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and she was, in short, superlatively wretched.-adversity, because she saved my father from
Walgrave saw that all was not right and became an undeserved, an ignominious death, because
seriously alarmed.
she is-is-is Lucy Belden, my own sweet
Lucy Belden.'

Miss Belden, what has happened? are you unwell? has the walk proved too much for you? speak! tell me, are you ill?'

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'Oh no, not at all, sir,' said she, endeavoring to rally herself; I was only thinking-I-I believe I have caught the spirit of abstraction from Mr. Walgrave.'

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Oh, that is very possible,' said he, smiling;

Whilst Lucy was still lost in astonishment he suspended the miniature about her neck.— She cast her eye upon it and recognized in a moment the little gift that she had bestowed upon George Menden on the night that they parted at her father's house.

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George Menden!' she exclaimed with delighted surprise, and you are George Menden, Mr. Walgrave.'

I beg your pardon, Miss Belden, but I was
thinking too-thinking of-of a very dear
friend-one that I love most tenderly. But 'Yes, I am George Menden,' he replied, a
you are certainly ill Miss Belden! he ex-smile dimpling his fine countenance, and
claimed, as he saw her suddenly grow pale and you are Lucy Belden, the same dancing little
use her smelling bottle.
Lucy that so adroitly managed the release of
my father. And will my own sweet Lucy
condescend to lay me under new obligations
by bestowing on me this pretty little hand that
has already done so much for me?

'Not the least, Mr. Walgrave,' she replied, the color mantling into her pale cheek with a powerful reaction, but pray, sir, may I inquire who the friend may be that has so deep a claim upon your affections?'

teens. Here her situation was every way
agreeable, and she soon began to feel that she
had friends, that she was beloved, that she was
happy. Nay, let us tell the whole. Mr.
Walgrave was a frequent visiter at the house,
his attentions to Lucy had become particular,
he seemed to live only in her society, and the
time was generally talked of as not far distant
when they were to be united in the silken
bands of wedded love, when an incident
occurred which we shall attempt to describe.
Lucy and Walgrave had left the busy scenes
of the city and were taking a long and retired
walk on the banks of that noble river that
washes the western side of New-York. It was
in the season of song and beauty. The fields
had put on their summer robes of green,
relieved with rich clusters of embryo fruits, and
flowers of the most delicate hues. The
breath of nature as it sighed among the trees,
floated o'er the plain, or dimpled the soft
cheek of the water, was loaded with balm and
perfume, and the birds caroled their sweetest
and tendercst strains. Thus invited by every
thing around him with a charming woman by
his side, how could Walgrave refrain from
thinking of love?-He had long sighed in
secret; he had long determined to reveal the
true state of his affections; but whenever he
approached the subject, his respiration became
so hurried and he felt such a fluttering sensa-
tion about the region of his heart, that he
always found some motive for putting it off to
a more favorable opportunity ;-now that op-affectionate.'
portunity seemed to have arrived. The very Mr. Walgrave is peculiarly fortunate in
appearance of Lucy clothed with every charm his attachments,' said Lucy, still ruminating
that could render a lovely woman more lovely on the miniature and connecting it with all
and rioting in her excess of enjoyment as she that he said, will he have the goodness to
hasted from one scene of beauty to another, imform me if the person who has the happiness
like a bee flying from flower to flower in to occupy so many of his thoughts is the
search of sweets, was sufficient to fill his soul original of the picture which he wears?'
with that soft passion which at one time or
other pervades every thought, every action,
every motive of our lives.

'Oh you are a very hard hearted man, Mr. O that is a matter,' said he, which has Walgrave,' she said with an air of playfulness not yet come to light; but she is the sweetest and a most bewitching smile, first you wring little angel in the world, you would be delighted from me an exhibition of my feelings and then with her; she sings, plays, and talks like a you wish me to confess with my lips; but I fairy.' will forgive you, sir, and since I owe you every You seem to be very eloquent in her thing I will yield all into your possession, that praise, Mr. Walgrave,' returned Lucy some-is, Mr. Walgrave, if you will tell me how you what bitterly. came by this strange name of yours.'

And why not, Miss Lucy,' continued he, if you knew her as I do, you would love her as yourself, she is so kind, so gentle, so

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Walgrave was surprised, and looking down saw that the miniature was exposed. For a moment he was embarrassed, but recollecting himself he said

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Certainly, Miss Belden, this (drawing it from the place of its concealment) this is, indeed, a faint sketch of the woman I adore.'

