Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1859-04-08
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SPRING.

Sweetly the Spring steals in upon us
with sof: approaches, just as We are able
to bear the change SO the morning, in
Tenderness for our eyes, opens gradually
on half-shut eye 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 with
out risk of injury, is a sufficient proof to
that numerous class who are skepticaI,
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
;mpugning Che freedom Of the will. The
Spring thus giides among US BY soft gra-
dations, providing defenees against its
increasing 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 climate to spend
ones days in, some lay stress on the
mildness of the winter; others on the
cooling brcezes Of summer. For our
selves we would stay exactly where. we
are. The heats of simmer are not long
in the latitude Of the Middle States, and
there is just about enough Of the biting
frosts Of winter to brace up the muscles
to fight an equal battle with the bot blasts
which the dog star viii by and by bring
in his train. Aud then the long, long
spring -that beautiful quarter of the year
when the Pleiades rain down their sweet
influences, and have done 50 ever since
the days of job, as well as ages before !;
no where else, either on the north or
south Of us, docs this delicious spring SO
lingcr and daily with the sleeping bud
and flower, soliciting them every morn
ing to arouse and show themselves, till
finally it succeeds, and the world starts
into flower garden Is a bud or flower
ever SO fresh and captivating as in the
carly spring, when cloud and sunshine
dispute the honor Of its development,
and one cannot tell for the life of him at
any hour what sort Of weather another
may bring forth?
We must in cardor, however, acknow-
ledge that this pretty Spring is also a
capricious beauty, sometimes conquoring
US by its bowitching smiles, and when
ever these will not answer, subduing us
with tears. Alternate smiles and tears,
IA fact, make up the character Of Spring
and sometimes shove insist on her fe-
minity, against the authority of the
ncients-shows her pretty teeth of snow
even amid her smiles Her caprice, as
has been limited, proves her sex, and her
caresses are never so fatal as when by her
cndearmcnts she has warmed her victims
into love and confidence, and then reveals
those glittering teeth Of hers, which i'm
part death in her kisses.
The sweetest Of sounds, too, are heard
in the yernal season-the distant ripping
and splash Of brooks aud waterfalls, the
low notes Of the warbers and song-birds
practising for The full public concert to
be given In June. We hope our Legis-
lures or public opinion at any rate will
make il death or something less to kill
one Of them or destroy their nests. For
soon, and during weeks and weeks to
come, they will be building their domi-
ellis in the crotchcs Of lcafy branches, in
the bellows Of trees, in the high lands
in the low lands and meadows near The
humble bees honey bottles. IF the BOYS
shall NEEDLE with them in the summer,
when the yellow jackets are filing them
with nectar, We hope they will feel the
smarting gtings Of the owners, that's all
Nor are birds the only builders at thi,
genial season Every man who has mo.
noy in his pocket feels it turning oyei
and rafting there from an impotence To
buy building lot and erect palace OF
a shanty on it. # nothing more can be
attempted. the owner of q homo alreadz
built dcmolishes bis rooms or fences, anc
renews them in fresh forms either better
or worse than the old, it is not much
matter which In this birds are wisci
than their felloT bipeds, for they never
construct homes they do not want TO oc.
cupy, and rarely build for posterity,
which is sure Of course 10 alter if not to
destroy what It's ancestors have done with
infinite labor and much complacent salts
faction. There must surely be some rare
stimulus in the air, or a kind Of sap in
their bodies, which can goad on men and
birds 10 such architectural enterprise. 49,
Vegetable life catches tho enthusiasm,
and expands into thousands Of new forms
Of beauty and utility.-NeUark DUTY
Aduertiser.