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11
- "
B r cvld. CULLEII BRYANT.
NOuit herons from the woodlan apnt
when, Ahrough the fresh aiwahond
The thrilling cry of freedom rung,
And to the,work of warfare strung
The yeenum's iron hand! ft
• -
Hills Bung the cry to hills around.. 1
And mewl:mart replied to mart,
And streams, whoiii sprinem were yeti
Bated - far away-the startling Saran'
Into•the fOreit's head.
Then flinched-the gave from i
From, mountain river swift nal eol
-The . binders of the stormy deep;)
The, vales where gathered wateti .
Sint up the strong and bold. It
As if the Very earth again 1,
Grew quick with God's create
And, from the sods of grove and
Rose ;auks of lion-hearted men
To battle to the death.
The wife, whose babe first smil
The fair fond bridilbof yester
And aged sire and matron -gray
Saw the loved warriors haste's
And deemed it sin to grieve.
Already had the strife begun ;
Already blood on Concord's
Along the springing grass had
And blood had flowed at Lexi
Like brooks of April rain.
That aeath.stain on the vernal
Hallowed to•freedom all the
In' fragments fell the yoke abho'
The footstep of a foreign lord
Profaned the soil no more.
Pisttilanttlts
- ' For ti l i et l ,
‘ - 'The Poet Hotim . '.
• It is a singular , and signific• nt •
act, i that
;1
several who may be called starslotlfil Mag..
nitude in the constellation of America Poets,
have been-the- most. unfortttutte , of nien
Sortie, like
-the brilliant, charrnit an 1
.
eupho
neous Po; have led lives of povC`rty . nal des
fluation, throwing oti,- ' amid Nvist. a d llwoo
• 1- •'
'. and misery and clegm I dation,tho pea 1 drops
~.. of Poesy, which will glitter fore .er in the sea
of literature,lik.
, ,
the pliogphor 'scent c° ' isi
cations that play on the parted 'till° o
,the
ocean at midnight. CkiARLES 13.:NN II FI".
1
MAN, whose literary fame has kw.omi a, part
of the' literature r , atuv ,, e of the countly . ,lis oar Of l othiti
I 1 i
Mr.lloFni tN" is 'now about foriv-e`in'he
_ --: • • - ' ."
leaxa of age, and i youthful in appearanee.--t
lie is the son of. ion. OGDESI lIOFF4AN of
-.' New York, one of the most emi,sentillawyerA
the country has ever - produced.l, l , Ati 1
1 fifteen
years of age he was.sent to Columbia College,
and received the honorary degrt ofi- Mastil_
of Arts, from, that Institution, with F l rrf.-
GREENE lIALLECIE, 'and:WiLuAlsl6,ukN i ßity-
ANL Thus started equally in li4i f tyrJeysoung
me; who have made for themselvlt3rif,u'lorld
wide fame in the great field' of literally, labor. -
At
,the age of twenty-one, yot+g , 44Ax
was admitted to the Bar, and pitetifed three
years in the several Courts of the! city of , ,l,New
York. „ But the dry maxims of lhalloni,antl i
the . dull and labarious dutie; of i its i-tra,tice
could not fill the " aching void hisiniind
and - be abandoned his profaisin i i Sind I gave
him Self entirely to books and te p i n.! I.llis
11
first production after this was a ishorit ,pciem
entitled "Forest Musings," in wiiich its low!'
feelings, at his deterthination atd eltioki%i
.
imaged for th with a peculiar 'ehal
~ copy the following stanzas:
"Now tie new , and untriedlworld.
Like maiden banner first milted;
Is glancing bright before me!! !
The quarry soars! amd mine is new th
Where "at whit bird I please my hal
fly r"
* * ' 's '* *-
! •
Some mystic.voicithat ever since hat
-Along with echo in her dim retreat
A v oice whose influence ail, at tiara, _
By wood, or glen, Or where on silver .t
The clasping waves of Ocean's be t
• Do clashing meet
Around the land:
Itwhispeasoothat soon—too soon
The Raises which now beat so high.
Impatient with the world to cope, •
Will, like the hues of autumn ski,
%changed and Men ere life's neon
' Should turn its morning,. hope."
lie soon became connected (with Several
1 1
literary journals, and his writings.at +inep ate'
tracted • the attention of literary! epicun4.--
_ !
The .Knielterbofter Magazine ; which hair at.:
11 I ;
tamped such celebrity in this country Ives , first
,
issued under his editorial control. : e after=
- 1.1.
wards became the proprietor of tr A.,. can
Monthly Magazine and under co n,,,11 was
_
unquestionably tl% ablest literar'± ptiodiesi
•
ever published' in this
.country .f 1 F 4
years lie saw identified with theleadingJenr-‘
miasma establisheda reputationl, as S 'writer,'
solid and enduring:: • I i .' J 1
i.
, And tiow we. corto to the sad 'period )
of his
,„.4 I I ,
.hitherto brilliant career. Ti e Power rf his:
pen, his exalted genius, had 'breitS'ht him tf'
the notice of the eminent men of alt . Fiarties.
The' restless activity of his ittelleet Delight re-' ;
Creation in the field of polities, a l rid h# bril-1 1
haat essays on political topics sepia dte't i * iiira,!,
with irresistehle force, into its exciting and
ever-changing eddies. in 11318 'he ;einbraoed r t
. the cause of the veteran TAYIdR 7 Lt i raeted
the attention of Mr. etarrox;•aiid,'O the ac:'ac: '
cession of that Administration, I was *sae a l
s it
chief Clerk in the. Department of Sta We
have been informed that Mr. c,Lho4 c i s h6iii
since remarked of him, that; wl' i lle in tliat Terk
B P OI4II O IB position, he wrote t he, i r°°lit lint \ ier'''
tant and finished papers and - clis4atoll. that
ever emanated from that Departinenii.l .
