"Stood on my feet; about me round I faw
"Hill, dale, and fhady woods, and funny plains,
"And liquid lapfe of murmuring streams; by thefe
"Creatures that liv'd, and mov'd, and walk'd or flew,
"Birds on the branches warbling; all things fmil'd;
"With fragrance and with joy my heart o'erflow'd.
"Thou Sun, faid I, fair light,

"And thou enlighten'd earth, fo fresh, and gay,
"Ye hills, and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains,
"And ye that live, and move, fair creatures tell,
"Tell, if ye faw, how came I thus, how here?"

CHAPTER CXXXIII.

EVE'S ADRESS TO ADAM.

Adam's upbraiding Eve as being the cause of all their misfortunes is a most affecting appeal to the heart, and must be read in an exquisitely pathetic manner.

E added not, and from her turn'd; but Eve

HE

Not fo repuls'd, with tears that ceas'd not flowing, And treffes all disorder'd, at his feet

Fell humble, and embracing them, befought
His peace, and thus proceeded in her plaint;
Forfake me not thus, Adam! Witnefs, heaven,
“ What love fincere and reverence in my heart
"I bear thee, and unwitting have offended,
"Unhappily deceived! Thy fuppliant,
"I beg and clasp thy knees; bereave me not
" (Whereon I live!) thy gentle looks, thy aid,
"Thy counsel in this uttermoft distress,

"My only ftrength and ftay! Forlorn of thee,
"Whither fhall I betake me, where fubfift?
"While yet we live (fcarce one fhort hour perhaps)
"Between us two let there be peace."

CHAPTER CXXXIV.

CONTEMPLATIONS ON THE NIGHT.

In the following lines there is something extremely picturesque. Let them be read with a pensive, slow, and solemn mode of delivery.

S

HOULD man be vain at this dread midnight hour,

When filence reigns, the heavens and earth would join To chide his levity-this awful gloom

Should lift his foul on contemplation's wing,
Sedate and folemn as the closing day;

Howe'er his focial hours each eve are cheer'd
With harmeless pleasures, let each night, aray'd
In her dark fable habit, toll the bell

That wakes reflection; ferious thoughts infpires.
Say, can the foul, which hovers o'er the tomb
Each dreadful moment, choose a part more wife,
Than ftealing from the giddy crowd each eve,
From the gay round of folly, to reflect
On life's fhort date, its nearness to the grave ?
How foon eternity begins, how vast

The debt the has to cancel, ere her peace

Is fign'd in Heaven, which mercy scarce can fign!
Her guilt how weighty, and how weak her power!

CHAPTER CXXXV.

The following pieces are added commemorative of the immortal Washington, who was "For earth too good, to Heaven is flown,' and left the world in tears "

How to read them with effect, may be at once conceived, by recollecting the feelings and the looks depicted upon the countenance of United America, when deploring the loss of the saviour of his country, and the friend of man.

TH

LINES ON GENERAL WASHINGTON.

HE whole Columbian thunder born to wield,
Great in the fenate, fplendid in the field;
In wifdom's ken, or battle's keenest flame,
Unrivall'd in the brightest page of fame;
Nor hath the poet's mufe e'er wove a crown
Equal to our lov'd WASHINGTON's renown.
Approving Angels in the realms of light,

Who dip your pens in fun-beams when you write,

Affift our labouring minds, our efforts join
To paint the Man who did "all hearts combine ;"
Could human powers perform as love inclines,
We'd write his name on every star that fhines!
Engrave his counfels on the living sky,
To be for ever read by every eye!

While moving orbs their heavenly circles run,
His deeds fhould live, and travel with the fun,
To light all ages in the path of time,
Allure by virtue's charms in every clime,
Till GOD fhall finish his terreftrial plan,
And ftamp his own eternity on Man.

CHAPTER CXXXVI.

AN ODE COMMEMORATIVE OF THE LATE GENERAL

WASHINGTON.-Performed before the Mechanic
Intereft, at Bofton, Feb. 22, 1800.

I. O forrow reigneth, and the nations mourn ; for the LORD GOD of Ifrael hath taken away

the Counsellor, the Mighty Man, the man of war.

But the

LORD giveth, and the LORD taketh away, bleffed be the name of the LORD.

Parent of mercy, LORD benign,

Who fits on high enthron'd :

Who gives the beam of day to fhine;

Whofe mandates nature own'd ;.

Who fills the fick'ning rofe with vivid dew,

And fix'd the caufe from whence existence grew;

Look down upon a nation's woe,

Forbid the ftreams of mifery to flow.

2. He tempered the energies of Roman virtue with the forbearance of the Chriftain fpirit; and will remain to pofterity an illuftrious example; the theme of praise and mortal admiration.

He burst the fetters of the land,

He taught us to be free;

He rais'd the dignity of man,

He bade a nation be.

3. In a crifis of dark and unxampled peril, when anarchy had enfeebled reafon, he had the power and conftancy to preferve the commonwealth from imminent defolation.

Sedition who had madd'ning reign'd,

Ere he the foaming fiend enchain'd,
Now bursting from his iron cave,
Will talk again as ruin's flave,
Untwine the ferpent from his hair,
To wander as a focial fnare

;

Thus guilt will wound his own repose !
Thus folly doubts the good he knows!

4 Elevated by the conquest of himfelf, he was fupeior to vanity. His feelings were honour, and his thoughts wisdom In bleffing others, he was amply bleffed.

feared to do wrong, but he knew no other fear.

Nor Syrian perfume, nor the regal gem,
Nor beauty's potency, nor valor's might,
Can abrogate the destiny of man ;
Or ftay the mantle of oblivious night.
The noble and the impotent of foul,
Adown the ebblefs, ceaseless current flow;
'Tis ours to brighten life's illufive guile,
And make our virtue mitigate our woe.
He burft the fetters of the land,
He taught us to be free;

He rais'd the dignity of man,

He bade a nation be.

He

5. His laurels as a conqueror were spotlefs, and his code of legiflation perfect. He confecrated the federal compact upon the alter of justice His life evinced the glory of humanity; his end difplayed the blifs of refignation; releafed from mortal care he's now afcended to the Heaven of Heavens.

He burst the fetters of the land,

He taught us to be free;

He rais'd the dignity of man,
He bade a nation be.

THE END.