posegays--they wear them with pride whil jample—~my day bas gone by=tonce I wag
they are blooming, but cast them off when they young, but now I am old’~—and they must do fqn
wither, and gather those that are more fresh.|I say, not 8s 1 do; and the best wish that I can % :
{The bachelor, who is thus repelled, can onlyjput up for them is—that they wil) avoid the fate
{solace bimsel! by exclaiming in the bitterness of and profit Ly the sober refiectinns, of
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in that neighborhood, by ene of those geod na-
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MIDNIGHT SOLILOQUY.
BY WwW. B, TAPPAN,
The following reflections are evidently not from {his heart :
one of thes: who would exclaim with Cinna,
the Poet, wisely I am a bachelor.” The
churlish chidinge of a December blast have
inspired my correspondent with other
thoughts, and he has uttered a fervent exhor-)
tation to matrimony, for which peradveature.
« Strange that a breast so formed to move,
Jo ahi the elegance of love,
should harbour danger and deceit,
And spurn the form it sought to greet !
strange that an eye so soit, so bright
With all the grace of eastern light,
Th bum of care, the blaze of day,
Have fled, or sunk in shade, away ;
The apxious mind, the plodding brow,
‘Released, are lost in slumber now :
E’en hrppiness is hushed in sleep,
And grief intense forget’s to weep;
Creation owns the soothing power,
is Midnight's lone, majestic hour.
Now, while yon s.pphires speck the gloom,
Aad the iich Cynosure iliume ;
* While the pale lamp, wanes dit apace,
My srul in wakefol maod shall trace,
Not scenes of old—-but future years,
The Future ! dread recess of fears
~~ Often biniz hope, of keen desire,
Olshall I seck an angel’s lyre,
- Or ask the prophet’s holy eye,
To scan thy depibs, Futurity !
Say ! shall the disembedied soul,
© Winder where liquid planets roll ?
Oz in some hig'.er heaven, enjoy,
"he bliss, thai deathless ne'er can cloy ?
Or shall the Lssence, frequent here,
The haunts, once known, perhaps now dear !
Y¥ith kwrily errand, hover nigh,
‘Wipe every tear—dispel the sigh,
Attend frail mortals to the hour,
Of final peice-—with holy power,
Suppert them in the arms of death,
And take the calmly yielding breath ?
Shall it—but anxious thought, forbear !
Enough, that with protecting care,
A Father ! Comforter, is near,
Thy Surety—thy Allis here !
The scerets of the vaulted skies,
The bright emporium, Farts descri-s,
With chastened dread, let hope, theg soar,
And humbly, warmly, still adore,
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CASTLE IN THE AIR.
BY THOMAS PAINE.
The author had long corresponded with a lady
of literary taste, who sent her letters trom ¢ 7%,
Little Corner of the World,” while he as fan-
cifully, dated bia from the & Castle in the Air.”
#ho sudderly and mysteriously suspended this
epistelary intercourse, and our poet heard noth-
ip from his fair correspondent, until some
‘years after, he met herin Paris, married to an
English nobleman, of distinction and wealth.—
The interview gave birth to this beautiiul cf
fusion :
FROM THE «CASTLE IN THE AIR’
Zo the ¢ Little corner ofthe World.
Jo the region of clouds where the whirlwinds
3 arise,
My « Castle of Fancy” was built ;
The turrets reflected the blue of the skies,
Aad my windows with sunbeams were gilt.
The rainbow, sometimes, in its beautiful state.
Enamell’d the mansion around ;
And the picture, that Fancy, in clouds cin cre-
ate,
Supplied me with garden and groand.
I had grcttos, and fountains, and orange tree
groves ;
I had all that enchantment has told ;
f had sweet shady waiks for the gods and their
loves 3
* 1 had mountains of coral and gold.
But a storm that I felt not, had risen, and roll’d,
While wrapt in a slamber I lay ;
And when I looked out in the morning, behold !
My castle was carried away .
