Western Sun, Volume 3, Number 2, Vincennes, Knox County, 23 December 1809 — Page 4

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ts a 7 POETICAL ASYLUM, ioir cold r s. KOW the blulVrin Boreas blows, Scr. alt the waters round us froze. The trees, that fknt the drearyplainy All day a murni'ring cry maintain; The trembling forcil hears their moan, And frtdly mingles groan with groan. How difmal all from cift to weft I " Hcav'n defend the poor, diftreft i" Such is the tale, Oa hill and vale ; Each trav'ler may behold it is ; While low and high Are heard to cry, u Blefs my hear, how cold it is 1' Now flumb'ring Sloth that cannot bear The queftion of the fearching air, Lifts up her unkempt head, and tries, But cannot from her bondage rife : The While the houfewife brilkly throws Around her wheel, and fweetly thews The healthful cheek Irduftry brings, Which is not in the gift of kings To her long life, Devoid of ftrife, And jurtly too, unfolded is ; Thr while ihe floth To Hir is h)tht And trembling cries : u How cold it is !" Now lifps fir Foplinrj. tender weed t All fhiv'ring like a (h-tken rred ! 4C How kren the air attacks my back I " John, plce fnmc !( upon that crack ; " G ), fattk-bag all thr C fhrs round, 4t And f-c thrre's not an air-hole found Ah I blefs me, now 1 feel a breath, " Good I ick 1 'tis like the chill of death." Indulgence pale Tells this fad tale, Till he in furs infolded is ; Still, Hill complains. For all thir pains, Blefs my hem, how cold it is ! Nw the poor newsman from the town Explores his path along the down ; His ft -z Rogers fadly hlnws, At;d fhll iw fecks, and Hill it fnows. 44 Go, take his pper, Richard go ; And give a dram to nuke him glow i" This was thy ciy, Humanity I More precious fr tlnn gold it i, Sllih rife; to deal. When new men f-el All cad in fnow, how co!d it is. Ilumtnity, delightful tale ! Whilr w- frrl thr wintn'i pale. 11 v flf i' i t rnrirrd crtt, In- lint- t'i - r r ti ' vhti-j w s note ; A' u li- r rvh Mi'iy's weight opprefs'J, A 1 I! a TitS, (III v r I!).; i uril, Full amt''y let I )"UMty tl-iw, To fenth ti e h. T'lni, duil'dby woe. Ifl ti ftj -u !r, W'i'-iir'rr tle Qf real .rnrf ii ; t !J- ci O n ' . i v r '1 lie n, - 'ivr, io ihuTc kiiow iiuw coid it i... r-fl'r r " w.rrii;r,Mi,.d ard ln-d, rin.n- 'r, . r ,,, ... .u;rm r nuim'J CoJ.liif J t! ri- ; 5l)r .) rv lilXC The luls ut h::iO, ana luflfcrcd mere :

O pnfs them not ! or if you do,

MI fi ;f i to think they fought for yoV. Get pity all ; but bave die reft. The fokiier or the tr diftiefs'd : Thro winter's reign, Hrlirve their pain, For what they've done, furc bold it is : Their wants fupply, Whene'er tl.y cry, " Blefs my heart, how cold it is I And now, ye (laggards, floths, and beaux, Who dread the brehth that winter blows, Purfue the counfel of a friend, Who never found it yet o fiend : While Winter deals his froft around, Go i-ice tlie air, and beat the ground ; With chearful fpirits exercife, 'lis there life's balmy blclling lies: On lull and dale, Though fhnrp the gale, And frozen you behold i: is ; The blood fliall glow, And fweetly flow, And you'll ne'er cry ; " How cold it is !" M ISC EL L ANT. LOUISA VENONI, THE MAID of the VALLEY, ( Continued,) Next morning Louifa was indifpofed, and kept her chamber. Sir Edward was now perfectly recovered. He was engaged to go out with Venoni; but, before his de parture, he took his violin, and touchtd a few plaintive notes on it tiny were heard by Louifa. In the evening ihe wandered forth, to indulge her forrows alone. She had reached a fequellered fpot, where fome poplars formed a thicket, on the bank of a little itrcam that watered the valley. A nightingale was perched on one of them and had already began his uccuflomed long. Louifa fat down on a withered flump, leaning her cheek upon her hand. After a little while, the bird was feared from its perch, and flitted from the thicket. LmulU role from the ground, and Inirlt into tears. She turned and neheld Sir Edward. His countc-

nance had much of its former lan- tioned her wrongs in words; guor, and when he took her hand, sometimes a ftw flarting tears e call on the earth a melanchoily w ould fpeak them ; and when time look, and leemed unable to fpeak j had given her a little more Icifure, his leelings. J her lute dilcoui led mtlancholiy Are you not well. Sir Edward ? 1 mufic. said Louifa, with a voice iamtand On their arrival in England Sir jroul b Edwaid carried Louifa to his feat I am ill indeed, faid he, but my in the country. There Ihe was illnefs is o. the mind. Louifa can. .treated wilh ail the oSfervance of a not cure me of that. 1 am wretch- j wife, and, v ihe eholen it, might ed; but I deferve to be fo. I have j have commandid more than the broken every law of hofpitality, ; oulinaiy ip,c nuu oi one. But ihe and every obligation of gratitude, would notaiiow the indulgence of I have dared to wilh for happinefs. Sir Edward to bia;:en wiiii tquiand fpeak uiiat I wilhed, though page, and fhow that flate which it w ounded the heart ot my ch ar- llic wilhed alwajh to hide, and, il ell bei.ef.iCtrefs but 1 will make , nollibie tf) forget. Her hooks and

