The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . d he was back at his post. [to be continued.] THE GRANITE STATE. By George Bancroft Griffith. When Summers royal robe of evergreen Upon New Hampshires hills mine eyes have seen, When all her vales with Floras colors vie, And mornings gold fills all the eastern sky, How proud anr I to own my chosen home, Here gladly bide, nor longer wish to roam. My tower of strength, Mount Washington, afar; My mirror, yonder lake; my light, the evening star THE PARTRIDGE. B% II. II. Hanson. Far in the depths of the hemlock forest; Dee
The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . d he was back at his post. [to be continued.] THE GRANITE STATE. By George Bancroft Griffith. When Summers royal robe of evergreen Upon New Hampshires hills mine eyes have seen, When all her vales with Floras colors vie, And mornings gold fills all the eastern sky, How proud anr I to own my chosen home, Here gladly bide, nor longer wish to roam. My tower of strength, Mount Washington, afar; My mirror, yonder lake; my light, the evening star THE PARTRIDGE. B% II. II. Hanson. Far in the depths of the hemlock forest; Deep where the purple orchid blooms ;Guarding her nest is the cunning partridge. Hid by the wood-ferns nodding she sits neath the tangled grasses; Fanned by the gentle winds of May,While from his log her proud mate signals, All through the balmy, gladsome of the wood, untamed, unhindered, Wild as the winds that oer thee blow;Happy thy lot in the hemlock forest, Deep where the rarest orchids grow. I— T< Aunties Home, Draytons Plantation. 1* ,^ 3o7. WAR PICTURES. [continued.] [Illustrated from photographs by Henry P. Moore, Concord, N. H.] By John C. £gp RAYTONS plan-tation is one ofthe localitiesthat will per-haps be remem-bered by theU11 i o n volun-teers who havesurvived thewar, better than any other; for it wasclose by the general headquarters on Hilton Head, and for a long time(after the taking of Port Royal) wasthe station of a battalion- of theFirst Massachusetts cavalry, three ofwhom figure in the picture of theDrayton mansion. No plantation on the island hadmore comfortable or substantial negroquarters, the houses as a rule beingin good condition. Aunties home is a good illustration of their charac- KfllKi &=*
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