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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



AUGUST US, 1S33. 



MISCELLANY. 



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FOREST WOOD. 



BY THE AUTHOR OF 'CORN LAW RHYMES.' 



Within ihc sun-lit forest, 



Our roof the: bright blue sky. 

 Where fountains flow, and wild fluwers blow, 



Wc lift our hearts on high ; 

 Beneath the frown oi wicked man 



< tur country's strength is bowing; 

 But, thanks to God ! they can't prevent 



The lone wild flowers from blowing! 



M <li high above the tree-tops 



The lark is soaring free ; 

 Where streams the light through broken clouds 



His speckled breast I see. 

 Beneath the might of wicked men 



The poor man's worth is dying: 

 But. thanked be God, in spile of them, 



The lark still warbles flying! 



The preacher says, ' Lord bless us ! ' 



' Lord bless us ! ' echo cries ; 

 'Amen!' the breezes murmur low, 



' Amen ! ' the rill replies ; 

 The ceaseless (oil of wo-worn hearts 



The proud with pangs are paying; 

 But here, oh God of earth and heaven! 



The humble heart is praying. 



How softly, in the pauses 



Of sojtg, re-echoed wide. 

 The cushat's coo, the linnet's lay, 



O'er rill and river guide: 

 With evil deeds of men 



The affrighted land is ringing; 

 But still, oh Lord ! the pious heart 



And soul-toned voice are singing! 



Hush ! Hush ! the preacher preacheth, 



' Wo to lh' oppressor, wo ! ' 

 But sudden gloom o'ercasts the sun, 



And saddened flowers below; 

 So frowns the Lord ! but tyrants, ye 



Deride his indignation, 

 And see not, in his gathered brow, 



Your day of tribulation ! 



Speak low, thou heav'n paid teacher! 



The tempest bursts above : 

 God whispers in die thunder: hear 



The terrors of his love! 

 On useful hands and honest hearts 



The base their wrath are recking; 

 But, thanked be God, they can't prevent 



The storm of heaven from speaking. 



A CHAPTER ON LOUNGERS. 



One lounger takes up more room than two la- 

 borers. 



Loungers are always unhappy themselves ami 

 their presence makes others so. 



Loungers are invariably in mischief, because 

 they have no other employ. Mice, rats, thieves, 

 and borrowers themselves, are a less intolerable 

 and destructive species of animals than loungers. 



If you wish to injure your credit — lounge. No 

 man of sense will ever trust you a sixpence, after 

 having detected you in lounging. 



Lounging should be classed among the great na- 

 tional evils that require to he removed. If nothing 

 else can effect a cure, there should be established a 

 great national anti-lounging society, with auxiliar- 

 ies in every city, town, village, hamlet, and — prin- 

 ting office — in the country. 



When do people first begin to visit the grog 

 shop — the bar room — the porter house? — when 

 they first learn to lounge. Lounging begets idle- 

 ness, restlessness, impatience of restraint and neg- 



lect of duty. Where do you hear vulgar ami pro- 

 fane language ? Among loungers. Who waste 

 the precious hours of the Sabbath? Loungers. 

 For what purpose were theatres and play houses 

 invented ? For the edification of loungers. Who 

 loiter around ten pin alleys, billiard rooms, race 

 grounds, and cock pits? Loungers. Why can- 

 not slavery be abolished? JJecause loungers, who 

 cannot earn tbeir bread by the labor of their own 

 hands, must be indulged, in wringing it from the 

 heart's blood of others. Who foment the wars 

 that desolate the earth? Princely loungers, with 

 whom campaigns are a game ofhazard and amuse- 

 ment — whose dice boards are battle fields — whose 

 chess-men human beings. 



Why are all these abuses tolerated in this age 

 of boasted light, and literature, and learning ? — Be- 

 cause learned loungers have turned authors for 

 their own and others' amusement, and deluge the 

 world, not with their works but with their idle- 

 in ss; and because fashionable loungers read to 

 drive away thought, not to promote thinking. 



