The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1856-11-13
Thine as Of old,
The weather and the winter Angel.

II ANYTHING can awaken an old love iot nii
old fashioned fire, built up OF halt tree, upon
broad liberal hearth, it Is just such weather
as we have had Tor the four days OF grace now
gone.
For day aud night. the doors OF the north
were sc, wide open, aud the winds went aud
came Us they would for night and day, II
mist hung low down over th. prairie, aud the
rain ,inkltd from the caves aOd the sun look
ed like great bronze medallion. IN huge
fleece oi brown wool, just struck IN the mlui
| of October.
II ever one wants home and wants 10 he N
IT, we rather think it Is in such days as these
when the brown, rustliug parchment Of prairi,
| is unroed for November to sign, seal aud de
| liver over to the white, dumb archives Of win
ter.
But We have no iault 10 fad in fact W.
rather like the narrow days that are coming
| with their broad borders Of shadow, sometimes
wrought into the rarcrt oi starry lace aud
sometimes silvered with the richest oi moon
light, and sometimes tucked round about with
the widest OF clouds II we ever had wan
deriug foot, it ls piped home hy the boatswaln
OF blast that whistles over the threshold II
we ever had wandering thought, IT hattrrs a,
the closed and frosty window for admission
| The world. We fancy, owes great debt to
winter il has never thought Of paying that
this Piigrlm-planted land would have been a
desert Today, bad not New England Jauua
nv watched and tended the little lock Ia 1920
and gathered them into the little fold We call
home il the grim shadows had not played tho
gentle shepherd. and kept them grouped within
the small summer day oi the winter ire. near
enough to look into each other faces and clasp
each Others hands, and hear the bent oi each
others hearts, and take courage and be saved.
We rather think. had ii not bccB for the rich
treasures Of the snow, the memory of ttdi May
flower. like its kindred, the world oy,f, would
have persisted forever , had some Alabama roll
cd through green pastures all the year long
tha, Alabama might have been their cpi.
,aph -" Here they rest
And il never va. any wonder 10 us a. all
that the Mountains aud the Winter. loved g.
dwell together, for The song o! tic Wsldrn4S $
has been sung by Iiber,y-since tine bgen-
everywhere:
'gor N. strength uf tte L.lla 80 hlse- I'.r,
oar tod, 9at fstbef God,
Ttoa has mai. Thy children mt8htt.
~ the toath u tie Mo9o'Rta s"i
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