Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-09-17

From early morn 10 dewy eve
Along the tide Of song,
Or muses., as her hands receive

she carols
From early morn 10 dewy eve
Along the tide OF song,
Or muses., as her hands receive
The tasks that ever throhg
Noted as an exemplary housewife at the
head Of small dairy aud busy among nu-
merous fowls end plants and trees, the
loved companion Of a true, progressive farmer
whose ready tongue aud pen aud hand ever
aid the cause of practical, scientific farming
growing deeper, sweeter, broader, drawing
Inspiration from bud and flower, bird and
tree, living two.fold life-one without in
in the practical, everyday world, another 10
the ideal world where imagination holds
queeuly sway over willing subjects, and
where the muses. are ever attendant guests.
May A. Hamlim ("Aunie May') lives in
the town Of jackson, but her post-offce is
Brooks. She has longer welded the pen
and wooed the muses., longer been treading
the pathway that leads on TO notoriety aud
fame at last. Grove Cottage, the place
of her residence where her parents have lived
for years, and the old homestead, aud where
now brother lives, is pleasantly situated in
quiet neighborhood about which are some
fiue scenery and lovely drives. Here the
hand Of taste and refinement is seen and the
out-cropping of poetical nature made man
ifest. ~
Bloom: there along tho hedges growing
Bright flowers In summer time,
Aud homeke Joys arc flowing
In richest, fullest prime.
Miss Hamlin's pen has traced stories from
real life as well as woven verses from heart
aud soul. Over her life there rests deep
religious cast aud all her writings have thi:
prominent in every part. Her heart goes
out in sympathy deep aud true for bereaved
and stricken ones, aud her pen is often EN-.
ployed in writing olegiac stanEas. We hope
to see, before many years, her writings pub
lished in book form. We are not at liberty
to give fuller details Of the subject Of ouI
sketch at present, but with her consent, may
at some future time.
"Lura Bell" halls from Industry, Maine
and her name is Miss Ida May WilliamsoR
She is truly precocious beyond her years
Her poems have reach and grasp, an orig
inality far beyond the age of "sweet six
teen" We well remember when, as editor
Of well-known paper, we solicited her COZ.
tributions and were surprised to learn Of he
tender years, We regret her delicate health
but God is good. He has given her harl
with golden chords that rings richer notes
than the most exuberant health without it
God always compensates and always Attic
in love and for our good. h.."
From bruised flowers the richest charms
0ffragrance 0ften swell
From the afflicted ones OF Garth
The richest notes on we'll
We have watched for several years b.
her productions the unfolding of this swee
singers powers just as we watch that o
somefavorite bird or flower.
"May Il. Bean" Of Thorndike, Maine
whose post-ofhce is Troy, lives in the FIRE,
broad, open country and is one of the swec
young poetesses Of the land, precocious also
like "Lura Bell" older in head and hear
than her years, and yet to develop to fuller
depths and grander heights. The future
open before her, and with her hand in His VIII
eadeth the way and leaning on the lovin
arm of Christ, who may predict, or dar
prophesy2 Time, the silent watchman, wi
note 1t all and record it on the books of etc
nifty.