Part 2 — HIS DYING ADVICE.

When Eden’s floory garden smiled, Nor Eve the Sarpent hed beguil’d, Man stood upreeght an’ undefiled I’ maand an’ feeature, An’ sweetest conversation held Wi’ his Creator. Bud when that awful monster sin Hed gain’d its ugly entrance in The warld, oor sorrows did begin; Then Heaven froond, An’ t’ glitt’ring swoord o’ Justice gleeam’d On all aroond. Sin spreead destruction wide, an’ seean Grim deeath began his feearful reign;— Satan wi’ lees an’ malice keen Went teea an’ fraw, The frail, the noble sons o’ men Te owerthraw. Bud the Almighty sent his aid, Enoch an’ Abraham obey’d, An’ Noah, Job, an’ Daniel pray’d, An’ Gideon too; An’ mighty fooas throo mighty faith They did subdue. Then ancient Israel’s altar’s blazed, An’ solemn congregations gazed, An’ Holy men ther voices raaized, An’ trumpets soonded. Then heathen armies stood amazed, An’ wur confoonded. Then Joshua congker’d i’ the vale, An’ gud Elijah did prevail;— The wicked worshippers o’ Baal He owerthrew, An’ showed te them the living God An’ only true. An’ while the sacrifice was pure, Destruction com nut neegh ther door; I’ moont or tent they wur secure By neeght or day; Whahl thraving groups o’ flocks an’ herds, Aroond ’em lay. They towght an’ showed ther childer hoo Ther Fathers kept ther solemn voo, When the Almighty leead ’em throo The desert land; An’ hoo thooase fell ’at wad nut boo Te His command. An’ seea sud we oor childer teeach, An’ i’ ther ears gud doctrine preeach, Befoore corrupt ideas reeach The tender maand; An’ when they up te manhood graw, The gud they’ll finnd. Ey, tell ’em whea the sarpent stung, Hoo Moses an’ hoo Deborah sung, An’ hoo the Holy Hebrews yoong Did walk throo fire; An’ try te tune ther infant tongues Te David’s lyre. Remind ’em ov a Saviour’s love, Leearn ’em the way God will approve, Te pray, an’ fix ther thowghts above Eearth’s fleeting joys, Which at ther best, when tried ’ll proov, Bud empty toys. Consult the worthies ov’ each age, Wheas lives are doon i’t’ sacred page, Nor rest till all the heart engage Like them i’ feight. Then we like them oor hostile fooas, Sal put te flight. Te us they as examples stand, As guide-poosts in a weeary land, Or like seea monny beeacons grand, On mountains heeigh, Te shoo the way Jehovah’s plann’d; Or deeanger neeigh. Bud men graw noo seea warldly wise, Seea prooan te vanity an’ lies, T’best o’ coonsel they’ll despise, Seea queer they live, They’ll scarce a proper question ax, Or answer give. Mankind i’ gen’ral can espy, The mooat ’at’s in anoother’s eye, An’ big an’ busy as Paul Pry, ’Ll mark it doon;— It helps fra’ silly passers by Te hide ther awn. Theer’s numbers seeams o’ t’ better soort, Aroond oor chapels still resoort, An’ o’ convarsion mack a spoort, An’ sins forgeean, An’ at the truly pious shoot, Ther arrows keen. Bud the Almighty sees ther ways, An’ thof he lenthens oot ther days, An’ his just rath he noo delays, ’Tis seer te cum; The stootest o’ the human race, Mun meet ther doom. Ey, when ther jolly days are spent, If they i’ taame deea nut repent, They’ll seerly doon te hell be sent Te revell theer, Te curse, an’ fooam, an’ pay ther rint I’ black despair. Freeat nut thysel when thoo doast see The wicked i’ prosperity, Te floorish like a green bay tree, Or cedar tall; He like a leeaf, by firm decree, Mun feeade an’ fall! Consider thoo what hez beean sed, An’ o’ ther threeats be nut afraaid, Beware lest thoo sud be betray’d By ther deceit;— An’ t’Lord gie thee, an’ nut upbreead, His Sperit’s leeght!” The coontry’s all anxiety, Te knaw Awd Isaac’s pedigree, An’ sum cry oot ’tis all a lee, A meead up thing;— Te sike we think it nut woth whahl, Oor proofs te bring. For all that wish te knaw—may read, The sum an’ substance ov his creed;— May catch, an’ saw the lahtle seed Wi’ greeat success. Bud whoor he liv’d, or whoor he deed, ’Tis left te guess.