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The rills adown the mountains glide, 



With joyous songs of glad delight, 

 And fountains leaping in the air, 



Gleam like transparent shafts of light; 

 While sleepy cows with lagging steps 



Amid the fruitful pastures rove. 

 The sportive lambs in frolic wild, 



With graceful antics, playful move. 



The busy ants in armies march 



To labor where the sunbeams glow; 

 The merry bees, like changeful friends. 



From flower to flower haste to and fro; 

 The butterfly, so languid, soars 



And flaps her gaudy wings, so vain ! 

 And locust, darting swiftly by. 



In whirring hums its drowsy strain. 



The healthful trees extend their arras, 



In their green robes of summer drest ; 

 The sloping hill, in verdant pride. 



Bears high its grassy velvet crest. 

 The trees, the plants, each drop of dew. 



Proclaim the great Creator's power. 

 Who made each star a rolling world. 



And shaped the modest daisy flower. 



Iris her mazy pennon hangs 



Athwart the dreamy azure sky; 

 While in the west the piling clouds. 



Like mimic mountains quaintly lie. 

 Pomona laboring with the sun, 



A store of luscious fruit will heap ; 

 While Ceres soon the ripening grain 



With thrifty care will plenteous reap. 



Oh, woman ! turn from fashion's halls. 



Where pomp and folly warp the heart; 

 Learn from the flowers this lesson true. 



That nature needs no gauds of art : 

 Let these sweet gifts our time employ. 



That now to vanity is given, 

 Then we, though clothed in mortal form. 



May show the attributes of heaven. 



All hail the farmers ! men, indeed ! 



The hardy tillers of the earth ; 

 Nature's true noblemen are they. 



Of sturdy, sure and matchless worth. 

 Long may the members of this club 



In wisdom meet, as they do now. 

 Imparting knowledge to the world — 



The heroes of the soil and plough ! 



PESTS OF THE FARM. 



Judge Meigs. — The club will notice the drawings on the walls, of magni- 

 fied plans of insect life, which have been prepared by Dr. Waterbury for 

 his proposed common-school lectures, upon which he will make some 

 remarks. 



