Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1865-10-10

their pistols 10 his breast, ordered him 70 remove
from the table where bis arms we're laid. 4 third
and fourth man entered and disposed Of them
They then told him that they were smugelers,
and used cave underneath, and swore they
would carry him off and kill him. unless he took
an oath never to speak Of what happened that
night, and to pull down the whole house.
LYRICS OF LIFE, by Robert Browning. Boston /:
Toknor & Field'. Price, 90 cents.
This little volume is the fourth Of Msssrs
Teknor g. Fields series Of " Companion Poets
for the People" and is brought out in the same
neat and cheap style Of its predecessor Brown
ing i, not our fayorite pOet-we doubt even
whether he is the favorte poet of the people
There is such rspelIant, Iabor-iuvtng coating
about Browniugs gems Of thought that but few
people in the busy walks of active life have the
time or patience to psuse and steadily labor to rend
away that covering till they are rewarded by sight
OF the brilliants il enshrouds. Yet to those who
can and do thus bring those pearls into their pos
session there is greai reward When once
reached, the gems of Browning's poems are rare
ly excslled in beauty and magnifcence; aud no
one will regret the toll it cost to attain them. 10
the man OF leisure, to the literary student, and to
him who is curious to know how quantity and how
curiously thoughts may be presented by the won
derful mechanism OF word setting, we commend
Browning. The following extracts give a slight
idea Of the authors style, though it Is but fair t.
say that very many Of the poems in the volume
before US are what may well be termed Love.
Songs" and have more light and playful vein of
thought running through them than those we give
below:
ALL SERVICE RANKS THR SANE WITH COD.
All service ranks the same with God
II now, as formerly he rod
Paradise, His presence fls
Our earth, each only as God will.
Can work Gods puppets, best and worst
Are We there is no las, nor first.
Say not q" small event 4" Why 81 smalln?
Costs it more pain than this, ye call
A"great event should come to pass
Than that untwine me from the mass
OF deeds which make up life, one deed
Power shall fall short in, or exceed
OVERHEAD THE TRKR-ToPs MEET"
Overhead tbs tree tops meet
Flowers and grass spring meath ones feet
There wa, niuGht above me, and nAught below,
hy childhood had not learned to know!
For what are the voices q BIRDS
-Ay, and Of beasts,-but vords-our words,
Only so much more sweet
The knowledge Of that with my life begun!
But had so near made out the sun
And counted your stars, the Seven and One
Like the fingers Of my hand
Nay could all but understand
wherefore through heaven the white moon ranges
Aud just when out Of her soft stly changes
No unfamiliar face might oyerook me
suddenly God took me
THE LOST LEAIBR
Just fer handful OF silver he left Us
Just for a ribbon 10 stick in his toAt-
Found the one gift Of which fortun, bersft Us
Lost all the others she lets US devote
They, with the gold to give doled him out silver
So much was theirs who SO little allowed
How all our copper bad gone for hn service
Ras'-wsr hsy purple, his heart had been proud! |
We that had loved him SO, folowei him honored him,
Lived in his mild and MAJ n acentsye
Learned his great language, osugh his clear accents
Made him rpAttern to live and to die
shatspesre va. Of u.s. Milton was i,r Us,
Burns, shelley, we're with us-hey watch from their
graves
Ho alone breaks n N the and the freensn
He alone sinks to the rear and the slaves!
"o shall march prospsring,not through his presence
Songs may uspirit us,-not from his Tyre
Deeds will be dons,-vhile he boasiI his qui,pence
Still bidding crouch whom the rest bade aspire
Blot out his nsse, then,-rseord one lost soul more
ons task more declined, more foolpAth unlrol,
ose more triumph for devils, and sorrow for angels
One wrong more to man, ons more insult to God
Lifss night begins let him never GENE back tous!
There would be doubt, hesitation, and pain,
Forced praise on eur part the slinmer Of twilight,
Never glad confident merning again
Best nght we'll, for We taught m-suiks calamity
Aim at our heart ere We pierce through his own
Then lethim receive the new kaov edge and waitw,
Psrdsned In Heaven, the sut by tn. throne
"Lyrics of Life" and indeed all Of Mes,rs.
Ticknsr Fields publications, can be procured
OF Geo. w, Wilder at the FREEMAN BOOKSTORE.
"CAMP-FIRE AND CorToN FIELD" is the title
of new book, written by Thomas W. Knox,
war correspondent of the New York Herald, and
soon to be issued by BLELooK & Co., 10 Beck
man ST., New York. This book is founded upon
incidents pertaining to the late Rebellion, and its
scenes are laid in the extreme Southern and
Southwestern part Of the field over which the
waves Of treason ,urged. No work yet published,
We believe, has pretended to cover that par, Of
the arena Of strife, and this book, therefore, has
the advantage of being able to draw its fact, and
incident, from hitherto undeVeloped source The
author has lively, gosspy style, and has certain
y succeeded, we think, in getting upa very reada-
BILE and entertaining book. We give few sx-
tracts from the work, TO enable our readers to
Judge Of the style of the author, and somewhat
Of the merits Of the book ITSELF
TRAVEL IN MISSOURI.