The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1870-01-06
From EuuorsOn,s NagaSine,l
THE GOOD FINE coAING.
40 dearl o dsarl I give, l erIevs,
Ror he gosd cid days q Adam and EveI"

And the iar on future still claims thSday.
As for ne, Pm weary Of loSEing aheld,
Aud rather prefer TO look back instead.
To The primitive days when msa - . nsa'
In splsht ofpoyerty's blight and ban;
When gold was mot GOd-Vhea wealth was
not vorth..
When an honest man ranked with The nObleat
Of earth.
And truth did not simper. and sneak, and hide
From the Sctasr's Sneer and theUkePtic'sP pride.
love to look at the good time Gown.
When childhood and age were not both uu-
known;
When boys and Firls h,d time TO grow,
Aud learn In their ehiidhood a thing oraaoi,t
When boys from their cradles were never
known
To spring out at a bound on the world full
grown
With svagger and swell. and braggart air;
With fiery nose and fred cigar
Or baby girls, from their mothers arms,
Step forth mature in all womanly CHAINS.
Hoored, chalksd, and painted. and ready quite
To autter and aaunt for the worlds delight;
But infancy. childhood. and youth, had each
Appropriate manners, appropriate speech;
And each, when its seasons was fully past.
Gave to manhood aud vomanhood place GtlaSt
Hove to think Of that good old time
When man at sixty Vasin his primei
With aheaIthiul fses and ahopsful air.
And the earth was proud Of his dear white hair
when grand mothers. tn. had place on earth
With eirpure affections and won.anly worth:
When the "arm chair stood by each chimney
Athiak ofbeauty, thirg of PRIDE
And lis grey.haired occupant "a: serene.
The GROWING charm ofthe iresids scene.
Then, too. in that oiden tins they say,
Ere the Church BY proxy had learned to pray
Or innovation made allthIngs new.
Good men could be piOus the whole week
through,
Not SUNDAYS alone, in their cushioned psws,
Dreaming Of politics, trade, and news;
whiIs the preacher stood or the preacher bowed
And paved long pryers forthe sleepy crowd.
While the nracticed choir. with fiddle and hute,
Ssdag tuthSms o. pftiseHi Eitiie they ~
mute.
Not thus, did our foreiathers worship Him
In whose presence tho glory Of earth Is dim
But elowly cot or the humble fame,
Grove, mountain, or desert, or field. ORPHAN,
The barren heath, or the aowery sod.
Was to them meet temple 10 worship Cod
Where rich and poor might with one accord
Knsel and worship cseatiOn's Lord
Then, character was not all outsids,
A thing Of glitter, eidre and pride:
And humanity sought 70 be something higher
Ts.n struttiag show case for fools to admire.
Then true brave heart in taanIv breast,
or thrObbed meath the folds Of leathern vest
Aud an honest purpose and high intent
With the noar dav.Iaborer often went:
Or gathered the Sheayes Of the summer graini
And worth. though poor, had rightto claim
In spite Ofhis poverty, place aud name.
But men and Donrn have passed away,
And ladies sud gentlemen rule the day.
The former a creature Of singular grace.
Mysteriously fashioned Of feathers and lace,
with velvet. aad Gordage, of brsSS and Orocads
Will, paint and powder. with rouge oyerlaid,
Ia furnished n order and teeth thathaye grown
Under the hand Of the dentist alone
The latter an object tho tailor haS made:
And the barber improved, BY his bar6ar0u'
trade
A beautiful pet. whose appropriate place
Is to cit in cage and exhibit his face.
Taen. women were healthfu full, industrious, true.
OF Vi ,orous hodiss and intellects too:
Walking up bravely to thres.score and ten
And sitting down calm in thosveet sunset then
Nop they are feeble. cadaveFous. pale,
Shrinking aghlSt from the breath Of the gale,
lettering fsebIy to womanhood's years,
The prey Of disease. disappointment and tears
And then, when their sun in It's ssdith iShigh,
In infanLile weakness they falter anddie.
Then, man in his primitive majesty trod
The green earth erect, in the image ofeod:
Uunfrttered BY custom. unshackled BY art,
Health glOved on his temples, health pulsed
in his heart
Gave poise to his intellect, strength to his arm
To pleasure a zest, and to duty charm.
Firmly he moved mid LIES Perils audtearI,
Till his fol ehead was white with tie frost worl
ofyear,
Aud the cool dswy evening. in quietness 6leSt
Called the earth weary traveller home to rest.
Nop, dvarfed in his stature and bankrupts'
inhealth,
Struggling for knowledge or dslving in vsaltl
Pale. care.Won, and restless. to sickness
{ In Youths sunny morning he falls BY the way
And dies. ere lifs's lGbors are scarcely sbegun,