, Thus far in life he had sailetlf l ; over, la pros'.
perous sea: Ora delicate, prond and sensi , ,
tive aaturO, he vva. illy vrepar&i - to aaet re
mss.ii 1 -
- .
verses,' and to stein the adve'rse' cu Jai% :of
pellitical.life. A new Adininistratio was in
aligurated and' Mr. Ilofinum was[removed
fromoffi c e°. ' PolitiCal 'alliances iln his native
State tanied their backs upon hite,4liis
pride waalwounded:, his 444 Crushed at the
ingratitude, :and selfishness of politial Men
whom he had served,—he became moody .at
first;, and, soon after, a ratting mcipiac(H
About, a Year since, his friends werel obliged
to remove him to the, Insane . Asyluni at Bal
timore, and from thence he was taken, last
winter, to Ilarrisburk and confined in the
$
Pennsylvania State Lunatic. hospital. Tliiii l
lofty iniel!eit is'in fragments ! that proud and
noble s int is brought . /ow, I and CnAntys,
FENNOEi
or min is the companion oigibfier
ino, maniacs in a mid house ! - I 1;
t, 1 ,
IV.e have spoken of his,censitive nkturel.--
Throughout all hii.writiiii this is tetra} d,
and his power to paint the anguish of' iliti hu
man heart, %%Tithing under disappili intment
and'cinh r
appiness, exceeds that of an living
writ r,•affording the best' evidence ef keen
sensibility in himself. Who, that haii, ever
reed a newspaper, or a 'bock of misc4laneiins
poems, lr not been forcibly arnisteChy
i` The Farewell." And yet how few, 'perhaps,
are awarelthat it is from the pen of ;
HOFF34X.
We (fancy that it may be found in almost;ev
ery 'Scrip-book in theeountry, for we scarce
remeniber.to have opened one that I we did
not find it, ' :, - 1 I i'.
" The conflict is over,the siugglc iis paint,' I
I have looked, I havo l oved, _boa pvorshipp'd my
'. $ ..lust, i I . '.s 'r I !$.
$ ss, $ • .
And now back:to - the world, let fitte do her worst
On!tho heart that Ei
for thee tich I devotton Bath
,
nursed:; ! N r -_
To. thee its beat feelings were trusted atvay, ,i _
And life bath hereafter pot one to betray, 'j :,
rt.
tuifouiftd,
I i
I
teer 1
:;
I: lain 1
.1,„
ilgt7";:n,
I •
tp,ward
iihare
7.41
. .
• i • • T ' 1 ,
Yet pot in resentment thy love I rerun
I blame 10t.4--tipbraid notL.-fone motivebit . thine ; ;
I ask no whatichauge has !come offer thy hilart,,'
,l - reek mit what chances hkie doomed tut to part-;
I but kubw thou bast told isle to love ;thee in°
more, 1 • I. •
i t`
And I ti 11 must obey where I once did adore.'
Farewel , then thou loved one' r -,0 ! loved buttoo
11
i Tfell, • , . 1 ' '
Tooide 'ply, too blindly, for language 4o tel,—
Farewell! thou bast trampled love's fai;h in ithe
., dust,, i
Then;huit torn from myosom its hope and its
l
1 .....- Arust-1 r '
- I I :. ' '
YeTt,lif thy lito's.curi•ent w th, kblins'it would swell,
I would Ipouieut toy own, id, this last fond fare-
I vctl" ) -'" l'
•,P• 1 1 -
It has been said that . "the affection's of man -
may veer l but, whku woman loves, she loves
forever." Mr. Hol,rs-msr: semi to have seiz
ed upon_ is idea In "the Farewell,"And pain
• ted the tor emotions
, 1 of female.' !rave, Lits
' lkEie
Constancy, purity iind self-sacrificing Subimsl-.
ion, in language that comes home to e sOtrl.
His ; extreme Sensitiveness und(Mbt lyplias
ate ont his ',rea.4a.' We find eviden lei of . , it
in all his writinA's.. In a poem intitl "Lime
and Politics," (a strange mixture for Poem)
we cull the foltving apostrophe.' ~ [
"9, God! thati could breathe myllit
On hattls•plaia in charging strice
j la l one mad impulse pour my soul,
I Far beyond passions base control!
jI ' * -• V * * _ ,
And
• then for hours and hours I thus°
On things that might, yet will, not
"Fill otie by one, my feelings lose •
.ITheir passionate intensity,—
And 'steal away in visions _soft..
Which mil wild wings those feelings
i Far, far beyond' the drear domain
Of Reason and her freezing, reign. •
An even thus my
Momentso fly,
,i(ii
i-
.. 11A d even thus my hours decay, :, • -
And even thus my years slip by,
My life itself is wiled away;
Eat diltant still the mounting hope,
'The burning wish with 'Men to cope
.Id aught that minds:of iron mould •
.244 dare to do , for fame or gold."'
In 'this brief sketch me fannot, airy
convey an idea of Mr. HoiarmArei ip4
the pertJ llia,writirigs shieuld be res l H l
free"l ' • ted', fir, in order do the Zari
, 1 1
any oorrect:eo"tnate Of hit intellect.
Confinem+t he appears no, Id., gentle
missive., 1 fis whole I minif seems tC
Upon the mgratitude of die world,-H
'whole theme o'r ConVersatiOn, togeth
the injustice that; has bait done himl
ticians. L ite fanCies4hat : ilia honor
itnpea:cl4l, and ftuspicion li:wen cast 1 upon it
by soinehody. , lie 'ortly Yves to convince the
world of its vire 1 0 judgment, and' wben that
shall ioe'done he Fhall live no longer!,
Unappy and 1; unfortunate man t
not the first heart Crashed;in bespaii
world's unieelinfv!'iidgin judgment .I '
. unfeeling! "
I'.' ~ ' ii' Mi -.0:
ORA:1 3 .101T
r I r '
Deli red by One. A. Olsen, at - the Annual
Ea, ibition'pfl" Ilarford Puiversity t er the
term endingiJnly .sth, 1854. • i 1
' 1 ; "Dole' Gape uP the ilitili. 99 I i'-
Such w e re
t ~ 1
mg words of th ,. 1- , .
SiMhlrere theidy Immor
tal Liawaaropa, , as . he'lay, weltering m bhed,,
on Ate etrimguined deck of the Chalte..
Dismantled' land ioin, his noble "old Ship drif
ted 'abciat oh thci 'bloody
. battle w4ve,--the ,
last ray of hope had, departed,--=.viCtOrY had I
perched upon the banners of his - Briti'sh anieg
onise=--bitt still unsutarnedthat noble spirit.
W apping himself in his countr i es trig, amid
di
,er, .defeat and" death all aroulnd,-the
a i d
I 'faint praY r .that, On hi;; quiier
jog ,Pp, ere.th spiriCleft Its clay, tO rise 'far;
higli# than - attle-sinoke ever mounted- •
i iig,
came'. forth:jn hle
accents, 71)
. oni give `up
.
th e 414 . 4 ' '
Glorious soil,imentjutleed,-worthy Romitu*
1,
hero;, and 'thtlife WOll•thy au.'.4.merie4 pat4t.
