Part 7

Nay, we have health--you love your wife-- And she returns its flame; Want still is absent from our cot, God gives us breath to sooth our lot, What more can you desire?

HE.

I wish'd to earn a little sum, My dearest wife for thee; I wish'd, by toiling day and night, To gain some wealth that might requite Thy fond fidelity.

SHE.

No wealth repays fidelity, Nor gold nor monarch's crown; My heart which doth to thee incline, Finds all its love repaid by thine, And smiles at Fortune's frown.

HE.

But ah! to see thee live in want, It fills my soul with care. That thou so noble just and good, Must slave and toil for daily food, That drives me to despair.

SHE.

I gaily work [God knows my heart] Contented at your side: More joys than wealth can give I prove, To share thy sorrows and thy love; Thy faithful heart's my pride.

HE.

But who, when I am snatch'd from thee Will hush thy trembling sighs? And when our babe shall weeping say, "Oh mother! give me bread I pray!" Who then will heed its cries;

SHE.

God! whom the worm and sparrow shields, Man in his need can aid; He'll be my comfort when thou'rt fled-- The orphan's sire will give him bread-- O! be his will obey'd.

HE.

Wife of my heart, how great thou art! Thy love is all my weal; I feel so proud of one like thee-- Thy love and thy fidelity Inspire me with fresh zeal.

AGRICULTURE.

Thou first of arts, source of domestic ease, Pride of the land, and patron of the seas, _Thrift Agriculture!_ lend thy potent aid; Spread thy green fields where dreary forest's shade;

Where savage men pursue their savage prey, Let the white flocks in verdant pastures play; From the bloom'd orchard and the showery vale Give the rich fragrance to the gentle gale:

Reward with ample boon the labourer's hand, And poor thy gladdening bounties o'er our land. Columbia's sons, spurn not the rugged toil; _Your nation's glory is a cultur'd soil._

Rome's Cincinnatus, of illustrious birth, Increas'd his laurels while he tilled the earth: E'en China's monarch lays his sceptre down, Nor deems the task unworthy of the crown.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

"AMICUS" wishes to know why his communications have not appeared in the _Rural Magazine_. This kind of request is sometimes very difficult for an editor to comply with. In the present instance, we feel much obliged to our correspondent for his intention of serving us, and did we know him personally, would give him our reasons for omitting his pieces.

We have anticipated the request of "AGRICOLA" of Susquehannah county, by inserting in our last number the address of _Judge Tilghman_. "AGRICOLA's" remarks upon, and large quotations from it, could not with so much propriety be now admitted.

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