And all this to me,' replied Lucy, bursting into tears; O, Mr. Walgrave! I had thought you above trifling thus with the feelings of a defenceless female!'

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But still he knew not how to begin. He thought of it and became grave and unhappy— his heart beat violently, his mouth became parched, the heat seemed more oppressive, and he threw open the upper buttons of his vest to take advantage of the balmy breathings of the air as it came dancing, cool and refreshing from the bosom of the beautiful Hudson. Lucy observed his altered manner, Lucy, Lucy, Miss Belden,' said he, for and whilst she was wondering what could be the first time comprehending that he was not the cause, her quick, jealous eye discovered a understood, forgive me, I beseech you, this miniature likeness suspended about his neck little piece of deception! Trifle with your and carefully concealed under his vest. In a feelings indeed! No, not for the world, my moment her suspicions were awakened, and own sweet Lucy,' and as he spoke he took her the thought that another was dearer to him hand and sprinkled it with kisses; No, they than herself taught her the full extent of her are dearer to me than all on earth beside, and affection and how much her happiness de- if I do adore the original of this precious little pended upon him. She became grave, thought- gift it is because she is the loveliest of her sex, ful, abstracted; the carmine forsook her because she has a noble, a generous heart, check, a sensation of faintness came over her because she is the same in prosperity and

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George bestowed upon her many endearing caresses, accompanied with extravagant expressions of love, which, though very natural and no doubt very proper, we fear would not look well on paper. He then explained to her that she had been known to him from the time he first saw her at Mrs. Blackheart's, but that he then had motives for concealing his real name; that he had told her story to the friend with whom she then was, who promised to receive her into his house on the most familiar terms, and that he had so much dreaded an explanation that it was delayed from time to time until the present.

Soon after this Lucy and George were duly married, and Mr. Menden, whose life Lucy had been the means of preserving, was present to add his blessing on the occasion; nay, we are informed that they lived long and happily together and were the delight of this only parent, who enjoyed a green old age and lived ORIO. to caress his children's children. White-Plains, May, 1833.

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For the Rural Repository.
The Funeral.

A FRAGMENT.

Ir was on a beautiful day, in July, 1832, while the sun was about at his meridian and was pouring his warming rays on the surrounding and fruitful fields, with the greatest intensity the latitude would admit, that my friend en

tered the room, where I was seated, announced the demise of Mrs. W

M***** L**** F****. Henrietta, June, 1833.

and fall beneath the sharp scythe of the Destroyer? on our past misimprovements of time-we On No! rather let poverty follow us to our graves-would fain recall the past-we endeavour to the day previous, I had made a call at her rather let that pestilence that has already retrace our steps, but we are too near the house, when I was first apprized of her sick- strode with a deathly step over half the nations | receptacle of the dead-our footing gives ness, which though apparently severe, was not of the earth, pass on unchecked in its destruc-way-we totter-we fall-the clods of the considered dangerous. Uniformly healthy as tive course, and still encircle the noble and the valley cover our dust—a small tribute is paid she had been previously to the attack of that lovely in its icy embrace; but let friend adhere to our memory-a few tears of sympathy disease, which had been in progress but four to friend-let not the hand of kindness be shed-and we are forgotten. days, surrounded by her family and friends withheld from the sick and suffering, or the and attended by able and practical physicians, balm of sympathy from the bereaved and none to whom the knowledge of her indispo-heart-broken. sstion had been extended anticipated ought| The appointed hour arrived-the usual rites but her speedy recovery from sickness and return to the family and social circles. But the event belied appearances, and before, even her nearest neighbours were informed of her danger, she had said her last fond adieu to her weeping children and almost distracted husband, and passed that 'bourne, from whence no traveler returns.'

The health officer of the adjacent village of R—————— had, on the week previous, reported two or three cases of spasmodic cholera among its inhabitants and certain alarmists had manifested no want of alacrity or zeal in extending these reports to the surrounding country, accompanied with exaggerations, representing this scourge of the world to be doing its deeds of death in that place with fearful malignity and to a frightful extent. Mrs. W——————— had evidently died of one of the many fevers common to the country; but it was a day of fearful excitement and unlimited exaggeration; the attending physicians were not agreed in its technical appellation and, therefore, the ignorant and credulous assumed as an unavoidable consequence, that it was cholera-cholera in its worst, most malignant

form.

BIOGRAPHY.

Chief Justice Marshall.

