Northern star, and Warren and Bristol gazette. [volume] (Warren [R.I.]) 1826-1830, 1830-01-09
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AZ thirty years ago. Z. aa
can't inaging what can make a. : -.2f
The tsilors chanss them so: 10 naS (.
When was in my youth ! made - a.
4 Goa, Of homespup dos sirs
And thoueht il very fine TO- have
NY hair tied in aqueue.
And IN those days our breeches were
al bue klsd Al the knee,
>And si1rrr buckles would snsare
The hest Of company /;
Our beavers were OF comcly shape,
And keep offsun and rain
oh how wish those broad brimined hats
Would come in vogue sgsin.
I'm troubled with halfa yard
or cloth about my feet
Ny coat il made 50 very small, u 'n
The laps will hardly meet;
Tight knees are all the fashion now.-
.dnd . oos must bavs square toes - q
Where fashion, will arrive a. last, ~
The tailor only knows. i at
The dandss n the present day. ~
Have watch chains oil Of gold.
You'd think their monstrous pock ct book
Was filed with wosith untolf
Ny father wore silver watch " i
And skea good steal chan,
AND we'll rocollect his strait
old pewter headed cane. "A fiI-tss
he ownsd,a large and tlnifty farm .
or wood and meadow land, -~;
And always had plenty OF ,aslst 4
The dollar coins on haad - ilriifec
I guess soma dashy friends Of mine,
Would find il nther hard.
TO pay for coats they're wearing nov. ..
At" Two pounds ten per yard.''
But as for me, wish bad
My silver dollars back,
I'd rccollscs my fathers ways. -,.
find tread the same old track
I'D never do as lhavs done, h'.o.a
Risk hundreds on bet.
Nor be'obIiged so oft TO cry. "a
:" Clean pockets here to let." ...l
--I 1s--- rr
COLD WINTER IS COMING. ,.
Cold win,er is coming 80 take caro- Of you.
toes .-'.
Gay Zephyr has folded his fan
His lsncss are couohsd in the ice wind that
SO nail up a. warm as you can.
From his home on the mountain nfar
He is skrunken anc pals--he looks froze TO
the heart,
And snow-wrsaths cmbellsh his ear,
Cold winter 10 coming = bark did ys rot heDs
The Alast which this herald has blown I
The children Of nature all trembled in fear,
For to them 10 his po YER made knswn.
Cold winter is coming there breathes not o
nower' stt .tA fNw
Though somst mes the day may pats fair
The soft lutte rs semO ved fsm the laiy's lorn
Lest il coldly be touched ty the air.
Cold winter e eoming-all stript are the
The passage bird hsstens away
To the Lowell, blue South, like to-rist he
And returns like the sunshine in May.
Cola winter IL coming breathe on the
stream, e.e.y, ~ - a.
And ~. eane Of his pcSi6c brcath -
Will seal up The waters till, in the moon
beam f.K.E
They lie s,irlsss, as sIumber or dea,hl
Cole winter is coming land soon shall we sse
on the panes,by that geni. Jack Fros,
Fine drawing Of mountain, stream. tower
and tree-ln 'Hi tfNs afi
Framed and slozsd too without any cost,
Cold winter is coming --yc delicate fair. =
Take care when your b. son your sip 5
Driut il quick, and don't talk lost he come
--nGwaro,
And ,sra i ,oid 4 ysu np.
t5k.AO OAA a
Oold winter b coming---I charge you again
Msals wam--of. thS typps ,bswsfs--.
1ss % b..vs hat % strike yesag hero
he's fiin. '''''' r> -.
Hs's % cold he'll not fsvsr the fair
it3 ei1tftfHr as ~
Cold wiassr !, oemiPs-r re, said 20 before,
Il seems I've not much sIss, 70 cay
Yes winter = coming. and 0ed hslp ths