572. The emphatic strokes of the hand accompany emphasis; its elevated termination suits high passion; horizontal-decision; downward movement disapprobation. Avoid excess, violence and constancy of action; gentleness, tranquillity and dignity prevail more. What is the appropriate gesture in this? Light are the outward signs of evil thought; within, within-twas there the spirit wrought." Middle finger of the right hand points to the body-its fore-finger gently laid in the palm of the left, in deliberation, proof, or argumentation-sometimes it is pressed hard on the Salm. The left hand often acts with great significancy with the right; rarely used alone in the principal gestures, except when something on the left hand is spoken of, as contradistinguished from something on the r ght, and when two things are contrasted. Motion of the hands should correspond with those of the eyes. Rules say, "Do not raise the hands above the head;" but if natural passion prompts them-it will be well done; for passion knows more than art.

Our thoughts are boundless, tho' our frames are frail,
Our souls immortal, though our limbs decay:
Though darken'd-in this poor life, by a vail
Oi suffering, dying matter, we shall play
In Truth's eternal sunbeams; on the way
To Heaven's high capitol-our car shall roll;
The temple of the power, whom all obey;
That is the mark-we tend to, for the soul
Can take no lower flight, and seek no meaner goal.
573. Keep the hands out of your pockets-don't
finger your watch-key or chain-let your business
influence you. Feel your subject thoroughly and
speak without fear: have a style and manner of
your own, for an index to yourself. Expression
is the looking out of the soul, through the eyes,
which are its windows, into the natural world.
The body should generally be erect: not constant-
ly changing, nor always motionless-declining in
humiliat on-rising in praise and thanksgiving
should accompany motion of the hands, head, and
eyes; never turn your back on the audience. Do
not appear haughty, nor the reverse; nor recline
the head to one shoulder-nor stand like a post;
avoid tossings of the body from side to side, rising
on tip-toe, writhing of the shoulders. Study well
the engravings; their position, gracefulness and
awkwardness: some are des gnated for both-dis-
criminate, which to imitate, which to avoid-refer
within, to your own nature, for dictation- and
never adopt any gesture that you do not make
your own by appropriation. All gestures must
originate within. Let everything you do and say
correspond.

The Muse of inspiration-plays
O'er every scene; she walks the forest-maze,
And climbs the mountain; every blooming spot
Burns with her step, yet man-regards it not!
She whispers round; her words are in the air,
But ost, unheard, they linger-freezing there,
Without one breath of soul, divinely strong,
One ray of heart-to thaw them into song.
574. Some of the sources of faults in action, are
unmanly diffidence, which makes one appalled at
nis audience, or makes him fear to sur, lest he
make a mistake; and servile imitation-whence is
a want of action, excess or awkwardness, or un-
due regard to improper models. Do not become
an artificial, made-up character, a compound of
affectation and imitation, a poor creature of bor-
rowed shreds and patches: preserve your own
identity.

Of those few fools who with ill stars are curst,
Sure scribbling foo's, call'd poets, fare the worst:
For they're a set of fools which Fortune makes,
And after she has made them fools, forsakes.

In man or woman, but far most in man,
And most of all-in man that ministers
And serves the altar, in my soul-I loathe
All affectation. Tis my perfect scorn ;
Object-of my implacable disgust.
What!-will a man play tricks, will he indulge
A silly-fond conceit-of his fair form
And just proportion, fashionable mien,
And pretty face, in presence of his God?
Or, will he seek to dazzle me with tropes,
As with the diamond on his lily hand,
And play his brilliant parts before my eyes
When I am hungry for the BREAD of LIFE?
He mocks his Maker, prostitutes and shames
His noble office, and, instead of truth,
Displaying his own beauty, starves his flock.
Therefore, avaunt all attitude and stare,
And start theatric, practic'd at the glass!
I seek divine simplicity-in him,

Who handles things divine; and all-besides,
Tho' learn'd with labor, and tho' much admir'd
By curious eyes, and judgments ill-inform'd,
To me is odious-as the nasal twang
Heard at conventicle, where worthy men,
Misled by custom, strain celestial themes
Through the press'd nostril, spectacle-bestrid.
Anecdote. Indian Virtue. A married
woman, of the Shawenee Indians, made this
beautiful reply-to a man whom she met in
the woods, and who implored her to love and
look on him. Oulman, my husband," said
she, "who is forever before my eyes, hinders
me from seeing you, or any other person."
So dear to Heaven-is saintly chastity,
That when a soul-is found sincerely so,
A thousand liveried angels-lackey her,
Driving far off-each thing of sin, and guilt;
And, in clear dream, and solemn vision,
Tell her of things, that no gross ear can hear,
Till oft converse-with heavenly habitants
Begins to cast a beam--on the outward shape,
The unpolluted temple of the mind,
And turns it, by degrees, to the soul's essence,
Till all be made immortal!

