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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



MARCH 7 ISS- 



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HYMN. 



BT REV. JOHN PIF.RPONT. 



Sung at ihe Odeon, Tuesday Evening, February 27, 

 1838, on the occasion of the Fifth Simultaneous 

 Kfeeling of the Friends of Temperance. 



Dash to the floor that bowl ! 

 Dare not ils sweets to sip ! 

 Theie's peril to tiio soul, 

 If once it touch the lip. 



Why will ye drown 

 The God within ? 

 Avoid the sin ! 

 Ay, dash it down ! 



Once, to the exiled Jolin, 



A poisoned oup was brought. 

 The bearer had withdrawn, — 

 The saint, by angels taughl, 

 Saw, o'er its brim, 

 An asp's head rise, 

 Whose burning eyes 

 Were fixed on h'i'rn. 



So, truth, by whose bright blaze 



Is many a secret sin 

 Revealed,— in these our days, 

 Hath taught us that viithin 

 That narrow span. 

 The wine-cup's grasp. 

 There lives an asp, 

 There dies a man. 



Then, let no fire be brought. 



In goblet, glass, or bowl. 

 Within '■ the dome of thought, 

 The palace of the soul ;" 

 Lest, in that fire 

 Of burning drink, 

 That palace sink, 

 Thatfloul expire. 



Should God, in wrath, ordain 



A universal dearth. 

 What need he do, but rain 

 On all this green glail earth, 

 From cloudy urns, 

 The curse that fills 

 Our vats and stills, 

 That blights and burns ? 



Save us from such a sbower, 



God of the eastern bow ! 

 That pledge, of lovi; and power. 

 What bends, what piiinis it so .' 

 That bow in air 



'Tis light that b(;iids. 

 Heaven's light, that blends 

 With water there. 



Lei light on water eliine — 



The light of love and truth ! 

 Then shall that drink divino 

 Be quaffed by Age and Youth ; 

 And, as that bow 

 Dotli heavenward bend, 

 Shall huavennard tend 

 The way they go. 



Death! DE.iTu!! Let the following be cut out 

 and pasted up in every lady's Boudoir, and read, 

 at lea.st once a week during the winter season. 



A Slight Cold. Let not those complain of 

 being bitten by a reptile which they have cherish- 

 ed to maturity, in their very bosoms, when they 

 might have crushed it in tiie egg! Now, if we 

 call a slight cold, the egg, and pleurisy, inflamtna- 

 tioii of the lungs, asthma, consumption, the ven- 

 omous reptile — the matter will be more than cor- 

 fectly figured. There are many ways in which 

 this egg may be deposited, and hatched. Going 

 suddenly, slightly clad, from a heated into a cold 

 atmosphere, especially if you can contrive to be 

 in a state of perspiration ; sitting or standing in a 

 draught, however slight ; it is the breath of death, 

 «-eader, and ladened with the vapor of the grave! 

 Lying in damp beds — for there his cold arms shall 

 embrace you: continuing in wet clothing, and neg- 

 lecting wet feet — these, and a hundred others, are 

 some of the ways in which you may slowly, im- 

 perceptibly, but surely cherish the creatnre, that 

 shall at last creep ine.xtricably inwards, and lie 

 coiled about your very vitals. Once inore again! 

 ■ — again — again — I would say, attend to this, all ye 

 who think it a small matter to ' neglect a slight 

 cold I' —Diary of a late Physician. 



The Bite. — A very important stripling, whom 

 favoritism had raised to the dignity of quarter 

 master in a regiment of infantry, wishing, one pa 

 rade day, to dismount from his charger for t hei 

 purpose of wetting his whistle and adjusting hia 

 spurs, called out iu a very commanding tone to in 

 spectator who was near him — 



" Here, fellow — hold this horse." 



" Does he kick?" drawled out t^e person address 

 ed. 



"Kick! No! Take hold of him," 



" Does he bite.'" 



"No! Take, hold of the bridle, I say." 



" Does it take two to hold him.'" 



" No!" 



"Then hold him yourself.'" 



