No. II.

(LETTER CXVI. vol. ii. p. 127.)

THE BLIND BOY OF THE VILLAGE.

(Tune-The Poor Black Boy, in "The Prize.)

For the Anniversary Meeting of the Directors and Governors of the Sea-Bathing Infirmary at Margate.

Tune-The Anacreontic.

THE Sea, as its waves after waves loudly roll,
And its tides or recede from or gain on the shore,
With awe and devotion exalts the full soul,

And the Maker's loud praises extols in its roar.
This made the "sweet Psalmist" enraptur'd exclaim,
O these are thy works, great and manifold, Lord!
Earth and Ocean alike boundless wisdom proclaim,
Be Thy wisdom and goodness by all breath ador'd.*
The Sea doth in commerce realms far distant join,
Uniting as friends whom it seems to divide,
In fellowship joins both the Poles and the Line,
As swift o'er its billows rich merchantmen ride.

* Psalm CIV. 24-26.

Within its own bosom vast treasures it bears,

Each creature that creeps, or disports on the fin,

In herring-shoals myriads each season it rears,

And the whale "who delights to take pastime therein."

These are but in part what the Parent of Good
Hath show'r'd down of mercies, benignantly free;
A constant BETHESDA Still flows the salt flood,

And health, strength, and spirits, we gain from the Sea. Here bathing, the bow'd may soon, brac'd, walk upright, The blood, now contaminate, wash, and be clean,

The dim may recover the blessing of sight,

And the unnerv'd by palsy in vigour be seen.

But, alas! how shall those who droop thus far in land,
Whom poverty, more than their sickness, bows down;
Poor wretches! no means can their stations command,
They languish unpitied, they sorrow unknown.
Taught by Him who made Sea and all men of one race,
A BETHESDA, a house of reception we raise;
Humanity's friends! the blest object embrace,
Bestow here your wealth to your Maker's high praise.

O ye, who for health here approach the wide Sea,
And ye, to these shores who for pleasure repair,
Wide open your hands, with hearts grateful and free,
Give the lame and afflicted your blessings to share.
Then, if on the bed of affliction you lie,

He who comforts in sickness alone can bestow,
Will grant you his aid when for mercy you cry,
And shed healing dews on your sickness and woe*.

*Psalm LXI. 1-3.

J. P.

VOL. II.

Q Q

No. III.

(LETTER CXXIX. vol. ii. p. 151.)

ON ALEXANDER

EMPEROR OF ALL THE RUSSIAS,

Restoring a Poor Man to Life who had been drowned.

By widows' tears, and hapless orphans' moans,
By nations' cries, and by a whole world's groans,
From Macedonia Alexander rose,

And built his fame upon his subject's woes;
Then wept, unable to extend his state,

And all succeeding times, agree to call him Great.

On Wilna's stream, as Russia's Monarch stray'd, A peasant's body on the bank was laid,

Of seeming life bereft; a friendly band,

Forth from the flood, had brought it to the land,
And gather'd round with unavailing zeal,

If signs of life they haply might reveal:
But all in vain. Yet, with paternal love,

The Prince himself would every means approve;
With unremitted energy applied,

Till thrice the hour revolv'd; when, lo! the tide
Of life again renew'd, and sighing breath

Gave token he 'd repass'd the gate of death.

With eyes up-rais'd the Father Monarch stood,

"The brightest day is this of all my life, good God !!!"
Tears from his eyes the pious words attend,
And Alexander lives the poor man's friend.

You, who the story hear, with hearts elate,
Say, is not Russia's Emperor THE GREAT?

October, 1806.

J. P.

INDEX

OF

NAMES AND SUBJECTS.

Abercrombie, ii. 102.

Ackland, General, ii. 291.

A.

Adam-and-Eve, a plant so called, ii. 438, 439.

Adams, President, ii. 470, 490.

Adriani, Count, a short account of, i. 58.

Africa, on the new settlement on the coast of, ii. 234, 236, et seq.
280, 281. Custom in, respecting the use of lizards, ibid.
Preferable to America for a settlement of free blacks, ii.

525.

Albinus, Professor, i. 42.

Alexander the Great, anecdote of, ii. 44.

Alexander, Emperor of Russia, on his humane conduct to a poor

peasant, ii. 150. See (note.)

Allen, Ralph, i. 89.

On the acquisition of his own wealth, i. 111.

Alphabet, universal, Dr. Thornton's, ii. 552.

Alston, Professor, i. 6.

America, Humane Societies in, ii. 26. On the sugar-maple in,
and properties of, 43. Annual deaths in by the small-pox,
122. On vaccination in, 160.
ledge in, 428, 446, 447. On the science of mineralogy in,
On the extension of know-
465, 466, 467. Cabinet of ores and minerals in, 470, 471.
Library in the university of Cambridge in, 471. On the con-
duct of the Federalist and the Republican in, 485.
sheep in 1810 in, 486.
Price of
Spotted fever in, 486, 487. Politics

of, 488, 489. Flourishing state of, 495.

Americans, character of the, ii. 473. Custom of, in snow storms,
474, 475. Factious spirit of the, 488, 495, 496.
Anatomical preparations, Mr. Hewson's, i. 143.
Anatomy, course of, Mr. Hewson's; i. 144.