BY WILLIAM WIRT.

were attended to-a discourse was delivered
to the congregation-the mourners addressed
separately—a prayer made—and the benedic-
tion given. Then the coffin was borne from THE Chief Justice of the United States is
the house and placed on a hearse in the open in his person, tall, meagre, emaciated ;-his
yard. The pall was raised-the lid unclosed-muscles relaxed, and his joints so loosely
and the weeping friends stood around to gaze connected, as not only to disqualify him,
for the last time on those features, so familiar
and dear to them and which the earth was
soon to hide forever from their view.

apparently for any vigorous exertion of body, but to destroy every thing like elegance and harmony in his air and movements. Indeed, I saw the bereaved husband as he bent in in his whole appearance and demeanor-dress, deepest agony over the lifeless form of her he attitude and gestures-sitting, standing, or loved. His face was turned from me but the walking-he is as far removed from the idolized tremor which shook his manly frame told, graces of Lord Chesterfield as any other eloquently, beyond the power of language, of gentleman on earth. To continue the por the deep anguish which wrung his inmost soul.trait: his head and face are small in proportion And when he spoke, his tone and language to his height; his complexion swarthy; the were the offspring of despair. It does not muscles of his face being relaxed, give him the seem possible-it does not seem possible!' appearance of a man of eighty years of age, were the words he uttered and repeated with nor can he be much younger. His countea force of feeling which could not be disre-nance has a faithful expression of great good garded by any present, and by me will never humor and hilarity; while his black eyes—the be forgotten. unerring index-possess an irradiating spirit, I saw the lovely daughter as she stood beside which proclaims the imperial powers of the the bier of her mother. She leant for support.mind that sits enthroned within. on the arm of him to whom but a few months This extraordinary man, without the aid previous she had vowed eternal affection and of fancy, without the advantages of person, On the succeeding day her funeral was to whose presence and kindly offices were now voice, attitude, gesture, or any of the ornabe attended. Some hours before the set time required to sustain her in this hour of severe ments of an orator, deserves to be considered for its commencement I left home intending affliction. The writhings of her slight form, one of the most eloquent men in the world, to make a call at a friend's, who I expected as she hung in mute wo over the cold clay of if eloquence may be said to consist in the would bear me company. But I was not her beloved parent, might sufficiently tell of power of seizing the attention with irresistible gratified with his attendance-his business the intensity of her grief, but when the words, force, and never permitting it to elude the required his attention. This was the reasonMy mother-oh, my mother!' burst from grasp until the hearer has received the cenvicassigned for not attending the funeral of his her lips, the heart that would not respond to tion which the speaker intends. neighbour. My friend at home had made a the thrill which rent the bosom of that discon- As to his person, it has already been desimilar excuse prior to my departure. solate one, must be of more than adamantine scribed. His voice is dry and hard, his But such pretexts were not satisfactory, and hardness-it could not be of mortal mould.-attitude, in his most effective orations, was very probably they might attach some credi- The lid was closed-the procession formed often extremely awkward, as it was not unusual bility to the unfounded rumours in rapid-it moved-the coffin was lowered into the for him to stand with his left foot in advance, circulation, which induced them to stay at ground-the earth placed lightly upon it, and while all his gestures proceeded from his right home. And shall fear or interest prevent the the disconsolate family returned to its home, arm, and consisted merely in a vehement performance of what duty and humanity re- now deprived of its greatest comfort, its bright-perpendicular swing of it from about the quire? Shall the dead be left to bury the dead, est ornament. elevation of his head to the bar, behind which and the stricken mourners to stand in utter he was accustomed to stand. loneliness at the graves of those they love? Shall we give our undivided attention to business while our friends or neighbours are dejected by sorrow, lest we should not amass sufficient wealth? or shall we turn away from the bed-side of the sick and dying, lest we too should become the recipients of disease and

Thus perish our fondest hopes-thus end all our anticipations of earthly happiness! As to fancy, if she hold a seat in his mind The grave, the cold, unrelenting grave is the at all, which I very much doubt, his gigantic end of all the living. We turn from it but genius tramples with disdain on all her flowercannot escape. We approach warily, with decked plants and blooming parterres. How, caution, but constantly approach. We stand then, you will ask, with a look of incredulous on its brink-we turn to take a retrospect of curiosity-how is it possible that such a man our lives-we look with sorrow, with regret, lean hold the attention of an audience en

