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While breezes fan the tresses from the face Of one unrivaled, with the wondrous eyes. — Those searching eyes deep in his rocky face. Those eyes unraelting yet "mid storm and sun Of centuries, participant in peace. The all-beholder of triumphant war. The cool recesses 'neath thy clasping trees Have sheltered many a red-man, and thy rocks Were crumbled by the feet of harmful beast. Ere yet the mightier tread of slow-paced Time Left imprint, answering our searching eyes. Now all the cloistered silence yields in burst Of childish voices vocal in the air. And infant fingers toy with crumbling towers Prone to the earth crushed in a million gems.


 * * * * j n j; W eet uncertainty we climb the steeps,

Our pathway unimpressed by frequent feet,

Tinging the way with romance of a doubt

If at the end we reach the mocking height.

X01 clustering branch, nor rocks environing

Vouchsafe a shadow of the rare unseen.

Never did ancient seer for promised land.

Yearn with such sad. regretful eyes, as we

Who sigh for such a paradise withheld.

But soon the favoring breezes grant our grief

A res] lite, in the rarer gust that breaks

The long defile of green, and straightway thro'

Shimmers the sunlight hem of vista-dells,

And fragmentary lakes and river-gleams.

These momentary heavens (as it were)

Make earth less hard and stubborn in our haste

To conquer it. and gain the goal aloft

Which we aspire. The music of a fount

Falls in delicious coolness o'er the way ;

Our hope renewed in draught miraculous.

We follow on, each step one nearer heaven.

Clear-picturing, meseems. the way of life To time-worn mortals, and the blest reward, Surely if aught on earth illustrates heaven. Behold it. while from either side — the skies. The earth, the weary way we trod, are new, — Re-glorified to our unbounded sight — Our sight so long regretful — satisfied!

Sanbornton, N. H.

��THE FIRST NEWSPAPER OF AMERICA.

��BY L. W. DODGE.

In the Granite Monthly for No- An introductory paragraph closes vember appears an article from the thus: "Of these (newspapers) seven- pen of Mary R. P. Hatch, with the ty-one were published in New Hamp- above heading. shire, and all are the outgrowth of the

It is an interesting article upon an New Hampshire Gazette, published by

interesting subject, but therein crept Daniel Fowle, of Portsmouth, in the

some errors, which the writer thereof year 1756, and which was the first

should be thankful to have corrected. American newspaper." Also, in clos-

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