Volume 2.— Number 10
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mmt Volume 2.— Number 10. FALLS VILLAGE, CONN. SATURDAY, MARCH ^ 1858. One Dollar Per Year, in Advance, For the Housatonic Republican. ground that might be planted to cabbages Opening Ode. Came to sight a radiant image perfect then While yet Virginia’s gifted sons prolong. Danger ot Relaxing Parental Selections From “ The Tokan of or potatoes, don’t scold—d-o-n--t. and purified. In thoughtful eloquence->and lyric song. Fur the Inaus'iirntinn nj Crnv'fnrd's Equestrian Resti^aint. th e D ale.” Thus through trials yet intenser and a more The fond ascriptions of a nation’s praise,' atatiUe of Washington. Which my too feeble voico attempts to raise? We wer« lomowhat interpited and amused Forget Thee! refining blaze A very large proportion of criminal ot- ’Tis that we here in gratitude renew fenders are young men and boys—the ■pon reading the LHkevilie comm'unication By JOHN R. THOMPSON. Passed our hero, pure and scatheless in the Forget thee ! how can I forget, when still The patroit vows to c'^untry ever due. proper subjects of parental discipline and I think of thee as yet Revolution’s days. of Prez.publiihed iu the Republican of Feb. And on this holy altar firmly swt>ar restraint. Many ot them belong to faii.il- 2 0 th ; the influence of which example hai I’ve often thought, since last wo met To Horse and rider, decked with garlands, now The blessed compact never to impair gether. in lengthened jubilee ies of reputable character. 'Ihe ruin they resulted in the compiling of this contribu Virginians ! here, with cannon’s deafening Which the Republic’s fathers gave, to prove roar Journey through tho pleasant Rhineland The boundless wealth of their undying love. have brought upon themselves, and the tion. Forget thee! many years may roll, aud trouble and the disgrace they hhv* inflict sorrow oft may grieve my soul ; And joyous throb of drum. onward to the Zuyder Zee, As when a planet, first in motion wheeled, Be it herebj known to all interested that ed upon their friends, might have been pre And troubles I cannot control, ere I forget. From mountain gorge and from Atlantic’s Under quaint and leaning gables stops at In placid circles sweeps creation’s field. tbs Rocky Daleites, also, hare a large and shore, Nor tumult causes there, nor haply fears vented by training them to habits of obe- The smile you gave when last we met. that last tho ponderous main. fl>urishing Reading Sooietj, which week This hallowed day we come. Where the dykes of Holland’s seaport back The angry jarring of its sister spheres. dience and accountability. So long as beaming face, can I forget ? But moves forever on its destined way. children remain dependent, they may be ly m«ets for the mutua' entertaiument and Those joyous words, I h**ar them yet, hear ward hurl tho angry main. ’Tisoneof Freedom’s Sabbaths; and we In liquid music with benignant ray ; restrained. The parent neglects his duty, instruction of its members. Oi>c« in two them still. give Everywheretheyouths and maidens throng So mt.y each added star, that makes in turn who refrains fiom exercising <uthowtj.j Xresks a number of Its paper. The Token And would ■« ou have me all forget, the time, The time to Freedom’s praise. ed to see it moving by. Our consteliated .dories brighter burn i As liere in bronze that almost seems to live. Gray hairedsires and matrons cheered it on Drop silently into its ordered phico There is no diffieuIt^H|^|^eertHinin^" v f (he Dale, id riiad. a few random eitraots the placc when last we m et; where children spend their^jj^' »nd how Our hero’s form we raise. its joyous way —and why 1 T 4» run its radiant and unpausiiig race; from it we present below. Those scenes, say, shall I them forget they occupy themselves, forever ? Blessing aud blest, ’gainst every shock se •they are It ban bo<-n suggested to as, that the 0 ! it is well! that glorious form should ’Twas that, men of every nation, in our engaged in mischief. If I WAsuiNGTON’iS career. cure. ,eep secret '**Lake ViUians «uy have greater caute for Or shail I leftve in mem’ry’s hall a bright grace Through time’s revoling cycles to endure. their haunts and their doin: is com- remembrance of them all ? Our own Capitoline— See their own commanding hero yet more th« cultivation of their minds and hearis, Till, like Ori n’s belt. our ensign’s bars monly because they are of then;, I think 1 may, I think I tihall remember. Henceforth to all a coiisentrated place gloiiou-ly appear. than their hoot heels ; be thid &» it may,the Shall Idaze with counties multitudes ot stars. It is in respect to their out goings, thi t That holds u sacred shriue. William’s calm and silent courage, Tell’s Their mingled light into one he.lo thrown. Rocky Daleites piofoss to such a proficien- paren^l vigilance is chiefly demanded.