Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1845-04-02

every thing new, are hut the nucleus for the in
telleciual germs which an educated youth will de.
velope and an active manhood will perfect. In
and then alone perhaps, may be found
those delicate moral sensibilities, the exquisite
of right and wrong, which if properly
and suitably directed, will in after life.
lead to all that is truly great or worthy of appro-
that fame which alone is imperishable.
Childhood! Thy name is blended in minds
with The grassy lawn, the rivulet by whose side
we have often spored, the shady grove, the sur
ny hillside. and the noisy play ground. The youth
enters upon the busy world to participate in its gay
and joyous scenes; he setks the busy thropg and
finds subjects of exciting interest IN every new
scene. Nothing seems TOO high for aspiration, or
too difficult for attainment.
"Youth, let the Eagles ever be thine,
Onward and upward"
MANHOOD-cHApTER III.
"This is the season for combat, not for rest;
It's Joys are jpys of conquest not of peace.''
Like the vessel at sea, whose proud career a.
cross the glirterng waves, or whose mpetuous
course when the angry waters are lashed into
foam by the bowling tempest is manhood, stiug-
Cling aud rushing across the ocean of life. Am
bi,ion is The rudder, Wealth. Fame, Power. the
great ports for which she is bound. But ever
and anon the sky is overcast with threatning
clouds, fearful reefs and dangerous qucksands
impede his progress, and darkness broods over
him vet brightly aud cheeriIy through the sur
rounding gloom beams forth his guiding stai-the
star of Hope.
OLD AGE.-cHAPrER Nv.
"On his staff
Bending he leaned. and from his weary eye
single tear drops,
None followed for the font was dry.''
The gray haired pilgrim, as he traces the ia
bl.s of his memory, looks back upon his youth as
thing of yesterday, the occurrences of early life
are all too foudly remembered, while the affairs
of tomorrow arc unheeded. The gliltering .sythe
of death, The caukered rust Of destruction and DIS
appointment, have destroyed many link OF the
brigh, cham that once bound him to earth, and
MANY another link has been lost in the dark gull
of adversely.
One by one the guided hopes of childhood, the
pleasures of youth, and the pursuits and connec-
lions of manhood with all their bright associations
have been obiteraied from the page of existence.
Like an oak of the forest, the sport OF the ee.
ments for ages, whose riven trunk and knarled
branches, bear The impress of lightning and tenn
pes-So is old age. shattered by the temPta
tons and affections of life, it stands amidst the
fallen leaves OF retrospective pleasures. weak
,otlering age.whose prototype is Infancy reversed
The last chapter in the earthly career of life.--
J Now ard then brilliant CLEANS of the dormant IN
leect FASH in rfiomentary sublimity over the mis-
cradle wreck eft that which was once a fit tene
| ment for this immortal mind. But the effort sue
ceeds chaos like that following the last convul
sne effort Of huge volcanoe, which with ons
mighty rhroe, CASTS up the furfd stream OF Law
and fire, Illuminating with It's gigantic flame ,heigh
plain and glen. then leaving the scene envelope
in cloud of murky darkness. The "silver chort
is severed strand by strand, and fibre by fibre. ii
all its hold on mortality is gently loosened and tn
ripened head is gathered into the garner of eteI
NIFTY.
; Then rhe volume Of life is transferred from III
shelf of earth to the studio of It's author, to be ca
I aside as worthless or rebound. according to i
tested worth, in an envelope of spotess purity
of fadeess Immortality.