The ladies' garland. [volume], May 17, 1828, Page 196, Image 4

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VARIETY.
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/.tiri/'.i I'rm/'r.— I ho following i- u lite
r.'il 11 ail-lit'mu info Knp;lish of (ho Lord's
l’rnyer in Cherokee: Our Father uku j
(liveliest above, i onnmetl bo thv name. Let !
thv ' in;■■!■(■ sp: into li^ht. Let thv will !
!"■ done on earth a- it. i, done above. Onr i
food day \tv day bestow on us. Fity n- in
i ■ . an! to our lia\ in;i sinned against thee, as
"i1 pity those who s;:i a^amst us. And
li ad Us not into au v plate id stray mi;, hut. !
on tlie ot!a r hand, restrain us from sin. For j
h.me is the empire, and the st!vii"'!t, and '
the honor, former. So let it ho.
lit cordir. i
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ft appears that the men of early a^es, both j
Jews and i’.'jau:.-, were more cruel than I
men mm are. in any mili/.cil countries. |
Keen gotal k:iu; lki\id put his prisoners of
Rabb.ih under saws, and harrow, of iron,
ami made them pas> through the briek kiln :
nnle." this only im an- that he put them to
I: at their several trades. Adoni-Ile
/ek had seventy kin-s with their oreat toes
• it (iIV. w ho oallAued their meat under hi
taole. 1 he kino id Moab olK ivtli Ids iddest
son. and heir to the tin one, a- a bin nt-otVer
■ it” upon the wall to pro.per the war. Aha/,
maketh his son to pass through life. A Si- ,
mu dan mother hods her own son to eat. i
i he kmoot l!ahvlim masted Zedekiah and |
M.ab in the lue. And the kin«e Ama/.iah 1
'la-lies ten thousand prisoners oil' the top of :
a rock.
l-ent 'iiinsr, life travelling, as it finishes,
mod sfi’iM’, so it makes a s i 11 v man ten
mtisaml time., more insulTei aide. by supply
■ ig a \an•*tv i.f matter to his impertinence,
mil ge.ii.g bitu ;mopporfumis' <•! abounding
■ n a osurd. ties. —,’liidison.
Addison .-ays there is tint a single science. :
of any branch of it, that might not furnish j
t man with business lor life, though it were j
much longer than it is.
Sheridan, one day. meeting two roval
Dukes walking up St. .lames' street, the
youngest thus flippantly addressed i:it« :—
“ I say. Sherry, we have just been discuss
ing whether \ >u are the greater fool or
rogue; what is your opinion, mv bov
Mr. S. bowed, and smiling at the compli
ment, took each of them hv the arm. and
instantly replied, “ \\ by, faith, 1 believe I
am between hoth."
(h riral Surcavn.— In some parish church
es it was once the custom to separate the
men from the women. A clergyman, being
interrupted by loud talking, stopped short,
when a woman, eager for the honor of the
sex, arose ami said : ‘ Your reverence, it is
not among us.’ * "m much the better,’an
swered the priest, 4it will be the sooner
u\ er.?
Dr. Johnson said, that a man, bv taking a second
wife, pays the highest compliment to the first, bv
showing that the made him so happy as a married
man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
POETRY’.
I.AF'f.ANDlSH SONG.
Agile reit d or ' make the read
(Hi t field ami over hill
Vl't 1 imit* a ai’s up1 'i thee still
Near tin man!™'» vict-! abode ,
There abundant tuo-.es grow
I nth rtieatli the to tls of snow.
Speedy is the winter-day, .
And the \v;i.t’iy pa'll is If-npr,
Speed tin e sv\ .t' 1 v as tin song .
Reindeer ! le'ns haste away .
II eve nor herds nor hounds I see,
litre (he forest-prowlers be.
I.o 1 an eagle soars on high—
Would I tint that eagle noyv '
See von cloud 'hut rides the sky.
Would I were upon its brow,
\\ itching all the world, and thee,
In thj hours of gaiety.
l ove, like thee, my living treasure '
Though it set tit so meek and mild,
I.ike a leindet t strong and wild
Drags nte in ,ts sledge at pleasure—
Drags me yy ith as rude a shock
As the cataract o'er a rock.
Maiden 1 all my thoughts bv day
Neat thee, o’ct thee, round thee Might ,
Maiden 1 all my dreams bv night —
I l.ousund thougirts and drearnings—Nay !
N»> 1 1 have no thoughts but one—
' fi-, the thought of thee alone.
utildst then leave me—yvouldst thou fly ’
Wnuldst thou with thy reindeer go
To the deep Jells, where the snow
Rears its drifted pillars high,
'Mi 1st the rocks and ’midst the woods,
In their gloomiest solitudes >
Agile reindeer ' make thy road
Uvci dale am', over loll ;
M'elcome waits upon thee still ;
ar my maiden’s sweet abode ,
I here aliund. it mosses grow
t.'adeiiieath the beds of snow.
