ORIGINAL POETRY.

The Mall, & all the wonders of the place;
To mark the characters that visit there

With truth and candour-be the muses'
⚫ share!

Now mild Apollo, sacred God of day, From half the world withdraws his glorious ray.

Now spent his rage, he gilds the dapple sky,

She flies about a pert, vain, noisy thing.
Around her brows fly sportive in the
wind

The spoils of Europe, & of farthest Ind.
While conscious beauty actuates her
Her voice, exalted high above the rest,
breast,
Ere yet the news by rumor has been
blown,
[known,
Ere yet the curious fact is wholly
While she, (who never fell thro' pride)
declares
[affairs;

Some secret scandal, some unknown
No tender pity can their bosoms move,
But the loud laugh re-echoes thro' the

With golden hues & each refulgent die, Beams o'er the world a placid smile-The and glows,

With every hue effulgent Iris shows.
Now like a curtain spreads the flaming
west;

And now retires to Amphitrite's breast:
What mimic pencil can the scene dis-
play?
[ray?
What hand on paper can transfuse the
As slow-pac'd eve comes on, mild
cheerful power,

In her glad train she leads the wish'd-
for hour.

When to enjoy the unpolluted air, Bostonia's daughters to the MALL repair:

Nor they alone; but folks of every kind,
Fools, fops, and fribbles of each sex we
find.

Fools, fops, & fribbles, gaily pass along,
'Tis you alone must dignify my song.
Follies and manners be held up to view,
Yet modest merit shall not want its due.
Look down the MALL, what oddities
appear?
[here!
What het'rogeneous race of men is
Some up, some down, in gay confusion
hurl'd,

A microcosm this a little world!
A moving garden, ladies seen below;
And silks and satins are the flowers that

blow;

Lilacks & lillies, snow-balls & the rose,
Fit similies for ladies and their clothes!
More fragrant than the lilly, and as fair,
As fairest lillies of the valley are.
Their breast what trope, what figure
can unfold?
[cold.
Fresh as the rose, but as the snow-ball
:. See COQUETTILLA, herald of the
ring,

grove.

bashful muse, whom griefs internal vex,

Herself a virgin, blushes for the sex. The sun himself withdraws his cheerful light,

And half the heavens seem crimson'd at the sight.

Cease, cease, O Muse,thy wicked strain
forbear,

Nor level satire at the helpless fair!
Tho' airs coquettish rankle in her
breast;
[rest?
Why COQUETTILLA more than all the
Hail MODESTY divine! hold here thy

sway,

Free, unreserv'd, polite, sincere & gay. Tis in behaviour, that the mind we [face.

trace;

Not the soft tints, that glow upon the Not the vain arts, and forc'd, unnatʼral airs,

That cunning, or dissimulation wears. Thee absent, all the charms of angels must,

Create but disesteem, and give disgust; But when with thee, the fair blends grace and ease,

The charms of angels show their power
to please.

Pictures look best when in a certain
light;
[bright!
So in thy beam, each virtue shines more
Daughter of heaven!-Thy power is all

from hence,

Sister of virtue, decency, and sense!
'Tis MODESTY, that best secures ap-
plause ;

The rest is netting, furbelows, & gauze.
Mark where yon powder'd beau with
pride elate,

Parades along with supercilious gait;

Throws up his stick, and with affected If nature's fowls are lov'd so dear,

pace,

He imitates in vain Alonzo's grace.
There see him balance, here a minuet
bow,

A perfect Chesterfieldian, I trow!
In foreign follies, see him proudly vain,
The antipodes supply him with a cane!
With Africk's spices he perfumes the

air,

For gentle Zephyr wafts it from his hair.
His hair èn dishabille yet by design,
By Smallp----e frizzled a la Porcupine.
Spare not your great redundancy of
pains,

To decorate a head devoid of brains!
Well may you try to ornament a scull,
Forever vacant, as for ever dull.
But look once more! see how he vainly
tries,

To pass unnoticed by some vulgar eyes!
How truly mortify'd, what pangs attend,
To shun a nod or bow from some old
friend?

What optic nerve could ever yet endure
To gaze benignant on a friend that's

poor ?

Such are the friendships of the vain and proud

In secret yours-forgotten in the crowd. Vain are the joys, that from such friendships flow;

And this bright rule remains their guide;

A little logic makes it clear,

A hunter is a homicide.

A sailor walk'd to take the air;
Twas on this shore, one morning fair,
His trusty gun was not forgot,
Nor powder-horn, nor bag of shot:
These grac'd his side, and that his
shoulder;

No mariner look'd ever bolder.
It chanc'd he murder'd in his walk,
For want of better game, a hawk.
Soon as he gave the fatal blast,
The tawny natives muster'd fast;
And with a Bramin at their head,
Towards the man of powder sped;
Who, with great gravity, began,
As follows, to address the man.

Lover of blood! what hast thou done,
With thy infernal thundering gun?
Dislodged the soul of friend or brother,
Father or cousin, aunt or mother?
For this, your life-devouring crime,
Prepare to bid adieu to time.
For know, thou carnage-spreading fool,
The law to hang you is inclin'd;
Heav'n may have mercy on your soul;
But law can never change his mind.
Musing within his moral head,
Thus to bimself the sailor said:

Not such as Armand and Alonzo know,
Unlike the pleasures and the joys refin'd" What die! no trial by my peers!
Or elegance that fills Horatio's mind.
Few know the joys, that love and friend-
ship bring;

Of happiness the never-failing spring.

To be continued.

For the Emerald.

FABLE....15.

