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portentous growth of hair, constitute the 11 resolved to remain, and my horse was has-
outlirie of this paragon in dress. Hemea-jtily put up. Immediately after which the
sures more about the waist than over the! stranger mounted a small sorrel, aS he said,
shoulders, talks little, eats voraciously, and to get his note changed,
travels alone. Our wags think his formida- I had not lift
ble preparations betoken an assault upon er, before the woman
the heart of some fair eastern damsel, who doubts as to my host
I had not long been in the house, howev-
excited anew my
She inquired whe
POBT3Y.
FROM “the memorial.”
YE coma to me with eyes of light—
Fair creatures of my dreams !
Ye move around me calm and bright,
Like sunset over streams,
Where the last flush of dying day
In liquid lustre glows,
Then passes into night away,
Like rain drops from a rose.
Fair creatures, soft your voices are—
I hear their tender tone;
And all the twilight echoes bear
Their melody alone:
It fills the woods, the rock, the plain,
With an all-pervading thrill;
And listning to the unseen strain
The breathless air is still.
All innocent your beauty blows—
’Tis bright and purely fair;
The rose—the young and virgin rose,
Buds forth in sweetness there;
And there are light and laughing eyes,
That have never wept in pain;
Hope beckons you on, as away she flies,
And love, that must all be vain.
3ta y» fair creatures! I bid you stay,
fyHi JBtov with you my dreams are heaven—
t ' " oo soon the vision must fade away—
s Not forever theso joys were given;
r Benduvet me now that winning smile,
ThgiEngeriag look of light—.
Vbt&fle-i-^oause.—and charm awhile,
l -re yon vanish away in night.
i 7W* TIME'S CHANGES.
I saw l er one ~—so freshly fair
Thct, like a blossom just unfolding,
She open’d to life’s cloudless air,
Ana nature joy’d to view its moulding;
Her smile ! it haunts my memory yet—
Her check’s fine hue divinely glowing~
Hei*v>sc-bud mouth—her eyes of jet—
Around, on all, their lights bestowing:
Oh! who c.juld look on such a form,
So, nobly "ree, and softly tender,
And darkly dream that earthly storm
Should aitn such sweet delicious splendor!
For in her mien, and in her face,
And in her young step’s fairy lightness,
Nought coi,ld the raptured gazer trace
Bqt beauty’s glow, and pleasure’s brightness.
I saw her twice—an altered charm—
But still of magjc richest, rarest, .1
Than girlhood's talismiih less warwr^
Though yet of earthly fights the fairest:
Upon her breastWie held^kitu,
The very image! of its/^ther,
Which ever to hm^mhing smiled,—
They seemed b live,but in each other:—
But matron cs/es^'or lurking wo,
Her thougtf less, sinless youth had banish’d,
ad from hpWicheek the roseate glow
rod’s balmyjnorn had vanish’d;
srieyes, upon her brow,
^meihing softer, fonder, deeper,
‘dreams some visioned wo
i 1 ad fejrake the Elysium v of the sleeper.
I sawder thrice—Fate’s dark decree
^ ( widow’s garments had array’d her,
Yet beautiful she seem’d to be,
jAs ere my reveries portray’d her.
The glow, the glance, had pass’d away,
The sunshine, and the sparkling glitter;
Still, though I noted pale decay,
The retrospect was scarcely bitter:
For in their place a calmness dwelt,
. Serene, subdoing, soothing, holy;
In feeling which, the bosom felt
That every louder mirth was folly?—
A pensiveness—which is not grief;
A stillness—as of sunset streaming—
A fairy flow on flower and leaf,
Till earth looks like a landscape dreaming.
A last time—and unmoved she lay,
Beyond life’s dim uncertain river,
A glorious mould of fading clay,
From whence the spark had fled forever!
I gazed—my breast was like to burst—
And, as I thought of years departed,
The years wherein I saw her first,
When she, a girl, was lightsome hearted,—
And when I mused on later days,
As moved she in her matron duty,
A happy mother, in the blaze
, Of npened hope and sunny beauty,—
f felt the chill—I turned aside—
Bleak Desolation’s cloud came o’er me,
And being seem’d a troubled tide,
Whose wreclis in darkness swam before me.
may be willing to abandon the luxuries of I tlierl was arinod—whether learned any mo-
her home to encounter the hardships of the ney in my portmanteau—where I had been
with a race of quadrupeds of a description
entirely different from those which now in
habit it. Most of the genera, and all the
spbci.es known in fossil remains, have been
annihilated.
| wilderness, and “ all for love.”
