The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-03-07

As said All ancient prophet although twas said in prose-
You have removed the bambe and planted there the roe
Cut down the noxious thistle removed the ugly thorn
And planted out the fir tree your dwellings TO adorn
We know your work was arduous with troubles thick and
We welcome you as victors-you overcame at last
We welcome you dear brothers of good renowO
We welcome you from Keeer Southwest town.
From Hamilton and Hartford Bangor and Waverly too
Columbia and Geneva, gladly welcome you
You're welcome from South Haven the of boats and
You re welcome from Deered where Thunder Noun
tain" roars
From Arlington and Lawrence the home of Judge Monroe,
Who settled III this county forty years ago.
You're welcome from the hilltop. you're welcome from the
vale,
From Porter and Amena, Antwerp and Boomngdaie,
Our brothers from Decatur glad you bere
The Pioneers of Paw Paw all hail you with a cheer.
We to-day n friendship met in day. Of yote;
We to-day neighbors to talk conquest oer
We meet to-day who have subdued the land;
We to-day brothers to shake the friendly hand;
We live in memory those early stirring
Through which passed together in becoming Wolverines
Among the early settlers it very found
We had modern Egypt twas Big Prairie Rondc,
On which We were dependant and thither had TO 60
When ere the -four minus the meal getting low
The wheat there grew abundantpottoes large and fue
And like the land of promise it yielded and
The atr loved his children bread he heard hop cry
He yoked old Buck and Brnde and or fresh supply
The corn he had to husk twas standing the Hill
The wheat he helped thresh then took it of m;.
The road was long and tresome the mill far away,
And when the father would rernhe could She day
He started Monday morning above him shone the stars
Behind his wife and children stood weeping at the bars
They him drive awayther love for him did barn,
They went back the cabin and prayed his
Thare, in the lonely forest, with neghbor near,
The wife and children waited day seemed like year
The week would away and Saturday would coae,
Before that absent father would reach his lonely home
MeanEhile the faithful wife the last crust did divi4e
Then told her little children the Lord provide
Those qlizzng little unto their mother said
Has the Lord got the Lord make bread ?''
God bles; these noble women, our glory pride:
God bless these noble who laborcd by sd.
When noghbors quite distant aud laborers few
You helped US build cabins and done what you could do
You helped US roll the logheas you helped barn the
=. brush:
You baked f the ohnnycako and boiled for the rnush
You patched garments breechos and
coats;
And you patched often that left doubts
The mending frequent, the work done we'll -
OF which the Goa: made it puzzled US to tell.
You guarded well cabins and saved with jealous
The scanty little comforts that had gathered there
You helped tend gardens you helped p,an. the
corn;
And from such worthy mothers children all born
And when the burning fever courng through Veins
Or when the shaking aguc racking us with pains
By day and night you watched and stood beside beds
Like watchful angels ever and famed aching heads
God bless such noble womcn-Van Buren, Countys PRIDE
We welcome you equas-you abOred by our side
But some who Started with US | sec not here to-day;
The road long and weary and they sckened on the
We stood around their bedside and the expiring BREATH
And wiped from off their freheal the cold damp of
death
We did what eer could their precious lives 70 save;
Then closed thcr eyels for them and laid them the grave
aud there within the charne ouse appointed for the dead
Our friends in awful silence, rest their weary head