FOR THE EMERALD. FABLE...18. THE DANCING BEAR. How foolishly appears the swain, Who strives the public praise to gain, By boldly practising those arts, The most repugnant to his parts? Among this blind courageous crew, Who Fame's aerial flight pursue, None is more vain than he who tries, On Humour's waxen wings to rise. Pleasantry! capricious maid, dost thou man's embrace evade ? est, Voice, (With epic rage engag'd no more) "To set the table in a roar.” At length more captious grown dost scorn, The incense to thine altar borne ; A country boy, with art and care Such airy reel and rigadoon Such aukward actions we display, He said, and caper'd round a tree. roar, Inflam'd his heart to shine the more. He rolls his eyes, and bites the ground. For the Emerald. THE MORNING MORALIZEDJ. AURORA's breath, like spices sweet, Now animates the morning ray, While nature echoing joys repeats To welcome in the new born day. To greet the cheerful dappled dawn, The feather'd songsters sweetly sing, Who always to the rising morn, Their ever grateful incense bring. Tis thus the SAINT from worldly care, Ere Phoebus yet begins the day To Heaven prefers his grateful prayer: -The easiest recompence we pay ! When SoL rob'd in celestial fire, O'er the dark world his blessing sheds, The meaner stars and moon retire,^ Secreting their indignant heads. Though Falsehood may, like shades of night, Seclude the truth with clouds malign: Etherial TRUTH with beams of light; Like Phoebus will forever shine.! How grand; where SoL begins to rise Appears the east with saffron hue; For while he gilds the orient skies, His beams exhale the liquid DEW. Tis thus that FRIENDSHIP kind and meek, Where sad affliction's woes appear, Will gently from the grief-worn cheek Where chaos and confusion are, skies, On Truth its ray divinely throws, Tis thus, that shameful IGNORANCE flies, To chaos and Cimmerian woes. Thro' all the darkness of the night, SOL does at length his pow'rs display, All glorious, clad in rays of light, He breaks majestic into day, Tho' in the sable adverse liour, Fair VIRTUE shudders in the gloom. Soon by its own benignant power, It flourishes in genial bloom. What tho' in baleful grief array'd. We may dejected Virtue find, Yet like the sun, the heav'nly maid, With rapture breaks upon the mind." POLLIO. For the Emerald, THE SEASONS. WHEN Frank, to view the charms of Across the meadows bent his way, A Summors's eve his bosom fir'd, ་ ་་་ He view'd the day's departing beam, Again he cry'd, with fresh delight, And Autumn came by Ceres led, To crown her season with her lore: Felt rising pleasures as before. When skating o'er the pool he sighs, Thus to a pure, untainted mind, O, may I like the urchin prize And bow the heart at Nature's shrine ! For the Emerald. ODE....TO CONTENT., NYMPH of the valley and the straw ; roof'd cot, With placid eye and cheek of rosy hue, Sweet are the blessings of thy humble lot, 21 To virtue friendly and to pleasure true! At early morn, when sweet the woodland song, [grove Has waken'd rapture in the vernal I've seen thee move with cheerful look along, [of love Or pause to catch the tuneful notes' 'Within the field or on the grassy plain, While beauty smil'd and fragrant breath'd the gale, I've mark'd thee smiling by the patient swain, Beguiling labor with enlivening tale. The rosy milk maid with her pail in hand, [green, And lightly hasting o'er the velvet Has led thee captive in a russet band, To share the pleasures of the sylvan LET the world be malicious and envy my bliss, And make of their comments no end: At the frown of ill manners I heartily hiss, And seek in my bottle a friend. When spirits are ebbing, and morals run low, And none will my conduct commend; On the mirth-hating herd I my vengeance bestow, And find in my bottle a friend. Should the ear of my mistress with saucy disdain Refuse my soft tale to attend ; To hide my defeat and to soften my pain I seek in my bottle a friend. No mortal would take such abundanec of pains, My hazardous cause to defend, For (to the last drop which its body contains) My bottle continues a friend. AMARANTHUS. Penelope tells her suitor Antinous to make trial of the bow of Ulysses, and if fate prove favorable, she may too. Antinous at length puts an end to a fruitless suit with the following valedictory: PENELOPE farewel, I go To bend Ulysses' stubborn bow; And never will Antinous ask BELCHER & ARMSTRONG, Printers, : No. 70, State-Street.....Boston. SEMPER REFULGET. No. 11. Boston, Saturday, July 12, 1806. ORIGINAL PAPERS. FOR THE EMERALD. THE WANDERER, No. XXXVI. those whose lot in life has comparatively exempted them from this state of dependence, and view the power by which they command, or the wealth by which they purchase every unlimited gratification, as give ing them a control over the chances of time, and the accidents of life. INDEPENDENCE is considered so Far different