Varieties. 1. Children learn but little
from what they read, while the attention is
divided between the sense and making out
the words. 2. Few parents and teachers are
aware of the pre-eminent importance of oral
over book instruction. 3. Truths, inculcated
without any sense of delight, are like seeds,
whose living germ has been destroyed; and
which, therefore, when sown, can never come
to anything. 4. The idea of the Lord, com-
ing into the world, to instruct us, and make
us good, is an idea particularly delightful to
young children, as well as to those of riper
years. 5. We were not created-to live on
the earth, one moment in vain; every moment
has a commission, connected with eternity;
and each minute, improved, gives power to
the next minute, to proceed with an acceler-
ated ratio and impulse.
Let talkers talk; stick thou to what is best,
To think of pleasing all, is all a jest.
Let conquerors--boast
Their fields of fame: he, who in virtue, arms
A young, warm spirit--against beauty's charms,
Who feels her brightness, yet defies her thrall,
Is the best, bravest conqueror of them all.

575. Stability of position, facility of change. and general grace of action, depend on the right use of the feet: [see the engravings of them.] the motions of children are graceful because prompt ed by nature: see how the different passions alfect their countenances; what a pity they are not kept on in this way, without be ng led by their teachers into captivity to bad habits. Keep your mind collected and composed: guard against bushfulness, which will wear off by opposition. One generally has confidence in doing anything with whose manner he is famii ar. Assurance

is t.ttained by-1, entirely master ng your subject,
and a consciousness that what you have to deliv-
er is worth hearing-2, by wholly engaging in it,
mind intent on it, and heart warmed with it: nev-
er be influenced by approbation or disapproba
tion; master yourself; but how can you unless
you know yourself?

Think'st thou-there are no serpents in the world,
But those, which slide along the grassy sod,
And sting the luckless foot, that presses them?
There are, who, in the path of social life,
Do bask their spotted skins-in Fortune's sun,
And sting the soul-ay, till its healthful frame
Is chang'd to secret. festering, sore disease-
So deadly is the wound.

Anecdote. Somewhere. One gentleman riding in a stage-coach, with another, observed to him," Sir, I think, 1 have seen you somewhere." "I presume you here, Sir,” replied the other; "for I have been there very often."

Brute force--may crush the heart, but cannot kill;
The mind, that thinks, no terrors can compel;
But it will speak at length, and boldly tell
The world its weakness, and its rights; the night
Our race so long has grop'd through, since man fell
From his imagin'd Eden of delight,

Must, will, ere long, retire from Truth's fast dawi
ing light.

Varieties. 1. Mind may act on mind, though holies be far divided. 2. A bold man, lot with another. 3. A wise man,-scorneth or a fool must be he, who would change his nothing, be it ever so small or homely. 4. Mind-is a perpetual motion; for it is a running stream, from an unfathomable source, the depth of the DIVINE INTELLIGENCE. 5. Nature is the chart or Gol, mapping out all his attributes: Arf-the shalone of his wisdom, and copieth his resources. 6. In a dream, thou mayest live a lifetime, and all be forgotten in the morning. 7. A letter timely writ, is a rire to the chain of affec tion. S. As frost to the bud, and light to the blossom, even such is self-interest to friendship. 9. Confidence cannot dwell where selfishness is porter at the gate. 10. Those hours are not lost, that are spent in cementing affection. 11. Character-is main

576. Look at the limbs of a willow tree, gently and variously waving before the breeze, cutting curved lines, which are lines of beauty; and cultivate a graceful, easy, flowing and forcible gesticulation. Adapt your action, as well as vocal powers, to the occasion and circumstances the action to the word, and the word to the action. A young speaker may be more various than an old Do not act words instead of ideas; i, e. not make gestures to correspond, when you speak of any thing small, low. up, large. &c. Let the voice, countenance, men, and gesture, conspire to drive home to the judgmer and heart, your impassioned appeals, cogent arguments, strong conclusions, and deep convictions. Let Nature, guided by scence, be your oracle, and the voice of unsoph stocated feebng your monitor. Fill your soul with the mighty purpose of becoming an orator. and turn aside from no labor, shrink from no effort, that are essential to the enterprise. Self-Still holds its native rectitude, and bends made men are the glory of the world. But to recoil more forceful.

modeled, by the cast of the minds that surround it. 12. The company a man choos elh, is a visible index of his heart.

