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SONG.
TMI BR/.EI OF YAUOW.
They braes were benny, Yarrow* stream ?
VV hen firft on them I met my lov-r:
Thy braes how dreary, Yarrow dream \
When now thy waves his body cover i
Forever now, O Yarrow dream I
Thou art to me a dream sorrow j
For never on thy banks Pnali I
’ Behold my love, the flower ot Yarrow r
He premised me a milk-white deed
To bear me to his father’s bowers ;
lie premised me a lntle page
To feu ire me to his fathers’s towers )
He promised me a wedding-ring....
The wedding-tlav was dx’d to-morrow J
Flow’ lie is v/edded to his grave.,,.
Alas ! hi; watery grav&in Yarrow.
Tweet were h : s words when lad we mtt j
My paflion I as freely told him !
Clafj/d in his firms, 1 little thought
That I fliould never more behold him !
Scarce was hr gone, 1 saw his ghod !
It vaniftihi with a lhriek offoirow....
Thrice did the water-wraith * ascend,
And gave a doleful groan thro’ Yarrow !
His mother from /he window look’d
With all the !®ngings of a mother ;
HK little After weeping walk’d
The green-wood p;th to meet her brother.
“I hej fought him Laftj they fought him Wft,
They fought him U the fcrelt thorough 9
They on 1 )’ saw the cloud of night,
They only heard the roar of Y arrow ! j
}\o longer f.om the window look,
Thou had no son, thou tender mother !
i!%olonger walk ; thou lovely maid j
Alas ! thou had no more a brother.
.No longer tec-k him East or Welt,
And fe.trch no more t e r red thorough 5
For wandering in the rl. bt L dark,
He fell a lifeless cor ft In \ arrow 1
* The Water-fiend : sometimes called the Kelpie
Ths INQUEST.
No. h
* f ! Strive tie Jams June a ?s> gain.*’
IRANCIfi.
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Acknowledged. Lons; have the beneficial cf
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established ; long will they continue to be
read with profit and delight. Much good
has alio been produced by the labours of
subordinate periodical cllhyids.
From the avidity with which this fpccies
f>f wi iting is read, it would appear that the
public receive them with more favor and
fat is fadt ion, than is extended to, or derived
from more systematical publications •, or those
which are intended to elucidate any particular
lubjtd, and texpurfue it through all its nu
merous divisions and principles*
Man is fond of changing his pleasures, his
amusements and inductions. The mind :
wearied with a constant pursuit of the lame’
object. pauses with its fatigue, but refumes,
with renewed vigour, its exertions/ when a
new one is prefenced. lienee does novelty
bring with it so many allurements—hence it
fubje&s to its controul so many of the human
race.
Fc.v have the resolution to re Hi ft the fafein
ations of novelty *, nor would Inch icfiliancc
on all cccafions be confident with duty or
propriety. In the form of improvement it is
difcoveruble in all our plans. The accumu
lated errors of ages, it dedroys : the fabric
which had been thought too high for the ar
row of the archer ; too hurd for the feythe of
time, it rafes to the ground : dogmas and in
ftirutions which were thought eftabli&ed be
yond the reach of reiearch, and to have the
lad touch of perfection which the hand of
wlfdom itfelf could gives it overturns: man
ners, fafhions, laws and even nations are
changed by its powers.
Its career may be too furious *, its fpeea too
ere at. Old errors rruv be exploded but hv
new, and even truth may be for a time borne
down by its progress, But though it may
sometimes give birth to evil, it is dill benefi
cial, it is dill beloved and will ever retain its
predominance over the human mind.
While this principle Ihail continue to ope
rate in the world, the periodical writer will
r.ever want a fubjefb : while man retains his
paffons. he will not want readers ; and while
he is not inluderably dull, he will not be
without admirers.
All iu Fleets interfiling or pleafmg to the;
fornmun ity, & not involving religious or do
litical difputcs, are within the plan of chele
* , i
numbers. Subjects moral, entertaining, or
literary, will be attended to, and while the
pallion for novelty will perceive exertions sor ’
its gratification, the path so often trod by the
predeceflors of the “ Inqued,” have it is be
lieved, yet, lomc ungathered dowers on its
borders.
Thole who have witnessed the changing
fcencs attendant on life from its lpring to its
•utamn, on whom the winter yf has drea
dy shed its snows, have much to remember,
and to compare with what is patting around
them. Just hastening to the close of the short
year of existence j they feel not the full tide
of the pafuons and look with greater calm
ness on the events of the day than can be ex
peded from the immediate adors. Yet the
pafTiOn of novelty has not ccafed its operation
in their breasts, nor do they ccafe to have an
interest in its changes. It is therefore, hoped
that although the Inquest has never travelled
to Egypt in order to ineafure the base cf a
pyramid, his claims to attention will not be
found wholly unfounded.
With a fixed regard for virtue and as deep
an abhorrence ot vice, it will ever be the aim
of the Inquest to cherilh the one and expose
the other. Yet while endeavoring to correct
error and confirm moral principles, its tinc
tures will be general—its garments cut for
many—and no one, who may find himlclr
fitied, jfhali with any julticc lay that the mea
fvue was uken from him alone. S.
Correspondents will find altintisn to
ibiir favors by lodging them with the printer.
MeJJrs. Freneau & hViillams,
\ The havock which the caterpillars
are making; ia the cotton fields on the
Edifto and adjacent idands, ought to
induce the planters to make everv effort
to counteract their ravages. It is re
marked by a writer on the fubjedt,
that the vapour of fulphur is mortal to
these infects, ilb.of fulphur will clear as
many trees as grow on several acres ;
and which, (when the trees are load
ed with caterpillars,) is effected by
throwing fome pinches of fulphur on a
lighted charcoal. This method has!
been fuccefsfully tried in France. It
is further said if the borders of the
ground where you plant be sown with
hemp, that, although the neighbour
hood is infeffed with caterpillars, the
space enclosed by the hemp will be
perfectly free, and that not one of the
vermin will approach it.
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4 He was a man of mod extraordinary courage ; a
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