Ern,n The Cnnneciicnt Courant.
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From the Connecticut COurant.
On visit to the late venerable CHARLES
THOMPSON, when at the age of 96; form
srly Secretary Of the first Congress.
You've seen, perchance, some sever'd column


stand


At Athens or Palmyra, mid the gloom
Pure, prominent, jcstic-though its base
Was dark with mould'ring ruins,-and the dome
Which once it propp'd had yielded to the wrath
Wcreeplng ages.-Ye perchance, have stood
While the pale moon bath'd its lonely brow
IN living light,-and heard the tittul winds
Shrek their wild question, wherefore it re-


main'd


When all beside had fallen.


Thought yc not then
" man, who lingering at the feast OF life,
Perceves his hearts companions risen and gone :
no Is there not gricfin that deep solitude
VI lost companionship'


Yet OH saw
Who in this wilderness has trod, till life
hetreated from the bloodless veins and made
Faint stand at her last fortress. Ills wan brow
was lightly furrow'd, and his lofty form
unbent by time, while dignihed, erect
And passionless, he made his narrow round
From IRON, couch to easement, and his eye beheld
ms world Of shadowy things unmov'd, as one
VINO was about to cast his vesture oft
IN IN WEAKNESS to sleep.-Sly Memory slipt
II, ner treacherous cable from the reeling mind,
niottng the chart whereon it lov'd to gaze
AMID the sea of years.-His course had been
IN IN those high places, where the dazzling ray
vi honor shines-and when mems souls were


tried


as IN furnace,-his came forth like gold.
They brought the trophies forth, which hi
had won,


'ao spread them in bis sight,-a nations thank