Delaware inquirer. (Wilmington, Del.) 1859-18??, 1859-08-13

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, | hear sweet music because the hushed d
!. | light produced by a concord of sweet sound
e has no analogy with mirth. 1t is much tn
e same with the grand harmonies of nature.-
stranger visiting the Alps, for the first time
i | seldom experiences bursts of merriment, an
there are many whom the sight of these 81
santic mountains plunges into sadness an
e | melancholy. For myself, am generally, il
I such scenes, filled to overlooking with invol
4 untary delight, inconsistent with any acces
| Of melancholy fear or sorrow. II is true, tn
e 4 painful reflection sometimes presents itself
: that while those majestic objects are eternal
who observe them am a transitory being
traversing narrow slip of sunshine between
the cradle and the grave. Life, in fact, is bu
luminous point, resting upon the confluence
/ of two dark oceans--eternty past, and eter
nifty to c0me-and encompassed by the i'm
mensity of unfathomable space. In this black
darkness, in this dreary void, life has but one
thing to cling to, the idea of God, without
which we should drift away into immeasura-
| BILE despair. But, like cloud ON the sum
mer heaven, this thought soon vanishes, and
my mind, returning to its habitual connition,
4 is flllen with sunshine. For this reason, tray
elling ia sort of mechanical happiness TO
1 NE, especially amid Alps or deserts, or along
1 the skirts Of the ocean. 'Philosophcally We
| know that the greatest projections on the
I .srtb "a surtacs ora a1mos, notb;no comnsred
with ;ts own maan;,ud. vat iron, tba dim.
nnt;vanass ~ onr own hodies tbev seem
great. and al our minds with nrodioioua IDEAS
Of the force and sublimitv of poture What
4 chorus If glorions ;nauances hnrsta NM,
our soul amid the Aims. with their glaciers
cataracts. cayerns eorests ehvasas averlast.
inc snows and storma and tbnrds,, ona ava.
lanchesl In beautifnl weatber sncb os that
in which aacandad No Valais no mann
tains with tina briobt l,lna skv honoi,, lo,.
inclv over tbam ren;nd ono ~ eo;ry soo,,o
in nm onera The grandon, ,,er,Iaxes 10,
Won hurry along. and scarcely tbinl, il re.l &c |
object after object rushes mist Won and l. an.
eulphed. "a IL were in the memorv of tbe
past. Onward Won 90. beholding new NOM.
tains. new peaks. new chasms and The ali. |
peryading licbt elins tbam ronnd and rerders
them nearly tran sparent. All the world ovr
the dawn OF morning il beantiful wien tbe
earth looks like bride a,rayed IN oriant
pearls. and the sun spreods far and wide lie
canony of crimson clonda which Mo alor,
gradually into gold. But amid the
Valaisan Alps the loveliness of msrnins sets
language at Defiance Imagine endless spheres
Of show, browning piny mountains. and en-
veloped with rosy flush of the yonng lsbt
This glowing investitnre like tho breast of The
love. every moment displays new colors
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% folded his arms. leaned hack. and made NJ, a
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ii NV connsnons with tho avnon,io, ~ a. !.
anne CARL who's. feminine feel,noa ,ra..,,..a II
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