The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-03-29
rHEDAILY DISPATCH.
.raURspAY MORNING, MARCH -, lass.
THE LOGAN GRAzIER.

THE LOGAN GRAZIER-
BY THOMAS DUNN ENGLrsH.
A, dawn to where the heritage grows,
Up yonder Hill the graz'er goes.
oaedicnt to his every word,
Before him stalk the lowing herd
Reluctant in the misty morn,
With stamping hooi aud tossing horn,
With heightened low and angry moan,
Go black and dsppled. red and roam.
Through drain and hollow, up the hill
They pass, obedient TO his will.
The slender OK and mighty bull
The graZier thinks them beautiful
You see less beauty In the herd,
Than 10 yon orange tinted oifo'
You * your better pleased gaze
On you broad sweep oil einetsi'
Yon NAPLES on the hillside high'
Or on yon field Of waving rye
M,re pleased with MAZE, or rye vi uoe'
Tb. crazier's sight IL not on tnese
He aces q Melted purse OF gold,
Ipsvery believing three year Old
n. ssss new comforts round his home.
When BUYERS down from Tazeweil come
HI sees his cabin nigh the creek,
us mud -daubed chimney changed TO o'""-
rs rude logs hid by clap boards sawed
Solit shingles on It's root so broad
New paucheous on the WORKOUT hoor'
A nicket fence before the door,
And cups of tin and plates OF dell
And pewter spoons, adorn tue s"''
,,,,.o ,,hsre the rifle hangs on hooks,
~, .rnhnard loo are rows OF books
The Pilgrim OF the dresming John,
And weem's life OF Marion;
Tho well ihumbed speeches of Calhoun.
the pictured life OF Daniel Boone;
D'Aubigne's story told so well,
How uther fought and Crsnmer Tell;
To p,ease his wife yellow gown,
And beads TO deck his daughters brown.
A iack-knife for bis youngest son,
rifle for his eldest one
All these to him the cStte low,
As up the hill they SLOWLY so.
He fears no ravage OF disease.
'Moug bruies so strong and fat as these
There's salt enough for them in store,
Brought from ksnawhs's muddy shoIe.
The hsrbsse on the hill is good,
The fern is thick within the wood
There's tender grass in yonder drain,
And pea-vine on the summit plain.
High thought of gain that moment thrills,
The grszier Of the Logan hills.
He envies not the hero bold,
He cares not who may Office hold.
The s,atesmans pride the stout mans limb,
The lovers hopes are naught TO him.
His mind three things alone receives
His wife, his children, and his beeves.
So these may flourish and be fair,
All else around is smoke and air.
90. Logan Grszer, stout and strong,
Despising fraud, defying wrong;
Brave as thine ancestors who bore
fine scars of combat long and sore,
And fearless met In battle shock,
Tue wild and painted Shawencck;
True SIS the rifs In thy hand,
ACd generous as thy fertile land
Fall Oft I've eaten by thy side
Thy cakes OF corn and venisos iried:
OF 10 thy cabin as thy guest
Have stretched my weary limbs to rest
( love to note thy honest brow,
Stauuch friend emo true companion thou;
And know no manlier form is seen
Than dwells within thy Goa. OF jean;
Truth fills those eyes so keenly set
Beneath thy fox-skin cap, and yet
/ would not that thy lot were mine,
/ would not that my lot were thine.
Guard thou thy beeves and count thy gold,
Be glad when those great herds are sold
For me, by midnight lamp. pore
My manuscriptin silence Ger.
Each to the path that suites his feet;
Each toll, for time Is moving feet,
And soon 10 woollen shroud arrayed,
Both in our narrow Collins laid,
1t matters not If cattle fair,
Or making songs has been our care.
The poets and the grazier's form
Shall teed alike the greedy worm
Shall pass the poets glowing words,
Shall pass the grazier's lowing herds
And from mems memory fade away
Both erazers shout and poets Law