In  closing,  however,  let  me  remark,  that  the  middy  whose  *  introduction'


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1  have  literally  described  to  jou,  is  now  sailiDg-master  of  one  of  the
finest  frigates  in  the  United  States'  service,  and  is  as  good  a  sailor  and
as  perfect  a  gentleman  as  there  is  in  the  Americati  navy ;  one  whom,  I
doubt  not,  from  his  known  amiability  of  character,  will  excuse  the  lib*
erty  here  taken  by  his  old  friend  and  shipmate,  ^,  b.
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Fak  in  fome  ftUl  ■equeatered  nook,
Removed  from  worldly  Btrife,

How  calmly,  like  a  placid  brook.
Would  gude  the  Btraam  of  life !

How  Bweet  in  temples  God  haa  made
To  raise  the  voice  of  prayer.
While  songsters  from  the  leafy  glade
With  mosie  fill  the  air !

Does  not  the  spirit  seem  tospom
The  fettered  thoughts  of  earth.
And  with  a  holier  impalse  turn
To  things  of  higher  birth!

When  in  the  ibrests*  vast  arcade.
Where  man  has  seldom  trod.
Amid  the  works  that  Hi  has  inade,
We  stand  alone  with  God  I

When  gasinff  on  fair  Nature's  fiux^
Untouched  hf  hand  of  art.
In  every  leaf  ifis  love  we  trace.
What  feelings  thrill  the  heart!

The  diamond  dew-drop  on  the  spny^

Each  early-feding  flower,
The  glittering  insects  of  aday,

AlTshow  uod's  wondrous  power :

And  teach  us  by  their  helpleomess

Of  His  unwearied  care
Who  ffives  the  lily's  vestal  dress,

Ana  bids  us  not  despair.
When  in  the  fedtng  light  of  day
The  forest  trees  grow  dim.