IVhiit ite hini
all
4 with dfshoneti What i
to hltn *ere all the haubles of earth~dat:
and frlisgrace ,heuld Main with uiehtan hands
the ilag that waved over him! "That 0 - g
shall wave while ,I liVe,”, said the d;ing man
theagisping In' death, ,he drew, its bloOdy
, I
foldb labout Ili ,' tand closed his e'yel f or eir
' - I • p-
I , ,
ny spuRNAL—DEvoTED
even to
er with
t,c ) bel
ng, 'of
In. bis
nd Ba,
centre
is his
'er with
i by pa
t
been
Hit is
by the
oitrost, ns r , tr,eantn, Pan a, (t,ur.lbati l gornial nais 2
, .
"Ho had fauiht his last battle;
I No!sound *fl awake him to glory again."
iTo contemplate the deeds of the brave to
•
keepembalmed in our memories, the patriotic
lirtues of our dithers, who laid 6.4) and
broad the; f2undation of our national prosper
ity andgreatnes.4, and cemented it*ith . their
oivn bleod, is among the highest duties of
. .
Alum-Lean youth. When NVO, shall :become
inSensibleito these, when we shall 'forget the
great pnee at which they were obtained and
perpetuated, When the poet shall i no longer
strike hisiswelling numbers, and the Orator .
•
no
lonmerl l
discourse in impassioned strains to .
'heir i.memories and the remembran esof their
deedS„ . thep will the Eagle of Ameicail .
erty, ;prep' re hiMself for a long farewell,. will
" "1K ay, and soon be out of
" ; Don't. give up the ship"! That
wave - . while I live'. Let every.
•• I , . :
crtrzen arid . every . American Statesman.- in
scribe this motto 'upon the tablet othis'heart.
The old ship of State is stinggling amid
. the
temPe . st and the waves of her onward Career.
The War of angry elements is ragin fiercely
r' 4
aiouhd; rocks and shoals and treacherous
sliores•lie just, ahead, the enemies of our coup
try's greatness and glory are 3v: l daring for
theirlPrey, but ".don't give,' up the
jli s itt flag, that glorious flag wave
whilo Ilive,"4totthl be tic 'determined and
patriette, acclaim of every Amerie,a ' n:- citizen.
.Then; will it wave until the last • fl:,tv of
uptai,nisliod its stripes;'undimed th[ luitro of
its . stitrs. •
. .' All glory 'p the shades of' depA ed berot,s,
long . Sball they -live' in : the hearts oft their
cOuutrYtnen,—Re in the affections Of the .
wiarld,-live in - their country's- story l i'Law-
R*S9F shall live,- 7 -the God-like emanations of
btidepartin,g soul, shall live forever, as the
•• i I
atchword of American patriotism, when as
sailect with a strong ,and defiant . - •!artri, and
,-- . •
sbotild freedom finally be battled t froin her
Wester n` home, the last cry of her-eipiring
hOstsilhall be, as they W'rap their country's .
flag about them for a winding sheet;-9ion't
give tip the ship:" „ •
From the Knickerbocker Magazin e . •
TROFESSIONAL'
RT
, AIN; OLD LAWYER:
.
•;' Yo'nr kind 'letter,. Henry, cam , to'
hand And you will be surprised to, learn that
a careless question of yours' will draw' firth
enough to cover a sbeet, " What eaused the
sear on my . temple.!" -
• ' It iq Aprofeasionidscar, Harry; 'One that 1
have Carried ii - Ver since my earliest practice;
anditltlieugh..l.dia.'ve.now arrived 14, a tolera
ble old age, and have many, many iiiiimate
friends:, it, is a most singular ;fact that yim are
the first and only person that inquitLed ifito its
Origin.! I can tell vou all about itj but: must
aToid nettles and places, for the partic.most
iateresied in the 'incident are yet living; and I
am, under strong bonds of secresy.
j In the year after passing throUgh ,a
king examination • before grave ; judges and
sh rewdharristers, was prcu•eunced, a prOperly
rip alifiWperson'
to appear before juries and,
courts for others as well as myself, and at..once
proCeeded, to a large sguthernleity; where;by'
a .modest little sign Oreille door, ofa Modest
little office, I announced my residence to,com-
Mence. the practice oflaw., FOr three months
I :waiied,hut alas! no hiliiness 'ca m e,. and I
sat in my office.on a dreary night,`! at about
eleven O"clock, in this very coinforfable,
tien • My money was gone. entirely
board was to be paid in the Morning, and my
rent the day folloWing; and I absdlutely
feared to go to my-boarding House„ and wait
edin What- seemed the forlorn hope that
siimething in the way a a fee might appear,
either droppinglrom the skits,. on
,suddenly
appearing on my-desk. Outside, posher) was
heard, and as I occasionally glanced through,
My - window, the - lame of the streeC, light
Moved - by the wind,would 'seetning,ly ;move
me homeward ; but I would not ge. A foot . -
step sounded in my entry; a second, and a
third; and More, but so light that my heart
13eatingi presented . my counting diem;; and:
then a ilittle delicate knock. I jcouipelled
Myself to say," come in" with a - ,calm
although I expected to be instantly ,vila-vis
with a young woman; the door Opened, and
I aw--ian old one. -
I had.only time to tneve toward iteh . aii
before site was- in the centre of the room and
speaking: -
-
- j" I have not time to sit. Young man, you
are a laWyer • are you - good..for anything I"
My insulted dignity was controlled by an
effort, and I answered that I flattered Myself
that I posame,,l some talent for my - Prokssion,
or I shonlik not have chosen it. - .
tvell, no gas; can you draw, a pa
-101
Per• I
llereiagain I ventured to reniark, that it
depended isomewhat on its nature, but :I saw,
from her impatient Manner that! she Wanted
no trifling. Before I finished the sentence,
she intentsted me .with a fierce:kis, of man
ner excslrng her former rough jene, saying:
"I want a will 'drawn. quiclf hurriedly!
but so Strong that all the furies nt h—p can't
undo it; Can you do itl" and she fairly glar
ed at ine with impatience for mY ansWer.
Now you know, Harry, that . rur legal edu
cation um' obtained entirely in a surrN,aate's
office,, arid you may presume that on the law
and femrs of last wills and testaments 1 felt
Myser itifficiently posted up. , I therefore as
sured ser thatl could draw a will which, al
thoug t could not warrant it to pass the or
deal 814 mentioned, would, I was sure, be
proof against all the lawyers in Christendom.
