 
 liui oa<»t coiitompt upen tlic filUyr.t^jf .,^ , , 
 
 U in the Soldier's duty 4hfii io f>gh^ ., , 
 
 Nor a*k himself I* thi^wijr w^f^iiji^j.,);!: right ? 
 
 I u y on bt4ca3iiored qity look ! :aHi| Se« t— 
 ihe t'-ndcr im.'ri«y'»>f tfea**!? P(»w«!yj^J'fthrtr;<)e^-i. 
 Tho (ioiieral Spdiks-uSt* vaafi^jninusfiUh^ty,* 
 And lict hiK dHAihtiir eitgirieli in airr;i3'V '. " 
 Aud trendies dig! and htwUle T *t(cric!<. form : 
 'Iheu Ojio on fatod tiomicti the heman Stor^: 
 As dcjjolatiug 8« ih** fiery rain. 
 That foil upon th» oite* of the plain— 
 Tlic In. JVC may figh*: hnl only fight; to die. 
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 N\ hiMC fliimos roinploMt rln- uirrji f(»iiiaii«lrr'!< |"l;»ii. 
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 Y( t oxotv wlnic lli«i <!riMr«Ihlii|» iiioii fitc. 
 <\ii<i ^ivc liiiii wiiii* to tlrink. ami broad to cut; 
 AiiH svrojihiintio kinlH in UMUft lays. 
 Aii.l hulicji «in;; tlit- ^;luriou8 iiumlercr'u praisc; 
 
 Till even little iii.kitikiii.i .-v^^piru 
 To l)C the hero eh;tt :ili iiicii adiiiiic, 
 AihI walk with niernnnd Step, and think it fun 
 'Jo strut with wooden iiword. and nniuio gun: 
 While the delighted mother erys — 1 o'»k hcrel 
 j.^M.k — Look I at licuryic— Set the little dearll 
 
 1 know Suid .Mng<lalcue. much you way Im true, 
 And hoiriblc — hut what eun women do? 
 
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 Our evening ramble with such thoughts; they Jar — 
 IJut all is fair, 'tis waid, in love and war 
 
 Said Magdalene this is scarce a proper pica, 
 You HTC not at war, arc you in love with me? 
 
 X may too soon, Dear Magdclene if wc walk 
 Together; but this scarce is wooci's talk. 
 Jiut Time hath not forgot his wonted flight: 
 lor I pcrcicve'tis nine Clock at night. 
 
 Ss'iuc did you Say? Indeed is it ho late? 
 1 did not think that it was after eight: 
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 lint ostf ! c«'«'iuiK ul)H'rl/«d ilut)l''l»y «tffiiCH. 
 
 l.Vr};t.tH lb*' t'tiyht" of time iu- llm^ht^ H«i«» ■li".-!*. "^^ 
 
 Af:i\ i'l KHvH (itCf^ioM purlt^pii I'm in thei4 4tk. 
 
 K. ;i ■-ii^c. ;iad utavt'liujjoft !«)«'n»c<1 ymtr reiaurkfl. 
 
 tl a Kif ■> —KvtD if yon 're iji, tha^ n;i\l^ 
 
 \ . ii liwl u^!dntf 'gaiU^nt dtivh 0(J1i( tO fight? " * 
 
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 'Ibuu run full lilt ttf:atuht efltablitikt^i nule. 
 
 I)e;»r Magdalen— 'ti8 not long 8i»«« fiift ue lUCC 
 Tec Utiiik TOft V«e oMild piirt witbout itwrot 
 
 Jor lonjs to m<y)t iih wit'.t\« nf H met. b*tfvr»? . <»'' *' 
 Kvtrn if ve wer« hvt tneuJH. &Ukl itotbtng at r6. 
 
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 I'm loAtk to 0ay Ihat SHxetr-HtiMi vord f:ticivc!l— 
 
 how what Say '^ ye'? Shall we uf fjifrtl^ »ti;tr.iij : 
 Or Shall we part ; andrnvcr me«t ugitiu .,#«,> j^fr^ 
 KrieodBhip. like oars; 1 knttw the world t|[norcti, -t^- • 
 And LoTiB, MUX Uoenio, dooenttfuhit abhor. . , v« 
 'i hougk joind by Hevven's own Law 'tin iwi the,tMng— 
 Tho union '« iooompleat; it w ante the ring. 
 
 
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 Aod men take little note of tuch as we« 
 
 ^' liat onr relations are, or how we fftfe, ^ 
 Or if we. 8iuk, or iwim— they little ears 
 
 is for raynelf who work from day. to day, 
 ^O'i mtich irkindnefls get. though little pay ^ 
 
 I u like » r^.fdial to the soul to see 
 ThtJt'i i>ii« iii ail the worM who' eait» for me. 
 
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 And Iruow there 'h some ouc Iovok< me .standing near. 
 But you Fcrhapi Much f'liJness rit«c ahow: 
 , for Kthiri^ it it Mid '• tji« r«»«t Iwc. 
 
