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 132 • LAWYEES AND POLITICIANS.

I've watched you when departing day

Shed o'er your forms a softer ray,

Empurpling all your verdure o'er

With richer hues than e'er before;

Then touching quick your peaks with gold,

Too glorious, made you to behold.

I've loved you when the moon's mild beams Shed lights and shades on hills and streams, Too strange, mysterious, dark and'bright, For realms designed for human sight; In silence then, I've stood amazed, And lost to all but you have gazed.

New Hampshire hills ! New Hampshire hills ! The sight of you my spirit fills With raptures such as minstrels feel, When at the shrine of love they kneel, And all aglow with poet's tire, Strike with delight the living lyre.

New Hampshire hills ! New Hampshire hills ! Sweet peace and health your air distills, As fresh as when the earth was new, And all the world was good and true; Emblems, ye are of royal state; Majestic hills, bold, grand and great.

New Hampshire hills ! New Hampshire hills !

Your presence every passion stills,

And hushed to peace I long to pass

Far up your heights of lovliness,

And stand, the world beneath my feet,

There earth and heaven enraptuied meet.

��LAWYEES AND POLITICIANS.

��BY HENRY KOBINSON.

A writer upon " Men and their Profes- ly with knowledge as by Cheek:'' Imag-

sions," in the Granite Monthly for ine the modest writer before the seven

October hist, assumes to slur lawyers, able and erudite judges, who constitute

Defence is unnecessary, yet we venture the august tribunal of the highest court

a few suggestions in their behalf. Had of our own State, or before the Supreme

his ungenerous insinuations been couched Bench of the United States, giving vent

in more respectful language, they might to such a sentiment ! We would call his

have been worthy of more considerate attention to the history of his country,

notice. With an air of authority, he wherein he may learn that from the ranks

summarily denounces lawyers in general of the legal profession have come our

as "Meu who are not burdened so heavi- leading statesmen, our most gifted ora-

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