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36 THE GEM AND LADIES' AMULET.
[For tho Gem and Amulet.]
The Eclipse.
She rose in her full beauty, peerless queen!
And twilight shadows vanish'd. Hill and vale,
Forest and city, all in mellow light
Were surfeiting; while ocean's mirror wide,
A second starry firmament displayed.
Earth gloried in its treasure. Day's proud orb
Gathcr'd such splendor round it, asrepcll'd
The timid gaze, while she with winning smile.
And pensive loveliness, entranced the eye.
But see—dim shadows fall; the landscape seems
Now less enchanting; sombre grows the wood,
And towering spire, while the broad stream sends back
A fainter glow. Upon the lovely moon
A dense dark spot appears. 'Tis spreading now,
And gathers blackness—Ah! that beauteous orb
Hath disappcar'd, and eve,s bright scenes are gone.
Thus fades all human glory. High enthroned,
The haughty monarch gazes on the throng
That do him rev'rence, as though they were born
To be his vassals, while for him alone
The crown was wrought; but now ashade of time
Passes, and tears the sceptre from his hand,
And he is laid in dust. Fame twines a wreath
Of laurel for the brow, which scarce is fixed,
Ere 'tis cast down, a vain and wither'd'thing.
Wealth gathers all its shining dust, and lures
Its thousand votaries, yet e'en while they boast,
It seems to gather wings and flee away.
All visions bright of fancied greatness fade,
And purchas'd friendship sinks to nothingness.
Life, too, when most attractive, soon is changed
To all the gloom of death.
Learn, mortal, then,
To tear all hope from earth, and chain it where
Vicissitude comes not; where glory reigns
Immortal and resplendent, with no cloud,
Or dark dull orb to intercept its rays.
There fix thine eye, and lay up treasures there.
A. C. P.
[For the Gem and Amulet.]
Criminal.
I looked upon his manly form on which I'd gazed before,
And strangely fraught with other scenes came back the
days of yore.
I thought upon his youthful years, his young and guileless
heart,
Where pale remorse, and calm deceit, and grief had borne
no part.
I wandered back in saddened dreams to childhood's morning
hour,
When hand in hand we ranged the field* to cull the blooming
flow'r.
I thought upon the happy home where once his footsteps
roved,
And dwelt upon each silent charm which erst in youth he
loved.
The silver stream, the cottage walls, the green and verdant
plain,
Tho olust'ring vine; and all in life we'd prize to know
again.
I thought of all! a father') pride; for this his blooming boy,
When careless by that father's side, he quaffed the cup of
joy;
And caught instruction's g«ntle tone, from one now far
away,
Ere wayward, wild and reckless grown, she taught him day
by day:
While he with childlike wonder, sought, and raised his
beaming eye,
And closer press'd to gather ought that chann'd his infancy.
And brightly shone his pure heart there, upon his fair young
brow,
And e'en the gazer well might deem that he was sinless
now.
And could I mark the fearful change which years had on
him wrought,
And coldly turn my glance aside, and bo unmoved in
thought ?
Ah no! that scene had power to chain the inmost soul,
And deeply move each hidden fount beyond my weak con-
I wept -but not for paltry gold or litt,ri ^
Or any treasure I could ho,d and call the bauble mine,
tfay! these are dim and triflinB things, and prove of li.tle
wortb,
Compared with those rcsitle. charm. which mark the goul,g
high birth.
I wepfe to see a noble mind, M early turn aside,
From ,a.U it loved la childhood', hour, from virtue, truth and
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To lay its choicest off'ring where their purity can fling
Nought save a shadow on the heart; a crush'd and "guilt
thing,"
I wept! nor did I deem my manhood's noble'st prime
E'en sullied by the bitter tears which fell on such a shrin
I'd »con the young in beauty's bloom, and all unmarked b
care,
Haste with these blossoms to the tomb; and lay each fon
hope there!
And oft in life mine eye had marked, the brightest, faires
thing,
Change from iti worth and loveliness, to blight and wither
ing!
Yet ne'er in all my wand'ring dreams, did sadness o'er mi
steal,
As when I gazed upon that brow, where guilt had set its
l ] seal.
' S. P.
[For (the Gem and Amulet.]
The Self-Murderer's Soliloquy.
Yon setting sun now sinks, how mild to rest,
How bright the scene, how calm, how fair;
All Nature basks in Spring's adorning vest,
While I but breathe a tainted air.
Yes, I am thus shut L
MARRIAGES.