And how her manner changed I from \ the
fierce arid bold to the anxious and ,hurried.
Comei then, quick! quick! young . man,
and you 4;41 pocket one thousand dollars
fqi yornlrright'a work I" she exclsinied:
And, amazed' and bewildered 45 I *as,' I
fetmd - myirillf` it'the neighboring corner, step-:
-ping into a bad,
.beforo The , startling but
cmufort4ble words, "One thousand do, fiats for
your nights work!" had ceased ringing in Ins'
cars. My condiretress followed with
out ordeis we were rti tti...a tunously !along
the streets to th• - ' -- Hense, then the larg
est h ote l iinth —e
_city. My visions one
d t ,,..ssand " dollars kept My tong,ne bridled,
atftl I n4n-lcci in citeiriee up two lights of
• i
POLITIES, LlTißts.
Su. • .
its into la suit ofrooms
.cbmpris tigi parlor
find two, bed rooms.. „The Iparlor t however,
..vas occupied by a bed; in'Mich L y
.4il old
alnd evidently dyi n g - man. i A setvaut..,AVas
with - him, ;but he left;. upon 4. motisn !Oft - ire
hand of my-companion, who appro hied the
lied and Mid: - , ' . .
.! . 4 . , 1 !lawn an Attorney here.air ; sh
fir
, .
..: „, . r
e old!uates ey brightened u
ter': glaring on me for a moment he
you Can draw my. will, do
ticiii , ,•for.l must save my breitth."
tunied to the tabli3 whet° 1.-fou
Pens, ink, and everithing.neicessaryi
the light- Oti two sperm candles in. I
candhilticks, I: was aooti busily
fn ;the • ' 1 * • •
will nbt, trouble/4:411,1th the di
— , a deka
in. fact, do:. I remembe,r•theM; but it s: enough
to that a largeitinounCof • property,' rear
and personal, bona; mortdages,:iele-,, were
left, in did words of 'the will; to " my. good'
4:nd faithfUllimisekeeper, Ahgeline„ -.--- es
a token of gratitude' for her 10ng.,1 faitiffnl,
and MeritOnous service.".. But the •Icencled
fiqt words'iof• the will -I shall nevep. iforget ;
thoy wereiwrittenfrom his Own .ni li, and
madein
e . piudder as I 'wrot4,them.; ' here . is
4
aOtne' tbinglearful—fea devilish in ; h s fear
fully recording, in what purportst? c the
Wit, written wish,li Curse upon yOurio n off
spring. • And I felt, as I wrote it, atl4voliin
"iiiiy desini to tear the .paper; into .fragments,
•and to.riiiih from the room, but the lliCusand
s
dollar Were like 'so Many anchors, 4\ll [staid
and
.. .
! •
wrote , !:
.
leave . t.o . my daughter bonA al the sat
iifaction. she can obtain from, ens; boa ty curse..
When .• I
i
into. whip about her n her milYhome,
the streetOind dogs shire_ With her .t o refuse
of the getter, she may•regret that he dist,-
t
heyed hini who once loved her, bat. ho, dY-_
ing,_cuised her." •
._ ••. • :f • 'i "1 . -
." - t• There Was . something likeft elnictle, in the.
direction Sr , old Angeline as the dyint. ,, •*retch
didtat,fd these fearful words i butas looked
. . i
4' F ril sa* the stern face as pgid a. 4 arble, 'I
oimcluded! I must' haie been rids.. ken. I
mould : not,i however, divest myself 'ofpi Certain
feeling that all was wrpng..,'...A richiold . man,
it compaiiied by an old houSekt:vper' and dy
ing in a strange:city; her - anxiety to, have
this will so. strong • the curse on hid daugh
ter, and the large Le,' all cofispired to,' make
the feel" flint I was being instrument' in the
accoinplishinent, of mine vilfainous bject.—
Again I meditated. the destAAtion of the pa
per, and. again My fee 'and my w4nts eon-.
epti!r&l. The will was finished,- ant. I read
fiver atrid,.the old man grnaning, atul •the
Old woina'i looking un oceational - asaebt; but
when I' d the: terrible curtse, a nitV actor
i
.. : .• ..
p,vared nine scene; • . i -.
.i., ,' • -
• Oh ! - ear it! tear it! Oh God, _ 'pit know
tiot whatiou do!" • • • . i 1 1
.. 1 - - . . The phantive teiliesr! . .rif liktEr voice .tiiniched
My heart, even befog my ',eyes beheld : its
Owner; bin,. when I - isaw her, heavens and
earth 1 .• what an- angel she was l - ;Tie lan;
gimp is yet undiscov'eml, Marty, th tis com
petent to give, you -a description of • itit faee,
theeyes.,laneing witl(exciteincift, ,ti liquid
Si
ifith• tears!. thetniiiith proud as J no's, yet.
cornpresseti with anguish. 13ut wh do I nt
tenipt.de4ription I The mtist niaj tic, yet
qui sweetest countenance I :ever • held' ap-
Pealed to pie, and not in vain ; for hile the
old man, Weak as he - -as, • jumped from his
14,screathing "Kill hr! kill her!" - tore the
Will into fragments, and we both f II ..to 'the
Moor, he _dead; and I:stunned .bytt on , from
ilie,lle,aiyOndiel.s . ticlt wielditihy the old hag
Angeline), . .4.
i i d
When my coneiousness.returne, I; found
Myself in my own tied;at my boardi g house,
My,host-tind hosteis my-soleattenda te... My,
mind was; clear the moment I look i about
me and knew that. I bad be4n broil ht home,.
and was niew confined from the effee of that
tildw. I icsOlved to keep My ow counsel,
is
arid to , ascerta i n what I could - of .t e.,subse
quent proceedings • of the night. UpSninqui
ry, .1- fount that;l had been brought home by,
4, ypipl i g gentleman in a carriage, who had.
lefti !funds tor the employment of a ysician,
ind had also left a letter ea - soon ( 1.:-was
alone, and' found a. fitti ,
dollar - n te, with
i p
thase words ; l b
. 1 ' "You did last night a deed Worth of more
. ~.,. .
, .
gratitude thattplli pretent nfeans en le
,u 4 to
express. '7l,e proierty which son arty be- .
l'Orged to the old :tig ',who struck -on;, will
skon be" mini, and you 'shall ;then h r from
.us.! May the same . ' kiednesX which ronipted
t, ~ the , . ,
- you to tea ,,
PI
paper, seal your lirthere-after
AS to the. Painfu seem* of Last evembg. . '
, l • ' Gratefully — yenis, '.:z i • .. ' •
• t .
