The same Subject.

Age is the heaviest burden man can bear,
Compound of disappointment, pain, and care;
For when the mind's experience comes at length,
It comes to mourn the body's loss of strength;
Resign'd to ignorance all our better days,
Knowledge just ripens when the man decays:
One ray of light the closing eye receives,
And wisdom only takes what folly leaves.

Love not extinguished by Age.
For me thy wrinkles have more charms,
Dear Lydia, than a smoother face!
I'd rather fold thee in my arms

Than younger, fairer nymphs embrace.

To me thy autumn is more sweet,
More precious than their vernal rose,
Their summer warms not with a heat
So potent as thy winter glows.

Maiden Passion.

Go, idle, amorous boys,

What are your cares and joys,

To love, that swells the longing virgin's breast?

A flame half hid in doubt,

Soon kindled, soon burnt out,

A blaze of momentary heat at best!

Haply you well may find

(Proud privilege of your kind)

Some friend to share the secret of your heart;

Or, if your inbred gricf

Admit of such relief,

The dance, the chase, the play, assuage your smart.

Whilst we, poor hapless maids,

Condemn'd to pine in shades,

And to our dearest friends our thoughts deny,

Can only sit and weep,

While all around us sleep,

Unpitied languish, and unheeded die.

Address to Health.

Health, brightest visitant from heaven,
Grant me with thee to rest!

For the short time by nature given,
Be thou my constant guest!
For all the pride that wealth bestows,
The pleasure that from children flows,
Whate'er we court in regal state
That makes men covet to be great;
Whatever sweet we hope to find
In love's delightful snare,
Whatever good by heaven assign'd,
Whatever pause from care,
All flourish at thy smile divine;
The spring of loveliness is thine,
And every joy that warms our hearts
With thee approaches and departs.

On a Daughter who died young.

Sweet maid, thy parents fondly thought
To strew thy bride-bed, not thy bier;
But thou hast left a being fraught

With wiles, and toils, and anxious fear,
For us remains a journey drear,

For thee a blest eternal prime,

Uniting, in thy short career,

Youth's blossom with the fruit of time.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

Delaplaine's Repository.-Proposals have been issued by Joseph Delaplaine of Philadelphia, for publishing a national work to be entitled Delaplaine's Repository of the Portraits and Lives of the Heroes, Philosophers, and Statesmen of America. The work will consist of a series of biographical memoirs of those Americans who have been most conspicuous for their talents, virtues, and public services, accompanied by engravings by the best hands, from portraits taken by the most celebrated painters. The following are the conditions specified by Mr. D.

I. The work will be printed in quarto. Twelve portraits, with their accompanying biographical sketches, will constitute a volume-which volume will be published in the course of a year, in two separate numbers' neatly put up in boards-each number to be delivered to the subscribers at the end of each half year. Every volume will be ornamented with an elegant title page and vignette, designed and engraved by Mr. Fairman ; and also an emblematical frontispiece, designed by him and engraved by Mr. Lawson. At the end of the second number, a list of subscribers, and an index to the whole volume, will be printed. The typographical part will be executed by Mr. William Brown.

II. The price of each volume will be eight dollars to subscribers-half of it to be paid on the delivery of the first number-the other half on the delivery of the second. To non-subscribers the price will be nine dollars a volume.

Lardner's Works. J. T. Buckingham, Boston, proposes to publish the entire Works of Dr. Lardner, in eleven volumes, 8vo, containing Credibility of the Gospel History; Ancient Jewish and Heathen Testimonies; History of Heretics; and Sermons and Tracts: with General Chronological Tables and Copious Indexes and The life of the Author, by Dr. Kippis. The proposed price to subscribers is three dollars a volume, payable on the delivery of each, in boards. The work is to be executed under the superintendence of the reverend A, HOLMES, D. D. Cambridge, and the reverend SAMUEL C. THACHER, Boston.

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T her starry height, And smiling claim'd it

as her oght heaven's minstrelsy, Swell'd the loud chorus

tod of liberty, Columbia, land of liberty.

Polyanthos,

III.

r dim the fires,

Freedom's kindred shrines ?

dren shame their sires?

spring from heroes' loins?

our fathers shed,

thy holy cause,

from the martyr'd dead,
anctified thy laws-

keep thee great and free,
ind of liberty.