Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-12-31
,gw ENGLAND FIREsIDE SKETCH.
The melancholy days have come,

The melalCHOly Gays nave come,
The saddest Of the year. bryant
one of Bryant's ardent admirers, but
Dt sympathize with him when he looks
So glorious autumn days and calls them
allcst of the year" He who sees only
anbow-hued leaves, which clothe our
the symbols of'our dissolution, and
links only of the winter as prefiguering
ag rest in the grave, is not in this parti-
ie poetfor me. My heart in the golden
robs not with the wild unleaping of the
time nor with the gleeful, joyous thrill
midsummer but its calm, earnest salts
howeth like river, deep, blissful, re-
h 9he autumn is to the spring-time
ndde life is to childhood not so fiowry,
! be, not SO beautiful; but making up
myth and development what it lacks in
hat visions of Preside comfort and New
and cheer are conjured up by one peep at
soldon and crimson-paved orchard, with its
ground Of bold, dark hills its glimpses of
checked childhood, and strong, mature
lood Faster, faster fall the showers of
s and leaves, shaken from the boughs bv
foot and good brown hands louder and
srr rings the merry laugh as bare heads
bounded, and auburn curls tangled by the
HgHeasures higher and higher grows the
t fruit, built up by busy hands of happy
.rcn; and brighter and brighter grows the
ame on the hearthstone in the great broad
en-. All that dear old kitchen has wit
I'D many such scenes as will enliyen it to-
/. when the grandmother who sits by the
File, and watches pleasantly the prepare
|. for the evening meal, heard the shouts
'r own children in the orchard and spread
board with her own careful hands when
Tey-haired grandfather, who leaves the
y party Of apple-pickers, to warm his
Frs by the cheerful blaze, planted, while
Doy, those trees which yield such rich
I to the third generation.
ad and loving is the mothers smile, as she
ads the liable with its brown bread and
3 and IFS wealth of baked apples; her true
aR heart is full Of happiness, as she ar
Us ana re-arranges articles of home COM
I9r the deir Ones vino " III s,i3u make tue
kitchen ring with their voices, and waken
y nook and corner of the homestead with
Iish glce Festoons of dried apples are
ing from the racks overhead; long strips
right Golden ,,,p,y,l-ip GRO +boro Too far
nan,, ibo boa,t, : ', s,,,o,,+ ana dnstod and
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aTtboJav -lnoilinlr not 'o nnr,,in,r uith in.
4 satisSctiom Crond63tbcr nuts nm the
nllmn brands ond n;las on tbo wood far
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drs tbrougb bar snnntaoIos Tho first gIimnse
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