St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-07-28
Aspirations of Nature.

Aspirations Oh Nature.
Earth with her thousand voices, praises Cod
Moralists have discoursed and poets
have sung of the divine influences of
Nature and that their doctrines are
true almost every one will admit.
These influences, however, vary to
great extent in their operation on the
human mind, according to the keen
ness of our relish for the beauties and
symphonies of the material world.
There arc those who look upon the
rhapsodies of the poetic minstrel when
he is delineating and chanting the
graces of his goddess, Nature, as the
ebullitions of an inflated and crazy
imagination. They can gaze on the
sweetest landscape with senseless in
difference, discovering nothing to ex-
cite their interest or remind them of
the wisdom and cxcellences of the
Deity. They can listen unmovcd to
the plaintivc moan of the evening
breeze, the gentle murmur of the rivu-
let, or the thousand-toned harp of :" the
warbling world" and survey of the
mightiest and grandcst cataract, the
loftiest mountain, or the ocean, even
that
GLORIOUS mirror where the Almighty's form
Glasses itself IN tempest -
without feeling a wave Of the trans
porting and the sublime moving upon
their soul. Such persons are objects
of sympathy. They are deprived of
many of the most exquisite intellectu
al enjoyments. And this is done to
great extent through their own willul
neglect of the cultivation of their
mental powers and moral affections
God has created man with mind ca
pablc of improvcmcnt,an and susceptible,
if its faculties are properly developed,
Of rclishing, i'll some degree, the
charms of Natures music and the
lovclincss of her forms There are
thosc-and happy is their lot--who
are delighted, at all times, to survey
the handi-work of their Creator, and
who recognize His praise in every ac-
cent that comes from the mouth of the
swarming multitudes of insects, beasts
and birds that people this beautiful
earth The voice of inanimate being
is likewise charming to their ear, and
cxalting TO their soul. Its very
breath seems to
Utter forth God, and Gl! the hills with praise
To them in every season of the year
the earth is vocal with anthems of de-
light; and they feel, with the same
gratitude to their maker, the frigid
salutation of Winters rough blast and
the balmy kiss of Summers gentle
gale.
But at no time does the earth ap-
pear so full of joy and gladness, and
to swell her songs in SO many differ
ent strains, as in the Summer. Her
choir is then full. The chords of her
Tyre which had ceased to vibrate du-
ring the Winter, sound in unison with
every string, and one simultaneous
shout of holy exultation ascends to
the God and Governor of the universe.
Nature being then clothed in pure
vcstment like the angels of Heaven,
her anthems seem, to our imagina'
ton, the echoes of the golden harps
Of that scraph band. How chaste
and virgin-like is every note of Ma
ture's minstrelsy
soft bright ard green the landscape laughs around
| Full swell the woods their every music wakes,
Mixed in wild concert with the warblng brooks
| Increased, the distant bleating Of the hills,
| And hollow lows responsive from the wales,
Whence blending all, the sweetaned zephyr springs"
Let us go forth among the fields
and woodlands, and catch the inspira
tion Of those happy beings which there
, tune their throats to strains of love
and transport, and sweetly hymn
; their Makers praise. Let us Learn
from them to be cheerful, and gay, ant
innocent-to be gentle as the laml
that gambols along the hillside ant
over the grassy mound-harmless "a
\ the dove that woos its mate, an,
knows no guile, and pure as the night
ingale that chants its vcstal lays a
the vesper hour. Let us raise our as
pirations, pure and holy, with those o.
Nature, to the being who created boil
her and us, and be prepared to joil
at last that blessed choir who ar,
to spend an eternity in shouting he
, sannas to God and the Lamb.
Who has ever observed, under an,
former Democratic Administration
c such crusade upon leading Demo
Gratis as has distinguished Mr.. Buchar
s. ans rule? He has given up the pra,
=. tice of opposing his natural enemie:
K and for nearly two years has turne
the engines of his power against som
of the ablest and most honored Dem,
Gratis in the Union. Look at his a