It pass’d over rivers, and vallies and groves,
The World ! it was all in my view ;
i thought of my friends, of their fates, and their
loves,
And often, full often of you.
tength it came over a beautiful scene,
"That nature and silence had made ;
The place was but small, but twas sweetly se-
rence, 3 i
And chequer’d with sunshine and shade,
3 gard, and Y envied with painful good will,
Aud grew it'd of my seat in the air;
When all on 2 sudden, my castle stood still,
As if some attraction were there.
Like a lark from the sky, it came fluttering
fy d xactly in view .
d plac’d me ¢ vj ;
on should I meet, in this charming re-
treat,
* Yn this corner of calmness, but you.
~hted to find you in honor and case,
=|t No More Sorrow nor pam ;
1 ascended the
Deli
Re wind coming fair,
breeze : :
Aad went back with my castle agais,
{The ladica use their beaux as they do their
he may be rewarded by a nosegay of bachel-
o's buttons from some of the sisterhood,
Ix this inclement season when Nature, Fke a
lovely nun, has veiled herself in soowy vest
ments, and no longer spreads her roses, and he:
lillies, & her thousand soft enchantments to the
delighted eye of man, it may not be unprofitable
to indulge those meditations which the passing
hour inspires. © The father of the: tempest’
has come forth in all his majesty, and the litile
creatures of this world fly before him, or sink
benumbed at his approach. The songster has
left the grove, the beast retired to bis cover, and
even the poet finds the currant of his genius
frozen. To the poor this is the season of su:
preme poverty, and the wretched feel that the
haod of God is upon them. But of all the ani-
mated world the solitary Bachelor has most
reason to dread the apjroach of winter—coid
and comtortless is his habitation—the raging
blast whistles mournfully to his ears, for, like
Park in the wilderness, he has ¢ no mother to
bring him milk, no wife to grind his corn.” He
was idle in the harv:st, and has gathered no
grain ; he strolled in the vineyard until the!
grapes grew sour. Like the foolish virgins ia
the parable, he bas neglected until too late, to
procure that which is essential to his happiness:
—:nd lo ! the winter cometh, and he has no
wife ! Such a man do I profess myself” —
The benevolent reader will therefore exercise
a charitable patience, if he find my speculations
asd Il as I myself am solitary, nor marvel tha
the meditations of an isolated being, who shivers
over a lonely hearth, without a partner to com’
fort, or a friend to enliven, should evaporate in
sober reflections, §
Wintry, indeed is the heart,—bleak and cold
arc the prospects of an Old Bachelor. He
stands alone liko the tree in the desert wastes
when the wind whistles smong its leafless
branches. As the waters freeze and cease to
flow, when the warmth et the sun is withdrawn,
so does his blood congeal wien the smiles of
beauty ¢ ase to play about his heart. If he
look out upon the trees, and behold thei
spreading tops | oaded with snowy clusters, they
remind bim of the hoary 1.cks that will soon
adorn his own temples. To others age is hon.
Th
wise son of {i ach bas said that ¢ a faithiul
orable, but to him it brings no pleasure.
iriend is the medicine of hife”~but a bachelor
has no friend. In this woill the only ¢ friend
who sticketh closer than a brother,’ is a virtu-
ous wi'e.
Such are the cool reflections of him who
lives and dies in ¢ single blessedness ;* aud
there is scercely an hour of the day; or an
event in life, which does net produce something
to awaken them. When the spring of youth
bas passed away, and his manhood has mellow
ed to the¢ sear and yellow leaf,’ he look,
round among his early compaaions for a friend
—but some have removed to a distant coustry
He
seems to have stood still while others pressed
some are married, and some are dead.
forward in the race of life : and there is none
left whose feelings are congenial with his own.
Some have lcft the stage of existence, while oth-
ers have assumed its important characters ; but
he remains a single gentleman, neither richer
wiser, nor by Ais own account, older, thai When
he began the world ; and he now exclaims with
Hamlet, * how weary, stale, flat and unprofita-
ble appear to me the uses of zis ife.”
