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which covers every thing it touches with beaut} , and 

 the vigorous enterprise converting the very granite 

 of its mountains and the ice of its lakes into re- 

 sources of wealth : its best production is a people, 

 reasoning and determining for themselves, loving 

 their native land, honoring the memory of their 

 brave ancestors, fearing no danger but the peril of 

 doing wrong, obeying no power but the supremacy 

 of their own laws and their own consciences, bend- 

 ing in humble submission to God, but to God alone. 



"'Tis a rough land of earlli, and stone, and tree, 



"Where breathes no castled lord or cabined slave ; 

 " Where thoughts, and tongues, and hands, are bold and free, 



" And friends will find a welcome, foes a grave j 

 "And where none kneel, save when to heaven Ihey pray, 



'•■ Nor even then, unless in their own wa}'." 



IIalleck. 



The climate of New England is stern and severe. 

 The wintry blasts extend their stormy inclemency 

 far over the ancient, prescriptive dominion of the 

 sunny months, and turn their destroying edges on 

 vegetation. But we would not exchange the chil- 

 ling breath of the arctic circles for the luxurious 

 temperature of milder zones. 



" Ours, arc not Tempe's, nor Arcadia's spring, 



" Nor the long summer of Cathayaii vales, 

 " The vines, the flowers, the air, the skies, that fling 



"Such wild enchantment o'er Boccaccio's tales 

 " Of Florence and the Arno. Yet the wing 



" Of life's best angel, Health, is on the gales 

 "Through sun and snow; and in the autumn time 



"Earth hath no purer and no lovelier clime." 



}lAr>I.KCK. 



We want not the splendor of Italian skies, or the 

 enervating softness of southern gales, even though 

 they may winnow fragrance from the groves of the 



