The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1821-1823, 1822-09-11
MISCELLANY.
SUNSET and SUNRISE.

From the ''Lishts and Shadows of Scottish
LifeD1


This is the evening on which, few
days ago, we agreed to walk to the
Bower at Waterfall, and look at the
perfection of Scottish sunset. Every
thing on earth and heaven seems at
this hour as beautiful as our souls could
desire. Come then, my sweet Anna,
come along; for by the time We have
reached the Bower, with your gentle
steps, the great bright orb will be near
ly resting its rim on what you call the
Ruby Mountain. Come along, and we
can return before the dew has softened
single ringIet on your fair forehead"
With these words, the happy husband
locked kindly within his own the arm
Of his young English wife; and even 10
the solitude of his unfrequented groves,
where no eye but his own now beheld
her, looked with pride on the graceful
ness and beauty, that seemed so congo
NAL with the singleness and simplicity
They reached the Bower Just as The
western heaven was in all its glory
To them, while they stood together
gazing on that glow of FIRE that burns
without consuming, and in whose nigh
ty furnace the clouds and the mountain
tops are but as embers, there seemed to
exist no sky but that region of it in
which their spirits were entranced.-
Their eyes saw it; their souls felt ii:
but what their eyes saw or their souls
felt, they knew not in the mystery Of
that magnifcence. The vastbiack bars,
the piicd-up masses of FURNISHED gold,
the beds of softest saffron and richest
purple, lying surrounded with continu-
ally huctuating dyes Of crimson, till the
very sun himself was fer moments I'M
needed in the gorgeousness his light
had created, the show of storm but the
feeling of calm over all the tumuItuous
yet settled world of cloud, that lad
come floating silently and majestically
together, and get, in one little hour,
was TO be no more-what might not be-
ings endowed with seEse of beauty,
and greatness, and love, ard fear, and
terrour, and eternity, feel when draw
ing their steadfast eyes on each others
faces, in such scene as this?
But from these high and bewildering
imaginations, their souls returned insen-
sibly to tie real world in which their
life lay; and still! feeling the presence
of that splendid sunset, although now
they looked not towards ii, they let
their eyes glide, in mere human happi-
ness, over the surface of the inhabited
earth. The green fields that, in all va
rieties Of form, lay stretching out be-
fore them, the hedge-rows of hawthorn
and sweet-brier, the humble eoypices,
the stately groves, and. in the distance,
the dark pine forest loading Che noun
tain side, were ali their own, and so too
were hundred cottages, on height or
hollow, sheherless or buried in shelter,
and all alike dear to their humble in
mates, on account of their cheerfulness
or their repose. God had given TO
them this bright and beautiful portion of
the earth, and he had given them along
with it hearts and souls TO feel and I'M
derstsnd in what lay the worth Of the
gift, and TO enjoy it with deep and
thoughtful gratitude.
"All hearts bless you, Anna and do
you know that the Shepherd Poet, whom
we once visited in his Shealing, has
composed a Gaelick song on our mar
rage, and it is now sung by many
pretty Highland girl, both in cottage
and on hillside They wondered, it is
said,. why | should have brought them
an English lady; but that was before