GOLDEN LEAVES. Anonymons. NEW ENGLAND'S ANNOYANCES. "THE FIRST RECORDED POEM WRITTEN IN AMERICA.”—(1630.) New England's annoyances, you that would know them, Pray ponder these verses, which briefly do show them. THE place where we live is a wilderness wood, Where grass is much wanting that's fruitful and good Our mountains and hills and our valleys below But when the spring opens, we then take the hoe, And now do our garments begin to grow thin, Our other in-garments are clout upon clout: If fresh meat be wanting, to fill up our dish, We repair to the clam-banks, and there we catch fish. If barley be wanting to make into malt, Of pumpkins and parsnips and walnut-tree chips. Now while some are going let others be coming, |