 8fti4 Mno^ P<»et« l^vf Mi« {Mtly woodii : 
 They love w walh by OoetB*! ifwelling fioini , 
 'Hifti «iU «4t iff«rl4* wharc IIto Md •d.^irn nud 
 The Mtnuigt uneathlX Oreftturei of tLc <i«4i' 
 l^« loTee uqon tkt Rkdly aliore !«» j<Uud 
 Ott ti« 4iip«t«4 Wuidtf 'viyt im» and ifuii ; 
 Bit wether jutily cIpMweb by land or tide; 
 It etepe llie ijiurt ^ Ji»tur* cau't dcuiUe, 
 rhenoe to tk« f^r hortxun eantt tiie eye 
 Wkeve Uiv tfray Wj»t«n lauugle witb the wky 
 IkiU fiO' maut iu»rge where Sea aud, cioud« ewbracc*. 
 Aad (<^4 Uke loverji, in «uob-uthet'« face — 
 Hiih aU tlM fe«tii«k roiling wuven b«i.wefu, 
 AM fi*^ i^* iM^pitiug ^raui:>i>uri^ vi tliu tio^e' 
 iSm^9i jui Uk^ MOgii of biru^, the piul of liiU 
 IMlt |^pi|«tliet}C love ie tfwix:t«r btiU . 
 
 j||lf{| loT«, tft sne. Aad it^* enb^.trmeut^^ Koom 
 itike tome dellgiilful— half-foijrotten dreum: 
 
 %H ftili 'Mm pleaeaat here with you to «taud, 
 AM f^ ^^ ^* mutual preti^ure of a hand. 
 
 "^0 tevM On* OM 1 Mk io ^^*^ ny l«t, 
 AM weiUotM t* • Itonie whioh 1 kave not : 
 For t^«u|;k I brarty utrove inch home to gain, 
 I foM I •«ly beat Uf air m vain . 
 
 W# ^alnt life, tlieni^ but a few «hoft yean. - 
 To flfMd in fi«p«ring m\\*^ and foelis teari- 
 
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 Au*i m.vWy tiiiif I* th»i; p^of boeu, t*> >•«: 
 B«tt mko mktm li«<p« »iu| ,}^f ^n4 |i>v« go&«v 
 WmU «i^ to live, that he might hiit« alofic? 
 
 4&i4 nifAslm— HftV In »«fh a worii u chic: 
 When etea »»ltg»itjr itt; aim nay mitt: 
 'ibB eren Sorrow tomctimeg eiidM in bliM, 
 It fooliifh M thot« hcum in pleatwro tqott 
 
 11}' ^'eoUoBem who fuh, anfowl lod imoui: 
 Hmo mtttm with fricC in toltm tarahM^d, 
 l«f«i, with her farther Joj, aoret hand in hand 
 
 Ih*^ 'Ul tw LoTc. Said Erro, yon bo iJoy 
 1/ei '« hid th' afuro-tMid pMr awhilo gotdbyo 
 Fofjiivo cae Ha^lUoa — |^>ct4i &r« ineliiMd 
 'Itf |'«f»uiiity iJbBii8«^)uiit« vt the iui»d. 
 
 Yo« taid )w« Wad arr^u^ed to leare loday ; 
 If ikai U »>. 1 h<i|.-c you wiii oof Suy: 
 >or t hava uo fritad lci\ wbtrit you 'r« awajr. 
 
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 Ta l«»ve befort the «orttin|[ 8kic« arc rad. 
 
 Wa fui awhtW-^But n remtiiMth «till: 
 Ta iay if it thall ha for OaoD m Ih? 
 
 I'aehfpi ••• needfuil. Magda^eo taid wa Shonld. 
 B«t Iti it Mitcar ba for iU nor good . 
 T%m Let 'a arran^a (o ma«t art wa a^ioan : 
 
 Ft* tf you !«av« your ptaot ore I rotum: 
 At yoa aud I arc both anknown to famok 
 >ii>r loeat h»biiatiott baTajDor waaa: 
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 (jj *vi'i:i?v>it'g '<'Vfict ii' the wo-ids* iintraj, • " 
 
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 The ^»oor .I)eqatn>S;y t' ttiii i i>.>i^ vtvif.ili -.a.! fiiun; 
 But ijcvcr fuuu«l Ki.-^ i«:LUi.<il Ar.u ,44i,«jih .' 
 
 Wheto you ret;\ru , t>j lutMjf, by* il>c i*>itiiw **«^ 
 Wheu-fiiM wi astt^, at. Hive,' t.'n ^inn i^.i^^jt^i, 
 
 / ud if pferanted — throuijh' th<> officr Mrnt<v,._ 
 
 But 'M the tJa*«'H *♦■« hir3 aud j^ctMi-ij wcr!<«, 
 1*11 j«hare with >^oji my not qii'te entprir pur^n? 
 No — ^6 I onr K_nOi^<.j«^u 'h«v* r«ne ti?,^^4r*»v 
 And 1, channel oon lilr»r ..cun^ivo v.u nic . .. 
 I'll lend you thi« then — , Flea.**** n»xke tiy'«X(.uK*r. 
 1( you. tloa'i ne<i<i it^ — why you Mtvi not us^*., 
 
 •Ti« gettiTi|;$ U(t— 3*id Km*. — I'hVr'H tho belL 
 l.am loath. t'vSaJ' thnl Swoot /Sud word FarowoM t 
 Ard looked at Magdaicn »:« at «4)me ' »^vcct flower, 
 Vith that, fixed loak which Sooahmen call n alov^er: 
 Ihoa ct a sped her .wafnt , arid kis^d- b-^»^ilaid adiyu, 
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 I?t solves" to nrr«-t Iior on her homo-ward way, 
 An-l such ul>:ht-walkcrs deems his lawful 1 prey: 
 
 ^o in an angle that two Htrcetw commands, 
 teiUi in his p>ekct' truacheon in his hand. 
 
 /Vwicasy mass of flesh, half man. half hog 
 
 .t\ croMs between a devil, and j^ dog: 
 hioxorahlc. a? the heathen Vhte, 
 And l>i'» with the authority of State. 
 
