The Republican journal., 1909-09-02
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On plank seats with feet IN the snow, to
De detected again; then, on the high
beams, in hogshead half full Of oats, in
Baron Ferdinand's barn; but when the
Baron came to pitch down hay for his
cattles' night feed he verify thought a
swarm of bees had thawed out in Janu-
airy, and swarmed into the hogshead. So
ne cautiously crept up, braced himself
against kingpost, and with vigorous
push upset the cask.
"Then issued thence tragic roar.
Both oats and cards fell through the floor,
And scattered in the barn below,
A sight for mingled mirth and woe,
The fowls made supper on the grain;
The cards went to the wind and rain.
Proclaiming wide in all the Dale,
The red and black and spotted tale"
The President closed by reading his
first Canto, ''The Falling Stars" that
! he read in the first meeting Of the Club
twenty years ago. It related to four
boys in their teens, who, on the night of
November 18th in 1867 watched for q
predicted shower of meteors:
"All four were knights in form and face
Wed valor and conscious grace
And fain am l to mention yet
That Warren was Banneret."
"The clock struck ten when Sirs Warren
And Franklin climbed the tower for sleen
Sirs Charles and George the watch would keen
Two hours, then wake them up again.
To watchers time ne'er droned SO slow.
To sleepers ne'er it went so fast,
Till sudden on the stair below
Sounded the Wakeninp trllmpet hlast
NOW sleepers turn 1t was to watch,
And watchers turn it was to sleep
Two hours, unless should sooner burn
The meteors in the aerial deep
But the twain watchers, doughty men.
With hair unkempt from late in bed
Soon as the clock marked minutes ten,
Stole to the stairs with catlike tread,
And listened to the sounds that rose
Indicative of rapt repose
Then Franklin set the clock at two
And Warren loud the trumpet blew,
And Charles and George devoted men,
Took up their faithful watch again.
fastened to bed the willy knights,
Drew close the wraps, put out the lights,
But Warren S laughter, unsurpassed
Suspicion reused in mighty zest.'
The other two rushed up, Franklin es-
capped by the parapet, but Warren stuck
to the featherbed, and took rough ride
down the steep and winding stairs.
80, Jupiter, thou planet bright,
No stars fell for the livelong night;
But Warren swears cen to this hour
He saw them fall perfect shower"
At the close a social hour was passed
talking oldtime memories, and confec-
lions were served
August in the Dale showed both green
and brown, the July rains having held in
spots, while others showed the effect Of
drought, which was broken by showers
the 8th and 9Th
The people of the Dale have the thrift,
moral fibre, and genial hospitality that
came to them as rich inheritance from
their fathers and mothers, who settled
the Dale of the Georges, with it's exquis-
lite charms, its incompatible beauties.
If the reader has never noted them, 90
for once and see. But the ethical and
spiritual beauties of any community
must always transcend the natural, if
true grace abounds; and therein, how
rich was the inheritance, how sturdy the
character. which in the face of all dogma
and no dogma proved that the affirma-
tons of the soul and the logic of life are
our final pronouhcements, our Vatican
DEGREES, from which there is no appeal;
for they are one with the Utmost nature
of things HARBRAIN.
Boston, August 49, '09.