SOLON ROBINSON, 1847 85 



Make home a happy home, 

 Oh ! come, come away ! 



From days idly spent, with the tyrant o'er you reigning. 

 What can you gain, but woe and pain. 

 Oh ! come, come away ! 

 And while we sing of pleasure true, 

 A social pledge once more renew. 

 Of hope, joy, liberty. 



Oh! come, come away! 



And here with your voice and jouful song upraising. 

 From Bacchus' din of woe and sin, 

 Oh! come, come away! 

 For now your course, your life destroys 

 It ruins health and earthly joys. 

 The cup falls, while it cloys. 

 Oh! come, come away! 



A Rambling Letter upon Geology and some other 



Matters. 



[Daily Cincinnati Gazette, June 14, 1847] 



[May 27, 1847] 



To Dr. John Locke' — Dear Sir: — When a resident of 

 Cincinnati some years ago, I enjoyed a slight acquaint- 

 ance with you, and presume upon that to address this 

 note to you 



I have been highly interested with the letters addressed 

 to you by your excellent correspondent "D. C," particu- 



^ John Locke, born at Lempster, New Hampshire, February 19, 

 1792; died at Cincinnati, Ohio, July 10, 1856. Physician, scientist, 

 and inventor. Wrote Outlines of Botany, 1819; established the 

 Cincinnati Female Academy in 1822; served as professor of chem- 

 istry and pharmacy in the Medical College of Ohio, 1835-1853. Be- 

 tween 1835 and 1840 was engaged in private geologic and paleon- 

 tologic studies. Contributor to the American Journal of Science 

 and Arts, the Tratisactions of the American Philosophical Society, 

 and to the Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. See sketch in 

 Dictionary of American Biography, 11:337-38. 



