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250 poetry. Oct. 16. 
“Death bath murder’d sleep,” they cry, 
‘ With frantic gesture, glaring eye, 
* As starting from their troubled couch they rise— 
** See! see! the struggling innocent!—it dies !” 
\‘ The mother who till now hung o’er her child 
‘ With anxious hope, and trembling fear, 
‘ Now rolls her eye with chilling horror wild, 
* And marks the horrid scene—-without a tear 
‘Her hufband’s mangled corse pollutes the plain 
© Which by his toil was fertiliz’d in vain. 
* Her all is gone, 
‘ And the, poor helplefs innocent is left alone. 
‘Incapable of thought, a while the stands, 
“With drooping head, and folded hands, 
* Then starting from her trance, fhe rapid flies, 
© And plunging im the deep indignant dies. 
“If such the scenes which recollection brings 
“Dearly is bought the pomp and wealth of kings |” 
‘ And though ambition’s mignions this may Giory call _ 
* Shall justice fheath her sword, nor let it on the dazzling'culprit fall.’ 
TimotHy Harrerain. 
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-THe Drum. 
I nATE that drum’s discordant sound, 
Parading round, and round, and round ; 
To thoughtlefs youth it pleasure yields, 
And lures from cities and from fields, : , 
To sell their liberty for charms . 
Of tawdry lace and glittering arms; 
And when ambition’s voice commands, 
To march, and fight, and fall in foreign lands. 
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I hate that drum’s discordant sound, * 
Paitading round, and round, and round. 
To me it talks of ravag’d plains, 
And burning towns, and ruin’d swains, 
And mangled limbs, and dying groans, 
And widow’s tears and orphan’s moans; 
And all that misery’s hand bestows 
To fill the catalogue of human woes. - 
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THE WAY TO GROW RICH. 
Two tradesmen, in converse, were striving to learn,” a 
What means to make use of great riches to-earn; . 
A friend who sat near them atlvis’d with a smile, \ 
* Live on half of your incomes, and live a long while? y 
