By this example thou wilt find, MISS LAMB. XLVI. "YE THIRTY NOBLE NATIONS!" "THE only disgrace or danger which we perceive impending over America, arises from the execrable institution of slavery-the unjust disfranchisement of free Blacks-the trading in slaves carried on from state to state-and the dissolute and violent character of those adventurers whose impatience for guilty wealth spreads the horrors of slavery over the new acquisitions in the south. Let the lawgivers of that imperial republic deeply consider how powerfully these disgraceful circumstances tend to weaken the love of liberty-the only bond which can hold together such vast territories, and therefore the only source and guard of the tranquillity and greatness of America."— Sir James Mackintosh. YE thirty noble nations, Confederate in one! That keep your starry stations I have a glorious mission, Your eyes shall dim and glisten, YE THIRTY NOBLE NATIONS!" 319 You, you are England growing To continental state, Yes, Anglo-Saxon brother, And now in frank contrition, I taunt you not unkindly O judge ye how degrading,- O free and fearless nation, I charge you by your power, That wipes away this shame. So let whatever threatens, The world shall well divide. TUPPER'S American Ballads. RELIGIOUS AND MORAL POEMS. I. MY BIRTHDAY. "UPON me lies a burden which I cannot shift upon any other human creature-the burden of duties unfulfilled, words unspoken, or spoken violently and untruly; of holy relationships neglected; of days wasted for ever; of evil thoughts once cherished, which are ever appearing now as fresh as when they were first admitted into the heart; of talents cast away; of affections in myself, or in others, trifled with; of light within turned to darkness. So speaks the conscience; so speaks or has spoken the conscience of each man."Maurice on the Lord's Prayer. All this it tells, and could I trace The lights and shades, the joy and pain, All-but that freedom of the mind Which hath been more than wealth to me; 1. What? And comfortless, and stormy round! * 2. Another word for haply. 3. Past, what? 4 MOORE. 4. What is round meant to be joined with? Franklin's saying N.B. Fontenelle is the person alluded to in the first verse. that he would be glad to live his life over again if he had the power to make amendments in the second edition, was much more sensible. II. WHAT IS PRAYER? "THE prayers of men have saved cities and kingdoms from ruin: prayer hath raised dead men to life, hath stopped the violence of fire, shut the mouths of wild beasts, hath altered the course of nature, caused rain in Egypt, and drought in the sea; it made the sun to go from west to east, and the moon to stand still, and rocks and mountains to walk; and it cures diseases without physic, and makes physic to do the work of nature, and nature to do the work of grace, and grace to do the work of God; and it does miracles of accident and event; and yet prayer, that does all this, is, of itself, nothing but an ascent of the mind to God, a desiring things fit to be desired, and an expression of this desire to God as we can, and as becomes us. And our unwillingness to pray is nothing else but a not desiring what we ought passionately to long for, or, if we do desire, it is a choosing rather to miss our satisfaction and felicity than to ask for it."-Jeremy Taylor. |