And to the sinner
Smile, as to the best,

The moon and the stars.

"Wind and waters,

Thunder and hail-stones,

Rustle on their way,
Smiting down, as
They dash along,
One for another.

"Just so does Fate

Grope round in the crowd,
Seize now the innocent,
Curly-haired boy,

Now on the old, bald
Crown of the villain.

"By great, adamantine
Laws everlasting,

Here we must all our
Round of existence

Faithfully finish.

"There can none but Man

Perform the Impossible.
He understandeth,
Chooseth, and judgeth;
He can impart to the
Moment duration.

"He alone may

The Good reward,

The Guilty punish,
Mend and deliver;

All the wayward, anomalous

Bind in the Useful.

"And the Immortals,

Them we reverence,
As if they were men, and
Did, on a grand scale,
What the best man in little
Does, or fain would do.

"Let noble Man

Be helpful and good!
Ever creating

The Right and the Useful,

Type of those loftier

Beings of whom the heart whispers ! "

- pp. 113-115.

Immediately following is a free version by Mr. Bancroft, which, though tasteful and smooth, fails to preserve the terseness and vigor of the original.

THE SAME.

"[A FREE VERSION.]

"LET Man, for highest ends designed,
Be just in action, generous, kind.
He differs, by his heavenly birth,
From all the tribes that roam the earth.

"Hail to the Spirits! the Unknown,
Sublime, revealed by Faith alone!
Man, from his own example, learns
To trust in what no eye discerns.

Unfeeling Nature, ruthless, cold,
Moves in her orbit, as of old;

On just and unjust shines the sun;
And bright to all, who boldly run

Through crimes, and them who have no stain,

Glimmer the moon and all her train.

"Thunder and hail, the stream, the breeze,
Rush onward in their course, and seize,
Resistless, as they haste along,

One and another, weak and strong.

"And Fortune blindly gropes her way
Amid the crowd, nor fears to lay
Her hand upon the guileless boy
With curling locks, (or to destroy
Or bless, she recks not ;) and e'en now
She smites the aged sinner's brow.

"That mighty law, whose iron sway
Is boundless, endless, we obey ;

And, following nature's changeless will,
Existence' high designs fulfil.

"And Man can do,

and Man alone,

What seems impossible, hath done;
Continuance can to moments lend,
Compare and choose the nobler end.

""Tis he that gives the wise their meed ;
He may avenge the evil deed,
Heal, save, and to good ends unite
The wayward force that strays from right.

"And we revere the immortal powers,
As if their spirits were like ours;
And they but widely do what here
The best have done, in narrower sphere.

"Let Man be generous, just, and kind;
Unwearied do, with willing mind,
Whate'er is useful, pure, and right.
Thus will he live an image bright
Of beings whom our hearts, e'en here,
Forebode, conmune with, and revere.

- pp. 116, 117. Many of the "Epigrams" of both Goethe and Schiller are striking, and are generally well translated. The following, from Goethe, has vigor of expression and condensation of thought.

"Goods gone,

something gone!

Must bend to the oar,

And earn thee some more.

Honor gone, much gone!

Must go and gain glory;

Then the idling gossips will alter their story.

Courage gone, all 's gone!

Better never have been born!

- p. 187.

"SHOW me the fortunate man, and the Gods I forget in a mo

ment ;

But before me they stand, when I the sufferer see."— p. 343.

"Hast thou something? Impart; I'll willingly pay thee what 's proper.

Art thou something? O, then souls I with thee would exchange."

66 FRIEND AND FOE.

p. 344.

"DEAR to me is a friend; but a foe, too, often is useful: Shows me the friend, what I can; shows me the foe, what I should."

FORUM OF WOMAN,

- p. 349.

"WOMAN, presume not to judge a man's particular actions! Judge thou only the man, there shall thy sentence avail,"

p. 351. The volume closes with some seventy or eighty pages of notes, original and translated, illustrative of the text. Mr. Dwight is apparently a good German scholar, and he writes. like a man of generous impulses and warm poetical sensibility. The sincerity and strength of his own convictions makes him decided and earnest in the expression of them. His admiration of Goethe seems unbounded; we should have said extravagant, were it not that our own half-knowledge of that famous man, makes us diffident about applying that epithet to the views of one who has studied him thoroughly.

ART. XI. Gazetteer of the State of Missouri, by ALPHONSO WETMORE. St. Louis. 8vo. 1837.

FEW of our readers, we suppose, are prepared to be told, that Missouri is not only the largest State in the Union, but that it is unsurpassed and perhaps unequalled by any other in natural resources. Yet such is the fact; taking into view its advantages of climate, soil, rivers, variety of agricultural productions, and mineral wealth, we do not know of any State which is entitled to take precedence of this.

The history of Missouri, as a home of civilized man, begins with the cession by France to England, of her posses

sions east of the Mississippi, at the peace of 1763. The French then, relinquishing their possessions on the east of the river, began to make progress in colonizing its western banks. The first town founded in Missouri was St. Geneviève, which was laid out by a party of French from Kaskaskia, in Illinois, in the course of the year of the cession to Great Britain. Other settlements, west of the Mississippi, were about the same time formed. In the year 1764, the city of St. Louis was founded, by M. Laclède, a partner in a company which was extensively engaged in the fur trade, a business at that time already very lucrative. It was selected as the dépôt for Upper Louisiana, in which term was included. all the State of Missouri and the territory west and northwest of the same. In this wide tract of country, a monopoly of the trade with the Indian tribes had been granted, by M. d'Abaddie, Director-General of Louisiana, to the company just alluded to. It was wealthy, and clothed with very valuable privileges, so that the settlement at St. Louis almost immediately assumed considerable importance. The selection of a place, moreover, was so judicious, that, independently of any other circumstances, it could not fail to attract early attention, being so evidently destined to become, what we now live to see it, the metropolis of a wide-spread and fertile region. It is one of those points which seem formed by nature for the sites of large cities, uniting all the advantages that are essential, on the one hand, for the comfort and health of their immediate inhabitants, and, on the other, for the convenient exportation of the produce of the country, and the importation of whatever is needed for the supply of its wants. Nothing can permanently keep back a place possessing such advantages. Thirty years ago, the towns of St. Charles, St. Geneviève, and Cape Girardeau, were competitors of St. Louis in point of population and wealth. difference of natural advantages has already made a marked distinction among them; and it is safe to foretell, that in St. Louis will prove to have been laid the foundations of one of the largest cities of the West, perhaps of the largest inland city of the United States. It has only just begun to attract the attention which it deserves. In four years, reckoned from the winter of 1833-4, its population and business doubled; and it is reasonable to expect that, ten years hence, it will contain fifty thousand inhabitants.

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