The ladies' garland. [volume], April 29, 1826, Image 1

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VOL. 3.
HASPEHS-rERUY, VIR6IWIA, APRIL 29, 1825.
NO. 12.
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"M-.ption.
i >Y1X(. mi{ LON K.
i n tiii'M stnrk-fuois ami subjects fit
! or sport Oi’boy.s aiul rabble w it.
! 1 i;mnit v-'.
I)_\ in"' lor love is u very silly thin-'. It an
'«ers ini one good end whatsoever. It i' poeti
e:il—rnmantir. perlmps itn1110itiili/inhut. in
\ erlhcless. ii i-, silly, anil oftentimes exceedin
iy inciimfluent. I have h-en prcllv near it six
in sex en ttines, hut. tinttihs to niv ohslmar v ! —
(Inf " liicll. in ill eil. I oil-lit to he thank till, see
in-' I possess a \ cry considerable portion oh that
unyiehhue essence.! I h:n e coni m eil to keep
(h ath li-nni the door, and despair from the sane
tuarv of my thoughts. I cannot, in fact, believe
that hall of those who have the credit / should
-ay i;ir-credit 1 of drills? for lote leave re.dlv do
served it. V man fixes his atl'ections on piece
of cold beauty—a morsel of stonv perfection —
nr on one farnhove him in rank and fortune—
or on till equal, who has mifortuuatelv a lover
whom she prefers. Well! he becomes melan
choly; takes cold upon it. .and dies, lint this
proves notions;: lie nii-ht have died if his pas
• ion had In-en returned, or if lie had never loved
at all. The laic of my friend H--, is a ease
in point, lie was deeply enamoured of a very
beautiful, hut adamantine ladv. and. as a mat
ter of course, strew verv low-spirited and very
miserable, lie did not Ions; survive; and, as
another matter of course, it was given out that
he died for love.
As the world seemed to think it soundi d bet
ter than savin-' that hi' death wax occasioned
by drinkin-- void water iminediati Iv after walk
in; ten miles under a hunting 'un, i did not con
tradict the report, although I had stood -rounds
tor so doiu-i and it became verv sceneral!v be
lowed. Some aver that I.eander died of love,
“ because, (they say) it tiial 1 [ero hail not hern
oti the other side ol the Hellespont, he would
not have been drowned—-rtriiul, ~Tie died for
loved' These are your priniary-eausoinen !—
your wholesale deductionmon-i-rs! Now I
am a plain-spoken t-How, and am more apt to
draw natural than romantic conclusions—
1 say he died ol the cramp, or from hciiisj ear
ned away by the rapidity of the stream: altho’
f know at the satin- time, that is not tin- cur
rail opinion. 1 am no poet, and therefore take
no poetic licences: die romantic ‘In: and I am
quite wdiin-' to let Common S ,j,.rj<)e l e
tween us. Let me, however, not be tuismidcr
| stood ; I arc'iir. not on tint inij><'.•s--iiiiliIv. lint on
| tin- t>»l!\ tout inroiiMsiency o| dvin;; for love.—
j I itot it litis oceosionaliy li;tppcned. 1 not M i ll
; aware. I remember .Marian T——. when sin1
uas as lovely imil lively :i nirl its I'vcr hi it I a
'iln-hmy; cheek on a snow v pillow . ;md sank in
j to (1 teauts ol tnnoeence ttnd jov. I remember
It’*' too, Mlien tlie. lose was ittilint; iVotn her
eiieek. and solace and happiness had vanished
forever Iront her forsaken heart. There was
the impress o| l,lighted hope upon her brow—
the record ol a villain's faithlessness upon her
sunken cheek. Her eve told of Iona' sitiier
in;1', tun! her constant hot melanehoh smile
ev inced how patiently she endured it. l)a\- hv
day the line of mortality waved fainter ami lain
ter 1 her beautiful form wasted awn V . 'he became
at last like a spirit ot heaven dwellmi; anionm,
lint scarcely lioldiua,' commnnion with, the sons
ami daughters of the earth. The hitter part of
her hie seemed an abstraction—a dream—an
unconsciousness id w Init v\ as passing arotmd her.
The sister of S-, (of him who had broken
the unis ihai were pledged with such seemin',;'
fidelity to Marian.) abhorred her brother's inii
delily, and was louder than ever of the poor
heart -broken girl. She sincerely pitied her.
For pitcc rennetli sore in gcntil herlo ;
and sonivlit. by every means in her power, to
revive her past energies, and recall her to lost
happiness and peace. Hilt it was too late; al
tlionitii she complained not. her spirit was bro
ken forever; and in the etlort of rai-iny; herself
to e-ive a last kiss to her friend, she sank hack
and died without a alriiyy'lo or a siyh. There
were some lines in a periodical work, shortly af
ter her death, evidently n i it ten by a person ae
ijiiainted with the partms. which I think, may
not improperly he inserted here.
to t;- s-.
Tneres a stum on time tliut can never facie,
Though bathed in the mists of future wars,
And this world will be bill a world of shade,
Of sorrow, and anguish, and hitter tears.
