I love to mix alone with those,
Whose hearts are wildly free,
For human griefs, and human woes,
Are strangers yet to me;
I will not early learn to pine
My summer life away,
But ever bend at pleasure's shrine,
And mingle with the gay.
Should sorrow come with coming years,
And touch the strings of woe,
I'll learn to smile away its tears,
Or check their idle flow;
And still I'll sing; a song as bright,
And wake as glad a measure,
Bid grief and sorrow wing their flight,
And hail the reign of pleasure.
W.H. PRIDEAUX.
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SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY.
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IMPROVEMENTS IN BLACK WRITING INK.
_By John Bostock, M.D._[2]
When the sulphate of iron and the infusion of galls are added together,
for the purpose of forming ink, we may presume that the metallic salt
or oxide enters into combination with at least four proximate vegetable
principles--gallic acid, tan, mucilage, and extractive matter--all of
which appear to enter into the composition of the soluble parts of the
gall-nut.
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