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14. LINES -Written in a sketch-book Jya printer, -With business so much pressed, y v , That in a case like mine, : !i Scarcely a, space is left- V C Ho justify a line :', Yet, lest impressions wrong ; ' Should meet a brother's view. ? To me it should belong v; i r, . - To make the matter true vThat, when theViarid now warm Has printed its 'last sheet ; - - " And when the lifeless fo'rm ; The pulse has ceased to beat; V ' It may be taken down, " " r x ' When, washed from every stain,' " On heaven's own coniewfone , To be imposed agaiu. ; .- f -. - : i i i- . . - . v '.''V'., r Frowi Blackwood's Magazine.' TIME'S jCHAriGES. ; t saw her once so freshly fair. That like ablossom just unfolding", She opened to life's cloudless air, v And nature joyed to view its . , J Moulding; -Her smile it haunts my membry.yet it -Her cheek's fine, hue divinely , , glowing", . iler rosebud mouth her eves of iet r "Around on all their light bestow ing. - . JDh ! who could look on Buch a form, w. So nobly freej so softly tender. And darkly dream that earthly storm ' Should dim such sweet' delicious "splendor. ""' ' ? ' For in her mien, and in her face, . And in her young teps fairy ' . - lightness, J 4 , , .Nought 'could thp raptured gazer trace " But beauty's glow & pleasure's brightness., . - 1-saw her twice ah alter'd charm, v But still of magic richest, rarest, Than girlhood's talisman less warm. J. nough yet or earthly sights he - fairest; - "' , - - rr-v Upon her breast she held a child The very image of its mother; . Which ever to her ;smiling smiled They: seem'd to" live but in each other, f ""--; . 'l . ' " ' But matron cares or lurking woe, Her thoughtless, sinless look had - banish'd . " ' . . . , And from her cheelctne roseate glow ; Of girlhood's balmy morn had van V ish'd, ' i . . Within her eyesr upon her brow ? Lav something softer, fonder, : As if in dreams some vision'd woe -Had broke the Elysium of rthe Bleeper, ' , H-. - ". . .. .. -. ; . " I saw her thricefate's dark decree .In widow's garments had arrayed 5 her, . . " . ' . Yet beautiful she seemed to be -"As even my reveries pourtray'd - ' hr; - . The,, glow, the'glanc'e had pass'd a- way. . . ..." . The sunshine, and the sparkling glitter, . " ; ' Still though I noted pale decay,- The retrospect was scarcely bit- 1 ter; 1 For in their place a calmness dwelt, Serene, subduing, soothing, holy; In feeling which, the bosom felt ' That every louder mirth is folly- A'pensiveness- which is not-grief, A stillness as of sunset stream ing - , . A fairy slow orr flower and leaf." ' -J,vTill earth Jooks l&e r!itdscape -, crca,nnnj. . V - - " A' last time and unmoved she lay, Beyond life's dim uncertain river, - A glorious mould xf fading clay u From whence the spark had. fled .. . ; , forever; - 1 1 I gazed my breast was 1 like to burst ' , , : And, as I thought of years depart ed, ' . - . , The years wherein I saw her first, . . " When she a girl, was. lightsome . . hearted; -. ; And when I mused on later days, , . As moved she in matron dutyr 1 : ' A happy mother, in the blaze " ' V: , Of ripen'd hope, and sunny beau- J felt the chill I turn'd aside - 'Bleak desolation' ckud came ' .. i ., o'er me ' ' " ft - ' -And Being seem'd a trouble'd tide, Whose wrecks in darkness swam . ' s before me. " . ' S romihe London Literary Gaz. The concessions op a jhort gentleman. ' Deep and manifold, Mr. Editor, nave been the annnvanrp ' nA mortifications which have attend ed me through life,ahd these have been brought on bv no) rrimf r.r follj of my own butsimply by one oi ine ireaics oi that unaccounta Wy-wayward.old.ladv" Dame Na ture, who, when she determbed that the world should he blessed with, my presence, sent me "into this Brobdigrnagfian mefi-ooolis curtailed of above a foot cf my 1 fHirproportlons.. . InsiorV.sir, rror ii is my nature o be brtej,) to, tell you; in a few words, my history, as to person, age, and condition, you must know that I am short of stature? short of. thirty; and very short of money. - ;'.r -v . 