....
..! i . . . • - lima #itn, ItElt IlticS Aim." '
4 t',
' f! , y fi rs : act was to ',conceal theletter .
be
tenth: my" Pillow : my second to, call my 'host
and tender the amount of my boa bill; to
My astonishment he told int, that y coin
.
p. .nn.
ion rafid it when he left the, utter. -It
scents I rayed a little itbantimy inability to
pay my host while. I Was. unconscious, and
thus the Vuaband of Dim (for I hadlnodo.ubt
it W:ts:he who brouglit.me home) 113. d ascer
titined the fact and paid my; bill; 2 1 iddeil to
this my wound was not severe C 7
• '; ,-
any surge& more than. wait of
kind . landlady ;'so When I In
"(which Was soon,) I bad only
. Pay, and. theft resumed. hush
.linger part of fifty dollars it i in
woi ade caUtious inquiries. ,lab i
"]louse as to the subsequent Mo.
inyiterioui clients, but Could - I
440 the • opl couple arrived .!..On
night, theiold man orderingfa
in *inch lie could die; thatithe l ,
~,
amine by another conveyatitiN. and h 4 talien
tither roorni; .that'the old
,). man's y - was
itninediately boxed up and sent to. • e' north
Under amigo of his man 7 seriunt • th t the old
w x innan went otralone; and . that lly the
young tntain paid the whole-bill, and reft
_also
'With is Wife.,-- - T44 do 'my ,worthypost and
liii kindl#ilf -full - jestice, I muss( say that
they never even hinted at the matt r,,,and I
'teeter had.ia question to aiis!wer; . thy_proba
lily took it for granted,:thati,l, had it .the
i x
victim of some hioill - and: 4voided• nuoying
me by any referencit t• -_,. , • .
;:' 4 .rhirty4-eam'of hard:work rolled y, •Ilar.
' d •
Tyit urn which-l•itiquireika famil :fortune,
ORO*. tied gray haini;:but 11-waver. i all Out
1440,-saw ;or heard 4oue mY alienta, vith• the
O'x'eeptioiiiof one letier,..ithich was rcceiveld
iMiie years after the OCatirrelice;whighl : haute
telated, acid Which oiitainld two. more - fifty
+liar billti with thearords :I - . .
.• 1' - '
'•‘ We 4 1 ) very 'happy g,may'.Gpd .bhitss
jt,pl! ' 1 • i f ..; 7. - 1 . I)OnA. "
'lt in' 4]l .. ' - ' '- li li.. I-
flag shajl
lAmerican
ilut in' that thoe; I have novel iorgot
tun i that bautiful Page, nor tte , mute
appeal which i
it l ide to my heart : the ttil -
1 I
saver tailichieh 9 tine the deep sear which is
the object of yolir present curiosity, and a one
thousand dollar fee' lethe amount received
frOm the youngfolks. Neither dl'
id ,' in all
1
that tiMe i regret the c urse I took.
' SOITie ten .yeai•s ago, as vou probably re
member,-I spenta win rialiavana. I board
ed with a Spani64l landlOrd,' whose hoese was
generally filled !With Atherican visiters., But,
strange to say, I *sod one week with him
without a single American arrival; and :I
was - mentally resoleinll one day:,, toleave fOr
New Orleans; Wiwi°, could find troops Of
friends, and ritßruyaelf of the ennui conse
quent ' - upon tnY"solitary, position, when 'I
heard my. host callingime: '
"Senor, t3encii,los .rericanos—Ameriei
-
.
.1 i • 1
Le9la i ng from my window, I saw, a • fine,
LiOrtlylgeptlenin atte ding to las luggage;
and asisverin,„ . o; the:de ands of the thousand
.and olio; leeches of Ise re who each claimed
to hetie ibrought.somet ing for him. ' • Think
ing I might be Of Aeryi e to him, I went out,
end with two or three) dimes dispersed the
villain's tho, knosving e for ant old stager
submitted to nyy The gentlean
pri
turned to-than' me, .but suddenly started
back4then glanced at y temple and seeing
the end 'of my Candle-stick-mark peeping out
beiteathiley sombrero, he caught me by the
hand exclaiming,: I
" We !have *t. bole
am to see you r
And then, wlthont
me to - -the dooril wa3r in
ly put still beaptifut al
- 1' sde,:Dora,''lsaid h.
friend•rl 1
At the word i' Lora,', I started, and there
beforenae, _sure esMugh, stood the Dora of
thirty !years prcions, still retaining many of
her charms, but with t e marks of time, net
withsfiniding,inip upon her features. .I
lon may , Well heli ve our re-anion. was
most Pleasant 4 suA er dinner was over,
and we `i•ere ottt enjoy tig, the sea-breeze; the
whole story wag told e. I will not, give
you the (details Of it; i - was long, but the
main feitares of it, weitii 'about what I had
surmised: Domn was.t e only child of her
wealthy father VI her other died
.when she
-was a:nacre child ; ,old Angeline had remain
ed with her father in 1 e capacity of house
keeper, and had, whil Dora was away •at
school, acquir4l, its. is generally , the case,
complete intlu nee over hiln. Dora was,
wooed and wo4 by a poor' clerk; the 'father
•would not listen to it; an elopement was the
- conseitience ; lie]. ithe old man in his rage,
broke }up houseikm.ing,, and faking old An
geline with Ern; Mid started , for' the South.
Dora followedhim with her husband; - altho'
she ktiel he would.not.see her, rind although
he was always harsh and unkind to her, yet
she knew he wis ill the last stages of con
suniption, and Shedeterinined, if possible, to
be with him w ieno he ied. At the time of
his death, they had b n folloving him about
0 • 1
a month from!l i hose to lace, keeping conceal
ed froiu him, andOlud ng even the keen eyes
of Angeline. When )ora appeared,, in the
room, it was oil . y ; bee u4e the man,„ - servatit,
i
who had been ith he father, and who, as
you renember, left, th room when I entered,
had observed their ar 'VaI and hid kiadly
ri ,
gone to her and info ed her that her father
could, not livell an hour,; she Was entering
the room to m 4 -e one last effort at re,coneili
ation; When "My voi e reading the fearful
words: of her father's c no caused the outcry
and denouncem' nt - , er husband, who feil 7
lowed her iu, fo tad th Old man dead, - . Dera
te
in a swoon, me nsel and obi Angeline in
vain trying to ,ntile any pieees of the will
together, ravin land c rsi ng like a bedlainite.
