The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1861-07-12
A Picture Of Homo.
ny DR.. J O. HOLLAND.

I recall homo long since loft behind in
the journey Of life, and it's memory iioats
back over mo with q shower Of emotions
and thoughts towards whose precious fall
my hoart opens itself greodily Ike thirsty |
flower. Ii is home among the mountains
humble md homely--but priceless in its
wealth of associations. Tho waterfall sings |
in my ears, as it used to through the dreamy,
mysterious nights. Tho rose at tho gate,
tho patch Of tauzy under the window, the
neighboring orchard, tho old elm, tho grand
machinery Of storms and showers, tho little
smithy under tho hill thnt famed with
strange light through the dull winter even
| irgs, the wood piio at the door, the gbost!y
wbte birchos on the hill, and the dim blue
hazo on tho retiring .mountains--all those
como back to mo with an appeal that touch
90 my heart and mostons my Dyes.
| cit again in the doorway at summer
nieh.fall eating my broad and milk, looking
off upon tho darkenod landscape and listen
ing to the shouts of boys upon the hillside
calling or driving home tho reluctant hords
| watch again the devious way of the dusky
nighthawk along the twilight Rky, und listen
to his measured notes, and tho breezy boom
that accompanies his hcadlong plunge to-
wards the earth.
Even tho old barn. crazy in every timbor
and gaping at evory joint. has charms Tor
me. try again tho broathloss leap from
,he great beams in the hay. sit again on
the threshold of tho widely opon doors.
open to tho soft south wind of Spring-and
watch :ho cattle, whose faces look half hu
man to mo as thoy sun themselves nnd
peacefully ruminato, whilo drop by drop
tho melting snow OIL the roof drills holos
through the wasting drift beneath tho caves.
The first litto lambs of tho season tottle
by the side of their dams. and utter their
feeble bleatings. whilo tho flock nibble ut
the hayrick, or pair OF rival weathors Try
tho strength Of thor skulls in an encounter
half in earnest and half in play. Tho proud
old rooster crows upon his dunghill throne,
and some delighted momber OF his silly
family leaves her most, and tolls TO heI
matos aud TO mo that there is another egg
in the world.
, Tho old horse whinnios in his stall ant
. calls to mo for food. look up 20 tho roof
!. and think Of the lust years swallows-sooI
o to roturn again-nnd catch glimpse O
n angular sky through tho dismoad-shapc'
f oponinR ,ha, gave thom ingross and ogress
8 How. | know not, aud care not, bu, that oil
! barn is part Of Iuyseif--it has entered int
f nv llfo and givcn INC growth and wealth.
y But look into tho house ngain, wher
u the life abides, which has appropriated thos
!. things, aud dnds among thom lis home.-
u The hour of evoning has come, and lamp
arc lighted. and good man In middle life
!, though very old no socms to mo--takc
. down the Bible aud reads chaptor from IL
!. haIlowod pages. do not understand tn
l. words, but have boon told that they ar
: tho words of God, and l have believed 1t
T. Tho long chapter ends and then We al
= kneol down und tho good mon prays. l fa
e asleop with my hond in the char. aud th
n next uorniug remembering nothing how
e went 10 bed.
b After breakfast tho Bible 10 taken dowI
o and the good man pruys again; and aga'
D. Is the worship repeated through oil days
10 many golden years. Tho pleasant convort
d of the firosido, the simple songs OF HON
cs tho words of encouragement as bent ov'
ir my schoo, task, tho kiss aa lilo down
D. rest, tho patient bearing with tho freaks
Z. nv restless nature, tho gentle counsels mi
OF gled with reproof and approval. tho syr
Is, 3athy that moots and nssuagos evory sorro
No and eweetens every little success, oil tho
return to mo now, and / feel as If | hi
once lived in Heaven, and straying lost II
o'' way.
rn Woll, the good man grow old and wear
ny and fell esloop ut last, with blessings up
all his lips for mo. Some Of those who call
IL. him father, lie side by side in the same ca
CIR place, Tho others are scattered and DIV
ed in now homos, aud tho old house end ba
nd and orchard tavo passed into tho hands
I'D. strangers, who have learned or are learh'r
On, to look upon thom as do now. ,
'm Lost, ruincd. forever lett behind. tf
os' house is mine &c. day. as truly as evor II WI
MT. To. h. 80 I not hrnn1ht IL away with mo aI
OF shown it to you: Ii was the homo OF Q
IN boyhood. In il / found my first mcn
- food; and by it was my young soul fai
'u' ioned. To me. through weary years
Ie' many dangers and sorrows, it has boon
n'. perennial fountain of delight and purify
ore influences. simply because it was my non
nd and was and is part of me- Tho rose at I
wn cato blooms for mo now. The landscn
.et fe appcrs when summon it. and hear
to voices that call me from lips which mono
-, makes immortal.