1 was born on the strortest day m the year of our Lord 17, and so weakly and rickety did I appear at my nativity, that the nurse pro phesied that I should not be long in the world a prediction which has -been literally fulfilled, altha' not exactly in the sense in whichi Jtas spoken. At the earliest pe riod t o which 'my memory will car ry me, I recollect that the epithet little was always applied to me, bu t then it was frequently jn con junction . with 3 other; adjectives, which" went" a great way to soften down the ignominy of the? appel lation. At first,! was called a sweet -little fellow, and then as I ere i older, "and Jbecanie ac.rjnm- plished fq all the arch trfcksTano! wild humors of childhood T was a clever 'little fellow ; : but month rolled after monthanil year after yearpvit hout adding materially to my stature, and then the best-bred visiters would stare at me with an expression of surprise; and I some times heard, in an audible whis per from one to another, the words, " What a devilish little fellow!" -I was condemned to listen, to the mortifying and often-repeated re mark, -'Master Augustus does not grow very: fast," which was as of ten met Jpy the reply which my foreboding heart told me )vas false, that "his growing: days were not jet over, and that he Vwould no doubt sprout up suddenly." Years continued to roll on. and I was still a little. fellow : but the hoDes of my family remained "sanguine for along time, and it was not till 1 had tairly entered my twentv- firsUy ear, that my mother would admit "that Master Augustus had done growing." In the meantime it may be said, that I suffered un remitting misery; lor the life of a auui i guuueuiaQ m mis world, is a continued martyrdom. r At one time I was smitten Vvith thefour- in-hand mania, but I was cured of iUbyvthe remark of; a malicious friend, that I had better give it up, lor 1 could never be a Ions coach man. If? 1 proposed a 'part v: to the play, I was asked if I meant the tittle theatre in the Hay-market: -V - " . I was once introduced to an em inent counsellor and orator, whom I had long wished to know ; but my introducer told"Mr. Gnhblft that he. had broughthim a brief; and I afterwards found that gen tleman's name and a fee, of" five guineas endorsed; in chalk" upon ray coai. . ; . - - ; I? jl ordered ajar coat, the very tailor who was to receive my money ibr it coul'd scarcely refrain from laughing in my face. 1 In addition to; all this, I had a heart Meeply susceptible to the charms of the fair sex;and, by that fatuity which is said to attach it self to persons in my situation, I wa particularly smitten witl tall Wonka.? I remCTnSer , at an e ve ning party saying a thousand fine things to a very pretty and verv tall, but at the same time very stu pid young woman, who I guessed, fas the Yankees sav.l was nn match forme in wit, and, after be- ... c l ii . . i iuug, in mo uraise oi imient mg witty for half an hour withoutL , , , ( crpttinor mnr tlian "roc" . "A little health, a utile wealth. mansvver,! begged VM.i r.- "uFa-wu cn .was 'aiuuji ii win ucr , loreneaa. wnen to; my indescribable horror; she repueu, luai : i was periectly at liberty, to do so I could reach : . At home and abroad, at all times and places, the same mishaps at tend me. : - If I TO to' churr.h th. fessori appointeoffor, the morning's service' is suteto be the . story of Zaccheus, the little tnan, who was obliged to get up into a tree to see that which every body else could see very easily down below: and I . can scarcely persuade myself tnat tne curate does not . wink ma liciously at me ' as he reads, and that the clerk does not put his tongue in his left cheek in token of derision. If I go to the thea tre; a' woman in ah enormous hat and feathers, ' whose . cose is as nearly as possimVatan equal dis tance between the sole of her shoe and the top of her head-gear, sits befor me, so that I cannot get a single glimpse of the performance. If I visit any of the courts of law, I am not there two minutes before' a tall attorney plants himself by m7 side, and X, can see Inat even the'judges themselves are imme diately in an agony of laughter at the ridiculous comparison. Nay, sir, even if I