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NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



AUG. 14, 1833. 



MISCELLANY. 



VERSES TO THE SHEABWATER-OS THE 

 MORNING AFTER A STORM AT SEA. 



BY RICHARD AI.SOP. 



Whence wilh morn's first blush of light 



Corn's! thou thus to greet mine eye, 

 Whilst the furious storm of night 



Hovers yet around the sky ? 



On the fiery tossing wave, 



Calmly cradled dost thou sleep. 

 When the midnight tempests rave, 



Lonely wanderer of the deep ? 



Or from some rude isle afar, 



Castled 'mid the roaring waste. 

 With the beams of morning's star, 



On lightning pinion dost thou haste ? 



In thy mottled plumage drcst, 



Light thou skimm'st the ocean o'er, 

 Sporting round the breaker's crest 



Exulting in the tempest's roar. 



O'er the vast-rolling watery way 



While our trembling bark is born, 

 And joyful peers the lamp of day, 



Lighting up the brow of morn; 



As through yon cloud its struggling beams 



Around a partial lustre shed, 

 And mark at fits wilh golden gleams 

 The mountain billow's surging head ; 



Whilst the long lines of foaming while, 

 At distance o'er the expanse so blue, 



As domes and castles spiring bright 

 Commingling, rise on fancy's view — 



From wave to wave swift skimming light, 

 Now near, and now at distance found, 



Thy airy form, in ceaseless flight, 

 Cheers the lone dreariness around. 



Through the vessel's storm-rent sides 



When the rushing billows rave; 

 And with fierce gigantic strides, 



Death terrific walks the wave. 



Still on hovering pinions near, 



Thou pursuest thy sportive way; 

 Still uncheek'd by aught of fear, 



Calmly seek'st thy finny prey- 

 Far from earth's remotest trace, 



What impels thee thus to roam? 

 What hast thou lo mark the place 



When thou seek'st thy distant home ? 



Without star or magnet's aid, 



Thou thy faithful course dost keep ; 

 Sportive still, still undismay'd, 



Lonely wanderer of the deep ! 



A DREAM. 



After a laborious day's work I retired to rest 

 much fatigued, when the following dream passed 

 through my mind. I thought early one morning, 

 as I was passing through a neighboring village, the 

 first parson that I met was one of the village law- 

 yers with a hoe on his shoulder. I accosted him 

 — what Esquire, turn farmer? Yes — every one 

 must he about something for a livelihood — our 

 professional business has almost come to an end. 

 These popular Temperance Societies have mined 

 our business. Since people have left off drinking 

 rum and getting trusted at the stores wc are out of 

 business — when almost every one was in the hab- 

 it of drinking rum and getting trusted at the store3 

 all they could, we had fine times — three-fourths 

 of the writs and warrants that went from our office 



were occasioned by rum. Quarrels, assaults and 

 battery were frequent, which made fine business 

 for we lawyers. The store keeper, after trading 

 a year or two, and trusting every body and every 

 thing that would take rum or goods, of course 

 must fail. After the failure, the notes and books 

 were sure to fall into our hands, from which, if 

 well managed, we could make three or four hun- 

 dred dollars; but this business I fear is all over, 

 and we shall be obliged to resort to some other 

 business for n support. It is a shame that a pro- 

 fession which has been so useful and honorable, 

 which cost us so much time, money and hard stu- 

 dy, should be destroyed by such feeble means as 

 Temperance Societies; — but public opinion is a 

 powerful engine — every thing falls before it, and 

 we shall be forced to submit. He bid me good 

 morning and went on. I wished him success with 

 his hoe. 



Who should be the next person I met with but 

 the Doctor, with a manure fork in his hand. — 

 What Doctor, you turned farmer too? Yes, since 

 people have done drinking rum I find but little to 

 do in my professional line, and every one should 

 be about something. When rum was freely used 

 by almost every one, I had full employ — I rode 

 night and day ; but now I seldom have a call. I 

 always knew that rum was the cause of three- 

 fourths of the diseases and accidents of mankind, 

 but I confess I had not the boldness to tell them so 

 — neither was it for my interest. When rum was 

 in fashion I had many calls that were capital jobs, 

 such as broken bones, fractured sculls, dislocated 

 shoulders, and bruised faces. Those good days 

 are over with us, and I do not regret it. I have 

 seen enough of human misery, and the greatest 

 portion of human misery has been caused by that 

 poison, rum. I am blessed with a good constitu- 

 tion, and hope I can obtain a living by farming, 

 (which has become an honorable employment) if 

 my professional business fails me. He shouldered 

 his fork and went on cheerfully to his labor. I 

 awoke and lamented that it was a Dream. — Maine 

 Farmer. 