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1 IlOM THE I.A 1*1 l.s* MAGAZINE. j
l.U'K.
■ There is no neir thing wirier the swi."
C.od, tliou hast fixed the date of man.
And who would lengthen out the span 1
Kmmgjj of pain, anil toils, and tears,
Meet m the rout'd of seventy years ;
And earth must hke a desert spread,
When ail life’s flutters u;e plucked or dead.
One year—the seasons’ changes o’er—
AViiat would a thousand teach us more ? i
I-'.ach hath its garlands and it-, gl,,om,
Its joyous testisal and doom ;
And ancient lyre, and modern lav,
Chant the same strain to welcome May.
’Tis day upon the eastern hills,
But shade, deep shade yon valley fills—
And thus, let centuries pass, arrayed
In tone.of illt t, half light, half shade,
\\ lil nothing come and wake the throng,
I iiat plod life’s beaten path along.
And see old night her crown puts on,
Cud,turned a« when o’er Babylon
She wooed the Magi’s thoughtful eye
To trace the starry page on high ;
And thus the sky hath ever shone,
As bright, as boundless, as unknow n.
And man is weak and wayward still,
As proud to plan as prone to ill—
The vaunted knowledge he acquires
Is but the wisdom of his sires,
And still from age to age the same.
Tire chase of pleasure, wealth and tame.
And who would hr a slave and dwell
l'ue\er in a dungeon ce ll,
( Glinting the :.r»k.s that form his chain '
Such is the sold that would retain,
• he letters earth’s dull prison finds*,
To check the flight of deathless mind*.
COUNT.1 .1 \
FROM Tin ATIIiM.l M.
SON(l—Ihj iL' hop lIt her.
Oh Ttrs notf-r her lovrh face,
V\ ith \on’ii and rapture teeming,
W lie re swe< ‘ness sheds it.- pur. -t grace,
hike mormng bnghtlv h< am’mg .
Where beauty’s sparkling charms reside.
In treasures bright and airy,
That 1 adore, in fond delight,
M\ sweet, my blue-eye d Mary.
Ob no ! ’tis for her happ\ mind,
Where loveliness reposes,
And infant truth remains enshrined,
L ke fragrance in )oung roses ;
Where taste and excellence unite,
Not form’d with time to vary,
Tha* 1 adore, in fond delight,
My sweet, my blue-eyed Mary.
TARKW Khh.
Karewell ! if ever f ondest prater
For other’s w eal availed on high,
Mine v. ill not all be lo»t in air,
Hut waft thy name bevond the sky,
’Twere vain to speak, to weep, to sigh
Oh ! more than tears of blood can tell,
When wrung from guilt’s expiring eye#
Are in that word—Farewell ! Farewell !
These lips are mute, these eves are dry ,
hot in my breast, and in my brain,
Awake the pangs that pass not by,
The thought that ne'er shall sleep agair
My soul nor deigns nor dares complain,
'i hough grief or passion there rebel ;
I only know we love 1 in vain—
I only feel—Farewell 1 Farewell ! Byron
Evening.
Ct tip evening', once again, season of peace,
ltcturn sweet evening, and continue long !
Methinks I see thee in tile sbeaky west,
With matron step slow mov.ng, while the night
Treads on thy sweeping train , one hand employee
In letting fall the curtain of repose
On bird and beast, the other charg’d for man
With sweet oblivion of the cares of day. Cowpeb.
The Approach of Vuj.
Night wanes, the vapours round the mountain»
curl’d
Melt into morn, ami light awakes the world—
Man has another day to swell the past,
And lead him near to little, but his last ;
Hut mighty nature bourn’s as from her birth,
I lie bull is ill the heavens, and light on eaith ,
flowers in the valley, splendor in the beam.
Health on the gale, ana freshness in the stream.
1! v no.'
The Approach of SVisht.
Slow sinks, more lovelv ere his race be run,
Along Murea’s bills the setting sun ;
Not as in northern climes, obscurely bright,
Hut one unclouded blaze of living light I
O'er the hush’d deep the velh w beams be throws
t >iIds the green u ave. that trembles as it glows
On old Kgina’s rock, and Idea's Isle,
The god of gladness shields his parting smile
O’er bis on n regions lingering, loves to shine.
Though there his altars are no more divine.
Descending last the mountain shadows kiss
I'll) glorious gulf, unconquer’d Salami? 1
Their azure arches through the long eNpanse
More deeply purpled, meet his mellowing glance
And tondercst tints along their summits driven,
Mark his gay comse, and own the hues of Heaven
Till, dark!) shaded tiom the land and deep,
ilebmd Lis Delphian Cliff, he sink? to sleep, lurr