attempt an office of humanity, I am rewarded with de rision, -instead of gratitude: for it is not many days since I picked up a druken'man out of a gutter, and I had no sooner got him upon his legs tnan he exclaimed, "Well, you are a little 'un,; d me!" - ; you must also know thata- mong my other misfortunes, I am excessively; fond of private thea tricals, and am never so happy as when I am treading the stage'; in short, ft was my private opinion, for many; years, that I was the greatest genius that ever lived. About-a fortnight ago,1! received a message from a friend, begging that I would undertake the part of Julius Cacsaf, in the. play, of tnat name, which he was getting up for the-amusement f'a select party. :I joyfully acceded) but had, no sooner made ,my appeajance! than. I suspected it to:; be a mere trick to raise a; general laugh at the sight of my pigtny figure strut ting about as the jeprcseutativc of the master of the world. Mirth was pretty srenerally.attendant u p- ton my most dignified efforts ; but when uassius, a tall. Irish varlet, said of me ''i;,v:v: ;vp; t:h'sAlT Why, man, he doth bestride this nar .; ; row. globe ; - ''- . ' vy. (. Like a colossus, and we petty men ; Walk under his huge legs ; . the roar of laughter, from all parts bf the house, was indescribable, I was behind the scenes at the time, and, unable. to submit to such tor ture any lonirer, r rushed out . of the house into the street, attired as I was in the' costume of the part, and raad.e my' Way home Wards. But my misfort unes did not end here; my strange costume attracted a crowd about me; I was taken to the watch-house, charg ed with creating a crowd and a ri ot, and, in order to escape a worse evil, I was obliged to give the wor thy magistrate ii detail of the whole affair, which -.appeared the next day in all the newspapers with ad ditions anda embellishments from' the ingenious peris of -j the gentle men oi ine press. ; , ;' Now, Mr. Ed itbf; you are a man of wisdom, dnd of authority in the world; and I think that ha'lf a tence, uttered by you in my behalf J would : reueve me and- all at her short gentlemen from the odious pcrsecuiioos wnicn we undergo. : Why should shortness ('tis a bar- uaiuus Yvurti, qui l use, it tor want of a better) be a- reproach to-a man? ".Is not life short, and iov ih'ort, and spring shortrand ,every tning tnat is -agreeable 'short? Is not brevity the soul of wit? Are not short articles (especially such as this) the best and most accept able tnings in a paper' or a magar zine? Is not a knowledge of short hand a very valuable accomplish- menu would you not rather take a short bill than a lono- one? ' You must be the most short-sighted man in existence if you do not see the truth of all ' this. , Then take compassrtfaTvmy . forlorn condi tion. Tell the kdieskthat Cupid is little. Tell warriorsldstutes men that Bonaparte was short Tell poets that the shortest and best poem in the world is the fol lowing, in the praise of littleness: . "AndUtUecautoneedhfau" The sort of friend which the por et has above described will I be to you, 'Mr. Editor, if you will print this communication in a conspicu ous part oi your paper, and use your best exertions, in the wav wEich, BaVc suggested; on oehalf ot the shortest and most unfortu nate of mortals. ; f SHUT THE DOOR. rtr ' ' - It . . ' vanqering tnroun the coun try, without a local home or a bo- som lnend to snare the blessings of social :i3r domestic intercourse, my time-lias generally been spent among, strangers. And being a pretty close observer of the world. I have frequently been enabled to benefit socicty by embodying, at leisure hours, particularly, when I spend a few days to f est. and re fresh myself, sucb reflections as may have occurred during my pe rigrinations. As I am generally assisted Ly a Familiar;, a real and true descendant of the far-famed oriental genii, 1 experience no dif ficulty in learning, at once, the hatits, manners, and costomsof all such people as "I have any cu riosity to inquire about. - This, it may be said, is a great privilege, and might be abused, much to the prejudice of' many people