MAHOMED ANS. 



A traveller says, that during his long residence 

 in Malta, and constant course of commercial trans- 

 actions with the professors of the Mahomedan 

 creed, he never beard of an unpaid debt, or a vio- 

 lated obligation ; and that it is a usual mode of traf- 

 fic in the market towns, throughout Turkey, for 

 the farmers and huxters to leave their fowls, eggs, 

 butter, &c. in baskets with the prices fixed, and 

 to return in the evening in perfect security of 

 finding the article as they left it or the exact price 

 deposited in the place of just so much as had 

 found a purchaser. 



FRIENDSHIP. 



Beware of those who on a short acquaintance 

 make you a tender of their friendship and seem to 

 place a confidence in you : 'tis ten to one but they 

 deceive and betray you ; you may be civil to them, 

 though you do not entrust them. Silly men are 

 apt to solicit your friendship and unbosom them- 

 selves upon the first acquaintance ; such a friend 

 cannot be worth having, their friendship being as 

 slender as their understanding; and if they proffer 

 their friendship with a design to make a property 

 out of you, they are dangerous acquaintances in- 

 deed. Not but the little friendship of the weak 

 may be of some use to you, if you do not return 

 the compliment ; and it may not be amiss to seem 



to accept those of designing men, keeping them 

 as it were, in play, that they may not be open 

 enemies ; for their enmity is the next danger- 

 ous thing to their friendship. We may certainly 

 hold their vices in abhorrence, without being mark- 

 ed out as their personal enemy. The general rule 

 is to have a real reserve with almost every one, 

 and a seeming reserve with almost no one : for it 

 is very disgusting to seem reserved, and very dan- 

 gerous not to be so. Few observe the true medi- 

 um. Many are ridiculously mysterious upon tri- 

 fles, and many indiscreetly communicative of all 

 they know. 



A girl forced by her parents into a disagreeable 

 match with au old man whom she detested, when 

 the clergyman came to that part of the service, 

 where the bride is asked if she consents to tako 

 the bridegroom for her husband, said with great 

 simplicity, " Oh dear, no, sir ; but you are the 

 first person who has asked my opinion about the 

 matter." 



FRUIT TREES. 



Ornamental TREES, ROSES, FLOWER- 

 ING PLANTS, &c. Nursery of WILLIAM 

 KENRICK in Newton, 5£ miles from Boston, 

 by the City Mills. 

 This Aursery now comprises a rare and extraordinary collec- 

 tion of fruit trees, Trees and Shrubs of Ornament, Roses, &c. 

 and covers the most of 18 acres. Of new celebrated Pears alone. 

 150 kinds, a part of which, having already been proved in our 

 climate, are specially recommended. — Of Apples 200 kinds — 

 Peaches 115 kinds — Cherries, 55 kinds — Plums, Nectarines, 

 Almonds, Apricots, Quinces, Grape Vines, Currants, Raspber- 

 ries, Gooseberries, Strawberries, Figs, Azc. &.c.< — selections 

 from the best varieties known — a collection in unequal propor- 

 tions of 800 varieties of fruit. 



White mulberries for silk worms — the fruit poor. Also the 

 Morus Multicaulis or Neiv Chinese Mulberry, a beauti- 

 ful fruit tree, so superior for silk worms to all others. 



Of ROSES. A superb collection of from 300 to 400 hafrdy 

 and China varieties ; selections from numerous importations, 

 and first rate sources. Horse Chesnuts as hardy as oaks— 

 Weeping Willows, Catalpas, Mountain Ash. Silver Firs, Ve- 

 netian Sumach, Altheas, Honeysuckles, Azaleas, &c. &c. — 

 in all, of Ornamental trees, and shrubs, G50 varieties. Of 

 Herbaceous flowering plants, a choice selection of 280 varieties, 

 including the Pfeonies, Moutan and Papureraeea — and 24 other 

 kinds — and 83 splendid varieties of double Dahlias. 



Gentlemen are invited lo forward their orders early — early in 

 Autumn being an excellent season for transplanting. Address to 

 WILLIAM 'KENRICK, Newton. Trees, &c. delivered in 

 Boston free of charge tor transportation, and suitably packed, 

 and from thence when ordered duly forwarded, by land or sea.. 

 Or orders will receive the same attention if left with Geo. C. 

 Barrett, who is agent, at his seed store and New England 

 Farmer Office, Nos. 51 & 52, North Market Street, Boston. 

 Catalogues gratis on application. Jy 17 



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