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NEW ENGLAND FARiMER 



FEB. n, ts3e. 



Ea5i:g©3EEiSiAS«rw. 



ON THE DEATH OF THE ETTRICK SHEP- 

 HERD. 



BY WORDSWORTH. 



- When first, descending from tlie moorlands, 

 I saw the stream of Yarrow glide 

 Along a bare and open valley, 

 The Ettriek Shepherd was my guide. 



When last along its banks I wandered, 

 Thro' groves that had begun to shed 

 Their golden leaves upon the pathways, 

 My steps the Border Minstrel led. 



The mighty minstrel breathes no longer, 

 'Mid mouldering ruins low he lies ; 

 And death upon the braes of Yarrow 

 Has closed the Shepherd-Poet's eyes. 



Nor has the rolling year twice measured. 

 From sign to sign his steadfast course, 

 Since every mortal power of Coleridge 

 Was frozen at its marvellous source. 



The rapt one, of the Godlike forehead, 

 The heaven-eyed creature, sleeps in earth ; 

 And Lamb, the frolic and the gentle, 

 Has vanisiied from his lonely heartli. 



Like clouds that rake the mountain summits. 

 Or waves that own no curbing hand. 

 How fast has brother followed brotlier 

 From sunshine to the sunless land ! 



Yet I, whose lids, from infant slumbers 

 Were earlier raised, remain to hear 

 A timid voice that asks in whispers, 

 " Who next will drop and disappear i"" 



Our haughty life is crowned with darkness. 

 Like London with its own black wreath, 

 On which, with thee, O Crabbe, forthlooking 

 I gazed from Hempstead's breezy heath ; 



As if but yesterday departed. 

 Thou, too, alt gone before ; yet why 

 For ripe fruit seasonably gathered 

 Should frail survivors heave a sigh .' 



I No more of old romantic sorrows 



For slaughtered youth and love-lorn maid ; 

 With sharper grief is Yarrow smitten. 

 And Ettiick mourns with her their Shepherd dead 

 Rydal-Mount, JVov. 30, 1835. 



Such fell like you away from here I send 'em, 



You broke 'em Sunday once before 3'ou die .'' 

 ' Ah but,' says I, 

 ' I gib a dollar too, and so I mend 'em .' 

 ' Did you,' he say, * where your citijicat ?' 



' La,' say I, ' mnssa Lawyer never write 'em ;' 

 ' Why, den, you fool,' he tell ine, * hole you prate, 



'Go back and get 'em ,' 



Mad like Ole Harry down again I come, 



I find you dead, (now only see what trouble I) 

 I look for you, and 'fore I find you home, 



I got for go quite to de Debbie I 



He that charges an enciny doe.s not show hi 

 self more biave, than he who bears up against 

 vere disease. 



No trees hear fruit in antunin, unless they h\ 

 som in the spring. 



In all disputes between power and liberty, po 

 er must be proved ; the presumption is on I 

 side of liberty. 



A PINDARIC STORY. 

 An Indian once, who icore a Christian name. 



And many a Christian truth had brought him. 

 Would often get (it was a piteous shame) 



Drunk as the magistrate who taught him ; 

 Who was a lawyer bold — and on a time, 



Hearing that Wango had drank grog on Stmday, 



He sent for him straightway on Monday, 

 To come and make atonement for his crime. 

 " Wretch I" did Lycurgus fiercely say, 



" The ch urch demands a dollar for your peace." 

 " Well," BJg bed the culprit," I will pay — 



But give me* citifficat if you please." 

 " Cortiiicate!' ' the lawyer sternly said ; 



" What will t lie fool do with the paper.' ' 

 Poor Wango sej-a 'ch'd his oily head. 



And bowing, ei. d, "Life 's one poor vapor; 

 And when I die iie. ^ t" ""y '^st would go, 

 JKaybe Saint Pet« ' tell me, ' No- 



Time's SoLiLoquY. — Old call you me? Ay! 

 when the Almighty spoke creation into birth, 1 

 was there. Then was I born. Mid the bloom 

 and verdure of Paradise, I gazed upon the young 

 world, radiant with celestial smiles. 1 rose upon 

 the pinions of the first morn, and caught the sweet 

 dewdrops as they fell, and sparkled on the bowers 

 of the garden. Ere the foot of man was heard 

 sounding in this wilderness, I gazed out upon its 

 thousand rivers flashing in light, and reflecting 

 the broad sun, like a thousand jewels upon their 

 bosoms. The cataracts sent up their anthems, in 

 these solitudes, and none was here to listen to the 

 new-born melody but I ! The fawns bounded 

 over the bills, and drank at the limped streams, 

 ages before an arm was raised to injure or make 

 them afraid. For thousands of years the morn- 

 ing star rose in beauty upon these unpeopled 

 shores, and its twin-sister of the eve flamed in the 

 forehead of the sky, with no eye to admire their 

 rays but mine. Ay ! call tne old ! — Babylon and 

 Assyria, Palmyra and Thebes, rose, flourished 

 and fell, and I beheld them in their glory and 

 their decline. Scarce a tnelaucholy ruin marks 

 the place of their existence; but when their first 

 stones were laid in the earth, I was there ! Mid 

 all their splendor, glory, and wickedness, I was in 

 their busy stt^ets, and crumbling their magnificent 

 piles and their gorgeous palaces to the earth. 



