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Without' repose'aufffiiod her form decays, 

 Aud knecnest woe on mental feeling' preya. 

 Far from her native home she sighs to find, 

 How much of human bliss she left behind, 

 Tiirniug' her snowy neck pofl sorrows flow, 

 And paren(s, kindred, country swell her 



woe. 

 These ties contemning, Jason rends her 



heart 

 Doom'd now to fefel'gjrief 's most envenom'd 



dart. ' 

 For high her spirit, and but ill-forni'd to 



bear 

 The anxious anguish of a lasting' care, 

 I know her well, aud sudden horrors feel, 

 Lest stealing- slow her vengeance to fulfil. 

 She, (hellish deed) her children's rest in- 

 vade, 

 And stain, with infaut-blood, her cursed 



blade ; 

 Or, else the king aud Jason, by her hand 

 tJntimely fall, and sadden all the laud, 

 fiutlo ! flush'd from the course, in pastime 



eay, 

 The children come, unconscious of dismay. 

 Their Mother's wrongs how cau they 



keenly feel ? 

 Youth dreads fell grief and shuus the demon 



still. _ 



"IMit THE WORLDS A LOTTERY. 



• ;, A NEW SONG, bij the late G. s. cAREY. 



CNcrcT before printed. J 

 ^ ..All the world's a lottery, 



. Strangers to our destiny, 



' Whatsoe'er our fate may be 

 *' In this lottery. 

 "'' Fortune is so wiley, 

 '*' ' She'll with a smile beguile ye, 

 ''^ And often trick ye slily. 

 Within this lottery. 



J»fiT 



Literature. [Jinte-Ti* 



Shou'd a needy battered rake, "/' 



Wish a buxom wife to fake, 

 For his future comfort sake 



In this lottery ; 

 When he's play d this prank. Sir, 

 He's hut himself to thank, Sir, 

 Should madam prove a blank, Sir, 

 W^ilhin this lottery. 



Some will quarrel for a straw. 



Looking for revenge in law. 



Should they chance a. priae'to^ draw,; 



'Tis a lottery. iliri!-* Ir-ji|/i. 



Many much depend. Sir, '!■ i. •>-, ; - ,, 

 C)n answering some end, J»ir; — 

 Believe an honest friend. Sir, 



'Tis all a lottery. 

 When you're aged grown, atfd weak,.. . 

 Or, when time has blaiich'd the cheek, 

 Being sick, for physic seek, 



'Tis a lottery ; 

 When a parent dies, Sir, , 



Tears will wet the eyes. Sir, 

 Altho' you get a prize, Sir, ' 



Within this lottery. 

 Interest is a leading game. 

 Yet it is a mortal shame, ,,• ;, .i,,,. ♦ 



Making friendship but a uan^ ?\tii\iii 



In this lotterv. ' ' , 



Man's a greedy elf. Sir, 

 Friendship ends in self. Sir, 

 While looking out for pelf. Sir, 



AVithin this lottery. 

 Stop, then stop the wheel, Sir, 

 For many seem to feel, Sir, 

 With hearts as hard as .steel. Sir, 



In this lottery. 

 Tho' we've much to cope. Sir,' ' f " -'Ui 

 Mankind would often mope, Sii|i"''""n 

 AVithout a chance of hope, Sii*j ' 



Within this lottery. 



^fT^JSTpVELTIE^ OF FOREIGN LITERATURE. 



^^TTTE transcribe the following iii- 

 ■'' w ? teresting account of a recent 

 ^'American work on the political state 

 ^''^6f Italy, by Theodore Lyman, jiin., 

 * 'ifrotn (he Norfh American Ileview, No, 

 ••'"XXX, Jan. 1821. 



The parts of Italy treated of by Mr.Ly- 

 man, are the Ecclesiastical and Neapoli- 

 tan States. There are, however, several 

 chapters in which the author has col- 

 ''^lected his observation^, with respect to 

 'the Country at large; and the appendix 

 contains considerable statistical infor- 

 mation M'itli respect to Tuscany, Pied- 

 mont, and Genoa. The part of Italy 

 of which the least is said is the Loni- 

 bardo- Venetian Kingdom ; an omission 

 accounted for, in the advertisement 

 to the work; from the want of public 

 printed documents, and the extreme 



jealousy of the Austriaii ' ftinction- 

 aries. 



As the political state of a people is 

 ever powerfully attected by the state of 

 religion, which may prevail in it, Mr. 

 Lyman opens liis \Aork witli two chap- 

 ter.s, connected wilh this part of the sub- 

 ject. The first treats of the index, the 

 licensed e<litions of the bible, and the 

 character of (he popular religions books 

 in Italy. Governments and esfablislicd 

 churches, in almost every age, have 

 assumed to themselves the right of 

 dictating to I heir members and sub- 

 jects, « liat books they shall read ; and 

 perhaps it would not be safe to deny 

 at large, that the civil and religious 

 guides of a people have a right to exer- 

 cise this discretion. Though we dis- 

 dain the vulgar cry against popery, and 

 approve 



