Of battle, or the darkly rolling smoke
Of conflagration, thus its giant towers
Pile on the sky--ye care not, but enjoy
Its form and glory,--Thus it is with art!
Whether 'twere born amid the sunny depths
Of a glad heart entranced in mutual love--
Or, likelier far, alas! the sorrowing child
Of restless anguish, and baptized in tears--
Or wrung from Genius even amid the throes
Of worse than death--Ye gaze and ye admire,
Nor pause to ask what it hath cost the heart
That gave it being!

_Blackwood's Magazine._

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Romance is ever readier
To make unbidden sacrifice, than rear
The sober edifice of mutual bliss! Ibid.

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TRUE PATRIOTISM.


Promote religion--protect public morals--repress vice and
infidelity--keep the different classes of the community in strict
subordination to each other--and cherish the principles, feelings, and