Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1849-09-06
For the Burlington Hawk. Eye.


LIBERTAD:-CANTo2 2.
But tune thou child Of light thy fearful eye
To other chimes feplete with scenes of wo,
Range the dark waytes beneath Acadia's" sky
And bid thy tragic song responsive flow,
Go, spy wherc'lurks our country's deadly foe,
Or where stern Arnold leads his hardy train,
O'er geld rocks rapt in perpetual snow,
Or downward DER the loud resounding plain,
Pours his starvd host mid danger death and pain.
Stern son of Fate why stem Kennebeck's tide
Despite the storms which load the frigid zone,
Where vast thou nurs'd ? by the wild ob's side,
Where the soft charms oflife were never known,
Or by the source of the Alp-cleaving Rhone9
That thou dost dare Kennebeck's icy wave,
While the bleak north shakes from his polar throne
His avalanche Of snow and buds to rave
His bremic blasts; loud laundering from their
mountain cave.
All thou vast nurtur'd where thy soul partook
or the told features OF thy native land,
Her sterner forms BY nature taught to brook,
And childiike yielded to her fost'ring hand,
Thy plastic virtues meath her touch expand,
Grasping the spirit Of her fearless Cline.
Which is all freedom: and then with freedoms band
Didst league thyselfin n,anhood's hardy prime,
To crush oppression's horde thatload the land with
crime?
And where st. Lawrence heaves his torrent flood
Impetuous laundering down his frozen plain
Ger snow~tields boar and wild-untrodden wood
The hardy Arnold guides his hungry train,
With toil-worn steps their heavy march they strain
To duty's call they bend in martial pride,
When soon they gain that rivers sea-ward side,
Whereby they pitch their tents and for the night
abide.
Encamp'd there on the beach his forces gaze
On Quebec's strong embattled wall and tow'r
Where dark oppression sat in other days
Ere France mad knelt to Albon's kingly power,
And where his fell grmaces still did lower,
There casts its with'ring blight at his command,
While servi,e miaions to his mandates cow'r,
Rousing to wrath grim ruins ghostly band,
To pour the tide Of slaughter reekng round the land.
It seem'd gray grown tower Of olden time
Rear'd by some hron, Knight, or feudal lord,
Exird from country WANDERED to that cline,
Or cen perhaps ,y thirst of wealth allnr'd,
rix'd there his seat, and had ii well secur'd,
Which from their raien appear to have endur'd,
The flight Of centaries-while round DER all
The dark green ivy wasd like sorrows funeral pail.
MUSA.
acadia the given By the French settlers to
Canada.
| THE HuNcARIAN There
are few countries in which the hamlets
are so cheerful in appearance as those of
| Hungary :the houses are externally Of the
most scrupnlous cleanliness; the white
| wash is continually renewed, and the
| window frames are generally painted in
bright green. The doors are set deeply
into the walls TO throw offthe rain, which
in those mountain districts pours down
like an avalanche and the receding arch
es being neatly formed, give. quaint and
comfortable look TO the dwelling. A peep
into the interior is equally promising the
white or chiTz curtains at the windows,
the coverings ofthe beds. and the cooking
utensils are all bright and clearly looking,
but never ven,ured on a closer exami-
nation having received hint OF caution
not to he disregarded, in seeing the ma
ternal or fraternal care with which mem
hers ofthe same family, seated on the sun
ny side of their cottages, relieved each
other after the Spanish fashion. Of certain
uncomfortable coloni>,s. The habia,ions
Of the German peasantry in these villages
nav generally be dis,ino uished from those
Of the native Hnngarian<, from their con-
verting the enclosures Their cottages in.
10 gardens, where gnurds spread their
golden fruit and broad green leaves over
the fences, which are formed Of withes
neatly wrought in basket work and dahl
has, snn-flowers. and other gay-colored
blossoms flannt in the sunshine, inter-
spersed with vegetables and fruit-trees !;
while the yards Of their neighbor> are re-
served as receptacles for their agricultural
implements a small plot of ground be-
meath the windows being. however, in al
most every case, appropriated TO crop of
tobacco. which produces very pretty eff
feet with its long rich leaves. and white
lily like blossoms. Although consider
able quantity Of tobacco, and that Of very
fine quality, is grown in Hungary. il is
entirely in the hands OF the peasants, and
its culture demands too much care, and
yields too small return, TO render il an
objec! Of speculation to the mobiles. who,
with their hemp, corn, and particularly
wood, realize greater profit at less ex-
pense Of labor and ou,lay.-The City of
the Magyar.
BEWARE OF Ban BooKs.-'Why, what
harm will books do me? 90 The same harm
that personal intercourse would with the
bad men who wrote them. That ga man
is known by the company he keeps" is
an old proverb; bnt It is no more true
than that mans character may be deter
mined by knowing what books he reads.