Man-is a harp, whose chords elude the sight;
Each yielding harmony, disposed aright:
The screws reversed,

Ten thousand thousand strings at once go loose,
Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use.
I have read the instructed volume,
Of human nature; there, long since, have learned,
The way to conquer men-is by their possions:
Catch-but the ruting foible of their hearts,
And all their boasted virtues-shrink-before you.
577. EDUCATION-is a companion, which
no mi fortune can suppress, no clime des
troy--no enemy alienate--no despotism en-
slave. At home--a friend, abroad-an in-
troduction; in solitude a solace, in society,
an ornament. It lessens vice, it guards vir-
tue; it gives, at once, a grace and govern
ment to genius. Without it, what is man?
a splendid stave a reasoning savage! va-
cillating, between the dignity of an intelli-
gence derived from God, and the degradation |
or brutal passion.

A drainless shower

Of light-is porsy; 'tis the supreme of power;
Tis MIGHT-slumbering on its own right arm.
A generous mind, though sway'd awhile by passion,
Is like the steely vigor of the bow,

Great minds, like Heaven, are pleased in doing
Though th' ungrateful subjects of their favors [good,
Are barren in return.

Cowards-are scar'd with threat'nings; boys are
Into confessions; but a steady mind [whipp'd
Acts of itself-ne'er asks the body counsel.
The mind-is full
Of curious changes, that perplex itself.
Just like the visible world; and the heart-ebbs
Like the great sea; first flows, and then retires,
Through sunshine-and in rain, from good—'o ill
And on the passions doth the spirit ride.
Then to deep rice, and so on—back to virtue;
Till, in the grave, that universal calm,
We sleep--the sleep of death.
Virtue, while 't is free from blame,
Is modest, lowly, meck, and unassumir.g;
Not apt. like fearful rice, to shield its weakness
Beneath the studied pomp of boastful phrase,
Which swells, to hide the poverty it shelters:
But, when this virtue-feels itself suspected,
Insulted. set at nought, its whiteness sta n'd.
It then grows proud, forgets its humble worth.
And rates itself-above its real value.

A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.

of the prevalence of the pride of science in the literary world. 3. The true christian has no confidence in mere feelings, or in that sort of gort, which, being without truth, its appointed gile and protector, is transient and inoperative.

578. SUGGESTIONS. The author is aware, from experience, that there are many things tending to discourage a new beginner in declamation; one is, a consciousness of his own awkwardness; which teaches us the importance of knowing how to do a thing, before attempting it in the presence of others. Let him select a short, and ordinary piece, first, and commit it perfectly to memory, and be sure that he understands every word of the author. Never appear in an improper dress; let your clothing be clean and neat, and pro-"that a man of the world could not be so old perly adjusted to the body; neither too loose, nor too fight. Never be influenced, one way or another, by what your companions may say, or do; be your own master, and feel determined to succeed; at the same time, you may be as modest and unassuming as you please, the more so the better: let your sub- | ject and object be to you ALL IN ALL.

Applause-

Waits on success: the fickle multitude,
Like the light straw, that floats along the stream,
Glide with the current still, and follow fortune.
Men judge actions-always by events:
But, when we manage, by a just forsesight,
Success-is prudence, and possession-right.

579. Our Boox. In this abridged outline of the Principles of Elocution, the author has endeavored to appreciate the age and state of those, who will be likely to read, or study the work; for it is designed for both purposes; and if the reader, or student, shall experience a tithe of the pleasure in rightly using it, as the author has in writing it, his aspirations will be fully realized. The more these subjects are examined, and their principles applied to practice, the more will it be seen and fell, that no one can become a GOOD ELOCUTIONIST, unless he studies BODY and MIND, MATTER and SPIRIT; and makes the results his own, by actual appropriation; science and art, theory and pruchice, must go hand in hand, to develop and perfect us for EARTH

or HEAVEN.

If you did know-to whom I gave the ring,
If you did know-for whom I gave the ring,
And would conceive for what I gave the ring,
And how unwillingly-I left the ring,
When nought would be accepted--but the ring,
You would abate the strength of your displeasure.
As travelers--oft look back, at ere,
When eastward--darkly going,
To gaze upon that light-they leave,
Still faint behind them-glowing-
So, when the close of pleasure's day—
To gloom hath near consign'd us,
We turn--to catch one fading ray
Of joy, that's left behind us.