who ininfc their private vices entirely hid from the world : bat as I have already suggested my intention is to benefit society, I shall only no tice such apparently trivial . faults as by being long indulged become luvcierme, ana uuimaieiy prove injurious, to individuals as well as community- an emendation . of which will add much to Jhe com fort of , others, and consequently their happiness for the time being. In conformity to the injunction of the decalogue, I frequently rest on the Sabbath, and if with iu a rea sonable - distance of public devo tional exercises; attend them. Not long since, in 'an apparently prosperous village in the western country, les than a thousand tnUes from this, on a cold and rainy.Sun day 1 morn,Tttended; meeting7--and having, as is my usual custom arrived early, and seated' myself on a back seat in the gallery, as wen to observe the -congregation as they entered, as not to bo ob- ' . A " , ft --. noxious looiners oy disturbing tne devotion of those, who enter for that puf posej and while adjusting iuy mind to the sojemuity of the occasion, Vmy attention was sud denly aroused by an. exclamation from one of the lower pews of 'Shut the Door. That, 'thot I, is right; , for it was a bleak and cheerless morning, and, many, j. observed, .were shivering with cold. ' The sexton, had,, either from negligence, or a want of ma terials, left the fire uukindlcd. and the open doors let in a volume of cold air, very much to the preju dice ofthose comfortable feelings with which many. left , their warm fire-sides in the morninff. ': ' - "jSAuJ.' the door in cold weather, thought I, ought to be engraven on, the memory of every one, as mucn as any command received by us from Divine authority. ?; It seemed of no use: for e verv few seconds some boy would be sent from a pe w nearest the door torectify this breach of good man ners, in those who,entered A roused by some very, sensible feel ings on the subiect.' I applied mv ear;to mv coat slee ve.and. inn uired from myriymiliar (who, lor ;cnr- n ! I iLi I ! 1 . x' V cmute, mait.es mar nia. sianou, ) the names, callinir, habits; and cir- jcumstances, Of many .of them, as they entered the - doorK without shutting, it, which I could readily do without observation; and that the answers may be useful to some bfydur readers. I now send them for publication. 'VYho. and what is hel" said I as a man about the age of fifty en tered, without shutting the , door. Tall and meagre were his features; his shirt collar unpinned; the string of. one t)f his shoes untied, and the cuff of his ' coat slee ve partly torn m '-'That,", said mv Familiar, "is ShdlloTvpate Careless. His father inienaed nim lor one oi the learn ed professions; but in his youth he ucgiccieu uis siuaies ai college.- tie never knew one lesson. - And provided he could eat when hun-K-Tmd drink when thirsty, tho't of nothinsr else. Finding his pf- ,0 . 0 iorts in availing. the old gentle man coucluded ne would . make a farmer of L.atlowpate, aud accord- "Jgijf gave una a larmand procured an honest and inciustrb' ous overseer for him.. Matters went on well enough, until, in the course of time, the old man died; and ,'Sliallozvpate could not bear the idea that one of the overseer's little; boys should always follow him to shut the gates or put' up the oars, so ne was discharged. $ial' loicpate, who nevqr jshut the door never put up the" bars, soon be came a prey tphe devouring spe culators ; for although -, he was without vice, and a toleiahlv sort of man, yet-when the time of mgatnering ot the fruits of the earth came, he had nothing tr ei ther ; for the' inveterate habit of leaving the doors open had let the cattle in, and his croos;werfi rfn. troyed, and he had to sell a portion ui uisiana lor the support of his lamny. . mo same course, m a fcv. years, made him whnt vnn nnw beholdan example to all others 10 remember to Shut the Door. Shortly alter a sleek looking' in us man, ia a plain, but rich dress, entered, apparently on tip toe, who carefully shut the door: auu ueiore leit jt, telt that it !4 was secure. His a le appeared to , . be abouf thirty, all lough my T'i I . miliar informed ;mH that he hnd . r lived near half 'a intuiy. "lie I was' said ; my Faijiliar, "a peer ? ; ' -bov, and was earlTiinnfyT.f , kilo tt- . lue of money by th want of it;- and when he . got J sixpence- for : running of crrands.e ivn nr examine his pockefi, and be .cer tain th're was no U0e in the bol- A . 