Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-01-05

threaten to o'erwhcm us all.
Names significant of meaning
Does this category show
As where meekly one is telling
That its members nothing know"
Information We imagine
Orwhich some would fain complain,
Whether true or false let others
Who hno,c something ascertain.
Gliding, ever gently gliding,
Pass the circling seasons round,
Spring and Summer, Autumn, Winter,
With contrasting joys abound
And | love the varied pleasures
Which the changing months surround.
Spring l love for breath of balm,
Summer for its languid calm,
Autumn for its many dyes,
W;ntor for its star-lt skies,
o, the seasons all | love,
As around the year they move.
Thus gaily sing while making
Daily circuit through the town,
Shows or suns or tanning breezcs
Bring upon my brow no frown.
Joyfully l bear my burden
From the news room to the door,
Busy and light hearted ever,
Tell me, could l wish for more7
In the records of the summer
Just elapsed, some marks there are
OF disasters wrought in nature
By the suns unmoistened glare.
Drouth, with all its sad attendants,
Frownc1 upon us in pride,
And the grasses paled and withered,
And the bubbling fountains dried,
And the fruits and flowers seemed blasted
For the want of genial rain,
And we wondered in our sadness
Would 1t ever fall again.
Then l trod along weary
Sad with fears for time to come
And the thickencd air about us
Hung canopy Of gloom,
But at length the rain drops falling
On the parchd and suffering earth,
And in generous floods descending
Changed our sadness into mirth.
Thankfully l read the record,
" Timely rams refreshed the soi','
Ind reclaimed from threatening 'uin
Fruits to bless the la5orer's TOLL"
Yet less penteous are the treasures
Nf our harvests than before
ind the poor, kind friends, remember,
Need assistance all the more.
Pray you, send them not unaided,
Or unpitied from your door,
Many accidents and troubles,
Clustering in the year so brief,
Have filled our mind with anxious thought
And our hearts with heavy grief.
PestiIencc hath sometime wandered
To our shores, with nosome breath,
Followed closely in his coming
BY his grim attendant Death.
Records too are sadly telling
Of disasters on the road
When the traveller, unwary,
Met his doom without its bode
But yet sadder and more startling
| Are disasters on the waves
And bcthink us, oh how many,
Resting now in watery graves,
Wakencd on the last years dawning
Glad, and thoughtless that its close
Should behold them, sea-enshrouded.
Sleeping out life's last repose 80
Oh, bethink us, sadly, kindly
Of the stricl hearts that ~
Friends, by circumstance q
From their fond embraces tori.
Seeking to explore a passage
To our frozen Northern Seas
Snowy sails have swelled full of,eu
To the icy, boreal breeze
Ships have sought those polar harbors
Never to return again,
And the tidngs which we gather
OF them,-fll our hearts with pain.
Brave men perishing with hunger,
furnishing with want and cold.
Is the tale, full fraught with horror,
Last years chronicles unfold!
Lives of mln thus boldly steering
T. a distant cherries goal
Se-l' TOO large price TO offer
For passage to tho Pole.
In CUR land of many states,--and
Territories old and new,
The " domestic institutions "
Vary somewhat widely too.
While We boast not much that's novel
In our staid New England states,
South and West in ways peculiar"
Each its manners regulotce.
Utah men ara vicing proudly
With the patriarchs of old.
And are taking each unto him
Wives a score or more I'm told,
Rash deludel mortals thoughtless
Of the hazards which they run,
Who attempt to govern twenty
Where I'll. hard to manage one,
If few "strong minded women"
Now would seek that lavoring field,
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