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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



APRIL 13, I)>37. 



jg.#5s^m'Ss 



THE COMMON LOT. 



BY MO?^TGOMF,RY. 



Once in llie flight of ages past 



Tlicre lived a man — and w'lo was he 1 



Mortal ! howe'cr thy lot he cast, 

 That man resembled ihce ! 



Unknown the regions of Ids birth, 



The land in which he died miknowu, 

 His name hath perished from the earth, 

 This truth survives alone — 



That joy, and grief, and hope, and fear, 

 Alternate triumph in his breast, 



His Idiss and wo, a smile, a tear ! 

 Oblivion hides the rest. 



The bounding pulse, the languid limb, 

 The changing spirit's rise and fall. 



We know that these were felt by him. 

 For these are felt by all. 



He suffered — hut his pangs are o'er, 

 Enjoyed — but his delights are fled. 



Had friends — his friends are now no more, 

 And foes — his foes are dead. 



He loved — but whom he loved, the grave 

 Hath lost in its unconscious womb : 



O she was fair ! but nought could save 

 Her beauty from the tomb. 



The rolling seasons, day and night, 



Sun, moon and stars, the earth and main, 

 Ere while his portion, life and light, 

 -To him exist— in vain. 



He saw whatever thou hast seen. 

 Encountered all that troubles thee, 



He was — whatever thou hast been. 

 He is — what thou shah be ! 



The clouds and sunbeams o'er his eye 

 That once their shade and glory threw. 



Have left in yonder silent sky 

 No vestige where tliey flew I 



The annals of the human race, 

 Their ruin since the world began. 



Of him afford no other trace 



Tlian this — thebe lived a man. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



AN EXCELLENT BOOK. 



Backed Music. — Historians, who have given 

 11= the annals of antiquity, iiifoiiTi that Lycurgus, 

 the famous lawgiver, vvlio formed a celebrated 

 speeimen of Codification for the Lacedemonians, 

 was particularly solicitous to introduce, improve 

 and modify superior music for the purpose of im- 

 proving not only the taste, but the minds and mor- 

 als of the republic for whom liis laws were con- 

 structed. We learn that there was something pe- 

 culiar as well as excellent in the Spartan songs, 

 whether composed to be sung on public occasions 

 or at private assemblages; to brighten the chain of 

 social intercourse, or to nerve the arm and foitify 

 the heart of the warrior for martial onset. 



Likewise, in modern times, every nation has 

 its poimlar and characteristic music. English- 

 men, Scotchmen, Italians, Germans, Frenchmen, 

 Swiss, &c., have their national airs, sacred, secu- 



lar, amatory, martial, pathetic, cSic, which they 

 cherish with a patriotic feeling, forming the strong- 

 est ligHture of national communities. New Eng- 

 land has also its peculiar melodies, with their ap- 

 propriate expression, as strongly marked as any 

 trait in the distinctive (pialities of the jiilgrims. — 

 These are to be found in the works of Biliings, 

 llolden, llolyoke, Rea I, French and others, and 

 deserve to he cherished with as much care as the 

 memory of the sages and heroes to whom, under 

 Providence, w.; are indebted for the blessings con- 

 sequent OM American Independence. We would 

 almost a.s soon consent to part with our national 

 liberty, as with our New England jisalni tunes, 

 which appear to us to be interwoven with our po- 

 litical identity as a great, free and independent 

 nation. 



Impressed with these ideas, we were pleased to 

 learn that there existed in this city, an associa- 

 tion called the Boston Billings and llolden Soci- 

 ety. We were also highly flattered on receiving 

 an invitation to become a member of said society, 

 and to be presented with a book, published under 

 their patrona5!;e, entitled The Billi.sgs and Hol- 

 DEN Collection of Ancient Psalmodt, &c. — 

 The following extracts from the Advertisement 

 to the book before us, gives a lucid explanation of 

 the views of its publishers. 



" This com|iilation of Ancient Sacred ?tlusic, 

 made under the patronage of the Boston Billings 

 and llolden Society, has been selected with great 

 care by a committee of 17 gentlemen, coii'prising 

 jirofessors, teachers, amateurs, and others. Before 

 this selection was undertaken, there appeared to 

 be a very general wish that there should be a se- 

 lection of tunes from ancient American and Eu- 

 ropean authors, with the music and words as orig- 

 inally puhlislied ; that they might not only be 

 rescued from oblivion, but again presented to the 

 public in their original form. To gratify the 

 wishes of the community, this book was under- 

 taken. The mutilated slate of the books from 

 which many of these tunes have been copied, 

 some of them having been published more than 

 half a century, has rendered the duty very ardu- 

 ous, and has compelled the committee to copy 

 some of them from works other than the original. 