Miscellaneous. 1. A wise man-is willing to prt by the errors of others; because he does net, under the impulse of pride, condemn and despise them; but, while his judg. ment-disapproves, his heart-pities them. 2. It is the constant tendency of man, when in a perverted state of the will, and according to the state of such perversion, to make the reason, or understanding, everything, and to pay file or no attention to the state of the affections; and also to regulate his actions more by external, than internal considerations; this state and tendency is the cause

Anecdote. A Wise Decision. Eliza Ambert, a young Parisian lady, resolutely discarded a gentiman, to whom she was to have been married, because he ridiculed religion. Having given him a gentle reproof, he replied, fashioned, as to regard God and religion” Eliza storted; but, on recovering herself, said, "From this moment, sir, when I discover that you do not regard religion, I cease to be yours. He, who does not love and honor God, can never love his wife, constantly and sincerely,"

Yes, love indeed is light from Heaven;

A spark of that immortal fire
With angels shared, by Alla given,

To lift from earth our low desire
Devotion wafts the mind above,
But Heaven itself descends in love;
A feeling from the Godhead caught,
To wean from self each sordid thought;
A ray of him who form'd the whole;
A glory circling round the soul!
Varieties. 1. Neglect not time present;
despair not of time past; never despair. 2.
Infamy-is where it is received. If thou art
a mud wall, it will stick,-if marble, it will
rebound. If thou storm at it, it is thine; if
3. Ridicule
thou confemn it,—it is gone.
seems to dishonor, worse than dishonor itself.
4. It is heaven, on earth, to have the mind
move in charity, rest in Providence, and turn
on the truth. 5. A long life may be passed
without finding a friend, in whose under-
standing and virtue, we can equally confile,
and whose opinion we can value at once for
its justice and sincerity. 6. Aeak man,
however honest, is not qualified to judge. 7.
A man of the world, however penetrating, is
not fit to counsel. 8. What is the great, es-
sential evil of intemperance? The voluntary
extinction of reason. 9. What breaks the
heart of the drunkard's wife? It is not, that
he is poor; but, that he is a drunkard. 10.
How shall we arrest, how suppress this great
inwardly, and outwardly; by giving strength
evil? To rescue men, we must act on them
within, to withstand the temptation, and re
move the temptation without.

Thou sun. (said I.) fair light!

And thou enlightened earth, so fresh, and gay;
Ye hills, and dales, ye rivers, woods and plains,
And ye, that live and move, fair creatures, tell,
Tell-if you know, how came I thus; how here?
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby
They write on hills, and fields, mysterious truths.
Riches, like insects, when concealed, they lie,
Wait but for their wings, and in their season, fly.

N. B. The latter part of the work is much ab idged, and por tons of the original matter omitted, to make more room for the Readings and Recitations, and still keep the book, within what are deemed proper lin.its: this will rationally account for its in coherency, as well as brevity,-One more last word to the pupů FEEL RIGHT-THINK RIGHT, AND ACT RIGHT, AND YOU SHALL BECOME ALL, THAT YOU ARE CAPABLƏ oF, AND ALL THAT YOU CAN DESIRE,

Notes. In these exercises, there is a continual recurrence of the preceding principles, and all designel for thinkers and workers. As there are no such things as TIME and SPACE be onging to the mind, the nearer we approach to their annihilation, the more readily can we memorize: for which reason small type are used; and also variety, for the purpose of assisting in the preservation of the sight, and maintaining our independence of spectacles: in consideration of which, it should be observed, that books must be read, by varying their distances from the eyes; sometimes quite near, at others farther off: also practice the sight in looking at surrounding objects, in their proper positions from

Nearest to farthest.

580. IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. Among various excellent arguments-for the immortality of the soul, there is one drawn from the perpetual progress of the soul to its perfection, without a possibility of ever arriving at it.

How can it enter into the thoughts of man, that the soul, which is capable of such immense perfections, and of receiving new improvements to all eternity, shall fall away into nothing, almost as soon as it is created! Are such abilities made for no purpose? A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass: in a few years, he has all the endowments he is capable of; and, were he to live ten thousand inore, would be the same thing he is at present.

