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SONG—BY MOORE.
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y “When Charles was deceived by the
| maid he lov’d
We saw no cloud his brow o’ercast
: ing;
But proudly he smil’d as if gay and un-
: mo’ d,
Tho’ the wound at heart was deep
and lasting ;
Aud of cn at night when the tempest
roll’d
He sang as he pac’d the dark deck
over
& Blow, wind, blow ! thou art not so
cold
As the heart of the maid that de-
ceives her lover.”
Yet hie liv’d with the happy and seem’d
tobe gay,
Though the wound but sunk more
deep for concealmg
And fortune threw many a thorn in
his way,
Which, true to one anguish, Le trod
without leeling ;
And still by the frowning
subdued,’
He sung as if
him above her :
¢ Frown fate, frown ! thou art not so
fortune had placed
t
rude,
x ’s
ceives her Jover.
~
At length his career found a close In
death ;
The close he long wish’d to his
cheerless roving ;
—
And he died in a cause of his heart's
approving 3 {
But stilt he remembered his 8
and still,
He sung till the vision ©
—~—
over
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« Come, death, come! thourt D
cold
ceives her lover.”
From the Independent Balance.
THE VALLEY.
delight,
As its waters roll’d on with a trem-
lous mation:
But oh, there’s a vale that has of’t burst
on my sight,
waves of the ocean,
I wandered forlorn trem the home of
my frieads,
Over many a moor, over many a
mountain,
Where the oak’s stubborn form to the
fierce whirlwind bends,
And the snake undisturb’d laves
pimscif in the fountaia.
The chill of neglect had a mildew cast
round,
. And hard was it then truent Cour
age to raily,
fort 1 found,
For true hospitality reign’d in thai
valley.
And long as this bosom a throbbing
heart owns,
And ¢’en should that heart witl
dread anguish be breaking,
A thought of past pleasurcs will stifle
my groans,
And remembrance of Milgrove will
R.
rapture awakens
From the Dublin Examiner.
BEAUTY IN SMILES.
Oh weep not sweet maid, though the
bright tear of beauty
To kindred emotion each feeling be
guilss ;.
The softaes of serrow no magick ca
borrow,
with his youthful bride.
As the heart of the maid that de; was founded on that vague and evanes
cent passion, which often lives a
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sympathy and esteem formed the basis
Cc
The Vale of Avoca Moore sung withlo
in Smiles.
Man roves through creation a wander-
1g stranger,
A dupe to its follies, a slave to iis
toils,
But bright o’er the billows of doubt
and of danger,
The rainbow of promise is Beauty
in Smiles.
As the rays ol the sun o’er the bosom
of nature
Renew every flower which the tem.
pest despoils,
So joy’s f ded blossoms in man’s ach
ing bosom
Revive in the sunshine of Beauty in
Smiles.
The crown of the hero, the star of the
rover,
The hope that inspires, and the
spell that beguiles;
The song of the poet, the dream of the previous to her death; on the work
lover, / :
The infidel’s heaven is Beauty 1m
Smiles,
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From the New Monthly Magazine.
THE HARP—A TALE.
of fate un-| From the German of the Poet Korner :|flute, breathed forth, mn deep plaintive
addressed to such as believe in the
agency of spires,
The secretary SELINER had begun
otaste the first spring of happiness
Their union
nd
ies almost in the same moment ;
ftheir attachment. Time and expe-
rience, without diminishing the ardour,
jad confirmed the permanence of their
For victory shone on his latest breathy), = ual sentiment. Tt was long since [0
hey had discovered that they were
oimed for each other ; but want of
orrow.| fo: tune imposed the necessity of a te-|¥
d
f life wac|taining the patent for a place, found{sunk onthe ground, no longer doubt
‘cus probation ; till Secllner; by ob-
vmself in possessioo of an easy com
ot s0|petence, and, on the followir g Sunday and vhlst he opcned his arms to,
b
As the heart of the maid that de-|irothed bride. A succession of cerc-|d
monious visits for some wecks en-|p
rought home in triumph b's long be-
grossed many of those hours that t eh
y
LC
oung couple would have devo el w
ach other. But ro sober was this
nerous duty fuifilled than they eager-
ly escaped from the intresion of soci
ety to their delicious solitude ; and
the fine summer evenings were but too
short for plans and anticipations ol
While my heart rose and fell as thelephine’s harp filled up the intervals :
of conversation, and with their harmo. [!'S tones became softer, till the melo-{ihe 1 19¢k in which the lizard was fount
pious unison secmed to sound the |dlous murmurs ceased, and all was si.
prelude to many succeeding years of lent. Seliner’s feeble frame was com-|or § feet deep inthe rock, so that th:
bliss and concord.
