Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1881-06-08
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TalIEs 0OIHg EAsT,

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One Of the most beautiful poems ever
written by Mr., Charles e. Eastman
former editor of this paper, Is tho
ono viii, the aboyc tile, the full text
Of whlcl, we.'prlat below II Is known
to some Of our readers, probably mol
all, that this incident, 10 admirably de-
scrlbcd was, ~ tho slory-lcllcr' say
founded on fact. The little heroine
was the late Mrs, Slockwcll, 0f liar'
uard, whose death last winter was 50
much lamcntcd, aud the "Grandiathef
was the father Of the venerable JAsrRH
CLARKE, who still lives Oh the homc'
stead where the incident occurred, In
his younger days Mr., Eastman WAS
for u brief period, n member Of Mr.
Clarkc's family, aud il was At that time
10 witnessed what lc has made the
theme Of u beautiful little poem, The
tradition Is, that Il was written under
tho shadow Of u ihvorilc appe'irce
standing on little knoll 1t the foot OF
which runs II "trotling brook, aud
near the home Of those whose liic-likc
picture has been 50 admirably brought
before US. II was set 10 music by Mr..
lcycrctt A. Lull, who was for II long
. time teacher Of music among Us, aud
who died few years since NJ Dubuque,
Iowa. Mr.. Mcadcr, of Boston, who.
in his day, was II popular song'wr''cr
also, wrote some fine music for it,
Both these pieces were Published IN
Boston, and, at the time, had IN cN.
tcnsiyc sale. Mr.. Lull also. wrote the
music for another Of Mr.. EaStman's
poems, "Praycr for II sick Child,'
beginning with, "Sparc the sufferer
cruel PAIN" in which the sentiment OF
the poem was admirably rendered by
the music, and which was very dcscrv-
edly popular. We hope that the "mcn
singers and women singers Of the
present day will not, for the sake of
the authors, il for no other reason. en-
tircly forget these beautiful com.
positions:
The farmer sat In his easy chair
Smoking his Pipe OF clay,
While his hale old wife with busy caro-
Was clearing the dinner away;
A sweet little girl with fine blue eyes
On her erandiather'u knee was catching flies.
The old man laid his hand on her head,
With tear on his wrlnkled face,
lie thought how often her mother, dead,
Used to tit in the selr-samc place
As the tear stole down from his halfshut eye,
"Dont smoke !" said the child, "how 1t makes
ypa cry y
The house dog lay, stretched out OH the floor
Where Il shade after noon used to steal,
The busy old wife by the open door
Was turning the spinning wheel,
And the old brass clock on the mantletrce
Had plodded along to almost three.
Still the farmer sat in his easy chair
While close to his heaving breast
The mostened brow and the cheek 40 fair
or his sweet grandchild were pressed
His head. bent down, on her soft hair lay:
Fast asleep we're they both, that summer day !!
John II. Marsh. who has suffered
some time from disease of the brain,
died Tuesday forenoon, aged Al yester-
day. He was a highly esteemed young
man. one of the hest musicians aud his
death IL greatly lamented by all who
knew him.
Our Rutland locals will be found in
teresting this week.
The poet Burns says that "Man's
inhumanity to man makes countless
millions MOURN" but mans inhuman-
stY 10 u child is worse, A brute OF Il
father, in good standing in the NJ f..
church, like the old Indian, pious like
H., no doubt-(we omit name and
hope he will do better,) logged his
little boy four years old on the legs and
feet with a heavy horse whip. most
numerically in the street the other
day, for the trivial offence of going out
of u store when he told him not to
There was nobody near him at the
time. and those who witnessed it at a
distance say it was the most outrage
Gus attack on youth and innocence they
had ever witnessed, and had they been
near enough they would have knocked
the brute over,
The potato bug is awful mad at IL:
because we did not plant our garden
earlier. He had 10 move his family
but he says he wont forget to visit us
by and by and bring some of his stock
Frost Monday and Tuesday nights
Tuesday morning vegetation looked
. sorry enough. Bean leaves as big as {
mo,ise's ear were frozen as stiff as al
inch board,
The Belfast (Me.) Republican Jour
nal says Blaine first used the wore
rStalwart'' In speaking of certain
Republicans. Now will somebody tel
us who first used the phrase ''hal