 1 husj oft a traveler, wlicn the Sun goes down 
 lit jU^did'n old hyena haunted town; 
 .s,to in dumc drc:iy. dicidfull, dark retreat. 
 Or ill the curuor of some ruinous street. 
 A tiling — a form — of dcv.l shape and size 
 ku«»wii in tho dirkuc.s by Us fl imc like cycV 
 I but iieiks \U hiiinati I'niy with hidcou:j howl, 
 Aii'l r<»llow« aftcj. it with grating growl. 
 
 While .M;igdiil<ii((Mie walks along not feiring harm. 
 He |:ru.'<|>t> the affrighted woman b} the arm: 
 Invuin she Mtriiggk'8 and iuvaiu she pleads; 
 
 He dragp her <m. nor cither hears vr head: 
 
 I'ntill c(>niitte<l to a prison cell, 
 
 A briok and morter miniature of hell; 
 
 He leaves her etupeficd with shamo anl fright, 
 
 /nd in a cruel mockery, Says Good night. 
 
 !^pecl on Time! on dove's or raven's wing. 
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 Bring to the proBporous pleasure power or ^aio; 
 Aud bring u surely to the wr»tcheiJI paiu; 
 But l€ it r»in or pleasure, an it mej: 
 Spc«J on Sj ccd on — aud liirij anutlier d«y . 
 
 That daj hath come, and Mstgdalcne now in Ccuit 
 Pcrcievea she 'a n»ado thoir laugking-aiock, and Sport. 
 The injuatico feels: but; calm — rcmgnod to Fate, 
 She hears lb«. accusing D*Til of the State ; 
 
 In flippant, cruel tonet) the ohatge is made. 
 The wtineaa duly sworn, tie law ia rf«d. 
 And theugh some lawyers say I aUte amiss , 
 To ears noleatinod it sounded mueh Hl^o this: 
 
 Ihe Offioier whose watch is in the uighti 
 Wboee duty His to see that aUia right: / 
 Thai no enticing ^female after ten, :''. 
 
 bhiU walk the utreets, or lanes entioing oMn, 
 And if while going in his wonted rouni 
 A human female in hi.^ beat be f *un I. 
 'T^hall l>e lis duty to arrest., report, 
 
 Aud bring said human female to the court- 
 
 The oonrt ha«4itJlkrl tho witucHM and the Ia>», 
 And Geutlomea you mu-*t yi>iir iuferouoc draw. 
 And OcntlcmtH— l:tu;iailir, }« aic both: 
 B'>und by your senco of duty and yoai^th. 
 Sc do your duty Iryaly, uor hp»it>, "** 
 
 J-'yr any fool ibh pity thoee frail fair. 
 And Gculi'-mon 1 need net here rcj>ear:. 
 
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 That thojjo rjight-walkinpr man-traps of the street. 
 
 Arc wuroe than pilferer who steals yvur ca«h: ' 
 
 for those thjt steal my purse, Hteal nought but traih* 
 
 But lost aiil^e to virue aud to ahaae. 
 
 ThoBc wretches steal both money, and foodnamt. 
 "Ih aeccuser ended, and His Honer 8aid— 
 
 The priaouer hcara th« charge that hath been made, 
 
 The court ia ready now foi the defence. 
 
 C have none— Magdalen Haid "save iDnocence. 
 Whea one aroae and said" If Your Honer pleaue 
 
 I'll plead this priiouer'a cause nor tdk for for fees 
 
 " Tif for the court and prisoner to say. 
 If there be no objections^-why you m .y. 
 
 Ihe prisoner and the court are both agreed, 
 lii enters the areua and proceeds. 
 
 This is a case Your Honor: well may cldim 
 Sl. Ittle thought ic is a burning shame, 
 Although I .scarce may say it in thij^ I'l ,co. 
 This law should stand our Statute- Book 'j, disgi.'ce. 
 A law which makes th* O:;oasi'n, and the time. 
 Transmute even making lore into a crime: 
 And all the court agrees with me 1 trust 
 That Erry f^aw that* Cruel is unjust. 
 And men may walk whatever time they *}hoo««i 
 ynd no officious otficter accuse. 
 And wealthy ladies, favoured more by fute. 
 What time and place they ^^jeaic uiiiy htck a mate 
 And adrertise in any way they car, 
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 By banging out as aipnaltj of di-trcFs, 
 
 In all the gay absuvility of dress, 
 
 Tha*, which their wants, and wisliea may cxitrcsf 
 
 So plainly that a Yankee need not pnoHS. 
 
 An<l in their bowers, or bou.luira as they H«t 
 
 Unquestioned they miy kiss, or luay Ihj ki»sed. 
 
 And of all liberty will ye dqirive 
 Tlie toiling drudge of the dometio hive? . 
 Who, if a lover call, i.-» oft dirfmirisot; 
 who works to live, and lives by love unbles.-cd . 
 But work and work and never feel she 'b free, 
 A toiling neuter for some Mistrens Heo — 
 
 T<ow what hath maid ur mistress done or been, 
 That that shouhl be a quean, aud this a queen: 
 Just laws award the same to great and small, ... ^ 
 And sacred ho'd the liberty of all: , 
 
 Nor the rich favour nor the poor 'oppress; 
 But guard life, liberty, and h:tppines«. - 
 
 'J'he prosecuting lawyer here objects. 
 And with a lawyer's scorn the plea dissects 
 
 Perhaps my friend who has taken leave of se n ce 
 And plcids sans pay— expects some recompence, 
 Which hid fair friend may give him sometime hence. 
 
 He seems to think such ladie') should be free 
 To go what time they please with such as he: 
 
 But this tirade on law is all in vain, , 
 'Tis foolish as 'tis useless to complain; 
 'Tis vain with arguments the court to Ply; 
 For 'tis the prisoner, not the court wo try. . • . 
 
