New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-12-27


That Nature wells; the ftful breeze
From the thick pine low murmuring draws;
Ard that light Comus of the trees,
The Aspen, the balmy rover
Creeps by, with u1irth is quiverpg over;
Tie bee is sumberng in the thistle,
And now and then broken whistle,
A tread-a hum-a taps heard
Through the dry leaves, in grass and tree,
As insect, aairnal and bird
Rouse briefly from the: lethargy;
Then, o'en these pleasant sounds would cease,
And dead stiffness all things lock-
The aspen seem like sculptur'd rock,
And not tassel-thread be shaken
The parent pines deep trance to waken.
And Nature settle prone in drowsy peace
"Wi,h wide expanded feet, like wings,
The fyng-squrrcl shoots his way,
And grating on its tiny strings
The cricket shrs it's evening lays
The crosstill tolls its curfew near,
Thinking like silver, sweet and clear
The other air-boats moor in nest
Twilter and chirp themselves to rest.
We have only room for one more extract--that
which ushers in the catastrophe:
Zone moment more-still deep the cheer!
Still runs the dream its wild career!
Still flows the wine-cup free and red
And still to music bounds the tread!
While every other fabric seems
Cast in the solemn spell of dreams:
The next-morc fierce, more terrible
Than the wild tempest's widest swell,
So blended that they seem ono yell
The war. whoop bursts upon the scene:
A thousand frighted eagles. driven
From eyrie-peaks by lightnings riyen--
.l,o,c,,J MN J1,rcd nont hnfc da shinr
Midst forest fires all round them flashing,
Awake not sounds more wild and keen
Than those that rend and pierce tie air,
Now here--now there--now everywhere,
Quick swell on swe--as though had risen
The loosend demons from their prison
To howl and riot through the night;
And, mingling with these horrid cries,
Crashings of door and easement rise
With shrieks of agony and fright:
Woe to the dea,h-surrounded, woe
In vain the rushings to and fro!
In vain the flight The Ratchet blow
The knife's quick plunge-the crimson flow
The heavy fa-the triumph yell
The scream, tho groan and havoc tell
With Angling, and Deer Shooting, and
.Spearing, the public are already familiar. Ii
was the power of description evinced by the au-
thor in these his earliest efforts that brought him
first conspicuously before the public as Poet
The Forsaken Road and The Old Bridge are,
in our judgement, somewhat too ia6ored They
do not, our mind possess the racncss and fresh
ness which characterize Mr.. Streets other Produc-
tons; and yet, as pictures of familiar things, they
are pleasing and true to Nature. The analogy Is
not, however, sufficiently obvious. 1t is not di-
rectly suggested by the subject and it is only
after its creation, SO to speak, in the mind OF the
writer that the reader is able discern its fidelity.
There are few minor pieces of great beauty
in,crspersed in the pages of the work before u.s. to
which We have only space barely to al!ude. We
cannot conclude without once more earnestly re-
peating the wish that Mr. Street will collect all his
Poems, and present them to the public. Wehaye
reason to know that, with the modesty and diff
dence inseparable from genius and werth, our
gifted friend undertakes his productions and hes
itates as to the cxpediency of boldly embarking
with his rich freight on the broad ocean of literary
fame. Blu, we again refer him, in confederation OF
our own opinion, to the free and spontaneous sal
frages Of his contemporaries; and ask OF him, In
the full and clear light of the verdict which they
have so unanimously rendered, no longer to hesl-
tate in assuming the prominence which properly
belongs to him as an American bara
LECTURES OK THE APPLICATION OF CHEMISTRY AND GEoL
oeY TO AGRICULTURE. Fart II. On the Inorganic
Elements of Plants. By JAMES +. w. JOHNSTON, NJ a
FRS. New-York, Wiley Putnam.
This is the second part of new valuable sclen'
ti6c work-desgned and well calculated to be oil
great practical utility to those who enter upon
agricultural pursuits with the intention of applying
to their the PRINCIPLES of natural science
The disposition TO do this is of course more gene
raj in England than in this country where the
greater of land and It's less exhausted condi
ton render such course one of far less necessity
Blu, there are many among Us, and their number is
increasing, who enter upon farming with scientific
tastes and who apply to the principles and rules
established byscienti6o experiment. TO such this
work must be of decided value and service, for II
enters fully upon the theory of soils the constituents
of plants sc. &c. which are discussed IN very
clear and interesting manner. Fer scientific read
ers the knowledge which it imparts must also be o.
slight worth. We commend tito the attention o.
ali who are in any way interested IN the snP)ec
with which it is chiefly concerned.
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