A Good 'Un. — A dandy yesterday took up 

 book, " A statistical view of the number of Shee 

 in the United States," which laid on our table- 

 ' How many sheep are there in the country 

 asked the dandy. "More than are set down there 

 — replied our devil who stood by waiting for cop 

 Bait. Tran. 



Migration of the Swallow. — About eight 

 o'clock on the morning of Wednesday, last week, 

 the body of these birds which appeared to have 

 constituted the northern division of those which 

 make the British Lsles their summer habitation, 

 passed over Perth, on their way south, in such in- 

 <;alculable nnmbers, tliat for some minutes the sun 

 was actually as much darkened as if a cloud had 

 passed over its face. Their passage was the 

 slower on account of the circling motion in which 

 they advanced — their gyrations forming high cir- 

 cles, apparently each in a separate course, l^eir 

 course was due north and south ; and by nine 

 o'clock the last stragglers of the rear passed ; and 

 since then there have been but few observed in 

 this neighborhood. The time of their departure 

 seems to have been nearly a week in advance of 

 the usual period 5 and the weather-seers are nat- 

 urally predicting a severe, or at least an early win- 

 ter, from the circumstance. — Perth Paper. 



A new novel entitled " Love " by Lady Clio 

 lotte Berry is announced in the London |)apei 

 The following note from the fair authoress to h 

 printer, which has been handed about in fashio 

 able circles, has caused no inconsiderable anuii 

 ment : — 



"Dear Sir — How comes it that I have had 

 proofs uf Love from you since last Saturday, 

 have waited with the utmost impatience. 



Yours, &c. C B . 



Dining at a public ordinary, when one of 

 company had helped himself to a very large jiii 

 of bread, Quiu stretched out his hand to take h' 

 of it. The person to whom it belonged preven' 

 him, saying, "Sir, that is my bread." "1 I 

 your paldon," said Qtiin, " I took it for the lo! 



Grace after Meat. — One day, at the tabic of 

 the late Dr Pearse, (Dean of Ely,) just as the 

 cloth was being rcmove<l, the subject of discourse 

 happened to be that of an extraordinary mortality 

 amongst the lawyers. " We have lost," said a 

 gentleman, "not less tlian six eminent barristers 

 in as many months." The Dean, who was quite 

 deaf, rose as his friend finished his remarks, and 

 gave the company grace. " For this and every 

 other mercy, the Lord's name be praised." The 

 cflect was irresistible. — London paper. 



In the Garden of Olives itt Jerusalem, eight 

 olive trees are now standing which are proved by 

 historical documents to have been there anterior 

 to the taking of the city by the Turks, and must 

 consequently be at least 800 years old. 



FRUIT TREES, ORNAMENTAl. TRICES, MOB 

 MUL,TICAII1.1S, &c. 



^*^Sk. Fou sale bj the subscriber. The varieties, 

 _^^^^^ licularly ol the I'ears and the Plums ivere n 

 "^^^^^^ before so fine, the assortment so complete. 



k *" "^ Apples, Peaches, Cherries, Grape vinf 



..«B£aB=>«. superior assortment of finest kinds, and o 

 otiier hardy fruits. 



20,000 Moras Molticaulis or Chinese Mulberry 11 res 

 still be furnished at llie customary prices, if ap|)licil for e: 

 this being all that now remain unsold. 



Ornamental Tices and Shrubs, Roses and Horijac 

 plants, of the most beautiful hardy kinds. Splendid Pau 

 and Double Dalllias. 



4,000 Cockspur Thorns, 10,000 Bocktiioms for Heilgci 



800 Lancashire Gooseljeiries, of various colors and 



kinds. 



Harrison's Double Yellow Roses, new and hardy, 

 fine, it never fails lo bloom profusely. 



Trees packed iu the most perfect manner for all di 

 places and shipped or sent from Boston to wherever ord' 

 Transportation to the City without charge. 

 Address by mail posi paid. 

 Catalogues will be sent gratis to all who apply. 



WILLIAM KENKIC 

 Nursery, Nonantuin Hill, Newton, Jan, 24, 1838. 



TIIE NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



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 payable at the end of the year— Ijut those who pay wilhii 

 ty days from the time of sul)sci'ibing, are entitled' to a d 

 lion of 60 cents. 



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