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 I his woiuiii wonthiping nx^rloua man 
 U'ouiU break the law to spare a oourtetfaa: 
 Ki.t G^utiemeu, if Uie evidenoc be oloar, 
 Ihc law dicidoH what tihall b« verdict here. 
 
 Hero the defending pleader made a pause, * 
 A munaeot poudenu^ over oruel lawa; ^^ 
 ( HiiK tiii e>e with butning thonghtH grew bri 'bt, 
 A lid tioemed u. flavh with a cats-eye-nt light : 
 Then ttaid '.The Prcwccator Saye we may bot try 
 
 Ihii uauHe— .i((^t Gontlemen it is fur you ana m^ 
 An 1 cvry m.tu Vt ^taud in tlM defenou, 
 L'u«: or in»t lin»; of iajuroi iQ{»>3«QrJ 
 '\.i(i ou the 6uic •>f lil)eitjf be fixtOtl* 
 VV iieuevcr lu« o'c. •**(«})«( ttU iawfuil boands. 
 
 Your told this w^inan du'tit dwerve yoir ruth. 
 And I'm a woman woriwper — !'>r»ooth '^ 
 
 Yean ! 1 have w<>r.dnpe<l women all my life, 
 A women wa^ m\ raothw. one ray wife : 
 And the poor prijjner that befcre yon (it*Bdi. 
 Or •i^Vf^ tiAm as the ODurt o<»mraaud!«. 
 Whom 'Privlidsrcd men in^^ult. and none reprove, 
 In faoc and figure looks like one i love ; 
 Ai)d he* who won't a woman's cuuwe defend, 
 Should never hav« a woman for a (Viend, 
 Who won'nt share w. ih he? ,K)|n{'thy or f urNJ, 
 l^ctireves to have » woman.lover' oufhc — 
 M.iy he with blusteriuii builica braudy 'juaiT, 
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 8uuth him, and add ft oharm to weary life - x 
 And when his temples aobe with pain or grief 
 May woman's sympathy ue'er bring relief 
 Mor gentle woman's love to him Ye gi^en. 
 Till 'pleauied with Earth he scarcely lotigH for Ucaveu. 
 CU not impeach this witness 'tis for you. 
 
 To winnow what is false from what ia true 
 for though he may the prisoner's guilt attoMt, 
 hhe sayH she's iuuoeuut and should know beut. 
 And while you one by one his statements weigh; 
 licmcmbcr that lia liven by 'eacthing prey, 
 <ini] though pcrh.ipH, you think he 'a not to bl.uae: 
 Mun do n't feed dogM that will not catch the guiue. 
 
 And let nm think, nn uthers we arraign, 
 That UH wc judge, we dhail be judged again. 
 Hut there 'd pru\;cdeut that 1 would cite 
 That seti thii* m;ittor in it4 proper light. 
 
 T'huiu was jA IVaulior onoo uqon a (iiue, 
 Who thatigUt that frum, the heurt proceed.^ the crime 
 'J' hat luijtful thoughts arc criincH as well as actn 
 lAcii ere they have aHHi^med the form of facts. 
 
 But certain Docters thoucrht they better knew: 
 And !»aid — "stand off I'm holier than you" 
 Woo thouu^t to bring biti teMhin ^ to di.-itj^iL -e, 
 And brought to Jbe ajudgcd a certain case: 
 A woman charged much like the prisoner here; 
 It sccraa the evidence r-i very clear. 
 It do'nt appear that she denied the faef. 
 As (ibe was caught even in the very act. 
 when those accusers have the woman brought. 
 Aul from this rivil Te*cher jul^Ticnt sought. 
 
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 Intent alont! to illustcrate their faith 
 'I'hvy lightly talk of Htoning her to d<;ath. 
 
 He fixed on the ground his HtcadfaBt eye 
 N«u- deigns the cruel hypoerilea reply 
 Till urged — Hesaith" let him who hath no Bin, 
 And wants to 8t»ne the woman, first begin. 
 Thii< wa.s a judgment they could not gainsay, 
 As all were Hclf-condemned" they slunk aWay. 
 
 ^ow Who of all the court assembled hero 
 Can lift his hamf to Heaven, and Say I'm clear? 
 lor Who hath never at some time and place 
 ituwed in unhuly worship to a face? 
 (h wliuii he saw H<>mc fail euchanlrcHs stand ; 
 Or, walking in her beauty: kissed his hand, 
 (ir it: he saw a ginup oi jdamscls [jtabs 
 Luuged i • have one ui them ttnd signed— a la&s 
 
 Mow this pi'ticudeut, us the court, must set% 
 *Jm based on the uiioitut law ot eijuity; 
 Which hatu iiol been lepeuled uutiii this day 
 And wmI uoi Wliou Che.iC heavens sliall pass uvvay 
 'I'liut— Thoaio who. judging other, do the same; 
 Ity their owu judgiueut must them-ielves cuudemn 
 
 Now gentlemen the case i.i left with you. 
 And il you can't bul find the ciiait:.e is true, 
 >>liilc Justice holds the uicly palluuced rfcule. 
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 I.ut.k at the friendless pnnoi/er! till you t'cel 
 You woultl not crush the fallen ; but rather heal. 
 Tliiuk of tiio drcuy days in )>rison Bjent, 
 lu Jiaige of wielthcfci pensioned to toji.icut, 
 
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 V^\y mwh to pentle woiu»n' love y« ow e! 
 And lliii^ of fricnfl* nnH honio — reiiieaaWr tfcct»- 
 A trozoan '«< ut tbe bar ! aud ye »re mea , 
 
 H«t here tUe pnweinr.ioii iutcr[;»fte»1. 
 And clalMeil n h*i»iit!K Wf tlm oiife wm clo««d 
 F.>r he b«i|i(an to notke th'it Mic li«le 
 Of liynipathy Hit in '•« \l't7(lalc'n'». ^iJfl 
 Mnd rhouph p«rh»«uc. * e h.\l nut niuoh at htu^ 
 He ►^^ rove to win tSe owe, for wiuninn'it ituKe; 
 J.ik« e«o player intvut to wiu th« g»in«i. 
 IViU^b nothing )>c at Htsiktt exceyi! tL« uam* 
 bo h« a(lr»irly <lr<>j>s li?^ i'.n-.uer r,;.i. 
 