581. FANCIED INFALLIBILITY. When man has looked about him, as far as he can, he concludes there is no more to be seen; when he is at the end of his line, he is at the bottom of the ocean; when he has shot his best, he is sure none ever did, nor ever can shoot better, or beyond it; his own reason is the certain measure of truth; his own knowledge, of what is possible in nature; though his mind and his thoughts, change every seven years, as well as his strength and his features: nay, though his opinions change every week or every day, yet he is sure, or at least confident, that his present thoughts and conclusions are just and true, and cannot be deceived.

OUR TOILS AND THEIR REWARD.

He, who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find
The loftiest peaks, most wrapt in clouds, and
He, who surpasses, or subdues mankind, [snow;
Must look down on the hate, of those below.
Though high above, the sun of glory glow,
And far beneath, the earth and ocean spread:
Round him, are icy rocks, and loudly blow

Contending tempests, on his naked head, fled.
And thus, reward the toils, which to those summits

582. PARTS OF THE WHOLE. This sun, Man does not seem born to enjoy life, but with all its attendant planets, is but a very to deliver it down to others. This is not sur- little part of the grand machine of the uniprising to consider in animals, which are verse; every star, though no bigger in apformed for our use, and can finish their busi-pearance than the diamond, that glitters ness in a short life. The silk-worm, after hav-on a lady's ring, is really, a vast globe, like ing spun her task, lays her eggs, and dies. But a man-can never have taken in his full measure of knowledge, has not time to subdue his passions, establish his soul in virtue, and come up to the perfection of his nature, before he is hurried off the stage.

Would an infinitely wise Being-make such glorious creatures for so mean a purpose? Can he delight in the production of such abortive intelligences, such short-lived reasonable beings? Would he give us talents, that are not to be exerted! capacities that are never to be gratified?

How can we find that wisdom, which shines through all his works, in the formation of man, without looking on this world as only a nursery for the next, and believing, that the several generations of rational creatures, which rise up and disappear, in such quick successions, are only to receive their first rudiments of existence here, and afterwards, to be transplanted into a more friendly climate, where they may spread, and flourish-to all eternity!--Addison.

VIRTUOUS FRIENDSHIP.

Is aught so fair,
In all the dewy landscapes of the spring,
In the bright eye of Hesper, or the morn;
In nature's fairest forins,-is aught so fair
As virtuous friendship? as the candid blush
Of him who strives with fortune to be just?
The graceful tear, that streams for others' woes?
Or the mild majesty of private life,
Where peace, with ever-blooming olive, crowns
The gate? where honor's liberal hands effuse
Unenvied treasures, and the snowy wings
Of innocence and love, protect the scene?
That-I spent,-that--I had;

That-I gave,--that--I have;
That-I left,-that-I lost.

the sun in size, and in glory; no less spacious, no less luminous, than the radiant source of the day: so that every star is not barely a world, but the centre of a magnificent system; has a retinue of worlds irradiated by its beams, and revolving round its at tractive influence,-all which are lost to our sight, in unmeasurable wilds of ether.

SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY.

She walks in beauty, like the night

Of cloudless climes, and starry skies;
And all that's best, of dark and bright,
Meet in her aspect, and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light,
Which heaven, to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace,
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o'er her face;
Where thoughts, serenely sweet, express
How pure, how dear, their dwelling place.
And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days, in goodness spent,

A mind at peace, with all below,
A heart, whose love, is innocent!
Men-are made to bend
Before the mighty, and to follow on
Submissive, where the great may lead-the great
Whose might is not in crowns and palaces,
In parchment-rolls, or blazon'd heraldry,
But in the power of thought, the energy

Of unsupported mind, whose steady will
No force can daunt, no tangled path divert
From its right onward purpose.

Will he be idle, who has much t' enjoy

585. BALANCE OF HAPPINESS EQUAL. An extensive contemplat on of Luman affairs, will lead us to the conclusion,-that among the different conditions, and ranks of men, the balance of happiness--is preserved, in a great measure, equal; and that the high and the low, the rich and the poor, approach, in point of real enjoyment, much nearer to each other, than is commonly imagined. In the lot of man, mutual compensations, both of pleasure, and of pain, universally take place. Providence never intended, that any state here, should be either completely happy,

583. CHANGING AND UNCHANGING. When we have looked on the pleasures of life, and they have vanished away; when we have looked on the works of nature, and perceived that they were changing; on the monuments of art, and seen that they would not stand; on our friends, and they have fed while we were gazing; on ourselves, and felt that we were as fleeting as they; when we have looked on every object to which we could turn our arious eyes, and they have all told us that they could give us no hope nor support, because they were so feeble themselves; we can look to the throne of God: change and decay have never reached that; the revolution of ages has never moved it; the waves of an eternity have been rush-or entirely miserable. If the feelings of pleas ing past it, but it has remained unshaken; the waves of another eternity are rushing toward it, but it is fixed, and can never be disturbed.