Honesty should not lounge — for lounging and 

 paying seldom go together. Patriotism cannol 

 lounge, for lounging is the nation's curse. Chris- 

 tian ! dost thou lounge? Up, and be doing. — 

 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with all 

 thy might. 



BROOKS' PATENT SILK SPINNER. 



THE public attention is invited to tins machine, It is adapt- 

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

 small space, and maybe used to advantage by women and 

 , liildren. This machine may be obtained by applying n> T. 

 R. NEWELL, at the Agricultural Warehouse, No. ,'>'i North 

 .Market street, Boston; oflo the Patentee, ADAH BROOKS. 



Scitu \tk, July 22, 1833. 



A Lapland Wedding. The following is an ac- 

 count of the deciding on Marriage between young 

 persons in Lapland : 



It is death in Lapland to marry a maid without 

 her friends' or parents' consent ; wherefore if one 

 bear tin affection for a maid, upon the breaking 

 thereof to her friends, the fashion is that a day is 

 appointed for their friends to meet to behold the 

 two young parties run a race together. The maid 

 is allowed in starting, the advantage of a third of 

 the race, so that it is impossible, except willing of 

 herself, that she should ever be overtaken. If the 

 maid overrun her suitor the matter is ended, — he 

 must never have her, it being penal for the man 

 again to renew the motion of marriage. But if 

 the virgin hath an affection for him, though at the 

 first running bard to try the truth of his love, she 

 will (without Atalanta's golden balls lo retard her 

 sp.eed) pretend some casualty, and make a volun- 

 tary halt before she comes to the mark or end ol 

 lie' race. Thus none are' compelled to marry 

 against their own will; — and this is a cause that 

 in this country the married people are richer in 

 their own contentment, than in other lands ; where 

 so many forced matches make feigned love, and 

 cause real unhappiness. 



An Actress's Apartment. My present apailm<nt 

 is so small, that I am all over black anil blue with 

 thumping my body and limbs against my furniture 

 on every side ; but then I have not far to walk to 

 reach any thing I want ; for I can kindle a fire as 

 I lie in bed, and put on my cap as I dine ; for the 

 looking glass is obliged to stand on the same table 

 with my dinner. To be sure, if there was n fire 

 in the night, I must inevitably be burnt; for I am 

 at the top of the house, and so removed from the 

 front part of it, that I cannot hear the least sound 

 of any thing from the street ; but then, I have a 

 great deal of fresh air; more light than most pro- 

 pie in London, and the enchanting view of the 

 Thames; the Surry Hills; and of three windmills, 

 often throwing their giant arms about, secure from 

 every attack of the Knight of the wofttl counte- 

 nance. — Memoirs of Mrs. Inchbald. 



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NEW AMERICAN ORCHARDIST, 



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

 51 &52 North Market Street, The New American Or. 

 chardist, or a treatise on the cultivation and management of 

 Fruits, Grapes, Ornamental Shrubs, ami Flowi rs, adapted to 

 cultivation in the United Slates 



This is recommended to ihe public as a treatise well worthy 



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most valuable varieties of fruit . and ihe rei lies i«,r (he mala- 

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 oilier canoes. Also the varieties of Grapes with their modes 

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NEW ENGLAND PARMER'S ALMANAC FOR 



1S34. 



NOW in Press, and will soon be published ihe rVewi England. 

 Farmers Almanacfor 1834, by Thos. G. Fessenden, Editor 

 of the New England Farmer, and will be for sale Wholesale 

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PEMBROKE BUTTER AND TABLE SALT. 



Just received by Schr. Boslon Packet — > 



301 barrels aud 360 sacks Butte. Salt. C600 loaves Table 

 Salt. 



Abundant evidence is before the public of the quality of this 

 Sail being superior to any hitherto manufactured in any part of 

 ihe world. As such we warrant it aud offer it for sale. 



June 5 CHAS I. CAZENOVE & CO. 



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