Thou'st basked; her loving blue-eyed gaze
When she has played her harmless wiles?
In pleasure's bowers there may be flowers
But transient is their loveliness;
Search all thy hours with all thy powers,
There's nothing like domestic bliss.
Those scenes may for a time destroy

A sense of guilt, and yield delight;
But soon those very scenes will cloy,
And conscience will assert her right.
Tis vain to quaff the maddening drink,
With gay associates to dwell;
Thou must, thou canst not help-but think,
And those dark thoughts will make thy hell.
Rash youth; be wise, retrace thy steps;
Oh yet! forgiveness may be found;

A parent's love has heights, and depths,

That line can't scale, nor plummet sound.
Return! there's hope, proceed! there's none;
Despair will haunt thy wretched path;
And oh thy lot, when life is gone,

Will be divine, consuming wrath!
Luddenden, near Halifax.

OUR ALGEBRA CLASS.

NO. IV.
ADDITION.

Case 2-When the letters are similar but have unlike signs.

The only difficulty in this operation is the division of the given question into two distinct sums; each of which will be found a plain question of the preceeding case.

Rule-Add together all those terms that have a positive sign, into one sum, and those that have a negative sign into another, subtract the coefficient of the smaller of these sums from that of the larger, prefix to the remainder the sign of the greater, and write after it the common letter thus;

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