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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



AUGUST SI, 1S33. 



MISCELLANY. 



HARVEST HYMN. 



BY MRS. SIGOUIlNEY. 



God of the year! — wilh songs of praise, 

 Ami hearts of love, we come to bless 



Thy bounteous hand, for thou bast shed 

 Thy manna o'er our wilderness; — 



In enrly spring-lime thou didst fling 



O'er earth its robe of blossoming — 



And its sweet it :isuresday by day, 



Rose quickening in thy blessed ray. 



And now they whiten hill a d vale, 

 And hang from every vine and tree. 



Whose pensile branches bending low 

 Seem bowed in tfaankfuhiess to thee, — 



The earth wilh all its purple isles, 



Is answering to thy genial smiles, 



And gales of perfume breathe along 



And lift to lliee their voiceless song. 



God of the seasons! Thou bast blest 



The land wilh sunlight and with showers, 



And plenty o'er its bosom smiles 



To crown the sweet autumnal hours j, 



Praise, praise to thee ! Our hearts expand 



To view ihose blessings of thy hand, 



And on the increasing breath of love, 



Go off to their bright home above. 



fLORAL DICTIONARY, OR EMBLEMATICAL, 

 DEFINITIONS. 



"In eastern lands Ihcy talk in flowers, 



And they tell, in a garland, their loves and cares ; 



Each blossom lhal blooms in their garden bowers, 

 On its leaves a mystic language bears." 



Acacia, signifies Friendship. 



Amaranth, Immortality. 



Belvirfire, I declare war against you. 



Balm, Sympathy. 



Blue-Bottle, Constancy. 



Cowslip, I esteem, hut cannot love you. 



Crocus, Presumption. 



Common China-aster, 'Tis your gold attracts, 



not yourself. 

 Chickweed, An appointed meeting. 

 Cypress, Despair. 

 Coat's leaf, Bond of affection. 

 Citonia, Pleasantry. 



Calacanthus, Moral heauty, superior to personal 

 charms. 



Coral honey suckle, Gratitude and affection. 

 Daisy, Unchanging sweetness and fidelity. 

 Flowering-Almond, Perfidy. 



Garden gillyflower, Durable heauty. 



Hawthorn, Hope. 



Hyacinth, You trifle with me. 



Hortcnsia, You are cold. 



Indian Pink, Aversion. 



Iris, I have a message for you. 



Lilac, The first emotions of love. 



Lavender, Distrust. 



Locust blossom, Affection heyond the grave. 



Lilly of the Valley, Modest heauty and retired 

 worth. 



Little China-aster, Innocence. 



Mountain Pink, Independent and aspiring. 



Musk rose, Capricious heautv. 



Multi flora, Liberality without ostentation. 



Myrtle, Love. 



Marigold, Jealousy. 



Narcissus, Egotism or self-love. 



Olive, Peace. 



Polyanthus, Confidence. 



Pea-blossom, Fickleness. 



Red Rose, Beauty. 



Red Pink, Pure and ardent love. 



Rose Acacia, Elegance. 



Rose Geranium, Preference. 



Red Poppy, Consolation. 



Sweet briar, Simplicity. 



Spanish Jessamine, Interested regard. 



Snow drop, Officious interference. 



Tulip, Beauty, not intellectual. 



Thyme, Activity. 



Violet, Modesty. 



Variegated Pink, Refusal. 



Veronica, Fidelity. 



White Rose, Silence. 



White Pink, Purity of Sentiment. 



While Jessamine, Amiability. 



White Lilac, Youth. 



Woodbine, Misfortune. 



Yellow Rose, Infidelity or disdain. 



A RHYMING LETTER. 



Addressed to the Rev. J. Newton. 

 By William Cowper. 



"My very dear friend: I am going to send, 

 what, when you have read, you may scratch your 

 head, and say, I suppose there's nobody knows, 

 whether what I have got, he verse or not ; by the 

 tune and the time, it ought to be rhyme, but if it 

 be, did you ever see, of late or yore, such a ditty 

 before ? 



