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76 ( 5 On the Morality of Andtew MarvelVs Father * in ks of
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A PARABLE .
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Two brethren were wayfaring in the desert when the hot wind blew . The angel of Death rode on the blast , and smote thein to the earth . ' Why tremblest thou , my brother ? ' said the spirit of Heli , as he spread his radiant wings fpr flight . ' Ala $ ! I fear / said Aptar , c because I know not whither I go !
Would I could tarry with the body wherein I have dwelt so long . JSut the sun grows dark , and I can no mpre feel the gjround . I must depart , but not , lifee thee , rejoicing . Whence is thy joy ?' * Because I shall now see more cle ^ rljr the light that I hg , ve loved , and hear more perfectly the music which my soul hiath beep intent to hear . * ' My brother , brine ; me whither thou hast beep wont to go , that
my peace may be as thine , ' Then Ileli brought his brother to the ruins of a . mighty . city , which wers sqattered over the plain- No living man $ . bpde there , but th-e echoes called ' one to another among the tombs , saying , ' I'he sops of men , whpre arfs they ?' Antjar dropped his he ^ d as he listened , )? ut p , light shppe forth from the eyes pf Heli , Then they pierced tfre depths of a fpresf , where the tr ^ e of a thousand years was wpnt t < j > flourish in its V ! prcJ ^ re ; where tfre fieldflower had blossomed , g . nd bees h ^ 4 murrixured arouqd , the
yut now tpe tree v ? q . $ have biefpr ^ nprth w ^ nd , JL h ^ pees were benumbed within the stem , an 4 the flpwerp l * iy bi < J bene ^ . t | i the kxiow . ' / , A ^ aiii AP tar mQ « me 4 f bijt J ^ eli ^ mh ^ m he ppipted wh ^ rp summer gales came from atari - . . - ¦•¦
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inuch better it would have be ^ n to > h ave died the Tan th 6 Parliamentary army , battling for the right : he would then have been armqd with patriotism as well as innocence , and with petrornel and pistols in addition to both . But , alas I when his country called , there was nothing left of him but his cane . Excellent cane ! appropriate relic ! ' The party should have been caned all round .
One good sprung out of all this evil . ' The extreme grief in which this melancholy event plunged the young lady ' s mother ipay be conceived : however , after her sorrow was somewhat abated , she sent for young Marvell ( the patriot Andrew ) , who was then at Cambridge , and did what she could towards
supplying the loss he had sustained , and at her decease left him all that she possessed . So , as far as this goes , we may say , All ' s well that ends well ; but , nevertheless , we cannot subscribe to the morality of Andrew Marvell ' s father .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1832, page 766, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1824/page/46/
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