New-York daily tribune., 1845-01-28

from Inc req ltulan sndit. tilOse sons oil trance
Who for her genial fluwer-decked vaes, and flush
Ofpurple vintage found but welcome cold
From thee, my native land the winIrv moan
Of wind-swept forests and the appalling frown
OF icy foods. Yet didst thou leave them fee
To strike the sweet harp OF the secret soul,
And this was oil their wealth. For this they Dest
Thy trackess wiids, and 'neath their lnwiy root
AT morn and night, or with the murmurirg swell
0fstrapger waters, b!ent their hymn OF praise.
Green Vine that manifest in thy fresh embrace
Yon old, grey rock, hear that thou with them
Didst brave the ocean surge.
Say, drank thy germ
The dews ef LaDguedoc or slew uncoiied
An infant fibre, 'mid the fruitful mould
OF smiling Roussillon or didst thou shrink
From the fierce footsteps of g worike train,
Brother with brother fighting unto death,
AT fair Rochelle?
Hast thou no tae for mel
Methought it's broad leaves shivered in the gale,
With whispered words.
There was gentle form,
fair, young creature, who at twig ht hour
Off brought me water. and would kindly raise
Nv dropping head. Her eyes were dark and soft,
As the gazelle's, and well knew her sigh
Was tremuious with love. For she had left
One in her own fair land with whom her heart
From childhood had been twined.
Oft by her side,
What time the youngling moon went up The sky,
Cheauering with siIvery beam their woven bower;
He sirove 10 win her TO tire faith ne held,
Speaking OF heresy with flashing eye,
Yet with such bandishmen; Of tenderness,
As mors than argument dissolvcIh doubt
With young pupil, in the school of love. gloom
Even then, sharp Lightning quvered through the
0i persecution's cloud, and soon its storm
Bur9; on The Huguenols
Their churches fell,
Their pastors fed the dungeon or the rack;
And mid each household group, grim soldiers sat,
In frowning espionage, troubling the sleep
or infant innocence.
Stern war burst forth;
AID cvi! conflict on the soil OF France
Wrought fearful things.
The peasants blood was plowed
II, with the wheat he planted, while from cliffs
That oyerhung the sea, from caves and dens
The huned woishIpers were mSdy driven,
Out, meath the smiling sabbath skies, and slain,
] ne anthem on their tougues.
ihe coast was thronged
With hapiess exiies, ard that dark haired maid,
leading her little sister in the steps
OF their etilicted parents, has.ing lett
The meal uneateo, and the table spread
In their sweet cottage, TO return no more.
The lover held her 10 his heart and prayed
That from her erring people she would turn
To the true fold OF Christ, for so lie deemed
That ancient Church, for which his breast vas clad
In soldiers panoply:
But she, with tears
LII
Drew her soft hand from his, and dared the deep.
AID ga, as yeers sped or, with patient brow
She bare tne burdens OF the Wilderness
Bis image, ard an everlasting prayer
Within her 5oul.
and when she sank away,
A. fades the lily when lis day is done,
There was deep-drawn sigh, ard upraised glance
Ofeaunest suGpi!catlon that The hearts
Severed SO long, might JON, where bisot zeal
Should fed place
She hath quiet bed
Beneath yon turf, and unwri'ten name
Oa earn, which sister angels speak IN heaven.
Vine OF Rorssillon! ,el me- other tales
Oi thar high-hearec race, who fer tin sake
Ofconsciencr, made those western wds then home! =!
How 10 thrit door the proving savage stole
Staining their hearih-s;one win the blood c! babes,
And 80 the Arab Strikes his fragile 'e3t
hakiug the desert lonely, how thcy left
Their infant Zion with IA mourn.ul heart
10 seek tt saieT home 7!
Fein would sit
Beside this ruined tCrt and muse Of Ihem
hns ling their features with my hemble verse,
Whom many OF the ncbisst OF our land
Claim as their boEored sres.
On all nho bear
Their name, sr lineage, may tAeir mantle rest
Tina; h.mlaess tor the ruth, that calm Content
With simple pleasures, that uns~eiVirg trust
In ;oii, ac.ersty and death which cast
Such heaihful leaven mid the elements
That Peopied this New World.
When Louis XIV by the revocation of the Edict
OF Nanlz scattered the rich treasure of the heats OF
more than half million Of subjects TO foreign
cmes, this Western World prohtsd by his mad
prooiga!ity. Among the wheat with which its new
y broken surface was sown, none was more purely
siitrd than tina, which France thus cast away In
dustry, integrity, moderated desires, piety without
eu,erty and the sweetest domestic charities, were
among the prominent characteristics oi the e1hee
people.
Among the various settlements made by the iiu-
snenos, al different periods upon our shores, 'ilet
9O1tcrd, in Massachusetts, has the pnotty III
point OF tune. In 1886, thirty families with their
Clergyman, landed al Fort Hill, IN boston. mere
they found kind reception and entertainment, nnut
ready TO proceed 10 ,heir destined abode this was
Al Oxford, ia Worcester County, where an area o.
1900 acres was secured by them from the township
oleight miles square which had teen lsid out oy
Governor Dudley The appearance OF The country,
though uuclear.d was pleasant 10 those VINO coun, y
I'd us their chief wealth, "seedom 10 worsAip "oo.
They gave the name OF French River 10 stream
which, after difasiug fertility around their new
home becomes tributary OF the l@uinaDaug' W
Connecticut and finally merged IN the thanies'
passes 10 Long Island Sound.
Being surrounded By the territory OF the NiPmuS
tnslans, their first was 10 buid lori, as re-
'uge from savage aggression. Gardens were laia
Out in It's vicinity, and stocked wi h the seeds oi We
getables and fruits, brosght from their own native
soil. Mills also erected, and ten or twelve
Years of persevering industry, secnred many COM
lcrts TO The coloniss, who were much respected In