When the dew wets its leaves; unstain'd and pure As is the lilly or the mountain-snow. The mournful tale her mother told, Of what her faithless fortune promis'd once, Thrill'd in her thought. Her eyes, like the dewy star Of evening, shone in tears. A native grace He then, his fancy with autumnal scencs He saw her charming; but he saw not half From whom my lib'ral fortune took its rise; Whom yet my fruitless search could never find. And through his nerves in shivering transport rañ! "And art thou, then, Acasto's dear remains?? More elegantly touch'd. Sweeter than Spring! Transplant thee safe, where vernal suns and showers Diffuse their warmest, largest influence; The fields, the master, all, my fair, are thine; Of goodness irresistible, and all In sweet disorder lost-She blush'd consent. ·Story of Serrano, who was cast on a desert island. In the voyage of a Spanish ficet to America, a ship founderedt in the gulf of Mexico, and one of the men, named Serrano, sayed his life by swimming to an island, which still bears his name. This island is a barren2 sand, without water, wood, plants or stones. + Foundered, part grown, lame, failed. On this how little canst thou rely on the strength of reason—or the goodness of thy principles! 9. Yes, it is too true: two men, solitary and forlorn,7 soon found little jealousies disturbing their harmony, and they were upon the point of fighting! Let this fact teach us how little of our peace and security depends on reason and how much on religion and government! Mutuals hatred9 & resentment parted these forlorn wretches, and for a long time they separated. At length their wants impelled them to a reconciliation, and taught by necessity to value the advantages of society, they lived together in friendship. 2 Outcast, s a person who is jected. banished or re 3 Shipwrecked, part sufferdestroyed, ruined shipwreck, 10. Four long years were these outcasts2 doomed to pick a scanty living on this barren spot; when a ship discovered them by a smoke, and came to their relief. The last who was shipwreckeds died on his voyage to Spain: but Serrano liv. ed to reach his native country. Covered as he was with hair, he re-ed. fused to be shaved till he had travelled to Germany, where the emperor resided, and had exhibited himself to his prince in his savage dress. Here he recounted his adventeres to the emperor, and received from him a liberal pension.4 4. Pension,,.3 settled yearly allowance. He then suffered himself to be shaved; but returning to America to enjoy his pension, he soon died at Panama. On the Employment of Time. 1. We complaint of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with; for our lives are spent either in doing nothing at all, in doing nothing to the purpose, or else, in doing nothing that we had ought to do. 2. Melancholy2 as this picture appears, and disgraceful as it certainly is to a rational,& reflecting, mind, I fear, if we were to take an impartial view of our lives, too many of us would have reason to acknowledge the justness of the cen sure. 5. Every fool, says Chesterfield, who slatterns away his whole time in nothing, has some trite observations at hand, to prove both its value and its fleetness; and though they feel the necessity of employing it well, they squander4 it away without considering that its loss is irrecoverable.. 4. There are two sorts of understanding, which prevent5 a man |