In this city, on the 11th instant, by Rev. P. Chard,
Mr. John A.Magee, to Miss Sarah Jane Conway.
In this city, on. the 7th instant, by Rev. A. G. Hall, Mr.
DcWITT 6. HAWLEY, of Ridgeway. to Miss MARY
A. HORTON, daughter of Z. Horton, Esq. of Marshall,
Michigan.
In this city, on the 4th instant, by the Rer. Mr. Chuicb,
Mr. Ward Thompson, to Miss Catharine Biviney.
•In-this city, on the 1st instant, by the Rev. G, S. Boardman,
Capt. Robert Patterson, of Kingston, U. C, to Miit
Ruth Bankhead,' of this city.
In this city, on the 1st instant, by the Rev. G.S. Board*
man, Capl. Robert Patterson, of Kingston, U. C, toMiii
Ruth Bankhead, of this city.
In Canandaigua,'on the 2Gtlv ult., by the Rev. Mr. Thompson,
Mr. William Wilder, of Attica, to Miss Adaline M.
Seeney, of the former place.
Feb. 9th, in the town of Niagara, by the Rev. Mr. Halsey,
the Rev. Mr. Chapin, of Lewiston, to Miss Martha,
daughter of Isaac Smith, Esq. of the former place.
In Barre, on the 38th ult., by the Rev. Aaron Jackson,
Mr. G. M. Briggs, to MissM. J. Hoag, all of that town.
In Scipio, Cayuga county, on the 8th instant, afterlhe
order of the Society of Friends, Mr. Daniel J. Hals ted, of
Rochettnr, to Miss Neomi Halsted, of the fawner place.
In Ogdensburgh, on the 19th inst., by Rev. J. A. Savage,
David Ramsay,' jr.'esq. of Bath, Stenben county, to Miu
Jane E. Brown, daughton of Hon. W. C. Brown, of Ogdensburgh.
In Bath, on tho 27th ul£., by the Rev. E. Everett of Naples,
Mr. Edward Niles to Miss Martha J. M'Clure, (laughier
of Dea. Finla M'Clure.
In Palmyra, on the 28th ult. by the Rev. T. S. BritlaiD,
Mr. Bruce Evcrson, merchant, to Miw Lucy CroweH, all of
Palmyra.
In Jerusalem, Jan. 26th, by the Rev. A. Chase, Mr. Jesse
Danes to Miss Chloe P. Stark.
By the some in Benton, on the 28th ult. Mr. Harmon
Briggs to Miss Hannah Lester.
In Lyons, on the 27th ult. by the Rev. W. H. Goodwin,
Henry G. Moore to Miss Eliza Ann Drake, both of Lyons.
In Canandaigua, on the 26th ult. by the Rev. Mr. Thompson,
Mr. WILLIAM WILDER, of Attica, to Misi ADA-
LINE M. SEENEY of the former place.
In Bennington, on the 28th ult. by the Rev. Mr. Prestan,
Mr. Francis Wtlcox of Hamilton, U. C, to Miss Rachel
Doty, of the former place.
Iu Attica, on the 3d inst. by the Rev. J. B. Preston, MN
Hamilton White, of Syracuse, to Miss Sarah Randolph,
daughter of G. B. Rich, of the former place.
In Little Falls, Herkime r co. Jan. 24th, by the Rev. J. M.
Olmsted, Mr. Charles M. Dudley of Pittsford, Monroe, co.
to Miss Catharine McChesney, daughter of Walter Me-
^hesney of the former place.
In Charleston, S. C. on the 19th ult., by the Rev. Stewars
Hanckle, Mr. George E. Harral, of Mobile, Ala., formerly
of this city, to Miss Anua C. Righton of Edentown,
At. Rush Run, Pa., on Tuesday last, by the Rev. G.
Spalding.Mr. William Mathews, of Southport, to Miss Sarah
Ann, daughter of Lathrop Baldwin, Esq. of the former
In East Barre, on the 28th ult, by the Rev. Aaron Jackson,
Mr. George N. Briggs, to Miss Mary Jane Hoae, both
of the former place.
In LeRoy, on Wednesday evening lost, by the Rev. Mr.
Srown, Mr. Chauncey Alma, of Buffalo, to Miss Caroline
M. Morehouse, of the former place.
In Elba, Gcnesee co., on tho 28th of Jan., by the Rev.
D. S.Dean, Wm. R. Mudge, of Chili, to Miss Caroline S.
Whitney, of the former place.
In Ionia, Mich., on the 7th Inst., by Rev.