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desolate than the surrounding scenery, more dark, and stony, and severe; but the ground was thrown about in such picturesque undulations, that the mind, full of the sublime, required not the beautiful; and rich, and waving woods, and sparkling cultivation would have been misplaced. Except Athens, I had never witnessed any scene more essentially impressive.

I will not place this spectacle below the city of Minerva. Athens and the holy city in their glory, must have been the finest representations of the beautiful and the sublime – the holy city, for the elevation on which I stood was the Mount of Olives, and the city on which I gazed was Jerusalem.

ODE TO PEACE.

COME, peace of mind, delightful guest!
Return and make thy downy nest,

Once more in this sad heart;

Nor riches I, nor power pursue,
Nor hold forbidden joys in view;
We therefore need not part.

Where wilt not dwell, if not with me,
From avarice and ambition free,

And pleasure's fatal wiles?
For whom, alas! dost thou prepare
The sweets that I was wont to share,
The banquet of thy smiles.

The great, the gay, shall they partake
The heaven that thou alone canst make?
And wilt thou quit the stream

That murmurs through the dewy mead,

The grove and the sequester'd shed,

To be a guest with them?

For thee I panted, thee I prized,
For thee I gladly sacrificed

Whate'er I loved before;

And shall I see thee start away,

And helpless, hopeless, hear thee say
Farewell! we meet no more!

MORNING.

BUT who the melodies of morn can tell?

The wild brook babbling down the mountain side;
The lowing herd the sheepfold's simple bell;

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The pipe of early shepherd dim descried
In the lone valley; echoing far and wide
The clamorous horn along the cliffs above;

The hollow murmur of the ocean-tide;

The hum of bees, and linnet's lay of love,
And the full choir that wakes the universal grove.

The cottage curs at early pilgrim bark;

Crowned with her pail the tripping millanaid sings;
The whistling ploughman stalks afield; and hark!
Down the rough slope the ponderous wagon rings;
Through rustling corn the hare astonished springs;
Slow tolls the village clock the drowsy hour;
The patridge bursts away on whirring wings;
Deep mourns the turtle in sequester'd bower,
And shrill lark carols clear from her aerial tour.

GOOD MANNERS.

Good manners is the art of making people easy. The three sources of good manners are good nature, humility, and good sense. Good sense and integrity, if we are sure

we possess them, will not make good manners unnecessary; the former being but seldom called out to action, but the latter continually.

"Without good breeding truth is disapproved.

That only makes superior sense beloved

CIVILITY.

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RUDENESS ill becomes men possessed of ability, power, riches, or religion. It is a law not to be dispensed with "To honor all men." Christians are especially called upon to show respect and kindness to mankind.

Piety of disposition, connected with urbanity of manners, characterise both the christian and gentleman. We should always be careful not to hurt or injure others by careless, wanton, or unkind conduct.

As every action may produce effects over which human power has no influence, and which human sagacity cannot foresee, we should not lightly venture to the verge of evil, nor strike at others, though with a reed, lest, like the rod of Moses, it become a serpent in our hand.

"If a civil word or two will render a man happy," said a French king, "he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him.”

POLITENESS.

POLITENESS is one of the advantages which we never estimate rightly, but by inconvenience of its loss. Its influence upon the manners is constant and uniform. Every man may hope, by the help of good breeding, to enjoy the kindness of mankind, though he should have no claim to higher distinctions.

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A CROW, having stolen a piece of cheese from a cottage window, flew up into a high tree with it, in order to eat it; which the Fox observing, came and sat underneath, and began to compliment the Crow upon the subject of her beauty. "I protest," said he, "I never observed it before, but your feathers are of a more delicate white than any that ever I saw in my life! Ah! what a fine shape and graceful turn of body is there! And I dare say you have a beautiful voice. If it be but as fine as your complexion, I do

not know a bird that can pretend to stand in competition with you."

The Crow, tickled with this very civil language, wriggled about and hardly knew where she was; but thinking the Fox a little dubious as to the particular of her voice, and having a mind to set him right in that matter, she began to sing, and in the same instant, let the cheese fall out of her mouth. This being what the Fox wanted, he snapped it up in a moment; and trotted away, laughing to himself at the easy credulity of the Crow.

MORAL.

It is a maxim in the schools,

"That Flattery 's the food of fools!"

And whoso likes such airy meat,

Will soon have nothing else to eat.

INGRATITUDE.

BLOW, blow, thou wintry wind,

Thou art not so unkind

As man's ingratitude;

Thy tooth is not so keen,

Because thou art not seen,

Although thy breath be rude.

Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky,
Thou dost not bite so nigh

As benefits forgot:
Though thou the waters warp,
Thy sting is not so sharp

As friends rememb❜ring not.

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