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his prisoner more closely. The prior addressing the party who were assembled shrank from the gaze, and trembled. round:

"Valga me dios," exclaimed the robber, "This," said he, "though a sudden deed, making signs for his companions to come is more like justice, than Spanish justice: up. "Esto hombra hizo morir a mi This unhappy man my friends, if conpadra."* victed of the dreadful act he perpetrated Unhaplly for the accused, he was re- would have escaped the arm of the execognised by another of the gang, as having cutioner. The King," he said these words been rather more than commonly active in a lower tone, "dared not have put him in preventing mercy from being extended to death.

to the captain's father upon a trying emergency, for thieves are sometimes pardoned under the gallows at the intercession of the clergy.

Husbands and Wives.

"No ha muchos moment os por la vida," said the leader, turning to his Let all who have experienced the bliss armed associates; and intimating at the of a husband's love, or who have more same time to the victim the sentence of sadly learned its value by its reverse, say death which had been pronounced. whether indeed the devoted, constant love There was a short pause. Contrary to of a husband is not a blessing worthy to expectation, the priest repeated neither be prized and cherished. All know this "Pater Noster" nor "Ave Marie," nor happiness; but still more will the forlorn, called upon a single Saint to help him in the wretched, the broken-hearted! who his extremity. Fully sensible of the de- pine alone-who sit and weep over times termined revenge which would in an in- gone by; when the cold, neglectful hus stant consign him to certain death, he band, breathed to them of naught but lovė begged to speak to the English colonel. and constancy: when he, who once watch. "Senor," said he, "we have not met ed her every look and motion, and listened since I followed your daughter to the to each word in eager fondness, now leaves Prado:" her, lonely, deserted, weeping perhaps, to The officer shuddered at the mention of cast his eyes of love on others; when he liis child. The robbers were amazed, and now leaves the once adorned and happy drew back a step. wife. As the tears fall silently down her "Nor have I seen your daughter, senor," care-worn face, does she not think with continued the prior, "since I plunged my bitter envy of the lost possession of that weapon into her bosom in the neighboring treasure; the devoted love of a husband? garden. I loved her, but it was with a Yes, yes; it was once her's, and she reguilty flame. My name is." Here paid it, by the full gift of all the strength; the speaker gave his assumed name to the the depth of woman's calm unchanging Colonel "She had possession of my se love! She gave her heart: her affections, her 'cret. As a monk, I gained private access own soul; ah! too much perhaps, forgetfull to the Convent; as a cavalier, I mixed with of her God! and that gift which had been the world. I care but little for death;-sought for and won, where is it now? It and now," giving a signal to the leader is despised, neglected, cast aside! She of the band, "Gerolamo, I am ready." tries to smile against hope; she tries to The colonel overpowered by the intel-hide a bursting heart under a placid brow: igence he had heard, and the hardihood to seem happy, and thus she may chance of the assassin, turned his back. A dis- to win back that wavering heart. But charge of musketry soon announced that no! he comes-he speaks in careless dia so far as the prior's fate was concerned. pleasure, in cutting sarcasm, or perhaps, the hour of mercy was past. The Spanish still worse to bear, he scarcely speaksofficer, who witnessed the execution, gazed he scarcely heeds her! It is too much! for an instant upon the body, and then He sees her weep-he has seen her smile;

This man has my father put to death.
He has not many minutes to live,

in angry impatience he turns away mut tering, "what folly!" and again she is left to weep alone in bitter earnestness of

bursting heart! Yes! let those who have

There is a moral to the history of life, known the bright reverse be thankful! which no language has yet been able to Let them acknowledge their blessedness! bring out, and which, perhaps, no mind Let them cherish and guard the precious will ever be capable of embracing in its possession, so soon, so easily lost.

LIFE.

BY WALTER LANDOR, ESQ.

PHILADELPHIA.

fullness. All our remarks, though struck out of the heart by impetuous anguish, sink in expression to the most commonplace. The sage explores the realms of thought, and the poet dives in the remot est depths of language, for adequate reflections, and they both come back to the simplest dialect of the street, as being all

"MAN," says Sir Thomas Brown, "is they can say. A grief falls upon us, a noble animal! splendid in ashes, glori- whose magnitude, we think, might shake ous in the grave; solemnising nativities the world, and our fullest comment is a and funerals with equal lustre, and not shake of the head.

