Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-01-31
From Blackwood's Magazine.
RAD WEATHER-SPRING SHOWER.

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AN EXTRACT FROM NocrEs AMDRosIANK
Shepherd -Weel. do We ken, sir, that new
err saw in a my born days, what cou' d WI, sale
conscience haze ca'd-bad weather! The warst
has ave had some redeemin' quality about 1t that
enabled me to thOle it without yawmerin.'-
Though we magma be able to see, we can aye
think o. the clear blue if. Weather, Sir, abns
no to speak very scientially in the way o. mete-
geological observaton-but rather in poetlcai'
that is, religious sprit-nay be defined, jalouse,
:. the expression o. the fuctuatlnes and mOdihca-
tons % the heevens, made audible, and visible,
and tangible on their face and BOSOM" That's
weather.
Understanding very beautiful might be
written about weather-climate.
Saepherd.-But no by you-by me. On heav-
ems and earth what Ia shepherd-hae felt IN
spring shower! The dry warld a at ance made
observation-disclosures as the LIGHT in the angel o
Mercy's cen, beheld BY contrite sinner in mid
night IA saft, fresh, silent change has
been wrocht-as saft as fresh, as SILENT has like
wise been wrocht within your ain heart. Music
is maist harmonious-but not mar harmonious
nor LIGHT; for Icht wears coat o. many cOlors-
and low Wonder is the web from which 1t was
cut-hung aloft in the skies.
North-Thsre spake at once the Ettrick Shep-
herd and the Tailor of YarrOw Ford!
Shephe,d-The Rainbow! Is she not the la
DIV O. LIGHT, the Queen o.. Color, the Princess OF
Prisms, the Heiress Apparent o. Air, and her
ROYAL Highness of Heaven? OIhOu! whobend
est Beauty like bridge across the valley-on
which imasination's eye may ken celestial shapes
moving to and fro alang the braided battlements
Sun begotten, Cioud-born Angel! Emblem.
sign. and symbol of mercy and of peace! Storm
seeker and storm-subducr! Pathway-so sacred
Superstition sings-between Heaven aud Earth.
Alike beautiful is thy coming and thy going
and no soul so savage as not for awhile to
saften, as thy Apparition comes gradually
breathing and blushing out OF the sky! lmmor-
tai art thou in thy evanescence! The sole light,
either in heaven or on earth, of which the soul
NAV not sicken when overcome with the agonles
of grief or guilts o that OH my death-bed may
behold Rainbow a single instant. a. the
earth is green as emerald, and covered wi glo-
rous glitter o. its ain, sic as never shone--or
could Shine. over the BRIGHT but barren sea. AS
ioy: The knowes, the banks. the braes, the
lawns, the hedges, the woods, the single trees,
the saushs, the heather, the broom, the bit BUSH
es, the whins the fern, the gerss, the flowers. the
weeds-sic as DICKENS, Dettles, aye, the vera
hemock are "a harmless and "a happy! They
seem a. embued wi sort O. strange serene sp-
rit o'life: and nought in "a creation seems-dead
Norfh.-Lfeim bued bv poets soul!
Stepherd. Then look at the animal creturs.
Is ma that bonny bit beasie Gavin its largee'ed
graceful head IN the air. frae the elastic turf lift
in up and lettin' down again its lang thin legs
sac elegantly its tail a while perfect streamer
in many a winding ring it gallops round its dam
and then, half froIicsume, half afraid, returns
rapidly to her side and keeps gazing on the stran
ger. Some day or ithcr that bit silly foal wul
be wunung kings plate or gold cup; for you
see the Aurab bluid in his fine fetlucts, and ere
long that neck, like his sire's, will be clothed with
thunder.
Norh.-You must ride him yourself, James.
next year at Musselburgh.
Shepherd.-Fing your crutch, Sir, until a
rosebush, till a. the blossoms flee until separate
leaves, and a the leaves gang careerin' in air
owt.ower the lea, and that would be an eemage
o. the sudden FLIGHT g heap o. snaw- white lambs
a. broken up in moment as they lay amang the
sunshine, aud scattered far and wide DER the
sreensward-sune to be regathered on the Start
ing Knoll; but there the eemage wul ma baud,
for rose-leaves ance disspated, die like love-kss
e, lavished in dreams.
North.-Rose- leaves and rose-lips-lambs and
lasses-and love-kisses lavshed in dreams. And
all these images suggested in shepherd recollec-
ton of Spring-sh Prevailing pastoral Poet,
complete thy picture.
Shepherd.-See how the trooties are loupin'
in the pools-for shower o. insects hae come
winnowing their way on the wings of the west
ern wind, frae the weel-watered wavings O. Eli
banks whisperin woods.
North.-No such initiative melodies in Homer!
The sentence is like SUCH.
Shepherd.-'Twas nae fawte o'mine sir, for
ina mouth got fou Of double Ws-and l had to
Whit and whustle them DOT. But hush and list
sir-lst and hush For that finest, faintest, a.
maist evanescent music-merry, or mournful,
Just as ye may be disposed to think and feel it
but now It is merry-dear me, its clean game
there-there it is heard again-like the dying
tone o. the smallest chord o'the harp o. an angel
happy in the heart O. the highest heavens
and what may it be-since our ears are
too dull to hear seraphc string or strain
but the hymn, to us amaist hushed by the altl-