 * » » # # 



" These tunes must be published as originally 

 written, or the ehlerly and middle aged must be 

 deprived of the sati.^faction anddelight they have 

 heretofore experienced. Who ever witnessed their 

 performance in the family circle, when the whole 

 could unite, that did not have his affections moved, 

 his reverence heightened towards that being, who 

 alone is worthy of all adoration." 



Signed, Daniel Copeland, Chairman. 



It was a saying of one of the sages of antiqui- 

 ty that, " if he could make the songs of a Com- 

 monwealth, he cared but little who made the laws, 

 for his ballads would control in despite of legis^ 

 lation." Without ado|)ting that sentiment to its 

 full extent, we still may be sure that music, and 

 particularly psalmody has an influence in forming 

 the minds, and improving the morals of civil and 

 social man to a degree far beyond what has ever 

 been attributed to such agency by philoso[iher3 or 

 politicians. 



An Indian's Joke. — In a time of Indian troubles 

 a friendly Indian visited the house of Governor 

 Jenks, of Rhode Island, when the governor took 



occasion to request him, if any strange Indian 

 should come to his wigwam, to let him know it. 

 This the Indian promised to do, and the governor 

 told him that if he should give hini such iriforma- 

 tion, he would give him a mug of flip. Some 

 time after the Indian came again, and on meeting 

 the governor said, "Well, .Mr guhernor, strange 

 Iiidi.-m come to my house last." " Ah," says the 

 governor, " what did he .say ?" " He no speak,'' 

 replied the Indian. " What, not speak at aM !-" 

 inquired the governor. "No, he no speak at all." 

 " That looks suspicious," said his excelleucy, and 

 inquired if he were there still. Being told that 

 he was, the governor ordered the jiromised mug 

 of flip. When this was disposed of, and the In- 

 dian was about to depart, he inihlly said, " ?,!r 

 gubernor, my squaw have child last night ;" and 

 the governor finding thestrange Indian vvasa new 

 born pappoose, was glad to find there was no 

 cause of alarm. 



FOR SALE. 



A small Farm in Ihc vicinily of Uosion, eonlainhig 30 or 

 40 acres of good lillage land, all under good cuUivaiicn with 

 a great variety of fruilof the best kind, there is a good well 

 bulk dwelling house, a large stable, carriage house, barn, 

 granaiy, ice Itouse and oiher out buildings. For lurther in- 

 Qiniation enquire at this Office. 



March 22. istf 



MORUS .lllii^l ICAULIS 



Joseph Davenport ofters for sa.c ''■' UOO plants of die true 

 Chinese ,>lulberry or IMorus Alulticau. s. Ticc^ vvH be care- 

 fully packed and lorwardcd as early as desired. Orders must 

 be sent to Colerain, Mass. til! the l.)l!i March, after wiiich 

 lime to Hartford, Conn. All inquiries will be attended to at 

 his plantation, 5 miles Soulh West of the city. 



Early orders only will lie supplied, as arrangements will he 

 ma<le to use nil not called for soon, 



Colerain, Jan. Is37, Feb. 1, 



SEEU POTATOES. 



For Sale at the New England Seed Store, a few Bushels of 

 Forty Fold Potatoes, a superior and prolilic varieij . 

 St. Helena Potatoes. 



Early llill Polaloes, the brsl earlv potato in the Market. 

 March 22. 3w 



PLUM TREES, GRAPE VINES, <fcc. 



500 Plum trees of the most approved kinds and extra size, 

 2Ci(J (iuiiice trees of good size many of thein have borne fruity 

 1300 Isabella grape Irom a to l.i leet high. 1000 Catawba. 

 Bland's &, Pond's seedling extra size in bearing slate, chasse- 

 las Sweet Water, Black Hambiirgli, itc, 10,li00 roots Giant 

 Asparagus, 5000 W ilniot's early Rlinbaib or Pie Plant, lately 

 introduced, and a good assortment ol Goosherries and Koses 

 of flifferenl kinds. 



All orders left ai this office, or at Messrs Sawyer &. Poaa's, 

 25 Broad street, and with llie suViscriber Cambridge Purl, 

 Hi\ meet with immediate altention. SAMUEL POIND. 



March 15, 



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 B'ti'.ivwrc — Piihlislier of American Farmer. 

 Cincinnati— S. C. Pakkhkkst, 23 Lower Market-street. 

 Middlehury, Vl. — Wight Chapman, ftlerebanl. 

 Tiiunton, 'Mas:s. — Sam'l O. Duvdar, Bookseller. 

 Hartford — Goodwin ^* Co, Booksellers. 

 i\'''ir/i7trvport — Ebknezek .Steumax, Bookseller. 

 Portsmouth, N. H. — John W. Foster, lio.ikseJIer, 

 Woodstock, Vl. — J,A. Pratt- 

 Jirattleboro^ — Jos Stees, Bookseller, 



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 Halifax. N. S,— E, BKowN.Esq. 

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