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INFANCY AND MATURE AGE.
AN APALOGUE,
( Men ere but Children of larger growth. )
| Ties eight o'clock, and near the fire
2 My ruddy little boy was seated,
And with the title ot a Sire
My cars expected 10 be greeted.
"Pat vii the thought! By sleep oppress’d
; No Father there the child descrd
= lis bead reclin’d upon bis beast,
SO nodding roli’d irom side to side.
0
Let this young Rogue be sent to bed’
Adore 1 had not time tos ty
CW hen the poor urchin ras:d his head
To beg might {suger stay.
etused ; towards rest bis steps he pept
“AVith tearlul eye and aching heart
Bat claim’d his playthings, ete be went,
. And 1e0k up stairs Lis horse and cart.
that he
Q
x rew delay, though of deny’d,
; ‘He ple: ded j—wildly crav’d the boon 3
oy hf his usual hour, he cried
Beha bf £3 50
es im, his grief I shar’d
(TE amovd who go ears his © fispring weep 1)
nol sonthing ¥ af despan”’ d >
+ When all big cares aie lost in sleep.
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8 away £0011.
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«Alas! per Tif
¢ 1 iy Fa yer
Tne!l which ve
The folli
The vain reo
Which the
Portrays of
When doem’d
3p V1 exclaimed,
Ushes now to SCAN,
lately bis m’d,
d the fears of man;
et brief,
u hast known, sent up to bed,
the idle frie f, f
to slumber with the dead’
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ret, the
Man
Add more 1 thought, when up the stairs
With ¢ loneing ling’ring looks’ he crept 3
Lo mark of \. any t childish cares,
His p aytiings caretolly he kept.
ius morials on hfs later st age,
When pature claims thie ir forfeit breath,
Sail grasp at wealth, in Sain and oge,
Aud cling to golden toys in death.
he
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*Tis morn ! and sce my smiling Boy
Awukes.to bail returning light ;
To feariess uglier ! boundless joy
Forget the tears of yester night !
Thus shall not Man forget his we?
Survive of age and death the gloom 7
Smile at the cares be knew below ?
And renovated burst the tomb ?
|
0, my Creator | when thy will
Shall stretch tis frame
Let that blest hop2 sustain me still,
"Tul thought, sease, mem’ry—all
And graicful for what thou may’st give,
No tear shall dim my fading eye ;
That ’twas thy pleasure I should Lye
That tis thy mandate bids me die,
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rom the Literary Cazctle.
I.OVERS’ WHEN !
should Invers hreathe their vows?
should ladies hear them?
w 3 on the boughs,
are near thems
When
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When none else
When ines cold and pale,
When the biids are sleeping 3
When no voice is on the gale,
When the ros- is weepin 23
When the stars are bright on high,
Iike hope in voune Lov:’s dreaming,
And elancine round the licht clouds fiy,
Tike soft te 12 to ¢hade their beaming.
The fairest smiles are those that live
On the brow starlight wreathing ;
nd their lips the riches: incense give
; When the sighs are at midnight breathing,
: ‘Oh, sofiest is the cheelk’s love-ray
When seen by moon'ight’s hours 3
DO iBer roses scek the day
E But blushes are night flowers.
Ob, when the moon and stars are
When the dew-drops glisten,
A'hen their vows uld lovers pii
Theo should 1 dies listen.
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tage Ceme: try.
The sun was just setting in the west,
still autumnal even;
secking their nests ; the
dog, trudging along to his
bome ; and
Spokes, the waggoner, and Sall Mayflower the.
gg ’ y
dairy maid, might be seen behind the
demeanor snd looks, were those of a arent leman, fewer,
pid the man of education, entered the village: s always before him, and he arden
bementry to inquire of the sexton, (whom he
caw there busily enzaged in digging a grave) purposes, is yet spared him.
