The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1845-12-02
Winter.

Winter with his frosty locks, and chilling.
the blossoms Of summer, and the delicious fruits
of autumn have succeeded one another in rapid
succession, and now the cold arm of winter en-.
circle world SO recently beautiful and lovely
Tho rough winds, as they whistle through the
leahess trunks of the forest, chaunt the nieancho-
ly requiem of the departed seasons. They have
passed where the eye cannot penetrate. Yet their
scenes of good and evil are stamped upon the me-
mory, from which time cannot eradicate them.
and eternity will perhaps but render them the
more intense. Yes, they dwell with the memory.
whose potent power conjures up'the spirits the
past, and causes them to converse with us as,sy
bills of the suiure. '4f
Winter is not unfrequently regarded as ths'
most dreary and inhospitable season Of the vary.
ing year. To the INDECENT, the houseless, home
less, friendless poor this may be true. To those
whose affections have been sighted, whose hopes
have been bighted; over the confding heart of
whom the black mantle Of despair has been cast;
the deep gushing fountain of whose love for their
species has been dried up, and whose heart has
become thing
" Der which destruction flaps his raven wing"
To such winter is indeed peculiarly desolate.--'
The monotony of house hold enjoyments are SO
many aggravatons OF the madness Of the mind
Their malady seeks not the kind Offices Of man
for its alienation, but the glorious converse with
nature in her own habitations, the green fields,
the deep forests, the towering Hills, and beside
the running waters,
q To sit on rocks. to gaze on flood and fell, -s
To slowly trace the forests shady scene,
Where things that own not mans dominion dwell,
And mortal foot hath ne'er rarely been; Fe
To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, ss4f
With the wild flock that never needs fold;
Alone DER sleeps and foaming falls to lean
This Ito them) is not solitude it's hut to hold
Converse with natures charms, and view her stores
. unroll'd."
To such winter is indeed season of desolaton,
because it denies them their delightful intercourse
with nature and forces upon them the society Of
man. sE<
But to the world, winter is the season for the
Development of the social vrtues-for the dis
play of the charities Of the heart-for the cutiva-
ton ofthe mind-for the cementing OF friendships
for the meeting of hearts by the enduring ties
friendship heightened into love - Yes, spring
is joyous and promising as childhood; summer
light and evanescent as the day dseams of youth;'
autumn, calm and serene as man when he has
passed the summit level of lis, and his matu,ed
nature sinks into the scar and yellow leaf of ages;
but winter collects around himself all the seasons
of the year, and makes them minister to his
wants and Injuries He is the Patriarch Of the
race, for whom the others pour out their showers
and diffuse their rays to grow and ripen the har-
vests, that winter may distribute his hospitaties
at his ease, and render glad, and thankful the
heart of man. zT -ss
But winter is not only the season of enjoyment,
but of PROMISE to all save the unenviable sceptc,
who does not appreciate the glorious handwork
,f Infinite Goodness, winter is season big with
promise, with the Joyous anticipations Of bright
md bueyant future. His icy embrace can not
oreycr hold the beautiful creatures of the vegeta
,lo creuion. The spring, with her re-invigorat-
ng store Of dews and showers, and sunshine will
.ome, and the dead will live--s.Beauty will
pring out Of ashes'-" the wilderness will bloom
md blossom as the rose"
So when the cold winter Of death has swept
ver him, Man
''-------New rising from the tomb
With lustre brighter far shalLshne !;
Re newed in during bloom,
Safe from diseases and Decline" B.
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