— The Poetry of Nature. The pomp of pennons, Bcarfs and tossing iitperious hate of wrong. But each a planet dazzling when alone! oy in the culture of the former, as to ena Dwelt within aud fired his nature large and W hat attracts them away from home, and plumes But Time, alas ! still crumbles into dust ble them to profitably devote a small por There is a visible consonance in all of resolute and strong. what they do when abroad, is what the pf - the vast expanse of Nature, a rhyme of Is fitly here displayed. The brazen column and the- marble bust. rent is most interested in knowing.— tion of their time to the development of Scattering the tints of summer’s richest Yes, and there Rienzi’s passion grander- unity and a beauty ol harmony, that is Dashes the image from i^s pedestal Through associations formed and habiis their understandings.—E ditor T oken blooms statured owned control And weaves for mighty States the funeral ever presented to us in streams of the most contracted in evening hours, for which th« Rocky Dale, Canaan. March 1. 1858. Upon the bright parade Unto Hampden’s lofty virtues regnant firm pall, • exhalted poetry. It appeals to our sights, ly in his soul. Thus tho proud statue that we rear in absence of a supervisory influenc- affords to our hearts and our minds; and its ex Aud worthy is it that with noble speech bronze opportunity, young men are led astray.— Which glows with vital power. Therefore ’twas, the fair haired children of To supply the extravagances of dissipation All Thing's Fade. pressions are the basis from which arise all the ancient Father Rhino And wreath to-day with Freedom’s confa- emanations of true poetry, its theme is The laurel-crowned orator should teach lons. they »*re tempted to gamble and to steal.— ♦ The grandeur of the hour. Gratefully around his statue freshest roses The fairest things of earth must fade. the Universe ; and its lines and stanzas are May moulder into ruin, when the State There is no propriety in trtlowing children And pass away from view; would entwine: indelibly impre^8ed upon every part of its While yet in reverent mo^d the poet brings, Which gave it birth, is waste and desolate. while acquiring an education, to be without Friendd in the silent tomb are laid, Amid tho brilliant tluoii". Therefore ’twas tho honest Flemings deem But truth uninj.ired shall forever stand the circumsf ection of parent or teacher.— The faithful, tried aud true. expansive and varied whole. ed tho bark that bore it blest. What ho would never give to flatter Kings, And deathless mind can mock tho spoiler’s When past that period of life, they are safs The lofty mountain; whose rugged Fading o’er tho watery azure, sailing down hand. His modest meed of aoug. only in sums regular and respectable em The biighteHt hopes of early youth brow is garnished by a drapery of chang tho crimson West, And so wherever Law .«ball build its fume Have quickly passed away, ing vapors ; whose rock ribbed sides are ployment. Not queonl}'Athens, from the breezy height Now for us wl.o claim to lovo him with a And Learning push its humanizing reign— And we have learned the bitter truth half cuncenled beneath a mnss of mottled Where ivory Pallas stood. Whenever o’er tho future’s misty seas idleness, is vice. YoiAg men should be That all mu;st soun decay. fonder, dearer love. brought up to feel, that next lo the infamy verdure, amongst ^ which sparkling rills are As flowed along her streets in vestures Upon whou# ho yet may scatter benedic Men shall revere the name of Socrates. coursing like tra ispareut veins of brijfht- white And generous youth with rupture dwell up of criine. is the disgrace of dependence.— The little flower that lifts its head tions from above ; iiess; is a perfectly embodifd ode of The cliorul multitude— on A genteel vagabond, has no more signific To driuk the falling dww. Us, who tread the soil his footsteps made The shining pa^e which tells of Marathon— ance in (he community than the (»>mmon- Sinks urooping on its luwly bod strength ; and it speaks to us of po«er,and Not regal Rome, when wide her bugles forever holy givund Into what climt>s remote the sacred urk est vagrant.