Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-03-28
MATILDA, ON THE PROPOSED NEW RAILWAY

MATILDA, ON THE PROPOSED NEW RAILWAY.
by REV. ALFRED j. HoUGH
lead at public entertainment given by the Ladies Society the Mo
church, in the Town Hail. Woodstock Friday evening" March 49, 1888
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He wanted it, should be point II any lease they made
That Rutland must be reached last be laid
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To. Send the u business by doors
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yet with these advantages and others Just as fine
Ifthere earth to-day lay this railway bed
ia lease the road town snow and all and etem ahead.
and Plymouth h vanderbilt with gold
III had power ia make the sacrifice
Now, Ebenezer felt the and then
s1, nsss w gss oks says he are bold they'll
We shan sleep, living, worth dead,
To have train OF cars each hour rafting head.
5n %s .. s s.a Ss folks bound
Idke grave old Mount Tom, away everywhere,
hem, thOsec ycpm huldu
h most an "a service theirs judge them by their
II that new fapsed line laid twill through my yard
There blessed hen s will ~' e se d %n to- night and day
succeeds my Gays at once are numbered meath the
Sherwn has told me more than this habit will supply
ad t and yinf back nto @y ehs
a train of cars will start three feet into the air.
10 suffer such shock with fast declining powers,
rwi. break constitution down eight forty hours
Inc words the common er book has are just the words
las twas In the beginning, now, shall be-"
1t seemed that years had passed away aeange ALL
about me there was little left could familiar call
80 strange and new all things appeared asked what could
t 1G hg E d e,e INNS once was Woodstock Green
North South East West the buildings growing every hour"
Below the BY overhead the wires
LII Like net work hung and brought distant cline
heard the sound ofhyng wheels heard the engines
shouted 'hey have leased the rod!' shouted my dream!
South Woodstock, through the builders hills
From Bridgewater the straight Qaechee
Were covered with fine villas, built style;
With councillors aldermen-his worshipfu, a mayor
MONTPELIER fairly beaten BY our thrift with modest
S s5en reign of . away the streets and night
No real estate mortgage bore, dollar owed,
And all the about 0 that road!
With euoyant STEP gold headed boards vercd locks
The city fathers met each morn learn the price stocks
the Morn Aoe2"