 He w<>u'(i nut Ixi >*'v<Tt'^^ — ;>'» *»o not be, 
 Bnt bo woiihI urtic mk*)) Juuh : iir^c Uie i>iVfiro 
 'iu (ttve thoc>e wretche'l woiuen from theinMJvtM 
 Till tratae<i by ciu*cipiine t<> «clt re*trainu( 
 I'hey might fHiHl time in pn»<>n t • rcfM^ut. 
 A no heoA fK>m tomptuig w Ian of |i)mp Mtd rake 
 .Hi^ht usefnll si^rvaut^ and doi^uiiiori make. 
 Tb\i8 plaunibly he .spiiko; but to bo briiff. 
 Ho dallied with » fneudlcmi woniau a grief 
 "^Vliile tTi«iefloe he piece d ou v\-ith aumiee 
 iknd mixed the liiDpIe truth with many lie* 
 
 Ah waeeel in t feooe of brueh, and logs 
 ifeTHued hy men and boys, end biii?,!i'' doga. 
 EvadeM the ctumiy brute, s.bivh give him ehsM 
 And foil bis foea by limply eb^ngiug pla«e. 
 
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 Tlio, cape in cl >scd — the jury have retired 
 To find a verdict dreaded, or desired 
 •liy the the poor prisoner, and — cruel Fate 
 Keturn to find a verdiot for the atatc, 
 Which just mjans this, would you the meaning have? 
 Tlic State ijow claims her for a while its slave: 
 IJut will not this with Righteous law collide? 
 Nw matter — Powcr^ is on the other side. 
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 Tliouq^ blinding. tcifrs ore gathering in her eye. 
 Nvi\v watoh.Vand aec the Black Maria go f 
 
 W ith wretohcs freighted for the house vC woe: 
 i ikt'^,MV>*rdHWQith's group of goblins, lean and lunk, 
 hliaVp-kift'i; I sh^urp- cibowcd long, and ghasly shanked. 
 
 lud there onr'Nlagdalene sits among the rest, 
 To be the thenje ot^Vibald isoiibbler's jest: 
 Kvc'ii rough men hoc* with pity, not with Kcoru, 
 Tlic fate of obe bo lovly, so forlorn 
 
 But there are men Alas! who. ne'er rclenl, 
 Tempt like the Devil first, aud tlien torment 
 Care not who are the victims of their eincer, : 
 Nor care whose advertisment brought them here: 
 
 who mock at misery, and laugh at vice 
 A I'd tJcU their hangman jests at chciipcst price. 
 Or with affected pity, sad and grave 
 Whine o'er the fate of some poor "nymph du pave; 
 Not as a man in pity or in love, ' , 
 
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 Ye Pimps I while playing your nefanotts part: 
 Yc blight the charecter, and brcack the l^oart — 
 Te See yon girl — She erst a aervant waH. 
 Snc 'a now a oypriau of the dangerous clam— 
 They flutter rounod awhile, aod then th?| p&sii 
 To th' Potter's Field 
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 *So ft'or to f !».«« ly>jyn«i the rail » 
 
 Tl.ot hifles t.h« tichil. 
 And 3et, wo q'.i<wt,ion. droftiw, und gvio§«; 
 
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 trfl a>Jc. yf»» tuiihin^ 8*«rt fA know ; 
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 Ot from ^ho fut^irs tear tbn fflxsk 
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 I Thus with pure hands, and heart as pure* 
 ■ A man whom none coald bK-rmo 
 I To many chiMcrn at the pou» 
 He gave their oIjn«tiaii names. 
 
 And many loving hands handci ho joind 
 In wedlock's holy tie • 
 
 The sick in body and in mind 
 He pointed to the sky. 
 
 He saw the Deaf one.i, whom ho loved 
 Hetuivod fVoiu him by Death, 
 A til: though as in a ,furuaoo paovcd 
 Without a murmuriug broath. 
 
 Ho wrought with all his mind and , strength, 
 
 No labor did ho shirk 
 
 Till in dejliuing life at length 
 
 Ha fainted ia his work 
 
 Then go Dear friend! to thy revr ar I 
 Wo long have known thy woith; 
 Even though to U3 it may d'c.u hard 
 \Vk« hava fevr I Heads on Earth 
 
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A UKUOSIAL. POKM t N. BKV. A.DDnHLAD 
 
 In early life resolvci to walk* 
 *^Yhe straight, and narrow road 
 He learned from Olialmer's own lipa 
 
 To Expound the word of God- 
 
 
 He RPvW tie fields with harvest whi^o "• 
 With ?ypathetic eyes 
 And left tVo Collate Hall he loved; 
 ' Though not without a prize. 
 
 porHfuadinsf all within iiis roaeh 
 
 To seek sin's govcroim cure 
 
 He w^nt from place to pUioe to prea ;h 
 
 The gospel to the poor. 
 
 He pra<5hed with power word of God; 
 In many a poor retreat 
 >nd struggled throuch unbrocken roads 
 With weary willing fi^et. 
 
