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Pieces in Early Youth</font></td></tr> <tr><td align="CENTER"><font color="#9C9C63" size="+2"><b>8. Lingaves Temptation</b></font></td></tr> <tr><td>  </td></tr>  </table> <table align="CENTER" width="601" border="0" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#ffffff">  <tr><td>A<font size="-1">NOTHER</font> day, utterd the poet Lingave, as he awoke in the morning, and turnd him drowsily on his hard pallet, another day comes out, burthend with its weight of woes. Of what use is existence to me? Crushd down beneath the merciless heel of poverty, and no promise of hope to cheer me on, what have I in prospect but a life neglected, and a death of misery?</td><td valign="top" align="right"><font size="-2"><a name="1"><i>   1</i></a></font></td></tr> <tr><td>  The youth paused; but receiving no answer to his questions, thought proper to continue the peevish soliloquy. I am genius, they say, and the speaker smiled bitterly, but genius is not apparel and food. Why should I exist in the world, unknown, unloved, pressd with cares, while so many around me have all their souls can desire? I behold the splendid equipages roll byI see the respectful bow at the presence of prideand I curse the contrast between my own lot, and the fortune of the rich. The lofty airthe show of dressthe aristocratic demeanorthe glitter of jewelsdazzle my eyes; and sharp-toothd envy works within me. I hate these haughty and favord ones. Why should my path be so much rougher than theirs? Pitiable, unfortunate man that I am! to be placed beneath those whom in my heart I despiseand to be constantly tantalized with the presence of that wealth I cannot enjoy! And the poet coverd his eyes with his hands, and wept from very passion and fretfulness.</td><td valign="top" align="right"><font size="-2"><a name="2"><i>   2</i></a></font></td></tr> <tr><td>  O, Lingave! be more of a man! Have you not the treasures of health and untainted propensities, which many of those you envy never enjoy? Are you not their superior in mental power, in liberal views of mankind, and in comprehensive intellect? And even allowing you the choice, how would you shudder at changing, in total, conditions with them! Besides, were you willing to devote all your time and energies, you could gain property too: squeeze, and toil, and worry, and twist everything into a matter of profit, and you can become a great man, as far as money goes to make greatness.</td><td valign="top" align="right"><font size="-2"><a name="3"><i>   3</i></a></font></td></tr> <tr><td>  Retreat, then, man of the polishd soul, from those irritable complaints against your lotthose longings for wealth and puerile distinction, not worthy your class. Do justice, philosopher, to your own powers. While the world runs after its shadows and its bubbles, (thus commune in your own mind,) we will fold ourselves in our circle of understanding, and look with an eye of apathy on those things it considers so mighty and so enviable. Let the proud man pass with his pompous glancelet the gay flutter in finerylet the foolish enjoy his folly, and the beautiful move on in his perishing glory; we will gaze without desire on all their possessions, and all their pleasures. Our destiny is different from theirs. Not for such as we, the lowly flights of their crippled wings. We acknowledge no fellowship with them in ambition. We composedly look down on the paths where they walk, and pursue our own, without uttering a wish to descend, and be as they. What is it to us that mass pay us not that deference which wealth commands? We desire no applause, save the applause of the good and discriminatingthe choice spirits among men. Our intellect would be sullied, were the vulgar to approximate to it, by professing to readily enter in, and praising it. Our pride is a towering, and thrice refined pride.</td><td valign="top" align="right"><font size="-2"><a name="4"><i>   4</i></a></font></td></tr> <tr><td>  When Lingave had given way to his temper some half hour, or thereabout, he grew more calm, and bethought himself that he was acting a very silly part. He listend a moment to the clatter of the carts, and the tramp of early passengers on the pave below, as they wended along to commence their daily toil. It was just sunrise, and the season was summer. A little canary bird, the only pet poor Lingave could afford to keep, chirpd merrily in its cage on the wall. How slight a circumstance will sometimes change the whole current of our thoughts! The music of that bird abstracting the mind of the poet but a moment from his sorrows, gave a chance for his natural buoyancy to act again.</td><td valign="top" align="right"><font size="-2"><a name="5"><i>   5</i></a></font></td></tr> <tr><td>  Lingave sprang lightly from his bed, and performd his ablutions and his simple toiletthen hanging the cage on a nail outside the window, and speaking an endearment to the songster, which brought a perfect flood of melody in returnhe slowly passed through his door, descended the long narrow turnings of the stairs, and stood in the open street. Undetermind as to any particular destination, he folded his hands behind him, cast his glance upon the ground, and moved listlessly onward.</td><td valign="top" align="right"><font size="-2"><a name="6"><i>   6</i></a></font></td></tr> <tr><td>  Hour after hour the poet walkd alongup this street and down thathe reckd not how or where. And as crowded thoroughfares are hardly the most fit places for a man to let his fancy soar in the cloudsmany a push and shove and curse did the dreamer get bestowd upon him.</td><td valign="top" align="right"><font size="-2"><a name="7"><i>   7</i></a></font></td></tr> <tr><td>  The booming of the city clock sounded forth the hour twelvehigh noon.</td><td valign="top" align="right"><font size="-2"><a name="8"><i>   8</i></a></font></td></tr> <tr><td>  Ho! Lingave! cried a voice from an open basement window as the poet passd.</td><td valign="top" align="right"><font size="-2"><a name="9"><i>   9</i></a></font></td></tr> <tr><td>  He stoppd, and then unwittingly would have walked on still, not fully awakend from his reverie.</td><td valign="top" align="right"><font size="-2"><a name="10"><i>  10</i></a></font></td></tr> <tr><td>  Lingave, I say! cried the voice again, and the person to whom the voice belongd stretchd his head quite out into the area in front, Stop man. Have your forgotten your appointment?