I in the neighbourhood—and a hundred simi- j
Travellers from the south of Ohio have a 1 lar questions, to all of which I answered with
strong resemblance to southerners, while | promptness, not choosing to betray any re-
. those of the north retain the manners
| their New England ancestry.
Our Canadian neighbours afford more
I amusement than any other class o^visiters.
The Upper Canadian gentleman iates re-
I publicans and Yankees with all his might,
and considers the word “democrat” the
most abusive epithet in the English lan
guage. He conceives his individual loyal
ty of the utmost importance to his king, to
| whose interest he is immeasurably devoted,
j —He rarely eats at a public table, through
fear of lessening his dignity by tin indiscri-
iminate intermixture with strangers. Per
haps in the whole British, empire^ George
the Fourth could not find a more loyal set
of subjects than in this little propi»ee,- with
of | serve, as that might make matters worse.
1 waited anxiously for the man’s return, de
bating with myself whether I would not
frame in excuse for going on, a3 soon as he
returned—be was to have been on by nine
in the evening, but eleven came; the family
all appeared weary of sitting up, and I final
ly gflve up the point, and yielded to the fre
quent intimations that I could retire, and
wai shown to my chamber.
When left here to myself, I examined into
my situation in regard to the means ofiny es
cape, if an escape should he necessary. I
found I was literally in prison. The win
dows were firmly nailed down, .and the sash
unusually strong—the only door was that by
which I entered; it separated my room
the existence of which he is probably unac-1 from tho chamber in which, it appeared to
quainted.
-The Canadian girls are pretty,
and do not appear to have inherited the no
tions of their fathers. The seem equally
fond of the attentions of loyal and demo-
| eratic dandies, and many of them, no doubt,
[ may live to be good republicans.
It has been before observed, that broad
| national characteristics are easily discover
ed. .The English, German and French, are I circumstances
! our principal visiters, and we distinguish great force 1
me, all the family slept. It was fastened
Atrial Phenomena on the lop of the Pic
du Midi.-—M. ; Ramond has lately read to
the Academy of Sciences at Paris, the con
clusion of his memoir on the meteorology
of the Pic du Midi. He has established the
important fact, that while the wind at the
foot of the mountain blows in all directions,
at its summit it is constantly southerly; and
this southerly current is that which the earth’s
motion produces in the higher regions of the
atmosphere, from the equator to the poles.
One day M. Ramond was witness, on the
Pic du Midi, of a singular spectacle: his own
shadow, and the shadow of two persons who
were with him, were thrown on a cloud a
little distance above them, with a surprising
exactness and sharpness of outline ; and,
which was more extraordinary, these shad
ows were surrounded by resplendant glories
of the most brilliant hues. “ A beholder
of this magnificent sight.” M. Ramond ob
serves, “ might fancy himself present at his
own apotheosis.” This effect has been ob
served by Bouguer, Saussure’s sons, and
others ; and Bouguer explains the glory by
oven with a coat or a shoe. It is to'be
married for your money, or have a wi#§jaL
ways casting up the sum total of the dollars £
she brought. It is to have your son's stera
surrounded hy “rtiantraps,” and your daugh
ter made a target for the speculating and -
selfish to aim at. It is to measure friend
ship by the length of your purse, to buy flat
tery and sell happiness. It is te have.debtore
smile upon you, and knaves shake you by
the hand. It is to have a dyspeptic wife and
pale children. It is to have sons go to col- ,
lege to buy themes of wis6r heads, and
daughters’ brains turned by the flattery of
fools. It is to be invited to drink poor
wine, that you may give better in return.
It is to have your lady’s peace disturbed by
a higher feather, or a brighter diamond. It
is to buy green peas at nine shillings, and
relish them not, because your neighbour
gives two dollars. It is to have relations
wish you a shert life and a long will. It is
to have your widow mourn bitterly, provided
her fortune depends on perpetual widow
hood. It is to have more temptations in
this world than other men ; and lastly, to
find the entrance to a better more difficult
than the rest of mankind.—Mass. Journal.
by a wooden latch on the outside, and 1 no- the decomposition of light through frozen
ticed that there was a string in the inside particles suspended in the cloud ; but M.