" I have writ Charity, not for popularity, hut as 

 well as I could, in hopes to do good ; and if the re- 

 viewer, should say, to he sure, the gentleman's 

 muse, wears Methodist shoes, you may know by 

 her pare, and talk about grace, that she and her 

 bard, have little regard, for taste and fashion, and 

 ruling passion, and ihe hoydening play of the mod- 

 ern day j and though she assume a borrowed plume, 

 and now and then wear a tittering air, 'tis only her 

 plan to catch if she can, the giddy and gay, as they 

 go that way, by a production on a new construc- 

 tion : she has baited a trap, in hopes to snap, all that 

 may come, with a sugar plum. His opinion in 

 this will not be amiss ; 'tis what I intend, my prin- 

 cipal end, and if I succeed, and folks should rend, 

 till a few are brought to a serious thought, I shall 

 think I am paid for what I have said, and all I 

 have done, though I have run, many a time, after 

 rhyme, as far from hence to the end of my sense, 

 and by book or by crook, write another book, if I 

 live and am here, another year." 



"1 have heard before, of a room with a floor, 

 laid upon strings, and such like things, with so 

 much art in every part, that when you went in, 

 you were forced to begin, a minuet-pace, with an 

 air and a grace, swimming about, now in and now 

 out, with a deal of state, in a figure of eight, with- 

 out pipe or string, or any such thing; and now I 

 have writ, in a rhyming fit, what will make you 

 dance, and as you advance, will keep you still, 

 though against your will, dancing away, alert and 

 gay, till you come to an end, of what I have penn- 

 ed, which that you may do., 'ere madam and you, 

 are quite worn out, with jigling about, I take my 

 leave, and here you receive, a bow profound, 

 down to the ground, from your humble me. 



W. C." 



Beauty. Socrates called beauty a short-lived ty- 

 ranny ; Plato, a privilege of nature ; Theophrastus, 

 a silent cheat ; Theocritus a delightful prejudice ; 

 Cartieades a solitary kingdom ; Domitian said that 



nothing was more grateful; Aristotle affirmed that 

 beauty was better than all the recommendations 



of the world ; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of 

 nature ; Ovid, alluding to him, calls it a favor be- 

 stowed by the gods. 



A Poet's Love. — Of all the heaven-bestowed 

 privileges of the poet, the highest, the dearest, the 

 most enviable, is the power of immortalizing the 

 object of his love ; of dividing with her bis ama- 

 ranthine wreath of glory, and repaying the inspi- 

 ration caught from her eyes with a crown of ever- 

 lasting fume. 



And how have women repaid this gift of im- 

 mortality ? O believe it, when the garland was 

 such as woman is proud to wear, she amply and 

 deeply rewarded him who placed it on her brow. 

 If in return for being made illustrious, she made 

 her lover happy, — if for glory, she gave a heart, 

 was it not a rich equivalent ? 



BROOKS' PATENT SILK SPINNER. 



' THE public attention is invited to this machine. It is adapt- 

 ed to domestic use, is simple in its construction, occupies a 

 small space, and may be used to advantage by women and 

 children. This machine may be obtained by applying to T. 

 K. NEWELL, at the Agr.cu tura! Warehouse, No. 32 Nonh 

 Market sireet, Boston; or 10 the Patentee, ADAM BROOKS. 

 Scituatk, July 22, 1833. 



PEMBROKE BUTTER AND TABLE SALT. 



Just received by Schr. Boston Packet — ■ 



301 barrels and 3G0 sacks Butie. Salt. CG00 loaves Table 

 Salt. 



Abundant evidence is before the public of the quality of this 

 Sail being superior to any hitherto manufactured in any pait of 

 the world. As such we wan ant it and oiler it for sale. 



June 5 CHAS I. CAZENOVE &. CO. 



NEW AMERICAN ORUHARDIST, 



JUST published and lor sale by GEO. C. BARRETT, Nos. 

 51 &. 52 North Market Sireet, The New American Or- 

 cuardist, or a treatise on the cultivation and management of 

 Fruits, Grapes. Ornamental Shi-ubs, and Flowers, adapted to 

 cultivation in the United Slates. 



This is recommended lo the public as a treatise well worthy 

 a place in every farmer's library, containing an account of the 

 most valuable varieties of fruit, and the remedies lor the mala- 

 dies lo winch fruit trees are subject from noxious insects and 

 other causes. Also ihe varieties of Grapes wilh their modes 

 of culture, &c. Pi ice #1,25. J.19- 



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