In swaddling clothes they pinn'd the baby up, And laid her smiling in a chicken-coop; While mother Moв, that steady wet-nurse, press'd The sturdy infant to her milky breast. Around benignant angels joyous flock'd, Some air'd her clouts and some her cradle rock'd, * See Supplementary Notes. So at his sov'reign will we backward tread, up With fallen angels fills the world below, Long since thy Gentile sons, O Athens ! paid From the green pastures and the meads they lov'd; And leave their sweethearts and their wives at home, Raw hands on board, no compass and no boat. * Commonly called the tree-toad. † An animal known to the Ante-Diluvians by the name of Woodchuck. For a further account of this wonderful quadruped see Supplementary Notes. Yet notwithstanding all the vows they paid, And stole her clothes, her attributes and look. * The world has been for ever and for aye In expectation of this jovial day. And that Religion which, from realms above, Brought peace to earth, and rules the world by love, Would long ago have made the human race Blest in th' enjoyment of supernal grace, Had not the tyrant ATHANASIUS wed The Church to State, and forc'd the bride to bed: And, like coquettes, led foolish man astray. ** * * * When Civil Power, whose life is but a span, For this elegant specimen of hibernianism see the text. ECHO.....NO. V. 66 From the Argus of November 1, 1791. "TELL IT NOT IN GATH." ON the morning after your last town-meeting, I was on Bea con-Hill, and casting my eyes on the Eastern side of the Monument, read these words" AMERICANS, WHILE FROM THIS EMINENCE, SCENES OF LUXURIANT FERTILITY, OF FLOURISHING COMMERCE, AND THE ABODES OF SOCIAL HAPPINESS, MEET YOUR VIEW, FORGET NOT THOSE, WHO, BY THEIR EXERTIONS, HAVE SECURED TO YOU THESE BLESSINGS." You need not wonder that the singular occurrence of the preceding evening, at Faneuil-hall, rushed into my mind. Shall Europe hear, shall our Southern brethren be told, that Samuel Adams rose to speak in the midst of his fellow citizens, and was silenced! That, while others, who were born but in season to enjoy the blessings, which he earned, were applauded, SAMUEL ADAMS could not be heard! Long may we remember that he rose to speak against the THEATRE in Boston, and could not be heard! Was he in fault that he wished to speak the sentiments of his heart, and to deliver the language of enlightened religion and truth? Do you blame him, that he wished at death, to leave his country virtuous as well as free? RICHLY HAS HE EARNT THE RIGHT TO SPEAK, AND TO BE HEARD ! Is his voice weak ?That voice once made the proudest kingdom in Europe tremble to its centre. Does his hand shake?— That hand was once firm, strong were its sinews, and ably did |