Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-11-05
THE ROOM OF THE AoUsEKoLD,
ny sias ElIaA coOs.

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There's q room love doafly--tle sAnoium u blss,
That holds all the rompfort least like to miss;
Where, like ants in n hillock we run in aud out;
Where sticks grace the corner, and hats lie about;
Where no idlors dare como to annoy or amusc
With their "morning cali" budget of seandalous
news; Il
'Tis the room bf The houselold--ths saorsdly feel
Tho rOmp may be foarlesely carried on there,
For no bijeutsrio rubbish soliots our care;
All things are as meet for the hand and the eye,
And patch work and scribbling UNDECIDED may lie;
Black Tom may be pcrched on the sofa or chairs;
He may streach his soft talons scatter his hairs;
Wet boots may 'comO in aud The nk.drops may fall,
For the room of tue household ie liberty hall"
Other rooms may be thickly and gorgoously stored
With your Titans, Nutritious, Salvador and Caud,
But the moreland and Wlkie that hangs on the wall
OF the family parlor outvalue them all.
The oltomans, claiming such social regard,
Are exceedingly fne, but exceedingly hard
They may serve for state purposes-~put 80 YOU
please
To the household room cushions for comfort and
ease.
And the took-shelyes--whe,e tones of all size arc
| spread,
Not placed to be looked ut, but meant to be road;
| All dofaccd and bethumbed, and would not be
sworn
But somo volumes porohanee the most prcciOue arc
torn.
There's the library open but if your heart yearns,
As all human hearts must, for the song Of Burns,
Or the tale Of Victor that ever rich gem,
You must 70 to the room Of tho household for thom
IT'S the shadiest place. when the blazing sun fings
His straight rays on tho rose and the butlerily's
wings;
For the first beams- of morning are all that dare
peep
creep.
Happy faces assemble, with cheerful salute,
When the summer meal tcmpts with its cream and
/ its fruit:
But the boards not so merry the meals not SC
sweet
1t is out of the room Of the household we meet
And that room is the one that is sought by us still
| When the night clouds of winter bring darkness
Z and chilli
When the rambcrs return from their toll or the
I play,
And tell DER the news aud the deeds Of the day
, When the favorite old dog takes his place on til,
rug,
! Curled up in the frolight, all warmly and snug;
: Whilethe master sits nodding before the brghtAam
Till the hound snores aloud and the Squire does tn
: same.
have wandered far Off over "moorland nnd lea 4"
Ger the fairest Of earth, and the buest Of sea-
e II was health that sought but, alas could find
S The pursuit was in vain while my heart locke
s behind:
!, The room Of the household had bound with spell
And l knew not till then that loved it so we'll
r Take me back to that room," was my prayer and
1t my cry,
y u "or my languishing spirit will sicken and de'
II II There was light in my eye, when saw the gree
d woof
OF old elm trees half screening the turrctcd roof
] grew stronger as Ipasscd DER The daisy-girt tract
And the Newfoundland sentinel welcomed me bac
But the pulse of my joy was most warmly sincere
When ] meet the old fnces familiar and dear
!. When lounged in the "household ROOM" takr
|, my rest
: With tinge on my cheek and content in my bres