Panther Hunt.—Not many days ago an
elderly emigrant to the county of Washte
naw, discovered, not far from his domicil,
what he conceived to be the tracks of a pan-
when I entered, by which the latch could be {Ramond rejects this explanation, because ther, and immediately came to the praise-
raised. This the woman pulled through af- the slightly elevated cloud on which the sha- worthy resolution of destroying the feroci-
11 " dows appeared could not, he thinks, from J ous animal. Sixteen active and courageous
ter her, when she shut the door and left me,
leaving me no means of opening it, or in
deed of getting out of the room under any
without the application of
down, and reflected a
I sat
them at a glance. English manners have I while on all these transactions—and my sus
been much misrepresented; instead of the picions all came back. Presently I heard
the temperature prevalent on the Pic hold in
suspension any frozen particles.
The extreme transparency of the air in
these elevated regions, causes several ef
fects different from those observable upon
the surface of the earth.
peevish and surly braggadocio usually de- the trampling of a horse; after as I thought the soil, which absorbs the solar rays, is fre
” * 1 ' *■’ " * *’ 1 ' 1 i-: • ■’ rr " quently, upon those heights, out of all pro
portion to that of the atmosphere. Thus a-
In-1 conversation was carried on in a low tone,
I scribed, we have found the English gentle-1 the voices of two men in the yard. They I
man, though sometimes cold and distant, entered the house, and a long and constant
never troublesome or obtrusive.
| stead of complaining of every thing Ameri-1 which I could not hear distinct enough to
[can, we havi heard him speak with respect catch a single word, with one exception
olgour institutions, and with gratitude of our when one pf^ihe men raising his voice a
hospitality. An opinion of the English has little with emphasis, said, “ At all events,
gain, the assembled rays at the focus of a
lens have much greater power than if they
had passed through a gross and less trans
parent air. M. Ramond remarked, that a
lens of a very small diameter was sufficient
ous animal.
young woodsmen were soon invited to hunt
the animal, and when they assembled, with
their rifles, &c. it was decided that the woods
in which it had taken shelter should be sur
rounded by the arty,who were to approach
Thus the heat of | towards the centre. The manoeuvre suc
ceeded—tho panther was driven to A tree,
around the foot of which the party, elated
with their success, soon gathered. The
angry animal looked down upon his pur
suers, his glaring eye-balls seeming to shoot
a tremor into the stoutest Heart. In a mo
ment several balls'entered his body—but he
fell not—the death pang had fixed his ferri-
been wrongly formed, by the attempts of we must majke sure of him in some way”— to set fire to a body, which another lens, of ble nails deep into the tree, and there he
j many addle-headed fops of our own country a declaration that might have reference to double its size, could scarcely have heated hung as in mockery of the hunters and their
* ’ '* •* ** * * ’ * ’ * ‘ 1 1 The extreme brilliancy of j rifles. At length a daring young man offer
ed to climb the tree, and force the panther
in low places.
i to imitate their manner, as they have .been me or might not.
represented in plays and caricatures—men
whose only consequence is derived from
j their tailors, and whose only ambition is. to
receive from the fair sex that most con-
j temptible of all epithets, “ a pretty fellow.” I hand grasping each, and my money between I ent rays of the solar spectrum.
, This apish assumption of foreign manners the bolster and bed. In that situation, imagined that what prevents this from being
has produced unfavorable impiessions, which so great was my fatigue, that l fell almost proved with facility in lower places is, that
I was alamied ; I picked my pistol flints, colours on the summit of lofty mountains,
j and examined the loading—threw off my induces M. Ramond to think, that it might
coat only,' jand extinguished the light, laid perhaps be easy to prove there the elevation
down with my pistols under my pillow, a of the temperature produced by the differ-
It may be
from his hold,
tion, reached the
Having,
with much exer-
fork of the tree in which
the animal was lodged, he seized the tail,
and, exerting himself to the utmost, tb© x
panther was thrown to the earth, which he
no sooner touched than the ,dogs went iii
would not exist, were it known that the I immediately asleep, and did not awaken until the gross air which is found there is itself upon him, and having revenged themselves
wouldrbe English bear as little resemblance
to their models, as they do to the generality
of their countrymen.