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anxious husband.
vous fever, which completely baffle
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Jos phine herself was perfectly sens
future felicity. Sellner’s flute and Jos-|tlon he snatched the flute, and the
icate frame, had increased a slight in’
5 disposition to fever, and she was now the flute, and prolonged its melodious
Bat Joy wav’d her pinions, and com evidently ile A physician was called a:compdinment till the tones gradually
iny who so little anticipated danger that subsided toa faintand tremulous vie
he promised a cure on the morrow [bration, and allagain was silent. Ex
But, afier a night spent in delirium |hausted by this second trial, it was
her disorder was pronounced a ner fwith difficulty that S liner tottered to
ble of her approaching dissolution, ands
encircle thee till we meet again.”
Shie bad scarcely uttered these words
when she surk on her pillow, and soon
fell into a slumber from which she
woke no more ; and when the clock
was striking nine it was observed that
she had breathed her last. The ago-
nies of Sellner may be more easily
con eived than described : during
some days it appeared doubtful wheth-
er he would survive : and when after a
confinement of some weeks, he was at
length permiited to leave his chamber
the powers of youth scemed paralys
ed, his limbs were enfecbled, his frame
emaciated, and he sunk into a state ol
stupor, from which he was only to be
roused by the bitterness of gricf.
To this poignant anguish succeeded
a fixed melancholy; a dcep sorrow
consecrated the memory of his belov-
ed: her apartment remained preciscly
in the state in which it had been lef
table lay her unfinished task ; the har
stood in her accustomed nook, un
touched and silent; every night Sell
ner went in a sort of pilgrimage to the
sanctuary of his love, and, taking hi:
tones, his fervent aspirations for the
He was thus stand-
ng mm Josephine’s apartment, lost in
hought, when a broad gleam of moon-
cherished shade.
i
t
po
ight fcll on the open window, and
from the neighboring tower the watch.
man proclaimed the 9th hour ; at this
moment, as if touched by some invis-
ble spirit, the harp was heard to res-
pond to his flute in perfect unision.—
—
Thunderstruck at this prodigy, Sell-
ner suspended his flute and the harp
ecame silent ; he then began with
deep emotion Josephioe’s favorite air.
when the harp resumed its melodious
ibrations, thrilling with ecstacy.
At this confirmation of his hopes, he
ing the presence of the beloved spiti
ciasp her to his breast, he seemed te
rink in the dieadth of spring, and a
ale glimmering light flitted befor,
's eyes. “I know thee, blessed spire
it,” exclaimed the bewildered Sellner,
thou didst promise to hover rounc
my steps, to encircle me with immor-
tal love. Thou hast redeemed thy
word ; it is t#Y breath that glows on
thy Jips ; I feel myself surrounded by
{thy presence.” With rapturous emo-
of
harp again responded, but gradually
pletely disordered by these tumultu-
One evening when Josephine had [ous emotions ; when he threw himself
played longer than usual, she sudden {on his bed, it was only to rave deliri-
y complained of head ache : she had [ously of the harp: after a sicepless
n reality risen with this sympton of {Digit he rose only to anticipate the
ndisposition, but concealed from herfrenewal of his emotions; with un.
Naturally suscepti-{spcakable impatience, he awaited the
ble of nervous complaints, the atten-{réturn of evening, when he again re-
tion which she had lent to music, and{piired to Josephine’s apartment, where
tlie emotions it had excited in her del-{as before, when the clock struck nine,
he harp began to play in concert with
Uithe chamber, where the visible altera
.he efforts of medical skill, and, onjtion in bis appearance excited so much
the 9th day was confessedly mortal. —|alarm, that the physician was again
i {called in, who, with sorrow and dis
may, detected aggravated symptoms
with mild resignation, submitted to her
fate.
