The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-08-07
L. c. REYNOLDS. Esq.

MEMORY AND THE ASSOCIATIONS THE MIND
Sweey has the poet sung Of memory and has brought
The full tide Of hrs genius TO gid the theme with
sPiendor, and adorn il with blossoms-the immortal
fragrance Of which may carry in our bosom,
while tresding the desert sands with wearied eet
and feeling that but for IFS delights had been desc
afe. Grav,r men have, with the keen edge Of phi-
osophical acumen slrpt the godlike attribute OF its
radiant and graceful drapery, and in abstract stern
ness have laid down its properties and associations
but though may neither presume to weave the
garland with the poet set in grave investigation
with the philosopher, we yet may enjoy the reality
OF Gods benign gift and bless him for opening up
within us, wellsprng Of such pure ana never fail
ing happiness How cherries. and gloomy would
have been our state, ii the waves II Time had as
they broke in 81 Tenn swell, been commissioned 10 OBJ
erate all the impressions the past and to leave the
mind like the sand the shore one wide spreading
blsuk, But our Creator has in love, as IN wisdom,
adapted our mental constitutions moral respoo-
sbillies. Who does not rejoice TO look back TO the
I" gray morning" Of life when all lay in dewy fresh
ness srou us, End when felt IL nothing could
chill the warm pulses OF the soul check the strug
Cling energy that kept US in uncessing scton-wben
the bold, free spirit was ever bound pg in gladstone
ness, and weaving the ra nbow OF bright aniicips
ton the dark rolling clouds that threatened TO
wheim ~ o how willingly do recur TO the pc
Rod, and fling ourselves the bosom of The tumu-
tuous wave, feeling at resi- amid the liVeliest acty
ty And how does one remembrance head 10 anoth
cT, ana srsotlsiiOh becomes m our mana gOfotr
chsn--the links of which conduct US through the
misty labyrinth Of commiugling thoughts TO the birth
place of their existence, snd the engrsven altar
Of their indssoluble union Spring flowers bloom
in every loot print of happy childhood, and the most
morose and distracted son OF humanity, is at mes
compelled to Acknowledge the sscendency, which
the visionary past erts the unequipoc NJ
present. We feel we among the warm
sympathies Of the mind, and will be sus-
tanned, though we lipgcr somewhat lovingly
among the scenes Of our early days, now
mellowed in the beams Of a setting glory. When
that poblsst specimen Of uncomprimising zeal
sped on his way to the Syrian capital, with let
iers from the Hight Priestn to bind wbomsocver
he should find Of thai may," and bring them to Je-
rusaem, at midday there shone round about him
light from heaven obove The brightness Of the sun and
the memory Of that event threw the glory Of earth
forever into shadow. SO IN the writer's recollection
OF certain fair scenes IN distant land there seems
to rest on every heath-clad HILL and mountain glen
on every tower and temple, and cottage home.
charm beyond that OF their native loneliness II Is
the torch Of moral and intellectual beauty rising in
superiority over the most sublime aud magnificent
exhibitions Of eternal nature, the light that is obope n,
b. ,ghfnss Of the sun"