Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-01-10
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THE FARMERS HOME.
ny CAROLINE A. MASON.

-Come with me
Down this rude lane ablaze with goden-rod
And fresh with fragrance from the up turned sod,
To where yon farmhouse lifts its modest head
BY peace. content and health inhabited.
The tranquil kline, reposing in the grass,
Turn dreamy eyes upon us as We pass
Tho shy sheep gaze askance, and chanteleer
Dsturbs the silence with Iusty cheer
From the far barn yard sights and sounds are these
TO make the saddest cheerful and at ease.
How full the quiet spot Of sweet perfumes
Aromas Of fresh grass and clover blooms
How like a Sabbath stiffness or like prayer,
Tho clustered calm Of this sequestered air!
Anon the swinging seythe pcrchance is heard
Anon the sacred Sabbath calm is stirred
by sounding fail woodman's axe anear'
Re-echong through the frest sharp and clear
The dim old forest where the children 60
nutting when the leaves are all aglow
Beneath the frostking's touch. Such merry routs
The little people tell Of thereabouts
And then the huskings and the apple-bees,
Tho pleasant picnics underneath the trees
what city belle can boast such joys as thesc'
But not outside the modest farmhouse dwells
Its sweetest charm that quiet rooftroc tells.
Ofloye and trust beneath its humble dome,
And all that glads aud sanctifcs home.
Here the good housewife plies her cheerful tasks
From morn to eve, nor gift nor guerdon asks
Save the sweet payment of her husbands smile
And Gods dear love and health and strength The
while.
Her rosy daughters, not too fine to soil
Their pretty fingers with the marks Of toll
With cheerful patience sew the heightened seam,
Prepare the meal or churn the yellow cream,
Or lead the todGlins baby that essays
Unequal steps about the household ways,
Or hasten t, the door when daylight fails
To unburden father" of his hrimmng pals.
Thrice happy man, thrice happy father he!
His smoking supper ready, on his Knee
The growing baby, and around his board
Health and content, he well may thank the Lord
Life has IT, trials, whatsoeer our lot;
But if there he, on Gods dear earth, one spot
Crowned more than others with His fivors lent
'Tis such home as this All sweet content
All peaceful, heavenly influences meet
To purify enrich and make it sweet.
Within, without around it and above,
Good thoughts like blessed angels. rove and love.
The very cattle, knee-deep in the brooks,
Have lessons for us in their patient looks
The silent hills low stretching far away
She shady holows with the lambs at play
In their cool bosoms, the rejoicing rills
The sobbing Of the lonely whip-poor.wills,
The misty glories Of the purpling morn,
The nights deep splendor when tho stars are horn,
The corn up-springng meath the sun and rain
The ripening fruitage and the nodding grain,
Tie changing seasons they come and co.
Winter. the pilgrim with his Golf Of snow,
Spring, the sweet channer, Summer all nhlaze
Meath the rich dover Of her meridian days,
And, best of all, glad Autumn, blithe and sweet,
LAYING her " aalth uncounted at our feet
Who living out his peaceful life among
Scenes such as these, more eloquent than tongue
Ofprest or prelatc who ifhe he wise
To learn the lessons set before his eyes
But shall imbihe the wisdom they mpart
And win the blessing of the pure in heart o.