Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-04-29
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BIZ ANDREW J. UTLEx.
--s Many have written in the praise
II OF winters long and dreary nights,
- But none arise to praise its days,
- Or tell about their dazzling light.
- love the winter night and day,
hlaa love to sit by pleasant ire,
szs g and pass the merry time sway,
In sounding high the poets Tyre.
us true the evening brings US rest,
From Iaboring thought and anxious care,
-e@.z The evening, too, our homes may bless,
-5z with wife, and friends, and children there.
a1a 'Tis then we thing our greatest thoughts,
eta K It's tAea sing our loudest strain,
sTis hes the FIRE of love is caught,
That kindes high in poets brain.
Then honor be to winter ewes,
They the poets JOY and friend,
For love and truth they mildly breathe,
~ And joy and wisdom sweetly blend.
But days that go before these nights,
Are full as useful too they,
In them born fun many light,
That sheds in uiider
To gather fuel in the day,
To our hearth in winter eve,
Conceive the thoughts in brighter ray,
Which we by lamp-ligfrt better breathe.
do not claim that always night,
Is but echo to the day,
And that its dim and shadowy light,
Is born from daylights' brighter ray
But often thus are thoughts conceived,
In days high noon, in dazzling light,
-a And closely kept and sweetly breathed,
When by, in sable night.
Then let us love them day and night
And welcome both with humble lay,
s-=-aff In daylgbts bright and sparkling light,
And evenings mild and sember ray.
Winter is ike the master hand,
That robs the scoundrel of his robe,
--sss,s And forces him in fear stand,
ls~ees Before his country and his God
kssa So through the forest when the breeze
4st OF baimy June is the air,
Sl-i = Behold the beauty you perceive
No dark defects; all, all is fair
Each shrub is clothed in beauties, form
.sss - The oaks defects more,
- 5sza The hawthorns sharp and piercing thorn,
.esazs With flowers are closely covered Ger.
The maple makes cooling shade,
Sc sz The crabtrees' boughs all in bloom,
The herbs and plants in every glade,
aas - Are shedding forth sweet perfume
'Tis universal beauty round,
- = The birds singing in the air,
The squirrel springs with merry bound,
Der animated nature there
Go to the forest, iewthe scene,
-a In bleak December's frozen hour,
p Look where before was living green,
Where lived the rose and bloomed the flower
-ss Behold tho oak with crooked bough
asa Sigh to the wind piteous moan,
u The hawthorns faded beauty
Shows to our sight its piercing thorn.
The crooked crab-tree clogs our way,
-assas s OF former beauty quite bereit,
It's bloom, its flowers have passed away,
ss-,s And nalght but knots and knarls are left
The squirrel now has sought its nest,
ss Within the knot of some great oak,
szs The bird its former hath left,
Nor cheers the forest with its
Great is the change, but greater still,
The lessons taught by such change,
We learn from this the good and i'll,
We see where real worth remains
aass mo real value, worth and good,
s That in the sparkling shine,
Within the green and pleasant wood,
= Esszs Remains the same in winter time.
'Tis only that the covering gay,
That hid defects and shielded scars,
- By winters hand is torn away,
Exposing what they really are.
ss We were deceived before; but now,
The Leaf and flower that covered o'er,
The oaks distorted crooked bough,
SIR Are gone, and they deceive more.
A noble lesson to our hearts,
That is with wondrous wisdom fraught,
From which souls should never part
Thou hast taught simple minds,
A truth thou hast with wisdom blessed,
ss.et II real worth and truth we'd find,
.sses To look beyond the outward dress
'Tis so in life behold that man,
Who walks erect among the throng,
He shows fair stainless hand,
He speaks to with honeyed tongue.
fr He is william see him go
-ea Into the den where gamblers fee,
And there he gives fatal blow,
To innocence and pety-
We need some master winter hand,
To strip deceving robes away,
And show to the uner man,
The thoughts that round the heart doth lay.
Then would know and judge the right,
Then would oppression from Us fly,
For then would evil brought to light,
et Dsowned, d;sclamed, forsaken, die.