. Boston Thomsonian manual and lady's companion . pall!Thus, while to lone Afflictions couch some stranger joy may come,The bee that hoarded sweets all day, hath sadness in its hum. Yet some there are whose fire of years leaves no re-membered spark, Whose summer-time itself is bleak, whose very day-break dark; The stem, though naked, still may live ; the leaf,though perished, cling ; But if at first the root be cleft, it lies a branchlessthing ! And, oh ! to such—lone, hallowed nights their pa-tient music send ; The hours, like drooping angels walk, more gracefulas they bend ; And stars emit a
. Boston Thomsonian manual and lady's companion . pall!Thus, while to lone Afflictions couch some stranger joy may come,The bee that hoarded sweets all day, hath sadness in its hum. Yet some there are whose fire of years leaves no re-membered spark, Whose summer-time itself is bleak, whose very day-break dark; The stem, though naked, still may live ; the leaf,though perished, cling ; But if at first the root be cleft, it lies a branchlessthing ! And, oh ! to such—lone, hallowed nights their pa-tient music send ; The hours, like drooping angels walk, more gracefulas they bend ; And stars emit a hope-like ray, that melts as it comesnigh, And nothing in that calm hath life that doth not wishto die. THE RAILROAD ENGINEER. Though a railroad, learned Rector, Passes near your parish spire,Think not, Sir, your Sunday lecture Eer will overwhelmed expire. Put not, then, your hopes m weepers, Solid work my road secures ;Preach whateer you will-—z»y sleepers Never will awaken yours . [English pa, 280 THOMSONIAN MANUAL [Vol. vt. THE AMU Purgatives should not be used in any case whatever Theyare at variance with every principle of my system, as will beseen by reference to the New Guide. They irritate the bowels,and destroy the equilibrium of the circulation, which we shouldalways endeavor to avoid. The sudden deaths of which we often hear as occurring among the Thomsonians, are no doubtprincipally owing to the administration of cathartics. * * *Since my Agents have discarded the use of butternut and bitter-root, they are muah more successful in their practice. Samuel Thomson. BOSTON, AUGUST 1, 1S40. TO THE PUBLIC. THE NEW EDITION OF DR. THOMSONSNARRATIVE AND GUIDE. Misrepresentations and illegal acts of a Convention,called Thomsonian, in Maine. What purports to be the proceedings of a self-styled Medical Society in Maine, using the nameof Thomsonian, held the 30th of June last, hasjust come to the knowledge of Dr. Samuel Thom-son, printed in the misnamed Thomsonian Re-c
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