When Congress had fled in a Fright from their Foes,
The Quakers they thought to snug under the Rose .
But Billy , who sees with the Glance of an Eye,
Soon found though the Quakers were grave, they were sly:
Resolv'd to distinguish the good from the bad ,
I'll sift 'em, he cries, if there's sieves to be had!

[ALFRED DE MUSSET]

When fate is cruel and takes away
The hope of day
And spirits gay;
The remedy for misery
Is melody
And Beauty!

'Tis good to find a lovely face
That will efface
In one embrace
All sadness; and to hear above
Sweet airs sung of
An old-time love!

[ FROM A PICTURE .]

D ELILAH . loq ..

" The sun had gone down, spreading wide on
The sky-line one ray of red fire;
Prepare the soft cushions of Sidon,
Make ready the rich loom of Tyre.
The day, with its toil and its sorrow,
Its shade, and its sunshine, at length
Has ended; dost fear for the morrow,
Strong man, in the pride of thy strength?

" Like fire-flies, heavenward clinging,
They multiply, star upon star;
And the breeze a low murmur is bringing
From the tents of my people afar.

Next to angels man created was,
In knowledg and all parts he did surpass
The other creatures; yet is such a fool
Become by sin that he may go to school
To birds and beasts; the little ant and bee,
Both thrift can teach him, and good husbandry:
The serpent wisdom, the dove innocence,
That to avoid, this to give no offence.
That to prevent dangers before they fall,
And this not to revenge a wrong at all.
How farre is man to seek in both these kinds,
He by too sad experience daily finds.
Into a world of mischiefs he doth run,

Only a glimpse of Seraph-land,
A glimmer from above
That dwelt a little while;
The rosebud softness of a hand,
Two eyes upturned in love;
The heaven of a Baby's Smile!

When Britain determined to tax us at pleasure,
We rose as one Man, and opposed the measure;
Not liking the Pilgrimage, I can assure ye,
Of going to England for Trial by Jury.
Therefore for Freedom alone we are fighting;
For that sort of Freedom was not so inviting.

To Edicts of Britain subjection refusing,
We set up a Government of our own chusing.
The Guardians of Freedom resolv'd to maintain it,
And publish'd a long Bill of Rights to explain it.
For its for Freedom alone we are fighting:

Give o're your greedinesse, muck-worms give o're,
And trade no more;
For apes and peacocks, and such petty toyes
Are fit for boyes.
Men that have reason and religion too,
Scorne so to do;
They count that voyage lost that brings
No better things.
For all the treasures of the earth will not
Make a man happy if they could be got.

Some think the Indies to the King of Spain
Bring little gaine,
And that our Seventh Henry was more wise
Them to despise,
Though offered to him; this we know, that Prince
Is poorer since;

When Christ , at Cana 's feast, by pow'r divine,
Inspir'd cold water , with the warmth of wine ,
See! cry'd they, while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd,
The bashful stream hath seen its god, and blush'd .

He will not come this year when tulips raise
Their scarlet heads within Aurora's gaze;
Spring will be blighted with a bitter lack,
Nothing on earth can ever bring him back
To my lorn heart that he has vanished from—
He will not come.

Blithe May will bring a pageant for the fields,
Lighting the world, which now Niobe shields,—
But he is buried with a last year's rose
'Neath a hyacinthine sepulchre of snows.
Spring will arrive with all its glad voice dumb.
He will not come …

FOR A CURIOUS CHAMBER-STOVE, IN THE FORM OF AN URN, SO CONTRIVED AS TO MAKE THE FLAME DESCEND, INSTEAD OF RISE, FROM THE FIRE: INVENTED BY DOCTOR FRANKLIN .

Like a Newton sublimely he soar'd
To a Summit before unattained;
New regions of Science explor'd,
And the Palm of Philosophy gain'd.

With a Spark, that he caught from the Skies,
He display'd an unparallel'd wonder:
And we saw, with delight and surprise,