American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1855-02-22
From the Springfield Republican.
NEW ENGLAND.
Our wEsr, Oct, 1854.
To OuT Folks at Home.


New England aye, New Lngland! come from there,
Igucss,
And 50 mink that may say It's quite likely place;
Ts true the stones pretty thick, the hills are
pretty high,
Bet then the men pretty smart, the boys uneom-
mon spry.
And then the gir,, o dear me su1 ihink they can't
be beat,
I'D rather have smack from one than eat the nnsst
wheat
They very early learn to sPia, and bake and brew and
sew,
And make the verJ best of vivsS, Gherss enc that
does, know.
And there is PiymOth Rock, you know, The sehoO
house and the mill,
And there you'll hnd the meetin house. and there
Bunker Hill;
And there the men in oden time determined 10 be FREQ,
For that was what they fought about, and not the
pound Of tea.
The cattle browse upon the hills end nnd good pick
ing too,
For labors sturdy arm is there, and that will put
through;
| 'Tis there the corn and pumpkins grow, and there
they raise the beans,
And all the folks that love to work can live like
anu NNSSA0-
The men both hold and drive the plOw, and by the
piOw they thrive,
They want sluggards in the neld drones within
the hive;
Who will not toll must never eat, each son and
daughter feels,
The very streams made to work and turn the fac
tory wheels.
To cultivation Of the soil the farmers not confined
He takes the weekly newspaper aud eultivgtes tho
mind:
The boys and girls rosy eheeked brigh aswell
merry,
They study webstsr's Spelling Book, and bay the
Dictionary.
that's the land OF singing schools, of spple-bssS,
aud sieh,
And there when boys get Of the track tbeT fathers
use the spifek;
The hoary head i. honored there-Youh will not age
despise
For there twas so when was youngI they learn the
eateehise.
These Western folks may talk about thsir mighty
streams aid praires,
But forhe butter to their bread they need New Eng
land daries
or Seattle thousand hills'thsy meier can be pos
sessed,
For Saddle Back is big enough for all the hills Ou
West.
Her pork fiinked in sausuages and madeinto chain
Would reach, like Puck's, around the globe and half
way back again;
Her hundred acre fields Of wheat, and corn 90 mon
strous tall,
By these the nations might be fed, but tbon thatisn
all:-
When in the pleasant Sabbath morn the waving har
vest swells.
The emigraht would ike to hear New Rngland'S Sun
day bells
And when they want school ma they must Gov
Ornor slade employ
To get drove of Vermont girls to bring to Illinois.
And then the school house ten to one is many mile
away,
And SO the aaKen-headsd ones most stay at home an
4 play;
Or while the mother boiis the pot they roam aroun
and plague her,
Or erng in the sit, shaking with the age
: New England! aye, New Bnglandl my glory and m
e boast,
Adown thy hills, when rs boy o how used to coas
o Thy pleasant fields of living green, methinks sc
them now,
And upon my fathers farm riding horse to plOw.
Thou art the land OF liberty, of valleys and of hills
4 A land of men-where thoughts frOe-of brooks Al
running rills;
: 'Tis there they keep Thanksgiving days and like
n have them come,
i When loving circles cluster round-I wish Twas
IS hum. [JEDEDiAH.