Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-11-09
THE AUTUMN WOODS.

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THE AUTUMN WOODS
How glorious, how gorgeous this perfection Of autumn
The woods have now, indeed, put their glory ON in the
soft and mellow and quiet golden haze Of October All ma
ture seems now ripe and perfected Through the soft mist
the distant hills like the many dyed summits and sone
of ayan In misty repose the bronzed or still green val
leys e Quiet and peace all the lanscape-the
calm and beautiful contemplation Of snless auumna nature
Nearer to grouped the magnificent forests In what
gorgeous folds and of drspeed foliage stand the
wanus, in the bronze and gold The graceful elms are
dropping in light golden plumsge The rugged oaks stand
grded in solid strength in their sitter and stately but
deeper golden robes The purple of the ashe the crimson
the MAPLE add still more to the glory Of the These
lofty trees in all their dignity, and robed in all their spndor
adorned with the richest Dyes be giving royal au
dence Of honor in this hall to their distinguished vste
and friend golden October.
What splendid variety. what nnumerable utering Dyes
what glorious unity and harmony in variety these autumn
woods Look the crimson clusters of yonder ASH which,
like precious fruit berries Of Jewels hang against the deli
cate almost spiritual beauty of the maple The scarlet
sumach gows in its blush against the bronze and
OF the bill sde The leaves of the silver poplar
futterng and tossing from the heart Of CAPRICE beau
full cleaning with the crimson and green and gold of
their light and fragile sisters.
The pines still keep their unchangeable green, but the
arches have changed their green pendens refined gold
Perfection npened and glorious perfection, is around
every sde The forest festoons golden and
crimson, and purple and geeD and shadowy dapery hang
ing amid their forest halls Yonier woodbine its gray
and mossy stones with its vaegaed green and black and
scarlet through which the sheds hazy golden
rays The still bloom in their cheerful blue paed
almost by the glorious leaves.
In the green meadows still the frnged genan opens its
delicate and modest ashes the kindred blue above The
calm and broad mirror Of lake river as charmed in verify
by the overhanging woods, reflects in spiritual beauty
gorgeous and rival auumn while the little brooks with
green and golden and crimson nppes through their fantastic
forest asles. a.
How soft and dreamy this autumn haze It lies in quiet
and peace like benedctoD, in the green Valleys the
golden hills. The great sun sends through and all his
mellow light his sweetest and parting smile the late but
perfected summer-his favorite and child.
Naught Of sadness hauns these glorious shades walls
through the rich and hazy air. These leaves embems
of decay, not robes of mourning, droopng utteng
falling amid the storms of November in the anc
patons Of winter Instead they pened and perfected.
and this is the garnure Of nature, in the simplicity and
beauty and glory of her true and we'll spent e 1t is her
complete and golden autumn the reward Of her obedience
the laws of her God, and glorious emblem and example to
the heart and soul of man.
How beautiful too these nights round and complete the
days. Over the calm solemn forest goes up in the still
faint haze of the heavens this perfect Of October
beautiful reflection OF her sun, she rules in mellow glory from
the depths Of the sky the broad in calm peace Her
rays fall in chastened spendor among The forest ase and
yet shield their gorgeous drapey from
No rich dyes CLEAN through their mellow light varied and
nermngng colors through her rays softly dazzle eyes,
but the glory of earth and day withdrawn there falls
deeper power and contemplation from the vast temple above
gttering with the stars of night
In contrast to the fugitive seasons their beauty and glory
and flying time, there geam the fixed and eternal stars
to which there be changes but which
still round in their glorious cycle of perfection.
Soon October will have passed away the annual glory Of
cme but may its lessons Of beauty and power drop into
hearts, do IFS perfected leaves in the earth, to fill them
with the riches of nature, and erze their soil for the new
spring and with their beautiful growth Of thoughts
and fruits and flowers
In connexon with the above article may not be out opace
to say that there very general misunderstanding OF the
which produce the brilliant changes in auumna
foliage They commonly supposed to be the work Of the
os Jack Frost receiving the credit of being the skfu
painter who dyes the splendid forest this Such
however, is The fact the change referred being purely
chemical operation, not affected by the approach of cold
weather. but change wrought in the constituent principles
Of the leaf These gorgeous hues in truth, the final
ection Of the foliage and may be strictly said to be the
ura penng of the leaf This explanation is as beautiful
it is scientifically true and adds the charm Of this
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