 If any, with new notions fraught , 
 Would of his doctrines know: 
 He'd say I Teach the doctriucsi taught 
 In dayd of long q.<^^ 
 
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 AN ADDllKSS TO WOK K LIS (i MI:N, A A I) \VO:,[KN . 
 
 In the day of prosperity be joyful, in the day of udvcrtiiLy 
 consider. Eccl. vir. 14. 
 
 Friends, and fellow workers ! 
 
 Let mc ask your paticut attention to a 
 
 few remarks on a subject which is engaging the attention of 
 thoughtful men everywhere just now; viz the relations of 
 capital, and labour, and some of the results of such relations ; 
 as btrikes, riots, ko, . It seems to me that the evils of these 
 relations, as at present existing cannot be much longer ig- 
 nored by any " Forms who are flesh andean feel" whether 
 they belong to the clays refered to by lUirns, who 
 " fiook o'er proud property extended wide, 
 And eye the .simple rustic hind ; 
 Whose toil ui)h(.ild3 the glittcrii.g show." — 
 Or, arc •'Creatures of auothfr kind. 
 Of coarser substance unrefined, 
 
 riaced for their lordly use, thus far. thus vile below." 
 And in discussing this matter, let us glance briefly, at the 
 recent labour riots in Pittsburg and other cicies of the States; 
 and 1 need not dwell on the loss of life, or destruction of 
 property; for this has been published already about as far 
 as is known. But call attention to some of the following 
 contjiderations.— Who are most to blame ? Is there no rem- 
 edy '.' What arc the utterances of the press ? What remedies 
 do some papular .lournala propose? &c and let us look in 
 the first place at some of the statements, and opinions of the 
 press . 
 
 Tiic St John Telegraph of July 21 at the beginning of 
 a leader has these words " One of the evils of societies 
 in I'iuropc, which wc have watched from a distance was 
 Communism which is essentially a product of despotic coun- 
 tries &.e ' and tiic Fditor goes on to denounce Communism 
 as: "An evil plant thiit has taken root in America S:'' ." 
 Now though it may be a root of bittQrncs!^ snmctiino.^ : as 
 this Fdltor says, it is not the' root of all evil . 
 
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 Ajui Jwis this Er-clergyiuan forgottcu, thut there ia suoh 
 ;i pasi'.i'O iii the iVvAc uh may Le fouuJ in /Vets iv: :}2,— 
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 !^at let ii.-^: ol'surve. duit he atlniit..', y a-? it. wore inad- 
 v<'Vi .itiy, ) that, it is a }):\>:luct of ilcsjiotic countries. — 
 li" tl.;f< fie true. ( aud i bcliovc it v.ill bo ;ij;ciieiiilly conced- 
 ed, ) it If? tautuniomit to admitting, that the despotism cx- 
 ii«tn"|.' in AiTievicau iuritilulloiis vas the producing craso 
 td' tUi -.(.' tumu' '.;'.; when the miadtudes refused to starvo 
 aiiv •om:^i-y peaceably, and, r^ning like the waves in a tora- 
 pt'st. rlioy disregarded the eont-.titutcd authorities^, y tlusu 
 i^ru.iruian>! of tbc intcrcbts of Capital, ) who said to theiu 
 i^itherto t^hall ye come; but no facthcr, when they toolr the 
 only meanb? they knew cC to make their strike at all clfoct- 
 ive. So that you see that the Editor of the Telegraph 
 in hia heart of hearts, ( if he lias ar.y such Sanctum san- 
 ctorum about him, ) is of opinion that it was oppression 
 T/hich Solomon eays niakcth wire men mad, that did the 
 whole " devilment." 
 
 This coneidcration will qualify the acerbity of the Kd- 
 itcr'e remarks, when ho inveighs against tho "ferocity aud 
 rage that could induce a body of civilized men to destroy 
 9 0,000,000 worth of property" A:c \ 
 
 This dcstructica of property, however is no dt uDt 
 to be deplored, as was the dcstructic n of houses and crops 
 by General Sherman in his coiCjjirijd southern caiapaign 
 but in his case necegsity is the apology oiJcred. And if 
 necessity can justify such a courfc, the btrikcrs .must stand 
 acquitted . But a far sadder result than tho destruction 
 of property ; was the destruction of life ; aud let U3 bco who 
 wer<3 tho most blam©ablo partica in ihoao wholoaale murdw^' 
 
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 I 't-' it were iiiad- 
 "tic ooiintried . — 
 L' ;;cMciiilly conccd- 
 tlte despotism cx- 
 protlucijig c.iuso 
 refused to strirvo 
 10 waves in a teiu- 
 uuthoriticiJ, ( tl.use 
 wh;> said to them 
 ivlien they took the 
 trikc at all clfect- 
 of the Telegr;!})h 
 5iich Sanctum sau- 
 it was oppression 
 taadL that did the 
 
 rbitj of the Kd 
 tho "ferocity aud 
 i men to destroy 
 
 5ver is no dt uOt 
 ' houses and crops 
 )uthcrn cawpaign 
 o5cred. And if 
 rikcrs mu«t ataud 
 tho destraction 
 id let ui SCO who 
 boliaale murdorei' 
 
 AN ADDURSS TO WtiRKINQ *MEX, AND WOiirx', 
 
 (piote again from the St John Telegraph, July 21, that 
 
 the New York Herald, 
 
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 iiiotcs iroiu iiiw L^M\l A'^itt iiuiaiu, f^iviij;^ luw btateuient 
 Ifasoldi'^r, a member of company *J th of first regiment 
 [f Philadelphia; who said to-day, (July 23,) "I Hcrved 
 the war of rebellion, d-c, 1 came to Pittsburg, I must 
 Dufcss, bent on having a little fighting, if there wag any 
 roinir," &c ! He describes the crowd on the hillside aa 
 consisting of men, women aud children, mo.stly specttt- 
 )r3 who were pent up, &i>." The crowd was slow in clear- 
 iig a space, and tho soldiers began to force them back ; 
 Biid occasioned some scutHiug, several of th'; uicn taking 
 [old of the muskcti, saying, •' Yoa would not shoot work- 
 ig men, '^ould you? while those on the outskirts continu- 
 to hoot aud yell ." It was into this promiscuous crowd 
 men, TTomen aud children that the-jc so called soldiers, 
 
