Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser

For the Gazette of the United States.

MR. Fenno,

The following lines were written last Summer, soon after the decease of the person to whom they relate—Having accidentally fallen into my hands, if you please you may afford them a corner in your Gazette.

C.

To the Memory of Mr. HAMPTON—
one of the Preceptors in the Friends Academy in this City

Not the fair ornaments that please us most,
The pleasing mein, or scientific coat,
Can stop the spirit in its bless'd career,
From joys delusive to a bliss sincere—
HAMPTON, of manners mild, calm and serene,
Whose visage spoke a gentle soul within,
Too soon for us from mortal scenes withdrew
Too soon to friendship bid the last adieu—
O ever honor'd in the noblest plan
That can engage the faculties of man
To teach the lovely female mind to soar,
And on the expanding faculties to pour
The beams of science, virtue, truth and peace,
Life's woes to lessen, and its joys encrease—
Thine was the task, and rapture fill'd thy breast,
When genius drank what science did impart;
When virtue blush'd, and emulation fir'd,
And female minds to learning's heights aspir'd.
Hampton thy early fall, Shall genius mourn
And friendship's tearful eye bedew thy urn;
And envied virtue soaring into fame,
With heart-felt anguish dwell upon thy name.