May untaught men soon not be found-
Oppression have an end-

Earth soon become like heavenly ground,
And man to man a friend.

O huge, rough mass of unwrought mind!
It pours vast shame on human kind :
How dark its sphere-how base its aims!
Its passions burn, or malice reigns.

But where the power of culture goes,
It tames the soul; dispels its woes;
Lights up its lamps; its objects rise—
It seeks for wealth that never dies.

Then let the wise, the learned, the good,
Send forth their influence like a flood;
Drive off chill glooms, pure friendship spread,
Till vice, and war, and pain are fled.

Thus Adam's children all might learn
Wisdom's large treasures ne'er to spurn;
The Bible prize-true virtue love,
Till God in smiles our race approve.

FEMALE IMPROVEMENT,

Thou finest, fairest part of man

How long neglected lie?

When shall some kinder, wiser plan,

Thy mental wants supply?

Thou towering man-thou learned and strong!

Let woman be thy mate;

For sacred rights to her belong
Upon rich learning's seat.

All that have power among the great,
Bid woman nobly rise;

Let those who guide the helm of state,
Her elevation prize.

Enlarge her needful power to aid
Her husband's wealth and joy;
Enlarge her power the mind to feed
Of their own girl and boy.

By this fair means man's worth does grow;
By this the nation thrives;

By this fair means men wisdom know ;
By woman wisdom lives.

Thus only shall the church prevail
Of Jesus, woman's friend:

While her apt heart and mind avail
To nourish and defend.

Let woman ne'er her worth debase,
Her honor value high;

And ever smile in Virtue's face
Till Vice shall shrink and die.

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NATURE AND ITS LORD.

Nature! my God's own fair domain,
Thy grand, rich scenes produce my strain;
Thy stately trees, thy charming flowers,
Thy falling snows, thy genial showers;

Thy bulky clouds, thy pleasant air,
Thy thunder's voice, thy lightning's glare,
Thy concave sky, with mantle blue,
Thy lofty rainbow's varied hue:

Thy brilliant worlds-bright dancing north,
Thy meteors brisk, straight darting forth,
Thy mountains huge, thy rivers grand,
Thy ocean's wave, thy clean, smooth strand;

Thy brook's calm sound, thy stream-fall's roar,
Thy insect's song, thy birds' full choir,
Thy blooming fields, thy waving corn,
Thy stirring life, thy opening morn;

Thy shining day, thy starry night;-
All give my soul pure, strong delight,
Dispel my glooms when I am sad;
They cheer my heart and make me glad,

Attend my walks, around me dwell,
And say, that God made all things well—
The dazzling, mighty, faithful sun,
The massive globes that round him run,-

Jupiter, Saturn, Herschel, Earth,

Their twice nine moons, in changing mirth;
Venus, Astroids, Mercury, Mars-
These God well made, and all the stars.

Fair nature's Lord, I'll thee adore;
The more I see, I'll love thee more;
Enough for me thyself to know,
And feast on joys that from thee flow.

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TIME'S FLIGHT.

How fleet e'en childhood's years;
The youth's more speedy fly:
Then middle life, with songs and tears,
In hurry passes by.

Soon hoary locks come on,

And warn "For death prepare ;"

How soon the trembling frame bows down,
And tells "The grave is near."

Then, children, time well prize :
And youth, your days well spend;
Let middle life be calm and wise;
Old age may peace befriend.

ENGLISH GRAMMAR

MADE VERY EASY

FOR CHILDREN AT HOME OR AT SCHOOL;

OR,

THE DIFFERENT SORTS AND FORMS OF WORDS SPOKEN OF BY THEMSELVES, AND ALSO IN THEIR RELATIONS

OR CONNECTIONS WITH EACH OTHER.

NOTE.-I use INDIRECT definition, explanation, and illustration of the meaning of words, not well understood by the pupils, instead of that which is formal.

THIS branch of learning has been very hard for beginners. There has been a trial here to make it much easier and shorter.

This treatise, or discourse, is designed to help parents and other teachers to instruct children on this subject, by talking to them, while they are at suitable work, or not at work, as they please. But if people will still put a book of grammar, or of proper speaking, into the hands of children to be learned by rote, this will probably do as well, at least, for that purpose as any other.

I will now say a little to you about all language. It is any way or method of telling others our thoughts. There are as many of these ways as we have outward senses, which are five-seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, smelling.

The first and chief method of language is by the noise, or voice, made with air breathed and pressed from our lungs, or breast, for us to hear.

This