Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1847-04-02
A Family Picture.
ny MARTIN rARQUuAR TuPrER.

ny MARTIN rARQUuAR TuPrER
NJ, ,i,,,c ones my darling ones, my precious things
earth,
How gladly do triumph in the blssngs of your birth
How heartily for praises and how earnestly for prayers
Iyearn upon your loneliness my dear delightful cares
o children happy words Of peace, my jewels and my
gold,
NV trues, friends till now and still my truest friends
when old
Twill be everything to you your playmate and you
guide,
Both Mentor and Telemachus forever at your side!
will be everything to YOU your sympathizing friend
TO teach and help and lead and bless and comfort and
defends
Oh, come to Inc and tell me ALL and We shall find me
true,
A brother in adversely to fight it ont for you
Yes sins or foes greis or cares or young Affections
thraN,
Fcarnoi forl am one with you, and have felt them
all:
will be tender, Just and kind, unwilling to reprove,-
viii do all to bless You all by wisdom and 10y love.
Nv lnlc ones, delighted review you as you stand,
A pretty troop Of fairies or young cherubs hand in
hand,
And tell out all your to be a dear familiar sound
Wherever English hcarhs and hearts about the world
abound.
Oh, blcs>edboon and gain to me oh, mercy, praise
and pride!
We lack but ltle heritage your fathers name beside.
When am dead You little ones shall read my word:
with glcc
When We are dead their little ones shall still remember
me.
My eldest of the speaking eyes, my ELM nine year
Old,
Though thoughtful good axamplc ofthc loving little
fold,
My Elm they shall hear office, fair spirit holy child
The truthful and the wcrcsolycd, the liberal and the
mild
And thee, my Mary, what of thee the beauty of til,
face
Thy coyly-prety whms and ways thatr ray thee rouno
with grace
Oh, more than these dear, warm heart, that still
must thrill and glow
With pure affections sunshine and with feelings over
flow.
Thou, too, my gentle fveyear old, fair Margaret til,
pearl
a quiet, sick, and suffering chld,-swoet patient lit
Tie giri
Yet gay wi,ha and frolcsomc al times wilt thou ap
pear
And like bell thy merry voice rings musical and clear
And nextmy Selwyn, precious boy, glorious young
mind,
The sensitive the passionate, the noble and the kind
Whose hght-brown locks bedroped with gold, ant
large eyes full oflove,
And generous nature, minge well the lion and Tn
dove.
The last an infant, tooless one now prattling on ny
knee,
Whose bland benevolent soft face is shining upon me
Another silver star upon our calm domestic sky,
Another seed OF happy hope, drop kindly from OF
high
wife,
BE these TO the pleasure and the business ofle
And thou 10 me-wlui ART thou not through inan
cy and YOUTH
And manhood.s prime, as now, my al! Of tenderness
and uuth.
A happy man, be this my pmise--not riches rank Q
fame,
A happy man, with store cnonghno other lot or name
a happy man, with You for friends, my chdlcn am
my wife,
Ambition is o'evaucd here in all that gladlrns he
Yes eaye me to my happy thoughts and those aroun,
me sui,
In ancient woods Of Ahury, or ON my fresh iuzh
And children, teach your children, too, by right
eousncss to stand,
For thus shall ye inherit peace and blessings in ii
land