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My fire, a hunter-peafant, rough and rude, * 
In Nature’s ftormy {chool was born and 
bred; Ky 
Each morn the nimble chamois he purfu’d,' 
That o’er the craggy precipices fled; 
A little ferip, containing fimple food, 
I bore along, in all our wand’rings wild ; 
With him I faunter’d all the merry day, 
His fole companion, and his only child. 
And when afar he {pied his nimble prey, 
He grafp’d his fmall light fpear, and joy- 
fully he {mild. 
Swift as he ran, the fwifter deer 
Leap’d up to gain the icy rock 5 
And there he ftood devoid of fear, 
And feem’d the hunter’s fkill to mock, 
But ah in vain !———the weapon flies ! 
He falls an eafy facrifice. 
The prey we homeward bear along, 
With merry glee, and jocund fong ; 
Such was the life which once If led, 
When rofeate Mirth and Pleafare thed 
Their bieflings on my infant head. 
Days of my youth, are ye for ever flown ? 
Adieu bleft days of innocence“and eafe ! 
Dear ruftic recreations, are ye gone ? 
Paftimes of youth, when ev’ry fport could 
pleafe! 
Alas no more '—compell’d in vain 
To wander through a foreign land, 
A melancholy ranger; 
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Unheard, unpity’d, to complain, aa 
The bitter cup of woe to drain ; 
My heart, to joy a ftranger, 
Sinks with the preffure of Care’s leaden hand. 
Aug. 10, 802. j.H. 
ee ; 
LINES of FERID-AD’DEEN, @ PERSIAN 
POET, who flourifhed in the TWELFT#: 
CENTURY, Zranflated by sIR WILLIAM 
OUSELEY. 
“* Buved Mujnouni bebaiet gurfeneh 
‘ Soot Sabari reft Ser ou pa burbench,” @c. 
A certain wretched youth, another Me- 
mown, diftracted with love, was wandering 
through the defart, his head uncovered, ‘and 
his feet bare——tormented by hunger, and un-_ 
able to procure the fmalleft morfel of bread, 
he murmured againft Providence, and ex- 
claimed; ‘* that no creature in the world was° 
in fuch want of food”’—-at this mement a 
grifly and half-famifhed wolf rufhed on the. 
affrighted wanderer, and began, with hor- 
rible growlings, to tear his garments — 
** Gracious God (cried he) pardon my im- 
pious murmurs—life is fill fweet—wretched- 
as Lam, let me not be deftroyed'—-J now 
behold a creature more afflicted by hunger 
than myfelf—henceforth I fhall afk nought 
of thee but life—thy juftice hath configned 
me to the jaws of this ravenous beaft—but 
thy mercy can {till extricate me from them.”” 
When the proftrate youth had uttered thefe 
words, the wolf retreated from him, and va-- 
nifhed in the defart. 
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NOTICE of the LABOURS of the cLass of 
MORAL az#zd POLITICAL SCIENCES, 
during the third quarterly strTine of 
the YEAR 10, by CITIZEN GINGUENE, 
one of the SECRETARIES of the CLASS. 
RANCE, delivered from the yoke of 
kings, arid proud in the title of a re- 
public, retains, neverthelefs, an affeétion- 
ate remembrance of fome of the princes who 
governed it. The names of Henry IV. of 
Louis XII. and of Louis IX. are, and will 
be always, dear to it. C. ANQUETIL has 
read to the Clafs fome ob/ervaticns on the 
Jatt of thefe three good kings. 
He remarks, that no fubje& has been 
treated of by fo many different writers. 
Hiftorians, _poets, orators, legendaries, 
have been employed, as if by 2 fpirit of 
emulation, on the aétions of this prince. 
The variety, the multiplicity, the lufre of 
a 
the events, and the perfonal charafleriof - 
the monarch, all concur to render this 
reign memorable, The particular opi-’ 
nion of writers has had its influence on 
their manner of inveftigating and repre- 
fenting facts. It has been neceffary to 
draw out the truth from the clouds, in’ 
which extravagant praife, and a criticifm 
too fevere, have often involved it. 
It appears from the obfervations of Ci- 
tizen.Anquetil, that, if we can object to 
LouisIX.fome faults and fomeimbecilities, 
hepofleffed all the public and privatevirtues, 
and was not ftained with any vice ;—** an 
eulogium (he adds) which has not been 
hitherto applicable to any of the perfon- 
ages that hiftery propofes to public elteem: 
and veneration.” 
Every one knows the traits of difference 
which exifts between the words angue and 
langage; in Englith, tongue and language. 
Citizen MERCIER has undertaken to fhew 
the fuperiority of /amguage over ‘sage 
ad ‘ iz 
