Wilmington expositor. (Wilmington, Del.) 1831-18??, 1831-12-02
MISCELLANEOUS.
"A WINTER SKETCH.

al 5a ffa7 From the Soninpton Phoenix. Et tItttt
q, re- "A WINTER SKETCH. 3.A
The sweeping blast, the skies now cast,
The joyless winter day,
~. Let othets fear to me more dear, .s# ~ r. 4t
5ais8 Than all the pride of Nav; ,asr Etfti gUtst
The tempesi's howl it spoths my sonl, d i'iii
NJ, griefs 1t seems to JOIN,
The leafless trees, my fancy please,
2 VI Their fate resembles NINE! T BunNs.
r. E5ar winter comes down from his icy cell in the
north, like an aged hermit with bleached locks and
silvery heard, and the storms have carved many a
furrow in his witlered cheek. As he totters along
muflsd in his snowy garb. he shrnks from the pier
cling blast, and his grooming voice is heard as he
chants the requiem of the parted year.
There are feelings of understandable and melan-
choly sublimity excited at this time by gazing upon
nature, that the merrier seasons cannot Afford 1t
Ia the season Of ihonghtf,lness. Who feels not AT
this time, when he looks ont upon nature wrapped
in her winding sheet, when sp So like that Of
DEATH has settled on hill and stream sense Of We
neration steal over his heart, similar To that of a
child when gazing on the conienance of are II adj
monshes us Of our own decay, and warns us OF that
beauty which fades away and perishes like The flow
ers Of the vale--but, like the sage experience, il
points us to these charms which shine as bright III
the la It hour, as does the unchanged moon above
the death of nature. Every fountain IN which she
has poured fourth its pure waters to cherish The lit
lie flowers that fringed its bring, now no longer
sends out its glad murnurs on the silent air, but is
formed into a beautiful mirror III which youth can
acc lis reflected image; which, though II may now
be the seat of beauty and happiness, will be render
ed as cold an as lfeess, by tile icy touch of death.
Winter brings with it sweet seasons OF happiness
and socialty which far transcenduny happness that
we may feel from gazing on the, greei-clad land
scapes of Spring. She, like the smiling maiden,
,,,,;tb her cheek busbing with roses and her brow
wreathed with lilies, her dew geHmed locks inter
tw;ned with chaplets Of flowers and her voluptuous
eve glistening with the tear Of gladness like the
azure violet, which s-rs,,sy. t-s,s rt,i
..smiles through her like infant whose weeping,
NTo l,5hier is changed when its have fed, 20
maylcharm US with her song, hut it is the Joy of for
rethness -forgetfulness Of our sorrows, thercansc
and their fatal issue. There is happiness atthe ST.
lent hour of a moonlight eve OF balmy Smtnef
when the tranquil waters are sleeping, and :" the
growing moon lies loskipg at the stars like young
sheperdess at her hocks, when we can wander, ?,
the side of those we love, where the mad.ike wi
INV bends her waving tresses over the chrysta mir
ror as if 10 behold the image Of her graceful form
10 forget hut that the world is PARADISE and gaz
mon the stars as they gsten like gems in the dia
dem of Heaven. There-is joy like the lndescrlba
ble though felt sensations of dream IN listenn
N the tremlo,is song of youthful affection. An
s,ba,aii j. happiness at the hour when Aurora ride
over the eastern hills in her rosy car, drawn by he
milk white steeds, and she uncloses the gates
the cast, the rejoicing sun ascetds the "tprone
day,'-every fioweret rejoicing IN his smiles, -
raises its headbcpdng benepth the pearls WIN whlc
Ni.ht as fond mother does her child, has heeke
h, sends IN its pure incense to heaven-and III
winged songsters from the leafy bower and siri
and tree hIithly carols their malin lay TO the adva
cinr s,n, and the fragrant breath OF the awakenin
zenbyF. betrays that Il has slumhered amid the 10,
ers. There is beauty in tho anunna forest, wh'
nBt,re puts on its most variagaied garb, when
ysGeta,ion assumes q glaring beauty. which, like Il
hectic flush ou,the cheek ef the fading victim to &
vampire-inhuence of consumption, giows' but
warn us that that brightness, like the crimson hea
~ Of the sun setcioud, will soon fade into The dar
ness Of the tomb--and that those charms, on viii
We have so often gazed with admiration, touched
he chilling wand Of the King Of Terrors tell.
their nournful paleness, that the flower Of hum
benuiy must wither and droop like the frost touch
.zleotes II Aut,nun. Autumn is the beietactor
l.roo,Yglnd, tlie .Amoner of the poor. lie sprea
rj5enty MI around, and his approach is welcomed
Inc lies Of the orphan and widowed mother. for
thn,, no sseins comEuttdr, aud in his liifu vo
tb,rf Is atone t,fssymhatlyj that tplsilpen their
IT. tho lander sonthings of beloved friend ago
an, 81 love that moaning MUSIC @hchl hearS q
~ lRihh bleak guslspf Autumn, Tor the soul t.,
- seems gathering tidpgs from another o'heer spheere'
= B, Mjnter, with its white mantle, awakens t. t.
mos that are strangers TO any other seaso17-it
inns which those can never know who dweil Avn
,ypaic islands smile in perennial beauty 90 4.
,,wbere smiling snrng as earliest visit pays. ,s'S
4 r,rtinq sun rs lingering bloom delays'