Ile' and the ma ' serve t put the old man's
body"into the k Dora to her room,
slmi
tcuSs:
and while the' rvt7t ept guard over An
geline,' he took oehome in a carriage. The
rest you know. I I I ..
I have only add hat, whenever I wan
der north, eithe ' alone or with my wife arid
totally, we alwa s stop at the house of our
kind friends. 1 , ey hve spent•-one winter
with us it the ..uth nd we expect. their
again nettle c. ,iiiig' season. , And the young,
g entleman who tudied dewunder my instruc
tion, and who •n' al practices law with • my,
nactie eno the si b ' 'with bis (as.,senior partner
although he d. I all the businesa,) is pones,
scan and, certain! from Conscious, looks and
bright blushing on' my 'pretty . : daughter's
cheek i When b Calls, II imagine be may
possiblylbe mine, too. 'But. of thiivllarcy,
rest assured—l (shall not..curse her if she
marries him. •I,
ill lie pro
.
~,and, af-
Itspoke :
; [quick,
I;
d paper,
tad I,y
1 0111 7 sif
engaged
j '
uls,inoi,
T Je l hin . Saxe. '
i .
The .. tiest liking et, John' G. Saxe, of
Vt.; isiii e native f tha State, and was.born 'at
llighga ,Fran lin ' unty, on the second of
June, 16. o- a farm, John cultiva
tiA pun) kens i ' tea - . 1 I' . puns until, he 'was
i .ea
seventee . , Indeed; h s awful habit of pun
-1
ning di , not' dey t elop itself to am alaiming
degree-iintil he. .0. o _age. His youth of
innocen4e did -13 t foThadow his•wicked lit
erary career. +l did the - world, know
when John was,
,top ing corn and pumpkin
seeds, raking h an digging potatoes like
T l.
any other hones ,and industrious swain, that
,he . wonld one d Li e 'ding on alai! all over
the country, dr Wing people together in leo
ture rooms, an i the sending them hothe
with Mouths aj. lin the side ache.
It id Irving, ho ys that one half of the
1 fyi
world' was mad 'te de, and the other half
to be l ridden. I As it respects laughing:
theparties are ore nequally- divided. Al,
nranliind Were ade o laugh, ana.J O n G.
i
Saxe Was made , ket 'eni do it: t,
At the age b save teen, John - 'forsook the
grain 'fields,' re udia manual-labor,. and
went to, St. Al 'tins where„„in riotowi Jiving
on Gr'ecsk and 9 er_ opts, he spent his best
days'ambng gra lan. r school vagrants .. Ere
ri l ed
leng.he trolls' way to Middlebur y , iiliere;
strange , o sfiv, l ie Is permitted to tarry I for
four years.- : . IV en he finally \took his depar
turei the Xliephei-ds,Wlto there officiate in It to
classic ,fields, ini lead of cropping an earns
sheep are often. 'narked, posted bin' off 'with
tt°
`A. B.' tiffixixl b' . name--signifyinV we
'suppose,lthat h h , mastered the :first two
letters[ Of die a
, plia L Encouraged by ,his
progress in lite ate e, he strayed, skfar.as
West ,Lewisto : i It r ,
~,X,; where,,
, for a . sh or t,
i
time; in 2 the on 13 r hiders And_ now •deru'net
acaderny, be tin !t: Yeringideal) Ito* . to shoot
r ifi
=amiss of sou . It . Tired, at length; of hear
ing bo'yiand gi' s 'et,, hinc.lming it, be toOk
auotherAlowaw 4 , step by entering a lawyer's
office to Lock ,f, . I few miles (min Lewiston;
SubseOuently li ' 'ret irned to where he wax at
. r 1 1
SCIENCt i AMY MORAI:117.1
1854.
, sirHhow glad
• xplanation• he drew
which stooS•si matron
!man.
‘.‘ is not this . . our 'old
, .
length legally' finished, and where - lie was ad
nutted to the bar - in September, 1843. -He
bad 'previously • practiced in miurting, and
now began to practice in courts; here we
May as welt state that he took.himself a wife
aiaLtlie,nine MUM almost simultaneously. -
The. first 'poem:which Mr Saxe Submitted
to inspection of, an 'editor, ivas entitled
"A Legarßallad,"icalled iti•his published'
wort, " The , firiefless Barrister?' It was
ebpid , ibto this periodical, and half of our
reafieiii, we presume, can "say it by heart."
It shojnal at once the motriful propensity of
the-author's mind fo- the pun, and was in
fact, a precursor of his luVadlong career in
the ferbiddin'path of the l i t oixiical. ." Pro
gress,' a Satire," they ongeitl poem of his in
'print,' was pronounced before the Alumni a
ididdieburklCollege,in . lB4o; and. was soon,
afterward printed fu:Neir 'York. and:-was
is prey
nant ivith verbal avid rythrnicat felicities, and'
occupies a high 'position among our satirical
verse. l "A New ,Rape of the Lock,"- appear
ed in 1847. " Thell'routtldiss Mcßride, in
1848, and "The Times," in 1849.. Near the
close of the last mcintioned year, his poems
were brought out' in a handsome style by
*um. Ticknor, Reed ik Fields, of Boston,
and they have run through five editions.. He
has Since written a lengthy poem entitled
"New• England," which he his recited one
hiindied and fifty tines in as 'many cities and
villages.. Rik not S•et in print. This poem,
with a few shorter Dues, is alltthe ',capital ad
ded to his acknowledged metrical stock du
ring the last four, ;years . He
.has not* so
much vanity as sonic other poetic .pyrotech-:
nists, and - does net], claim all the fireworks
which emanate froni his bruin; =1 ltai tiara
of metrical wit frequently lashes, up „in, the
_columns of the Boston Morning Post. anony
mOusly, but it is- eisy to ! see, what Lucifer
made the match.: The - prince .of punsters
crninot rfil• his poetic offspring of the mark
which - betrays their parentage, any easier
than Poor i liester Prynn could remove the
scarlet letter. -I* • . •
clever English writer of the last century
said that the way to expose the iniquity . of .
