The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-06-25
Narrow Gauge.

The other road : different route,
And very rough's the way at first,
While all on board must help to start,
To pay their way-thcre il no trust.
But sweets the thought of passage bought
by faithful labor of the hands,
TO dazzling fame or fortune traught
with JOY To those of glileless hearts.
Through rugged mountains, chill and cold,
From side to side the train Is lurched,
And fearless they must he and bold
Who courage have to wait and work,
For now and then the train must halt
At Laborstown TO take on wood,
For water, too, at Thriyewell Mount,
Where It's plenty, pure and good.
The seats are rough, and hurt your bones;
Grim Old Tolls the conductors name;
The clothes. he wears he also owns,
And has no creditors with claims
To dog his footsteps every hour
And stamp him as villain dark,
Nor cries arising from the poor,
Defrauded of their honest work.
Labor's the common lot of man,
blessing to the fallen race;
II soothes the mind and nerves the hand,
Gives inward quiet, JOY and peace;
The merchant DER his ledger bent,
Mechanic, husbandman and all,
III occupation find content
Unknown to Top or idle swell.
And he who shirks and scorns to work
Stands ready in temptations way;
He's chosen for his deadly mark,
And doomed to fall beneath her sway;
The downward road is early trod,
And ready waits the aspen foe;
Where toll is not nor aborers plod
There weeds and thistles rankly grow.
But here the way becomes more smooth;
The fields are neat, and careful TILED,
And hocks and herds all quiet browse
Within the heath or fragrant lea;
OF fruits there's plenty and to spare
10 tempt the traveller 10y the way
TO gladly halt a single hour
Beneath the pleasant shady tree.
As last looms up division number two,
With tall church spires towering high,
Gittering, golden, bright and new,
Aglow from summers MONDAY sky.
DIVISION NO. II.
Oh, wondrous is this city old
a time rs old, yet ever new;
With ample trea-ure-house of gold,
Aud many other things TO WOO.
',fis called honorable by name,
And those who get safe through TO here
Ride straight through 10 certain fame;
Ute sure 70 come and naught to fear.
fount here Is of knowledge called,
The waters free for all TO drink;
4 makes not drunk, but wiser still:
Happiness hovers round the brink,
And gives welcome unto those
Who, weary, halt upon the brink,
TO seek the joy that surely flows
To all who hither come TO drink.
The change in roads greater one
Than such rs giddy fairies make
BY turn of hand, or wave or wand,
Before the seepers stir OF wake;
Grim toll 10 look upon is now
More pleasant and more comedy clad;
He's many friends, and trusted too,
n no smiling are and merry glad.
In the dimly-outlned distance
Stands the city not built with hands,
B,ighty lighted 10y the presence
OF him who trod these earthly lands.
The pearl gates and golden wall,
Aud glitteriug mansions for the blest;
The feeble tongue can never tell
The glores of this place Of rest.
Then early seek in tender years
The road of labor and OF love;
Though rough &C frat the way appears,
II leads to heaven, home above.
Life l. the measure of span,
And If i'm vanity It's spent
Youth never, never comes again,
There's left a blotted, worthless blank.
CEDE NE MAILS.
in Thy youthful days remember,
H. the springtime of thy life,
Ere comes the burning sun of summer,
Aud the mondays toll and strife,
That each day Of life AZ measured
Must with miser's care be treasured
n you Won strive To- make name,
COR even dare TO ask for fame.
Along youths pathway are the founts
That cease'e ss flow from out the mounts
Ger naiads' feet all white and bare,
That watchful guard the treasures rare;