English

Come all ye good people attend
Pray hear what a new comer offers;
I've all sorts of good things to vend,
If you will but open your coffers.
Here we go up, up, up,
And here we go down, down-e;
Here we go backwards and forwards
And here we go round, round, round-e!

Here is a fleet from New York,
And here the dry goods shall abound-e;
Here is both butter and pork,
And all just now come round-e.

Here you have salt for your broth,
And here you have sugar and cheese-e;
Tea without taxes or oath,

Why in such thoughtless haste? O stay, and know,
The dust, now mould'ring here, once hurried, so!
If will , to serve, or art , to please mankind,
If being mild, just, gen'rous, and kind;
If harmless mirth, free friendship, stingless truth,
Unswerving judgment, and un-erring youth;
If these cou'd e're have brib'd the dart of death ,
This grave's gay tenant still had kept his breath:
Stay, then! and lend one sigh, to mourn his fate,
So may your loss be griev'd! so may your death be late.

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

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.

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

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 .