The Adventure of a Night.—I was travel-
I ling with a view to collect the outstanding
accounts of several extensive mercantile es
tablishments in Philadelphia, and bad in my
possession notes to a large amount, when,
in the prosecution of my journey homeward,
I Was obliged to remain at a somewhat rude,
disorderly public house, for several hours,
in consequence of a violent storm, and when
the weather allowed me again to travel, I
found myself 39 miles from Harrisburgh, the
point I had calculated on reaching that day,
and that I had but an hour’s sun remaining.
susceptible, in consequence of its want of | for the trouble which they
transparency, of being heated in such a man
ner as to make the difference of the rays in'
appreciable.—Mechanics Register.
something hard under my shoulder aroused
me—one of my pistols had slipped down,
and I was lying on it; I replaced it more
c autiously. ' But at this moment whispering |
m the next room alarmed me ; I listened
and listened again; the wind was blowing
without; and fifty times I fancied I heard
the latch lifted, and grasped my pistols to
fire. At last, however, it died away. The
heat almost.suffocated me. I rose, undres-1
sed entirely, and again laid down ; an hour
passed and I again fell asleep. When I a-
woke it was by a gentle rapping at the door, j and talking is the expression of one’s ideas
Ladies' Albums.—The Album is a very
pretty book ; it catches many fine scraps
of writing. The loving swain will some
times select this mode to discover- his affec
tion : but you may go further, and detect
the character ,of all men who write in it: for
been put to
in the chase, they walked surlily aside, and
permitted their masters to approach and
view the prostrate, yet terrible foe. The
son of the old gentleman who hid discover
ed the track, first came near, and taking the
panther by the tail, he raised it at arm’s
length, and having examined it for a mo
ment, he called to his'TatherDad,”
said he, “ this is our old Cat!”—“ Poh,”
said the old man, “ that can’t be—’tis twice
writing is but talking with pen and ink, as large as our old cat.”—“ Look for your-
•inrl tnllrinrr ic tVio Avnroocirm rtf* nnn^c i^ooa I oalT^ cnld iVia ann HPUa a!
and a call, “ Sir, will you please to get-tip
to breakfast V
Never shall 1 forget my joy—it seemed
like a resurrection from the dead: for had
I preferred the hazard of the road, however, an attack been made upon me in the dark-
to lodging at such a place, and accordingly
set forward on my way. By inquiry, I dis
covered before I set out, that a man who
had formerly followed the sea, and against
whom I had a small bill, resided a few miles I man paid me
from the main road, and, by going that dis
tance out of the way, I could see him. The
ness of the night, I know I should have had
a slim chance, armed as I was, against two
fearless desperadoes. I hurried down ; eve
ry face I met was cheerful and happy; the
I will, therefore, give you an index to the
character of those who^vvrrte for a lady’s
album.
If the author be of a phelgmatic, thinking
turn of mind, admiring the operations of the
laws of nature more than those of art, his
piece will partake of utility ; if of a refined
sensibility and goed education, his senti
ments will ombine rhetorical elegance, as
self,” said the son. The thing was* then
subjected to the old gentleman’s examina
tion, who was reluctantly forced to admit
“ that it was our old cat.—Detroit Gazette.
Magnus and Socin, two celebrated lawyers
of Pisa in Italy, were frequently opposed to
each other on points of law. Upon one oc
casion, when the famous Lorenzo de Medi-
..... w . . „ , cis was present, Magnus, finding himself
my money ; he had really | delicate compliment, and a hint for intellec-1 very hard pressed by his adversary, con
ceived the idea of forging at the moment a
law to serve his own particular case. Socin
been deceived in the note, and had found tual improvement; if wanting refinement
some difficulty in getting it exchanged, and a delicate sensibility, but would wish to
bill had been reckoned a lost one, and I de-J which wasthe cause of his late detention appear to possess both, his piece will be saw through the trick, and being no less
termined to see him if possible. I reached I the night b^forq. His oddest son had come bombast, and express so gros sly his love of J ning than his adversary, when it came tu ...»
[his house at sun down and found him at home with him : the good woman told me, j learning and beauty, as to show his charac- turn to reply, he invented another law which
home. He was a large, ferocious looking, j very kindly i that she feared I had been dis- j ter and want of each ; if a lady's man, his completely undid the effects of Magnus’s
weather-beaten man, with a dark lowering j turbed, as the old man and his son had set piece will he accurate in grammar, show a I quotation. The latter immediately inter-
FROM THE BUFFALO JOURNAL.