he risidence of some person ; he had Ppa
(prety near him for that purpose; when, th
as 4 ]$
on earth’s cold bed,
are fled ;
;. the feathered tribe were
labourer, merrily whist \der-hearted sexton
WwW i unable to bear
hedge, se
‘ealing an interview--when a strancar, whose
¢ man stopped [rom his employment, and rest+
ing on his spade, exclaimed,“ Well wi iy shouldit
'f take on thus, who have du ug ail the graves
tor this forty years past in this village ; why
tear might
should I be thus moved !”-——a
if asham-|
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seen trembling in his eye, and he, as |
cd of his feelings, set himsell busily to work, re-|
peating, ¢ On! it was cruel, very cruel and |
in spite of himself the tears rolled from ofF his]
furrowed cheeks, ¢ What is so cruel, my friend]
can | relieve you 2” said the stranger, approach: |
ing nearer, and discovering himsecll to the sex: |
ron, I’ll tell you what is cruel,’ said the old|
man, who appeared above sixty years old—bc c|
was certainly sixty, he might be sixty hve, let |
ting fall his spade, and elevating himself at the,
same timo quite animated—:¢ I'll ell you what is’
cruel, and sce if you do not say with me, il
there is one crime deserves more punishment
than another, it is this, listen ; two old prople had
a daughter, in whom their life and happiness
were centered ; by her industry they were sup-
norted— Oh | she was a lovely creaturc~—~my
old dame is dead, sir, and she sweet creature,
when [ was taken ill in the winter, comforted,
consoled, and administered unto me—but she
will balgpwerded TERE, said the old man, 1€v-
erently pointing to Heaven, she will be reward-
ed THERE ! but mark me, sir; A young feliow
came to this place, he saw her and marked hei
for his prey; she saw bim and alse loved him,
while he took advantage of her misplaced affec
but
‘he curse of two broken hearted old parents wiil
tion, and roined her; heaven’s. wrath an
¢ Tt willy it will,
¢ Aye
(will it,” continued the sexton ; he was a seducer ;
follow him wherever be goes.’
exclaimed the stranger, convulsively,
| what was the end on’t 2 why the end oft was
Lt a sweet creature died of a broken heartabut
by!
she’s proceeded the
s gone, she’s gone, I trast,
old man, quite affected, ¢ where sin and sorrow
never enter, and this is her grave, pointing to
an opening : yes, soon will the corpse of her,
who when in Ite was so lovely, be interred i
the receptacle for the dead ; yes she who was
once all joy and honor, the comfort and support
of lier parents, the rich and the aged’s consola-
”»
tion ¢ Her name, her name,’ cried the stran
gery convelsively, and seizing hold of the ol
ma >s arm. '—Her rame was Emily Leslie !’
What,’ exclaimed the stranger, with a hasty
|death-like hue, his frame violently agitated, and
bis eyes ne
+ Emily
the sexton.
arly starting from their sockets—
Leslie '—¢ Bat you look unwell,’ sai
In fact so he did;
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with ap universal trembling, his features wer
he was seized
distorted, the blood forsook his faces bis teeth
chattered, a cold sweat starting from his fore.
head, his livid countenance expressing the dis.
o der ef his mind, and before the old man ceuld
offer his assistance, a hoarse unnatural screams
and with hysterica’
The
sexton hastened to raise him, ard on attentively
escaped from bis breast,
laugh he fell prostrate on the ground.
behalding his countenance, he saw before him
the SEDUCER of Emily Leslie.
pulse was to rush from him ;
we
His first im
but the sexton was
a christian ; the man he most despised was now
before him, but he recollected he was a fellow
being and in distress, Tle had him conveyed
to his friends, where he was scized with a burn
would not do.
The imare of Emily Leslie, the
pride of the village, was still before him ; he
turned and turned in his bed, but it would
appear before him. His fever became mor
violent, and in a few Loars he became delirious ;
but ne was suffered tolive. Afier two weeks
[Formica Saccharivera,
jated by a hurricane,
rom.all his
ing fever, he endeavored to shake it off, but it{
&
hint
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tal of the above, which is founded on a fac
bat occuired not long since.
