New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-08-11
DREiM-CUL TURE.

Va pItttbst We DeHefts) an1 mas E"hc up 10 Iue
Berkshire hills to enjoy bis sumner vacation on hs
own homestead. Here ia one of its first productions
under bis culture and the favor seems to US good.
We find it in this weeks hdePenEeH':
There is something in the Oacaing piece Of gronad
which Affects me did the old ruins of England. / am
free confess that the value Of farm is chiefly in
its crops Of cereal grain its orchards Of fruit and ia its
hG hut in those larger and more easily reaped hGrves
OF associations aDeies and dreamy broOdngs which if
beceis. From bOyhood have associated classical civic
virtues and old heroic integrity with the soil No who
has peopl,d his young brain with the iances Of Grecan
mythology but TO feel certain magical sanctity
for The earth The very smell of fresh turned earth bdng
up many dreams and vions of the country as sandal
wood does Of oriental scenes. At any rate feel, in
walking under these trees and about these slopes
thing Of hat enchaDtmeDt of vague and mysterious
glimpse of the past which once felt about the ruins OF
Keniworh Castle For thousands OF years this piece Of
ground hath wrought It's tasks Old sumberous forests
TO da'keD it, nDumerable deer have tTamped
IT, foxes have blinked through its bushes and wolves
have LOWED and growled they battered along m rust
hing leaves with empty maws. HoS many birds; how
many tocks of pigeons, thousands of years ago. how
many hawks dashiDg wildly among them, how many in
scots Nocturnal and durnai how m4ny mailed bugs and
Timber serpens, gliding among messy stones nave had
POSSESSION here before my day! IL VIII not DC long oe-
ore too shall be a wasted and recordiess as they
Doubtless the Indians made this a favore resort.
Their Of beauty in natural scenery IS proverbla
where else, IN all this region couu ,hy hu more gio
rous amphitheaerl But thickstudded forests may have
another race. / walk the ground wondering what
lore OF wild history should read If all that ever lived
upon this round and sopog hill had left an invisible
record unreliable except Oy such eyes mne that
ing, sCe not and rot seeing, 90 plainly see.
Tlen, while stand upon the browning point Of the
hill, from which eau zee every foot OF the hundred
acres and think what is going on what gigantic powers
are silently working foe 0s If all the Workmanship that
was stored in the Crystal Palace not to DO compared
with the subtle machinery all over this round What
chemist could find solvents to lqui'y these rocks
But soft rains and roots like threads dissolve them and re-
compose them into stems and leaves. What an uproar
if hundred stone quarries were being wrought one
should attempt to cra-h with hammers al the flint and
cue n, which the stroke OF the dew powders nOselessy
All his turf is but camp Of soldier roots that fight their
battle with the elements with e-dless victory. There
is greater marvel in this thistle, which deiies the
farmers wits taxed - its determination than in all the re-
positores of New-York or London Aud these mighty
trees how easily do they pump up and sustain supplies OF
moisture that il would require scores OF rafting engines
to lift It's vast laboratory ful of expert chemists
Ii is vast shop full OF noiseess mschins Ana all TINS
is mine These rocks that lie in bulk und the pasture
trees and all this that loves TO nestle in its crevces
and clasp the invisible projections in its little cnging
hands and all these ferns and sumech these springs and
tricklDg sues, mine Let me not be pulled up with
sudden wealth. Let me rule discreetiy among my ten
ants. Let me what tribes mine. There are the
black and glossy ockets the gray crckets the grashop
pers Of every shape and hue the SILENT prudent toad type
OF conservative wisdom wise looking but slow hopping;
the butterflies by day, and the moths and inilers by
night all birdswrens sparrows king birds blue BIRDS
robins those unnamed warbers that make the forests
sad with their melancholy whistle. Beside these who
register the sappers and miners that are always at
gork III the soaDge worms, white grabs, and bugs that
carry pick and shovel in the head muster all the mice
the beetles that sing base in the woods edge to the sbr
treble of gnats and myriad musketOes These are all
mne
Arc they mine Is it my eye and my hand that mark
their paths and crcusl Do they hold their life
from me, do give them their food in due season
Vastly as my bulk is greater than theirs am so much
superior that despse, not admire Where
is the strength Of muscle by which can spring fifty
times the length of my body That grasshoppers thigh
lords il nine Spring up now In the evening air,
and fly toward the lights that wink from yonder hillside.
