Western Sun, Volume 3, Number 21, Vincennes, Knox County, 19 May 1810 — Page 4

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POETICAL ASYLUM, for the Western Swiu SPRING. NOW the bright Sun in fprightly mood Sports o'er the fieldi, plays on the flood ; Earth, air and water, all rejoice, Join'd with the thunder nature's voice. This feeros to he the natal hour Of wonderful and diverfe powr; And man, the child of reafon's ray, New plealurc reaps from vernal day. With life, the air and waters teem, And nature wakes as from a dream, Love cheers and animates the wholef The mortal and th'immortal foul. May no pad doubt difturb the oy, But love and friendftiip all employ, May happinefs fpread far and near, No heart be fad, nor eye flied tear. M. February 9, I8IO. THE CHOICE OF A WIFE. Her manners gentle, and her mind ferene, Her temper ev'n; all placidnefs 8c peace ; With futh goodnefs unadorn'd by beauty Or one ray of wifidom, I'd fpend my days. . A termagant Qorming as hell's abyfs, 'As its crntre hideous, dark and difmal, Andpf form not human, of reafon void, HerO ye Gods I'd adore and cherifti. Whether all peace, or fcold untamable, Gods I care not, give me one, one only, Her ungraceful and deform'd will I love, Yes, rev'rence, and with thanks clafp the bleQ gift ! ! I M. December 22, 1809.

ANECDOTES.

A prifoner being brought up, the follow, ing dialogue pafled between him and the magiftrite. " How do you live ?,MI Pretty veil, Sir ; generally a little beef and pudding at dinner 1" " I mean Sir; how do you get your bread ? " 1 beg your orfhip's parden ; fometimrs t the baker's and fornetimes at the grocr's Ihop ! You may be as witty as you pleafe Sir, but 1 mean (imply to alk you, how you do ? Tolerably well, I thank you Sir ; 1 hope your worfhip is well." A perfon by the name of Bull chanced to call on an acquaintance by the name of Hde ! Well what has become of your horns, Mr. Bull ? hid the latter, who affect

ed to be a wit I You know they always go

vrith the Hide, replicu he to the fatisUcl ion of all prcfent.

A captain of a privateer, who had been

in an engagement wrote to his owners,

acqu inting them that he had received but little damage, having only one of his hands

wound -d in the nnfr.

MISCE L L A N K

AD YEN TURKS OF A KNIGHT. Ye f overs of dzrkness end of hell Propitious :o the mcrtc tpelL h fitruh in silence o'er the ntght9 Be present nj?;.. f Continued J Slow pallia the yiul flucd thro'

the bread of fir Gawen, fcarcc did the heart vibrate to its impulce on his pallid forehead fat a chill fweat, and frequent fpafms fliook his limbs ; but at length returning warmth gave fome vigor to his frame, the energy of life became more fufiufed, a foothing langour flole upon him and on opening his eyes, rufhed neither the images of death nor the rites of witchcraft but the foft, the fweet, and tranquil fcenery of a fummer's moonlight night. Enraptured with this fudden and unexpected change, Sir Gawen rofe gently off from the ground; over his head towerds a large majeflic oak, at whofe foot, by fome kind and compafTionate being he concluded he had been laid. Delight and gratitude dilated his heart, and advancing from beneath the tree whofe gigantic bran ches fpread a large extent of fhade a vale, beautiful and romantic, through which ran a deep and clear flream full in view ; he walked to the edge of the water the moon fhone with mellow luftre on its furface, and its banks fringed with fhrubs, breathed a perfume more delicate than the odours of the eaft. On the one fide, the gronnd cover

ed with a vivid, foft, and downy

verdure, ftretched for a confidera-

ble extent to the borders of a large

forefl, which fweeping round finally clofed up the valley on the other

it was broken into abrupt and roc ky mafies f warded with mofs and from whofe cliftsgrew thick and fpreading trees, the roots of which wafhed by many a fall of water hung bare and matted from their craggy beds. Sir Gawen forgot in this delicious vale, all his former fufferings, and giving up his mind to the pleafing influence of curiofity and wonder, he determined to explore the

place by tracing the windings of

the itream. Scarce had he enter

ed upon this place, when mufic of

the mod ravilhing fweetnefs filled the air, fometimes it feemed to float along the valley, fometimes it ftole along the furface of the water, nonit died away among the woods and now with deep and mellow fymphony it fwelled upon the gale. Fixed in aftonifhment, Sir Gawen icarce ventured to breathe; every fenfe, fave that of hearing feemed quite abforbed and when the lea !

faint warbling melted on his ear he

llarted from the fpot, folicitous to

know from what being thole more

than human drains had parted ; but

nothing appeared in view the moon

full and unclouded fhown with tin-

ufal luflre the white rocks glittered

in her beam and filled with hope he

again purfucd the winding of the

water which conducting to the nar

rowed part of the valley, continued

their courfc thro' the wood. Sir

Gawen entered by a path, fmooth, but narrow and perplexed, where

although its branches were fo nu

merous that no preference could be

given, or any direct route long per-

tifted in, vet every turn poiTeffed fomething to amufe, fomcthing to

lharpen the edge of refearch. The

beauty of trees, through whofe in

terftices the moon gleamed in the mod piclurefque manner : the.