1 " . f' - - lom. lie always iut the door, and id after life: in Hi isJc k.. carefully puts upfe bars. : His crops are not des Joyed he is a . his descendants Q-rly incurcates the useful habit ?p ppt up the bars to shut the Oor."' ; -v; ' Another who" e (ered . and for gt . to shut the &or, was- alias ,' Polly Primrose InF- f'.4 U- ago, led the vap id oil parties ot pleasure. - She: wj m fact; the " tS resideds-w;asJdmired nbyxiUi X ' I butan unfortenfje habit of, not vr? t ' shattmsf the 'dootf rh' a' 'z hrmed: and ;mvet4 late, and ' rioW V 1! alas !he dear cf, at iirG' U&onlZ V.: tnr circumstance (hich has been - the means of retfiTnglhera vor . and jn all probabjltf for the rest " ' of her life. V f ' 4 ; ; ' Another lady fnteredj and at :H v gentleman left his Jea to shut tho - , .1 T 1 4. .1... . . n v'vv'nuijcs'i inns i.ir. - - uuur. ,; tierc my Hamiliar recited ; v ; , a tale calculated, fp draw the tea( : of sympathy firorojjie most obdu- 1 ; .7 rate. It is sufficiAt; however, to L K V. know that she wafhe daughter 0 -a respectable frrmjr-that incon -a 'V. sequence ,of- looking her mother V vu..;,iucmre oit ine iamiiy.de and finery, for bflis and'parties.v; unrestrained, caudd a. neglect of. r voivea on her. A UnccionTA Ai.m 1 vui6 wuncuru!.. nDe ooors were . -yiauui, uie aaijjrsutleredr thes . pigs upset thermi5f-pans;;tbe cats j ; : v rats, mice destrHed the chWsef f 'C :: -r.wV iuy tuuiu De.no harm, to run ovetrto Aliss Gada oouis, to hear sdethingV about -i what was coinjr i in it - ' hard, too.lo be oWirwA t.JV ; the honsfinll rlnf t or,: u I ' ann nfhpr Pnn'illJ.imrr..i . ' . .? ,. J J IUUU T . --vjv...j pujui idui rea , sons might be pffffed; 'she forgot 1 : : 1 toshutthe door.:1AiTu?t nf winA "Xf- 3: ) blew thft rnal.LOVLr.iho lsv ' J I .' T' before half of tb, first story wasV told; the housed ns enveloped in flames. - The fatjSJr was. reduced tPpoverty-7-and aj4in consequence of . not shutting rje door.. Aftef a series of years Joe married, and now has a famile.r Sfill th aj : j 'n .... .u uuui I are not shut; thegwtes are left o-' pen -a - rent V in the r h;Mrr- clothes grows laer all, all re . mama ' rnai i,ji'Vl " : " vm-AHJur ? are . not shut. The care. kbour.frno-QTWtr and industry of al j indulgent hui uaim, are not suiij ient to prevent 4 the prison doors iom shuttW I- h;m a 11 .-w iJf . - w"?w ,u uit ,uquence ot aa iM unioriuuate, cruefIespicable, and uau.ujmuH accursed habit 1 v OI not Rhnttinrr (hJ Arx V Many other in jviduals.as well those who did, ay those who did nnt shut tho rnnrBn. - a - c c ocrminiz- ed:by my Famifjar.. But these cases are sufficient to induce uz to be careful tosllut the 3oor. And now, my pretty maiden V with rosy charmsiind. ing love you,wJ are candidates w vi jijairimony re member, that toiishnt thn l ir-y beofuse", anUcan never work cvu. LiuAdooT?; always shut the doors.and beeMhe doors shut. Once acquire theTiibit tt shut f door, and vou nN smih t trowns of fortua;, and bid defi. , IT. w, fcW I uuc iu me voirics oi .vice. lou may have tlflplca .' -reflc c tion, that you hd.'e addc to tho comfort of some.iiithout c.. ing from others! Shut 'the doc against evil speMcers, and suiTcr. it nnt t r Iia rtirr J" if ovil lmo.n.. municatioas. ShuVthedooragaimfc I - r all wishes and desires not dictated- by prudencc, orfjustified by tho Book of books. Let the door to f : your affections fdoubly guarcjed ! by that best ofHwatchmenpru- J duce ; and hapfSness here mayf be your rewardt Above all, ia cold weather shCl the door when " ( . rcome into faurcb, my lovely f dears, and wprtjy . sirsj and if I j : am, there, -youitill merit tho-' thanks of the H -' - tfANDERER. ; I J . . . i Neatly printed, f jr sale at the 0 i . x , fica of thcCaroaicIc i. f. it
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