Connecticut western news., 1876-08-18


 lN E. Puritan, Boston, Sept. IS, 1s44l Let others praise their native land and streams
 and air, Their soaring mountains. shady groves and Yal-
 leys fair, The clouds that spread their glorious grandeur
 o'er the skies, When pature's opening wonders charm'd their
 infant eyes; Let them extol the rock and Till, The meadows sweet, the verdsnt hill, Where first they walked to life and joy And pleasures yet knew no alloy But what are all the sweets, these varied scenes
 combine, Compared with my home! There ne'er was home
 like mine. Tahcanica bold and fair, the torrent from thy
 sides My cradle slumbers sooth'd, where memory still
 abides. The breezes from thy brow oft played among my
 locks. Thy clouds made solemn music with their thunder
 shocks; And at thy feet ran that pure brook Where erst piled the tempting hook, And on whose brink the violet blue, The cowslip and the lily grew. There still hear the birds, in gladest anthems join.
 like mine. "Black Rock''+ rears his wall in majesty on high, With moss grown, changeless face against the
 Eastern sky; There Bear Mount dark, his crest with shaggy
 pines arrays, And Bald Peaks OCT the hills the royal head dis
 plays Thy crown of honey-suckles gay Gives sweetness to the breath of May, Thy billowy showers send forth their voice. And bid the plains below rejoice. Name not the Alps, where dazzling glaciers
 shine, Nor scotias Highlands famed-thefe ne'r was
 home like mine. Were ever woods so green before the eyes out
 spread. As those thro' which I strayed, in winding path
 way lsd2 Were waters e'er so pure, as bubbles from the
 spring Beneath the oozy bank, where willows spread
 their wingl Did e'er heart such rapture feel, As into this were wont to steal, When boyhood's prime illumined each scene. And earth put on her bridal greeni Let others sing of their ''sweet home'-a halow-
 ed shrine Vain songi my heart replies-there ne'er was
 home like mine. Te welded lakes bright Washinee and Washi-
 ningig With glittering strait between your beauties
 would sing, And thine, Mount Eschol,T mirrored from yon Whose shady, pebbly base, ripPling eddy laYes "Fair BeEkshire,' with thy hills and plains, Where peace abidss and plenty reignB, Thy landscape near my native seat, Lies sweetly smiling at my feet. No land of song where grow the olive and the
 vine, Can tempt my feet to roam-there ne'er was home
 like mine. Ny homei ohI there fathers ceaseless love l
 shared, Hove that time and change and distance ns'er
 Impaired. Ny hemeI Dear mother, thHssoft smile. thy sooth-
 ing voice Dwell in this heart-these Rade that heart fire.
 glow with joys; From thee learned the word of truth, To fear the Lord in early youth, And "Songs Divine'' of holy Watts By thee was stored in my young thoughts. Ol father, mother, pardon this poor, feeble line, That can but faintly hsp-there ne'er was home
 like mine. But, ol ys loved ones, how l wrong your blessed
 names, While from on high the sacred oracle proclaims Arise, depart ye hence-in Heaven your treasure
 ies"- Your voice hear in accents mild; "Can not that home, mistaken child, Where sin and pain and death are found. And sorrows' tears bedew the ground; To this far better land aspire-no more repine; Come to OUR HOME, then sing-there neer wal
 home like mine.'
 $Tahconic. An elevated mountain range upor me Meste5n boundary of ofsslisbury, Conn.,. extend ing into Berkshire Co.,. Mass. .,fblack Rock" A dark perpendicular cliff il the mou ntaiR alluded to before
 4bear Mount and SBald Peak. Two of the high highest in the range, and seen from inc Elm Vii lage" of Great Harrington
 lWashinee and Washining. Indian name of tn Salisbury, Conn. Mount Eschol. high hill upon the wester border of the largest lake, distinguished when th iowa was surveyed for she quantity of wild grape growing upon it: named by the commissioners C chol.
 SKELETON IN PLYMOUTH CMuRcH.-DI Bacon expressed his firm conviction ths