Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-02-27
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
Snow Bound.

nroduced and has been looked for with eager
interest by all who knew it was in preparation.
It l. picture most felcitous in it's description,
and most charming in its Illustration and color
ing of a New England snow storm He touches
the farmer life IN these verses
Meanwhile did our nightly chores
Brought the wood from out Of doors,
I.ittere stables and from the mows
Raked down the herds for the cows;
Heard the horse whinnying for his corn
And, sharply cIa.hing horn on horn,
Impatient down the stanehion
The cattle ther walnut bows
While. peering his early perch
Upon the .cafoId's pole Of birch,
The cock his crested helmet bent
down ms querulous challenge sent
Then came the snow, a two days
And " hen morning shons.
We looked upon world unknown,
va nothing could call n.
Around tie ai-enng wonder bent
The blue walls OF the armament,
No cloud above earth below
of sky and snow
The odd familiar sights Of ours
Took marvellous shapes strange domes and towers
Rose up where sly crib stood,
On garden wall, belt Of wood
vi be brush pile showed
4 fenceless drft what
The bride post old man
With loose-iung and high cooked hat;
The welcurb had Chinese roof,
And even the long sweep high aloof,
In its slant spendor. seemed
OF Pi-a's leaning miracle.
The 80 boys shoveled paths Or, as Whittier
has it. Y cut the solid whteness through, " while
All day the gusty North wind bore
Tie loosening drt {, breath before.
The scene about the f.rmer's hearth in the
winter evening IL thus painted
Shut from all Tie world thout,
We zat the clean nged hearth about,
d let the North wind
In batfed rage pane and door,
Vhie the red Iog= before beat
The back with tropic heat,
nd A louder blast
Shnos beam and rafter II passed,
The mp roaring draught
The great throat the chimney laughed
The bousedog, OF his paws outspread,
Laid o. rhe fire his drowsy head,
The car. dark silhouette o the wall,
4 couchaut tigers seemed 10 fall;
Ana, the hreside meet
Between the andirons' straddiing feet,
The mug of cider simmered slow,
The apples sputte red in
close at hand basket stood
With nuts from brow October's wood
After these many years, since Whittier made
one OF the Household gathering around the
blazing hearth OF that Quaker farmhouse, the
remembrance OF the dear faces which he loved
then, finds expre sion IN such exquisite lines as
these:
A. who held herself part
OFF al zhe saw Fl her heart
Against the household bosom lean,
Upon The motley braided
our youngest and sat,
Lifting her large, sweet, asking eyes,
N9gs baJhed within the fadeless green
And hris peace OF Paradise
y, looking from some heavenly hill,
pr from shade of sanity palms.
or silver reach Of calms,
DO those large eye. behold IN .lill
With little year
The chill weight Of The winter snow
For months upon her grave has lain
And now, when summer south winds blow,
And brier and bare bell bloom again,
tread the pleasant paths trod,
see the violet sprnkIed sod
Whereon she leaned frai weak,
The hillside flowers she loved o seek,
Yet following There'er
Win dark eyes full o loves content
The birds glad brier fills
The with sweetness sll the hills
Stretch green 10 June, unclouded sky;
Bur still with eager eye
For something gone which should nigh,
a los 10 an familiar things,
Ia flower that blooms and bird that sings,
And Vet, dear heart remembering thee
Am not richer than Of old?
safe Thy Immortality,
What change reach wealth hold
What chance the pearl and gold
Thy love rath left
And while in life's late afternoon,
Where cool and long the shadows grow,
walk To meet the night that
Shall shape AID shadow overflow
cannot feel that thou far
need the angels are
And when the gate. unbar,
Shall not thee waiting stand,
And, white against tn evening star
Tho welcome Of thy reckoning hand
We must stop our quotation here. We need
not advise our readers to buy the volume, after
giving them this taste of it,
These Flemish pictures old days.
for no one refuse themselves the luxury oi
reading with inward satisfaction AMI delight
the whole poem? Whittier has written some oi
the best poetry in the English language, and
this Is Of the most perfect productions of
his genius. The volume contains an elegant en-
craving Of the poet, and an illustration of his
birthplace in winter.
ATLANTIC MoSTHLY.-The number for March
has been published. Its table OF contents is Al
follows:
Passages from Hawthorne's Note Books. Ill
An Old Mans ldyl; Ramble through th'
Market; the Freedman's Story, II Nantucket
the SnowN alkers the Amazonian Picnic
Dr. Johns, NV Communication with the Pa
cifc la the sea the Chimney Corner for 1866
Poor Chloe; Snow; Griffith Grant; Reviews
Notices, SC.
Published Boston by Ticknor s. Fields.
Our YOUNG FoIKs.-The March number is al
ready out. Its articles are attractive, and gen
orally well illustrated by such artists as Hyde
Stephens. Hoppin, Fem and white. The Dis
obedent Crow; A Pair of Shoes; The Nu,
crackers of Nutcrackers- Lodge; Tne Battle
Field of Fredericksburg and the Cat Bird
will be eagerly read. Msyne Reid and the an
thor of :. Faith Gartney continue their stories