The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1845-05-24
CoMMUNIcATioN.
SPRING.


All, wha, is this that comes booming on
from The misty regions Of the future, and is
so rapidly into the vast abyss of the
past 1t is the mighty year. Saw you
not his snowy font, and fel. you not his
icy breath as lie first came on chasingI
his predecessor, and heard you not the
hoarse believing of his angry blast, as he
drove all former time before him, and as
he came in wrath ard took possession, so
Ills likely he will vent his spleen when driv-
en- from it. So us the year that's psssing!
Yes, it's the mighty year-and it is pass
ing swiftly. The time Of its sterner and
less pleasing aspec; is already passed, and
the season of budding promise, and the
: singing Of BIRDS has come See upon
the hll-sides and Ger all the bosom of the
beautiful earth, that magical drapery is ap-
pearing-and life, and joy, and hope are
every where aboundlng.
Spring time has come-the laughing,
cheerful spring gtime-iha, bewilching,
strange and flful season--wi,h all its smiles
we soon learn TO doubt many of its sun
ny promses-and there's many heart tha,
feels deeper sadness as this emblem OF
disappointed hopes presents upon the pros.
pcct.
/ have seen the early sunbeams of the
Opening year kissing the brown and chilly
earth, and coaxing its dorman, energies, un
Ill the dull unsghly thing has smiled out
right, and put on life and beauty in a thou
sand forms, And have seen that life and
beauty all destroyed by an untimey frost
There is in human life sprng-lime to,
and | have seen a happy, heedIess.lhinl
basking in its sunbeams, nor dreaming 0
augh, but happiness, when suddenly
cloud has passed, a storm has driven oe
The prospect, and dashed the fairy castle
agination had consrue,ed-' leaving no
wreck behind And have seen the oh
eci of a mothers ove-lhe idol of ia
lhe,'s heart, on which was lav;shed all ia
theirs care-spring up--advance TO all tn,
Iovelness of youth exciting large hopes @
|of (u!nre character and usefulness in man,
hearts-and as looked again, The mildey
blasts Of vice and folly had left their bligl
upon hn--and all The golden hopes thai ha
arisen died.
And how many hopes there are, tn;
open ing up in young and buoyant heart:
cheated their possessor' into cheerfulness
whlle-and then by some unlriendIy storr
are stricken dead-and their dry unsighll
5 talks lie husIing on the memory.
But after all spring is TO the MAORI ty
least,a delightful season--,he ch ange whIc
is now wrought upon the landscape is lrul
pleasant. We are all glad TO see the dea,
ness and desolaliOn Of winter exchanges
or The vivacily and cheerluIness of sprin
The fields clad alresh in their hablimen
Iol green are an agreeable sight-all nalul
'mIles-and man looks ous upon the pro
pee! and is pleased know it isa fck
( season-we expect unlimely frosls-ar
'ha! many bud Of promise will be nipr,b
We are assured that the sun and showers
summer shall no, want objects whereon
exert their salutary influence.
Yes the mighty year is passng-rapid
rolling on Spring time has come already
he summer hastens on--and soon The 'se
e and yellow leaf will decorate the grow
the year grow old and cold, and pass ava
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