Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

ADMONITION.

COULD you draw back the covering of the tomb! Could we see what those are now who once were mortal, Oh! How would it surprise and grieve us, to behold the prodigious transformation that has taken place on every individual; grieve us to observe the dishonour done to our nature in general, within these subterraneous lodgments! Here, the sweet and endearing aspect that wore perpetually an attracting smile, grins horribly a naked ghastly skull.—The eye that outshone the diamond's lustre, and glancing her lovely lightning into the most guarded heart: alas! Where is it? Where shall we find that rolling Sparkler? How are all those radiant glories totally—totally eclipsed! The tongue that once commanded all the charms of harmony, and all the powers of eloquence, in this strange land, "has forgot its cunning." Where are now those trains of melody, which ravished our ears? Where is that flow of persuasion, which carried captive our judgments? The great master of language and of song, is become silent as the night that surrounds him.