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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



[March 4 



1 4. 



iWisrcUnntcs. 



. FAREWELL TO THE DEAD. 



EV MBS HEMANS. 



Come near ! — ere yet the dust 

 .Soil the bright paleness of the settled brow. 

 Look on our brother and embrace him now 



In still and solemn trust I 

 Come near I once more let kindred lips be pressed 

 On his cold cheeks, then bear him to his rest. 



Look yet on his young face ! 

 AVhat shall the beauty, from us gone. 

 Leave of its imaj;e, e'en where most it shone, 



Gladdening its heart and race ? — 

 Dim grows the sembiance, on man's thought impress'd, 

 Come near ! and bear the beautiful to rest. 



Ye weep, and it is well ! 

 For tears befit earth's partings ! — yesterday 

 Song was upon the lips of this pale clay, 



And sunshine seem'd to dwell 

 Where'er he moved— the welcome and the bless'd ! — 

 Now gaze and bear the silent to his rest. 



Look ye on him whose eye 

 Meets your's no more, in sadness or in mirth ! 

 Was he not fair amongst the sons of earth. 



The beings born to die ? 

 But not where death has power, may love be blessed ! 

 Come near ! and bear the early call'd to rest. 



How may (he mother's heart 

 Dwell on her son, and dare to hope again ! 

 Tbq spring's rich promise has been given in vain — 



The lovely must depart ! 

 Is he not gone, our brightest and our best ? — 

 Come near ! and bear ye the belov'd to rest. 



Look on him ! Is he laid 

 To slumber from the harvest or the chase ? 

 Too still and sad the smile upon his face, 



Yet that, e'en that must fade I 

 Death will not hold unchang'd his fairest guest- 

 Come near ! and bear the mortal to his rest .' 



His voice of mirth hath ceas'd 

 Amidst the vineyards ! there is left no place 

 For him whose dust receives your last embrace. 



At the gay bridal feast ! 

 Earth must take earth to moulder on her breast — 

 Come near ; weep o'er him, bear him to his rt-st. 



Yet mourn ye not as they 

 ^ ■ Whose spirit's light is quciirh'd— for him the past 

 Is seal'd. ■ He may not fall, he may not cast 



His brightest hope away ! 

 All is not here of our beloved and blest '. 

 Leave ye the sleeper wilb his God to rest. 



TWra American Coin. — There is at present in 

 the Academy of Fine Arts, a beantifnl bas-relief 

 executed by order of the United States tnin(, by 

 Mr. Persico, ns the model for a die uhich is a- 

 bout to be sunk, and which uill he used for im- 

 pressing- the next issne of coin. 



The figure is a head of Liberty ; although it 

 is evidently in the Grecian style of sculpture, 

 still it is observable that the fnce is not Grecian. 

 A head charactereslic of that nation, could not 

 indeed have been satisfactory, it would not he 

 appropriate on the coin of .'Xmerica. The ar- 

 tist, therefore, has shonn not loss judfrmcnt than 

 taste, while in the composition of a head [lurc- 

 ly American, be seems like one of the masters 

 of antiquity in a sister art, to have selected the 

 most beautiful features of the fair of our own 

 country, and blended them 'in one harmonious 

 whole. The character given to this relief is 

 that of firmness and severity — a beautiful idea, 

 and very happily ex|iresscd. The hair is wor- 

 thy of remark, not only from the graceful man- 

 ner in which it is disposed, but because it is fin- 



ished in that delicate style for which Canova 

 has been so much celebrated--a fine specimen 

 of which may be seen at the Academy, in the 

 statue of Venus by that distinguished artist. — 

 The drapery pleases by its simide neatness, and 

 attracts the attention as possible ; evidently 

 with the view that it may rest on the counte- 

 nance alone. 



As the coin of a country is thought to indicate, 

 in some measure, the state of (he arts of the 

 time, this disposition, on the part of the gen- 

 tlemen of the mint, to improve it, cannot t'ai I 

 to be regarded by the public with pleasure and 

 satisfaction. 



The execution of the Die is committed to 

 Mr. Kneass, an Engraver of merit, who it is 

 believed, will render the work worthy of the 

 beautiful model from which it virill be copied. 



Philanthrophic Wizard. — Buchanan, from his 

 extensive learning, was supposed by many of 

 the illiterate to bo a wizard. An old woman 

 who kept an ale house, consulted him, in hopes 

 that through his ait, he might restore her cus- 

 tom, which was daily decreasing. He accord- 

 ingly gave her the following advice. " Every 

 time, Maggy, (*aid he) go three times round the 

 coppet, and at each round take out a larlle fi 11 

 of water in the devil's name ; then turn ti)ree 

 times round to the right, and throw in a ladle 

 full of mall, in God's name ; hut be sure always 

 to wear this charm constantly on your breast, 

 and never during your life attempt to opeti it ; 

 if you do, the worst will happen to you." Mag^ 

 gy stnclly tollowed the rules laid down, and her 

 business increased astonishingly. When she 

 died, her friends ventured to open the charm, 

 v.'hich was found to contain the t'ollovviug com- 

 plete couplet ; 



If Maggy will brew gcod ale, 



Maggy will have gcod sale. 



Inns. — The following lines from Shensfone 

 are frequently (bund written on liie windows o.' 

 inns : 



Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round. 



Where'er has various stage has been, 



Must sigh to think he oft has found 



His warmest welcome at an inn. 