chained through a speech of even ordinary attention. He bears traits of great mental] that due precautions had not been taken, or length? I will tell you. labor, but no marks of age-in fact, his appear- that the disease was of a peculiarly malignant He possesses one original and almost su-ance is more imposing now in his forty-eighth || nature, one after another, first the young and pernatural faculty, of developing the subject by year, than it was at thirty years of age. then the old of a whole family, dropped off. a single glance of his mind, and detecting at There are men who say that Mr. Webster A woman who lived on the opposite side of once the very point on which every contro- has been over-rated-this is not true: some of the way, the wife of a laborer, the mother of versy depends. No matter what the question, his overweening friends, have at times, for two little boys, felt herself attacked by fever though ten times more knotty than the gnarled want of discerment, spoke of his ordinary in the night; in the morning it greatly increasoak,' the lightning of Heaven is not more efforts at the bar, and other places as won-ed, and in the evening the fatal tumor appearrapid than his astonishing penetration. Nor derful productions; comparing them with his ed. This was during the absence of her does the exercise of it seem to cost him an highest efforts. The greatest minds are husband, who went to work at a distance, and effort. On the contrary, it is as easy as vision. sometimes common place, and many of his only returned on Saturday night, bringing I am persuaded that his eyes do not fly over a speeches should have passed away as other home the scanty means of subsistence for his landscape, and its various objects, with more common place matters have done. It is family for the week. Terrified by the exampromptitude and facility, than his mind em- equally wrong to look to his orations on great ple of the neighboring family, moved by the braces and analyzes the most complex subject. occasions for the proudest productions of fondest love for her children, and determining Possessing while at the bar, this intellectual intellect. These productions are noble com- not to communicate the disease to them, she elevation, which enabled him to look down positions, powerful discussions of the subject formed the heroic resolution of leaving her and comprehend the whole ground at once, in hand, abounding in deep strength, pertinent || home, and going elsewhere to die. Having he determined immediately, and without diffi- remarks, and striking illustrations, but they locked them into a room, and sacrificed to culty, on which side the question might be are not, after all the praise which has been their safety even the last and sole comfort of most advantageously approached and assailed. bestowed upon them, his most felicitious a parting embrace, she ran down the stairs, In a bad cause, his art consisted in laying his labours. He cannot lash himself into passion carrying with her the sheets and cove: let, that premises so remotely from the point directly in the closet; he requires excitement that he she might leave no means of contagion. in debate, or else in terms so general and cannot find there; he must be roused by some then shut the door, with a sigh, and went specious, that the hearer, seeing no conse-spirit of emulation, rivalry, or resentment; he away. But the eldest, hearing the door shut, quence which could be drawn from them, was must be awakened by the cry that the Philis-went to the window, and, seeing her running just as willing to admit them as not; but his tines are upon him, before the strength of his in that manner, c:ied out, 'Good by, mother,' premises once admitted the demonstration seven locks are felt. in a voice so tender that she involuntarily however distant, followed as certainly, as stopped. Good by, mother,' repeated the cogently, and as inevitably, as any demonstrayoungest child, stretching its little head out tion of Euclid. of the window. And thus was the poor afflicted mother compelled, for a time, to endure the dreadful conflict between the yearnings which called her back, and the pity and solicitude which urged her on. At length, the latter conquered; and, amid a flood of tears, and the farewells of her children, who knew not the fatal cause and import of those tears, she reached the house of those who were to bury her. She recommended her husband and children to them, and in two days she was no more.'

All his eloquence consists in the apparently deep self-conviction and emphatic earnestness of his manner; the correspondent simplicity and energy of his style; the close and logical connexion of his thoughts; and the easy gradations by which he opens his lights on the attentive minds of his hearers.

Daniel Webster.

It is before a court and jury, or in the deliberate assembly, that the full extent of his powers can be understood; and even there it depends much on who his opponents may be, whether he shall be great or not.

His manner at the bar, and in the deliberative assembly, are peculiar. He begins to state his points in a low voice, and in a slow, cool, cautious and philosophical manner-he goes on hammering link by link, his chain of argument with ponderous blows, and while thus at labor, you rather see the sinews of the arm than the skill of the artist. It is in reply, that he comes out in the majesty of intellectual grandeur, and lavishes about him the opulence of intellectual wealth.

Holy Water.

