THE YALE LITERARY MAGAZINE. CONDUCTED BY THE STUDENTS OF YALE COLLEGE. [Illustration] “Dum mens grata manet, nomen laudesque YALENSES Cantabunt SOBOLES, unanimique PATRES.” NO. II. MARCH, 1836. NEW HAVEN: HERRICK & NOYES. MDCCCXXXVI. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS. Page. The Benefit of Thought, 41 Ode—The Birth of Poesy, 47 Macbeth, 48 The Cascade, 53 Story and Sentiment, No. II. 54 Pen and Ink, 62 Confessions of a Sensitive Man, No. II. 63 The Whale’s Last Moments, 69 Review—The Partisan, 70 Greek Anthology, No. II. 77 “Our Magazine,” 80 THE YALE LITERARY MAGAZINE. ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── VOL. I. MARCH, 1836. NO. 2. ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── THE BENEFIT OF THOUGHT. The worst as well as the best of us in this world, sometimes love to stop and think. The bad man, wanting every fine feeling, and mostly giving his passions the rein, and suffering them to lead him, to the exclusion of what is beautiful in morals and religion, will sometimes be struck with the contrast between himself and others, and give a few moments to thought. Besides, there are, from the mutual relation of mind and body, certain states of physical feeling, which seem to make men pause, and set them thinking, whether they will or not. In fact, this seems a provision of nature, and it is a benevolent one; for men who think a great deal, are improved by it; and if so, it is obviously a kind plan of our Maker, who, by giving us constitutions susceptible of the changes in the natural world, leads us, thereby, to pause awhile, and familiarize ourselves with that which is wisest and best in the constitutions of our souls.