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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



JUNE 25, 1834. 



M I S C E L L A N V . 



MORNING. 



HV GEORGE D PRENTICE. 



How sweet the landscape ! Moi riing twines 



Her tresses round the brow of Day, 

 And bright mists o'er the forest pines. 



Like happy Spirits, float away 

 To revel on the mountain's crown, 

 Whence the glad stream comes shouting down, 

 Through woods and rocks, that hang on high. 

 Like clouds against the deep blue sky. 

 The woven sounds of bird and stream, 



Are falling beautiful and deep 

 Upon the spirit, like a dream 



Of music in the hour of sleep — 

 And gently from the dewy bowers, 

 Soft murmurs, like the breath of flowers, 

 Are winding through the purple grove, 

 Aitd blending; with the notes of Love. 

 The streams in veins of silver flow — 



The sunrise gale o'er flower and tree 

 So lightly breathes, it scarce would blow 



A fairy bark upon the sea — 

 It comes so fresh, so calm, so sweet, 

 It draws the heart from its retreat, 

 To mingle in the glories born 

 lu the first holy light of morn. 



A cloud is on the sky above — 



And calmly, o'er the young year blue, 

 'Tis coming like a thing of Love 



To gladden in the rising dew — 

 It« white waves with the sunlight blend, 

 And gentle spirits seem to bend, 

 From its unrolling folds, to hear 

 The glad sounds of our joyous sphere. 

 The lake unruffled by the breeze, 



Smiles in its deep, unbroken rest, 

 As it were dreaming of the trees 



And blossoms pictured on its breast; 

 lis depths are glowing, bright and fair, 

 And the far skies seem hallowed there, 

 Soft, trembling, as they felt the thrill 

 Of music echoed from the hill. 



!*lie living soul of beauty fills 



The air with glorious visions — bright 

 fTbey linger round the sunny hills 



And wander in the clear blue light — 

 Off to the breathing heavens they go, 

 Ainug the earth they live and glow, 

 Shed o'er the lake their happy smiles, 

 And beckon to its glittering isles. 

 Oh. at this hour, when air and earth 



Are gushing love, and joy, and light, 

 Awl songs of gladness at the birth 



Of all that's beautiful and bright — 

 Each heart beats high — each thought is blown 

 To flame— the spirit drinks the tone 

 Of brighter worlds, and melts away 

 In visions of eternal day. 



will had been repeated for sometime, another in- 

 dividual would frequently arrive, and then it ceas- 

 ed. There was then heard a kind of croaking in 

 a low and subdued tone, or else a clucking, with 

 intervals of over a second between each note. 



From these circumstances, we have good rea- 

 son to believe that the cause assigned is the true 

 one. From the apparently solitary habits of the 

 bfrtl, and the time at which it comes out from its 

 solitudes of the forest, it would seem necessary 

 that the bird should have some means of indica- 

 ting its place to its mate. 



A similar provision is assigned to the glow- 

 worm, whose winged partner would with difficul- 

 ty find its creeping consort, were it not ibns pro- 

 vided ; and this is no doubt the use of the flicker- 

 ing taper of the fire-fly, which we all have loved 

 from our childhood. 



The whippoorwill begins to sing about the first 

 of May, but is not much heard till near the mid- 

 dle. His song gradually dies away in June, and 

 by midsummer he is hardly to be heard. He is 

 one of our most singular birds, and, I think pecu- 

 liar to our country. Or.nus. 



From the Tracts and Lyceum. 

 THE "WHIPPOORWILL,. 



Having never seen, any particular account of 

 the habits of the whippoorwill, and being under the 

 impression that they aVc not well known, I thought 

 the following remarks might be interesting to some. 



The peculiar cry of this singular bird, which 

 resounds in all our groves during the early sum- 

 mer evenings, is familiar to every one ; but its 

 .rlijrrt in making this cry, is perhaps known to few 

 among the acquaintances of this nocturnal visiter. 



It seems that it is the call of the bird to its 

 mate. — Having lived where they came nightly to 

 the very door, I have had a good opportunity to 

 watch their habits, as far as. the dusk of twilight 

 would permit. — After the eall of the whippoor- 



IMMENSITY OP SPACE. 



Far as the earth seems to be from the sun 

 it is near to him when compared with Uranus 

 that planet is no less than 1S43,000,000 of 

 miles from the luminary that warms and enli- 

 vens the world ; situated on the verge of the sys- 

 tem, the sun must appear to it not much larger 

 than Venus does to us. The earth cannot even be 

 visible as a telescopic object to a body so remote ; 

 yet man, the inhabitant of the' earth, soars beyond 

 the vast dimensions of the system to which his 

 planet belongs, and assumes the diameter of its 

 orbit as the base of a triangle, whose apex extends 

 to the stars. Sublime as the idea is, this assump- 

 tion proves ineffectual, for the apparent places of 

 the fixed stars are not sensibly changed by the 

 earth's annual revolution ; and with the aid de- 

 rived from the refinements of modern astronomy, 

 and of the most perfect of instruments, it is still a 

 matter of doubt whether a sensible parallax has 

 been detected even in the nearest of these remote 

 suns. If a fixed star had the parallax of one sec- 

 ond, its distance from the sun would be 20, 500,- 

 000,000,000 of miles. At such a distance not 

 only the terrestrial orbit shrinks to a point, but 

 the whole solar system, seen in the focus of the 

 most powerful telescope, might be covered by the 

 thickness of a spider's thread. Light flying at the 

 rate of 200,000 miles in a second, would take 

 three years and seventy days to travel over that 

 space ; one of the nearest stars may, therefore, 

 have been kindled or extinguished more than three 

 years, before we could have been aware of so 

 mighty an event. But 'this distance must be 

 small when compared with that of the most re- 

 mote of the bodies which are visible in the heavens. 

 The fixed stars are undoubtedly luminous like the 

 sun ; it is, therefore, probable that they are not 

 nearer to one anotjier, than the sun is to the near- 

 est part of them. In the Milky Way and the oth- 

 er starry nebula-, some of the stars that seem to us 

 to be close to others may be far behind them in 

 the boundless depth of space ; nay, be rationally 

 supposed to be situated many thousand times fur- 

 ther off; light would therefore require thousands 

 of years to come to the earth from those myriads 

 of suns, of which our own is but "the dim and 

 remote companion." — Mrs. Somerville. 



UNWISE MEN. 



The angry man — who sets his own house on 

 fire, in order that he may burn up that of his 

 neighbor. 



The envious man — who cannot enjoy life be- 

 cause others do. 



The robber — who for the consideration of a flew 

 dollars, gives the world a right to hang him. 



The hypochondriac — whose highest happiness 

 consists in rendering himself miserable. 



The jealous man — who poisons his own ban- 

 quet and then eats of it. 



The miser — who starves himself to death, in 

 order that his heir may feast. 



The slanderer — who tell tales for the sake of 

 giving his enemy an opportunity to prove him a 

 liar. 



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