She

It is when the darts of his enemy have hit A VERY good story is related by Lambert him that he is all might and soul-it is then in his travels respecting the efficacy of Holy that he showers down words of weight and Water- A friend of mine, says he, was once fire. Hear him and you will say that his clo- present at the house of a French lady in Canquence is founded on no model, ancient orada, when a violent thunder storm commenced. modern, that he never read the works of a The shutters were immediately closed and the master for instruction-all is his own, exroom darkened. The lady of the house, not cellencies and defects. His voice has an willing to leave the safety of herself and comextraordinary compass, for he fills the largest pany to chance, began to search her closets room with great effect. His emphasis belongs for the bottle of holy water, which by a sudden to himself alone-it is founded on no rule-flash of lightning, she fortunately found. The nor can it be reduced to any.

THE person of Mr. Webster is singular and commanding: his height is above the ordinary size, but he cannot be called tall; he is broad across the chest, and stoutly and firmly built; but there is nothing of clumsiness either in his form or gait. His head is very large, his forehead high, with good shaped temples. He has a large, black, solemn looking eye, that exhibits strength and steadfastness, and which sometimes burns, but seldom sparkles. His hair is of a raven black, and both thick and short, without the mark of a grey hair. His eye brows are of the same color, thick and strongly marked, which gives his features the appearance of sternness; but the general expression of his face, after it is properly examined, is rather mild and amiable than otherwise. His movements in the house, and in the street, are slow and dignified; there is no peculiar sweetness in his voice, his tones are A Mother's Love. rather harsh than musical, still there is a great A WRITER in the Foreign Quarterly Review variety in them; and some of them catch the relates the following anecdote of the plague: ear and chain it down to the most perfectIn the village of Careggi, whether it were

MISCELLANY.

bottle was uncorked and its contents immediately sprinkled over the ladies and gentlemen. It was a most dreadful storm, and lasted a considerable time; she therefore redoubled her sprinklings and benedictions at every clap of thunder and flash of lightning. At length the storm ceased, and the party providentially saved from its effects; which the good lady

attributed solely to the precious water. But when the shutters were opened, and the light admitted, the company found to the destruction of their white gowns and muslin handkerchiefs, their coats and waistcoats and breeches; that instead of holy water the pious lady sprinkled them with INK.

tears.

The Rural Repository.

SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1833.

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SUMMARY.

The Boston Transcript notices the fall of the south front of a block of houses in that city, whilst they were undercellar, and one of the chimmies struck upon an adjoining with difficulty. house, and did it much injury. The workmen escaped

going the process of modernization. The walls fell into the

There arrived at the port of New-York. between the 1st of January and 14th of June, 1833, inclusive, 12,667 passengers from foreign ports.

this beautiful and flourishing city, and from the first of first of April, 14,299 bales of cotton have been imported into principally from Mobile and New Otany

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bridge, S. A. Thomas, A. P. Stone, F. O. Crocker, W.
Mayhew, N. Webb. N. H. Toles, W. C. Roop, W. P. Gould,
each $1,00 Buffalo, N. Y. $9,00: H. G. Whipple, R. Isted,
Pittsford, NY. $2,00; G. G. Babcock, West Menden, N.
Wilmarth, Victor, N. Y. $1,00; J. R. Dickinson, Bing-
Y. $1,00; E. C. Yorks, N. Bloomfield, N. Y. $1,00; L
hampton, N. Y. $1,00; A. Johnson, P. M. Dana, Ms. $2,00;
W. T Post, Elmira, N. Y. $0,814; D. D. Benedict, Saratoga
Springs, N. Y. $1,00; T. Raymond, Turin, N. Y. $1.00; C.
B. Griffen, Little Falls, N. Y. $5,00; J. W. Wardle,
Glencadia, N. Y. $2,00; N. W. Roberts, Albany, N. Y.
boom, P. M. Castleton, N. Y. $3,00; J. Munsell, P. M.
$1,00; O. F. Thomson, Appling, N. Y. $1,00; L. C. Hoge
Rutland, N. Y. $2,00; A. Fuller, Dunham's Ville, N. Y.
$1,00; W. W. Wilson, Greenfield, Ms $1,00; O. B. Gridley,
Marshall, N. Y. $1,00; P. Woodruff, P. M. North Sparta,
N. Y. $1,00; D. P. Onderdonk, Goshen, N. Y. $1,00; E.
Eamendorph, Redhook, N. Y. $1,00; J. M. Darling, L

Two canal boats lately arrived at Albany from the West having on board 250 barrels, or 25,000 dozen of Eggs. They were bought in Ohio by an Eastern man- and his profit on this seemingly singular purchase, it is said will amount

Mr.

MARRIED,

In this city, on the 20th ult. by the Rev. Mr. Waterbury,

John I. Gaul, merchant, to Miss Mary, daughter of John Power, Esq. all of this city.