But although the old bachelor may be willing
to call himself a young man, he soon discovers
that the ladies are far from agreeing with im
in opinion. He that was once thought an agree.
able partner in a country dance, a brilliant wit
and even = tolerable poet, now finds his jokes
neglected, and his verses without a listener.—
1 And after fresher objects stray
of sweet and bitter fancy,”
brow ot a bachelor.”
cheer the solitude of a
Should gaze a while, then turn away,
But he still loves to bask in the sunbeam of
beauty : An old wagon-horse loves the crack
of the whip--and a superanuated beau delight
in the caprices of his fair tyrants. Like the
worn out charger, turned out to graze, he wil
bow his neck and point his ears, at the sound o!
the trumpet. Indecd, I am of the opinion that
a bachtlor should never despair, tar ¢ while there
js life there is hope’—and |
« There swims no goose so gray, but soon or
late,
May find some honest gander for a mate.”
Moses, the Jewish lawgiver, was forty years old
wien he went to the land of Midian; but having
been brought up by Pharaob’s daughter, he
bad figured in the best circles, and was doubt-
public accomodation.
near Winchester; bot from the p
quently exist
It scems that the pedlep
r the pight at a tavern
: rejudice frea
X Fanst this cigssy; our host for
a. pi ume refused. At last, he consented on
corcbition that the pedler should play Lim a
Yankee tick before he kfthiny, The offer was
accepted. On rising in the morning, Jonathan
carefully secured the connterpane of the bed,
which among other articles, hq pressed the lands
lady to purchase. Thy jow pice of the coun
terpane operated al once upop the latter, who
bud insisted that her husband should boy it,
adding that it would mutch I er’s exactly Jon.
athan took his money, mounicd his cart, and
got fairly under way, when ow host called to
him, that be bad forgotten the Yankee trick he
wus to play upon him. —¢ O never mind,”
says Jovnathan, ¢« yeu will find it out soon
¢nough !”
1csired accomodation fi
1
ine a
tip SAE po Ae
During the examinations of surgeons for the
army or navy, it is well known that the veterang
less an accomplisaed man. When he saw Jette
ro’s daughters watering their flocks at the wei,
he showed himself to be much of a gentleman .
ior he politely stepped forward and drew wate
lor them. Thuis gailuniry of Moses was no’
uurcwaided, for se became the busband of ene
ol the fuir shepherdesess whose labours he bag
lightencd. Gentlemen of forty should remein
ber the example of Moses, and not become
“ weary of weil doing.”” Let them loiter by th,
fountains, where nymphs resort, aud practise
civility, en haply they may be rewarded with
smiles as sweet and as sinccre as those tha
beamed on the delighted Israclite.
‘The good Book has said, ¢ be in peace witl
cribcd in the Scripture, ¢ when it is old, thou
shalt drink it with pleasure.” |
which may be done to-day.
until a more convenient season, may share the
fate of the maiden, who went out into the field
to gather flowers. While her compan ons cull
ed the choicest buds, she was lisicning to the
melody of the birds, and chasing the yellow
winged butterflies. When she saw all the res
adorned with garlands, she bethought hersel’
'of gathering also a wreath, As she Lad delay
| her choice so long, she was now resolved to
outshine her fair companions—but she could
find no flowers to please her fastidious taste.
At last she was roused by the voices of her
friends—the merry troop were about to returp
home—she could not bare to be left or to go
unudorned, and grasping hastily the nearest bud’
she placed it in her breast, and found, too late,
it was a thistle! Beware, then how ye loiter
by the way--listen not to the song of the syren-
nor chase ihe butterflies of pleasure—but gath’
er the flowers while they bloom, nor wait until
it be too late, lest ye grasp a weed.
I shail new conclude with a few practical re.
marks. “It is not good for man to be alone.”
He is a social creature, and must have company.
