ODE TO PEACE. COME, peace of mind, delightful guest! Return and make thy downy nest Once more in this sad heart: Nor riches I, nor power pursue, Nor hold forbidden joys in view, We therefore need not part. Where wilt thou dwell if not with me, For whom, alas! dost thou prepare The great, the gay, shall they partake That murmurs through the dewy mead, For thee I panted, thee I prized, Whate'er I loved before; HUMAN FRAILTY. WEAK and irresolute is man; The purpose of to-day, Woven with pains into his plan, To-morrow rends away. The bow well bent and smart the spring, Vice seems already slain, But passion rudely snaps the string, And it revives again. Some foe to his upright intent But pleasure wins his heart. 'Tis here the folly of the wise Through all his art we view, And while his tongue the charge denies, His conscience owns it true. Bound on a voyage of aweful length A stranger to superior strength, But oars alone can ne'er prevail The breath of heaven must swell the sail, THE MODERN PATRIOT. REBELLION is my theme all day, (As who knows but perhaps it may) Yon roaring boys who rave and fight When lawless mobs insult the court, But oh! for him my fancy culls Who constitutionally pulls Your house about your ears. Such civil broils are my delight, Though some folks can't endure 'em, Who say the mob are mad outright, A rope! I wish we patriots had Such strings for all who need 'em,What! hang a man for going mad? Then farewell British freedom. ON OBSERVING SOME NAMES OF LITTLE NOTE RECORDED IN THE BIOGRAPHIA BRITANNICA. OH fond attempt to give a deathless lot, To names ignoble, born to be forgot! So when a child, as playful children use, REPORT OF AN ADJUDGED CASE NOT TO BE FOUND IN ANY OF THE BOOKS. BETWEEN Nose and Eyes a strange contest arose, So the Tongue was the lawyer and argued the cause In behalf of the Nose, it will quickly appear, And your lordship, he said, will undoubtedly find, That the Nose has had spectacles always in wear, Which amounts to possession time out of mind. Then holding the spectacles up to the court,— Again, would your lordship a moment suppose Pray who would or who could wear spectacles then? On the whole it appears, and my argument shows With a reasoning the court will never condemn, That the spectacles plainly were made for the Nose, And the Nose was as plainly intended for them. Then shifting his side, as a lawyer knows how, For the court did not think they were equally wise. So his lordship decreed, with a grave solemn tone, S. C.-8. Y |