. Early lessons .. . is the relinquishment of any practice, fromthe conviction that it has offended God ; it is that dispositionof mind by which the wicked man turneth away fromhis wickedness, and doeth that which is lawful and right;and when this change is made, the repentance is complete. Sorrow, fear, and anxiety are properly not parts, but ad-juncts to repentance ; yet they are too closely connectedwith it to be easily separated; for they not only markits sincerity, but promote its efficacy. The completionand sum of repentance is a change of life. That sor-row which dictates no caution, th
. Early lessons .. . is the relinquishment of any practice, fromthe conviction that it has offended God ; it is that dispositionof mind by which the wicked man turneth away fromhis wickedness, and doeth that which is lawful and right;and when this change is made, the repentance is complete. Sorrow, fear, and anxiety are properly not parts, but ad-juncts to repentance ; yet they are too closely connectedwith it to be easily separated; for they not only markits sincerity, but promote its efficacy. The completionand sum of repentance is a change of life. That sor-row which dictates no caution, that fear which does notquicken our escape, that austerity which fails to rectify ouraffections, is vain and unavailing. What better can we do than prostrate fallBefore him reverent, and there confessHumbly our faults, and pardon beg, with tearsWatering the ground, and with our sighs the airFrequenting ; sent from hearts contrite, in signOf sorrow unfeigned, and humiliation meek ? THE COUNTRYMAN AND THE RAVEN. A A RAVEIST, while with glossy breast,Her new laid eggs she fondly pressd,And, on her wicker-work high mounted,Her chickens prematurely counted ;(A fault, philosophers might blame,If quite exempted from the same.)Enjoyd at ease the genial day;T was April, as the bumpkins say j —The legislature called it May 5But suddenly, a wind, as highAs ever swept a winters sky, 260 GOOD HUMOR. Shook the young- leaves about her ears,And filled her with a thousand the rude blast should snap the spread her golden hopes just at eve the blowing weather,And all her fears were hushed together. And now/ quoth poor unthinking Ralph, 7T is over, and the brood is (For Ravens, though as birds of teach both conjurors and old women 5To tell us what is to befal,Cant prophesy themselves at all.)The morning came, when neighbor Hodge,Who long had markd her airy destined all the treasure there h. A gift to his expecting like a
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