My books will show a long and fearful account 

 against them. I control the fate of empires, — I 

 give them their period of glory and splendor : but 

 at their birth I conceal in them the seeds of death 

 and decay. They must go down and be bumbled 

 in the -dust — their proud heads bowed down 

 before the rising glories of young nations, to whose 

 prosperity there will come a date and <lay of de- 

 cline. I poise my wings over the earth, and 

 watch the course and doings of its inhabitants. I 

 call up the violets from the bills, and cruinble the 

 gray ruins to the ground. I am the agent of a 

 Higher Power, to give life and take it away. 1 

 spread silken tresses upon the brow of the young, 

 and place gray hairs on the head of the aged man. 

 Dimples and smiles lurk around the lips of the 

 innocent child, and 1 furrow the Urow of age At;ith 

 wrinkles. Old call you m»; ? When . will Time 

 end, Eternity begin ? When wiil rjje earth and 

 its waters, and the utiiverte, be rolled up, and a 

 new world commence its revolutions ? Not till 

 He, who first bid me begin my flight so orders it, 

 When His purposes wno first brought me into 

 being are accomplished, then, and not till then,— r 

 and no one can proclaim the hour, — -I tco shall 

 go to the place of all living. 



FINE EARLY PEAS. 



Earliest Dwarf Peas — the earliest variety of Peas, gic 



from 20 to 24 niches high — conscquenlly require no slicks. 



Early Washington Peas ; a very productive early variet' 



Charhiiii " Early Golden Hoispur, do 

 IVishop's Eaily Dwarf, do. ; very Dwarf and early. 

 Also — Dwarl Scymctar Peas — A new variety from Sc 

 lau'i ; this Pea will tie found a great acquisition for a very p. 

 ductive and delicious /rt(e sort. 

 Dwarf Blue Imperial I'ea; 

 Large Dwarf .Alarrowfat, do. ; &c. &c. , 

 All ihe above were raised expresslv for the Nkw Encla^ 

 Seed Store, Nos. 51 dj- 52, North Market Street. 



The more we sink into the infirmities of age, 

 the nearer we are 10 iinmortal youth. In the 

 next world (the poets tell us) there is rothing but 

 youth and spring. 



SPLENDID FLOWER BULBS FOR WINTEB 



WILL BLOOM IN THE HOUSE. 



Amaryllis {most splendid^ 



/r.) 

 Gladiolus Pscitticinna. 

 o!3'anthus Narcissus. 



Htacinths — 



Boqufit Tendre, 



Grooi Voorst, 



Parquin, 



Grand Monarche, 



Orondates, 



Voltaire, 



Temple of Apollo, 



Lord Wellington, 



Madam Zonlman, 



Madam Van Murkeys, 



Gloria f lorum, 



L-Ami Dn Coeur, 



Pyramides des Roses. 

 200 Assorted Double. 

 200 Assorted Single, kc. &c 



It being late in ihe season, and having a very large colli 

 liun on hand, the above will be sold unusually low. 



GEO. C. BARRETT. . 



Double Jonquills. 

 Single dn. 

 Crown Imperial {ofi^arielit 

 Friuellera. 

 Colchicum. 

 Cyclamens. 



"I'ulips, (assorted.) &c. &C' 

 Also — A large collect 

 of splendid varieties of Flo 

 ER Seeds. 





PLASTER. 



Calcined Plaster for Stocco Work, Ground Plaster 

 manuring lands, in barrels and casks, Irom the I.uber. Mi 

 cansianily lor sale by GEO. CLARK &. CO. T Wharf. 

 Feb. 10, 1836. 3m 



GARDEN SEEDS AT $1 PER BOX. 



Small Boxe^ Garden Seeds, containing a good assortint* 

 for a very small garilen, for sale at J^I per box. 



Also — A very large assortment of ti'arden and Flow 

 Seeds, raised in gardens connected with the Agricultui 

 Warehouse, &.c. now ready for sale and orders promptly 01 

 culed. GEO. C. BARRETT, 



Jan. 27. New England Seed Store. 



"WHITE DUTCH CLOVER. 



600 lbs. very tine White Dutch Clover, (free from fo 

 seed) just received from Holland, and for sale by GEO. ( 

 BARRETT. Feb. 3. 



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