ohio cultivator

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 Excerpt: ...tops and the bowers, Miss the odor-wafting wind. This is not the same old carpet Upon which we danced at night, These are not the time-worn curtains Which shut out the summer light. All is changed, e'en to the table, Where 1 scribbled rhymes of old, That was cherry, this is marble--Ah! 't is marble, hard and cold. This soft seat of yielding cushion, This is not my worn old chair Where 1 rocked my babes to slumber With a mother's patient care. But 1 will not sigh in sadness, Will not let my heart grow cold, Soon 'twill throb again with gladness, Soon these new things will be old. Kind and genial hearts are hov'ring O'er life's pathway everywhere, They will come and render sacred, Carpet, curtain, table, chair. Flowers of love will spring in beauty To my fancy on the street, If the dusty paths are trodden Daily by familiar feet. If I scatter seeds of kindness Here and there, as best 1 may, Roses fragrant as the old ones Soon will cheer the lonely way. Home so loved--old friends so treasured Half my heart I '11 give to you. Half I '11 keep in good condition. Warm and lighted for the new. 1 may drop a tear of sorrow For the past--the far away, While I m pilfering from to-morrow, Smiles and sunshines for to-day. I THE TEMPEEAJICE QUESTION. Among the readers of the Cultivator, I wish to return thanks for the Ladies' Corner, that I may harp a little more on the Temperance question. Some two months since Cousin Gertrude asked, "What shall we do for the cause!" "In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thy hand," and mayhap we may reap as rich a harvest, as the husbandman who rises with the lark, and plows and sows with hope. To him I must talk, for he holds in his hands the power that shall crush our ardent hopes, or help to ...