Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-02-26
From the N. York Daily Advertiser.


Tbou climate of cold, where the ICY winds
blow. Ipines grow
Where the maple FIRE burns and the lofty
Ere quit thy cold shores for happier
CLINE, rhyme.
I'll ehaunt my farewell in fragment OF
Seven year. have travers'd thy deso!ate
woods. floods
Thy bays, marshes, lakes, and thy icy-pav'd
With tempest and snow-drift impeding my
course,
And icicles spsngling both me and my horse.
I've frequently pass'd in my snow gliding
sled, The adj,
Thy dark lofty pines that wav'd over my
Still humming a tune as Ifac'd the cold
breeze, the trees.
Till the snug little settlement peep'd thro'
Nor shall forget in thy winters severe,
When crossing bleak marshes and barrens
most drear,
Full many blessing has warmed my heart,
Though the cold child my blood, and my
fingers would smart.
With a JOY unexprest have often surveyed
The cottage that cheer'd in thy wilderness
skade, could see,
Tho my lodging was cold, and the stars
Through the chinks Of my log room bright
twinkling on me.
When the fierce blowing drift had the
pathway eras'd, western fac'd [;
With my staff in my hand I've the north
NV saddle-bags over my shoulders well
tied, [deep to ride.
I've trudged over the snow, for twas TOO
How oit have 'scaped by the skin of nay
teeth, lrents beneath,
When the ice was worn thin by the cur
And when by the showers the tsrrents were
rais'd
Itrembledtill past-but delivered, prais'd.
Hence, learn, o my soul, 10 put trust in
thy Lord; [cord,
His care and past dangers be kept en- re-
The sea and the desert with safety are
cross'd;
Be faithful--thou shall not in Jordan be lost.
o scene of my labours, l bid thee adieu;
Hove thy rough climate, tho sightless to
view;
When Ger the wide ocean sail far away.
I'll think of thy woods--for thy woodlan.
deres pray.
Tho transient thy spring-:ime, thy winters
severe;
Tho freezing and sea fog encircIe the year;
Yet thy wilds have their game, and thy
forests their stores; [snores. |
And kind are the natives who people thy |
The moose in thy woods, and the bears in
thy brakes; [thylakes;
The trout in thy streams, and the fowl on
Thy salmon. thy maple, and fine pome-de- |
terre,*
A bountiful providence jointly declare.
Nor do forget that fair piety grows,
Like an evergreen plant amid thy bleaching |
SHOWS; mile,
Who rules the green earth from the Oby to |
Has ilumin'd thy waste with his luciic |
smile.
Thy for SITS and snow-drifts, thy marshes
and boys, ling fogs,
Thy birch-cover'd wigwams, and sun-vei-
Thy cold rocky soil, and thy winters severe
His presence can sweeten, bis blessing can
cheer:
For tits not in seasons or climes to impart
The bliss that enlivens and gladdens the
heart, scorch'd isle,
Spitsbergen's cold shores, or Borneo's
Can please if ILLUMINATED with Jesus's smile!
That smile is spring ofdelight to the soul,
Though tempests arise and the fierce bill.
lows roll [waye,
II gladdens the desert, it charms the wild
Gives ease in adliction, and hope in the
grave.
Ys high-coned pines, and ye balsamic frs
Ye naples 80 sweet, and ye quiv'ring pop
lars; [heard me proclaim
Meath your shadest ! have stood while ye
Salvation unbounded through Jesus's name!
But ne'er shall wander thy woodlands
again, (reign:
Where silence and gloom. brother foresters
Nor travel thy dreary Peninsula DER,
From the Canada galfto the Atlantic shore.
Farewell to thy plains, and adieu to thy