Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-06-27
A REVELATION BY FIRE.
Read at the meeting OF sagudahoc Pomona Grange,
at Bowdon
BY MRS. VI. W. HINCkLEY.

W nm sturdy hlhd oi Pride.
To be man alive to ali
The Interests nf life,
| tell YOU 'tisn't play nj all,
6ut the toughest kind Of strife.
To keep the weeds Of selii-hness
From CROWN in Vour heart
And crowdin out the kndliness
That Is the better part
You'll own man needs money
10 make his plannins 'go,'
And In this quiet little town
It comes 40 awful slow,
That men grow old afort their time
With hhrdship-. carr and tpii
For these alone wrest money
From our worn New England soil.
when all the powers of hand and brain
Are taxed to reach one goal
That purposp, whether rood or Ill,
soon get- complete control
of all th- man, unless within
Love reigns Hs king -
Gods love, which makes of human toll
A grand and noble thing
You know my friends. did not spare
Myself in any sense,
cgardin' rs Of small account
All Mort, all expense.
~ mind or muscle that could tend
To make nv castle stand.
This castle" in my constant thought
Was that my bit of land
should give the biggest yield Of crops
And pay the best per cent,
Aud Justify, with heavy sheayrs,
The care aud labor spent.
III. kind o strange, I've sometimes tho't
That men should have such fear
To try new management new stock,
Or amy new idea--
II Is not always siupldness,
Nor Incidence, nor greed.
But our ingrained conservatism,
Or prudence" gone to seed,
That keeps us in the olden ruts
That marked our fathers days;-
Well, there Is now wide difference
'rwiki them and modern ways.
Sometimes | heard of heights attained
And wealth rolled in on Western lands.
steady f1win tide.
didn't care,-my plans worked well,
prospered none the less,
And in good time men ceased to talk
Aud honOred my success
thought my hardest work was past
And began to see
MY prospects CROWN brighter
And to feel somewhat more free
From the press of anxiou, thought, and cares
That novel ways entail.
For farmer born NltH aHkff lttith
l. ashamed of that word fdA.
We need the healthful stimulus
uf fellowship with friends.
And If, with wit and wisdom,
A little nonsense blends
The laugh awakened by its touch,
80 priests and sayauts talk,
Clears up the mental atmosphere
Like an electric shock.
While thinkin somethin Of this sort
| dressed myself with care
To ioiu my neighbors when there came
A cry upon the air,
A warnin' cry-quics trampin' feet
A baze-s wild upruHri
How quick those men came
How they fought that mighty swirHn tower
of fame. that hissed and cracked
Gone SO much OF hard earned gain
\ Friend until you ace such ashes
| You can't underst9nd the pain
And sore encouragement that fell,
| Like shadows Of the night,
| over this little Bowdoin farm
| That seemed before SO bright.
didn't let my losses
Nske me whine At adverse fate,
| And talk the stuff we sometimes hear
| Bout bea min life TOO late,
inu, nu -, ~ 80. ~ IN, FAR Wet
| Whars ra,xard for work come. quicker
And I thought il might De best
hN,,. IN Start again.
And trv nv hand with Western men
| A. rai-in' corn and grais.
when nearIn' life. meridian
! Or staudn' af its height,
| Though all the outspread vista
1 4 ssxs frhf
II i"'- -
W., baye climbed the rugged steep.
| yr. -, Ne rnn.t move onward
T,,,a-i th. right where -ha,iov. deem
lrrSsh ,oiiax. tha ehast.ntn' rod
Itsins amman soul. look outward