The artists repository and drawing magazine: exhibiting the principles of the polite arts in their various branches (1.1787)

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influence of the ever-changing planet; that
influence quickly left to the faint glimmer-
ings of diftant (tars, intercepted by clouds,
thick clouds, clouds like thofe which accom-
pany rain.

In that day the keepers of the houfe (the
arms) fhall tremble, the ftrong men (the
legs) fink beneath their burden, the grinders,
(the teeth) fail, unable to difcharge their
office, the once brilliant infpector, be dark
and ufelefs. . Where is the vivid lightning,
the penetrating influence of the fparkling
eye ? It is extin6t. The pleafant voice is
mute, whofe accents once delighted an at-
tentive family, or chearful friends; which
dirTufed the fprightly wit, or darted the fal-»
lies of mirth. Silent are the loud carol, the
fportive lay, the joyous fong : The daughters
of mufic are enfeebled, the lips refufe their
utterance, the tongue declines its duty: the
carol, the lay, the fong, are changed for fears;
fears of accidents from above, fears of dan-
gers from below. The locks of hair white as
the bloffom of an almond, are vet deemed in*
fecure, the emaciated body is yet a burden to
its fupports, and defire fails. What! no de^
fires ! no wifhes ! no requefts ! None, Becaufe
man departeth to his long home, and the
mourners go about the ftreets. The filver

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