Thou hast seen a fhiw’ret pine awav,
I hat, loved by thee, would have blossom’d fair,
And thou shah meet with a worse decav,
And wither and die in thy soul’s despair.
I.ike the summer’s hreatli was the gentle tale
U i’ ll wide h thoil told’st of thy love and truth,
Hut thy falsehood came like the wint’iy gale,
And bl.ghtcd the flow’rct in its youth.
U iias sunk to earth ; but nor tear nor sigh
lias e’er betraved thy bosom’s pain,
Yet a day will come when thou wmdd’sl die
To call it back from the grave again.
Ilsd’st thou cherish’d it with the smile that won
IN fadeless love in Spring’s blooming hours ;
Had thy love beam’d o’er it like the sun,
U Itose rays are life to the drooping flow’rs
It had still been fair, and thou had’.it now
Heen calm as the lake that sleeps in res* ;
Hut tiie lav of jo) slndl ne'er light thy brow,
Nor pleasure dwell in thy lonely breast.
f if the lov ely one whom thou left’st forlorn,
\ det p lament shall he ;
H it no heart shall sigh, and no bosom mourn,
•And no eye e’er weep for thee.
Thou Will pass away to tile realms of death
111 solitude and gloom ;
And a cm>c " ,!i cling to thy parting breath,
As awful as thy doom.
Bill tins, ,iml ;i few other extreme case'. j
roijsuliT us mere exceptions to my ;'VI1('| III ride.
Now. supposing. US I lone Sill,I III lore, (hut ;i
lo.iii ilutes hiii■■ i ;t beauty w ithout a In art : —
W Ii:11 in the name o! reason slmiih! induce him
to die lor one who lines not t are ,, rush lor him ’’
I lu re may he others who wouhl have imu
leelme' ami loss coquetrc, with quite as mm.®
persona! eharms. Or, supposin',; that he is at
tael.et| to one tar above him. eitlnr in Ibtlunr*
or rank, or both. What then! .Must he there
lore, wash- aw ay. am! heroine the mere shallow
of himself.' \ rliihl mrv lour; to catch a star
| as lie does a Imtlei lly. or t'i tm n tin- sun round as
j he tines his hoop. Imt his non success would not,
i as nurses rail it. ■* he the tlealh of him.' Auum :
h-t us imagine that a man plares Ins atfertions
on an o<[11:11. and that she has a stronger team
me- towards atmther. Still. I sav, llirre is no
harm done, l.-t him think ms I should dot
that there may he other females with quite a*
many outward attractions, and more discern
nieiil. I have no notion of ilviny; to ph ase any
one. I have had loo inileh trouhle t,, siippiut
existence to think id Icviny it down upon sm li
iCfoiinds. I should deem d quite enotiyh to
peri'h lor the sake ol one who really loud me:
foe one who did not. I should he sum to silt]* r
a twin;;e of ihemm.li'Ui in my ear. or the him
hatt'o. I Ini * e ta ad of a man w ho actually fancied
he was fadint; away—a victim to the lender
passion:"—hut who afterwards discovered that
his complaint was caused hy abstaining too Inn;;
from his necessan food. This w as ;t sail lull
from the drawing-room window of romance into
tin: area of common sense and real life ; hut
lie was forced to make the la st of it ; so le
look his meals oftener and thought no more
about it. lie actually became a suitor to aim
tlier, was maiti* d. and now, I have no douht.
thinks just as 1 do on the subject of living fur
lov e.
I. it I | in it mill Vi mi , •• m v readers ail t a
notice nl these 111> los) words, and farewell ih
ire t ions, wliii h I yive in sinei nil v of h. .111. ami
out of anxiety Ihr your w clfaro. Yewhohavy
never heen in hue, Imt who are appro.irhiu"
insensibly tow arils it—( orvdons of sixteen!
■■ Appnlines iniLerlies‘‘ come home for tin- hop
'lays! take lieeil ! \ c are enterin'; on a little,
known ami perilous sea. I .nek tu \ our hark h st
she founder. 15rim; her head round, and sau!
away before the wind into the port of Imhtle;
cnee. There is danyer in tin: very sereniu that
sleeps upon the waves; there is faithlessness in
the lightest hreatli that curls them. Ye who
are in love—ye who are already on the deceit
lul ocean—list' ll to me! l.ook out I'm srpi.ilN i
lieware of inimeane-! I lave a care of up
proaehiiiK storms! There may lie an i in un o
•hip nearer than you wot of. .Iu -1 yive a ' diite.
and sheer otl to Itaeheloi harUm:;'. And w-.
the last and most pitiable ela • ■ of ail. keep ph-u
tv ol ti'oeni wine a hoe.rii so that when a -i, h
is rising in the thioat you mav elioak it with a
huniper ; and in ease of tea i. i',md< p. ml
upon it that port will prove the lu st eve natir
- ‘ \ ■
(inuux. — When the .yin eminent of a nation en
courages sr.ence :.i. I arts, yen.as emery, s and
Hoill'islics. I here ices hern :ei aye of t3' : eie., ;.n
Augustan aye, an aye of l.e.i N , and a ;e. e i f Kh
zuhetk, allot which were dins': oils for mental de
velop*, ment, and lor hold and dauntless emci pr^TC