Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-08-25

Or even that king Of kingly Wake, the
: LONG WALK" from Windsor Castle, I
hree miles into Windsor Forest, lined on
each side with a double row of British
EIms! These ROYAL Concord trees are
about half way between "South Church"
and the pitch of the hill below
it. They range along the west side of
Main St:eet--high up from the road
and east their old shadows, toward sunset, |
far off into the bea at;ful meadows and the |
winding river. They are the oldest trees
doubtless in the pace. We have never
seen any in New Hampshire Of such
venerable appearance. They stand SO
thick as to interweave their long branches.
A wide and elevated sidewalk runs along
beneath them, affording most pleasant
saunter and promenade. You gaze up
ward into their dark tops---lhe giant
branches running away up into the wild
erness of foliage, and bending of in great
curves down again over the distant road,
--intersecting each other in countless
gothic arches, like the roofing and re-
cesses in the old Abbes and Priories of
England ;--branches big enough for
trunks to great trees, and then the trunks
tnemse!ves--vast, shapeless, and rooled
all abroad in the ground, to withstand the
wrestiiugs Of a century's winds among
their mighty tops. You feel awed and
overwhelmed as you look up as when in
Westminster Abby or the old York Min
ster.-Here YOU are gazing on the orig
inaIs, there on the architectural copies
the coping and the lancet arch Of the old
Cathedral being borrowed doubtless from
, the tree top. God built the cd Elm, and
your Christopher Wrens.and Inigo Joneses
the solemn temp|es' of Britain. Yetthey
get the homage and admiration Of men,
rather than the Architect of the Universe.
Stme OF these great trees are SCARED,
where the lightning has struck them, and
| followed them from the high summit into
the ground. The grand original row seems
TO have been interrupted. One great tree
stands alone at considerable distance below
| it, and another above-both on a line with
it, and evidently of the generation. They
are a magnificent spectacle; and there are
some highly tasteful dwellings beneath their
shadow. We wish the row had been con-
tinued the entire length Of the high part Of
the sueet. Nothing 10 the world would be
more magnifcent.-Andh how cheaply and
easily ii mig ht have been done. The plant
ing of sapling is a trihe in expense.
There it grows, and costs nothing but time.
We have omitted mention Of sundry
noble Films above the North Meeting House.
Perhaps as single trees some Of these are
unrivaed. The OLD veteran standing in
front of the Coffin House, is an uurivale d
tree.
But we have said great deal, and must
release our reader and pen-with call on
every man to plant tree. 1t is virtue to
set out trees. 1t is loving our neighbor as
we love ourselves. Set out Irees-not ia
make your home out shine your neighbor;
but for him to look at and walk under,-and
TO beau'ify Gods earth, which he clothed
with trees and you cut them all down.
Every tree is "feather in the Earh's cap''
"a plume is her bonnet-a tress upon her
forehead. 1t is comfort, an ornament, a
refreshing 10 the people. And when Peace
and Liberty prevail, we will have an Eden
of them, from one end Of the land (aud the
worldly TO The other.