Where thou art gone, adieus and farewells are a sound unknown.

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

Blest be the art that can immortalize,--the art that baffles time's tyrannic claim to quench it.

The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.

Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold; but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold.

The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.

No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.