Part 39 (1/2)

Mr Evelyn, anxious not to woundpassion; and then proceeded to detail the physical chances of a ruined constitution, of death, and of failure; and afterward to represent, with unassuy, themyself to the physical evils he had recited, and next of hiring ainst nations I had never known, and of beco the assassin of people whom I had never seen, and who had not had any possible opportunity of doingme an offence

The objections I started, partly to defend the opinions I had begun with, and partly because I felt ination had been flattered, soon beca nature of the subject prolonged the discussion till it was nearly dinner time

In the course of this enquiry, Mr Evelyn delineated the contemptible yet ridiculous arts which are employed to entrap men into the military service; pourtrayed the inevitable depravity of their s worthy of fiends which are engendered, while they are trained to fix their bayonets, load their pieces, level thee them at men they had never seen before, strike off the heads of these strangers with furious dexterity, stab the ground in full gallop on which they are supposed to have fallen and to lie helpless, and coination, that they ave an enlightened and animated sketch of the abject condition of those who conation which eachto that of the next in rank above hierous and the slavish spirit which this begets He finished the picture with a recapitulation of the innuress of hich he painted with such force and truth that I recoiled fros had been so agitated by this discourse that hly rouzed My for the enormous vices of war, had not only been revived but increased; and, though I began with debating the question, I soon ceased to oppose: so thatup the picture, and collecting all its horrors, than in apologizing for or denying their existence

This was the te to his own concerns, left onized by the recollection that this was a system to which men were still devoted, and of which they were still in the headlong and hot pursuit, that I then immediately, and perhaps with less effort than I everpoem:

THE HERO

All hail to the hero whom victory leads, Triudoms left barren! fro of h in the hall; Revered for the havoc it spread!

For the deaths it has dealt! for the terrors it struck!

And the torrents of blood it has shed!

His banners in haughty procession shall ride, On Jehovah's proud altars unfurl'd!

While anthehter and wreck of a world!

Though s and orphans together shall crowd, To gaze as at heaven's dread rod, And eance of God:

Though, while bloated Revelry roars at his board, Where surfeiting hecatombs fume, Desolation and Famine shall howl, and old Earth Her skeleton hordes shall intoled, fros and cries, What though, when he sluraves In dread visitation shall rise:

Yet he a heroes exalted shall sit; And slaves to his splendor shall bend; And senates shall echo his virtues; and kings Shall own him their saviour, and friend!

Then hail to the hero whom victory leads, Triudoms left barren! fro of many a fair town!

I was too full of hted with the verses I had so suddenly produced, not to shew them immediately to Mr Evelyn

He seeain and again, and each ti now of compassion, now of aly the picture had seized upon his soul The associations of ination added were so forcible that tears repeatedly rolled down his cheeks

To this ht succeeded The pain of the past and the present was alleviated by a prospect of futurity Our ht that the ti to a comprehensive view of their own an to be on the decline and no longer to be mistaken for the most splendid virtues, as they had for forth upon the world with our

There have been few moments of my life in which I have experienced intellectual enjoyment with a pleasure so exquisite Clarke hihts had been to explore the future and wrest happiness to themselves by anticipation, partook of our eious converts who iht is broke in upon them It was a happy afternoon!

It was a type of those which shall hereafter be the substitutes of the wretched resources of drinking, obscene conversation, and gaht rouze theirto suffer the extremes of misery than that dullness, and inanity, which they find still more insupportable