</td><td valign="top" align="right"><font size="-2"><a name="11"><i>  11</i></a></font></td></tr> <tr><td>  Oh! ah! said the poet, and he smiled unmeaningly, and descending the steps, went into the office of Ridman, whose call it was that had startled him in his walk.</td><td valign="top" align="right"><font size="-2"><a name="12"><i>  12</i></a></font></td></tr> <tr><td>  Who was Ridman? While the poet is waiting the convenience of that personage, it may be as well to describle him.</td><td valign="top" align="right"><font size="-2"><a name="13"><i>  13</i></a></font></td></tr> <tr><td>  Ridman was a <i>money-maker.</i> He had much penetration, considerable knowledge of the world, and a disposition to be constantly in the midst of enterprise, excitement, and stir, His schemes for gaining wealth were various; he had dippd into almost every branch and channel of business. A slight acquaintance of several years standing subsisted between him and the poet. The day previous a boy had calld with a note from Ridman to Lingave, desiring the presence of the latter at the money-makers room. The poet returnd for answer that he would be there. This was the engagement which he came near breaking.</td><td valign="top" align="right"><font size="-2"><a name="14"><i>  14</i></a></font></td></tr> <tr><td>  Ridman had a smooth tongue. All his ingenuity was needed in the explanation to his companion of why and wherefore the latter had been sent for.</td><td valign="top" align="right"><font size="-2"><a name="15"><i>  15</i></a></font></td></tr> <tr><td>  It is not requisite to state specifically the offer made by the man of wealth to the poet. Ridman, in one of his enterprises, found it necessary to procure the aid of such a person as Lingavea writer of power, a master of elegant diction, of fine taste, in style passionate yet pure, and of the delicate imagery that belongs to the children of song. The youth was absolutely startled at the magnificent and permanent remuneration which was held out to him for a moderate exercise of his talents.</td><td valign="top" align="right"><font size="-2"><a name="16"><i>  16</i></a></font></td></tr> <tr><td>  But the <i>nature</i> of the service required! All the sophistry and art of Ridman could not veil its repulsiveness. The poet was to labor for the advancement of what he felt to be unholyhe was to inculcate what would lower the perfection of man. He promised to give an answer to the proposal the succeeding day, and left the place.</td><td valign="top" align="right"><font size="-2"><a name="17"><i>  17</i></a></font></td></tr> <tr><td>  Now during the many hours there was a war going on in the heart of the poor poet. He was indeed <i>poor</i>; often, he had no certainty whether he should be able to procure the next days meals. And the poet knew the beauty of truth, and adored, not in the abstract merely, but in practice, the excellence of upright principles.</td><td valign="top" align="right"><font size="-2"><a name="18"><i>  18</i></a></font></td></tr> <tr><td>  Night came. Lingave, wearied, lay upon his pallet again and slept. The misty veil thrown over him, the spirit of poesy came to his visions, and stood beside him, and lookd down pleasantly with her large eyes, which were bright and liquid like the reflection of stars in a lake.</td><td valign="top" align="right"><font size="-2"><a name="19"><i>  19</i></a></font></td></tr> <tr><td>  Virtue, (such imagining, then, seemd conscious to the soul of the dreamer,) is ever the sinew of true genius. Together, the two in one, they are endowd with immortal strength, and approach loftily to Him from whom both spring. Yet there are those that having great powers, bend them to the slavery of wrong. God forgive them! for they surely do it ignorantly or heedlessly. Oh, could he who lightly tosses around him the seeds of evil in his writings, or his enduring thoughts, or his chance wordscould he see how, haply, they are to spring up in distant time and poison the air, and putrefy, and cause to sickenwould he not shrink back in horror? A bad principle, jestingly spokena falsehood, but of a wordmay taint a whole nation! Let the man to whom the great Master has given the might of mind, beware how he uses that might. If for the furtherance of bad ends, what can be expected but that, as the hour of the closing scene draws nigh, thoughts of harm done, and capacities distorted from their proper aim, and strength so laid out that men must be worse instead of better, through the exertion of that strengthwill come and swarm like spectres around him?</td><td valign="top" align="right"><font size="-2"><a name="20"><i>  20</i></a></font></td></tr> <tr><td>  Be and continue poor, young man, so taught one whose counsels should be graven on the heart of every youth, while others around you grow rich by fraud and disloyalty. Be without place and power, while others beg their way upward. Bear the pain of disappointed hopes, while others gain the accomplishment of their flattery. Forego the gracious pressure of a hand, for which others cringe and crawl. Wrap yourself in your own virtue, and seek a friend and your daily bread. If you have, in such a course, grown gray with unblenchd honor, bless God and die.</td><td valign="top" align="right"><font size="-2"><a name="21"><i>  21</i></a></font></td></tr> <tr><td>  When Lingave awoke the next morning, he despatchd his answer to his wealthy friend, and then plodded on as in the days before.</td><td valign="top" align="right"><font size="-2"><a name="22"><i>  22</i></a></font></td></tr> </table>   <table align="CENTER" width="601" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#ffffff"> <tr><td><br></td></tr> <tr><td align="CENTER" valign="BOTTOM" height="25"><font size="-1"><a href="/web/20060614040147/http://www.bartleby.com/229/">CONTENTS</a> · <a href="/web/20060614040147/http://www.bartleby.com/br/229.html">BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD</a></font></td></tr><tr><td><br></td></tr> <tr bgcolor="#B1B1B1"><td height="1"><img src="/web/20060614040147im_/http://www.bartleby.com/images/newsite/horiz_bar602.gif" width="601" alt="" height="1"></td></tr> <tr><td><table 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