She sits her down to gain a little strength, she is yet alive, And she would say that she was old and feeble, And had outlived her friends. Yet she would speak As if she were to live yet many days, And wished it too! And I have never seen What gift the flatterer, Hope, could promise her, The pain, the weariness, the cheerless hours, What expectation lifts his palsied hand, His morrow's dawn-Hope leads the wanderer on, And Inclination, nurse of Hope, beguiles The passing hours-embodies all their dreams, Which speaks of blessings scattered on his path, THE MAMMOTH FEAST. EWING. The subsequent satire will be more fully understood, by recurring to an admirable prose description, which the historian of the Aurora has given to a wondering world. In the far famed Museum of Mr. Peale, Behemoth, biggest born of earth Upheaves his vastness, and thirteen Virtuosi have decided that even the dry bones of the Mammoth afford very pretty picking. "The SKELETON, with which it is Mr. Rembrandt Peale's intention shortly to visit Europe, was yesterday so far put together, that previous to taking it to pieces for the purpose of packing up, HE, and TWELVE other gentlemen partook of a collation WITHIN the BREAST of the animal, all comfortably seated round a small table, and one of Mr. Hawkin's Patent Portable Piano's ;-after which the following toasts were drunk, accompanied with music. 1. The Biped animal MAN-May peace, virtue, and happiness be his distinguishing character. 2. The American People-May they be as pre-eminent among the nations of the earth, as the canopy we sit beneath surpasses the fabric of the Mouse. Yankee Doodle. 3. Agriculture-In constituting the pride and riches of our country, may its rewards be as abundant as THIS FRUIT* was unexpected. 4. The Constitution of the United StatesMay "its ribs be as ribs of brass, and its backbone as molten iron." Hail Columbia. 5. The Arts and Sciences-Nursed in a genial soil, and fostered with tender care, may their honour prove as durable as the bower which surrounds us. 6. The Brains of Freemen-May they never be so barricadoed by the jack-ass bones of opposition as to crush their native energy. 7. The Friends of Peace-To all else, such bones to gnaw, as, dried by ten thousand moons, may starve their hungry maws.-Jefferson's March. 8. All Honest men- -If they cannot feast in the Breast of a Mammoth, may their own breast be large enough. 9. The Ladies of Philadelphia-Ere their naked beauties prove as horrible as bare bones, may virtue behold them clothed in the garment of modesty. * These bones were discovered by farmers dig ging for manure. † Job, chap. 40. 10. The Present Company-May their second birth, though from the womb of the breast, be followed with every blessing of life. Volunteer-Success to these Bonny parts in Europe."-Aurora. ORPHEUS! thou flinty-rock-enlivening God! Thou dancing-master to the tree-clad mountains! Be kind for once, and tell me by a nod, That up Parnassus I may wind And tipple inspiration at the Muses' fountain, Orpheus! I venerate thy fiddling talent Your wife and you among them show Teaching the awkward oaks the airs and graces, |