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.miscellany 



From the New Monlbly Magazine for SBptember. 



TO THE BLUR ANEMONE. 



BY MRS HF.MANS. 



Jlnd 'tis my faith that every flower. 

 Enjoys the air it ftreafftcs.— Wordsworth. 



Flower of starry clearness bright I 

 Quivering urn of colored light ! 

 Hast thou di.ivyn lliy cup's rich dye 

 From th' intcnseness of the sky ? 

 From A long, long fervent gaze, 

 Through the year's first golden days, 

 Up that blue and silent deep, 

 Where, like things of sculptured sleep, 

 Alabaster clouds repose 

 With the sunshine on their snows? 

 Thither was thy heart's love turning. 

 Till the purple heavens in thee 

 Set their smile. Anemone ! 



Or can those warm tints be caught 



Each from such quick glow of thought : 



So much of blight loul there seems 



In thy blendings and thy gleams— 



So much thy sweet life resembles 



That which feels, and weeps, and trembles ; 



While thy being 1 behold 



To each loving breath unfjld ; 



Or, like woman's willowy form, 



Shrink before the gathering storm ; 



I could deem the spirit tilled, 



As a reed by music thiillcd I 



I could ask a voice from thee. 



Delicate Anemone! 



Flower! thou seem'st not born to die. 



With thy radiant purity ; 



But to melt in air away. 



Mingling with the soft spring day. 



When the crystal heavens are still. 



And faint azure veils each hill. 



And the lime-leaf doth not move, 



Save to songs that stir the grove ; 



And all earth is like one scene, 



Glorified in waves serene !— ■ 



Then thy vanishing should be, Jj^ ■ 



Pure and meek Anemone! 



Flower ! the laurel slill may shed 

 Brightness round the victor's head ; ^ 

 And the ro?e in beauty's hair 

 Still its festal glory wear : 

 And the willow leaves droop o'er 

 Brows, which love sustains no more : 

 But bjcliving rays refined, 

 Thou, the trembler of the wind, 

 Thou the spiritual flower, 

 Sentient of each breeze and shower. 

 Thou, rejoicing in the skies, 

 And transpierced with all their dyes, 

 Brcaihing vase, with light o'erttowing. 

 Gem-like, to thy centre glowing. 

 Thou the poet's type shall be, 

 Flower of scent. Anemone ! 



KNOWLEDGE. 



BY REV. L. WITHINGTOM. 



There is a close connexion between ignorance 

 and vice ; and in such a country as our own, the 

 connexion is fatal to freedom. Knowledge opens 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



soinces of pleasure which the ignorant man can 

 never luiow — the pursuit of it fills up every idle 

 hour, opens to the niind a constant source of occu- 

 pation, waUes up the slumbering powers, gives the 

 secret victory contest and the secret unveils to our 

 astonishment ideal worlds ; secures us from tempt 

 tation and sensuality ; and exalts us in the scale oj" 

 rational beings. When I pass by the grog-shoj 

 and hear the idle dispute and obscene song; whei] 

 I see the cart rolled along, filled with intoxicatea 

 youths, singing and shouting as they go — when \ 

 discover the boat gliding down the river, where yoii 

 can hear the influence of rum by the noise whicH 

 it makes — I cannot but ask, Were these peopla 

 taught to read ? Was there no social library td 

 which they could have access? Did they ever know 

 the calm satisfaction of taking an imjjroviug volume 

 by a peaceful fire-side ? Or did they ever taste the 

 luxury of improving the mind ? You Iiardly ever 

 knew the yong man who loved his home and his 

 book that was vicious. Knowledge is often the 

 poor man's wealth. It is a treasure no thief can 

 steal, no moth nor rust can corrupt. By it you 

 turn his cottage to a palace, and you give a treasure 

 which is always improving and can never be lost, 

 " Tiie poor man," says Robei-t Hall, " wlio has 

 gained a taste for good books, will in all likelihoocj 

 become thoughtful : and when you have givcu th^ 

 poora habit of thinking, you have conferred onl 

 them a inucli grater favor than by the gift of a large 

 sum of money, since you have put into their posi 

 session tho principle of all legitimate prosperity. 



Nor is it to the poor alone, that this remark ap- 

 plies. The rich need occupation. Their hearts 

 are often like seas, which, stagnant under a breath- 

 less atmosphere, putrefy for the want of a wave. 

 Employment, roused by some noble object, is the 

 secret ofhappiness ; and of all employments, mental 

 labor lasts the longest. The body soon tires : but li/e 

 mind, divine in its origin and immortal iti its destiny, 

 pursues its labors with transient pausings : and rises 

 from every check with fresh vigor to continue its 

 eternal flight. What a beautiful picture docs Ci- 

 cero give of the secret liappiness his studies opened 

 to him. "Vou will not blame nie, respected judges, 

 at least you will jiardon me if, while some are 

 hurried in business ; some keeping holidays; some 

 pursuing pleasure; and some giving their hoius to 

 sleep ; while one tosses the javelin and another the 

 dice box, I should steal a little time for the rciol- 

 lection of my stmlics and the improvement of my 

 mind." Yes, lie loved these things better than re- 

 creation ; to him they were more profitable than 

 business and sweeter than sleep. 



