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NEW ENGLAND FA£MER, 



msm^miL^^m s". 



LET US fRAy. 



BY THE AOTHOR OK THE BREEZE IN THE DESEKT. 



Let U9 pray ! when morn's first light 

 Pierceth through the clouds of night ; 

 While the flowers are dewy yet, 

 Ere the twinlding stars are set ; 

 Ere the strife and stir begin, 

 Of this world of woe and sin ; 

 For a blessing on the day, 

 To its Maker — let us pray ! 



I Let us pray ! when over heaven 



Cornea the lovely lifjht of even ; 

 When the distant vesper hymn, 

 Rising through the twilight dim, 

 On the evening winds sweeps by. 

 Like an air-harp's melody , 

 Wlien the distant sea is oTay, 

 At that soft hour — let us pray ! 



Let us pray ! when winter drear 



Closcth in the vanished year ; 



Wraps in snow the lofiy hill, 



Chains in frost the murmuring rill; 



When let loose, the chilling breeze 

 Sweeps the last leaves from the trees , 

 When tha summer flowers decay, 

 Looking on them — let us pray ! 



Let us pray ! around tlie hearth. 

 Check the voice of childish mirth ; 

 Ere they go to rest in peace. 

 Bid the infant praUle cease, 

 Teach the spotless heart to rise 

 With its evening sacrifice; 

 While the artless prayer they say, 

 With our children — let us pray ! 



Let us pray ! when slumber flies. 



And the sad tear dims our eyes ; 



When there is no voice nor sound 



In the midnight stillness round ; 



When gloomy fears foreboding start. 



Clouding o'er the mourning heart ; 



For bright Hope's consoling ray ; ' 



In that silence — let us pray ! 



Let us pray ! when at the last 



Wo and sorrow shall have passed; 



When around our dying bed 



Sighs are breathed and tears are shed ; 



In that hour of awful thought, 



When the things of earth are nought. 



Ere the spirit flies away, 



For Heaven's mercy — let us pray ! 



WINE DRINKING. 



We invite the attention of all wine drinkers to 

 the following extract of a speech, hy f-'ofessor 

 Goodnch, of Yale college, before the Connecticut 

 .State leiiiperaiice Couvoiition : 



" Had I been called three years ago to expre-s 

 my vjews of the subject, they would probably 

 have been d.ffbrent from those J entertain at pres- 

 ent I am now astonished that I did not take 

 biglier grounds. But changes have since taken 

 place, of immediate importance. The inquiry has 

 shown that the causes of intemperance are situa- 

 ted farther back than is generally supposed. I 

 had a widow's son committed to my particular 

 care. He was heir to a great estate. He went 

 through the different stages of his education, and 



finally left Yale college with a good moral char- 

 acter, and bright prospects. J5ut during the course 

 of hJF, education he liad beard the sentiment ad- 

 vanced, which 1 then supposed correct, that the 

 use of wine was not only admissahle, but a real 

 auxiliary to the temperance raLi.se. After he had 

 left the collcgs for a few years he continued to be 

 respectfnl to me. At length he became reserved 

 and the next I heard was, he rushed one night, 

 unceremoniously, into my room, and his ajjpear- 

 ance told the dreadful secret. He said he came 

 to talk with me. lie had been told during his 

 senior year, that it was safe to drink wine, ainl by 

 that idea he had been ruined. I asked liini if his 

 mother kneu this. He said no, he had carefully 

 concealed the secret from her. I asked him if lie 

 was such a slave that he could not abandon the 

 habit ? Talk not to me of slavery, said he, I am 

 riJined,and before 1 go to bed, 1 shall quarrel witli 

 the bar-keeper of the Tontine, for brandy or gin 

 to .<Jate iny burning thirst. In one month, this 

 young man was in bis grave. It went to my heart. 

 Wine is the cause of ruin to a great proportion of 

 the young men in our country. Another consid- 

 eration is that the habits of convivialty and hos- 

 pitality are now directed to the use of wine. Once 

 it was the use of distilled liquor. .Toddy and 

 sling, and bitters were the fashion. 



Another fact. Breweries are increasing, mil- 

 lions of capital, much of it is changed from other 

 uses — have been employed in this business. Y'ou 

 have put out the fires of the distillery, and lighted 

 the fires of the breweries. But drunkennessVrom 

 beer as seen in England, is as bad as drunkenness 

 from any thing else. 



' Y'ou give up your wine, and I will give up my 

 rum,' says the dram drinker. One Mr G. said he 

 would not yield to this — now he thinks he ought, 

 for the sake of checking intemperance. He would 

 not speak for others — but for him it would be a 

 sin to do otherwise. 



DECEMBER 28, 1836. 

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A.^iEcnoTF. OF THE NiGHTirvGALE. — A French 

 paper contains an interesting fact, illustrating the 

 S'lgacity of the Nightin-gale. M. de Nervaux, in 

 a letter dated at St. Cosmes, has communicated to 

 the Academy of Sciences at Paris, a curious fact 

 which he had an opportunity of observing durino' 

 the inundation, which has recently caused so much 

 destruction in that quarter. 



" A part of my garden," says he, " has been 

 carried away by the water, which rising rapidly, 

 was beginning to .-over a hedge situated in the 

 lower part of it. A Nightingale had built m nest 

 in this hedge, and while I was watching for the 

 water to reach the level of the nest, I observed it 

 it several times a day, and could approach within 

 a distance of six or seven paces* "There were at 

 first four eggs in the nest. Of,c morning I could 

 see but two, the water having then risen to witli- 

 in about one inch from the nest. I thought the 

 two eggs that were missing, had been submerged ; 

 but an hour after, seeing but one, I watched with 

 redoubled attention, and what was my astonish- 

 ment, when, after having seen the two birds fly 

 away from the nest, skimming the ground, I found 

 that the last egg had gone. 'Hie birds flew to- 

 wards the highest ji.irt of my enclosure ; and on 

 visiting the place where they alighted, I found the 

 eggs in a new nest, about fifty paces from the first. 

 A new egs was afterward laid, and the brood suc- 

 ceeded very well." This may have been instinct, 

 but it looks astonishingly like reason. 



MORUS i»ItIl,TICAUL,IS SEED. 



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 >ale the seed ol the genuine Mokus JIulticauus raised in 

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