Pruning; like the expedient of curing drunk
eanoi, kite, show a 'man in that condition but as Mr. Saxe.is of respectable parentage
I—no'one Of the name, for at least , two gen
era tieps back, having come to his - end_ in a
IOOp of strong twine; we spare him. - • •
;Whatever Mi. Saie's behavior may be, he
is a respectable lOok-irg man--tor an Otto!.
He says of himself-i- • ° • 1
Now - 1 aiu a man e , you must learp„
Less famous I'M. beauty Than strength,.
/ And, for aught I could ever discern, ' •
Of rather supetfluous, length. '
very modest in him to dap - iv his own
beauty: being a pot, he is /lemma to dct
ors tuna his height, he furthei slags ai l f9l
- truttflisbut'seldomoile meets - I
Such a Titan in human abodes, '
And when I stalk over the streets,
cm a perfect Colossus of roads." '
Though a giraffe among , humans, Mr. Saxe
is a happy example, in length, of the fitness
of things, showing that there is design in the
construction Of animals, particularly the high
er., Born in an
_uneven part of the country,
it, Was necessary that . he, like Green Moun
tain ,boys generally, shotikrbe tall, - in order
to kik over the hills I , We hive only toadd
iU this departMent of Personalities, that, 00 1
not decidedly corpulent, our laughing poet is
more; fat-limVic- than lymphatic. - '
In conclusion, we have only - to add and to
show that the wicked are prospered. Not
only 'does Mr. Saxe sell his poetry, but he
gets gain by traffic in the polithml l / 2 2arket.
14,,has held the office of . District' Attornek;
is now Inspector or Customs at' Burlington,
where he has reside& for , five or six years;
and realizes something, from editing and pub : .
Hailing the 13urlingtou Sentinel. In hiaLec 7
ture on ".Poets and• Poetry." .he discourses
eloquently on the opulence of American bards
4 , BryantOlalleck, LkingfelloW, Sprague aid
Dr. Holmes ; but modestly . says :nothing of
his-oil/a beautiful cottage, in the handfiomesk
town in New England- 7 m Whic.ll cottage; by
the way, he has a gradually. augmenting
brod ofyoung.Democrats lora he is rearing
for the salvation of the nati n. - ,
Hear Vine
'1
„ Whittier, spealangaf Heaven says:
We-naturally enough transfertoettr idea
of heaven whatever,welike and reveience on
earth., 'Thither the . Catholic carries on in his
fancy, 'the. imPosing rights and time bonen:a.
- solemnities of his worship.' There the Medi .
odist sees his love feasts and.camp -meetings *
in the groves and by , the still waters and"
Qseen; pastures .of the Blessed Abode. 'The
aker in the still of his self-ccimMunion
members that there was silence 'in heaven.—
The Churchman listening tollte solemn chant.
of roost music, or-die deep tones of the organ,
thinks of-the songs of the Elders, mutate_ gol
den harps of the New jerusalem.
The fleaVen of the; Northern nations:of.
Eit'repe,ivas a gross and 'sensual reflection of
the earthly of a baVbarotts and brutal pee
ple.
,The Indians of North America bad a ragde
notion of a Sunset Land=a beautiful Para
diie far in the West=monntains and forests
filled with deer. and Buffalo---lakes 'and
streams 1 swarming with fishes-_the happy
hunting ground of the Souls; _ -
A Venerable and - 4Orthy :ley ;England
clergyman .on hrs death-bel just before - the
close of his life, declaieds Otat he niai onCy
conscious Of,awfutlrsolerenand intense Co-:
riesity to knovi the great - seeret of Deatlaid
E6ruity,,
Yet tie shoTuld not forget that'." the' Kiri 4:
dem of Heaven. is.
Wden:" 'that it is`the,
state of thelaffectiens of
the. a good conscience ; the. sense of - Harnicitty
with God;. a
,conditiort of Tfme and Eteiiiity.
Ikr, "Father, didim slier. have-another
wife.besides.mOtheri":l =
i" 11 .0 , my boY ; .whi4 Y 912 ~ t° - *
such a questionl".
;" . Becauss sais , in the old
*here you married Afirm - Dessia34/108;
and .that isn't Mother, (iota uamslo ? ;Esdly
•, . ,
4111 110 ,
Dutehmtiu,in d nbuira - spao of
hdrismi*hicti . he • had Moroi(' t;.; mae) , ,iritat
'very Mooalf hosiaally.do,offooo,
looks so miehlikel-ixadd not tellstod
dOr from *ilia ;As - boo I- vrerit , iftei - :-dWOOS I
Ai wa eant d'Vodderoto! whippods4lo--one
most dead jsfoayse de odor tdOlts-4 at i trie."_
• gWhyis Ru•sill Roae l
a the gold.
e7el Because it has a C-zar at its head,
thiume 11,_ mbtr 2L:
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For - ,short story, the felowittg as. :61*
one we have retul gm-sonkethwel. • ', i :.,,,- .
“Put'ont the light.",;;•43fmataiwavvi - .
'' 'S And then-itet. ba c tr.i.4, o . i j im e., . •
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William . and John cecnpied . - sabeds :-
in the same 100m..- -- Jclbili 'was - honest bat ia• ,
..,. . .
zy. , On'entering their reom to mane for the
night, John. iii,th his - mail' ahowiy.tiothisaW. ,
.
ed and jumped into bed While W, diallaltritat- 1
pulling off his boots siaditieeidingrwidakiitia 'r
of the bed - would -Moat lalieifiuma atteanight.°
, • - .
After a few mmtateselny[ 7 4lVillainatgamog 1
into bed, placed his handl npnial...,, •
and:doubled himself tip,.l , -ptilor'llte
comfortable, same; ',Wlien-what l .aolarlhe •
discoirer when justreadyllo"drop- eV init. •
that he left thefluid.lainpinuning.- Illiadhac
covery gave rise to the filth:Ting,• .t-, -
_, " Twont do to' leave - that lamp -
lohlo*
but it's so very cold thatl - hateinost
to get out on the floori-,but saillz, that keit '
must be blown out.' ' I :iaronderr if 1= caat't .
tnake John get out. -rql try. 'John r '
, "Hello." 1 d'" .". •.' • -
\ ampe.