Sketches of Character.—The term ‘South
erner’ is applied indiscriminately to all our
visitors from the southern States. They
resemble each other too nearly to admit a
distinction.-—The fine gentleman of the
south, whatever may be said of his aristo
cracy, has more suavity of manner and a
more open and affable address than his
northern neighbor. He is inactive and even
indolent in his appearance, hut extremely
irritable, and when excited invariably ex
hibits thtit fierceness of passion and purpose
which are the characteristic of his climate.
He is always conversible, yet never inquisi
tive ; rarely learned, but usually intelligent.
He is detected at first sight by a rich though
-neglected dress, and the indifference with
which he notes surrounding objects. The
brow, huge red whiskers, and a rough and
forbidding address. He examined the bill a
moment, acknowleged its correctness, and
told me if I could change a $50 note he
would discharge it
I replied without hesitation, and he
brought the note, but held it in his hand wai
ting for his change. Then and not till then
I recollected that to make up the sum, I
should have to resort to my large pocket
book, and expose all the money I had, not
having a sufficiency in the small one I car
ried, for the purpose of changing, in my vest
pocket I paused a moment, hut consider
ing that my horse was tolerably fleet, I de
termined to run the hazard, whatever it
might be, of tempting him by the exhibitidn
of the cash 1 had by me. I unfolded roll
after roll, and he looked on with an eye
apparent curiosity. The change was coun
ted down—he produced the note—I saw at
up very late examining into and arranging
some accounts which they had against a fel
low who had recently become insolvent in
the neighbourhood.
southern fair have a naivette and simplicity the first glance it was a counterfeit, and told
of manners which is really bewitching.
They are frank, fearless, and unsuspecting,
and have nothing studied or affected about
them. They are not as knowing as our
him so. He betrayed, I thought, a kind of
forced surprise at this declaration—but soon
rejoined that if I would sit down, he would
immediately put off, return the note to the
northern gentlewomen, but have more viva- person of whom he received it, and procure
city and more wit—perhaps not as distinct
ly beautiful, yet quite as interesting. Few
of our fair visiters receive more attention or
excite ' more admiration than the “ dark
c ved” southern girl.
We have seldom seen the “gouging,
dirking, bragging” Kentuckian. When he
docs appear, he invariably sustains the
character of his native state, as the prince
of bullies, and the pink of republicanism.
He lays it down as an axiom, that one
Kentuckian is more than a match for any
three men of any other state or nation, and
is sure not to be disputed,—boasts of the
remarkable strength and beauty of his coun
trywomen, but has never exhibited them here.
The Illinois dandy is a novelty of his
kind. A small narrow rimmed hat, suwar-
row boots, a frill like a flying jib, and a half
a shawl neckcloth, surmounted with a most
In the Dictionaire Physique, of Father
Paulian, is the following curious case jr The
beginning of May, 1760, there was brought
to Avignon, a true Lithopagus, or Stone I poses the characters of those who write in it,
display in great and pretty words, without
ideas, and all qpnfusion ; if a plain honest
man, without affectation or any eccentrici
ties, or strong points of character, his piece
will be characterized with good sense, be |
short and comprehensive. The Album is a j
valuable part of a lady’s paraphernalia; it ]
serves to relieve an hour’s ennui, and ex-
rupted him, and called upon him to cite the
place where the law he spoke of was to be
found. “ It is to be found,” replied Socin,
“ in the very next page to that you have just
cited.”
Eater, who had been found, about three
years before that time, in a Northern island, j
by the crew of a Dutch ship. He not only |
swallowed flints of an inch and a half long,
full inch broad, and half an inch thick;
which to them is an interesting and impor
tant kind of information ; and it affords the
best and most delicate opportunity to be
come acquainted with any favorite they may
wish, without the risk of being charged with
A gentleman lately riding over Salisbury
plain, when it rained very hard, set up a gal-
lop, and met with a traveller whose horse
was standing still.—Somewhat surprized at
the sight, he asked the reason of it.
* Zounds!’ says the other, « who but a fool
would ride in all this wet!’
