Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-02-03
MS C E L L A N 7.
THE rARnER's LIFE.

What means of impartiEg pleasure IS
an improved agriculture. How many
charming examples present themselves
among us of improvements which every
eve pazes upon with unmingled delight.
Let man, according 10 his power, take
his ten, his twenty, his fifty, his hundred
acres. Let him comb the hair and wash |
the face of Nature Let him subdue,
clear, cultivate, enrich, embellish IT,
Let him smooth the rough places, and
drain the wet. and fill up the sunken, and
enrich the barren. Let him enclose it
with neat, substantial fence. Let him
line its borders and roadsides with orna-
mental trees, and let him stock every part
with proper vines and fruits. Let his
fields and meadows wave their golden
harvest, and let the hills be covered with
the herds rejoicing in the fullness which
his labors. under The blessing of God, have
spread their table. and who, when be goes
among them, hasten from all sides TO meet
him and gratefully recognize in him a
friend and benefaclor and lick the hand
which is accustomed to feed and fondle
Them. Here now let us see the neatly
painted cottage, with its green shades, its
piazzas tresseled with vines. lis sides COW
cred with elm or flowing acacia. with
here and there the beautiful fir to shade
1.-The picture, and the mountain ash show
ing its rich clusters Of crimson fruit among
/ the deep green foliage, and the smooth
and verdant lawn stretching its smooth
and beautiful carpet in the front view !;
Ithen look again and see the parents at the
close of the day, resting from their labors
and enjoying the calm evening. with The
pledges of mutual and devoted affections,
rioting before them in all the buoyancy
of youthful innocence and delight, and if,
at such an hour as this, you can hear the
hymn of grateful praise arising from this
humble abode OF peace and love, and its
charming notes mingling with the music
of the gurgling brook that flows near by.
or broken by the occasional shrill and
hollow notes of the gentle and fearless
birds, which deem themselves members oil
this loving household; if, then, whether
traveller or sojourner, your heart is no,
touched with this charming and not unu.
sual picture of rural felicity, cease to cal
yourself man. If still you sigh for the
hustle and noise and confinement of the
city, with its impure water and offensive
odors, with lis despicable affectations, with
its heartless formalities, with its violen
excitements, with its midnight festivities
with its utter restitution of sympathy
with It's low estimate of human life, will
its squalid poverty, its multiplied forms o
crime and wretchedness. its pride, its van
!, itv. its ambition, its pomp, its servility
: then go back to your prison, and to pleas
:, ures which an uncorlu2,ed and refney
o. taste, accustomed to drink in the free al
of heaven, and to appreciate its freshness
e. its purity and lis salubrity, will find n
.: occasion TO covet or envy. The man VIII
le by his cultivation and good husbandr
presents such picture to the passer BY
p! Shall he nor be called a benefactor TO com
= munity2 Has he not done mnch to i'm
IS prove and. bless society by his example
Has he not built monument TO his ow
n, honor more eloquent than the marble!