would the picture ap valuable an acquisition that men fre-pear to us, if we could view it in a quently ruin themselves in attempts light that should not conceal its deto obtain it. Nature, however, has fects norfactitiously magnify its beau placed us in situations where the ties. Happiness is more equally skill, science, arts, power or strength distributed. What is obtained by of our neighbors are so frequently power is lost by anxiety, and what requisite for our protection, that at-is gained by wealth, is destroyed tempts for independence are evi-again by care. The Emperor is dently designs against the establish- Liberated from fears which Larrasa ed laws of existence and the labor, like that of Sysiphus, is not only tedious and painful, but incessant and ineffectual. The dependence which each one feels on those with whom circumstances have connected him, is so coincident with the principles of our nature, and so requisite for the existence of a community, that attempts to destroy it are treason against the constitution of society. This dependence, however, has its proper limits; it is as disconnected from every thing humiliating as it is from every thing arrogant, and, while the consciousness of relying on extraneous assistance checks the ebullitions of pride, the reciprocality of power to confer benefits prevents the meanness of servility. the miserable subject who wears the livery of a slave, but he has terrors of another kind which power cannot silence--he fancies treachery in every look and finds dishonesty concealed in every bosom. The modern Cresus may riot in the lux uriance of profusion, but though he is free from those alarms which chill the breast of the mendicant, yet he distrusts the fidelity of those on whom he must rely, and finds that extensive possessions give a wider extention to his cares. The ambitious man despises the humble level of ordinary life; he would mount the ladder of eminence to be gazed at by the world; his spirit stoops not to obedience, he would lead the tributary passions of the multitude and direct their zeal Notwithstanding these considera- to his personal glory. Do these tions, we are apt to regard with envy wishes free him from the shackles of restraint? Does he emancipate | of them and ought to meet the same his mind? Do the clouds on which acquiescence. Where there is no he would rise, gather at his orders urgent reason against conforming and move in obedience to his to prevailing habits, a good reason will? No. The most dependent exists for compliance; and the man being in the circles of society is the who sets his own manners or ambitious man. In striving for opinions on such subjects, at varihonors he bends of necessity to the ance with prevailing taste, shews follies and caprice of mankind; some more affectation and pride than men he must flatter, because their sound sense and discretion. There influence is extensive, and others is no more disagreeable character he must neglect because they are than the obstinate and captious man. enlisted with an opposite party, al- The man who mistakes pertinacity though by praising the first, the in error for the zeal of indepenmind sinks in its own estimation, dence, and refuses to comply with and in neglecting the last, merit the request of his friends, lest it must be sacrificed to policy. Nor should be considered as a mark of when, by the humiliation of noble servility; the man whose dogmatfeelings, the object of ambition is ical opinions are never permitted to attained, do the timely compliances change, lest it should argue the im of former times cease to be necessa- proper influence of others; who' ry. To remain is as difficult as to boasts of difference in sentiment or rise; to be secure on the eminence manners, as evidence of an original which opportunity has afforded the mind; who mistakes eccentricity means of ascending, requires all the for genius, and confidence for con arts of a ballancing master, who viction: a man of this description, bends his body into every direction (and the picture is not merely im that the natural power of gravita-aginary) is a most uncomfortable tion may not contribute to his fall. This is a character however, who is perfectly ignorant of dependence. Who flatters himself that he moves by his own consequence, when most probably he is borne like a balloon through the air and rises in proportion to his levity. companion. The ignorance, which have no operation within his bosom; that accommodation of sentiment to the disposition of his companions; that polite and engaging relinquish ment of designs to the wishes of friendship, which, in small matters; have so pleasing an effect on the heart, and that conciliating address, which commands under the appear ance of submission, are all equally unintelligible by a character of this kind. The fear of being governed, puts him to more inconvenience |