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flatter his self-love extravagantly, or puff him up with intolerable and vain conceit.

This, indeed, is one test of genius, and of real greatness of mind whether a man can wait patiently and calmly for the award of posterity, satisfied with the unwearied exercise of his faculties, retired within the sanctuary of his own thoughts; or whether he is eager to forestall his own immortality, and mortgage it for a newspaper puff. He who thinks much of himself, will be in danger of being forgotten by the rest of the world; he who is always trying to lay violent hands on reputation, will not secure the best and most lasting.

If the restless candidate for praise takes no pleasure, no sincere and heartfelt delight, in his works, but as they are admired and applauded by others, what should others see in them to admire or applaud? They cannot be expected to admire them because they are his, but for the truth and nature contained in them, which must first be inly felt and copied with severe delight, from the love of truth and nature, before it can ever appear there.

Was Raphael, think you, when he painted his pictures of the Virgin and Child, in all their inconceivable truth of beauty and expression, thinking most of his subject or himself? Do you suppose that Titian, when he painted a landscape, was pluming himself on being thought the finest colorist in the world, or making himself so, by looking at nature? Do you imagine that Shakspeare, when he wrote Lear or Othel lo, was thinking of any thing but Lear and Othello? — No; he who would be great in the eyes of others, must first learn to be nothing in his own. The love of fame, as it enters at times into his mind, is only another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority—that of time.

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Genius, an uncommon degree of intellect, particularly the power of invention. This word is used to designate the peculiar structure of mind which is given by nature to an individual, and which qualifies him for a particular employment. - Sincere, being in reality what it seems to be: sine, 51.

8. The Old Man on the Mossy Stone.

By the wayside, on a mossy stone,

Sat a hoary pilgrim sadly musing;
Oft I marked him sitting there alone,
All the landscape like a page perusing;
Poor, unknown-

By the wayside, on a mossy stone.

Buckled knee and shoe, and broad-rimmed hat, Coat as ancient as the form 'twas folding, Silver buttons, queue, and crimped cravat, Oaken staff, his feeble hand upholding, There he sat!

Buckled knee and shoe, and broad-rimmed hat

It was summer, and we went to school,

Dapper country lads and little maidens, Taught the motto of the "Dunce's Stool,". Its grave import still my fancy ladens, "HERE'S A FOOL!"

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It was summer, and we went to school.

When the stranger seemed to mark our play, — Some of us were joyous, some sad-hearted, I remember well, too well, that day!

Oftentimes the tears unbidden started,

Would not stay,

When the stranger seemed to mark our play.

One sweet spirit broke the silent spell;
Ah! to me her name was always heaven!

She besought him all his grief to tell :
(I was then thirteen, and she eleven,)
ISABEL !

One sweet spirit broke the silent spell.

"Angel," said he sadly, "I am old;

Earthly hope no longer hath a morrow;
Yet, why I sit here thou shalt be told;
Then his eye betrayed a pearl of sorrow;
Down it rolled!
"Angel," said he sadly, "I am old.

"I have tottered here to look once more

On the pleasant scene where I delighted,
In the careless, happy days of yore,

Ere the garden of my heart was blighted
To the core !

I have tottered here to look once more.

"All the picture now to me how dear!

E'en this gray old rock, where I am seated,
Is a jewel worth my journey here;

Ah. that such a scene must be completed
With a tear!

All the picture now to me how dear!

"Old stone school-house! - it is still the same.

There's the very step I so oft mounted; There's the window creaking in its frame, And the notches that I cut and counted For the game;

Old stone school-house! - it is still the same!

"In the cottage, yonder, I was born;

Long my happy home-that humble dwelling; There the fields of clover, wheat, and corn, There the spring, with limpid nectar swelling; Ah, forlorn!

In the cottage, yonder, I was born.

There's the orchard where we used to climb,

When my mates and I were boys together,

Thinking nothing of the flight of time,

Fearing nought but work and rainy weather;
Past its prime!

There's the orchard where we used to climb

"There's the mill that ground our yellow grain,
Pond, and river still serenely flowing;
Cot, there nestling in the shaded lane,
Where the lily of my heart was blowing,
MARY JANE !

There's the mill that ground our yellow grain

"There's the gate on which I used to swing,
Brook, and bridge, and barn, and old red stable;
But alas! no more the morn shall bring
That dear group around my father's table;
Taken wing!

There's the gate on which I used to swing.

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Yon green meadow was our place for playing; That old tree can tell of sweet things said, When around it Jane and I were straying; She is dead!

I am fleeing!- all I loved are fled!

"Yon white spire, a pencil on the sky,

Tracing silently life's changeful story,

So familiar to my dim old eye,

Points me to seven that are now in glory,
There on high!

Yon white spire, a pencil on the sky!

"Oft the aisle of that old church we trod,

Guided thither by an angel mother; Now she sleeps beneath its sacred sod,

Sire and sisters, and my little brother;

Gone to God!

Oft the aisle of that old church we trod!

"There I heard of wisdom's pleasant ways, -
Bless the holy lesson! but, ah, never
Shall I hear again those songs of praise,
Those sweet voices, silent now forever!

Peaceful days!

There I heard of wisdom's pleasant ways!

"There my Mary blessed me with her hand, When our souls drank in the nuptial blessing, Ere she hastened to the spirit-land;

Yonder turf her gentle bosom pressing;
Broken band!

There my Mary blessed me with her hand!

"I have come to see that grave once more,

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And the sacred place where we delighted, Where we worshipped in the days of yore, Ere the garden of my heart was blighted To the core !

I have come to see that grave once more.

Angel," said he sadly, "I am old!

Earthly hope no longer hath a morrow; Now, why I sit here thou hast been told:"

In his eye another pearl of sorrow,

Down it rolled!

am old!"

'Angel," said he sadly,

"I a

By the wayside, on a mossy stone,
Sat the hoary pilgrim, sadly musing;
Still I marked him, sitting there alone,
All the landscape like a page perusing;
Poor, unknown-

By the wayside, on a mossy stone!

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RALPH HOYZ.

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