Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-07-16

| Heighol of Hay-day In Olden Time.
~ eaf'en dubious, oror-anxious rhyme,
such as q g Druid dnwled, the SAGA SUM :
In Gin re that, this In Titanic tongue.
Iio Ills a brave sight. gOod'y one ard gay
Youth, Beautf, Brain, and Drawn up with the
dawn Of day
The kitchen, hall, and dairy a-di1Iy with the
din
OF musical utensils aud ii,oHsils-'vusu,s aud
tin
The pantry, hall, and kitchen s-ringing with the
rout
from Without
The neighing, grunting, Heating, the lowing
on the lea,
The quacking. cackling, growing, the glowing
gobbler's glec,
III.
The wanton-winged chorus all DER us and
round,
The murmur of the river, like the slumber Of
sound
The frisky brOOklet's cymbal, tn eternal mono
tone
o. the Sea to his Moon Maiden so lcaden now
and lone,
".
The dialogues mock-saucy, of lassie and Of lout,
The dogs a-barking at the bees a-buzzing all
about,
Johns horse-talk, Jenney's cow-talk, the cat
talk Of Kitty,
And the universal fol-de-rol of Poll, nicknamed
the Pretty,
No indolent intermssion shall this vacation
count
I'm up-Pm dressed-Im airing-I'm making
To see as well as listen to the glistening river
glide,
And follow the white-winged sails that haunt
the roadstead's distand tide.
vi.
Here cOmeth Hobble-de-poy!-" IIo! boy! what's
all about? -
"He,g ,gho!old student-Ieller!-,yer mother know
ye'rc out p
Well know this much for once, old Ounce.
that this the day
Prcdestined for the making and housing of our
hay!
'0ur field is large and level, and the revel will
BY all without abating till the setting of the sun;
Come! eat i tn ha II this morning, and so be
saving Sue
From going 'ithout her rake to tn hay, i'll
thou, like Tray, art true"
VII.
My sue!-she smiles divincly!-l finely brave
the fuss,
And cat harvcster's breakfast; out - ieei
stuck fast by Fate
T. tn honcy-swcet of softncss!-o Greenness'
thou art great!
.-We're all a-feld!-gonc is the dew -(sweet
Sue is at my side!) :,
Hurrah! we pair with fork and rakc.-(F Fate!
shall take thy tide)
How gay thy carpet, Nature! whereon we hs-
ure fair
Sue-self-and all the others, under thy moth
er's care
-Ho, Farmer Josh ands Goodwife are in the
strife and stress
Jebn-Jenny-Joe-Je Jemima a-Ben-Bertha-
Bill-and Bess-
m-Kitty-Nlike-an Marian-lke-Mar-
tha-Ned-and May,
Spreading raking, tumbling, heaping, loading,
stacking. housing hay
And many another neighbor, with labor unal-
loyed,
From Lyndonville and Sanders, from Flanders
and from Floyd, -,
Have come in pride of muscle 10 tussie VIII
| the tune -,
or hardest work and weariest fren morn til
modest moon,
Old. young-short, tall-lean, lumpy-good
ad-thirty-three--
Brown, black, gray, green, and blue eyes
wise, and otherwise, are wc;-
All in our work SO dutiful, some beautiful
some both;
More hating-some to ''larlkng"--c'en loyin
nothing 10th.
OF these are Sue and I, I guess, as ikewis
Bess and Bill;
Perhaps Joe and Jemima (sister to Hanna
HilD;
And fear we are better sinners than workers
Heaven wot!
If tits sin to be big babies, ninnies. ana wh'
!, n
Ho! Dinah calls to dinner! List! Hanna
blows her horn!
And Sue and are hurgry--hard-worked sim
V merry morn;
: Then hurrah, my mates, for knife and fork, P
/. tatoes, pork and peas,
Pie. pudding, bread and butter, and cider wit
= out surcease!
~ II n
R. .Onee more into the breach, once more," WI
this new store of strength,
s' Until the field, Of its glory shorn. be LETT fe
lorn at length; -,
Bright Orb of Day, we'll all make hay till
day is done, =.
Then sweetly fall to singing thee to thy settin
SUM-
AM Sue my dear, let's over there into IL
Where none may hear!-nay, do not fear,--
fear ANA foolO
Nv name is Harry--thine is Sue:--'tis "
true--in troth;-
And-shouId tell thee something more,
wiring thine hands all wroth?
XVII
J aNo well, bet known to thee alone-(Wh'
am grown so greenf)
TT That thou art Venus, ora vine, (full of 10y
~ wine, ween;
And dI-well, E-am--thtne! (oh, my,--i
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