The Republican journal., 1869-01-07
VOLUME 80.

" In sugar camps, when south and warm
The winds Of March are blowing,
And sweetly from its thawing veins
The naples blood is flowing
" In summer, where some hlicd pond
Its virgin zone is barring
Or where the Iuddy autumn fire
Lights up the apple pairing
" The coarseness Of ruder time
Her finer nirth dSplaces,
A subter sense of pleasure fills
Each rustic sport she graces.
" Her presence lends its warmth and health
10 all who come before it
If woman lost us Eden, such
AS She alone restore it.
g For larger life and wiser aims
Ihc farmer is her debtor,
Who holds to his another's heart
Must needs be worse or better.
" Through her his civic service shows
A purer-toned ambition;
No double consciousness divides
The man and politician.
" In party's doubtful ways trusts
Her instincts to determlL
AT the loud polls, the thought OF her
Recalls Christ's mountain sermon.
" He owns her logic of the heart,
And wisdom OF unreason
Supplying, while he doubts and weighs,
The needed word III season.
"iie sees with pride he richer thought,
Her tancy's treer ranges;
And love thus decpencd to respect
Is proof against all changes.
And if she walks at case i'll w:ys
His feet slow to travel,
And if she reads with cultured eyes
What his may scarce unravel.
Still clearer for her keencr sight
OF beauty and of wonder,
He learns the meaning OF the hills
He dwelt from childhood under.
And higher, warmed with summer llghts,
Or winter-cr0wned and hoary,
The ridged horizon lifts for him
Its inner wells OF glory.
" lie has his own free bookless lore
The lessons nature taught him,
The wisdom which the woods and hills
And toiling men have brought him;
" The steady force of will whereby
Ter tieXile grace seems Sweeter;
The sturdy couuterpoise which makes
Her womm'S life completer;
" A latent fire of soul which lacks
No breath of love to fan it,
And wit, that, like his native brooks
Plays over solid granite.
" How dwarfed against his manlines5
She sees the mean pretension,
The wants, the aims, the folics. born
OF fashion and convention!
How life behind its accidents
Stands strong and selt-sustaining,
The human tact transcending all
The losing and the gaining,
And So in grateful Interchange
UI teacher and OF hearer,
Their lives their true distinctness keep
While daily drawing nearer.
"And il the husband or the wife
in homes strong light discovers
such slight defaults as failed to meet
The blinded eyes Of lovers.
Why need we care to ask who dreams
Without their thorns or roses,
Or wonders that the truest steel
The readiest spark discloses2
" For still in mutual sutlerance lies
The secret OF true living;
Love scarce is love that never knows
The sweetness OF torgiying.
We send the squire to General Court,
10 take his young wife thithcr;
No prouder man election day
Rides through the sweet June weather.
" lie sees with eyes of manly trust
All hearts to her inclining;
Not less for him his household light
That others share its shining"
Thus, while my hostess spake, there grew
Before me warmer tinted
And outlined with a tenderer grace
The picture that she limited.
The sunset smouldered as we drove
Beneath the deep hill-shadows
Below wreaths OF white fog wall hcd
Like ghosts the haunted meadows.
Sounding the summer night the stars
Dropped down their golden plummets;
The pale arc OF the Northern Lights
Rise 0 'er the mountain summits-
Until, at last, beneath its bridge
We heard the Bearcamp flowing,
And saw across the mapled lawn
The welcome home lights glowing
And, musing on the tale ] heard,
'Twere well, thought [, if often
To rugged farm-lite came the gift
10 harmonize and soften :
II more and more we found the troth
OF fact and fancy plighted
And cultures chalm and labor's strength
In rural homes united
The simple nte, the nomely hearth,
With beauty's sphere surrounding,
And blessing toll where toll abounds
With graces more abounding