a leverc expiation. I'his moment lUavi you, Louifa! 1 go to he wretL hid, but yon may be happy ; happy in your duty to your father ; I appy, it may be, in the amis of a luilhand, wIkjui the polk llion of such a wife may U aeh refinement and fenlibility. I go to my native country, to hurry through fcenes o irk fome bu'infs, or tallclef a.;uiS"( ment ; that I may, if pofliole, procure a 1 rt of h.ilf o!;tivioTi ot that happ'neN wliich I have left behit.dj a hillefs cndurarcc ot that

life which T once dreamed might

be made delightful with Loiiifj. Tears were the only anfwerflic could give. Sir Edward's fervants approached with a carriage ready for his departure. MctooKiron, m ,k. vu p.tfurcs ; one he had clnjivn ,f Lovuh, he iahenl round h.s . cck He took from his pocket two and killing it with rapture hid it in his hofom. The other he held out in a hcfitating manner. This, laid he, if Louila will accept of it, may sometimes put her in mind of- him who once offended, who can never ceafe to adore her. She may look on it perhaps alter the original is no more, when this heart ihall have fc.rgot to love, and ceafc to he wretched. Louifa wasat laft overcomeHer face was firit pale as death; then fuddenly it was rnUed with a crimfon bkifli. Oh! Sir Kdward ! faid (he, what what would you have me do ? He eagerly fe'izedher hand, and led her reluc tanntly to the carriage. They entered it, and driving off wilh furious fpeed, were foon out of fight of thofe hills which paftured the flocks of the unfortunate Venoni. The virtue of Louila was vanquilhed, hut her fenfe of virtue was not overcome. :Ncither the voice of etern-al fidelity ot her fcducer, nor the cuiftant and ref pe&ful attention which he paid her during a hurried journey to England, could allay that arrguifh which Ihe fuffered at the recollection of her pall, and the thoughts of her prefent (ituation. Sir Edward felt ftrongly the power of her beauty and her grief. His heart w as not made for that part, which it is probable he thought it could have performed ; it was dill fubject to remorfe, to compaffion, and to love. Thefe emotions, perhaps, he might foon overcome, had they been met by vulgar violence and reproaches ; but the quiet and unupbraiding forrows of Louifa n"urilhed thole feelings of lendernefs and attachment- She never menmuiic were her only pkalures, ii pleafures they could be called, tSiat served to alleviate nnlery, to blunt lor a u hile, the pa: , of conuition. ! Thefe were deeply aggrawdeo by the recolleClion ol her f dlu r ; a lather left in hi, old age to fVe, his ow n misfortunes his daugh. ter's difgrace. Sir Edward was too generous not to think of pro viding for "enoni. He meant t imkc f.me atonement for the in. jtnv v had done- him l ih it cm. el bounty whidi L rtoarUua oi.Iy

to the bad-, hu! to .?. hor.cft, b infult. IIchadnt, however, an opportunity of accompiiihing his purpole. He learned that Venoni, loon after his dau;;htt rs elopement, removed from his former

pl-icc of relidence, aiu 1 his nehjhrt.,rU.tl. u(l dk.l ia one of , of Sjv H-Is!aucll. , witI) tu. mo. poignant, and her ;filielion for it while refilled confolation. Sir Edwani's whole tendernefs and attention were now called forth ti mitigate !cr grief; and. alter its fn II traufports had iublide'd, he carried her to London, in hopes that objects new toiler, and commonly attractive to all, miglit contribute to remove it. With a man poffeiTed of feelings like Sir Edward's the affliction of Louila gave a certain refpect to his attentions. He hired her a houfc separate from his own, and treated her with all the delieacv of the pureft attachment. Hut his folicitude to comfort and amufe her was not atteiuled with fuceefs. She felt all the honors of that guilt, which (he now conlidered not only as the ruin of herfeif, but the murderer of her lather. In London, Sir Edward found his lilt er, who had married a man of great fortune, and high falhion. Hs h id married her beeaufe (hs was a line woman, and admired by line men ; Hie had married him becaufe he was the wealthieft of her luitors. They lived, as is common to people infach a fituation, neccflitous, with a princely fortune, and very wretched, a midfl perpetual gaity. This fecne was fo foreign from the idea Sir Edward had formed of the reception his country and friends were to afford him, that he found a conIlant fource of difgufl in the focicty of his equals. In their conversation fantaltic, not refined, their i leas were frivolous, and their know ledge HiaJiow ; and .w ith ail the pride of birth, and inf jiencO of Hat ion, their principles were mean and their minds ignoble. In tlieir pretended attachments, he difcovered only dchens of felfiihnefs ; and their plcafures, he experienced, were as fa!lacic::s as their frier.dfhips. In the fociety oi I-m-ifa, he lound fenlibility and truth ; her's was the o:-lv heart tiiat feemed in ten lied in aw the return ids welfare; fli o'l irtuc in Sir Edward, and felt the hicndlhip which he Ihowcd (To be continued J l( i KL m ii , 1 -ur or fivr vrirz f M, Willi ;i li'fh t.ul,(i.r y.i- r Ay or I au-r, j.! J huv- i t , fine: t rrt :)r t ii' i I.rr tic ' ( ft ill i ;;;; ii' li Harrison. Vine n -rs, 2 3d Nov. hb). l-or f.l- a: thr Oiiirr r f h Wrli-rn ?.t:n, TiiK PI.H V: IV L I . M A N A ( ' , Price 12 1 2 Cct;:. FitoM t;: r. rn ess of :. STOUT. it I v t r ii t ti! v t J" !' i r rt Y A V I) O f THh I A'A'S VI TllV. VSljyO MATJS.

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