The Minstrel.

LABOR.

WORK AND SONG.

From labor health, from health contentment Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound,

springs.

She feels no biting pang the while she sings; Nor, as she turns the giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things. Contemplation.

R. GIFFORD.

BEATTIE.

Like a lackey, from the rise to set,
Sweats in the eye of Phoebus, and all night
Sleeps in Elysium; next day after dawn
Doth rise and help Hyperion to his horse,
And follows so the ever-running year
With profitable labor to his grave.
And, but for ceremony, such a wretch
Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep,
Hath the forehand and vantage of a king.

King Henry V., Act iv. Sc. 1.

SHAKESPEARE.

B. PORTEUS.

There was a jolly miller once,
Lived on the river Dee;

He worked and sung from morn till night,

No lark more blithe than he.
Love in a Village, Acti. Sc. 2.

Feels, and owns in carols rude
That all the circling joys are his
Of dear Vicissitude.

you, But yet, 't 'is one.

MACBETH. The labor we delight in physics pain.

Macbeth, Act ii. Sc. 3.

SHAKESPEARE.

ground

Cheered with the view, man went to till the From toil he wins his spirits light,
From busy day the peaceful night;
From whence he rose ; sentenced indeed to toil, Rich, from the very want of wealth,
As to a punishment, yet (even in wrath,
So merciful is heaven) this toil became
The solace of his woes, the sweet employ
Of many a livelong hour, and surest guard
Against disease and death.

In heaven's best treasures, peace and health.
Ode on the Pleasure arising from Vicissitude.

T. GRAY.

Death.

MACDUFF. I know this is a joyful trouble to They shall go far with little.

Hamlet, Act iv. Sc. 5.

I. BICKERSTAFF.

PRUDENCE.

And for my means, I'll husband them so well

SHAKESPEARE.

OVERWORK.

NOBILITY Of Labor.

Why such impress of shipwrights, whose sore When Adam dolve, and Eve span,
Who was then the gentleman ? *

task

Does not divide the Sunday from the week?
What might be toward, that this sweaty haste
Doth make the night joint-laborer with the day? Tyler's Rebellion. Hume's History of England, Vol. i. Ch. 17,

"Lines used by John Ball, to encourage the Rebels in Wat

Hamlet, Acti. Sc. 1.

SHAKESPEARE,

Note 8," says BARTLETT.

J. BALL.

The Star-Spangled banner.

!can you see by the dawn's early light
so proudly we haild at the twilight's last.

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fight,

Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the clouds of ing.

we watched

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Oor the ramparts

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in air

gallantly sheaming
And the rocket's red glave-the bomb bursting
Game proof through the night that our flag was still there?
I Jag, does that star- opinagled banner get warce

For the law of the free on the home of the brave? __

Akey