The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-11-10
Notes Of Hand.-For the Register.


rily, coming as it does after the chemical
influences of fresh vcrdure are passed, and
certain hardness seems to connect it.
self with the chill air Of the dead land.
scape. This year, it has come while the
many colored foliage, still in place, was
lingering as if to charm us into the faith
THAT nothing is ever lost till all is gone,
but the first snow comes with its lesson,
All is gone when its time is gone, and
we slroud it. 1t is a lesson that the end
comes, perhaps gently, whatever may
be the glitter of our life.
| But it is cheerful lesson too, by
(which to remember our strength as we'll
as our frailty. Men are not as the
leaves and plants. The winter is friend
ly to them. 1t confesses the energy Of
their natures to triumph over its cold,
and yields to them in many cozy rest,
their sweetest hours There is.a love
that is social that wells up in the breast
and mixes chcerfully with others love, in
the ruddy atmosphere of the winters
hearth, in the peaceful contemplative
light of the evening Of industry at home
Love that likes the grove is well enough,
as is the field with its verdure and dew,
that prepares the plant for its harvest of
bread or fruit for the sustenance or de-
light of man. But this is love which
passes that, and wins all the prizes of the
goal, the love of family
The strength of which we are thus re
minded was given for the protection of
the objects Of this love, but as the spirit
of the grape is in its flesh, so wisdom is
the richest endowment of strength, and
love still its favour, making its cheerful,
aye, humorous counsels by the winters
fire, the richest luxury ofhome. Of that
which is the refinement of strength it
reminds us, of fitness, of proportion that
shrinks from no burden;-the patience
which buries violence, the weakness
which supports strength,-of her whose
love teaches the affections of all to fly
to feed themselves and their own, in whom
is the germ of the love of home
OF neighborly sympathy the snow re-
minds us, for all like ourselves, at the
display of the signal of winter flee to their
homes, as the Hebrews rallied to their
tents, or as the startled flock, at the
noise of the hunters tread, burst first
singly, then all in u company into flight
So winter scatters the crowd of men all
as with one mind, and in the window of
another, as we pass, is the mirror at eve
mag of our home. what e'er its circle may
number, and winter which gathers them
is their friend.
Winters empire is absolute and pat
riarchal 1t does not tally here with our
republicauism, as the season may in
some climates, where it is still shifting
and changing 1t spreads over the
wide pole; its snow rest upon the field
and fills up the intelstices of the ledge
and forest; cloud and wind and clear sky
are but ministers of his dominancy, and
night aud day contribute to consolidate
his power We may play with his clear,
est cold and he is content, so that We
never dispute his reign, but flee at night
for shelter, and hold even the happiness
of our homes in due subjection. He
likes our enterprise in his clear NOR
nings, and when at afternoon darkness
pervades, the forest and the snow begins
newly to fall, he seems to withhold his
might, and as it were to yield yearning
sympathy with our weakness and ignor.
ance and delay Some times infrmity
overtakes him A brief sirocco will
sometimes begin to breathe from the
south, and the old mans strong grasp Of
the sceptre is shaken. The bells, which
chime merrily to others, to his ear are
untimcly and rude, till again the north
is his friend, the sky darkens, and sig
nails again begin to descend of his nigh
ty lease ofpower
Autumn, the reformed reveller, sober
but genial in his age, sage but with tn;
dregs of past indiscr4ion in his veins
of whose rule all are the friends, and i
not chosen by the popular vote yet hil
continuance desired by all-is retained
sometimes in spite of rumors, like
Lord Elgin, and difficulties too. lie
sheds his sunshine on us in the IndiaI
summer, heavenly time though only the
earth takes cognizanco of such an inter
val, that like the Shunammite slips in t,
comfort the heart ofthe effete g. exhaust
ed, and warm his beard with the glow O
youth again. The old danes of the up
per halls themselves consent, and con
cede that if spring is not to come int,
their own veins, the hazy air and ruddy
light aud summer breath Of Fall, ma,
be cordial to bis age and the fount o
many blessing