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and your Sniks, wVf'n yrur c^-ftence de pends lu much upon them !)---Wheth"ir the Ship of the Common Wealth fliail be peVmi-- ted to glide gently dov/n the htream, with a propitious Gale j or whether it is so l>e perpe tually racked 6c t fferd in ilte bi ilferous Sea of Faction 6c Corruption..God ipttd the 1 ioneff, &fh!pwiecks foreiend, lay 1 >Mtii all the kc r- vency of true Zeal j and with tlie lame Spirit do I thank him, for placing me in lo humble a Station as to exclude all Commerce with po litical Gamblers, a ietc of People w.rh whom I have very little more Connexion than that Bird has, which chaunrs from yonder Spray to looth Brunette’s Sorrows and aucken wine. It relembled AlpafuPs Bird, but it was iipc the fame It wanted that Swectncls and Melody which her Bird had •, for She, dear- eft and beft of Women, taught it. -—Infpirc me* ye gentle Spirits, with apt expreffiohs to deferibe the Emotions this lit tle Incident excited in my Heart The Refledlion—but it is impoliible The moft pathetic Deicription would be faint and Isn- quid to Minds of Senfibility, and to thole, whofe leaden Hearts have never rclt the moft generous of Paffions in its full Force, fuch Dcicriptions would be Arabic at lea ft Take my Advice, yc Solecifts, get over Head and Ears in Love as tall as pofiibli^ aftume the Man, and be dull, ftalking bip’edc Brutes no longer Happy Bird ! faid I addrefting myfelf to it* as it took its aerial Flight, and Tinging as it flew happy Bird ! amulft all the Cares and Tumults of the World, that wring the Heart of Man and convulle the State, Thou enjoy- eft thy Viands and thy Song, comenttd and Jree\ i Thought is ‘quick* and all this had'pafted through the Regions of rrly Brain, before I could open my Poiket-Book ; but bad I at- tendfd to an Object befide Me, it would have prevented me that Trouble As I was put ting up my Money, a Son of Poverty, fhi- Vering in Rags, locked willfully at it. You have a juft Claim to it, faid I, and there it IS at your Service The Melancholy, which fat brooding upon his Cheek, vanilhed ; and as he extended one Hand towards Me, he employed the other in pulling from his Head fomething like a Hat He bowed, but he had not learned the polite cringing Bow of a Courtier His was the Bow of Gratitude and Humility... He uttered not a Word his Looks and adlions ipoke more emphatically. How eafily .may a Man, who has no lel- fifh willies to torment him, give and piorure Pleafure! This paultry Sura has brightened! the Face of Sorrow, and has given me a Saiis- faflion which Grafpail never did, nor ever will enjoy. The Vocarietof Pormy may harangue in Fi- * coftrrKted but ic certainly is SOCaTnang orw v r® Kr m ftr, aiul yet n w »• r a:t- i ‘‘ G**Ig h.ts no Value as an Frd, hot ard I wimki deipiC* myfelt if I ever think otherwiie or it *, neither luye 1 ever lo ler.iibly, or rejrc rtevi lo deeply, the c-'n- •Tr-rted SituMtion of m) 'PuiTe a.^when MMery has prelrnted itleif bctOfe me In a iiun; in Form----Would to Idcaven 1 could lunoU a | the Wanes of the untortun^ite.ap..:; the mi'-- rable : I would be pcj uetuady tiripioyed -.n giving and rclievinfy. Bleft Employment! to c hange Gric f into J v; Want into l'ienry,& Wrctchedr.eis into chear- ful Contentment.'-Were tl'iis the CalCj happy^ It^prem^ly happy would he my Lot......Ever hie'tfing and ever bleft .this World', to me would ti us be made Elvli.jm ! The'e R' fl:*d:ions reminded meof anobfoiete I.ellon ot Benevolence ; “ S ek, andyc vili'ed me naked, and ye cioathed me !”--A ludden Impul'efof v/hat kind it was, you, v/ho have felt fuch, can bcil tell) turned me to xh^ poor Boy. Whatever y'^HirLWants arc, the V7ant of Senfibility is nc>t to be reckoned among them. Your Gratitude has laid me under Ooliga- tions •, in Return for wnich, accept this fmall addition to the other Tnfl- One Hani received & the other wiped away Tears wliu h he V7inied to conceal, for his F’ace was uuned from me. He a good man, faid I, holding one of his Hanes, and you will never want. “ Blefs your Hont'r, I hope fo !**^ ^ It is the Promil- of Truth, and you m i? depend upon it....Tears fiowed too fad, and he pufhed oft* to hide them ; but, they were not fuch Tears as would have ft >vved had I laid “ If you are a bad Ma'n You will to the Devil !’* fuch I -effiins arerah ulated to lend weak Minds on that horrid Jour.ney, and thole who teach them know not what they do. Brunette w'as in Tears too.--How delight ful are the Effufions of a Sympathetic Mmd ! —Generous Brunette ! may You ^vrr fhe.J a jJ'ear •, never feel a Fang, or know what borrow is, bur, as now, from Sympativy.—Here my Tongue fauitered—-the 5cene was too at- fcclmg for Words, and I hurried cdf frcjui it, juft (lopping to prefs my Lips a^ainll her Check, which I thought the teeter tor the Teais that trickled down it. Huaa«niiy ! thy awful llraia Shall ever meet our ear. Sonorous, fweet, and cle.ar. And, as am'd the lpright]y-r.vellini»- train Of duicec notis, that breathe Prom fluce or lyre. The deep bale rolls its manly mclvtiy, Guici:ng the tuneful choir ; " So ihcu, humanity, Ihall lead alo: ^ 1 h’ accordant pefiroub in their rvir-.i lo? fr? And give cur rnc.-^'af concert trueft .'ta.-j.-.or.v LU 'RIDJ. WIL.vihxcj I v>N, (C. A ?i.-rcARjprir.tc't. for AU.AM BOYD, who will l)c oblig^^ to If h Ilf h:s Sublcribers a^ 2re in a»Tcarf Iim t •. !*aper, if they will vblrrve that tk? ft-*' ' i* .kcr; :rrd.
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