THE NEW Y 273550 ASTOR L 1902 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by DAVID BUGBEE & CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Maine. PROEM. BY WILLIAM BELCHER GLAZIER. HARP of the dark Pine forest-land! Harp, that the Poets' birth-place owns! How bold becomes the timorous hand, When once it wakes thy tones. Here, where the broadest rivers sweep, Our fondest memories start from sleep, Come, let me strike thy chords once more, And, while my fingers o'er them roam, Yes, this is Home! its tasseled pines, Its rugged hills, its short-lived flowers, Its fields where Winter late reclines, Are cheerless, but are ours. Hearts have beat, warmly here as where The strains that fill with Hope the heart, The fancies that the Poets find In buds, in streams, in forests sere, In spells that master every mind, Have all been uttered here. And thou who readest, if a strain Brings joy or makes one care to flee, Let it, too, bear the low refrain, This song was sung for thee.' |