«Te
A late number ol the Edinburg Review cob
ains am article ow the natural history of in
sects, from which the following curious ex
tact is taken =
« The account of the ant of Bairbadoes, the
is almost terrific ; and
\we refer to it, because we know the authority te
be good. The ant in question appeared about
Fry
AJ
yeats ago in such Infinite kosts on the isl
id of Grenada as te put a stop to the cultiva
non of sugar cane. A reward of 20.000/ was
loffered to any one who should discover an effac-
‘tual mode of destroying them. Their numbers
'ware incredible ; they descended from the hills
like (orreats, and the plantations, as well as cy.
ery path aad road, for miles were filled with
them. Rats, mice,
ome ¢f the domestic quadrupeds, were kilicd
hy them | Streams of water opposed only a tem-
porary obsacie to their progress; the foremost
rushing blindly on to certain death, and fresh] °
armies continually following, till a baok was
formed of the ca‘cases of those that were diown-
«d, sufficient to dam up walers, ard allow the
They
“ven rushed into the fires that were lighted to
main body to pass over in safety below,
stop them. This post was at length extermin-
The Mahomedans say there are five things
which 2 wise man will ground no hopes on— |
the color of a cloud. because imag: vary ; the
friendship of the covetons, because meicenary ;
Jcauty, besause frail ; praise because airy ; and
lie praise of this wo
=
because deceitful,
—t pr RD FER
A writer says, + (ihacco exhausts those juices
“0 essentially necessar iry irestion ; i
y sary to further digestion ; it
creates thirst and nassen j it destroys anpetites
the complexion becomes cadaverous ; finally:
the chewer and smoker becemes a poor missra
le,
cxtenuated atrophic, walking skeleton.
smoking away his fo remaining ideas, and
spitting up his langs, until death releases hin:
suff The truth, we baligye,
is, that to many constitutions tobacco is hurif
—~10 oth ers Innocent ;
‘tines?
2 1138,
3 and that the true course
5 for those who find it i:jurious, to ahstain from
That it is pernicious to young peo
ole geaerally, is past doub! sand therefore its use
Joy them ought ts be forbidden or discouraged
TEDL ———
Missionaries.
The following is an extract from an address
lelivered by the Rev, T. Gallaudet, at Hartford,
onhecticut.
¢« Ab we sometimes hear the propiiety of
its use.
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Female
such adventures, as they are termed, called
question. Tor it is easy and pleasant for those
tus who sit quietly by our own fice side, #11
rounded with comiotis and luxury, to wonder a
the rashness of those who embark in such haz
ardous enterprises ; and while we shrink from
self denial, and do so little for the cause of
Christ, we hope in some measure to palliate ou:
neglect by finding fault with those who do more
And, strange as it may seem, woman--sent by
Heaven, as a help mate for man ; designed tc
share and soothe his sorrows ; Lo participate in,
and lighten his cares; to excite by her gen
ler influence, and inv gorate by her kind re
monstrances his languishing effort in the path
of duty ;—~Wom
courage,
an—who may bave less active
but more unbending fortitude thai
nar; whose instinctive good sense extricates
from difficuliies which his boasted sagacity|
of severe sufliring the disease yielded to the:
or , lave ariel 3
aetmedics employed, and in afew weeks he was
[restored to bealth. Daring his illaess the ten
pined, drooped,
her
the loss of whom he Lad
ever cons'dered and loved as his daughter. T ge
educer yet ives, a living monument of mise: ry,
(his Ji fe a burthen to him ; the lovely form of that
whom bis pestiferous breath has blasted.
tly calls on
death to terminate bis existence, which, for wise
Numerous are such seducers in the world
s
and dred |i
]
[man may be tbe adinired
“a yt ; . {
zannot surmount—_Woman—who, like the ves-!
I virgin of old, keeps bright the lamp of do-
tmestic piety in the quiet ‘of her retirement,
while man suffers its fiame to be extinguished
i. { "th OVP rin %
n the tumultuous bustle of the world ;--Wo
heroine of a novel ; orl
follow her busband throu gh the
fatig ues of
al
military campaign, and attend bim amid all the
wrrors of war ; or t: averse with him the mi; ;b- |
ty deep, and spend y earsin some sultry clime,
13 c i
while he is toiling to make his foriupemshel
may do all this and receive the loudest plau-
dite £3 vr ly 3 3 1rd:
adits of approbatien {ur her intrepidity and cop-!
jstancy ; but let her become the partner of some
@
ejiet them learn an admonitoiy lesson from
Ls if
(IAS
'tles of the cross, and
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reptiles, birds, and cven
Let Pers
| A
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cheose of
lo win
crown, and to lay up treasure
she no longer has any claim (0
and for itude of soul ; she must cous uu.
he reproach of weakness or rashness.
