splendor of retinue,7 the sound of titles, the appearances of high respect, are indeed soothing, for a short time to the great: but become familiar,8 they are soon forgotten. They sink into the rank of those ordinary things, which daily recur,9 without raising any sensation of joy.

7. Let us cease, therefore, from looking up with discontent and envy, to those whom birth or fortune has placed above us. Let us adjust the balance of happiness fairly. When we think of the enjoy ments we want, we should think also of the troublest from which we are free. If we allow their just value to the comforts we possess, we shall find reason to rest satisûed, with a very moderate, though not an opulent2 and splendid condition. of fortune. Often did we know the whole, we should be inclined3 to pity the state of those whom we

now envy.

Description of America......A Poem.

I

FROM Patagonia's snow-iavested wilds, To Darien, where constant verdure smiles, The Andes meet the morning's earliest ray, O'erlook the clouds and check the flood of

In copious torrents from their eastern side,
How the vast streams of Amazonia's tide,
Roll on majestic, through her boundless plain,
And swell the surface of the neighboring main.

II.

Nor Plata less, a broad, deep channel fills;
Danube and Walga by his side were rills.
But leave my muse, this wide extended clime,
By nature stamp'd with all she owns sublime.
Here she has wrought upon her largest plan,
But mourns in solitude the wrongs of man.
Here Gautemozin writh'd in flames of fire,
And slaughter'd millions round their prince ex-
pire.

Bise, sleeping vengeance! vindicate their cause
And thou; stern justice, execute thy laws :
Ye Andes, strike Hesperian fraud with dread;
Burst thy volcanoes on the guilty head!
Where Cancer's sun pours down his ardent blaze,
Draws the Monsoons, and lengthens out his days
The spacious gulf of Mexic' rolls his tide,
And thronging fleets of various nations ride.

IV.

The fertile isles their rich luxuriance pour,
And western dainties crown the eastern shore.
But weep, humanity, the black disgrace,
And srpead thy blushes o'er oppression's face
Ye sons of mirth, your bowls, your richest food,
Is mingled with fraternal tears and blood.
Still groans the slave beneath his master's rod,
But nature, wrong'd, appeals to nature's God.

V.

The sun frowns angry at th' inhuman sight;
The sinus, paraded, redden in the night,
In Wolf Smes, drear horror gathers round,
And wakening vengeance murmurs under groun
Oer all the gulf the dark'ning vapours rise,
And the black clouds sail awful round the skies.
From heaven to earth swift thunder-bolts are
burl'd,

Aand storin's dread demon shakes th' astonish'd

world.

VI.

The rich plantation lies a barren waste,
And all the works of slavery are defac'd.
Ye tyrants, own the devastation just ;

"Tis for your wrongs the fertile earth is curs'd.
Columbia's states unfold their milder scenes,
And freedom's realms afford more pleasing themes.
From Georgia's plains, to Hudson's highest

source,

The northern Andes range their varied course.

VII.

Rank above rank, they swell their growing size,
Rear their blue arches, and invade the skies.
Here spreads a forest; there a city shines
Here swell the hills, and there a vale declines.
Here, through the meads meand'ring rivers run;
Here placid lakes reflect the full orb'd sun.
From mountain sides perennial fountains How,
And streams majestic bend their course below

VIIL

Here rise the groves; there opes the fertile lawn, Fresh fragrance breathes, and Ceres waves hor

corn.

Along the east, where the proud billows roar, Capacious harbours grace the winding shore: The nation's splendor and, the merchant's pride, Waft with each gale, and float with ev'ry tide. From Troquais to vast Superior's strand, Spread the wide lakes and insulate the land.

IX.

Here growing commerce shall unfold her sail,
Load the rich bark, and woo the inland gale.
Far to the west, where savage hordes reside,
Smooth Mississippi rolls his copious tide,
And fair Ohio weds his silver side..

Hail, happy states! thine is the blissful seat, Where nature's gifts and arts improvements meet. Thy temp'rate air breathes health; thy fertile soil, In copious plenty pays the laborer's toil.

Ask not for mountains of Peruvian ore,

Nor court the dust that shines on Afric's shore. · The plough explores for thee the richest mine; Than autumn's fruit, no goodlier ore can shine.

XI.

O'er the wide plain and through the op'ning glade,
Flows the canal obsequieus to the spade.
Commerce to wealth and knowledge turns the key,
Floats o'er the land and sails to every
Thrice happy art! be thy white sail.
unfurl'd,
Not to corrupt, but socialize the world

The muse prophetic views the coming day,
When federal laws beyond the line shall sway;

XII.

Where Spanish indolence inactive lies,
And ev'ry art and ev'ry virtue dies';
Where pride and avarice their empire hold,
Ignobly great, and poor amid their gold.
Columbia's genius shall the mind inspire,.
And fill each breast with patriotic fire.

Nor east nor western oceans shall confine
The gen'rous flame that dignifies the mind;
O'er all the earth shall freedom's banner wave
The tyrant blast, and libèrate the slave.
Plenty and peace shall spread from pole to pole,
Till earth's grand family possess one soul..

Patience under Provocations our Interest as well as Duty.

1. The wide circle of human society is diversified by an endless variety of characters, dispositions and passions. Uniformity is in no respect the genius2 of the world. Every man is marked by some peculiarity which distinguishes him from another: and no where can two individuals be found, who are exactly and in all respects alike..

2. Where so much diversity ex

+ Diversify, to distinguish,.. variegate.

2 Genius, s na

ture, disposi dowed with sution, a man enperior faculties 3 Peculiarity, & singularity.