128 Imitated from one of the Songs of Berenger. 



" Hitherto I have referred exclusively to the considerations of worldly advan- 

 tage and worldly fame, as encouragements to early and continued exertion. 

 We have seen how powerful they were in animating the ambitious spirit of 

 the Roman orator. Not one of the motives by which he was stimulated is 

 wanting to you. His field for competition was not more ample the reward 

 of success was not more splendid. You have a country as much endeared to 

 you by proud recollections. You have institutions, civil and religious, 

 standing in equal need of your solicitude, infinitely more worthy of your 

 defence. 



" But for you there are incitements to labour, to zeal in the cause of know- 

 ledge and of virtue, infinitely beyond any which could have animated the ex- 

 ertions of Cicero. You have the express command cf God to improve the 

 faculties which distinguish you from the beasts that perish. You have the 

 awful knowledge, that of the use or neglect of those faculties a solemn ac- 

 count must be rendered. You have the assurance of an immortality different 

 from that of worldly fame. 



"By every motive which can influence a reflecting and responsible being, "a 

 being of a large discourse looking before and after," by the memory of the 

 distinguished men who have shed a lustre on these walls, by regard for your 

 own success and happiness in this life, by the fear of future discredit, by the. 

 hope of lasting fame by all these considerations do I conjure you, while you 

 have yet time, before the evil day shall yet come, while your minds are yet 

 flexible, to form them on the models which are the nearest to perfection. 

 Sursum corda! By motives yet more urgent, by higher and purer aspirations, 

 by the duty of obedience to the will of God, by the awful account you will 

 have to render, not merely of moral actions, but of faculties entrusted to you 

 for improvement by all these high arguments do I conjure you, so ' to num- 

 ber your days that you may apply your hearts unto wisdom' unto that 

 wisdom which, directing your ambition to the noble end of benefiting man- 

 kind, and teaching you humble reliance on the merits of our Redeemer, may 

 support you 'in the time of your tribulation,' may admonish you 'in the time 

 of your wealth/ and ' in the hour of death and in the day of judgment,' may 

 comfort you with the hope of deliverance." 



IMITATED FROM PART OF ONE OF THE SONGS OF 

 DE BERENGER. 



Is it my love, in her tight-lacing bodice, 

 Taps at my door at the close of the day ? 

 Fal lal la ! 'tis Fortune's blind goddess ; 

 Fal lal la ! and there she may stay. 



Friends are around us, our pleasure enhancing ; 

 We want but of Fanny's dark eye the bright ray, 

 That shines like a sunbeam o'er summer waves dancing 

 Fortune may pass on her wearisome way. 

 Is it* my love, &c. 



She offers us pearls, she offers us rubies, 

 We'd turn from such baubles a thousand times told, 

 And leave all her baits to the crack-pated boobies 

 Who fancy the tinsel of fortune is gold. 

 Is it my love, &c. 



How they crowd round her ! Is it not folly, boys ? 

 Greedy for riches the miserly drove. 

 'Tis pleasanter far to be cheated, my jolly boys, 

 Believe me it is, by the girls that we love. 

 Is it my love, &c. 