“ Take up this
Zion, and patiently endure it : followers of her,*
reproach, ye daughters of
Yew iA bay ad : iis
whose dust reposes in India, but whose Bpitit
10W rejoices in Heaven over her past sufivrines
im the cause of Christ ; and m: iy the same arm
which shielded Rebekah, who, at the call of
Piovidonce left her kis died and home, even the
Almighty arm of the God of Abrabam, of Isaac
wd of Jacob
—
» Ever Sustain and protect you,”
*tHarriet Newell.
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From the Presh: tcvian Magazine,
HENRY MARTYN.
Mr. Editor—The following
it Robert K. Porter’s
sia and
extracts from
travels in Georgir, Per
respecting Henry Martyn,
sugested the stanzas which accompany
Armenia,
them,
As the extracts have never appeared in any res
ligious publication in this counts Vy they will
{doubtless be acc ep:able to your readers.
“ At Shiraz,” says Sir Robert, « Martyn
dwelt nearly a year; and on leaving its walls,
the apostle cf Christianity found no cause for
¢ shaking off the dust of his feel? arainst the
Mahomed n city. The inhabitants had receis
ed, cherished and lis: and bie de
-
ctied to him ;
parted thence amidst the blessings and teats of
many a Persian friend. Through his means,
the gospel had then found its way into Persia?
e and as it appears to have been sown in kind! ly
y bali
hearts, the gradual effect herzal like
Her ma
the harvest of the seeding.”
“ The attentions of my Lost were so unwea.
ried that I never could fcrget 1 was mthe
house of ihe near kinsman of the two noble
Persizns, Jaffier Ali Khon, and Mirza Seid Ally
who hid sworn the warmest personal friends’, p
0 our mat of God,” for so they designit.d
Henry Martyn ! When the weather became (oo
intense for his enfeebled frame to bear the exe
treme heat of the city, Jaffier Ali Khan pliched
hitful
vond the walls, where he pursued his! translae
a tent for bim ina most delig garden be”
tion of the scrptures ; or sometimes m the cool
of the even ng, he sat under the shade of an
range tree, by the side ofa clear stream, hold
ing that style of conversation w th the two admi-
rable brothers, which caused their pious guest
¢ ‘Uhat the bed of roses on which he re
ch
{0 say,
clined, ard the notes of the nightingales whi
so sweet as such
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war. ld above him were not
discourse from Persiun lips.
[n orange groves on Shiraz’s plains,
A Ghristian pilgrim taught : ;
Fwo Persian princes heard those siraing,
With sacr.d science fiaught,
With anxious eagerness they heard
I'he heavenly truths he told,
Recorded in th t Horny Worp
Revealed to sai
Uheir
heir diffi
And win
Th
i’hen, as
Jpon their mental night,
Cher tongues with holy rapture
And hail the rising light.
Sweet were the banks of roses sp
Around his cool retreat,
And sweet the orange ¢’er Lis he
Which sheltered from the
O sweet the mellow 4 aintive
Of lonely nighiingal
And sweet the pe frie
By every spicy gale.
Far sweeter to that pilgrim’s car,
Than sensual pleasuies all,
1s ol old.
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gr ton {8100 (1183 cared,
culties ceased,
he caim d each trembling fear,
le hopes increased,
bre;
pp
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Sr num
the dawn bepan to k
speak,
read
pe
2s
lie: at
sweplalodg
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‘|Sweeter from Persian lips to hear
Such heavenly accents fa'l.
And w ovldst rhou know that pig jerim’s name?
ia's clime declare ;
here tis embalmed- i bighest fame
In pious tears and prayer.
Thy memory, Mart1yY¥, long be dear
To every Christian he
j.ong _— thy bt igh’ 5 but
love fitke thine unpart,
On cred mantle fall,
| And, with ii, double grace
On isstonay herocs all,
‘Who run thy Christian jace!
(0), thea, not Persii’s sons alot
(Would know und feel the Word :
ot the wile world is truth shou! d own,
| bow Lelore the Lord.
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He who loses the sun in kus spots—g beantis
ful face ina few freckies—and 4 prand char-
jacter in a few Darinless singularivies——mav
WO appclaiions, Gie—wrenohead of