Two Faults.—A clergyman, near Stirling
but such stones as he could reduce to pow- too much delicacy or fondness. It is
der, such as marbles, pebbles, &c., he made considered a compliment by the gentlemen I after a courtship of twelve years, having, at
up into paste, which was to him a most to be asked to write in an Album. It ar- last married, was congratulated on the hap-
agreeable a id wholesome food. I examin-1 gues a favorable opinion, and a desire to be- * * ‘ ’ **
the sum I wanted.
My suspicions had already been awaken
ed ; it seemed plain that this offer of pay
ment was either made with the intent to pass
on me a spurious note, or ascertain what
money I had ; indeed the last presumption
appeared the strongest from the circum
stance that the note was so badly executed,
that he could, 1 thought, have small hopes
of its being taken. The question now was,
however, should I run the venture and re
main, or attempt to reach another lodging,
which I knew I could not find in a shorter
distance than nine miles, and lose entirely
the amount of his debt. I looked at his
wife and his children, and the situation of
things around ; I remembered, too, that I
had a pair of excellent pistols well prepared
for service.: I was young, and persuaded
myself that my suspicions were all childish.
could. I found his gullet very large, his
teeth exceedingly strong, his saliva very
corrosive, and his stomach lower than ordi
nary, which I imputed to the vast quantity of
flints he had swallowed, being about five-
and-twenty, one day with another. His
keeper made him eat raw flesh with the
stones, hut could never induce him to swal
low bread; he would, however, drink water,
wine, and brandy, which last liquor appear
ed to afford him infinite pleasure. He
usually slept twelve hours in the day, sit
ting on the ground, with one knee over the
young unmarried ladies
Alb um.—Parthenon.
_ _ . _ _,, . w . , py event, by one of his brethren, at the sy-
ed this man with all the attention I possibly j come more acquainted. I would advise all I nod, by the following story. A country-
to possess an j man having brought a mare to a fair, was
asked by an intended purchaser, if she had
any faults, to which he replied, “ She has
MISERIES OF WEALTH. I nae faults but twa; and I’ll tell ye one of
Suggested by reading Hazlitt’s ‘Miseries of Poverty.’ them before you pay me, and I’ll tell ye the
It is to have a subscription paper handed t’ither after.” “ Well,” said the purchaser
you every hour in the day, and be called a
niggard, if you refuse your name. It is to
eat turkey and drink wine at a dearer rate
than your neighbors. It is to have every
college, infirinary and asylum, make a run
upon the bank of your benevolence, and
then wonder at the smallness of the dividend,
other, and his chin resting on it; and, when I It is to have sectarians contend for the keep
not asleep, he passed the greater part of his
time in smoking.
It is a remarkable fact, that though so
many skeletons of different animals have
been foufld imbedded in rocks, no remains
of the human species, or of the ourang-
outang, ape, monkey, or baboon, have yet
been discovered. Cuvier has shown that triplication of anxieties,
there are strong grounds for believing, that mong spendthrift heirs
human skeletons are as little perishable in interest of every one about you exceed their
their nature as other animals. At an early principle. It is to make up to tho
epoch, that part of the globe where the Con- chant ail the profit he loses by knavery or
ing of your conscience, and lawyers strug
gle for the keeping of your purse. It is to
be remembered from Seguin to Talbot
Island, whenever a dinner or a loan is
wanted. It is to be taxed for more than
yon are worth, and never to be believed
when you say so. It is to have addition of
dollars, subtraction of comforts, and mul-
end in division a-
It is to have the
“ what is the first ?” « The first is, she is
unco’ ill to tak.” “ Oh,” said the purchaser
“there is no great ill in that;” and having
paid the money, asked what was the other
fault—“ Well,” said he, “ the tither fault is,
that she is unco little worth, after she is ta
ken.” '
tinent of Europe now extends, was peopled j frugality.
It is never to be upoa cash terms,
Montrose's Chaplain.—\t is reported of
one of the chaplains to the famous Montrose
that being condemned in Scotland to die, for
attending his master in some of his glorious
exploits; and being upon the ladder, and or
dered to set out a psalm, he, expecting a re
prieve, named the one hundred and nine
teenth (with which the officers attending
the execution complied, the Scotch presby-
terians being great psalm-singers,) and it is
well for him he did so ; for they had sung it
three parts through before the reprieve came;-
Any other psalm would have hanged him-