•  “On this day I completed my thirty-sixth year.“
    —MISSOLONGHI, JANUARY 23, 1824.    

    ’T IS time this heart should be unmoved,
      Since others it has ceased to move:
    Yet, though I cannot be beloved,
              Still let me love!

    My days are in the yellow leaf,
      The flowers and fruits of love are gone:
    The worm, the canker, and the...

  • Thou shalt have one God only: who
    Would be at the expense of two?
    No graven images may be
    Worshipped, save in the currency.
    Swear not at all; since for thy curse
    Thine enemy is none the worse.
    At church on Sunday to attend
    Will serve to keep the world thy friend:
    Honor thy parents; that is, all
    From whom advancement may...