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Fast-anchor'd isle.

As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon.

Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.

How shall I speak thee, or thy power address Thou God of our idolatry, the Press. . . . . Like Eden's dead probationary tree, Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.

He comes, the herald of a noisy world, With spatter'd boots, strapp'd waist, and frozen locks; News from all nations lumbering at his back.

When admirals extoll'd for standing still, Of doing nothing with a deal of skill.

Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without his books.

'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.

Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven Fires all the faculties with glorious joy.

. . . Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark.

Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.

Our wasted oil unprofitably burns, Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns.

For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it, ere it comes to light, In every cranny but the right.

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.

Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.

Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.

His mind his kingdom, and his will his law.

How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light.

Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing.