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OCTOBER 9, 1833. 



MISCELLANY. 



[Frum the Token and Atlantic Souvenir, for 1834.] 

 WHY DON'T HE COME ! 



BY H. F. GOULD. 



Tjif. ship has anchored in the bay '. 



They've dropped her weary wings, and some 

 Have manned the boats and come away ; 



But where is he ? why don't he come 1 



Among the throng, with busy feet, 



My eve seeks him it cannot find : 

 While others haste their friends to greet; 



Why. why is lie so long behind ! 



Because he bade me dry my cheek, 



1 dried it, w hen he went from us— 

 I smiled with lips that could not speak ; 



And now, how can he linger thus ? 



I've felt a brother's parting kiss, 

 Each moment since he turned from me, 



To lose it only in the bliss 



Of meeting him— where can he be ? 



I've reared the rose he bade me rear— 

 I've learned the song he bade me learn, 



And nursed the bird ; that he might hear 

 Us sing to him, at his return. 



I've braided many a lovely flower, 

 His dear, dear picture to inwreathe, 



While doating fancy, hour by hour, 

 Has made it smile and seen it breathe. 



I wonder it' the flight of time, 



Has made the likeness now, untrue ; 



And if the sea or foreign clime, 



Has touched him with a darker hue. 



For I have watched until the sun 



Has made my longing vision dim, 

 But cannot catch a glimpse of one 



Among the crowd, that looks like him. 



How slow the heavy moments waste, 



While thus he stays ! where, where is he 1 



My heart leaps forth — haste, brother ! haste ! 

 It leaps to meet and welcome thee ! 



" Thou lovely one ! the mournful tale 

 That tells why he comes not, will make 



Thy heart to bleed, thy cheek look pale ! 

 Death finds no tie too strong to break ! 



"The bird will wait his master long, 



And ask his morning gift in vain; 

 Ye both must now forget the song 



Of joy, for sorrow's plaintive strain. 



" The face whose shade thy tender hand 

 Has wreathed with flowers, is changed f but see, 



Nor sun nor air of foreign land 

 Has wrought the change, for where is he ? 



" Where ? ah ! the solemn deep, that took 



His form, as with their sad farewell 

 His brethren gave the last, last look, 



And lowered him down— that deep must tell ! 



'• But ocean cannot tell the whole — 



The part that death can never chill, 

 Nor floods dissolve — the living soul, 



Is happy, bright, and blooming still. 



■■ And nobler songs than e'er can sound 



From mortal voices, greet his ear ; 

 Where sweeter, fairer flowers are found 



Than all be left to wither here. 



•' This, this is why he does not come, 

 Whom thy fond eye has sought 60 long 1 



Wait till thy days have filled their sum ; 

 Then find him in an angel throng I " 



From Locke's miscellaneous Papers. 

 THUS I THINK. 



It is a man's proper business to seek happiness 

 and avoid misery. Happiness consists in what 

 delights and contents the mind ; misery in what 

 disturbs, discomposes or torments it. 



I will, therefore, make it my business to seek 

 satisfaction and delight, and avoid uneasiness and 

 disquiet; to have as much of the one, and as lit- 

 tle of the other as may be. 



But here I must have a care I mistake not; for 

 if I prefer a short pleasure to a lasting one, it is 

 plain that I cross my own happiness. Let me 

 then see wherein consists the most lasting pleas- 

 ures of this life, and that, as far as I can observe, 

 is in these things : 



1st, Health — without which no sensual (as op- 

 posed to intellectual) pleasure, can have any relish. 

 2d, Reputation — for that I find every body is 

 pleased with, and the want of it is a constant tor- 

 ment. 



3d, Knowledge — for the little knowledge I 

 have I find I would not sell at any rate, nor part 

 with for any other pleasure. 



4th, Doing good — for I find the well cooked 

 meat I eat to-day, does now no more delight me ; 

 nay, I am diseased after a full meal ; the perfumes 

 I smelt yesterday, now no more affect me with 

 pleasure ; but the good turn I did yesterday, a 

 year, seven years since, continues still to please 

 and delight me, as often as I reflect on it. 



5th, The expectation of eternal and incompre- 

 hensible happiness in another world, is that also, 

 which carries a constant pleasure with it. 



If, then, I will faithfully pursue that happiness 

 I propose to myself, whatever pleasure offers it- 

 self to me, I must carefully look that it cross not 

 any of those five great and constant pleasures 

 above mentioned. For example, the fruit I see 

 tempts me with the taste of it that I love; but if 

 it endanger my health, I part with a constant and 

 lasting, for a very short and transient, pleasure, 

 and so foolishly make myself unhappy ; and am 

 not true to my own interest. 



