SSO "poetry. jfug. 2t, 



\XTiat stoic traveller would tr/ 

 A Sterne so 1, and parching iky. 

 Or dare th' intemperate nortiiein zonft, 

 If what IVe saw must ne'er be known? 

 For t':iis he bids his home rarewell — 

 Tlie joy ofseein^ s to tell 

 Trust mi he nev r would have stir'd,- 

 Were he for'.)id to speak a word ; 

 And curiosity wouid sleep, 

 II her own secrets Die must keep: 

 The blefs oi telling what is pnst, 

 Ec>om.sher ri.h "reward at last.— • 

 Yet not from low „"jsir'j to :liir.e, 

 Dois jeiiiiis toil in le.rninij's mine; 

 2^'ot to induli^e in idle vision, 

 Bat strike new light hy strong collision^ 



O'er books the mind inactive lies. 

 Books, the minil's food, not exercise ! 

 Her viuoioiis wing fhe scarcely feels. 

 Till use the iat-^nt strength reveals ; 

 H.-r slumbering energie*;, call'd lorth, 

 Sne rises conscious of her worth ; 

 And, at her new found pow'rs elated, 

 Tiiinks thera not rous'd, but new created. 



Enlighten'd spirits! you who know 

 What cliarms from poiifli'd loiiver^e flavr, 

 Speak, to you can, the pure delight, 

 When kindred sympathies unite; 

 -When correspondent tastes impirt 

 Communion sweet from heart to heart ^ 

 You ne'er the cold gradations need. 

 Which vulgar souls to union lead ; 

 Ko dry discui'sion to unfold , 



The meSning, caught as soon as told> 

 But sparks electric only strixe 

 0-> souls el ctrical alke ; 

 The flalh of inteileit expires, 

 Unlefs it meet congen al fires. 

 Tr,e langua^e of th' elect alone. 

 Is, like the mason's mystery, known; 

 In vainth' unerring sign is made 

 To him who is not o! the trade. 

 What lively pleasure to divine 

 Tne thought implied, the hinted line. 

 To feel allusion's artful force. 

 And trace the image to its source 1 

 Q^itck mem'iy bl< nds her scatter'd rays, 

 Tili Fancy kindles at the blaze ; 

 Thf" works of ages start to view, 

 And antient wii en^endeis new.- 



