uAppINEss.--.H EracMent.
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The scenes Of my life have been sad


said d poor Frenchman, who had scranpled
up one Of the most precipitous mountains OF
North Wales, and was now pensivcly lean
ing on his stick, and casting mournful look


towards the wide cxpanse of water, which


bounded his prospect-"rhe scenes Of my
life have been sad repeated he, and Il tear
silently stole down his cheek, as the painful


recollection of the past, again struck III his
soul 81 have pursued the bubble happincss
all over the world, and have lived but to
find it phantom Of the brain--l have SUIT
fered the torture Of the inquisition IN Spain
i have been chained to the yallies Ill Italy
Il have starved on the mountains of swift
zerland-I have groaned as slave i'll lur-
key-I have languislled beneath the repu5-
lican tyranny i'll France-and, lastly, have
been whipped as a vagabond in Engiaud--
and ! am grown grey i'll misery, and old age
has oyertaken me in wretchedncssi - he
tears streamed plcntiiully down the checks
G. the unfortunate Cd man, as this painful
retrospect presented itself to his mind. The
sun Just casting his last rays over the waters
and the west was tngcd with the bright
streaks of vermilon and gold. Not breath
Of air ruffied the surface of the deep-not a
sound inv ,ded the ear--all was stiffness and
serenity, except when the last notes of the
ascending skv-larlS sunk on the air, while
the feathered songstcr himself WAS lost in


distance. He insensibly felt his spirits tran.
quill zed by the universal harmony which
seemed to reign around-The balm of peace
descended upon his soul-lie looked upon
the wanderings Of spast days with calm,
but melancholy rcgrer-lt was too late
to begin life anew; and after having spent
his youth in toll and vexation, he now felt
that a little rest was necessary. When the
sun had sunk beneath the horizon, he laid
himself on the turf, and soon dropped into a
sweet and an uninterrupted slumber.-ln
the morning he arose refreshed. Beneath
the wide spreading branches of 4 venerable
tree, he constructed a simple hut-His
meat was supplied by the. roots and the
herbs of the valley; and the crystal spring