Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-12-10

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And literal gold as well, if that nav be,
Fill hearts and pockets overfowingly
In quantities untold"'
He paused; ere he renewed,
neighboring listener, rising noisily-
rough old farmer, honcst-browed and free
Said, 81 was never good
"At speeches and iue talk
In fact, never made a speech before,
Except a short one in court o. law,
And when ] tried to chalk
"a drunken candidate;
However, don't feel like goin' by
golden wcddin' day we re comm nigh
That time, and my mate
:" 'Ithout say bit
Some lik the peih o. what was said just now;
But arter folks know what to say, the how
To say it takes the wit!
"well, for my ncighbor here
And his good wife, wish em happiness;
| wish 'em all the good know or guess
That isn't bought too dear;
"For am bound to say
I'd like the world new-stUcked from end to end =,
As thick as white-weed in the medder-bend,
With folks as good as they
So, emphasizing all
With sonorous blowing of his nose
lie ended suddenly and some of those
Around him kept the ball
Spinning upon lis way
With polished graduation, smoothly said:
And some, less cultured, to rude humor wed
The wishes Of the day.
At last portly man,
city banker, rising ponderously,
Said, with as ponderous u,terance, "that he
Ahem!-he just began
ITO see propriety
In golden weddings; since we had been told
That friendship counts in hea en- as more than
gold
Attentive might all see
"1hey made good capital
To start ones fortunes in another sphere,
Where men need less of solid cash than here"
Then III Il little lull
The good old minister,
With genial Kindness beamng from his face,
Stood in their midst to thank God for His grace
ShGwn to the pair who were
Before him, whose long life
! Was crowned with brightness, as a happy day
In midsummer passed slow away
With sunset splcndors rife.
| | will not here rehearse
The pious words that fitted such as he;
| cannot warp their rare simplicity
Into the shape of verse.
Now, when the prayer was done,
The an ,ient bridegroom rose the ancient bride
Rose too. and stood half smiling at his side,
Listening as he begun;
Good friends, | want to try
To thank you for the kindness you have shown
10 us, whose usefulness is near outgrown;
And we-my wife and L
EDO thank you earnestly.
We are IL hearty and old-fashoned pair,
With less OF cash than rheumatism to spare,
But with the will to see
1.-The whole wide world content
Of old, they say, twas counted half crime
For men or wcmen TO outlive their time;
But it is evident
That age now makes one rare
As russet apples that last ou through spring,
And so are counted as Il better thing
When withercd than when fair.
"My friends, we both will trust
Your golden weddings, coming by-and-by,
May find you rich in things that satisfy
When We are only DUST
Then all with one accord
Sought Il cwide parlor, where the gifts were lai'
On a long table, showily arayed,
Tempting the race outlawcd,
The children, who without,
Waited impatient for the general " fun
Easing their nervousness with skip or run,
Or q hali-smothered shout.
Till one who watched them came
merry youth who could not yet forget
I,.oh;Ilb,nl Gto,y,n ,ntt hni hoo pta ep
, Upon romping game.
Gayly he led the way
Back to the keeping-room. The elder folk,
Busy with "reminiscences or with joke,
Would never heed their play.
So puss-in-corners grew
To " hunt-the-ring," and that to " blindman's
buff"
So on-for children never have enough
Through all the games they knew
But with the noise begun
The old folks music; and the .Auld Lang Syn
Floated above the clamor line by line.
} When its last strains were done,
Came many good old tune,
Borne on united tones with force and power;
And hymns that seemed to consecrate the houl
Closed the short afternoon.
Dcserters joined the children at their games,
And presently the candles branching flames
Shut twilight out-of-doors.
Just then faint, thin sound,
As of violin-string idly ficked,
. And the sharp tuning Of fiddle pricked
The ears of those around.
They quickly cleared a space.
And motley sets were formed of young and ole
With the dcmurs and jestings manifold
That suited time and place.
Then, led by violins,
Came quadrile, made antic by the twirls
OF former days, with wondrous skips and whir
To vary outs and ins.
Then down the low long room
Were stretched the lines of the Virginia Reel
The ancient couple, fired with sudden zeal,
Consented to assume
The head; go veterans
In caps and wigs fell quickly into line,
And the queer rows began TO intertwiDe,
: While with swift trills and runs
The merry music, free
To match odd motion, leaped along the tune;
And flying coat-tails and the wide balloon
OF skirts spun dizzily.
o happy ancient tines
O merry gatherings scattered through the pas
Would that your joyous mirth and cheer migl
last
And live outside my rhymes!
But now come noise and stir,
Laughings and lingerings and the slow goo'
byes,