 10 of whom confesses that he " came hoping to have a litr 
 fighting if thero was any going," firoi and ho says 
 Lultiugly "we did firo ."• — 
 
 Now ler. us look at the IJostou Herald, July 23, and 
 kc find by a list of thoso who were killed by the gallant 
 )ldiers' lead, that they were not "roughs" and "loafers" 
 hit had all 60mc Icgitimati; employment; except such as 
 lese, John Long, a boy Buchanan, a boy 12 years old, 
 
 child one year old in its molhcr's arms," &c : In tho 
 poston HeraM, July 23, we read, " Pittsburg, July 22, 
 10 crisis was reached yesterday, at six o'clock when tlia 
 
 roups, sent to suppress the strikers, fiircd upon the 
 rowd ; tho toriilU/ fatal oflfbot^ of tho shotij exasperated 
 
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 the ciiizcQH aa v,c\\ as tho utrlltcra, and in lesa tbun hs 
 
 hour thouaandtf of working-men from the KoUing-milla, 
 coal miucd. and otL'^r manufactories, Lurried to the bcouo 
 of coufliot, dctermiucd to have revenge on the troops and 
 railway officials . It waa stated that General Tearcicn 
 had directed the trooi)3 to fire before any reaistance waa 
 
 made, and the fact that many of tho killed and wound- 
 ed had gathered on the hilUide, merely as spectators, 
 eervcd to increabe the litlcrucss of the crowd ." 
 These are some of the btatcmcnts to bo found in the Bos. 
 ton Herald, ere thia origin of capital in New England, 
 had time to gloss over the more hideous features of tho 
 
 picture ; surprised, as it were, into telling the truth . 
 
 Now let us look for a moment at some of the morol 
 judgments on these btrikea and riots, and some of tl o 
 remedies proposed by tLii Macliiavclian sheet. It says 
 
 " Abroad the military is a ui^^tinct body from the nation » 
 they are often tho willing tools of the oppressor, &c, *" 
 " hero tho case is altogethor different our citizen soldiccj 
 are not hostile hirclingb ; they are not nor ever can bo a 
 blade in tho hand of a deapot." — 
 
 Docs this man of 
 words without meaning forget that ho has just beca 
 telling us that t'ucae very soldiers who oamo " hopiug to 
 hare a littlo fighting if there was any going," fired 
 invo tho crowd of men, women and children " before 
 there was anj resistance," and of iLo couacqucnt ex* 
 
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 Aj? ADDaif^s TO woasr.ja msm. a:.d \Yoiiz:f , 
 
 nfifcration cf the citizens' as well as tlie strike -s, auj 
 thut thousunJy of citizenii as veil as strikers came to 
 the conflict to be revenged on the troop-i for tliou* 
 ( raurJerei, shall I call it?) frienJs ? Vet the Ilerald 
 Hiiy.s of theyo solJiora, that " they died that the nat- 
 ion might live:" and of the citizens that •• thcj died 
 as the fool dieth ." But hear a;;ain this eulo ;iMt of 
 American dc:^potism 1 "There ia no waj," he saya 
 "to deil \^ith a mob; but overpower it at once by 
 the most resdiuto application of physical force. 
 It i■~^ true Ll.vt in auc-h applicutiona the innocent auffer 
 fljiacu.iioa with the guilty: but. all experience haa Bhowa 
 that tliero ii i\it las BulTciing in the long run I" — 
 
 il I'i tliii doctrine been carried out u liundred years 
 £ig>, ••When trausatlantij liberty aro-50 not in the sun- 
 bhiiie, and the amilca of heaven: But wrapped in 
 whiilwiuds, and bc^^irt with foes," when the mob stood 
 in open defiance of the couHtituted authorities, and 
 cast the tea cl.Cota of the JJritlah mcrchauta into the 
 
 harbour of Boston ; where would the glorious Rcpublio 
 bo to-day? 
 
 The Moral of thia ia, Illegitimate children, should 
 not bo too hard on natural ones . 
 But now Ictus gUnco for a m:)meut at some of tho crils 
 ariaiuf; from tie depci.ujVncc of labor on ciipittil. ^nd inr[uiro 
 If thoro bo uo temodj for tho «iatd of abject tfervituio 
 
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 to uhicli the wo^ca t^yntcin, prevalent ac prcj-cnt, baa 
 itMluood a largo part of tlio productive clasd of society ; 
 roversiiig completely that lav7 of justice, referred to by 
 
 St. Paul, when be says, he who docs not work bhall not 
 eat . For now, it seoius, that, those who work must 
 ■tarvo ; wh''e those who work not at all, faro sumptuou- 
 sly every day, walk about iu broadcloth and fine liuoti, 
 or tise ride fast horaca . 
 
 And now one word to you, yo 
 
 men of the hardonoi hauJi, and rag-^od coati ! — 
 When election drawa nigh, sm>oth offijo aockcrj will 
 thako hands with you, aul, in a conciliatory way. toll 
 you that there is no quarrel bctweon capital and lab)ur. 
 
 Believe them not 1 — Kut if you have any doubt about 
 the matter, make some of them a friendly vidit about 
 three weeks after election, and you will bo convinced that 
 there is a gulf between you and them, that you may 
 not cross . 
 
