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Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys;
And worse than all, and most to be deplor'd,
As human nature's broadest, foulest blot,

Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat
With stripes, that mercy, with a bleeding heart,
Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast.

Then what is man! And what man seeing this,
And having human feelings, does not blush
And hang his head, to think himself a man?
I would not have a slave to till my ground,
To carry me, to fan me while I sleep,
And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth
That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.

No dear as freedom is, and in my heart's
Just estimation priz'd above all price;
I had much rather be myself the slave,
And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him.
We have no slaves at home-then why abroad?
And they themselves once ferried o'er the wave
That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd.

Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs
Receive our air, that moment they are free;
They touch our country, and their shackles fall.
That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud
And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then,
And let it circulate through ev'ry vein

Of all your empire; that where Britain's power
Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too.

YOUTH AND AGE. Coleridge.
Verse, a breeze 'mid blossoms straying,
Where Hope clung feeding like a bee
Both were mine! Life went a Maying
With Nature, Hope, and Poesy,
When I was young!

When I was young! ah, woeful when!
Ah for the change 'twixt now and then!
This breathing house not built with hands,
This body that does me grievous wrong,

O'er aery cliffs and glittering sands
How lightly then it flashed along!
Like those trim skiffs, unknown of yore,
On winding lakes and rivers wide;
That ask no aid of sail or oar,

That fear no spite of wind or tide!
Nought cared this body for wind or weather,
When Youth and I lived in't together!
Flowers are lovely, Love is flower-like,
Friendship is a sheltering tree,-

O the joys, that came down shower-like,
Of Friendship, Love, and Liberty,
Ere I was old!

Ere I was old? ah, mournful ere,

Which tells me, Youth's no longer here!
O Youth! for years so many and sweet,
'Tis known that thou and I were one-
I'll think it but a fond conceit;
It cannot be that thou art gone!
Thy vesper-bell hath not yet tolled;
And thou wert aye a masker bold-
What strange disguise hast now put on,
To make believe that thou art gone ?
I see these locks in silvery slips,
This drooping gait, this alter'd size;
But spring-tide blossoms on thy lips,
And tears take sunshine from thine eyes!
Life is but thought! so think I will,
That Youth and I are house-mates still !

Characters of PITT and Fox.-Walter Scott

To mute and to material things
New life revolving summer brings ;-
The genial call dead Nature hears,
And in her glory re-appears.
But oh! my country's wintry state
What second spring shall renovate?
What powerful call shall bid arise
The buried warlike and the wise
The mind that thought for Britain's weal,
The hand that grasp'd the victor steel?
The vernal sun new life bestows

;

But vainly, vainly may he shine
Where Glory weeps o'er Nelson's shrine
And vainly pierce the solemn gloom
That shrouds, O Pitt, thy hallow'd tomb!

Deep grav'd in every British heart,
O never let those names depart !
Say to your sons,-Lo, here his
Who victor died on Gadite wave;
To him, as to the burning levin,

grave,

Short, bright, resistless course was given;
Where'er his country's foes were found,
Was heard the fated thunder's sound,
Till burst the bolt on yonder shore,

Roll'd, blazed, destroy'd, and was no more.

Nor mourn ye less his perished worth,
Who bade the conqueror go forth,
And launch'd that thunder-bolt of war
On Egypt, Hafnia, Trafalgar ;
Who born to guide such high emprize,
For Britain's weal was early wise;
Alas! to whom the Almighty gave,
For Britain's sins, an early grave;
His worth, who, in his mightiest hour,
A bauble held the pride of power,
Spurn'd at the sordid lust of pelf,
And serv'd his Albion for herself.

Hadst thou but liv'd, though stripp'd of power,

A watchman on the lonely tower,

Thy thrilling trump had roused the land,
When fraud or danger were at hand;
By thee, as by the beacon-light,

Our pilots had kept course aright;
As some proud column, though alone,

Thy strength had propp'd the tottering throne.

Now is the stately column broke,

The beacon-light is quench'd in smoke,

The trumpet's silver sound is still,

The warder silent on the hill.

Nor yet suppress the generous sigh, Because his rival slumbers nigh;

For talents mourn, untimely lost,
When best employ'd and wanted most;
Mourn genius high, and lore profound,
And wit that loved to play, not wound;
And all the reasoning powers divine,
To penetrate, resolve, combine;
And feelings keen, and fancy's glow,-
They sleep with him who sleeps below:
And, if thou mourn'st they could not save
From error him who own'st this grave,
Be every harsher thought suppress'd,
And sacred be the last long rest.

Here, where the end of earthly things
Lays heroes, patriots, bards and kings;
Where stiff the hand, and still the tongue,
Of those who fought, and spoke, and sung;
Here, where the fretted aisles prolong
The distant notes of holy song.

As if some angel spoke agen,
All peace on earth, good will to men ;
If ever from an English heart,
O here let prejudice depart,
And, partial feeling cast aside,
Record, that Fox a Briton died!
When Europe crouch'd to France's yoke,
And Austria bent, and Prussia broke,
And the firm Russian's purpose brave
Was barter'd by a timerous slave,
Even then dishonour's peace he spurn'd,
The sullied olive-branch return'd,
Stood for his country's glory fast,
And nail'd her colours to the mast!
Heaven to reward his firmness gave
A portion in this honour'd grave;
And ne'er held marble in its trust
Of two such wond'rous men the dust!

With more than mortal powers endow'd, How high they soar'd above the crowd! Theirs was no common party race, Jostling by dark intrigue for place; Like fabled gods', their mighty war Shook realms and nations in its jar; Beneath each banner proud to stand, Look'd up the noblest of the land,

Till through the British world were known
The names of Pitt and Fox alone.

Spells of such force no wizard grave
E'er framed in dark Thessalian cave;
Though his could drain the ocean dry,
And force the planets from the sky.
These spells are spent, and spent with these,
The wine of life is on the lees.
Genius, and taste, and talent gone,
Forever tomb'd beneath the stone,

Where, taming thought to human pride !-
The mighty chiefs sleep side by side.
Drop upon Fox's grave the tear,

"T will trickle to his rival's bier ;
O'er Pitt's the mournful requiem sound,
And Fox's shall the notes rebound.
The solemn echo seems to cry,-
"Here let their discord with them die;
Speak not for those a separate doom,
Whom fate made brothers in the tomb,
But search the land of living men,
Where wilt thou find their like agen ???

On the Importance of CLASSICAL EDUCATION.-Judge Story

The importance of classical learning to professional education is so obvious, that the surprise is, that it could ever have become matter of disputation. I speak not of its power in refining the taste, in disciplining the judgment, in invigorating the understanding, or in warming the heart with elevated sentiments; but of its power of direct, positive, necessary instruction. Until the eighteenth century, the mass of science in its principal branches was deposited in the dead languages, and much of it still reposes there. To be ignorant of these languages is to shut out the lights of former times, or to examine them only through the glimmerings of inadequate translations. What should we say of the jurist, who never aspired to learn the maxims of law and equity, which adorn the Roman codes? What of the physician, who could deliberately surrender all the knowledge heaped up for so many centuries in the latinity of continental Europe? What of the minister of religion, who should choose not to study the Scriptures in the original tongue, and should be content to trust his faith and his hopes, for time.

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