Directress of the brave and just,

1

O guide us through life's darksome way!

And let the tortures of mistrust,

On selfish bosoms only prey.

Nor shall thine ardours cease to glow,

When souls to peaceful climes remove:

What rais'd our virtue here below,
Shall aid our happiness above.

On Early Rising.

How foolish they who lengthen night,
And slumber in the morning light!
How sweet, at early morning's rise,
To view the glories of the skies,
And mark with curious eye the sun
Prepare his radiant course to run!
Its fairest form then nature wears,
And clad in brightest green appears.
The sprightly lark, with artless lay,
Proclaims the entrance of the day.
How sweet to breathe the gale's perfume,
And feast the eyes with nature's bloom!
Along the dewy lawn to rove,
And hear the music of the grove !
Nor you, ye delicate and fair,
Neglect to taste the morning air;
This will your nerves with vigor brace,
Improve and heighten every grace;
Add to your breath a rich perfume;
And to your cheeks a fairer bloom;

With lustre teach your eyes to glow
And health and cheerfulness bestow.

WHEN raging storm's deform the air.
And clouds and snow descend;
And the wide landscape, bright and fair,
No deepen'd colours blend;

When biting frost rides on the wind,
Bleak from the north and east,
And wealth is at its ease reclin'd
Prepar'd to laugh and feast;

When the poor trav'ller treads the plait,
All dubious of his way.
And crawls with night-increasing pain,
And dreads the parting day:

When poverty in vile attire,
Shrinks from the biting blast,
Or hovers o'er the pigmy fire,
And fears it will not last;

When the fond mother hugs her child
Still closer to her breast;
And the poor infant, frost beguild,
Scarce feels that it is prest;

Then let your bounteous hand extend
Its blessings to the poor;
Nor spurn the wretched while they bend
All suppliant at your door

Extract from the oration of Thomat Dawes, Esq. delivered at Eoston, July 4, 1787.

1. THAT educationt is one of the deepest principles of independence,2 need not be labored in this assembly. In arbitrary governments,3 where the people neither make the law nor choose those who legislate, the more ignorance the more peace.

2. But in a government where the people fill all the branches of the sovereignty, intelligences is the life of liberty.6 An American would resent his being denied the use of his musket; but he would deprive himself of a stronger safeguard if he should want that learning which is necessary to a knowledge of his constitution.7

3. It is easy to see that our agrarians law and the law of education were calculated to make republicans 39 to make men. Servitude could never long consist with the habits of such citizens. Enlightened minds and virtuous manners lead to the gates of glory. The sentiment of independence must have been connaturalt in the bosoms of Americans; and sooner or later, must have blazed out into public action.

2 Enterprize, & a hazardous. undertakir g.

4. Independence fits the soul of her residence for every noble enterprise 2 of humanity and greatness. Her radiant smile lights up celestial ardorin poets and orators, who sound her praises through all ages; in legislators3 and philosophers, who fabricate wise and happy gov-laws for a comernments as dedications to her fame, in patrio.s4 and heroes, who shed their lives in sacrifices to her divinity.

5. At this idea, do not our minds swell with the memory of those whose godlike virtues have founded her most magnificent temple6 in America? It is easy for us to maintain her doctrine, at this late day, when there is but one party, on the subject, an immense people. But what tribute7 shall we bestow, what sacred pæan shall we raise over the tombs of those who dared, in the face of unrivalled power and within the reach of majesty, to blow the blast of freedoms throughout a subject continent.

6. Nordid those brave countrymen of ours only express the emotions of glory, the nature of their principles inspired them with the power of practice; and they offered their bosoms to the shafts of battle. Bunker's awful mount is the capacious urnt of their ashes; but

3 Legislator, s one who makės

munity

4 Patriots, lovers of their

country.
5 Sacrifice,
any thing offer-
edor destroyed

6 Temple, s a church, side of the head.

7 Tribute, s. payment made in acknowledg

ment,

8 Freedom, s liberty, privilege.

9Inspired, part animated bysupernatural infusion.

& Urn, savessel used for the ashes of the

dead.

the flaming bounds of the universe could not limit the flight of their minds.

7. They fled to the union of kindred souls; and those who fell at the streights of Thermopylæ, and those who bled on the heights of Charlestown, now reap congenial2 partaking ofthe joys in the fields of the blessed.

Extract from Dr. Belknap's address
to the inhabitants of New-hamp-
shire at the close of his his-
tory of that state.

CITIZENS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE,

1. HAVING spent above twenty years of my life with you, and passed through varioust scenes of peace and war within that time; being personally acquainted2 with many of you, both in your public and private characters; and having an earnest desire to promotes your true interest, I trust you will not think me altogether unqualified to give you a few hints by way of advice.

2. You are certainly a rising state; your numbers are rapidly increasing; and your importanco in the political scale will be aug

2 Congenial,

same nature.

Various, s changeable, dif2 Acquainted, part informed,

made familiar. 3 Promote, v

to forward, ade vance.