The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1870-01-06
From Emnorson's Magastne.I
THE coon TILE COMING.
10 dsarl o dsarl I give, ! erIsye,
For the good old days q Adam and E7'l

Aud theta Of future still claims tHsisy.
Astar me, Pm weary Of lOSting ahsad.
Aud rather prefer To look back instead.
To The primitive days when q u,GR 90 9 Easn'
In spight Of poverty's blight and ban;
When gold was not God-When wealth was
not worth
When an honest man ranked With the nobleat
Of earth.
And truth did not shipper, aud 2tsak, and hide
From the c,aer's snssr and pls Skeptic'sPF
: lo,s to look at the good time Gown.
When childhood aud age were not both un-
known;
When boys and girls h.d Time to grow,
And learn in their childhood q thing oraao;
When boys from their cradles were never
To spring out at bound on the world full
grown
With auagger and swell. and a braggart sir;
With fiery nose and hred cigar
Or baby girls, from their mothers arms.
Step forth mature in all womauly charms,
Hooped, chalked. and painted, and ready quite
To futtsr and Asunt Tor the worlds delight:
But infancy, childhood, and youth, had each
Appropriate manners, appropriate speech:
And each. whom it, seasons was fully past
Gave to manhood and wOmanhood place at last
Hove to think Of that good old time
When man at sixty Vas,in his primei
With ahsaIthlul face and hopaful air.
And the earth was proud ofhis dear white hair
when grand mothers. tn. had place on earth
With their pure affections and Wonanly worth:
When the earn chair stood BY each chimney
side,
"A ihiak Il beauty. thirg of PRIDE
And It's grey.haired occupant "a: serene.
The GROWING charm Of the freside scene.
Then. too. in that oldsu tima they say,
Esstho Church BY proxy had learned TO pray
orinnovation made all things new.
Good men could be pious the whole week
through,
Not SUNDAYS alone, in their cushioned pews,
Dreaming Of politics, trade. aud news;
While the preacher stood orthe preacher bowed
And prayed long prayers for the sleepy crowd.
While thepraeiieed choir. with fiddle snd cute,
ssGag tuth6ms 81 praises While they sat
mute.
Not thus, did our foreiathers worship Him
In whose presence the glory Ofearsh Is dim
But thelowly cot or the humble fame,
Grove, mountain, or desert, or field, orphan,
The barren heath. or the aowery sod,
Was to them meet temple to Worship Cod
Where rich and poor might with one accord
KneeI and worship Creations Lord
Then, character was not all outside,
A thing Of glitter. eidre and pride:
And humanity sought to be something higher
Than strutting show case for fools to admire.
Then true brave heart in manIv breast,
OF thrObbed meath the folds Of leathern vest
Aud an honest purpose and high intent
With the POOR dav.lahorer often went:
Or gathered the shsayes Of the summer gratni
And worth. though poor, had a right to claim.
In spite ofhis poverty, place aud name.
But men and ,DonRn have passed away,
And ladies' and gentlemen rule the day.
The former creature Of singular grace
Nysteriously fashioned Of feathers and lace,
with velvet, and eordags. Of brass and Oroeade
With paint and powder. with rouge Oyerlaid,
Ia furnished tn order and teeth thathave grown
Under the hand 9th dentist alone
The latter an object tho tailor has made:
And the barber improved, BY his bGr6aTou'
trade
A beautiful pct, whose appropriate place
Il to cit in cage and exhibit his face.
Taea. women were heaIthful. industrious, true.
or II ,orous hodies and intellects too:
Walking up bravsly to three.seore and ten
And sitting down calm in thosveet sunset then
Noy they are feeble. cadayerOus. pale.
Shrinking aghaSt from the breath Of the gale,
Totterine resbly to wOmanhood's years,
The prey Of diSsa'e, disappointment and tears
And then, when their sun in It's Ssdith is high,
In infanlile weakness they falter anddie.
Then, man IN his pf1mltlVe majesty uO0
The green earth erect, in the image ofeod:
Uunfrtt,r red by custom, unshaekled BY art,
HealH gloved on his temples, health pulsed
4! his heart
Gave poise to his intellect, strength to his arm
To pleasure zest, aud to duty charm.
Firmly he moved mid LIES perilS ndteaS,
Till his iehead was white with tie frost wOFl
Ofyean,
And the cool dewy evening. in quietness bleSt
Called the earth weary traveller home to rest.
Nov. dvarfsd in his stature aud baukrupts'
inhealth,
Struggling for knowledge or dslving in veal'l
, Pale, care.wom, and restless to sickness
/. l,,,S,. .,nnv morning he falls BY the way