Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1845-04-26
THE EVENING SKIES.
BY AMELIA y wELR.

Soft Skies ! amid your halls to night
How brightly beams each starry apherp
Beneath your sofly mellowsJ light
Tbs l~ovaliest seonse grow lnyn1tnr!
How high, how great The glorious Power
That bade these ]sjIvory daw drops fall
Ihal touched with bloom The folded flower,
And tent tbo blue sky over all.
! love 10 glide in these siiIl hours
WITH hcaft, and thought, and fancy free,
When nought but Stars, and waves enc
Hawera,
May give mo their sweet rompsnv
When Tar below fta waves nntspread
Civ atftIy % With iiauid hue
WlaQ winds are l9w- and skies Ger head
Are beamlGg beautiful aud blue.
Oh. what a heavenly honr is thia ,
Jha green earth seems M Eden homs,-
and vet pine amid my bltss,
FdF P9for bIiFHes yet to come!
dow can ny spirit gaaa aloh
Upon your deep delicious blne.
md u aatg those far reaffns 81 nl.
Ahd ooyer Sigh to 1uuer though
Ard yet lbia spot, 30 sill, 90 l1ne.
aesns fpff5ed t. suit my moorhf1I mood.
Iheiar blue hpaV'ra gealG oil nv own.
And all thta lovely solitude
A voice seems Whispering on the hill
Soft ~ my 0wtt- and ~ tho sea
q living spirit ecetns n thrilL,
Ana tfirob with mine dgIicig1tly!
Yet, though my thoughts from care sosfe
Free,
And q soft joy peryades my breast.
mat makes mo almost feel indeed
! bat hearts on Garth arc sometimes bleati
There is . tp6iI IN thcss huahed sktea-
a something felt u this lone spot.
That taakss my very aouI arise,
With longtpgs f0r~-t knows not what J.
Beneath such skies / sometimes gonbt
ray heart can Ger have dreatned 81 ain
Ale world seems all ~ calm without,
And all NY thoughts po pure within !
such dreams lay Ger my folded lid
Such heavenly visions greet nv viow
almost seem 70 glide amid
The angei-baBds, auaoQel tool
Nor TO gE posf.--A pleasant corresrob.
dent Ola Boston paper, writing from New
ORIGINS gives the following incident -
you can buy nothing in New OrIgarg.
winch 10 the case believe IN most southern
ana "eFierHtittes,J for less can d picaytne,'i
one Si&teonih Of q dollar. Copperg are hardly
Gown ara "Btues pence''--Bosto currency
pass IndI5GfIDtpafsiy for "hits' Or one.ctg6t
OF D a0llaT. ] was amused at 4 little incident
"1lch ! saw on board ono oflbo western
boatH.
a man from The North tried 10 paes ten cor.
pers upon q asneker." a native Of Illinois.
what b. they !" imputed tho Sucker,
turning over tfe coppcrs in felgned igno-
II calculate They arc CENTS" replied the
Nottherner--"c8n't You read -
Il reckon mol, " said the other "and what's
more old boss, allow j don't want 10. What
is cents, mietet.'
n Xew TO Tho iadgee,' said the Nortborner,
you are worse than che healhen / Gents il
moheysgar"h ! Ten Of them are worth one
dime Don't You see it says az plnrjbps
pnum'-ihat' The Latin for "tIail Column.
ORA aud here Us inscribed, one cent
Look a here stranger responded the
@ockor, putting the thumb Of bis right hand
INTO me ear, and i]uclining bis fingers for
"afd, you may run that saw on a Hoosier,
a Wolverine, but I'm d0d roited If YOU
Yankee me with tho ~Contusiye stufEp
And he marched Off to the social hall, 10 in.
duIge IN a drink Of corn wbigkey, in compli-
mentto bis " sagaeity.
Ak You 4 CIrcUMsrAvcE.-"Pete, | want
to ak you a circumstance -
MAKE a brake, niggar;"
why Is a njggar's head like a y. States
Omnibus Does yon guge him up7"
"WpGld'nt do uOthin eIaaD
cause dey carry passengers oulsids."
"Mr.Niggar, dis will 'mortalize you"
y gay, DIR. Impudence, What arc you do