Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-02-04

on Iovments and uses OF n broad and
liberal education are lost, because never
acquired; the heart and the mind are
oyerrun with the hasty and abundant
weeds OF ignorance and vice, because the
flowers that should grace and bcadiiiy
the ganien OF the soul are rooted out
and the graces and amenities Of lie are
sacrinced FOR the brilliant and gliuef'nG
veneer Of "A falls. and empty social polish
that Is put on with the paint and powder
that uglify their faces. and the gloss
and deceits that make hidsous their char
acters. Instead OF building In the country
where health and strength shall be the
heritage Of their children, and beauty ana
Drawn shall come to and abide with them
as an excellence and power all their ives
they pen themselves and their dear ones
IN In the cities OF the land, where death
and pollution stalk IN the daytime. and IN
the night season. and in the pestilsnce and
famine. and In the dark mlserfes and the
rneretricious pleasures OF the people who
are all striving 10 Keep up appearances.
Thee things need reformation. We
should return TO the simple and natural
system VI our fathers. We should fol-
low the dictates Of our hearts, which are
confirmed by the reasons OF our heads.
We should make our homes the dearest
ana the ffNlEL NIlFf4NiitTa Dldif1 Blt ftiA ~
thu temples Of our bodies and our souls
so that around their sacred affairs the
best and the most glorious OF all that T.
In ms may burgeon out into the fruits or
good living. and that efTiorescence Of the
mind and the heart which gives 20 the
home It's perfume. and 10 the world it,
beauty. We should make our children
our comranions and give them strength
and vigor Of mind and heart by example
and precep'. and by the comforting ana
haliowed influences Of home-life.
PROPER ACCOMPANIMENT.
The following poem from one Of the
most graceful and tender Of England
p0ets-a poet whose song and feryor -
uttcrance and feeling, linked with music
whose sweetness shall never def too
often forgotten, l. a proper accompani-
mont % these reflections. and inter
minglng with the graver ana more serious
thoughts and considerations that are eN-
pressed in this paper. may have a power
90 inrre 1853 while they delight. expresses
for the people Of old England. the
thoughts and opinions that should live
win and color our lives and medltations'
with their beauty and truth:
The stately homes OF England,
How beautiful they stand.
Amidst their tall ancestral trees,
DER all the pleasant laudi
The deer across their gre~aeT1rl bound.
Through shade and sunny CLEAN.
And the swan gldes past them with The
OF some rejoicing stream.
Tho merry homes Of England
Around their hearths hy night.
What gladstone looks of household love
Meet I'm the ruddy lirhti
There Womans voice flows forth in song
or chillhood's tale IL told.
or lips move tunefully along
Some glorious page az OLD
The blessed homes ~ Fnellrl,
How softly on their bowers
l. laid the holy duietness
That brrathes from Sabbath hours
Solemn. yet sweet. the church-hells' chime
Fl01ts through their woods ~ morn.
Al other sounds I'm that still time
or breeze AMI Leaf are bonn.
The cottage homes ~ ENGLAND,
By thousands ON her plains
They are smiling DER the silver brooks
And around the hamlet fanes;
Through growing orchards forth they
Each nom fits nook Of leaves.
AMI fearless there they loWiv slHep,
As tn birds beneath their caves.
The free. fair homes az England,
Long long. in hut and han
Nav hearts Of native proof lc reared
To guard each h1lloWtd wall,
Aud free forever 3D. thu groves
Nnl bright tine hoWery sod.
Nncr" first the chiil'S glad spirit loves
Its country AMI its Cody
DAVID l.. PULtItM
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