Which close the pestilence, are broke,
And crowded cities wail its stroke;
Come in Consumption's ghastly form,
The earthquake shock, the ocean storm;
'Come when the heart beats high and warm
With banquet-song, and dånce, and wine,-
And thou art terrible; the tear,

The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier,
And all we know, or dream, or fear
Of agony, are thine.

But to the hero, when his sword

Has won the battle for the free,
Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word,
And in its hollow tones are heard

The thanks of millions yet to be.
Bozzaris! with the storied brave

Greece nurtured in her glory's time,
Rest thee; there is no prouder grave
Even in her own proud clime.

We tell thy doom without a sigh;
For thou art Freedom's now and Fame's,
One of the few, the immortal names,

That were not born to die.

HALLECK.

57. On Wisdom.

EVERY other quality besides is subordinate and inferior to wisdom, in the same sense as the mason who lays the bricks and stones in a building, is inferior to the architect who drew the plan and superintends the work. The former executes only what the latter contrives and directs. Now, it is the prerogative of wisdom to preside over every inferior

principle, so to regulate the exercise of every power, and limit the indulgence of every appetite, as shall best conduce to one great end.

It being the province of wisdom to preside, it sits as umpire on every difficulty, and so gives the final direction and control to all the powers of our nature. Hence it is entitled to be considered as the top and summit of perfection Tt belongs to wisdom to determine when to act, and when o cease when to reveal, and when to conceal a matter; when to speak, and when to keep silence; when to give, and when to receive; in short, to regulate the measure of all things, as well as to determine the end, and provide the means of obtaining the end pursued in every deliberate course of action. Every particular faculty or skill, besides, should be under the direction of wisdom; for each is quite incapable of directing itself.

The art of navigation, for instance, will teach us to steer a ship across the ocean; but it will never teach us on what occasions it is proper to take a voyage. The art of war wilk instruct us how to marshal an army, or to fight a battle to the greatest advantage; but we must learn from a higher school when it is fitting, just, and proper to wage war or to make peace.

The art of the husbandman is to till the earth and bring to maturity its precious fruits; it belongs to another skill to regulate the consumption of these fruits by a regard to our health, fortune, and other circumstances. In short, there is no faculty we can exert, no species of skill we can apply, that does not require a superintending hand that does not look up, as it were, to some higher principle, for guidance, and this guide is Wisdom.

ROBERT HALL.

Umpire, a person to whose sole decision a controversy or question between parties is referred. - Deliberate, carefully considering the probable conse quences of a step, slow in determining, well-advised or considered, not 'ndden or rash.

58. The Happiest Wife in Rome.

Licinia. I AM the happiest wife in Rome, my Livia! The happiest wife in Rome!

Livia. I doubt it not;

But there's Flaminius' wife, the other day,
Scarce from the Forum to her house could pass

For salutations, that her husband won

The consulate.

Licinia. That day, my Caius sat

At home with me, and read to me, my Livia.

Little cared I who won the consulate !

Livia. And there's Lectorius has obtained a government: His wife will be a queen.

Licinia. Well, let her be so.

My queendom is, to be a simple wife.

This is my government, my husband's house,
Where, when he sits with me, he is enthroned.
Enough. You'll smile; but, Juno be my witness,
I'd rather see him with his boy upon

His knee, than seated in the consul's chair,
With all the senate round him.

Livia. Yet his greatness

Must needs be thine.

Licinia. I do not care for greatness.

It is a thing lives too much out of doors;

'Tis any where but at home; you will not find it Once in a week, in its own house, at supper

With a family.

And ask for it;

Knock any hour you choose,

nine times in ten, they'll send you
To the senate, or the Forum, or to such
Or such a one's, in quest of it. 'Tis a month
Since Caius took a meal from home, and that
Was with my brother. If he walks, I walk
Along with him, if I choose; or, if I stay
Behind, it is a race 'twixt him and the time

He promised to be back again, which is first;
And when he's back, and the door shut on him,
Consummate happy in my world within,

I never think of any world without.

Livia. Well, then, you are the happiest wife in Rome. Licinia. Tell me, and did Flaminius' wife weep, Livia, That day that Rome did salutation unto her ?

Livia. Weep! No. Why should she weep?

Licinia. For happiness.

Do you see? I cannot talk of Caius but
I weep, so blessed happy am I!- - There's
Cornelia That's her step I hear! She is
The kindest mother to me, Livia; though
She sometimes chides me, that I'd have my Caius
Live for his wife alone.

SHERIDAN KNOWLES

59. The Love of Fame.

AMONG the variety of principles by which mankind are actuated, there is one which I scarcely know whether to consider as springing from grandeur and nobility of mind, or from a refined species of vanity and egotism. It is that sirgular, though almost universal desire of living in the memory of posterity; of occupying a share of the world's attention, long after we have ceased to be susceptible either of its praise or censure.

Most of the passions of the mind are bounded by the grave. Sometimes, indeed, an anxious hope or trembling fear will venture beyond the clouds and darkness that rest

Egotism, the practice of too frequently using the word I; hence, a speaking or writing much of one's self, self-praise, self-commendation, the act or practice of magnifying one's self, or making one's self of importance.

upon our morta. norizon, and expatiate in boundless futurity, but it is only this active love of fame which steadily contemplates its fruition in the applause or gratitude of future ages.

Indignant at the narrow limits which circumscribe existence, ambition is forever struggling to soar beyond them; to triumph over space and time, and to bear a name, at least, above the inevitable oblivion in which every thing else that concerns us must be involved. It is ambition which prompts the patriot to his most heroic achievements; which inspires the sublimest strains of the poet, and breathes ethereal fire into the productions of the painter and the sculptor.

For this the monarch rears the lofty column; the laurelled conqueror claims the triumphal arch; while the obscure individual, who moved in an humbler sphere, asks but plain and simple stone to mark his grave, and bear to the next generation this important truth-that he was born, died, and was buried.

It was this passion, too, which erected the vast Numidian piles, whose ruins we have so often regarded with wonder, as the shades of evening - fit emblems of oblivion — gradually stole over and enveloped them in darkness. It was this which gave being to those sublime monuments of Saracen magnificence, which nod in mouldering desolation, as the blast sweeps over the deserted plains. How futile are all our efforts to evade the obliterating hand of time!

As I traversed the dreary wastes of Egypt, on my journey to Grand Cairo, I stopped my camel for a while, and contemplated, in awful admiration, the stupendous pyramids. An appalling silence prevailed around such as reigns in the wilderness when the tempest is hushed, and the beasts of prey have retired to their dens. The myriads that had

Expatiate, to move at large, to wander in space without restraint, to enlarge in discourse or writing, to be copious in argument or discussion. Fruition, use accompanied with pleasure, corporeal or intellectual enjoy ment, the pleasure derived from use or possession.