American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1823-06-10

the tcathery SHOWS. There is something che ri, G
and delightful 10 the sight something that in az
most audible language, speaks to the heart OF Il
hopes OF Notwithstanding that tells Us that
there may yet be triumph decays something
mat whispers TO US of the departed blessings of early
luays-some'hing IN short, congenal to the feel
ing, as to form an antidotc to the cares that press
upon the spirit and to the orebodings of gloom that
darken the prospects OF futuriiy.
The fields are clothed in . mantle of delicate
gcen the wheat shoots up its tender and exnbcranr
blades through the bosom OF the dark mould, moist
with the dews thst have fallen during the silent
watches OF the night while still, upon the distant
loiticr grounds, the slow motion OF the ploughs may
be perceived, and The dark burrows which they are
leaving behind. The he'd rows have now all as.
sumed an emerald hue, and the crows issuing from
the forest alght on the tops Of the trees, and fill The
air with the sound OF their ceaseess and dscordans
cries.
What alteration does this landscape present from
what II was but brief space ago. These banks arc
now greened over with The budding brers, and with
the hne leaves oil the hawthorn, forming pleasant
contrast with its dark boughs--now spotted with
white daisies, and with yellow kng-cups, with dam
tdelons and variety of wild howerets, which we're
frozen and cold, and barren, decorated here and
there with few tufts OF tall rank grass, scar and
rustling IN the wind, and with bleak lealess
Iboughs dropping and melancholy. topped with the
funeral berries OF the dog rose. From these rocks
depended a thousand cicles. The course of the
rivulet from above was marked out by long white
lstripe winding down the steep, and edged with
multitude of fantastic figures, wrought, with magi
cal effect and fairy brllliancy. Over the surface
OF the stream the giant Frost had extended hs polar
lsceptre and taught .'the ice haned waters to sam-
Der on the shore.'' But now wi gentle and me-
lodous ripple, the gushing .treams pass dawn htir
verdant banks with soft blue tinge the face
glltterlng in the genial SUNSHINE and BIZ oxen tere
land fhere nv I'M. bv he.
leaping trout, after the tiny insects that wanton
above.
Nature, animate, and inanimate, seems to have
nar,aken OF the GENIAL Influences of the s. ason The
fiocks are gamboling amid the pastures. and each
mother following its lamb, with coat AS white as
snow. The cattle are some nbbling the tender
heritage, and others Illuminating their food with list
less pleasure. Some. with their faces turned To-
wards the shining day." and some, reclining amid
the stumps OF yon aged trees. How grandy does
that magnificent mansion yet look TO- Oh amid ItR
ruins over the wide chase, subject 10 those who
took up their abode within. Alas "Time hath
wrought strange alter ations, and the tempests and
the shine of centuries have not beat and burned
upon it's roofs in vain Where is now the pomp.
and the pride, and the circumstances " of state"
Is the appliances and the to boot !" the retain
ers that thronged the hall, to whose wassa voices
the vaulted roofs often reechoed at midnight the
stag hounds that numbered the parlour floor p
w SteCu IN Inc Stall HnO tG
lord that rode him to the heds All have passed
AWAY like morning dream /; and these lone, and
bare and desolate walls, which the long grass
waves, and the stalks of the gy flower shoot green
lily, remain gigantic sepnlchre OF The majesty Of
Iancient days. Shrubs and bushes here and there,
amid the scattered ruins OF what enclo-
sures, lift up their wild branches, proclaiming more
distinctly the wrecks and the rsyages of Timslikc
fragments of persisted vessel floating in the bound
less deep after tempest The buds and young
leaves expanding on the chestnut trees, that once
formed avenue to the baronia mansion-seera to
tell that the works of art may change, but that the
beauties oil nature are OF more durable kind and
spreading their branches as if in derision, form
magnificent portco TO temple that hath passed
taway
II is the season of Spring--the season of renewed
beauty, and grace. The sky has assumed its yernaf
azure; the white stainless clouds sail gracefully
athwart its bosom; the sun shines with renovated
spleDdor, and he birds sing in ebulence of heart.
But all is still and srless here the glory oil 10
like rainbow that over arches the tall of stream,
and throughout the v-long day looks in beauty and
brlance at the glowing sun but fades away as he
sets, and then sinks to nothingness is like that
OF shooting star, which blazes momentarily in ts
downward path, and is swallowed in the gulf of dark
| ness and oblivion.
How lovely, from this eminence, looks the far off
surface oil the ocean calm n lake, and outspread-
ling its capacious bosom the radiance of The morn.
ing sun. The world OF waters also to ac-
knowledge the influence OF the advancing year, and
in token OF its reverence, stills its rufed waters in
to peace. The rocks that rise from its bosom still
appear dark and frowning, but the casual CLEAN of
the sea-bird's wing points them out as not being
Ijoyless abode.
| But, let Us turn from the mghtiness that hath
persisted, in contemplation of the lowllness that
lprospers How cheerful looks that range OF thatch-
ed cottages the blue smoke itself that wreathes
from the chimney, seems an emblem of the domes-