Crown ye the brave! crown ye oe brave ! 
As through your streets they r 
And the sunbeams dance on a polished arms 
Of the warriors side by side 
Shower on them your sweetest ‘Rowers, 
t the air ring with their praise........ Hemans. 
NETTLE. SLANDER. Tis slander, 
Whose edge is sharper than the sword; whose tongue 
Outvenoms all the worms of Nile.......... Shaks. 
~ im gaan ws silky moths, that eat 
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The man that dares traduce, because he can 
With safety to himself, is not a man........ Cowper. 
hose who murder fame 
Kill more than life destroyers.....-.......-- Savage. 
Slander meets no regard from noble min 
Only the base believe, what the base ot 
Beller’ s food aaa 
NIGHT SHADE. Scepticism. Ah me! the laureled wreath that murder rears, 
SOLANUM NIGRUM; AND ATROPA Seems not so foul, so tainted, and so 
BELLADONNA. As waves the night-shades round the sceptic ‘head. 
Campbell. 
But you are learned; in volumes deep you sit. 
* * * # 
Your learning, like the lunar beam, affords 
ini but not heat; it leaves you undevout, 
’ Frozen at heart, while speculation shines. .... Young. 
Ah foolish sage! 
He could not trust the word of Heaven, nor see 
The light which from the Bible blazed—that lamp 
Which God threw from his palace down to earth, 
To guide his wandering children home—yet leaned 
His cautious faith on speculations wild, 
And visionary theories absu 
Prodigious, deliriously abs and. 
Pollok’ s Course of Time. 
A fagitive from heaven and prayer, 
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