POETRY. ngs TI — ODE TO MEMORY. BY HESRY NEELE. “ Man giveth up the ghost and where is he 10b wv. ‘And where is he ? not by the side Whose every want he loved to tend; a a. {sun shines. You shake your head, sir, as {if you meant to say I have made choice of {bad company. I thought so at first; but jthere is nothing so bad as not to be useful sometimes. My destiny has made me humble and taught me what 1 did not be- fore know, that one cannot unhinge the world. My dog has taught that there is still love and fidelity in it, and you cannot of Pharoah’s charriot wheels, when he capsized in the Red Sea. This suited the lieve this, for we read ofitin the Bible; but never talk to me of fying fish.” SHERIFF'S SALE. immagine what fine things one can talk loverhauled him, and discovered it was one meridian of the old Jady’s understanding] « Ay, ay, Johnny,” cried she, ¥ I can be- Not o’er those valley’s wandering wide, : 2 at Where, sweetly lost, oft would bend; With respecing one's own shaded: That form belov’d he marks no more, Those scenes admired no more shall see? Understand.’ Those scenes are lovely zs before, ¢ You shall hear, sir. And she as tair—but where is he? No, no, the radiance is not dim, That used to gild his favorite hill, The pleasures that were dear to him, Are dear to life and nature still But, ah ! his home is not as fair, Neglected must his gardens be, The lillies droop and wither there when the sun of life is rising, the earth seems too small; just when I lift a leg thou liftest another, as if thou would step over ten acres at once, yet when thou put- test down thy leg thy step is scarcely a span long ; so fares it with youth he seems as if he would destroy or create a world, and in the end he does none of these 223 ’ And seem to whisper, % whereis he? His was the pomp, the crowded hall, hich might I been ex But where is now this proud display ¢ ERINES Jyineh might have hewn expected from his discourse. His riches, honors, pleasures, all i o! Bia ak wR r 1 Let the sun now rise higher and thou Desire could frome; but where are they? x wilt become smaller as the youth boasts! And he as some tall rock that stands y less, the older he grows. There I com- ¢ Respecting one’s shadow ! that 1 donot At sunrise when] Iam walking behind my long towering shadow, what conversation do I not hold on philosophical subjects ! Look, says I dear shadow, art thou not like a youth’ BY virtue of a writ of Venditioni Expo- nas to me directed, will be exposed to public sale, on Monday the 6th day of July next, at the Court house in the borough of Bellefonte, the one undivided third part ol five tracts of L. AND, situate in Miles township, Centre county. One tract surveyed on a warrant in the name of James Logan, containing four hun- dred and one fourth acres; one other in the name of John Johns, containing three hundred and ninety seven and an half acres, one other in the name of Elizabeth Johns, containing four hundred and twenty one acres and three-fourths ; one other in the name of Peter Johns, containing four hun. dred and six acres and three-fourths, and one other in the name of David Logan, con. taining four hundred and sixteen acres and Protected by the ciicling seay ey Surrounded by admiring bands, Seem’d proudly strong——and where is he? pare, you see the morning, noon and even- ing shadows with an hundred things which i formerly considered as indispensible ne- cessarics. The shadow is my watch and pedomiter*, and sometimes my servant, and sometimes my footman. It is only a pitty that a man cannot exist in his own shado The church-yard bears an added stone, The fire side shows a vacant chair, Here sadness dwells and weeps alone, And death displays his banner there; he life is gone, the breath has fled, And what has been no move shall be; The well-known form, the welcome treads Oh! where are they—and where is he? s his shadow does in him. ¢ Well and what do you say in the eyen ing to your shadow 2’ ; La ¢ In the evening a man’s shadow is 4 ve ry serious thing—the best moralist—a real MY DOG AND MY SH ADOW. hour glass—a true memento mori, When . ) 5 the shadow runs forward before one still . In a solitary excursion through a wood, becoralng longer, less visible, « if ey Major Halden fell in with a man whose, . ding lisiheat in the davies of i i « appearance attracted his attention.| é ; Singular appea = ‘while behind one as the setting sun is go- He was sitting on the ground at the loot jr dowts 1 but loose ToL Coun al . age ; trust me of a beech tree, eating a crust of bread, ? 8€3 nd thou wilt become always greater ; tor . - . =o} = % 3 which he shared bit by bit with his dog. befure thee is already suspended a better His dress bespoke the utmost poverty but) oer of that beyond the grave.” his countenance exhibited every symptom With ‘these words ‘the rg : : ecame of cheerfulness. He bowed to him as he silent, the major also, both looked inex- rode past, and the man pointing to him— pressible—¢ Come,’ says the major ¢ ¢do you see ’ said he to his dog laughing shall never want a home.” § hi: re — WW seul 3 x see d the : 0 S2ylng Ne ¢« What should 4 2 dog see \aske took the stranger by his hand and onda Major, whose curiosity was excited by the &d hit to his house 9 Y man’s happy looks. The stranger laughed. : ¢ Aye, said the man, in a harmonious tone,{ *An instrument affixed to the wheels of car. ¢ I wish to make the dog take notice of Ss the boot of a person, &c. to measure stance. reo C2 CRBS —— your curiosity. It 1¢ so uncommon for a well dressed person, and an officer besides, to lift hig hat or cap to a tattered person i i A sailor who had been many yeats ab- i sent from his mother, i toad A like me.” s who, lived in an in- ¢« Who are you then ?’ said the Maj. to ; E the man looking at him attentively. ¢A lage, after a variety of voyages to the dif- child of fortune.” ¢ A child of fortune [ferent parts of the globe, and was heartily welcomed home by the good old womans land country, returned to his native vil- you mistake without doubt for your coat scems to bespeak otherwise.” ¢« My coat ig |Who had long considered him as lost.— right sit ; but as I can joke iu this coag Soon after his arrival the old lady became the only one Ihave, itis of as much value inquisitive and desirous to learn what to mc as a new one even if it had a stav|Strange things her son John had seen upon fipon it’ the mighty deep. Amongst a variety of ¢ If what you say does not proceed from [things that Jack recollected, he mentioned a disordered mind you are correct country- | his having seen flying fish. « Stop Johny, dn. dont try to impose such monstrous impos- ¢ A disordered mind is sometimes the |Sibiiitics upon me child; for in good truth, I could as soon believe you had seen flying gilt of God, at least to children of fortune cows ; for cows you know John can live My fa my mind like lead, but care now passes te of my cast. te once hung heavy on out of water. Therefore tell me honestly through it as the wind through my coat, and if that be a fault it makes up for a great falselicods Johnny.” deal of misfortune.’ Jack felt himself affronted ; and, tuning ¢ But,” says the major; ¢ whence do you his quid about when pressed for more cu- come and whither are you going ? ¢ That question ‘is not difficult to be an- rious information, he said prefacing it with an oath, mayhap, mother you wont be- swered ; I came from my cradle and I am With these two stages of my life I have long be¢n zc- lieve me when I tell you that casting our going straight to my grave. culty we hove it up again; which was oe- quainted. © in a word I am endeavoring 10 solten my fate ; but I must have something | wheel hanging on one of the flukes of the anchor. It appeared a strange old Grecian to look at; so we hoisted it in, and our very engaging, and my dog, my destiny still remain fuithiul to me, and wy shadow what you have seen in reality, but no more} anchor in the Red Sea, if was with diffi . \ casioned, do you see mother, by a large} three-fourths. Seized and taken in exc- cution and to be sold as the property of John H. Friend, by Wn. Alexand | Jume20, 1818. ) er, | Sheriff. EN ETRE SP oi i ? 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