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Beyond a ridge of mountains extending to the South were fituated another clan, with whom Edmorin and his people were at war. Edmorin, however, was the darling of, his subjects, and beloved by all; his hu His arrows were often known to foar out of fight, even till they feemed to lodge in the bofom of the clouds; his fpeed furpaffed the rapidity of the rein-deer; and the proportions of his perfon were exact and graceful as the growth of the Cedar. His manners were as mild as the morning, and his charity warm as the noon of day. He governed his people with gentleness, and invented, upor plans of his own conftruction, new inftruments for for the use of war, and new sports and To Ramor therefore he communicated his uneafinefs, and difclofed the manner in which he felt himself affected: "I am miferable (faid he, fighing,) yet know not why; the verdure of the fpring, and the glow of the fummer, have loft their allurements; I have no longer any delight to glide along the rivers in my canoe, to flick the plumes of victory in my brow, or with my dart purfue the chace. I am wretched, even amongst the sprightlieft of the women, nor regard (as ufual) their dalliances to pleafe, or their folicitude to charm-all is tasteless: I am fick with folitude, yet have no relifh for fociety: fomething is furely wanting to my felicity. To thee have I flown from myfelf, and do thou therefore mitigate my diftrefs." The hoary fage had long ftudied the temper of his Prince, and was intimately killed in the characters of man: he regarded Edmorin with a look of obfervation, and foon penetrated into the caufe, of his diftemper; and, without fervilities of proftration, thus addreffed him in the language of fimplicity and truth: "Be the anguish of my child diffipated, and the burthen of forrow removed from his bofom; for if the voice of his fervant Ramor is regarded, and the wif dom of his inftructions followed, Edmorin fhall be happy. "Thou complainest, my son, that the novelty of life is over, and that from the variety of nature thou no longer canft find repofe. To what caufe, therefore, can thy inquietude be afcribed, but to that which even in the bowers of paradife could introduce anxiety: to the want of an elegant and virtuous companion of thy throne and bofom. Thou art difcontented, not because the excellences that heretofore engaged thee are in themfelves lefs excellent, but because thou haft no partner with whom thou mayst fhare the pleasure they beftow. There is feldom any feififhnefs in the focial temper. In the generous benevolence of thy youth thou lookeft around thee, and, comprehending in one point of view the grandeur and beauty of the world, art unhappy that thou canft not communicate thy fentiments of wifdom and tenderness to the object whom thy virtues have conquered and approved. Thou perceiveft that few, even of the multitudes of thy train, are calculated for the honour of thy confidence; and ftill fewer for the affection of thy friendship. Of thofe, whom thou ruleft in the gentleness of thy fway, many are the sport of play ful ful idleness or active folly, and more the flaves of infignificant ambition: fome are fwelling with fpleen at the proudnefs of a rival's plume, and fome are contefting (in the bitterness of rancour) about the fkins of the favage. To fuch thou canft not unbofom the fecrets of thy heart: they are not equal to the dignity of truft, and thou art therefore compelled to feal up thy reflections and thy knowledge, or to utter them to the air, or lavish them upon the ignorant. Thy mind, my fon, is fuited to the sweetness of virtuous meditation, and nature has endowed thee with the power to difcern the beauties of her works; but when thy generous curiofity has procured thee inftruction, thou wanteft one to whom thou might impart the benefits of enquiry. Knowledge is ufelefs unless it is diffufed; but to circulate it to thofe who have neither capacity or idea, would be a wildnefs equal to his, who was determined to encircle the head of the bear with a coronet of flowers, and to enwreath the horns of the sheep with a garland of rofes. "Caft thine eye aloof, and behold on yonder fir-tree the turtle fits forrowing among the branches; the difregards the profpects around her, and is vifibly overwhelmed in the anguish of defpondence. Her feathery partner has awhile forfook her, and in the meridian glow of life and day thou obferveft how the pines! The fun is to her an orb of darkness, and the lively earth enrobed in mourning! "Thine, tny Sovereign, is at prefent the condition of that turtle, and a tender object (though one agreeable to the dignity of thy nature) is equally neceffary to refiore the tranquillity of both. For again fix thy attention upon the fir, and tell me what thou feeft." "I fee (faid Edmorin) that the happinefs of the dove is reftored! Her fugitive mate is returned-lo, Ramor, how their wings flutter in rapture! the one feems tenderly to chide, and the other appears anxious to excufe; and hark! The returns a fong of gratitude for his fafety! Henceforth, my friend, I will nct fuffer a turtle in my regions to be deftroyed." : "I admire (replied Ramor) the foftnefs of the fenfe, more than the fimplicity of your expreffion be taught, from that of which thou haft been a witnets, a remedy for thy diftrefs. The moft trifling image will afford an hint of utility to the eye of remark. Thou haft feen the caufe of the complaint of a bird that was grown indifferent to every thing around it, and even weary of itfelf! and canft thou not as eafily account for the mifery of thyfelf, who art not lefs infenfible to the privileges of royalty? Thou haft seen by what means the peace of the bird was reftored, and canft thou not form to thyself a fimilar method whereby thy own bofom might again have comfort?" "Ramor (answered the Prince haftily, while his cheek became endamasked with deeper blushes), my heart is lightened, and I feel the cause of my diforder. I amidifpleafed with myfeif, that my fenfibility did not before point out to me, and remove the reafon-the purity of love, I fee, is neceffary to the happiness of a King." "It is neceffary (rejoined Ramor) not only to the happiness of a King but of his fubjects, and indeed of every human individual. But my fon muft