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THE ATTEMPT.
must endeavour so to rearrange our actions that a good cause may not suffer from our
clumsy performance. If we find that the desire of praise has been our object, we
will exert ourselves, not to stop the works, but to regulate the mainspring and
investigate the motive power.
For a summary of what praise we may give, and what take, we would turn once
more to Carlyle, and say with him, " Give every man the me^ of honour he has
merited ;" for, as another writer remarks—" Certainly moderate praise, used with
opportunity, and not vulgar, is that which doeth the good."
Kathleen.
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What is that strange mysterious chain,
That thus binds man to man,
It joins their pleasures, sorrows, pain,
And makes their souls as one 'I
'Tis friendship,—It can smooth oxxr path.
However rough it seems,
And cheer us all our journey through.
By its celestial beams.
That man, indeed, may pitied be,
Who is without a friend ;
Has none to give him sympathy,
Or trust in, till life's end.
True friendship will endure for aye,
Though earth and seas be gone,
It will endure so sure and fast,
When heaven itself is won.
Friendship that only seems to be.
Erelong must fade away.
Though for a time it may seem bright,
'Tis but a fleeting ray.
And though our friends may distant be,
Friendship is still the same,
And wings of love will bring them near,
And carry us to them.
Minneuaha.
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No. I.
Language has been called " fossil poetry," but how much more is it than that ?
Fossil history, fossil thought, living light and logic. As if one should name compre.
hensively coal as " fossil ferns," forgetting how much more do these dark-browed
seams contain : the history of past ages when man was not, and when gigantic