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"And teach the sportive younkers round, "Saws of experience, sage and sound. "Say, man's true, genuine estimate, "The grand criterion of his fate, "Is not, art thou high or low? "Did thy fortune ebb or flow? "Did many talents gild thy span? "Or frugal nature grudge thee one? "Tell them, and press it on their mind, "As thou thyself must shortly find, "The smile or frown of awful Heav'n, "To virtue or to vice is giv'n.

"Say, to be just, and kind, and wise, "There solid self-enjoyment lies; "That foolish, selfish, faithless ways, "Lead to the wretched, vile, and base.

"Thus resigned and quiet, creep "To the bed of lasting sleep;

"Sleep, whence thou shalt ne'er awake, "Night where dawn shall never break, "Till future life, future no more, ❝ To light and joy the good restore, "To light and joy unknown before."

THE

TRAVELS OF ABDALLAH

CONTINUED.

"Heavens! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires, "And glittering towns, and gilded streams, till all "The stretching landscape into smoke decays!"

SECOND EVENING.

THE

CONTINUED.

"The sun has lost his rage: his downward orb "Shoots nothing now but animating warmth, "And vital lustre; that, with various ray,

"Lights up the clouds, those beauteous robes of Heaven, "Incessant roll'd into romantic shapes,

"The dream of waking fancy! Broad below,
"Cover'd with ripening fruits, and swelling fast
"Into the perfect year, the pregnant earth
"And all her tribes rejoice."-

THE far-famed and magnificent city of Ahmedabad, the metropolis of the ancient kingdom of Guzerat, having been conquered and retained by the British armies, under the command of General Goddard, I could not resist the ardent inclination which I felt to visit a place once so celebrated for its grandeur, its population, and its commerce; and which, indeed, even unto this day, is possessed of the most valuable remains of Mogul splendor and unbounded magnificence, in a superior

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