Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-05-12
Written for the Green Mountain FIR eeman.
Tie Early Vernal Flood.

Didst thou ever stand on the brink of
" lonely river made lonely, by the absence
of all mortals, except thysot, when the flood
If its swollen waters had but just burst its
icy bands, ard by the force OF its impetuous
torrent course, was dashing to atoms its now
suudered crystal chains2
Yes, did you ever stand on that lonely
bank, in the solitude Of the midnight hour,
thy brow famed by the zephyrs of early
spring, the genial pre'ages of more delight
Iul seasons coming; when "naught but the
torrent was heard on the hil' and nanght but
the moving panorama OF waters could fix
thine eye in the vae?" Didst thou there
media On that scene, observe the mighty
rushing, roaring, rulnb.ing tide, hasting to its
great, lral ocean goal, notice the multtudin-
Gus, pronrscuous fcght it bore on its swell
lug, heaving swiftly gliding current? Yes,
there you saw the innumerabIe fractions of
dis>olving crystals in all conceivable forms
and d mansions compressed into one mighty
moving mass, fragments how here e shoot
ing up, and another there plungug under the
compactly crowded, moving oriit, and all, III
utmost conceivable disorder, but all the while
rushing Onward with the speed Of the under
current OF mighty waters. If you have Heen
all this, and calmly contemplated the scene,
was it not cnbIumatc OF time's onward
restless course, bearing on lis surface the
reighl and fortunes VI humanity? Human-
ity race and racing onward clashing, crowd
ing, crushing, rushing IN to the common goal
Of death and ocean OF eternity.
Those innumerabe fragments OF crystal
are more or less clear and pure, according as
have been their surroundings while nprocess
Of formation. Some are large, some small
according to the circumstances and locality
of their forming, or according to the circum-
stances OF their disintegration from the mass
or their surroundings in their course. Some
are huge mighty 'ceberys bearing in their
grasp portions of earth, ptrchance some pre-
,ious meta s, but which will soon be set free
since dissolution is inevitable, the cIutching
gasp must be loused fiomall that is earthly.
But there are myriads Of lesser FACTIONS,
or if you please, integers these not less than
the mighty ice6ergS are types of correspond
ing integers of humanity, but unlike their
correIatives, they are too numerous and dl-
mmtivc to r. ceive the particular notice OF
the behoder. Now these lesser integers OF
humanity, are hustled and jostled about, and
crushed by the greater. Oh how like that
vernal flood of waters ever rushing onward
with restless course, is the course Of time
and how like that promiscuous mass that
floats on its surging tide, is material humanl-
ty drifting down towards the ocean OF cterni-
tx, and the dissolution Of material forms.
But does the similitudc end there?
In the great cycle OF time, docs not some
thing analogous to the annually recurring
vernaI food, take place? Cannot Infinite
Power re- collect the scattered dust, and re.
animate lie dissolved human FORMS with
equal facility if not i'll like manner as He re.
collects to their wonted localities and chan
els the waters which have run their accus
toned courses through rills, creeks, rivers
lakes, seas and oc,als, to be returned by ex
halations to clouds and then waited by winds
and discharged in showers to repIensh thu
earth, and perpetuate the springs and stream
in their accustomed flow.
Thus like the circulation of blood in tn
animal system, the waters Of Garth, go css,r,
ta to the vegetable and animal economy, ar
made to circulate through earth and atmos
phere, in accordance with laws ordained b
lnfnitc wisdom With Him, is it impossible
TO re-collect the dust, once composed in hu
man form, and reform it in its former like
ness, or even to change its nature from
-, changeabe or mortal state, to an unchange
able or immortal state? Or is there any
, thing more strange or incomprehensibe il
the resurrection of the human body, (consid
crrg how much more noble is this last am
y best work Of His hands than there is in tn
every day transformations of insect life
What mere curious or mysterious than thes
little organisms revealed by the power of tn
, microscope, or what more grand and mystic
ruus tha.. the changes of the seasons? Sc
= how the face Of all nature is changed by thu
4 changes Of the seasons and how these are pre-
duccd by a little variation OF the earth i
its course round the sun. Who made, an
; who maintains the laws of planetary revolu
tions ? Has He not power not only to form
but TO trans orm man, as he does, in longe
= or shorter periods, all the objects of natur
> we behold.
. Change is written on all things here o
= earth. We ourselves are here constant
=. changing in the phases of body and mine
!, though not quite so frequently and reguarl
as those phases Of the mcon, yet not less trl
" ly, yes, much more truly in reality if not
:. appearance; but greater change awaits u
- when the winter of death shall close til
% scene of this lies vital verdure. Yes, an
. still greater change when " beauty immo
I. tai shall awake from the tomb and tt
" y righteous shall enter upon a glorious immo
u tality. B. R.
Il Waterbury.
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