Woman is the
$e——-nearest and lovel
He can twine with hims
his own !
est thing
clf ; and make closely
and if he neglect to secure the happiness of her
society, be must cling to something else which
may turn out to be less Congeaial with his 15.
ture. While the bachelor is « chewing the cud
the married man has
many sociable, quiet duties to employ his time
“As a walled town Is more honorable than a vil-
age,’ says Shakespeare, © so is the forehead of
amarried man more horsorable than the bare
Let{ him then, who would
W inter’s evening and
avert the horrors of old agje, get married. My
friends aust not expect mie to set them the ex-
of that respectable class, question very minutel¥
those who wish to become qualified: ~Afier an-
swering very satisfactorily to the DUMErous itis
quirivs made, a young gentleman was bsked, if -
fie wished to give nis patient a profuse perspi-
rat:on, what he would prescribe ? He mentioned
many diaphoretic medicines in case the first fail.
¢d, and had some hopes that he should pass
with ct: dit; but the unme: ciful querist thus con-
‘inued : ¢ Pray, Sir, suppose none of these suce
ceeded w!at step would you take pext Vem
« Why, Sir, rejoined the enraged and harrassed
many, nevertheless, have but one counsellor ;°
and I willadd let that counsellor be a females
and have her lawlully sworn in, according to
the good oid Bresbyterian form, to ¢ Jove honors
and obey’—then shell she belike the wine des-
We are told to defer not till to-morrow that.
‘The bachelor who
neglects to enjoy, ¢ the Jast best gift of Heaven’
son of Escalapius, * I would send him here to
he examined, and if that would not give hima
sweat, I do not know what would.”
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A NOBLECHARACTELR.
a Tchekaual on, a celebrated Todian chief, whe
commanded the Upitrd Indians, at the defeat of
general St. Clair, in 1793, was an uncommon
man ; for with the talents and fame of a great
warrior, he was the uniform suppovier of peace
end good order, among five or six tribes, whoo
put their trust in him ; simple, wise, and tems
pera‘e, butardent in his pursuits ; speaking dif-
ferent languages eloquently; attached to the
principal chief of his nation, whom be support~
ed, though he might have supplanted him; he
prescrved his dignity in every situation, by a
correct reserve ; to his friends, he was, as it
were, unembodied, showing all the movements
of bis soul ; gay, witty, pathetic, and playful by
‘urns, as feelings were drawn forth ; byt, above
all things, he was sheer.
COURAGE, MONSIEUR.
A benevolent I'renchiman, ignorant of oup
language, accidentally went into a place of wors
ship in the country, while the preacher was
whining out his dolorous accents, in the ¢ Praise-
God-barchones’ style ; aud, commisserating his
apparent distress, and hoping that his circum-
stances were not quite so bad as he seemed to
represent them, called out for the impulse of
humanity, courage monsiear."”
A Yapkee pedler, on his way to the west
with a two horse load of notiens, put up at the
house of an honest datchman between Harrig«
burg and wheeling, and as it bappcped was des
tained there three er four days by a heavy rain
which made the roads and streams impassible.
At last the sky brightened up and he hitched
too, but when the reckoning came to be paid
which was 10, Janathan rcquested the host to
score 1t until he returned fiom lis voyage, pro-
mising very honestly to discharge it then.
This did not suit tle dutchman, however, who
insisted on the cash, which was at last reluce
tantly paid him. It was hen the custom, as it
Is now, te treat a traveller, upon payment of
his bill, to a glass, and the tavern keeper was
never backward in following the custom. Bat
on banding out a mug of clear cider, Jonathan
remaiked shrewdly that it would make fine
wipe, and said he bad a secret by which through
a short process he could convert cider into the
best of wine. This put Mynheer on the net-
ties ; possess it he must, 50 finally took the
yankee up on his offer of putting the cider into °
the process of wine making, for $10 down, and
lhe landlord’s mind. Jonathan was according-
ly covduc’ed 10 the celier, and having procured
a half inch augur, bored a hoic 'n 5
the hogshead of cideryand directed
iw the other end, and then ordered him to
stretch his other arm so 2s to cover that also,
having thus got tie unsuspecting dutchman
into business, he directed him to remain so un-
Lil he cut two epiggots for the holes, and walks"
ing out to his waggon jumped in and was of,
leaving his credulous friend to make wine «of
his cider the best way he could,and 10 get back
the $10 when be caught ——
$50 more when he returned, it it succeded to Vv
apply bis thumb to it while he hoared a like hols :
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