INFANT SLEEPING IN A GARDEN.

Sleep on, sweet babe! the flowers, that wake
Around thee, are not half so feir;
Thy dimpling smiles, unconscious break,
Like sunlight, on the vernal air.
Sieep on! no dreams of care are thine.
No anxious thoughts, that may not rest;
For angel arms around thee twine,

To make thy infant slumbers bless'd.
Perchance her spirit hovers near,
Whose name, thy infant beauty bears,
To guard thine eyelids, from the tear
That every child of sorrow shares.
Oh! may thy life, like hers endure,
Unsullied to its spotless close;
And bend to earth, as calm and pure

As ever bowed the summer rose.-Dawes. 584. The estimate and valor of a man, consist in the heart, and in the will; there, his true honor lives; valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage, and the soul; it does not lie in the valor of our horse, nor of our arms, but in ourselves, He, that falls obstinate in his courage, Si succilerit de genu pugnat; if his legs fail him, fights upon his knees.

A MOTHER'S LOVE.

Hast thou sounded the depths-of yonder sea,
And counted the sands, that under it be?
Hast thou measured the height-of heaven above?
Then-mayest thou mete out-the mother's love.
Host thou talked with the blessed, of leading on,
To the throne of God-some wandering son?
Hast thou witnessed the angels' bright employ?
Then-mayest thou speak of a mother's joy.
Evening and morn-hast thou watched the bee
Go forth, on her errands of industry?
The bee, for herself, hath gather'd and toil'd,
But the mother's cares-are all for her child.
Hast thou gone with the traveler, Thought, afar,
From pole to pole, and from star to star!
Thou hast-but on ocean, earth, or sea,
The heart of a mother-has gone with thee.
There is not a grand, inspiring thought,
There is not a truth-by wisdom taught,
There is not a feeling, pure and high,
That may not be read-in a mother's eye.
There are teachings on earth, and sky, and air,
The heavens-the glory of God declare;
But louder--than voice beneath, above,
He is heard to speak-through a mother's love.

ure are more numerous, and more lively, in the higher departments of life, such, also, are those of pain. If greatness flatters our vanity, it multiplies our dangers. If opulence in creases our gratifications, it increases, in the same proportion, our desires and demands. If the poor--are confined to a more narrow circle, yet, within that circle, le most of those natural satisfactions, which, after all the refinements of art, are found to be the most genuine and true. In a state, therefore, where there is neither so much to be coveted, on the one hand, nor to be dreaded, on the other, as at first appears, how submissive ought we to be--to the disposal of Provi dence! how temperate--in our desires, and pursuits! how much more attentive--to preserve our virtue, and to improve our minds, than to gain the doubtful, and equivocal advantages of worldly prosperity.-Blair.

A RAINY DAY.

It rains. What lady-loves a rainy day?
Not she, who pu's prunello on her foot,
Zephyrs around her neck, and silken socks
Upon a graceful ankle,-nor yet she,
Who sports her tasseled parasol along
The walks, beau-crowded, on some sunny noon,
Or trips in muslin, in a winter's night,
On a cold sleigh-ride-to a distant ball.
She loves a rainy day, who sweeps the hearth,
And threads the busy needle, or applies
The scissors to the torn, or thread-bare sleeve;
Who blesses God, that she has friends at home;
Who, in the pelting of the storm, will think
Of some poor neighbor, that she can befriend;
Who trims the lamp at night, and reads aloud,
To a young brother, tales he loves to hear;
Or ventures cheerfully abroad, to watch
The bedside of some sick, and suffering friend,
Administering that best of medicines,
Kindness, and tender care, and cheering hope;
Such are not sad, e'en on a rainy day.
Mankind are all hunters in various degree;
The priest hunts a living-the lawyer a fee,
The doctor a patient--the courtier a place,
Though often, like us, he's flung out in the chace.
The cit hunts a plum--while the soldier hunts
The poet a dinner--the patriot a name; [fame,
And the practic'd coquette, tho' she seems to re-
In spite of her airs, still her lover pursues. [fuse,
He's on his guard, who knows his enemy;
And innocence-may safely trust her shield
Against an open foe; but who's so mailed,
That slander shall not reach him? Coward
Stabs in the dark.
[calumny

Heaven's great view is one, and that-the whole.