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Say , toilest thou for gold ? Will all that earth can give of drossy hues Compensate for that land of love foretold , Which Mammon makes thee lose ?
Or waitest thou for power ?—A proud ambition , trifler , doth thee raise ! To be the gilded bauble of the hour That fools may wondering gaze ! JBut wouldest thou be a Man—A lofty , noble , uncorrupted thing , Beneath whose eye the false might tremble van , The good with gladness sing ?
Go , cleanse thy heart , and fill Thy soul with love and goodness ; let it be Like yonder lake , so holy , calm , and still , And full of purity !
This is thy task on earth—This is thy eager manhood ' s proudest goal ;—To cast all meanness and world-worship forth—And thus exalt the soul ! ' Tis manhood makes the man A high-souled freeman or a fettered slave , The Mind a temple fit for God to span , Or a dark dungeon grave !
God doth not man despise , Pie gives him soul—mind—heart—that living flame ; Nurse it , and upwards let it brightly rise To Heaven , from whence it came I
Go hence , go hence , and make Thy spirit pure as morning light and free The Pilgrim shrine is won , and I awake ?—Come to the woods with me !
& 4 & Reason in Duelling .
( After the elementary manner of the Old Italian Novelists . ) A country banker , whose property depended chiefly on his own exertions , had a violent dispute on politic * with a certain captain of fifteen hundred a year , who belonged to the handsomest phaeton and pair that had ever been seen in the place . The captain argued in a rude knock-you-down styLe , and displayed
REASON IN DUELLING .