The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1859-04-28
Spring.


soft approaches, just as we are able to bear
the change. So the morning, in tenderness
for our eyes, opens gradually our half.shut
eyes to enable the sight to gain strength to
encounter the full dawn. This economy OF
the eye, which cannot bear all at once the |
full light of day without the risk Of injury, is
a sufficient proof to that numerous class who |
are skepticol, because they are lazy, Of the
testimony of nature to the value of early
rising. Nature imposes this as an obligation,
using such gentle force as it may without
impugning the freedom of the will. The
Spring thus gldes among us by soft grada!
tons, providing defences against the increas.
ing brightness in the universal green of the
earth, and in the dark blue curtain of the
heavens, which are the two particular colors
most agreeable to the eye.
In the selection of a climate to spend
ones days in, some 10y stress on the mild
ness of the winter; others on the cooling
breezes ofsummer. For ourselves we would
stay exactly where we are. The heats Of
summer are not long in the Middle States,
and there is just about enough in the biting
frosts Of winter 10 brace up the muscles to
fight an equal battle with the hot blasts which
the dog star will by and by bring in his train.
And then the long, long sprng-tbat beau
| tilul quarter of the year when the Pleiudes
rain down their sweet influences, and have
done so ever since the days Of Job, as well
as ages before nowhere else, either on the
north or south Of us, does this delicious
spring so lnger and daily with the sleeping
bud and flower, soliciting them every MORN
ing to arouse and show themselves, till final.
ly it succeeds, and the world starts into o
flower garden. Is bud or flower ever sc
fresh or captivating as in the early spring
when cloud and sunshine dispute the honor
OF its development, and one cannot tell fo
the life of him at any hour, what sort
weather another may bring forth!
, We must in tandor, however, acknowledge
that this pretty Spring is also a capriciou;
beauty, sometimes conquering US by its be-
witching smiles, and, whenever these will
not answer. subduing US with tears. Alter
nate smiles and tears in fact make up tht
character of spring, and sometimes she--wt
insist on her femininity against the authority
OF the ancients-shows her pretty teeth o
snow even amid her smiles. Her caprice, oI
has been hinted, proves her sex, and her ca
resses are never go fatal as when by he
endearments she has warmed her victims in
, to love Und confidence, and then reveal
:. those glittering teeth Of hers, which impair
death in her kisses.
The sweetest of sounds, too, are heard i
the vernol season-the distant rippling an
splash OF brooks and waterfalls, the low note
of the warblers and song. birds practcing 70
the full public concert TO be given in June
We hope our legislatures or public opinio
= al any rate will make it death or somethin
less to kill one OF them or TO destroy the
nests. For soon, and during weeks an
- weeks to come, they will be building tn e
domicis in the crotches of leafy branche
~ in the holIows of trees, in the high lands,
:, Sne low lands, and meadows near the humb
bees honey bottle. II the boys shall me
i die with them in summer, when the yello
jackets are filling them with nectar, we hol
=, they will fee! the srnarting stings Of the
- owners.
:. Nor are birds the only builders at this ge
u ial season. Every man who has money
., his pocket feels it turning over and rattlil
~ there fr6tn on impatience to buy buildir
: lot to erect a palace or a shanty on it.
.. nothing more can be attempted, the own
- of q home already built demolisbes his roof
~ !, or fences, and renews them in fresher form
:, either better or worse than the old, it Is n
N much matter which. In this birds are wis
- than their fellow bipeds, for they never CO
~ ', struct homes they do not want to occuE
~ - and rarely build for posterity, which is su
-, of course to alter ii not to destroy what
ancestors have done with infinite labor q
! much complacent satisfaction. There m,
-. surely be some rare stimulus in the Dir, ol
-, kind of sap in their own bodies, which C
-. goad on men and birds to such architecture
" enterprise. Vegetable life catches the e
thusiasm and expands into thousands of NJ
-. forms of beauty and utility.-Neoark Da
~. Advertiser.