Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1836-04-29
From the Boston Pearl.
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n IA what Arcadian, what Ethiopian ground
i Are warmer hearts or manicr feelings found
More hospable welcome, or more zeal
i To make the curious, tarrying stranger feel
/ That, mex, to home, here best may he abide,
/ To res and cheer him by the chimney side
| Drink the hale farmers cider as he hears
/ From the gray dame the tales Of other years
Cracking his shagbarks as the aged crone,
Mixing the true and doubtful into one,
| Tells how the Indian scaped the helpless child,
And bOe its shriekiog mother to the Wild
Buichered the father Fastening TO his home,
| Seeking his cottage, finding but his tomb
How drums, and flags and troops were seen on high,
| Wheeling and charging in the NorIhcn sky,
And that she knew what these wild tokens meant
| When to The old French war her husband went
| How by The thunder blasted tree was hid
| The golden spoils Of famed Robert Kidd.
Brainard's Connecticut River.
There is no part of New England that is
pleasant to the traveller, in every respect,
the Valley of the Connecticut. From the
bah Of that noble stream 10 its head, there
Every possible kind Of scenery that can di-
rlhe attention and delight the eye But
most pleasant Of ALL we think, will be
f0d in Massachusetts Whoever travels
fOagh this section of country. in any sea-
will not want variety it is entirely de-
d oil that monotony which is the poison
enjoyment The long range of fertile
Is that rise on each side of the stream,
iard 1t from every thing unpleasant. One
lId easily fancy this valley an earthly
radlse The many beautiful dwellings,
stud the prospect on every side may
OecOnverled into palaces of the blessed
'as beautiful and majestic Connecticut
be imagined to be a river of life, whose
lers are as clear as chrystal.'
mere Is also connected with the beautiful
fNeIy and pleasant villages, many endear-
ana Interesting associations to a person
leelmg, who is conversant with the hisio-
Of DIS country, The traveller through
vaIley TO the frozen regions of the North
hardly emerge from the land of steady
Us and the country of the blue laws,
|e; covering summit Of Holyoke ereets
A9h'j-thls natural monument Of the
'seS now passed-of the early ages OF
umeS' when our fathers, who lived in
'O'eN ana on Connecticuts fertile mea-
> looked up to that as something which
could beqleath to their children un-
{uSea Tor centuries 10 come, aside from a
burning with pure devotion and love
Uyg'y, which beat within the bosom Of
pls'In' ere the first blow was struck ,o
He majestic tree Of the forest. Thai
o,. has stood unchanged, a silent
S"'Or oil Times doings within the sphere
no prospect There it stood hundreds
yJuiS ago. when the stream at its foo
"a as beautifully as now-when not d
r.d Ga' cleared, nor civilized dwelling
Nv. ~ "Sei' above the iorest-when no smoke
r aSu rom the happy fires of men who
I C 'ahGS' who were blessed with the
% "u"S Oh education, and could work
h "ouuGrS that sprung up in after time.
t encnSn'ment of fairy hand bu
% STOOD when the dark wilderness.
v;;r rs"oa'h IKE waves on the sea-wher
s'oI oil the Indian were hid beneath
|Sa "a a ol tue tall pne-when the smok,
vii yUuncll hires assembled up with tn,
!on OF savages-when the majesti,
IN ' ,b the surface of our villages
mn, "e Wild vine hourished over the sol
Sa w. Hequenled walks-when nought bu
III =, uSn 'rod our then uniformed roads
h" ~ hocRs but the deer, and the vol
6IIpp panther ne, roamed upon our now beau
,S,S I Thus it was once in this thickl,
rSa ru section. Now how changed i
s~ rhSea but yonder mount, clothed nov
.sids " on Tue savage chased his game upol
,ar,o or lurled in its hidden places-witl
'e uark and woody garment
4, s "a advance, traveller, behold upo,
d sna northampton with its many dwel
&zIiO"" me spires of IT'S public building
IInnl sn N me light of day; it seems like
|civ;l; neld covered with the white flock
bp ",led men. Here upon your right i
bIon y, a beautiful village, indeed-th
|pp i, one Of New England's most -four
-Son n,'erary institutions. Pause, traveI
6klv S III mat site, where you see yonde
d: = ,r su'Ilces flashing beneath the glanc
'"' ever be but solitary hill in 'wil