On the 23d ult. by the Rev. S. L. Stillman, Mr. John E.
Plass, to Miss Catharine Brush, both of this city.

Heydenberk, to Miss Elizabeth Plass, both of this city.
On the same day, by the same Rev. gentleman, Mr. Joseph

In Christ Church, in this city, on Sunday morning last, by the Rev. Mr. Andrews, Abraham Underhill, Esq. Attorney at Law, of New-York, to Miss Eliza Ostrander, of

this city.

In Ellery, on the 16th ult. by Wm. H. Fenton Esq. Mr. Warner D. Shaw, of Fluvanna, to Miss Lucina Runnyan, of the former place.

At Leeds, on the 19th ult. by the Rev. Mr. Van Lieu, Mr. John Mairs, merchant, Utica, to Miss Rachel Van Deusen, eldest daughter of J. Van Deusen, Esq.

At Albany, on the 4th ult. by the Rev. Dr. Ludlow, Mr. Philip Van Rensselaer Livingston, of Bath, Reusselaer Co. to Miss Mary Hopkins, of the former place.

DIED,

In this city, on the 17th ult. Mrs. Emeline Farnard, in the

34th year of her age, wife of F J. Larnard of Albany, and

eldest daughter of Dr. S. White.

In New-York, on the 20th ult. Col. Nicholas Fish, in the 75th year of his age, an officer of the Revolution At Broome, Schoharie Co, on the 7th ult. James Wallace, youngest son of C. Spencer, Esq. aged 2 years.

In the city of New-York, on Saturday morning last, of apoplexy, Elisha Williams, Esq. in the 61st year of his age. The death of this distinguished man has caused a void in society, in his profession, and above all in his family, which will not easily be filled. We understand his remains are to be brought to this city for interment.

In New-York the Rev Gerardus A. Kuypers, D D in the 67th year of his age, having been for 44 years one of the Collegiate Ministers of the Reformed Dutch Church,

and being at the time of his decease the Senior Pastor in that city.

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ANOTHER year has rolled away,
And thou enjoy'st thy natal day;
Thy heart with gratitude should glow
To Him, from whom all blessings flow;
Thy life, through mercy, He's sustained,
Thy health preserved, thy friends maintained;
Nor ill, nor good, remote, or nigh,
But 'tis dispensed by Him on high.
What gift on earth, not yet possessed,
Can I for thee of Heaven request?
To wish thee fairer none e'er would,
For thou art fair, and thou art good,
And in thy goodness wisdom lies,
The noblest boon beneath the skies.
How blest soe'er thou art, fair maid,
Some fond wish doth thy heart pervade;
Some future bliss, some golden prize,
Not yet enjoyed, thy faith descries,
For which thy fervent prayers arise.
That, which thou ask, whate'er it be,
May Heaven dear girl, bestow on thee.

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They tell us all must die !

I love the flowers, the summer flowers,
Of every hue and shade,

Tho' bright from showers, in winter hours-
They tell us all must fade.

I love the streams, the air blue streams, Which through the valley stray:

Oh, lady, bless a biped's prayer,

And show that cat the door; Must two legged lovers yield unto A rival that has four? Another kiss! I'll shoot the wretch, My rage can stand no more.

The Broken Heart.

I SAW on the top of a moutain high
A gem that shone like fire by night,
It seemed a star that lit the sky,

And dropp'd to sleep on its lonelyheight

I climb'd the peak and found it soon,

A lump of ice and a clear cold moon.

Can you its hidden sense impart ?

'Twas a cheerful look and a broken heart!

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New-York.

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Their sparkling gleams, like morning dreams- adjoining the Weigh Lock-T. Netterville, Athens-Ho

Like us they pass away.

I love the field, the fresh green field,
With verdant carpet spread;

To earth we yield, when death hath sealed
The weary wo-worn head.

I love the sea, the boundless sea,
The dark unfathomed deep;
Home of the free! the grave we see
Where thousand treasures sleep.

I love the stars, the evening star,
Which lights the etherial dome;
Though seasons war, it shines afar,
And guides us to our home.

I love the moon, the shining moon,
Its gift-the silver light;

Though pale at noon, the day's last boon
To cheer the waning night.

I love the sun, the glorious sun,
From Heaven the high bequest;
The day is done, its race is run,
Like it we sink to rest.

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Massachusetts.

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Vermont.

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Rhode Island.

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Virginia.

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Georgia.

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Michigan Territory.

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Upper Canada.

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