Ir from my tenJer nnotbtr's s'ide» 



Some wkked wretch ihould make me flyj 



Full vvell 1 know, 'twould hot betids, 

 To break her heart, to sink, to difel 



And shall I, then, so cruel prov». 

 Your little ones to force away ? 



No, no j together live and love. 



See I here they are ; take tliem, I pray. 



Teach them in yonder wood to fly ; 



Arid let them your soft warblitig heit, 

 'Till their own wings ran soar as high. 



And their own notes may sound as clear. 



Co, gentle birds j go, free as air ! 



Wiiile oft again in summer's heat. 

 To yonder oak I will repair. 



And listen to your song so sweet 



ON THE ADVANTAGES OF MISCELLANEOUS READING, 



Lertura testh est'teirporum, vita memoria, 

 Nur.cia vettistalh, et novum dehclamtntun:. 



TULIT. 



Unmethodized reading Is adapted to the many; regu- 

 lar study is confined to the few, whom leisure or opu- 

 lence attend, to smooth the rugged paths of science. 

 The knowledge acquired from pursuits thus dictated by 

 choice, makes perhaps more useful imprefsions, then all 

 the learning of the schools, on persons who have had 

 some previous formatiun as to taste, and whose natural 

 dispositions are not prostituted to depravity. 



Periodical publications are the chief sources fromi 

 whence the readers above alluded to draw their infor- 

 mation ; and it must be allowed they have diffused more 

 general knowledge, then any other species of writing 

 whatfoever. Their brevity allures the indolent, loca- 



