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 The Heaven that thou alone canst make? And wilt thou quit the stream That murmurs through the dewy mead, The grove, and the sequester'd shed, To be a guest with them? For thee I panted, thee I prized, Whate'er I loved before; And shall I see thee start away, And, helpless, hopeless, hear thee sayFarewell! we meet no more? 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 Finds out his weaker part; Virtue engages his assent, 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 awful length, But oars alone can ne'er prevail, To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost. THE MODERN PATRIOT. REBELLION is my theme all day; (As who knows but, perhaps, it may?) Yon roaring boys, who rave and fight I always held them in the right, When lawless mobs insult the court, But O! 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 them, A rope! I wish we patriots had Such strings for all who need 'em- Then farewell British freedom. ON OBSERVING SOME NAMES OF RECORDED IN "THE BIOGRAPHIA BRITANNICA." OH, fond attempt to give a deathless lot 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 Tongue was the lawyer, and argued the cause So famed for his talent in nicely discerning. 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 On the whole it appears, and my argument shows, |