glimpfe of the water and the notes

of the nightingale, who now began o fill the valley with her fong, were more than fufficient to take off the fenfe of fatigue and he wandered on dill eager to explore, dill panting for further difcovery. The wood now became more thick and obfcure, and at length almod dark, when the path taking fuddenly an oblique direction Sir Gawen found himfelf on the edge of a circular fawn, whofe tint and foftnefs were beyond comparifon, and which feemed to have been lightly brufh-

ed by fairy feet. A number of

fine old trees, around whole boles crept the ivy-and the woodbine, rofe at irregular didances, here they mingled into graves, and there feparate and emulous of each other they ihook their, airy fummits in difdaih. The water which had been for fome time concealed, now

murmcred through a thoufand beds

and vifiting each little flower added vigor to its vegetation and poignancy to its fragrance. Along the edges of the wood, and beneath the ihadows of the trees, an innumera ble hofl of glow worms lighted

their inocuous fires, ludrous as the

gems of Golconda, and Sir Gawen defirous yet longer to enjoy the

fcene. went forward with light foot-

deps on the lawn ; all was calm and

except the breeze of night, that fighed foft and fvveetly through a

world of leaves, a perfect filence

prevailed. Not many minutes had elapfed before the fame enchanting

mode to which he had liftened with

fo much rapture in the vale, again

arrelled his ear, and prefently he

difcovered on the border of the laivn,jud rifling above the wood, and floating on the bofom of the air,

a being of the mod delicate form ;

from his fhoulders dreamed a tunic

of the tendered blue, his wings and

feet were clothed in downy diver, and in his grafp he had a wand, white as the mountain fnow. He rofe fwifdy in the air, his brilliance

-drcls, from that of the left. The

knights were clothed in green ; on

their bofoms fhone a plate of bur-

nifhed dcel, and in their hands

they grafpl a golden targe and

lance of beamy ludre. The

nymphs whofe form and iymmetry

were beyond whatever poets dream were dreded in robes of white there zones were azure, dropped with diamonds, and their light brown hair decked with rofes, hung in ample ringlets. So quick, fo light and airy were their motions, that the turf, the flowers fhrunk not to the gentle prefTure, and each fmiling on her favorite knight, he flung his brilliant arms afide and mingled in the dance. Whilft they flew in rapid meafure along the lawn, bir Gawen forgetting his fituation, and impatient to falute the aflembly, involuntarily Hepped forward, and indantaneoufly a fhrill and hollow gud of wind murmured through the woods, the moon dipt into a cloud, and the knights, the dames and aerial fpirits vanifhed from his view, leaving the amazed fir Gawen to repent at leifurc of his precipitate intrufiom (To be Continued J FXEGiEXTRACT. From an oration delivered at New-York, by John Irvine, before the Tammany and others focictics on the 4th of July. Erin Gem of the Ocean. Erin The land of beauty, of bravery, and enthufiafrn. VVherc an Orr, a

Fitzgerald perlfhed on the thefhold of liberty ; where a Tone once waved the beaming fword of patri. otifm like a hero around his brow. Where an Emmett dood forth dauntlefs in virtue, who made a Felix to tremble in the very feat of arbitrary power; who dafbed brute violence in the hour of its triumph, who defcended into the tomp like a flame, and whofe geni

us lhed a blaze of glory round the

became exceflive from the lunar j horrors of his grave. Oh fatres f

rays, his fong echoed through the J Oh mighty men of battle ! Have vault of night, but hav ing puickly ! ye then failen in vain ? Have your diminifhed to the fize and appear- groanes been waded in the wind ance of the evening dur, it died a- has your blood funk forgotten in way and the next moment he was the earth ? No, no! Ireland has loft in either. Sir Gawen dill fix- j numbered your groans; Ireland ed his eye on that part of the hea-; has recorded your acl ions ; Ireland vens, where the viiion hud difap- ! has reCeived your blood upon her peared and fhortly had the plea- bofom . k nourifll a futurc lure of feeing the darhke radiance race of h brj , . f which in an indant unfolded itlelf lhcrSf but morc fuccefbfuL into the full and fine dimensions of Like stars rthe haltl setm the beauteous bemg who having ; But h ofjour , r,m collected dew from the cold vales Tolishttbemu victor. yetr r,w A Saturn, now defcended rapidly i4 .r, i r i - towards the earth, and waving his , n ? hilV f foall again wand as he paired along the woods, I Pe ftruS t0 tne f fhberty , her a number of like form and garb 1 5carsrfriv fhali be exchanged flew around him, and ail alightin. i fr Vf dnefs, and her on the lawn, feparated at equal dil- 5" hills "11 echo with the tanceson its circumference, and lhout of ema"cipatcd man." then fhaking their wings, which ? fpreading a perfume through the Take Notice air, burd into one general fon T INTEND ta aP7 to the next Sfp Sir Gawen. whn nnKr.J 1 tfinber court of Common PImi, for the

Vl ill wl,clUiV ut I cour.tv of Knox, and Indiana Trrri'nrv ti beng d,f covered, had retreated in- j efWbrilh ferry Urof, ,he "Jo2 to the Uiadow of fome mofly oaks ' y land to the oppof.tc bank.

now waited with eager expectation the event of fo Angular a fcene. In a few moments a body of elegant nymps, dancing two by two, iflued from the wood on the right, and an equal number of warlike kniehu

accompanied by a baud of min.

JOHN SPRINKLE.

AonI 27th, 1810.

FROM THE P It ESS OF E. STOUT. rniVTFR TO thk tkhritort AN'D Of THE LAWS Or THK L'NIThI) STATES.