Vol. 1 No.7 - Pg.1

[WRITTEN ON HEARING A PERSON REMARK THAT HE INTENDED "TO KETCH UP LOST TIME WITH A WET SAIL."]

When sailors, heedless of their duty, sleep,: Neglecting every favorable gale,
They'll find it hard their after-course to keep,: With a wet sail.
There is a tide in the affairs of men,: Which all should watch with carefulness to hail;
Once miss'd, it scarcely can be caught again,: With a wet sail.
And yet who wishes cautiously to live,: Fixing no hopes on phantoms which may fail,
Will not a chase to every object give: With a wet sail.
The swiftest do not always first arrive,: In war the strongest do not aye prevail;
The keep the golden means, nor ceaseless drive: With a wet sail.
Think not to eagerness alone is given: The happy mind which nothing can assail;
He's on the wrong track who would enter heaven: With a wet sail.

[It is amusing to observe how obscure the sense, even of poetry, may be rendered, without removing a word or letter from its place. The following verses are from an old paper, and purport to be an epitaph. If our juvenile readers should not succeed in rendering it "plain English," we will assist them in our next.]

A NE PIT A PHO NAW O! MAN who's
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