Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1857-04-01
Nash Co., March, '57.
For the Spirit of the Age.

spring Is coming.
Inscribed to the youthful readers of the
"Age."-BY oRPHEUs.
Delightful Spring is coming How
charming and lovely are those blissful
days. Winter is gone. Pleasant Spring
is gently approaching, laden with delight.
full sunshine and teeming with sweet seen
ted and beautiful flowers, which we like to
gather, and make wreaths for kind and
loving friends.
When Spring bursts forth upon this
beautiful landscape, all things begin to bud
and blossom the seeds which have been
deposited in the soil by the husbandman,
begin to germinateS and soon spring up
and groxpntil the gyest, when the aus
bandman goes rejoicAgly to the fields and
gathers those good grains and fruits, which
will make him happy, when the pleasant
days of Spring shall have taken their flight,
and Summer with its sultry skies, shall
have been driven away by the rapid ap-
proach of Autumn laden with fruits, and
Old Winter, rapidly succeeding all, with
his snowy mantle.
The earth will soon be decorated with
ten thousand flowers of the richest hue
flowers that will tempt us to leave our daily
vacations, and gather and make boquets of
them for a youthful friend, or a kind and
loving sister. Flowers that look beautiful
in the early morn, will fade ere night
spreads her mantle of darkness over the
delightful earth.
How pleasant is it, to roam over the
bills and through the valleys, gathering
the beautiful mementoes of passing pleas
ures. There is a beautiful thought that
rushes upon our memories, as we gaze, with
wonder and admiration upon these perfect
types cfpurity. That thought is, that we
will, when life's rough journey is over, live
in a state of perfect purity and .blessedness
beyond this "vale of tears" if we do the
will of Him that caused the sweet flowers
to grow.
How often do we see the youthful aspi-
rant rising very fast to honor and distinc-
ton, while every thing seems to smile
%abundantly upon his early efforts.
Soon we see him occupying some station
of honor and renown, which he had achiev-
ed by persevering. But alas! when we
see him again, it is in the haunts of vice
and dissipation He took the poisonous
clp and drank its very dregs. How shock
ing how lamentable to think, that he who
lately stood within the senate hall, or at
the bar, should be the one who is now shun-
ned by all who once loved and respected
him. Once the social glass was handed
him by a friend who little thought that he
was sowing the seed of vice and destruction.
he drank, and now you see that the youth
ful aspirant who set out with SO many fond
anticipations of honor and renown, has fal.
len
The brightest flower sometimes fades.
And leaves no trace to tell It's place
Sowith the honored who are enticed
To leave virtues path by the a~lluring vice
Youthful readers, never let the poison
Gus draught be quenched by you from tn,
wine-cup. Beware, lest in an evil hou,
you touch it, and it sinks you into woe ant
misery.
Thus as the flowers Of Spring fade ava,
and die, We have it deeply impressed upoI
our hearts, that we are fast changing anC
passing away. cit is written upon til,
beautiful rose, passing away" How I'm
pressively does the sentence fall upon on
hearts, that We soon will fade and pass away
as the flowers that bloom and look beauti
full for a while, and then fade and die.
Spring is the morning of the year; you'll
is the morning of life ;-therefore the prop
er principles of our whole lives should b
instilled in our hearts while young.
Let truth and virtue be our guide,-the
Fill not lead US astray, nor will they eve
entiee US to forsake what is right and hon
orable.
As the flowers of Summer are not 8
' beautiful as those of Spring,-so the prir