THE SAILOR AND THE BRAMIN.

Is India's distant land there dwells
A very curious set of men;
Tales entertaining, history tells,
How they admire a hawk or heng
For every finn'd and hairy creature,
Is lov'd as well as human nature ;
And if, by accident, a bird

Is kill'd-how loud their grief is heard,
Thinking the soul of near relation
Hath lost, alas! its habitation.

This hasty step provokes my tears,
Is there no plan I can contrive,
To cheat the law, and keep alive?.
Or must I feel the cruel string,
And take my everlasting swing?
Shall I, by canvassing their laws,
Speak to the merits of the cause?
Ah! no-for every rogue and spy
Condemn the law by which they die:
Besides to that conceited fool,
Who blindly worships every rule,..
Which springs from fertile Folly's brain,
One preaches wisdom all in vain.
Rather than drink this bitter cup,
Tis thus I make my judgment up :—
The way to shun the gallows vile,

That SUPERSTITION may erect,
Is first of all to court her smile

And treat her creed with high re
spect."

Then while they led him on the way,
Quoth Jack, "I have a word to say"

Much we lament, and much we talk
Of this poor, miserable hawk.

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There is nothing so powerful as a republic where the laws are obeyed not from fear or from reasoning but from passion, as wasthe case at Rome and Sparta, for at that time all the zeal which faction could inspire was added the prudence of an excellent governMontesq. Esprit de loix.

ment.

To improve this sentiment into a reverence for the government and laws of the country has ever been the primary object of legislators, and it might at first view be supposed no difficult undertaking to give a proper direction to feelings which are of so luxuriant growth.. Yet history exhibits instances of an entire national degeneracy, and among every people are the canker worms of faction who would spoil the verdure of their country's laurels.

Pride and the glory of splendid Ay attachment to the country atchievements or valuable insti which gave us birth is a natural sen- tutions have been more effica timent; it is one mode of affection cious in producing a real patriotism for our parents and our family; but than any abstract principles of virA patriotic ENTHUSIASM must be tue. Various designs therefore, generated by extraneous causes and suited to the different manners and protected by more interesting prin- feelings of the people have at times ciples. Local attachments from been attempted, to raise the zeal of The Roman private motives are common to ev-popular affection. ery people; individual pride from republicans encouraged this sentinational glory belongs only to those ment by military conquest and the who have that glory to boast. A glory of victory; Imperial Rome most every people, however, find by the splendor of her palaces, the something in which they excel renown of her wisdom and her those who surround them; some liberal encouragement of science exclusive advantages, some proud and the arts. pre-eminence, which they delight to contemplate as a monument of national honor. However blind others may be to the splendor of actions, which they boast, to honors which they claim, or to happiness they enjoy, yet their fond imagination extends these advantages to a superiority over every contem-in every polite accomplishment of porary State. literature, by the purity of their

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Carthage and Sparta pursued the same object by very dissimilar means; the one by inculcating a superiority to. pecuniary objects and the other by straining every art to facilitate their acquirement. The Athenians cherished this laudable love of country, by their skill

speechand the elegance oftheir man- By means of oracular responses in ners till they degenerated like Rome, which the people were taught to when the attachment of the populace place implicit belief, valor was inwas secured only by the pageantry of cited to new exploits or curiosity splendid exhibitions and the cruel roused to new discoveries in science, sports of the circus. The Per- confidence was implanted in the bosians secured this same affection by som and at the moment of trial it effeminate voluptuousness and de- was considered impossible to fail. bilitating pleasure; and the Barba-Confidence thus created success, rians under Alaric by daring enter- and success renewed confidence in prise and the hardihood of impetu- the divinity who promised it. This ous valor. Among some people double action gave an efficacy to the the remembrance of ancestorial system and made religion an instidignity has sometimes been a sub-tution as efficacious on the politics stitute for personal exertion, and as on the morals and manners of sometimes the monuments of form- the citizens. er glory have renewed and envigo- In more modern times when the rated the spirit which raised them. shafts of superstition took higher These several dispositions have im and religion or rather fanati been fixed or sometimes perhaps cism was made a national and alcreated by national institutions, most universal institution, under which enlisted the passions on their directions of the pretended viceside and gave a scope for the feel-erents of heaven, its effects were ings when reason would have prov-as astonishing, as its authority was ed ineffectual. Ceremonies by extensive; the wildest temerity which the eye and the ear were de- was considered rational courage and lighted, have been more efficacious the most abject humility necessary than cold calculations' which spoke submission. only to the mind, ou must - The religion and politics both of Tuence the heart to create any antient and modern Rome were thing like zeal, and fix an electrical thus moulded together and their rod for the passions if you conduct laws were so intimately connected them to a point or lead them off that an attack on one would have without injury. been subversive of both. Their ef Wherever RELIGION has been a fects no one will hesitate to declare NATIONAL INSTITUTION, it has were morally injurious, but they never failed of producing important were national institutions which Fetical events. Among the an- contributed, more to the physical tients it was intimately connected strength of empire, than any that with their national concerns; the were ever invented. They enlisted Benius of polytheism easily accom- the most forcible passions on the dated itself to the various objects side of government, and created a of different people; every place was permanent enthusiasm which under the protection of some tute-gave life to all the enterprise and lary deity and every action influen-power of the republic.

ced by some imaginary god. By Governed by passion, and da the direction of int Aligent and art-zed by desire of tory the anful men it would favor any proposents derived froid theif national ed plan, or deter from attempts institutions those quick feeling's which it was impofic to pise which made such septiments pe