Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Parnassian Spring

The following, with this motto, "not to Explore unknown, but to ENFORCE known truths," is recommended to the perusal of Mr. O---, the supposed author of a late retrospect.

ARE nobly then; but conscious of your trust,
As ever warm and bold be ever just;
Nor court applause in these degenerate days;
The villain's censure is extorted praise.
But G--- be steady in a noble end.
And shew mankind that truth has yet a friend,
'Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write,
As foplings grin to shew their teeth are white;
To brand a doubtful folly with a smile,
Or madly blaze unknown defects, is vile:
'Tis doubly vile when to prove your art,
To fix an arrow in a blameless heart,
O lost to honor's voice, O doom'd to shame,
Thou fiend accurs'd, thou murderer of fame!
Fell ravisher from innocence to tear
That name, than liberty, than life more dear
Where shall thy baseness meet its just return,
Or what repay thy guilt but endless scorn?
And know immortal truth shall mock thy toil:
Immortal truth shall bid the shaft recoil:
With rage retorted, wing the deadly dart;
And empty all its poison in thy heart,

PLAIN DEALER.