Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1845-01-10

HOOSHER'S NEST.

The humble Bard may not presume
The Li.erati to illumc;
Or classic cadences inditc,
Attuncd TO tickle cars polite
Con,ented if his strains may pass,
The ordeal Of tho common mass.
And raise on anti-critic smile,
The brow Of labor to beguilo.
But ever as his mind delights.
To follow Fancy's airy flights.
Some object Of terrestrial mien,
Uncourteously obtrudes between,
And rudely scatters to tho winds,
The tangled threads of thought he SPINS
Yet why invoke imagination,
To picture out a new creation,
When nature with q lavish hand,
Has formed a moro than fairy land
For us7 An Eldorado real.
Surprising cvon the ideal.
Then who can view tho glorious West,
With all her hopes for coming timo.
And hoard his feelings unexprossed
In poetry, or prose, or rhyme
What mind and matter, unrcvealed,
Shall unborn ages hero disclose
What laten. treasures, long concealed.
Be disinterred from dark repose
Here science shall impel her car,
Ger blended valley, hill and plain,
While Liberty's bright, natal star,
Shines twinkl:ng on her own domain.
Yes, Land of the Yves, Thou ar. happy and free,
And thus evermore may thy hardy sons be.
Whilst thy osean-likc praires are spread far and
wide,
Or tree of thy forests shall tower in pride.
Blost Indiana In thy soil
Are found the sure rewards of toll,
Where honest industry and worth.
May mako a Paradise earth.
With feelings proud we contemplate,
The rising glory of our State,
Nor take offence by application.
OF its good-natured appollation;
Our hardy yeomanry can smile,
At tourists of tho " sea-grt Iso,"
Or wits who travel at the galiop,
Like Basil Hall or Mrs. Trollope.
IT'S true, among the crowds that roam,
To seek for fortune or homo,
II happens that wo often find,
Empiricsm Of every kind.
A struttng fop who boasts Of knowledge,
Acquired at some far eastern college.
Expects to take US by surprise,
And dazzle our astonished eyes;
Ho BOASTS of learning, skill and talents.
Which in the scale would Andes balance
Cuts widening swaths from day to day,
And in a month he runs away.
Not thus the honest son of toll,
Who settles hero to till the soil.
And with Intentions just and good,
Acquires an ample livelihood.
Ho IS, land not tho ittlo-great,)
The bono and sinew Of the state
With six.h0rse team to to ono horse cart.
Wo hail them hero from every part.
And some you'll see, sans shoes or socks on.
With sNAKEPoLE and yoke of oxen,
Others with packhorse, dog and rifle.
Mako emigration quite trife.
Tho omigrant is soon located
In hooshier life Initiated
Erects a cabin in the woods.
And in it slows his household goods.
At first, round logs and clapbonrd Ioof,
With puncheon floor made carpet proof.
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His edifice is then complete,
When four clay balls in form Of plummet,
Adorn his wooden chimney's summit
Ensconsed in this lot those who can,
Find out n truly happier man.
The little youngsters rise around him,
So numerous they quito astound him;
Each born with axe or wheel in hand,
And instinct to subdue tho land.
Ere long the cabin disappears,
A spacious mansion next no rears,
His folds seem widening by stealth.
An index of increasing wealth;
And when the hives of youngsters swarm.
To zach is givon n noble farm.
They are the seedlings Of tho state,
Tho stamina to make the great.
IT'S truo her population various.
Find avocations multifarious,
But having said so much, 'twould seem
(Since hooshier, life has been my ,heme,)
] should, to circumscribo the space,
Imagine you a single case;
And if my muse be not seraphic,
l trust you'll find her somewhat graphic.
Suppose in riding somewhere west.
A stranger found Hooshier's nest;
In other words, a buckeye cabin,
just largo enough to hold Queen Nab IN;
Its situation low but airy,
Was on tho border Of prairie,
And fearing he might be bengh.ed,
He hailed the house and then ali lighted.
Tho HOOShler met him Mt tho door
Their salutations soon were DER,
He took the strangers horse aside.
And to a sturdy snpling tied,
Then having stripped the saddle off.
He fed him In a sugar trough.
The stranger stopped to enter in
The entrance closing with pin;
And manifested strong desire,
To scat him bv the log heap fire.