The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1839-10-17
REFLECTIONS UPON AUTUMN.

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REFLECTIONS UPON AUTUMN.
Autumn has sur,ly cone u pay her
yearly visit, snd 10 wara ns Of decay
The lsalleI hangs wrestling With the
wind: she fros, Of evening now gathers
u2on u. anil iIs freshness - stricken.
summer. soft eyed Sumner. aTl thnu
gansI Yes; I sIli hear Thy sweet sdi.u
sirhins Inv in the wales, a. thy faint
blea,h sleels iron leaf To leaf away, But
why SHOULD We mourn. The fower may
fade and rts fragrance die. vet there is
within IL tie seeds Of eternal reaoya-
lion
In connection wi,h human l.'e. We are
TOO at To reflect upos yellow autumn,
With feelings oi melancholy. IL becomes
I season ni contemplation. and our
,horghs ?" Upward To the Author of
oar being. lowering ike nmid SPIRITS
around Ills holy altar.
Bot there j. somriiing in he f.il 81
ihe year. with egea lie m0urniui decay.
winch rasrms re soul an. sxssiras h.-
man life the rustic nF the changing
green. the winds low sigh, the eFeak.
ing door. the house erirke,'s prolonged
clirr. aui ,he liz up hearth, seal our
,horshts back on an Grand e memo
rs. 10 those charming hours Of happy
days Of youih anil hope; days of child
hood. of Innocence. when with many
beloved one from whom we have nay
parted forever, We sat around the family
altar and par,oss Of the feeling. nj Other
times. Oh how agreeable ara thnss me.
llnchuly reflections. a. they linger snd
play in the Iabernsele OF sHtSUas
hear,
II We contemplate the changes II the
season. 10 connection with an hereafter.
we feel an inexpressibIe beauty 10 the
comparison. Which cannot cease IN enn.
slncs the literal and creative mind. that
there l. a home, beyond the gaze.
where lie wicked cease from troubling
and tie weary sre al resl." IL presents
an srgumen. dipped in besmilul ealoiing
like all natures fac rencilIng.. :" wo.
ven with an exy,eurs BY the unseen
hind, tha, the keenesl ere cannr, lnuch
me point a. which every separate tint Is
plred from ils neigkhosing hue; inmor-
t,!tv becomes an inslinclive ieelin..
which carries the soul upwards We
knnw not how, tn Is destined and etcr-
nj h,b,Gaiinn si@
4 cesssless change. without arnlhlla.I
lion, is concomi,ant Of sii of natures
works. S:te "@s-r rc1-es 80 o,.-ssir.--
Every thing which We see upon the
Globe has been acted upon by naIure's
sapreme hand. bot has never been des.
iroyed. Woud has been changed BY trr
70 rharcosl-passcd from thence 10 vsri.
nus stages ri refinement, until il las re-
suited ~ aeoncreis Of an elementary light.
sparkling in the hue and splenAor OF d.
snnnd.
The man, whose eye has never "pen
Ell upon The nuisclsss operations Of IA
tpre. " witnessed the Developments oi
her handy work, whn has never isit ,hs
charms 81 her spTing time. nr heased an
nncoDscinns sigh. while viewing the al.
tumn flower in ils decline. has left On.
learned lhs gtande,, lesson u his Own
Immortality.
Why does not The sIeel.heaFte,l athe
ist, who huries his sni in an eternal
sleep. repane al The difference hetwron
his late and Ina, ii the plant! Does h.
not observe the pride Of the forest she'd
''InR ils leaves ~ the au,umn--renovait
~ he spHng--re.clnthing ADD rcplenish.
ing through intrrBinable agesl Surely
I've Gus, while he surveys his own De
rayed aud nerveless limbs. cry ont in
despair. f1r me there ia no returning
sFrng. nv witherpd trunk never viii
cioihe i'rlf IN a smoother rind! my hna.
ny losk' shall never more receive lhe
gloss Of !oah! No Young and vigorous
zap VIII circulate through these chilled
anu ro!iat-ct 'essrl," Alas! twin not
~ so' VIVA! the plant he renovated.
pad the SEASONS come again, while the
i'Fd - ne eeauh with b,s lace upward,
"a'ki'g IN iho maleav ri mind. with.
efs ana s'h"s 10 an ignoble and etern.
ii sIser' :
Beiieyes lag p e. tie sa'a,on b asts Of deal.
T'''s not til" buds Of 'irus, no they spread
beh"'ih the ''"a'"n beams Il br,gbtos suas.
TaFolgh endless ls 8, is'o higher powes."