Dress. — There is not an hour in a day in which 

 a man so much likes to see his wife dressed with 

 neatness as when she leaves her beilroom, and sits 

 down to breakfast. At any other moment, !;aji% sti- 

 mulates her eflorts at the toilette, for she expects 

 to be seen ; but at this retired and early hour, it is 

 for the very sake of cleanliness, for the very sake 

 of pleasing her biisbdnd, that she thus appears 

 neat and nice — some one says, " a woman should 

 never appear tmtidily or badly drcsse^in the pre- 

 sence of her husband." While he was a lover, 

 what a sad piece of business if he caught her dress- 

 ed to disadvantage ! " Oh dear, there he is, and 

 my hair all in papers : and this frightOd unbecom- 

 ing cap ! I had no idea he would have been here 

 so early, let me off to my toilete ?" But now that 

 he is yom- hus'iand. " Dear me, what consequence 

 is it ? My object is gained ; my efforts to win him, 



November 21, 1833. 



and my little mananivres to captivate, have been 

 successful, and it is very hard if a woman is to pass 

 her life in endeavoring to please her husband .'" I 

 remember greatly admiring a lady who lived among 

 the mountains, and scarcely saw any one but her 

 husband. She was rather a jdaiu woman ; yet 

 when she sat to breakfast each morning, and all 

 the day long, her extreme neatness, and the atten- 

 tion to the niceness of her appearance, made her 

 quite an agreeable object ; her husband loved her, 

 and would look at her with more pleasure than at 

 a pretty woman dressed soiled and untidily ; for 

 believe me, those things, (though your husband 

 appears not to notice them, nor perhaps is he con- 

 scious of the cause) strongly possess the power of 

 ]ileasiug or displeasing. — IVhisper to a JVew Mar- 

 ried Couple. 



Trees, &c. 



MRS PARMENTIER, at the Horticultural Botanic 

 Garden, Brooklyn, L. I. two miles from New York, of- 

 fers for sale a choice collection of I'ear, Apple, Peach, 

 Plum, Cherry, Quince, &c. Trees, Grape Vines, Orna- 

 mental trees and Shrubs — Green-house and Herbaceous 

 pl.ints. 



Also, the Morus mullicaulis, or true Chinese Mulber- 

 ry, of which any quantity not exceeding ten thousand 

 can be furnished. 



(Inlers lor Boston, may be sent to Mr John B. Russell'- 

 Agricultural Warehouse, No. 504 North Market Street 

 Boston. Ordei-s by mail will be carefully attended to. 



Brooklyn, Oct. 15tb, 1832. 4t 



Tin Covering for Roofs. 



A very simple plan of Covcring thk Roofs of 

 Houses, Manvfactories, and in fact any Building, 

 wilh TIN, has been adopted with entire success in 

 tlie middle and Southern Stales, and a Patent obtained. 



The great advantages over Slate Roofs, are — 1st, less 

 than one half the expense; and 2d, a great saving of 

 (limber in framing the roof, as the Tin is so much lighter 

 ihan Slate. Tlieje are Tin Roofs in Montreal that are 

 now in good condition, which have been covered with 

 Tin Miorl2 tlian 100 years. The improvement in this cov- 

 erinj, is that each sheet, altliough secured by two nails, 

 no part ofthe nail is exposed to the atmosphere. 



The subsrrilier will exhibit a building covered as 

 above, and enter into contract to cover any number of 

 buildings the ensuing season, on application to him at 

 Indian Hill Farm, near Newburyport, Ms.; or applica- 

 tioD c^m be made to J. R. NEWELL, Esq. Agricultural 

 Waiehouse, Boston. ROBERT WILKIE. 



Nov. 7, 1832. 



For Sale. 



A handsome Bull, part of the Holderness and part of 

 the Admiral breed. He will be three years old next 

 March, and will be sold cheap. Addiess Is.VAC S. 

 HouGHTo.v. Roxbury, care of Daniel Weld & Son, 

 742 Washington Street, Boston. -It* Oct. 31. 



Published every Wednesday Evininu, at g3 per annum, 

 payable at the end of the year — but lOose who pay withiD 

 sixty days Irom the time of subscribing, arc entitled to a 

 deduction ol til'ty cents. 



(CF No paprr will be sent to a distance without payment 

 beingmndeiu advance. 



Printed for J. B. Rissell, by T. R. Butts — by whom 

 all descriptions of Printing con be e.\ecuted to meet the 

 wishes of customei's. Orders for Printing received by J. B. 

 RnssELL. at the Agricultural Warehouse, No. 62. North 

 Market Street. 



AGENTS. 



New York — G. Thorburk <.V Sons, G7 Liberly-strecl. 

 Albany — \V a. Thoheuu.n, 317 l\larket street. 

 Phila'lelphia — D. ifc C LANiiiit:TH, 85 Chestnut-street. 

 Baltimore — G. B. Smith, Editor of the American Farmer. 

 Cinciiinali— S C. PAHKHriRST. 23 Lower Market-street. 

 Flushing.N. Y. Wm. I'rince& Sons, Prop. Lin.Bot.Gardcn 

 Middlehury. V'l!. — WiOHT Chapha>-. 

 Hartford— Goodwin Jt Co. Booksellers. 

 dprivg^Udtl. Ms. — E. Ehwakus. 

 Nmhirmort. — Ei knk/.kh Stehman, Bookseller. 

 Portsvwuth. N. H — J. W. Fostkk. Bo. ksd'cr. 

 Portlanrl,Me. — S\iiivf.\. Coi.man, Bookseller. 

 A'^fTi'sta. Mf —Via. Makn. 

 Halifax, N. S. — P. J. Holland Esq, 