forgetting ceremonies of bravery in the I stood in the abbey when the coffin of infamy of his nature!" Thus spake one the third George was borne to its narrow who mocked, while he wept, at man's vault. The longest and the brightest estate, and gracefully tempered the high reign in any annals was concluded; all scoffings of philosophy with the profound that could elevate and bless humanity, in compassion of religion. Certain it is that the tributes of power, the offerings of pomp chiefly waits upon the beginning wealth, the esteem of the wise, and the and the end of life: what lies between, affection of the good, had waited on his may raise a sigh or wake a laugh, for it life; and to dignify the closing scene, mostly partakes of the bitterness of one prince and peer. the lords of genius and and the sadness of the other. the ministers of virtue were assembled in "Who is married!" said the gay and the imposing pomp of power and the mathoughtless Emma, as she took up that jectic splendor of distinction. Yet, with important chronicle of passing events, the all, how ordinary was that life and how daily paper. "Married, on Wednesday ordinary was that character! Focus of morning, at the residence of her father, all the brightest rays that permeate the in Wiltshire, the Honorable Lady Char- universe, he trod the common earth, a lotte Howard, to Captain Beauclerk of common man. To my thought, this histhe Royal Navy;" and the reader pass tory of a great good man, this record of ed on. power used and not abused, of merit alSix months afterwards the servant put ways rewarded, excellence always prointo the same hands the same gazette. tected, talent always fostered, and reli "Who is dead?" said the fair querist, as gion always respected, spoke a profounshe opened the expansive pages. "Died, der commentary upon the utter vanity of on Wednesday morning, at the residence life than the glaring failures of a Charles of her husband, in Wiltshire, the Honora- or a Boabdil. I had pondered these ble Lady Charlotte Beauclerk, in the 21st things, and was now gazing on of her age;" and the reader passed mockery of the funeral pageant, and knew that a knell was then sounding Thus did the world notice and forget throughont England which would arrest the two events: yet in the simple record the steps of the thoughtful, and melt the of that marriage and that burial, there hearts of the feeling; yet what could I resided what might startle the volumptu- say, what could I even feel, commensuary in the rankness of his lust, and what rate with the demand of the scene? the hermit might ponder in the loneliness I stood by chance at a window in Lonof his cell. I was at the house of feast-don, and saw the remains of Lord Byron ing and at the house of mourning. I saw pass by on their way to the parish the bride in the spring-blossom of her church-yard. He who had spurned all loveliness, and beheld the narrow coffin accepted usage, and sedulously scorned that housed her till eternity. established habit, was borne along like

year

on.

the humblest citizen to rest in an obscure

grave, like the lowest peasant in the fields. He whose temper had defied a nation, and whose genius had held high. war with truth and virtue, and come from the contest not ingloriously, was jolting along the street like the carcase of a dog,

and what could man do?

It is recorded of Merlin and Zoroaster, that as soon as they were born they burst into a fit of laughter-the quack and the philosopher. And in truth the world seems to be but a material sneer. Of God considered purely as Creator, every act and motion must be creative; I ima. gine that a smile awoke the angels from nothingness, and that man was laughed into being. Life seems perpetually burlesquing itself, and one half of existence is a running parody on the other. On the stage the farce succeeds the tragedy; off, they are mingled in alternate scenes.

Immortal man! thy blood flows freely and fully, and thou standest a Napoleon; thou reclinest a Shakspeare! it quickens its movement, and then lies a parched and fretful thing, with thy mind furied by the phantoms of fever! it retards its action but a little, and thou crawlest a crouch. ing, soulless mass, the bright world a blank dead vision to thine eye. Verily, O man, thou art a glorious and godlike being !

Tell life's proudest tale; what is it! a few attempts successless; a few crushed or mouldered hopes; much paltry fretting: a little sleep, and the story is concluded: the curtain falls-the farce is over.

The world is not a place to live in, but to die in. It is a house that has but two chambers; a lazar and a charnel-room vales for the dying and the dead. There is not a spot on the broad earth on which man can plant his foot and affirm with confidence, no mortal sleeps beneath!"

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man."

The Married Man's Fare.

A PARODY ON

"THE BACHELOR'S FARE."

Happy and free are the married man's reveries, He knows not the Bachelor's revelries, deviltries, Cherrily, nerrily passes his life

Caressed by, and blessed by his children and wifey
From lassitude free to, sweet home still to flee to,
A pet on his knee too, his kindness to share,
A fireside so cheery, the smiles of his deary
O, this, boys! this is the married man's fare!

Wife kind as an angel, seeks things never range ill,
Dispelling dejection, with smiles of affection,
Busy promoting his comfort around
Sympathizing, advising, when fortune has frown'd
Old ones relating droll tales, never stating-
Little ones prating, all strangers to care:
Some romping, some jumping, some punching, come
munching,
Economy dealing the married man's fare.
Thus in each jolly day, one lively holiday;
Not so the bachelor, lonely, depressed:
No gentle one near him, to home to endear him,

In sorrow to cheer him, no friend if no guest; No children to climb up 'twould fill all my rhyme

up,

And take too much time up, to tell his despair: Cross housekeeper meeting him, cheating him, bent› ing him

Bills poring, maids scouring, devouring his fure. He has no one to put on a sleeve or a neck button Shirts mangled to rags! drawers stringless at knee; The cook, to his grief, too, spoils pudding and beef, too, With over done, underdone-undone is he! No son, still a treasure, in business or leisure;

But old maids and cousins, kind souls, rush in dəşNo daughter with pleasure, new joys to prepare→

ens,

Relieving him soon of his bachelor's fare. He calls children apes, sir, (the fox and the grapes,) sir,

And fain would he wed, when his locks are like

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MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS.-One of the With this number closes the third volume of the consequences of good breeding is a disin-Visiter," and in commencing a new volume, we shall endeavour to make such improvements as can clination, positively a distaste, to pry into not fail to meet the approbation of its numerous and the private affairs of others.

increasing patrons.

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