Part 31 (1/2)

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RURAL LIFE

The fact that the following verses are heard to-day proves their ”convenience,” to say the least, for they ritten by Williaston in 1747:----

Mine be the pleasure of a rural life, Fronorant of strife, Far froloved beau, The lawless arters, stars, Fops, fiddlers, tyrants, emperors, and czars!

--_Christian Advocate_

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THE COUNTRY

A breath of unadulterated air, The glireen pasture, how they cheer The citizen, and brace his languid fraarden, in which nothing thrives, has charms That soothe the rich possessor

And are these not all proofs that uishable Thirst of rural scenes, co his loss By supplemental shi+fts the best he may?

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LOVE OF COUNTRY

Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, ”This is my own--my Native Land!”

Whose heart hath ne'er within hi on a foreign strand?

If such there breathe, go--h his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim-- Despite those titles, power and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust fro

--_Sir Walter Scott_

417

The wise overned country

Clemenese replied, ”the people who have more respect for the laws than the orators”

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He who loves not his country, can love nothing

419

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of courage

--_S Smith_