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by repeated fjiilurcs, live, and tliat is all ; worse than this, I 

 have seen those upon whom God had bestowed every desirable 

 gift, yield to the temptations that early success brought with it, 

 and then go down, covered with disgrace, to untimely graves. 

 In my own profession, I have seen noble hearts tried beyond 

 their power of endurance, by the coldness and wickedness of 

 an unfeeling world, and left at last, to find their only solace in 

 the hope of a better life beyond the grave. I have seen others, 

 with a wisdom beyond their years, meet with a determined 

 front, the toils and trials of agricultural life, and the event has 

 shown the wisdom of their choice. Surrounded with the peace 

 and plenty of their own honestly-acquired domains, seeing 

 every where the results of their own well-directed labors, rest- 

 ing from their toils beneath the trees of their own planting, 

 they are waiting patiently and hopefully for the sunset of life. 



" How blest is he, who crowns, in shades like these, 

 A youth of labor, Avith an age of ease ; 

 Who quits a world where strong temptations try, 

 And since 'tis hard to combat, learns to fly. 

 He onward moves, to meet his hitter end. 

 Angels around, befriending virtue's friend ; 

 Sinks to the grave, witli unperceived decay, 

 While resignation gently slopes the way ; 

 And all his prosj^ects brightning to the last, 

 His heaven commences ere the world be past." 



