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ADAM'S ANGER AND EVE'S SUPPLICATION FOR PARDON.

This novelty on earth, this fair defect

Of nature, and not fill the world at once.
With men as angels without ferninine,
Or find some other way to generate
Mankind? This mischief had not then be-
fallen,

And more that shall befall, innumerable
Disturbances on earth through female snares,
And strait conjunction with this sex; for

either

He never shall find out fit mate but such
As some misfortune brings him, or mistake,
Or whom he wishes most shall seldom gain
Through her perverseness, but shall see her
gained

By a far worse, or, if she love, withheld
By parents, or his happiest choice too late
Shall meet, already linked and wedlock
bound

To a fell adversary, his hate or shame;
Which infinite calamity shall cause

To human life and household peace confound."

Thy counsel in this uttermost distress,

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My only strength and stay. Forlorn of thee, Whither shall I betake me, where subsist? While yet we live, scarce one short hour, perhaps,

Between us two let there be peace, both joining,

As joined in injuries, one enmity
Against a foe by doom express assigned us,
That cruel serpent. On me exercise not
Thy hatred for this misery befallen,
On me already lost-me than thyself
More miserable; both have sinned, but thou
Against God only, I against God and thee,
And to the place of judgment will return,
There with my cries importune Heaven, that
all

The sentence from my head removed may light

On me, sole cause to thee of all this woeMe, me only, just object of his ire.”

She ended weeping, and her lowly plight, Immovable till peace obtained from fault

He added not, and from her turned; but Acknowledged and deplored, in Adam Eve,

wrought

Not so repulsed, with tears that ceased not Commiseration; soon his heart relented

flowing,

And tresses all disordered, at his feet

Fell humble, and, embracing them, besought His peace, and thus proceeded in her plaint:

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Toward her, his life so late and sole delight Now at his feet submissive in distress, Creature so fair his reconcilement seeking, His counsel whom she had displeased, his aid As one disarmed, his anger all he lost,

'Forsake me not thus, Adam. Witness And thus with peaceful words upraised her

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His full wrath whose thou feelst as yet least | No sound was heard of clashing wars,

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Peace brooded o'er the hushed domain; Apollo, Pallas, Jove and Mars Held undisturbed their ancient reign. In the solemn midnight, Centuries ago.

'Twas in the calm and silent night; The senator of haughty Rome, Impatient, urged his chariot's flight,

From lordly revel rolling home; Triumphal arches, gleaming, swell

His breast with thoughts of boundless

sway:

What recked the Roman what befell
A paltry province far away
In the solemn midnight,
Centuries ago?

Within that province far away

Went plodding home a weary boor; A streak of light before him lay,

Fallen through a half-shut stable-door Across his path. He passed, for naught

Told what was going on within; How keen the stars, his only thought, The air how calm and cold and thin! In the solemn midnight, Centuries ago.

Oh, strange indifference! low and high
Drowsed over common joys and cares;
The earth was still, but knew not why
The world was listening, unawares.
How calm a moment may precede

One that shall thrill the world for ever!
To that still moment none would heed
Man's doom was linked, no more to sever,
In the solemn midnight,
Centuries ago.

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THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: WHAT HE OUGHT TO BE. 33

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: WHAT HE OUGHT TO BE.

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CHIEF magistrate of the Union should look to noble objects and consider himself called to a high destiny. I would have him rouse his spirit and expand his mind to the elevation and grandeur of his important trust; I would have him to realize that he is the governor of a great, free and prosperous people various in their habits, opinions and occupations, but all pursuing the general end of human action-the happiness of themselves and their posterity-and all equally entitled to the protection and favor of their government. I would have him to purify himself from all temptation to proscription or intolerance and all vindictive or personal suggestions, and to maintain himself at a sightless distance above the low intrigues and bitterness of faction. I would have him thoroughly to understand the spirit and import of the Constitution of our country; to consider all its functionaries entitled to equal respect with himself; to preserve sacred the just balance and apportionment of power among the various departments; and in all cases of diversity of opinion whether between the heads of departments or among the people at large-to maintain a wise moderation and forbearance, and to endeavor to lead the jarring parties to entertain respect for each other and to co-operate

for the common good. "I would have him to think of fame as well as of applause, and prefer that which to be enjoyed must be given to that which may be bought; to consider his administration as a single day in the great year of government, but as a day that is affected by those which went before and that must affect those which are to follow." I would have him to consider the Constitution and the laws as the sole rule of his conduct, neither stretching nor warping them either to enlarge his own power or to abridge that of the co-ordinate departments or of the people; to usurp no authority inconsistent with their spirit, nor to abuse that which they confer. I would have him diligently to inform himself of all the great and diversified interests of this vast and growing country, and so to succor the various branches of enterprise as to crown the whole with prosperity. I would have him to reflect that amidst the diversity of interests and multifarious concerns, both foreign and domestic, of the nation, questions will constantly arise necessarily eliciting various opinions among his countrymen. These I would have him to treat with respect and indulgence even when they differ from his own, but by no means to make them objects of anger and punishment. I would have him not only to tolerate, but to encourage, all decent and respectful examination into his public policy and official conduct. I would have him to keep the offices of the government above the

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