A gentleman on a tour to the north, seeing 

 this complimentary inscription on a pane ofglass 

 took out a diamond and wrote underneath : 



He must have found where'er he's been, 

 While he had cash they'd lake him in ,■ 

 When he had none, he found, no doubt. 

 How gracefully they fco?f'rf hitn oul. 



FRUIT TREES, &c. 



.\I. PRI.NXE, Proprietor 

 of the Linnseau Garden, 

 near New York, offers to the 

 public bis usual very extensive 

 collection of Fruit" and Orna- 

 mental Trees, Shrubs ii Plants, 

 in the selection of which are 

 about 50,000 Apples, Pears, 

 Peaches, Szc. of the largest 

 ^izes, suitable for transplanting, 

 all of which are in the most vigorous and healthy state. 

 From the long continuance of this establishment, the 

 Proprietor has the advantage of possessing bearing trees 

 of nearly all the kinds, and those offered for sale are 

 engrafted horn fruit bearing Irtts., thereby affording an 

 absolute certainty of their genuine character. The 

 collections of Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, and Plants, 

 including above 300 kinds of Roses, — also of Oranges, 

 Lemous, Citrons, Camellias or.lapan Roses, &c. are so 

 well known for their extent, that anj- remarks would 

 be unnecessary, farther than to refer to the Catalogues^ 

 which may be obtained gratis from Mr Joseph Bbidge, 

 iNo. 2jCourt Street, Boston ; and orders through him. 

 will receive the most prompt and attentive execution. 



Friiit and Ormtmenial Trees, 



FOPi. sale, as usual, at the Kcnrick Place, 

 near Brighton, (Mass.) The Nurseries have 

 been auich enlarged, and contain a variety of Pears, 

 Apples, Cherries, Plums, Apricots, ic. Also, the finest 

 varit-ly of budded Peach Tribes known in America ; con- 

 sistirgof a choice collection of about 40 of the most ap- 

 prcved liinds in our best gardens, or seen in the 

 markets ; the Peach Trees are from iive to eight feet 

 high, and sold at the moderate price of 30 cents each, 

 of good sized ornamental trees, the flowering Horse 

 Chesnut, ilowpring Catalpa ; European .Mountain Ash ; 

 \^■ec|ling Willow ; the Evergreen Silver Fir, and the 

 Larcii ; English V.'alnuts and Rutter Nuts, both of 

 whirh are justly admired for their fruit. 



Currant Bu;lres of the large prolific ren kind, of all 

 sizes, by tha dozen, Iiun'^r' ') "■ :'ni'«ar.d. on moderate 

 t^rins. -Also, the black. ■ Chsmpaiga do ; 



re-l and white Hoses ; 1.;: • Grapes, ^c, 



< rddrs addressed toJOIl.V c.r '.MLLI.\>i KEMUCK, 

 and sent to the Brighton Post Office, or to the C'tlice of 

 D \ NA & FE:'"N0,I3rokers, in State-street, Boston, will 

 be duly attended to. 



\. B. Trees will be packed in clay and mats for ship- 

 ping, and convf yed to Poston when ordc re d ; but gen- 

 tlemen at a distance should employ some agent to re- 

 ceive and pay lor them. 



On Wednesdays and Saturdays, trees will be de- 

 livered in Boston, fiee of charge for conveyance. As 

 one year's growth is often lost by greatly diminishing 

 the roots, if the trees survive, special care will be taken 

 for their preservation. Feb. 25. 



Mothers, see to you'' Daughters ! A Piiiladel- ' 

 phia physician, in a letter to a lady, on the del- 

 eterious elTect of wearing corsets, has the fol- 

 lowing remarks; "I anticipate the happy peri-; 

 od when the fairest portion of the fair creation i 

 will step fnrth unencumbered with slabs ofwal-! 

 nut, and tiers of whalebone. The constitution' 

 of our females must be excellent, to withstand 

 in any tolerable degree the terrible intlictions 

 of the corset eight long hours every day. No | 

 other animal could survive it. Take liie honest 

 ox and enclose his sides with hoop-poles, put ail 

 oaken piank beneath him, and gird the whole 

 ivith a bed-cord, and demand of him labour. — 

 He would labour indeed, but it would be for 

 breath," 



FARM FOR SALE, in Cambridge— For sale, a farm 

 about 4 miles from the city, consisting of 35 acres 

 of as good land as any in the county of Jliddlesex. It 

 is under good improvement, and may be made at small 

 expense to cut from 60 to 70 tons of English hay ; has 

 fixim 3, to 400 Fruit Trees, 10 acres of Meadow land, 

 about a quarter of a mile from the farm. On said farm 

 are 2 dwelling houses, barn, corn-barn, chaise-house, 

 pinery, &c. Said farm is on the main road to Lexing- 

 ton and Concord, and one or two stages pass daily. The 

 farm, cattle, and farming utensils will be sold at a bar- 

 gain. A small part of the purchase money will be re- 

 quired, and the residue may lie 5 or 10 years. 



Inquire of Qiandler Bobbins, real estate broker, Ex- 

 change Street, or at this office. t.\l Jan. 28 



ANTEIJ, at this office, a strong, active lad, of 

 abgut IG years of age, as an apprentice to the 

 IMntin? Business. 



TERMS OF THE FARMER. 

 3^-Published erery .Saturday, at Thkke Doi.i.aes 

 per annum, payable at the end of the year — but those 

 who pay within si:i:ly days from the time of subscribing 

 will be entitled to a deduction of Futk Cekts. 



