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By this example thou wilt find,
That to the ingenuous mind
Shame can greater anguish bring
Than the body's suffering;
That pain is not the worst of ills,
Nor when it the body kills:
That in fair religion's cause,
For thy country, or the laws,
When occasion dire shall offer,
"Tis reproach not to suffer.

MISS LAMB.

XLVI. "YE THIRTY NOBLE NATIONS!"

"THE only disgrace or danger which we perceive impending over America, arises from the execrable institution of slavery-the unjust disfranchisement of free Blacks-the trading in slaves carried on from state to state-and the dissolute and violent character of those adventurers whose impatience for guilty wealth spreads the horrors of slavery over the new acquisitions in the south. Let the lawgivers of that imperial republic deeply consider how powerfully these disgraceful circumstances tend to weaken the love of liberty-the only bond which can hold together such vast territories, and therefore the only source and guard of the tranquillity and greatness of America."— Sir James Mackintosh.

YE thirty noble nations,

Confederate in one!

That keep your starry stations
Around the Western Sun,-

I have a glorious mission,
And must obey the call ;-
A claim and a petition
To set before you all.
Away with party blindness,
Away with petty spite!
My claim is one of kindness,
My prayer is one of right;
And while in grace ye listen,
For tenderness I know

Your eyes shall dim and glisten,
Your hearts shall thrill and glow.

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YE THIRTY NOBLE NATIONS!"

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You, you are England growing

To continental state,
And we Columbia glowing
With all that makes you great.

Yes, Anglo-Saxon brother,
I see your heart is right,
And we will warm each other,
With all our lives alight;
In feeling and in reason
My claim is stowed away,-
And kissing is in season
For ever and a day!

And now in frank contrition,
O! brother mine, give heed,
And hear the just petition
My feeble tongue would plead;
I plead across the waters,
So deeply crimson stained,
For Afric's sons and daughters
Whom freemen hold enchained!

I taunt you not unkindly
With ills you didn't make,
I would not wish you blindly
In haste the bond to break;
But tenderly and truly
To file away the chain,
And render justice duly
To man's estate again.

O judge ye how degrading,-
A Christian bought and sold!
And human monsters trading
In human flesh for gold!
When ruthlessly they plunder
Poor Afric's homes defiled,
And all to sell-asunder!-
The mother and her child.

O free and fearless nation,
Wipe out this damning spot,
Earth's worst abomination,
And nature's blackest lot;

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I charge you by your power,
Your freedom, and your fame,
To speed the blessed hour

That wipes away this shame.
By all life's hopes and wishes
And fears beyond the grave,
Renounce these blood-bought riches,
And frankly free the slave!

So let whatever threatens,
While God is on our side,
Columbia and Britain,

The world shall well divide.
Divide? No! in one tether
Of Anglo-Saxon might,
We'll hold the world together
In peace and love and right.

TUPPER'S American Ballads.

RELIGIOUS AND MORAL POEMS.

I. MY BIRTHDAY.

"UPON me lies a burden which I cannot shift upon any other human creature-the burden of duties unfulfilled, words unspoken, or spoken violently and untruly; of holy relationships neglected; of days wasted for ever; of evil thoughts once cherished, which are ever appearing now as fresh as when they were first admitted into the heart; of talents cast away; of affections in myself, or in others, trifled with; of light within turned to darkness. So speaks the conscience; so speaks or has spoken the conscience of each man."Maurice on the Lord's Prayer.

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All this it tells, and could I trace
The imperfect picture o'er again,
With power to add, retouch, efface,

The lights and shades, the joy and pain,
How little of the past 3 would stay!
How quickly all should melt away-

All-but that freedom of the mind

Which hath been more than wealth to me;
Those friendships, in my boyhood twined,
And kept till now unchangingly,
And that dear home, that saving ark,
Where Love's true light at last I've found,
Cheering within, when all grows dark,

1. What?

And comfortless, and stormy round! *

2. Another word for haply. 3. Past, what?

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MOORE.

4. What is round meant to be joined with?

Franklin's saying

N.B. Fontenelle is the person alluded to in the first verse. that he would be glad to live his life over again if he had the power to make amendments in the second edition, was much more sensible.

II. WHAT IS PRAYER?

"THE prayers of men have saved cities and kingdoms from ruin: prayer hath raised dead men to life, hath stopped the violence of fire, shut the mouths of wild beasts, hath altered the course of nature, caused rain in Egypt, and drought in the sea; it made the sun to go from west to east, and the moon to stand still, and rocks and mountains to walk; and it cures diseases without physic, and makes physic to do the work of nature, and nature to do the work of grace, and grace to do the work of God; and it does miracles of accident and event; and yet prayer, that does all this, is, of itself, nothing but an ascent of the mind to God, a desiring things fit to be desired, and an expression of this desire to God as we can, and as becomes us. And our unwillingness to pray is nothing else but a not desiring what we ought passionately to long for, or, if we do desire, it is a choosing rather to miss our satisfaction and felicity than to ask for it."-Jeremy Taylor.

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