Ten million wings of despsed flies and useless insects are
miehtier than hand foot Of mine Each mortal thing
carries some quality of distinguishing excellence by which
it may glery and say, In this am first in all the
"wOrld.' -,
care feeds them that spreads my board let there be
fellowship between There is. have signed articles
of peace even with the abdominal spiders, who carry
their fleece in their belly and not on their back III is
agreed they shall the Danube OF my doors
and l. on the other hand, will let them camp down. with
out wanton disturbance in my whole DOMAIN beside! l.
too am but an insect larger scale. Are there not
those who tread with unsoundng feet through the nVs
lille air of being vast that seem to them but mite,
fitting insect And of capacities so noble and eminent
that all the which could bring OF thought ana ee
ing TO them would be but the commune Of grasshop-
per with me, or the chirp of a sparrow!
No Ii not in the nature OF true greatness to be ex
elusive and arrogant. II such noble shadows fill the
realm is their nature to condescend ana TO peau ,ne
abroad for the loving protection of those whose
Childhood is little but whose immortal manhood shall yet
through their Kind teaching stand unabashed and not
ashamed in the very royalty of heaven OAly vulgar
natures employ their superiority to task and burden
weaker natures. He whose genius and wisdom are but
instruments of OPPRESSION however covered ana oeneu
with living names, the beginning OF monster The line
that divides between the animal and the divine Is the line
of suffering The animal for its own pleasure niicts
suffering The divine endures suffering for anothers
Measure Not then when he went the proportions OF
original glory Christ the greatest; but when he de-
seconded and wore eur form and bore sins and sorrows
that by his stripes might be heaet!
have ycarous mission for these populous insects
But will at despse their httleness nor trample
nnon their lives Yet how may spare them AT every
stem must needs crush scores, and leave the wounded IN
my naihl Already I've lost nay patience with that nto
cradle y and slapped him out of being and breathed out
fiery against those mean that night
and day seek my blood hypocrcaly singing grace be-
fore their neal
The chief use of farm if il be well selected and of
proper soil to lie down upon. Mine Is an excellent farm
Tor such uses and thus cultivate 1t every day. Large
are the consequence of great delight and fGncie
nore than the brain hold. My industryls exemplary
bonob hut week here have laid down more hours ana
In ore places than that hard working brother OF NINE IN
he whole wear that he has dwe here Strange thar IN
dus,rous living down should naturally to me- ana
. mn and azpg about after the pillow or behind the
sythe so naturally to him! My eyes against MS eet IL
takes me but second TO down tha eastern slope
across the meadow the road up to that long hslae
fw hch the benevolent Mr. Dorr so beantiuly pan'ns
with shrubbery for my sake-blessings HIM but his
feet could not perform the task in less than ten minutes
can sprng from Grey Lock in the north, through the
comic Mountains in the SOUTH by simple roll OF the eye
hall mere contraction of few muscles Now let any
one try II with mis- feet and two days would scan suice
with my head the ground with glorious har-
,.sts. can build barns, ell them with silky cows and
nnbe horses; pasture thousand sheep innu-
arabe burrows every sort of seed up forests
;nt wherever the eye longs for them build my house like
S,omon's temple without the sound of a hammer. All
;bty worker is the head These farmers that the
Sn'; md the hard are much to be ped. change
nv structures every day. without expense can enlarge
a., oem of lake that lies yonder, twinkng and ripping
in the sunlight can pile mp rocks where they ought to