"Did you ever know- pludel Hoskin', , ..
man of ermine thirty-seVenl" • \
• "No. iyhy I" li • - -, ' -'-. - •
"Nothing, enlyi:rdit, know - bat ytat I
knew him. I saw hy [the ilaperi!that ids '
death was caused last week by - inhaling the
oxharogon- fluidal .Vapo4; from's' himp - thaC
,he accidentally left burnmg in the'toolitr--
After the fluid.-was giil c•nturumed, the clasiaist: ,
said the oxide! auction of" the, wick sot tan.
smiled -the ouitrogep of the lungs, that tin
flnidieial vapors suddenly stopped : . they hill&
ration, and the heart ceased to beetr • - ''
John, raised himself upin hed,'„gaand: *ilk
a sternness indescribable on the reelini . ing,
form of hik room antite,",and in z a-sientottuna ,
voice itcleitned...• ' -;, 1 1 l -= ,''. --= ' '''' s.7 " ''''' I : 1 1
"Why - in th nder don't i you 14011? •eitt i thit '
lamp?" -_,. ' ' ~11- = ,-,-- ;', v - -
:
u Well, sure nough;Twitc4lar rapiyit-I s it
ain't out is it!" , l:Well iieverAniait,..W
it'll go out itself in a little while." 1,1. 1,-
..- • ••. - - ... •. ...
4 14 .. 0:it won't go' Otit m a iOOllllll6lllll
I sleep." And in a twinidinfflitlik Isleirtaik
John had extingubdaeolilielght-initisaimi.
id' to hia bed, mySteringtaa he' 4Ed' oak: "fd
ratherget pp a dozea tithes, um- tot traelia
Daniel Hoskins did."
In the . morning John wanted to know 4131
the particulars abimt-the How
kiwi but William had tit', recolleetionof era
speaking of it, - -and accused the honed - 63qm
of. dreaming..• .
I '•
The Low 0 I.ie. . ' A
There is no sin in hearen, and to. liessmii„
therefore, we must raiseleur eyes to seethe,
law in pure and perfect power.. Thereat:
binds together all ,thei ransomed ' , Seielite-r.
There i
s no variance there4o4eslousyi so,
discord; no backbiting, no strife.: The ollehl.
'of anntrand thesaoulvdpirofo,4oooo,ooovw
er heard inkeaven.. Love bindatlm.rsisessil .
ed spirits to each other+l-VmdtisaintsfAlotelF,
gels, angels to arolumgels,archattrittsidw,
übim, cheribim,tO seraphim, and theilairolt
to God! ,- Love is,the - sceptre he beiettaC.. Is'
is the kW of henvei=the very God oiLbsermit:
is love. , -Every eye there beants.lritkleree-.•“
every heart beats with love, aid- wret7,4lolk
is spoken intones of lore., .. RoitirmadleeP44
in his most-beautiful itulegiumottlotAyeelo
ing of - the grime, Prtew4htted4ocelbeignith.,
e s t of- am • u.Whatliqr Owe .be pireooolll6._,
they shall fail ; . `whetberAiere - -be , ,MIFINIS•
they shall cede ; whdhei there belmowledg
it shill vanish away. C h arity Dew leledi:,
Sow abideth faith, hopelflarity, these thew;
but the.greatest of these js-clestiV:".'r.
"Now abideth faitk" 7 -411at :Is below
Now abideth hope—el is that._.-le > fwe.
there is no faith, no hope; angels Slia,:0111610,
have-neitherl. but all lisive4ove:.. Thiti*lns
says Paul, "faith, hope, - charity; bet,:the
greatest of these is :s utter
EPITAPH or PETE& THE GRIFA /6010:
Beth" all_that could-dieof non imniortal, Pi.
ter Alexiowitz ; it is alinost, ,aulastkw_ 4.
_lO
add, Great En3rmr of4lessialattide,wildeh
instead of adding*iltiaglatibecalne Blois
048 by - his wearlik:_li.r !..ft 4,0411117 .1. 110
dumb, nor. boast of Uri, • -Mmumidoileit•lhielibii ,
ear—how,easy was vieto* , to ' kialleieby
Were followedby.heroest-und , where.' iddhle
.felt a noble disdain ittibtthlitheN - ,tesslv . W
taut than-theirgenerile. ,- - But =be lrhola
place first kneci rest; 'grad snNeftr-bilt elarf
attentive, unwarlike, whichri4. , intiet~
neither covetous oiVaibetimi44llBi
ger; Mottamt„iiith - - ' titushill
qUalitiesritherbrutal is -T . ,4
. 0114*
Ales° he polished - from ItAfir "irillapiai
near; - and breaking out tif new spit ile:11 1
lurnine the minds of the - Peefer ' O l4O
their night of hereditaty daidt_n* as by
force of intrincibleialluence USN*
t i,
,to conquer even the co inners - of.
Other princes have oom ended utotorki*stifir
mies: this commander tested the*. ;1•141111
eh,..tErt-1 at 'a hero who owed ' thee' reotiklet
Exult, oh, Nature; for thinels'this~
`The foregoing is theepitaph plaoett - ' tofiha
Emiwegs Catharine of - .Russia on the amshio
meat erected to the mentotty of bit:" leekrtA
Peter the Greatl 1 --i' • - - - ;.- •-• -'.--,.'
--elPaadwgramari:
•
. Wheean read-these solemn -words_
our very nature. The ruthless hand. . 7
is constantly heap' WPon OW •- tire
freight of-years, thm, • =
-
continue to - press vs JD* soir -
feeble frames will tat I and .1 linicrAllis
grave. It - is, indeed, but a'"step!bekshiudin
oradle
and tita, , gsave.7( j edariely
passed from the tender / f:Mother, whowski
were nursed and rotnaeth :•until , 7we sea
muitlitatutipsallitvimit s-diiiiikielllll4
and Oita idajttodnees to Support; our dits:
ble iimba.Vaorioon do we
FroiiugoWailtiketsiorld gradually reosdr
lug,'l,tAxere,- , into - A Mint Oitt AMAal*
eentskyttnewed limbo grew:. ws*
palshml ; our hods Ara iiilFatedu if
tiifor , the - - gapa t ~ 04r ma -
racked with paw, - 4 !nattutws swimik .1
cpiesinot to the eyes,tan- if-14101:v
arta watch ; lot we knew wok'
the night the tt i nesset va er-'. AI •
hence. the Am"-
sun's ray,like the rose,ermuumst tolk
-.autumn blaste—likelutiokimaints on dms , dmitt`
blue ma, we " ancpuesuigroWay.* -
41W - 4 min YAP jr,941 1 4 *494 * 14 1041,
well; shouldbave as little to do wittrint,
geries..aa possible, fteitember.this land 06 - 0 -
at , home with your wits; and if you Osmium'
oue, why go and:court some smart that
is wilhug he cao. -
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