"Thou dost complain, that thou hast wrought for
wealth! us) cui lle ta Jus ei,kmánam grønt.
What else would have as well preserved thy health?
For he can never labor for himself, to stude redio.A
Whose life's consumed, in worshipping his pelf; ar el
And yet, wealth's time, employed to count its store,!
Might be much better spent in earning more! ⠀ suu'l
And Competence requires but little time,
To calculate its income to a dîme!

"Thy sweat hath also irrigated soil, în arluq 10 i
Not thine! It cooled and fitted thee for toil!moni /
Thou sayest Wealth can feast on a ragout,"
While thou must make a plainer diet do! laps ZA
And, hence, thy nether limbs can stub about,19 k
While Luxury's are crippled with the gout: u teď
Nor can it sleep on feathers, half so sound,

As honest industry upon the ground! avisant la squad seg J`
Neither hath Wealth effectual defense, 11.45 J : 241
But by eternal, anxious vigilance:oint iad. fi # 108
For it hath wings, which it doth sometimes use, anđe
Leaving its votary, dangling from a noose!G IN
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"With these suggestions, of the woes of Wealthy M
Thou, yet, would'st risk them, tho' it were by stealth:
For thou dost think, with human, silly things,
That thou could'st soar to Heav'n with golden wings!
But, if 'tis true, what Christ and prophets tell,
Such wings soar not, but gravitate to hell:"
Nor can they counteract attraction thence;

Unless they're light'ned by Benevolence:"

Yet, men will risk a journey to that clime,
Rather than spare the fifth part of a dime!

"Although Jehovah to the point hath spoken, Thou art, like man, distrustful of the token: And, as tho' thine were only human sense,

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No test will answer but experience; =

Nor yet will that, unless it is thine own-
By that of others, little can be known!

Thus would those human egotists declare,ni olir W Whose folly is a proverb, everywhere, mains/supina (Unless, mayhap, the lunar folks should besig-lasıq Inclined to approbate their lunacy,):) - Bouioilua me: To whom, I've constant preached, six thousand years, And vainly, as though asses had no ears!s na id bark Lladral so evol so mag ads or bxa

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"Among this race, improvement is all fudge;ceast As trudged the father, so the son doth trudgesnisbət And when exception offers to the rule, aqsed T Its subject is admonished as a fool! „misnor dɔ: 'w rupiy I out nequ sargits fauisezoną a "I'll now leave thee, to thy contemplation Ab Of my proposals for reformation! my 943 041 34 197 Heed my precepts remember Agur's prayer: Thou shalt be free, as spirits of the air!"'y-st

While indulging a recent exacerbation of literary antiquarianism, among the curiosities of my greatgreat-grand-father's Scrap-Book; I casually fell upon the subjoined burlesque of the fashionable monoma. nia, of Louis 14th of France; And for which, as indicated by an autographic mariginal-note, we are indebted to the pen of Pere de Lachaise, the worthy Confessor of that royal friend, and zealous patron, of the delirious ostentation, and senseless etiquette, with which Europe was bedizened, for near a century; and which remains, at least, with the reflecting moralist, a proverbial stigma upon the Parisian, to the present day; And however inapplicable to the good people of Vermont, in the year of our Lord 1889; it may, 'notwithstanding, claim, of the curious, to be preserved as a literary relic of the seventeenth century.

The following may be received, as, very nearly, a literal translation of the Scrap-Book copy, which is humbly submitted to those who will condescend to read it,

ANTIQUARIAN,'

Reason, that sour misanthrope, yet persists, 951 #1 In her senseless contest, for dominion,to,ext thi O'er those unfeathered geese, or tailless apes, t Denominated, by themselves, mankind;

As though her monastic melancholy,

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That maddens at the thought of earthly bliss, it.. ́1 · And calls man's pleasure all concupiscence

That would feed his enterprise, with shadows, »» !
And pay his weariness, with hope-deferred,
Could vie, with my felicitous employ, un «23k4, AV
That pays the laborer with connate joy!qua
As well may tasteless Fountain-water hope, a de
To supercede delicious Alcohol,

Among the children of the Temperate! missile

"Her vanity is inexhaustible;

Or she would have, long since, deemed it hopeless,
To force her whims on Sensuality, 1968 31
The true synonym of Humanity;

At least, with those, who bow at Mainmon's shrine,
And think, that Wealth makes Manca Demigod:
And these are all the true Nobility,

Among my countless, biped worshippers→→
True Pioneers, to that Ostentation,
To which the Mimicry of Man aspires!

Thanks, to the premature development
Of those exquisite, apt Propensities,
Which are able to descry, só soon.
And clearly, my superiority

O'er Reason, as the Monitor of Man, and

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Whose unrestrained indulgence constitutes, eae N
With singular exceptions, now and then,
The most exquisite, noble enterprise,"

"Dame Nature could never have intended njeg ́Ï

Man, to be the Proselyte of Reason;

For else, his Appetites would have been wroughter. T

Freeze up the current of fictitious enterprise,T That claims, exclusively, his vigilance!!

Humanity consists of sympathies, Udasi
So very amiably domestic,

That they commence, and terminate,.:
Within the circle of judicious Selfishness
Nor, will it, soon, be so improvident
To swop the smallest Pleasure, of to-day,
For the mere Image of the richest Bliss,
That Reason paints upon To-morrow's Map;
So incredulous of her promises, ɔ0 lizen
Which he has, most judiciously, esteemed, v
Too spiritless, and fatuous, to test,

Is that two-legged thing, she calls her Pet! te v ľ

"Man's proverbial Magnanimity,ng sihat adtruT Like the Philanthropy, he practices, lupaa secus U Forms a Halo, but dimly luminous, 3) side oss draW Beyond the circle of his private views.virons bri Within, it shines, with treble brilliancy, nosЯ:3