up to HEAVEN eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace thee-and this is thy. divinity which ftirs within me-not, that in fome fad and fickening moments, "my foul "Shrinks back upon her felf, and startles at "deftruction"-mere pomp of words! -but that I feel fome generous joys and generous cares beyond myself-all comes from thee great -great SENSORIUM of the world! which vibrates, if a hair of our heads but falls upon the ground, in the remoteft defert of thy creation.-Touch'd with thee, Eugenius draws my curtain when I languifh-hears my tale of fymptoms, and blames the weather for the dif order of his nerves, Thou givft a portion of it fometimes to the roughest peafant who traverfes the bleakeft mountains-he finds the lacerated lamb of anothers flock-This moment I beheld him leaning with his head against his crook, with piteous inclination looking down upon it-O! had I come one moment sooner! it bleeds to death-his gentle heart bleeds with it

Peace

Peace to thee, generous fwain! I fee thou walkeft off with anguifh-but thy joys fhall balance it for happy is thy cottage- and happy is the fharer of it-and happy are the lambs which sport about you.

THE SUPPER.

A SHOE coming loofe from the fore-foot

of the thill-horse, at the beginning of the afcent of mount Taurira, the poftilion difmounted, twifted the fhoe off, and put it in his pocket; as the afcent was of five or fix miles, and that horfe our main dependence, I made a point of having the fhoe fasten'd on again, as well as we could; but the poftilion had thrown away the nails, and the hammer in the chaife-box, being of no great ufe without them, I fubmitted to go on.

He had not mounted half a mile higher, when coming to a flinty piece of road, the poor devil loft a second fhoe, and from off his other fore-foot; I then got out of the chaife Vol. II.

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in good earneft; and feeing a house about a quarter of a mile to the left-hand, with a great deal to do, I prevailed, upon the poftilion to turn up to it. The look of the house, and of every thing about it, as we drew nearer, foon reconciled me to the difafter. It was a little farm-house furrounded with about twenty acres of vineyard, about as much corn-and close to the house, on one fide, was a potagerie of an acre and a half, full of every thing whichcould make plenty in a French peafant's house

and on the other fide was a little wood

which furnished where-withal to drefs it. It was about eight in the evening when I got to the house-fo I left the poftilion to manage his point as he could-and for mine, I walk'd directly into the house.

The family confifted of an old grey-headed man and his wife, with five or fix fons and fons-in-law and their feveral wives, and a joyous genealogy out of'em.

They were all fitting down together to their lentil-foup; a large wheaten loaf was in the

middle of the table; and a flaggon of wine at each end of it promifed joy through the stages of the repaft 'twas a feast of love.

The old man rose up to me, and with a refpectful cordiality would have me fit down at the table; my heart was fat down the moment I enter'd the room; fo I fat down at once like a fon of the family; and to inveft myself in the character as fpeedily as I could, I inftantly borrowed the old man's knife, and taking up the loaf cut myself a hearty luncheon; and as I did it I faw a teftimony in every eye, not only of an honeft welcome, but of an welcome mix'd with thanks that I had not feem'd to doubt it.

Was it this; or tell me, Nature, what else it was which made this morfel fo fweet-and to what magick I owe it, that the draught I took of their flaggon was fo delicious with it, that they remain upon my palate to this hour?

If the fupper was to my taffe- the grace which follow'd it was much more fo.

THE GRACE.

WHEN fupper was over, the old man gave

a knock upon the table with the haft of his knife, to bid them prepare for the dance: the moment the fignal was given, the women and girls ran all together into a back apartment to tye up their hair-and the young men to the door to wash their faces, and change their fabots; and in three minutes every foul was ready upon a little esplanade before the house to begin- The old man and his wife came out laft, and, placing me betwixt them, fat down upon a fopha of turf by the door.

The old man had fome fifty years ago been no mean performer upon the vielle- and, at the age he was then of, touch'd it well enough for the purpose. His wife fung now-and-then a little to the tune-then interinitted-and joined her old man again as their children and grandchildren danced before them.