Innocent diversions delight me ; if I make use 

 of them to rest myself after study and business, 

 they preserve my health, restore the vigor of my 

 mind, and increase my pleasure; but if I spend 

 all or the greater part of my time in them, they 

 hinder my improvement in knowledge and useful 

 arts — they blast my credit, and give me up to the 

 uueasy state of shame, ignorance and contempt, in 

 which I cannot but be very unhappy. Drinking, 

 gaming, and vicious delights will do me this mis- 

 chief; not only by wasting my time, but by a posi- 

 tive injury endanger my health, impair my parts, 

 imprint ill habits, l«ssen my esteem, and leave a 

 constant lasting torment on my conscience ; there- 

 fore, all vicious and unlawful pleasures I will al- 

 ways avoid, because such a mastery of my pas- 

 sions will always afford me a constant pleasure, 

 greater than any such enjoyments, and also deliv- 

 er me from the certain evil of several kinds, that 

 by indulging myself in a present temptation I shall 

 certainly afterwards suffer. 



All innocent diversions and delights, as far as 

 they will contribute to my health, and consist 

 with my improvement, condition, and my other 

 more solid pleasures of knowledge and reputation, 

 I will enjoy, but no farther, and this I will careful- 

 ly watch and examine, that I may not be deceived 

 by the flattery of a present pleasure to lose a 

 greater. 



FRESH PALL GOODS. 



ELIAB STONE BREWER, No. 41 1 Washington street, 

 has received an extensive assortment of fresh Fall and Winter 

 goods, which he offers, wholesale and retail, for cash only, con- 

 siderably lower than can be bought in the city. Among which 

 are 4 rases English, French and American cloths, consisting of 

 superior, extra superior, middling and low priced, black, blue, 

 mixed, and every variety of colors. 50 pieces Cassimeres, of 

 all colors — 2 cases pelisse cloths, an excellent article tor chaise 

 lining (very low) — 1 case very nice Habit cloth, Brown, lilue, 

 Claret, 4*0. — 7 cases Satinetts. Striped, and plain of various 

 colors — 5 cases G-4 Eng. Merino, a very superior article, and 

 all die most desirable colors, imported expressly for the sub- 

 scriber — 1 cases 3-4 Eng. do. of various colors and qualities — 



4 cases Circassians, very superior qualities and various colors 

 — 1 case superior Goals Hair Cambjet — 4 bales 4-4 5-4 and 6-4 

 Bocking, green and mixed — 12 bales splendid Tarriftville 

 Hearthrugs — 5 bales Eng. low priced do. do. — 54 bales Do- 

 metts, while, yellow, red, &c. — IObales Flannels. Eng. Welsh, 

 and American— 10 bales Cotton Carpeting, striped and blocked 

 ' — G bales Russia Diaper — 1 bale Canlou Flannel, lower than 

 the cost of importation. — 3 bales American Cotton Flannels, 

 bleached and unbleached — 1 bale White Counterpanes, all 

 sizes — 10 bales superior London Row Blankets from 10-4 uo 

 1 1—1 — 7 bales real Indigo Checks from 3-4 to 5-1 — 3 bales 

 American Gingham — 2 cases Eng. Gingham — 21) bales cotton 

 Batting — 25 beles Pillisse Wadding, 12 bales black Wadding — 



5 cases Embossed Furniture Dimely — 2 cases Embossed 

 Cambrick, for stage lining — 20 cases Prints, all patterns and 

 prices, Eng. French, and American! — 35 cases Bleached Cot- 

 tons — 50 bales unbleached cotton — 10 bales Ticking 3-4,7-8 

 and 4-4, some very superior quality — 2 cases Sinchaws — 2 

 cases Sarsnets — 2 cases Satin Levantines, superior quality — 

 3 cases Levantines, low priced — 7 cases Crape Dresses, all 

 colors — 5 cases Linens, Lawns, and Shirtings 4- 1 to 10-4 with 

 a very extensive assortment of Cambrics and Cambric Muslins, 

 Bobbinetleand Grecian lace,4-4 and G-4 Swiss nonsook, Book 

 Jaconett plain and figured muslins — Hosiery and every varie- 

 ty of seasonable Dry Goods. 



Country merchants will do well to call and examine for 

 themselves. septlS. 



IMPROVED DURHAM SHORT HORNED 

 CATTLE. 



FOR sale, one three year old bull of a brown color, 2 year- 

 ling bulls both red, 3 bull calves 1 red, 1 red and white, and 1 

 wholly white, also 3 two year old heifers, 2 roan and 1 browu 

 and white, 3 yearling heifers, 1 roan, 1 red and white, and one 

 flecked. The dams of the above have given more than 20 

 qurrts of milk a day on grass only. 



Also, 2 bull calves, one bright-red, and one red and white. 



They are all descended from the famous imported Bulls, 

 Bolivar and Ccelebs, and from cows of imported stocks. 



For milkers, working oxen or Beef, this slock is considered 

 2d to none in New England. Inquire of Mr. Geo. C. Barrett, 

 Office of the N. E. Farmer. optf 



BULBOUS ROOTS. 



JUST received at the New England Seed Store, 51 & 52 

 North Market street, one Lot fine Bulbous Roots, — containing 

 Tulips, variety, at 12 1-2 each, or #1 a dozen ; Hyacinths, 

 Dutch, very fine sorts, without names ; Polyanthus Narcissus, 

 do. do. ; Sweet Scented, do. do. with names. Expect next 

 week an invoice of very splendid Hyacinths, Tulips, *!v.c. &c. 



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 Newburypert — Ebenf.zer Stedman, Bookseller. 

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