Addressing her husband for the last
time she exclaimed : « My dear Ed.
ward, Heaven can witness it is with
unutterable regret that I depart from
this fair world, where I have found
with thee a state of supreme felicity ;
but though I am no longer permitted
to live in those arms, doubt not thy
faithful Josephine shail still hover
To vie with the splendor of Beauty
round thee, and as a guardian angel
of the fever which had proved so fatal
to Josephine, and so rapid was its pro
gress that in two days the patient’s
fate appeared inevitable.
Sel ner became more composed and
revealed to the physician the mysteri-
ous communications, avowing his be
lief that he should not survive the ap-
proaching evening.
could remove from his mind this fatal
pressage ; asthe day declined, it gain-
ed strength ; and he carnestly cntreat-
No arguments
Josephine’s apartment.
sooner reached the well known spot
han he gazed with ineffable satisfac-
ion on every object endeared by al-
fectionate remembrance.
The evening hour advanced ; he dis-
missed his attendants, the physician
alone remaining in the apartment,—
When the clock struck nine, Sellner’s
countenance was suddenly illuminated
the glow of hope and pleasure flush-
ed in his wan cheeks, and he passion
ately exclaimed, greet me once more
at parting that I may overcome the
pangs of death.” At these words the
harp breathed forth a strain of jubilee ;
a sudden gleam of light, waved round
the dying man, who, on beholding the
bed
sign, again exclaimed, « 1 come,
come to thee,” and sunk senseless on
the couch, + It was in vain that the as-
‘onished physician hastened to his as.
sistance, and he too late discovered
that life had yielded in the conflict. It
was long before he could bring himself
‘0 divulge the mysterious circumstan
ces which had preceded Sellner’s dis
solution ; but once, in a moment of
~onfidence, he was insensibly led to
the detail to a few intimate
friends, and finally produced the harp,
make
:d as a last request, to be conveyed toja respectable Scotch emigrant, named
Sellner no/James Dick, bathing near Lachine, and
—
-
ignorant of the sudden declivity of the
bottom, got beyond his depth, was hure
vied away by the current, and was
drowned. He has left a wife and no
less than eleven children in indigens
circumstances. “It was a wolul sight”
says our informant, speaking of (he
latter, to see them running to and fro
on that part of the beach where his
clothes lay ; whilst the mother, poor
woman ! remained ignorant of it,
through the prudent measures of the
settlers, until, alas ! it was too certain’
that he had gone to that bourne from
which no traveller returns. On its
heing communicated to her she became
bewildered and could not believe it,
ill grief choked her and she tainted, A
On recovering surrounded by her nue v
merous offspring, it was a sight to £
melt the most cbdurate heart ; but the
'vil was irremidable, and the next day,
she piously told me in a tone scarely
andible, that she resigned herself to the
will of her all merciful Creator,
Upon our worthy governor being ine
formed of the circumstances, he with
nis characteristic benevolence, direct.
ed that the grant of land and other sup-
port, which was ‘o have been given to
‘he father, should be continued to the
:Idest son and. mother for the fgure
maintenance of the family, for which
they were very gratelul, and proceed-
:d with their settlers to their place of
destination, the new scutlement of
Lanark.”
Se
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From the Charleston Courier.
N
The exhibition of the rattlesnake in
as a legacy from the dead.
Fmd
NATURAL HISTORY.
A short time since as David Virtue
mason, at Auchtertool, a village 4
miles distant from Kirkaldy in Scot
from a large block, after cutting awa:
a part, he found a lizard imbeded io
the stone. It was about ons inch and
a quarter long, of a brownish yellow
colour, round head, with bright spark-
ling projecting eyes. When found it
was apparently dead, but after laying
it begun to shew signs of life. Oue
ot the workmen put snuff on its eyes,
which seemed to give the ani nal great
pain : it soon ran forwards and back-
wards with great celerity. After the
tapse of about hall an hour, it was
brushed off the s'one and killed —
Whea found the animal was lying in 2
round cavity coiled up thus O, the
cavity itself being an exact impression
of the animal. This stene is naturally
a little damp ; and about half an inch
all round the animal was of a soft sand,
itself.
