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Large was his bounty, and his soul, sincere-
Heaven did a rec'ompense as largely send-1
He gave to Mis'ry all he had', a tear; |

He gain'd from Heav'n | (''t was all he wish'd) | 2a friend. I

No farther seek his merits to disclose',

Or draw his frailties from their dread abode', | (There they alike in trembling hope repose') | "The bosom of his Father, and his God.

DOUGLAS'S ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF.

My name is Norval;

(HOME.)

on the Grampian hills |

My father feeds his flocks; a frugal swain |
Whose constant cares were to increase his store', |
And keep his only son, myself, at home. :|
For I had heard of bat'tles, and I long'd

To follow to the field some warlike lord; |
And heaven soon granted what my sire denied! |

This moon, which rose last night, round as my shield, |
Had not yet fill'd her horns, when by her light, |
A band of fierce barbarians from the hills, |
Rush'd like a torrent down upon the vale',
Sweeping our flocks, and herds. The shepherds fled
For safety, and for succour. | I, alone', |
With bended bow, and quiver full of arrows, |
Hover'd about the enemy, and mark'd

The road he took: | then hasted to my friends' |
Whom, with a troop of fifty chosen men,
I met advancing. The pursuit I led,
Till we o'ertook the spoil-encumber'd foe,. |

We fought, and conquer'd. | Ere a sword was drawn, |
An arrow from my bow had pierc'd their chief
Who wore, that day, the arms which now I wear.
Returning home in triumph, I disdain'd

The shepherd's slothful life; and, having heard |

That our good king had summon'd his bold peers |
To lead their warriors to the Carron side, |
I left my father's house, and took with me |
A chosen servant to conduct my steps. -|
'Yon trembling coward who forsook his master. |
"Journeying with this intent, | I pass'd these towers, |
And, heaven-directed, I came this day to do
The happy deed that gilds my humble name. |

THE GRAVE OF FRANKLIN.

(MISS C. H. WATERMAN.)

No chisell'd urn is rear'd to thee; |
No sculptur'd scroll enrolls its page |
To tell the children of the free',

Where rests the patriot, and the sage.]
Far in the city of the dead', |

A corner holds thy sacred clay; |
And pilgrim feet, by reverence led', |
Have worn a path that marks the way. I
There, round thy lone, and simple grave',|
Encroaching on its marble gray', ]
Wild plantain weeds, and tall grass wave', |
And sunbeams pour their shadeless ray. |
Level with earth', thy letter'd stone'

And hidden oft by winter's snow-
Its modest record tells alone |

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Whose dust it is that sleeps below,.* |

That name's enough

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that honour'd name'|

No aid from eulogy requires, :|

'Tis blended with thy country's fame, |

And flashes round her lightning spires. |

*The body of Franklin lies in Christ-Church burying-ground, corner of Mulberry and Fifth street, Philadelphia. The inscription upon his tomb-stone is as follows:

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When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people | to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, | a decent respect to the opinions of mankind | requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. I

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life', lib'erty, and the pursuit of happiness; | that to secure these rights, governments are insti

The Declaration of Independence was publicly read from the steps of the State-House, July 4th, 1776.

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tuted among men, deriving their just powers | from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, | it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established | should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accus.tomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations | pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies;d and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present king of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object | the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. I To prove this, | let facts be submitted to a candid world. I

He has refused his assent to laws | the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. |

He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; | and, when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other laws | for the accommodation of large districts of people, | unless those people |

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would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature," a right inestimable to them, and formidable to tyrants only. ]

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records, for the sole purpose | of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. ]

He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly | for opposing with manly firmness | his invasions on the rights of the people. |

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He has refused for a long time after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected, whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise, the state remaining, in the mean time, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners, refusing to pass others | to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands. I

He has obstructed the administration of justice | by refusing his assent to laws | for establishing judiciary powers.

He has made judges dependent on his will alone' | for the tenuref of their offices, and the amount, and payment of their salaries. |

He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of new of ficers to harass our people and eat out their substance. [

He has kept among us in times of peace' standing armies without the consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the military independent of, and superior to the civil power. |

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He has combined with others to subject us to a

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