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pal and interef? will be paid, when the 
French government has emerged from the 
difficulties and temporary embarrafiments 
in which it is at prefent involved in its fi- 
nances, cannot be doubted by any one, 
who fuppofes, that the French nation has 
not loft all its bone/iy.and fenfe of honour. 
Original Poetry. 323 
A council is already appointed, according 
toa French paper, to form a plan for this 
purpofe; and a finking fund, it is faid, is 
to be eftablifhed for the liquidation of the 
evbole of the public debi. Yours, &c, 
Qs 
ORIGINAL POETRY. 
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LINES of 2 SLEEPING INFANT. 
SWEET babe! oh, may’ft thou ever fleep 
as found ! 
As foftly fmile! while o’er thy little bed 
‘Thy mother fits, with fafcinated gaze, 
Catching each placid feature’s {weet expref- 
fion ! 
Tis thy all-{peaking fmile, and rofy health, 
That ftill repay her ever-watchful care. 
And, fee! he dreams of her who gave him 
birth, : 
And ‘woke the new-born foul-creative fenfe*! 
His lips now move; he feeks remember’d 
fweets, 
And neftles in her bofom, where he oft 
Has fipp’d the honey’d ftream, and drank of 
life! 
Ah! who can paint the raptur’d mother’s 
joy? 
When firft her lovely infant, quivering, 
leaps 
With out-ftretch’d arms to meet her fond 
embrace ! 
When the foft-fparkling eye reflects her love, 
Bright-mantling with the mind’s intelligence ! 
Then, oh, how bleft! imagination roves 
In brighteft {cenes of fair futurity : 
She traces out (anticipation {weet !) 
His boundlefs courfe, and fees the youth ar- 
riv'd 
At manhood, and, by her enlightened love, 
A-prodigy of genius and of virtue! 
Fond mother ! may thy hopes be all fulfill’d ! 
Pay: thy loy’d infant bloom, nor ever know 
W bat*tis to want his tender mother’s care ! 
And may /he live in bleft tranquillity, 
Breavhing the balmy {weets of many a fpring, 
Until, bis.children’s thildren deck her grave 
With autumn flowers, and drop the grateful 
tear | bs . 
And, oh! may /uperftition never blaft 
* ¢¢ Soul-creative fenf2.’—Mind cannot exift 
befdre it be created by the fenfes; for what 
is mind but a chain of \ideas, and the’ faculty 
of receiving and combining them through 
- the medium of the organs.of fenie?: And 
the more acute the fenfes are rendered, by 
early roufing and exercifing them, the more 
owerful muft be the mind,-and the greater 
the chance of arriving at eminence of genius 
and virtus, . 
The buds of intelle&, and freeze his foul 
In apathy, or, dread alternative ! 
Awake his flumb’ring powers but to deftroy; 
And wield ber {corpion fcourge ’gainft fellow — 
man! 
Be his the foul of love, and manly feeling, 
The fteady mind to ftem the tide of ill ; 
So, while he weeps for others’ wrongs and 
woes, 
He too fhall thare their joys that arein ftore, 
And, fympathizing, live ten thoufand lives in 
one* | 
May his perfections teach the erring world, 
That, howe’er ¢* lordly letter’d man” may 
boaft : 
Of ftrength fuperior to the fofter fex, 
Her’s is the {phere of ufefulnefs fupreme! 
’Tis her’s to plant the tree of intellect, 
Trace the blank tablet, and there deep im. 
prefs 
The character of demon, fool, or angel !+ 
Since mind receives its firft impulfe from 
woman, ’ | 
Since all the univerfe owns woman’s fway, 
Dream not, vain man! that thou alone art 
great ! - 
(And who that’s great would play the vaunte 
ing tyrant ?} 
Caft off thy fool’s cap, and proclaim her 
worth! . 
Own her thy equal—firive with her in ufe- 
falnefs ; : 
Yes! burft thy bonds, and then affert thy 
greatnefs ! 
And you, ye fair! whofe power ineffable 
Peeve ris wens we we Vem eet es Th Ge te all 
* Life confifts in fenfation; furely, there- 
fore, the man who fympathifes in the pains 
and pleafures of every living creature he 
meets—who weeps when they weep, rejoices 
when they rejoice,and * exults in all the good 
of all mankind”’—fuch a man *¢ lives ten 
thoufand lives,’ when compared with the 
poor folitary being, whofe circumfcribed foul 
never foars above felf, nor ever banqueted on 
the fweets of participation! Does the exif- 
tence of fuch a creature deferve to be digni- 
fied with name of life ? ; ; 
+ Since the firft ideas are generally 
ftamped by the mother or nurfe, and thefe 
modify every fucceeding impreffion, of what 
infinite importance is it that fhe should be 
fitted for the fateful tafk ! 
\ Nor, 