There were about 14 fect of earth
the same color as the animal
above the rock, and the spot where
was cut from the quarry, about seven
animal was from 21 to 22 feet from the
surface- The stone was perfectly
solid, without fissure, quite hard, an
one of the best to be got from the
perhaps the best in Scot{and.
From the Albany Siatcsman.
A gentleman from one of the north-
western states related to me a few days
since the following anecdote, as illus
trative of the sense of honor and devo!
ed sentiments which characterise many
sf the Indian warriors.
Several years ago, a treaty held witl,
some Indian tribes at Vincennes, in
Indiana, at which the celebraied Te
cumseh was present, General Harris
on acted as one of the comm’ssioner:
on the part of our goversment. A
bower had been erected in a field ad-
joining the town for the meeting oi
the parties.
opened, General Harrison handed sey
and gentlemen who were present be
fore he offered one to Tecumseh, On
handing one to him, the haughty war-
rior thrust it aside ; and surveyed those
sion of pride and contempt, threw
bimself nto a declining posture on the
ground. Gen. Harrison endeavored
to sooth him, and, through the iuter-
preter, asked whether he intended tc
offend his Great Father. « My fath
er ! said the indignant chief : the Sux
is my father, and the Earta is my
her bosom.”
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From the Montreal Herald, July 7.
which he had appropriated to himscif
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land, was dressing a barley mill-stone
about five minutes exposed to the air,
quarry of Cullaloe, which quairy is
Before the council was
eral chairs to the American officers
around him, with a mingled expres-
mother, and I will repose myself on
CASUALTY.—On the 25th ultimg
the act of destroying and devouring a
rat, 1s represented to be well worth
the attention of the curious, and of
strangers In particular,
1fforded an
hese are
of
-eeing this formidable reptile, who
opportunity
oe
ar
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Ra
“ad nearly occupied the place of the
“
agle on the American arms, being
He dif-
fers from others of his kind, in this, it
hey
a
=
part ofthe original design.
Ah
is said, that he eats during his confine-
ment, and justifies his killing the rat
hy immediately devouring him.
I'he rat on this occasion, becomes
an object of interest, if not of coms
passion. He acquires, perhaps, some-
a
thing of dignity from the sacrifice.—
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Not an inappropriate use of these ani-
mals was once made by the a
at Cambridge Massachusetts. The ;
people of Boston roasted an ox on the
British treaty being approved by the
The Cams-
bridge scholars on the same day roast-
American government.
ed a rat with much ceremony, On
being asked the reason for doing $0,
they replied that they were ratify=
ing,” the British treaty.
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MEMORY. 1
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By Henry Neale. 3
for €’en in thoughts serencst hour, i
When past delightsare folt, : ]
And mciuory siines on scenes of woe, <
Tis like the moon-beam on the snow, *
That gilds but cannot melt : is
{hat th a mockery lustre gery « »
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But leaves 11 checrless as before.
Her sweetest song will only tell
Of long departed noon ; : .
Of things we lov’d alas | how well, pk
And Jost, alas | how soon;
For feelings blasted, hopes defers
And secret woes unseen, urheard,
By the cold crowd around,
Will rise and make their plaintive
moan,
And mingle with her softer tone,
Till 21 their murmurs, drown’d
Her lyre shall loose its soothing flow,
And only tell a tale of woe.
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ADVICE IN COURTSHIP.
Air—¢ How to gain a womans favor.”
Kitty, tender, gay and bloomir g, :
Lover ! wouldst”thou hope to gain 2°
Warmly court, grow more presuming 3.
Maids despise the bashful swam,
When she’s coldest
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Press her boldest ;
Fondly seiz: her,
Clasp her, tease her; .
Let her be thus warmly pres’t 8:
And you’ll soon you'll soon be blest.
But if; after every trial,
Every proof of tender art,
she with coldness and denial
Still proves coy, and mocks your
smart ;
Cease dull whining, A
Moping, pining, eh
Vex her, grieve her, X
Slight her, leave her, |
Stamp 3 frown, swear, and bid adieu, |
Cease to court, and-—and she'll court -
ped tytn, ik §