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THE CI-IARM3 OF MELODY.
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j A Laughing Song.
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! /^ OOD peo])le cf every condition,
i^— ' Adend to a inerry new long ;
Know, that Laiightet's tlieonly phyfician
To make you live hapjsy and long.
' And fure 'tis a folly to grieve.
Let tlie bottle go briflcly about;
' The hypocrite laughs i;. his fleeve,
\\ hilll the honett man dares to laugh out.
The merchant indulges his mirth
I When his veffel's fate moor'd at the quay:
I She's inlur'd tor near double her worth,
I And he laughs if (he founders at lea.
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The broker enjoys his commiflion
I \^'hen he buvs, for his principal, well;
', And, when flock's in a fickly condition
He's merry, becaufe he muH Icll,
1 The felon will laugh at the jailor,
When the bill of indictment is wrong ;
I The poet will laugh at his tailor,
I Who trufls him a fuit for a fong.
I The girl who has cheated her keepers,
; Laughs to think that old men are fo mad ;
The heir, in his hat-band and weepers.
Will laugh o'er the grave of his dad.
Ph'/ficians ftill laugh at the lick,
Who oonient to be blifler'd and bled ;
j Philofophers laugh at the quick.
And the fexton will laugh at the dead.
Then, my friends, let's renounce all our errors ;
By virtue we'll ftand or we'll tall :
He laughsat the monarch of terrors.
Who one day will laugh at us all.
A Lover of Mirih'
BALLAD.
Fair Eleanor.
OR THE KNIGKT OF THE BLACK CASTIrE.
FAST o'er the hills the evening grey.
Her duftcy mantle fpread ;
And weftward far the ling'ring day,
A glimm'ring/twilight fhed.
When from his cell, a holy wight
Went forth with air fedate ;
Beneath the fhelter of the night,
Unfeen, to contemplate.
A flender v/and he careful bore,
His tottering fleps to guide;
The crofs, and beads his order wore.
Hung graceful by his fide.
His hoary locks, and wviukl'd brow
A length cf yc.;rs contefs'd ;
His head, that age begsn to bow,
Reclin'd upon his breaft.
A niodeil: air his face o'erfpread.
And courteous was his Imile';
His hfart, thit fcience long had fed^
The world could not defile.
Eefide an abby's mould'ring walls,
lie flood a while to reft. :
And flraight to meditation falls,
And Imote his aged breafl.
Now in the eaft the lamp of^night.
In awtul grandeur rofe :
And beaming with the new born light,
The rich horizon glows.
The ambient furface of the deep.
With orient furges roU'd ;
The craggy fhore o'er hanging fteep,
Seem'd lafh'd with liquid gold!
The heirmit view'd the fcene around,
With holy, calm delight.
And O ! he cry'd, who fhall be found
Worthy thy glorious fight.
Thou, who can'ft fhed the liquid day.
And poife the Harry fpheVe :
Can'ff bid the tranquil zephyrs play.
And furious tempefl tear.
Thus while the pious foul he fpoke,
And contemplating flood, ^
A diftant found his rapture broke.
Far ifluing from the flood.
And foon a ftately barque appear'd,
With canvas floating wide.
And to the fhore flraight onward fteer'd,
Faft bounding o'er the tide.
'Twas filence all, fave from the flrand.
The breakers lowly figh'd :
The veffel now approach'd the land.
And dafh'd their furf afide.
And now a voice attrafts his ears,
That utter'd plaintive woe;
And all aflonifli'd now he hears
A folemn dirge and flow,
Soft ftealing on the floating breeze,
The mingled anthem rofe;
Now low, then fwelling by degrees.
And now it fainter grows.
He heard, and wond'ring flood the while,
The mourning train drew nigh;
While from behind the hollow pile,
Re-echo'd every figh.
A fadd'ning fcene, the hermit wept.
And flraight with pious care,
To meet the troop in filence flep'd.
And utter'd filent pray'r.
And then the chief he thus addrefs'd.
With court'ous words and kind;
" Still prompt to fuccour the diftreft"
" In me a brother find.
'' Say whence, right valiant knigh.t, and where,
'' your journey fad, I pray ?
" Before you lies a mountain drear,
" And per'lous is the way.
" Kind father," then the knight reply 'd,
" My journey here muft ceafe;
" I come to lay a hapl 'fs bride
" In yonder holy place,
" From Spain I came, and this my care,
" The Ir^.dy of a Ki,i?:ht ;
'" Evft called Z"/^ -;;- '< ■ fu"
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