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    The shaded S&vahnah has ^ fetlletit bfafctti , The wood Hafc itfc ttger ^ , the Swarhji has Hi JmaKeS . He fears no Savahriah whb * s tail'dta a drain , The snake oh ttifc rjfttipef glares featful in Vain ; From priest , ' squlrfc , and farnier bat lei rilfe go free , The tiffer and sei * berii are welcome td me !

    What boots it to us that our country is rich ? The best of our life-time is spent in a ditch , We know she is pow ' rfu !—she tramples us down , And plentiful too—though our bread is so brown ; There ' s & land quite fa . s lovely far ovei * the sea , For the land that gives food is the ftiirfest to me .

    Oh give me the wood where the axe never swung , Where man never entered , and voice never rung , A hut made of togs , and a gun by my side , The land for my portion , and Jane for my bride , 'f hat hut were a palace , a country for me , — Dash on , thou proud ship , o'er the wide-rolling sea !*—p . 49-5 l .

    In the two Charities ^ the curate is rather hard upon benevolent ladies . His ridicule may hit some who do not deserve it . Their employment may hot be very unlike much of his description , and yet their motives as pure as ever glowed in a human heart . That their charity is too oRen not very intelligent cannot be denied ; but what is man ' s charity ? Do not even grave and

    eloquent senators yet cry out against the hard-hfeartedness of political economists * and bring forward their little nostrums , and wave their * Fans of goose-feathers , ' as if they were flags of truce in the war between poverty and famine ? No wonder then that women blunder , condemned as they are by the education and condition of their sex to a helpless ignorance ( of which they are taught to be proud ) of politics and philosophy . No wonder that ,

    with some glorious exception ^ , they are destitute of large and just vietvs Of the statie of society , and only do that which at present is all they can do , Viz ., follow the blind promptings of their native and tinctirrupted kind-heartednfess . Tllfe curate should have remembered , on their behalf , that it is man who has sold them for slaves to f Vanity Fair . ' But we are criticising before we quote : —

    * Prithee , what is Qharity ? Is she one , with holy eye , Weeping near to Sorrow ' bed , Soothing sinner ' s hour of dread , Fearing 1 not that stain may light On her robe bf spotless white . Though nhe treads the dtukteat scene * Whtere Misery and Sin have been P She who polntfl td Heav'ri abimi She whete heart in filled With lev * ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1832, page 542, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1818/page/38/