diftinguifh between the intemperance of defire and the ardours of an elegant paffion. Trou art weary of the dalliances of thy women, becaufe it is not in the power of more than one to afford thee felicity; or at leaft to confer fuch as is either permanent or pure. "Go then, my Sovereign, confider this and be happy. Let thy eyes rove among the fervants whom thou commandeft, and thy reafon fhail foon exalt one to thy bofom, to whom nature has been kind, and virtue affctionate. "An honourable attachment will re ftore to every object its accuftomed charm; again wilt thou receive confolation from thy wonted fource: the bloffom fhall feem to wear a livelier bloom, and the fky a brighter hue: fuch are the effects of a generous love upon the mind that is fatiate with folitude and fuited to fociety." The effect of thefe arguments were visible in the countenance of the Prince; his features became more aniinated and his air more vivacious, and in the warmth of his gratitude and hope, he could not forbear embracing the fage in his arms; whom he left with an affurance of ob ferving his counfel, and of indulging his eyes in fach objects as were most likely to engage his heart. He who looks to love, and love with honour, will foon find an object worthy his regard: it was not long before Edmorin became enamoured of maiden excelleuce. He was one day purfuing alone an elk, which he had aroufed from a grove of fpices, when, perceiving it take towards the mountains (which were the t he preliminary boundaries of his fovereignty), he preffed onwards with vehemence, left it fhould elude him by fheltering in the territories of Zimber. The favage was juft bounding up the brow of the hills, when the Prince difcharged his arrow, but by fome means or another without fuccefs; and his game in the next inftant reached the fummit, and fprung out of fight. Edmo rin was just about to turn again among the covert of his woods, when his ears were fuddenly ftartled by a fhriek that intimated diftrefs. He ftopped and found that the voice proceeded from the other fide of the mountains: and that which he had too much honour to do from the mere fpirit of sport, he had too much humanity to neglect when be might relieve the wretched: he therefore haftily ftepped forward, and retreading the path again arrived at the top, and foon defcended to the foot of the hills, and looking carnefly around him (while the voice increafed its complaints), he difcovered, through an intertwifture of boughs, an human fhape extended in diforder upon the ground, under the uplifted paw of a lion. He did not hesitate; but drawing his arrow to the head, and levelling his eye to the mark, lodged the barb in his heart; and, running to complete his conqueft, he ftruck a poniard into his cheft, and held it infixed till he expired. He had now leifure to avert his attention to the object whom his courage and intrepidity had protected, and whom he found to be a virgin of uncommon beauty of form, irrefiftable even in mifery. Her drefs, which was of the fineft skins, bespoke her of royal extraction, and the mourned with all the dignity of diftrefs. Although he was ftill faint, and fearful leaft the might have efcaped from one difafter by the intervention of another ftill more dreadful, yet the recovered herself fo as to return her com. pliments of gratitude to her deliverer in an attitude of proftration. The Prince perceiving her confufion, and feeing her fpirits ftruggling between the extremities of fear and joy, endeavoured to diffipare her apprehenfions by the moft tender affurances; and, obferving that the favage had rent her mantle, enrobed her with his own, and reque fted that he might be permitted to accommodate her till the had furmounted her fears. The Princefs (for fuch fhe was) confented to his folicitations, and Edmorin gently conducted her to his hut, which was formed by Ed. Mag. Mar. 1799. 1 the bands of an hundred Indian artificers, in a tafte perfectly rural and ingenious: it was fituate in a valley, where nature had displayed her bounties in her wildeft luxuriance, with a diftant view of the fea. The moft beautiful foliage of oranges, and cedars, invited thither every Silvan mufician to warble and build; fprings of living water came iffuing from chryftalline fources; the flowers were effenced with the richeft fragrance, and their colours were freshened by the breezes which at morn and even were wafted from the main. Though the Prince was fecretly very anxious to learn the particulars of the fair ftranger's hiftory, especially that part of it which had occafioned the prelent event, yet his delicacy was unwilling to give her the pain of revealing it while her mind was under the inquietude of her late diftrefs. He therefore repreffed his curiofity, and folely applied himself to folace and revive her; he spread a carpet of the fofteft fkins, and fet before her the niceft trophies of his arrow, with the moft lovely prefents of nature, to court her appetite: but the anxiety fhe had been under, and the abrupt tranfition from despair to joy, foon overcame the delicacy of her frame; and had left her no other defire than to recruit her spirits by repofe, and yield herfelf up a few hours to friendly infenfibility. Edmorin,. vigilant to oblige, saw her fatigue, and no fooner difcovered her wishes, than he haftened to prepare an apartment for her reft: he foon formed her a couch with the fpoils of the kid, the ermine, and the fawn, and her pillow was lined with the cygnet's down: nor could the Prince be perfuaded to leave his charge, but, inwrapping his body in a common fkin, determined to be the guardian of her flumber. While the gentle Edmorin fat watching her repofe, by the light of the taper, he indulged himself in gazing ardently upon her, and, heaving a sigh of soreness as heazed, thus whispered to himself: "O bleffed Sun! what a form is there! How happy am I in being the means of preferving it from violation!-Yet fur ly the favage could not fear such a creature! The paw of the monfter was fufpended (doubtless), confcious of the excellence within his power, which (cruel as is his nature) he dared not ufe. How ulike is fhe to the common beauties among my train! Bleffed be the morning in which I laft grafped my bow, blessed be the elk that directed me towards the Ff mountains, |