 Now the labour problem that wo have to sol- 
 re is about this — Suppose an isolated community 
 where there are eleven men dependent on a certain fac- 
 tory for employment, and a living ; "While only ten are 
 needed . What will bo the elToob of the odd man in 
 reducing the wages of the toa ? supposing no highor 
 priuciploa to bo in operation, than Adam Smith's gold- 
 en rulo, that <• supply and demand, fix the price of every- 
 thing, " And let us suppose at tho beginning, that they 
 are all equally efficient, and all, save tho odd man, work- 
 ing ftt $ 3 per day. As the odd man« by the hypothoaia, haa 
 
 
An VUDKKS.J I'O WOIIKIXI MI'JN, AND WOMKN . 
 
 u» otlior ma ins of living, wo ou,uii'jt suppo.io him to adopt 
 any other courno than to obtain employment by offcrin"^ to 
 work lor reduce J wages — say $ 2.."}0 per d;iy . When 
 one of tlio other meu working at S :} wotild bo discharged to 
 mike room for the (dicaper man: and the last discharged, 
 being in the same circumstances as was the lirst, would have 
 to adojit the same court-e, or starve ; and so of all the rest 
 of the workers ; and so it mu.st go rouud and round, the wag. 
 
 [e-j being reduced, and reduced, till the reductio ad absurd- 
 um has beeu reached, and the ten men arc working at star- 
 vation's price, and the odd man is starving or living on 
 charity. Xow multiply this one employment by many thou- 
 
 Isunds, and tltese eleven men by several millions and you 
 live the problem of capital and labour in the groat world 
 
 |arouu I us . Aud i ask every one of you who may be in 
 similar position to one of the eleven men supposed — 
 
 IWhat would yc counsel ? and What v.-ould ve do ? The 
 3nly solution possible, it seems to rae is about this — the di- 
 
 jfirk'ulty to be disposed of being evidently the odd man . 
 
 |Tlic eleven might cast lots which of their number should 
 JO disposed of — wo won't say killed aud eaten, as starved 
 
 Iboats' crews sometimes do ; for sujh a proposition would 
 
 ave a kiud o^' ciMuibal ring about it that miiiht sound 
 
 rather unpleas;i.it to those who arc not used to this sort of 
 
 |ftuimal food ; But the real question is, Would not the chan- 
 DCS tor longevity of ;niy one of the eleven be greater in stand- 
 ing such a lot, thau the other alternative of having his 
 
 pfe shortened by the slow agonicj of partial starvation 
 lud the sickneas of dofci'cd LopoV 1 thiidc it would. 
 
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 AN ADDKKS? TO Vf'(;I;KI^(i M KN, AM) WOMKX . 
 
 I'.iit 1 thiulf that this (Hilijult proMoui admits of another 
 aiul a hotter sohitioa though I scaivcly have space to indicate 
 it here. — I will however in the shortest way make a few 
 suggestions,— and in iho tirst place, Think for yourselves,— 
 don't listen to any one who says as children sometimes do, 
 "Open your mouth and shut yoiir eyes and I tell you somc- 
 Hiing to make you wise." Secondly, '• In the multitude of 
 counsellors there is wisdom," therefore consult with your 
 fellow-iabonrcrs whose interest is identical with your own : 
 hut receive with suspicion the advice of all those who live 
 on your labours, and whoso interest it is to keep you in per- 
 I»etual servitude; for it is manifest that some must work, and 
 all who do network themselves, must manage by some trick 
 in the game of life to live on the h'bours of others, for, if 
 t'ncrc were no jwor, there could be no rich — Thirdly — In 
 Uk.ion and in number there is strength.— Therefore Combine 1 
 Combine!! Combine!!! Get if possible sufficient funds, and 
 possession of sufficient land or pieces of laud here, thor ;, 
 everywhere, on which to employ your "od<l man" at fair})ay 
 to raise food for you tliat you may not compete with one an- 
 other in the manufactories, gluting the markets with super- 
 fluous goods c^nd rendering the works of your own hands 
 worthless. — Let n' national boundaries, no imaginary 
 lines, divide you. ^'c arc '\\\ brethren and sisters in ca- 
 lamity and "Brethren in calamity should love." But if ye 
 are indolent to assert your rights let me ajipcal to tlie chiv- 
 alry of every man's nature where flunkyism has not cruslied 
 out manhood — every man is by nature the protector of t)ne 
 woman, therefore for the sake of your waiils, if not for your 
 own, Be men! Awake' Awake I! But I hear a mur- 
 muring at "these new doctrines," 
 
 " 'Tia the voice of the sluggard; 
 J hear him complain. 
 You have waked me too soon, 
 I must slumber again." 
 
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1) WOMEN . 
 
 admits of auotlicr 
 3 space to indicate 
 t way make a few 
 
 k for yourselves,— 
 reu sometimes do, 
 I I tell you somc- 
 i the multitude of 
 consult with your 
 
 I with your own : 
 all those who live 
 D keep you in per- 
 le must work, and 
 age by some trick 
 s of others, for, if 
 —- Thirdly — In 
 icrcforc Combine I 
 n oicnt funds, and 
 
 ■ land here, ther •, 
 man" at fair pay 
 ipcto with one an- 
 irkcts with supcr- 
 your own hands 
 cs, no imaginary 
 md sisters in ca- 
 lOVC." But if ye 
 p])cal to the chiv- 
 
 II has not crushed 
 le protector of ouq 
 lis, if not for your 
 ut I hear a mur- 
 
 eof the sluggard; 
 complain, 
 aked me too soon, 
 ibcr agaiu." 
 
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