Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1855-06-07

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Al dawn to where the herbage grows
up yOnder bill the grazier goes.
Obedieat 10 his every word,
Before him stalk she lowering herd.
Reluctant IN the misty morn,
With stamping foot and tossing horn,
With lengtheDsd low and angry moan, -
Go black and dapPled, red and roam
Through drain and hollow, up thehill
They pass, obedient to bis will
The slender or and mighty bull
The grazier thinks them beautiful.
You see less beauty In The herd
Than IN yOur oFangetnted bird
You hx your better pleased gaze
On yon broad sweep q agserald maize,
YOn naples on the bin sde high,
CT N yOn Geld Of way'pd re.
More pleased wiinl rye, or trees
The grazieraHln n0t on these.
he SesSuol jdise Of gold,
In ever loeilcSing three-year old.
He sees new comforts round his home.
When buyers down from TazeWeh come.
:..... hs :.shln nigh the creek,
1,s s M. .daubed chimney changed to brick,
IT, rrds logs hid BY clsp-boards saved,
SnEt shingles on lie roof 50 broad
Ne rvncheOus on the woFn-out floor,
A nicket fence before the door,
And cups q lin and plates Of delf
50 -, a.5,s. -, e, SPOONS aaorn the shelf
Close where the rife hangs on hooks,
On cupboard top are rows Of books
The Pilgrim Of the dreaming John,
And Weem's life Of Marion
The well-thumbed speeches of Calhoun,
The pictured life Of Daniel Boone;
D,Aa' iRne's story told SO we'll,
How Luther fought and Cranmer fell.
TO please bis wife yellow gown,
Ana heads TO deck his daughters brown.
A lack k-knife for his youngest son,
A ride for his eldest one.
An these to him the cattle low,
Asup the hill they slowly 80.
He isars no ravage Of disease,
'MonV brutes 60 strong and fat as these.
There's salt enough for them In store,
Brought from Kanawha's muddy shore.
The heritage on the hill is good,
The fern Il thick within the wood,
There's tender grass in yonder drain,
Aud pea-vine on the summit plain.
High thought Of gain that moment thrills
The graizer Of the Logan hills.
He envies not the hero bold,
He cares not who may Office nold.
The atatesmans pride, the stout mans limb,
The lovers hopes are Rsught to him.
His mind three things alone receives
His wife, his children, ana MS DeeVes'
So these may flourish and be fair,
All else around Is smoke and air.
Oh. Logan grazier stout and strong,
Despising fraud, deiying wrong,
Brave as thine ancestors who bore
The scars Of combat long and sore,
And fearless met In battle shock,
The wild and painted Shavanock
True as the rife in thy hand,
And 0auaroua as thy fertile lHCd-
Full oft I've eaten by thy side
Thy cakes of corn and Venisen fried
Oft in thI cabin as thy guest
Have stretched my Weaxled limbs to rest.
love to note thy honest brow,
Staanch friend and true companion thou;
And knew no manlier form is seen
Than dwells within thy coat Of jean;
Truth fls those eyes SO keenly set
Beneath thy fox-sin cap, and yet
y would net that thy lot were Line,
w0ud 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
Nv manuscript In silence FER.
Each to the path that suits his feet
Each toll, for time Is moving heet,
And soon In woollen shroud arrayed,
Roth in our narrow cofdns laid,
It matters not If cattle fair,
Or making songs has been our care.
The poets and the grazier's form
Shalifeed alike the greedy worm
shall pass the poets glowing words,
Shall pass the graSiers lowing herds;
And from mems memory fade away
Roth graxier's shout and poets lSys