Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-08-17
One OF the First fIaIidi2ns.

thoroughly appreciated as in the growing
months, when the sun, ard the rain have
walked every thing that slept, and Nature
replies to the question, "if man di,
shall he live again." with myr!ads # af
frnati0ns.
We stood, last Suniy evcuing,-the
evening oisGch 4 day as George Herbert
called
'Ta- frilal q tHe ea-:l ~ .sy.-
and tie dew, as the poet predicted, wa'
weeping its f2Il,-st5oi On a little I'll q
earth new swept with the keen scyiLes-
whence We saw seven or eigb, long swe !.
Of lan3-n9t moIe-aa1 one was crowned
with corn, and enc vas touched gp Will
wheat a. with sunshine, aHi two lay il
the blank flrr3Fs Of the sumncIf4l.ow,
and one sloPed away il sm9oth pasture,
and one was broken IN TO the til.ous Of al
orchard, tia: washed up in the green sur
ges around something We could not zee,
and enc lowered with in grove; aud
the whole vas walled in by woods of he
frs. growth, and wha. lay there a. Il =
bay was f-.m, ali tie s5u-taiug W
could not see va. an Old homestead.
Twenty eisht years ago !, was wilder
ness. Mind the word: wilderness, Dot;
"desert," foE Nature hal .'iufrovei' il,
winter and summer, since tine began.
Now, this little bay Of land !. hardly large
enough fra German Principally, su4.
as such things are, tut it supports tenants
innumerat.e not the sheep, the Ilukie
Of whose little bells We hear il tie woods;
not the cattle lowing along the winding
path from TIE pasture not the horses
kicking =? their shoi aal shining heels il
the sabbath sun; not the chickens a.
abroad and grassLoFeriug; Lot tie loEi oi
this manor, his children and grand child
zen, and friends ani nei ghbcrs, and "ibe
stranger within bis gates" We always
thought that Cd Haubgrgier sensible
man, and one who obtained mercy with4l,
who lef; his estate TO certain sTaDs and
;hair heirs, rendering them ildepend-ut,
and "beh5,ien" to nobody foreyer-swaus
with golden eggs il the Bauk-,housh
We can not say as much for the wisdom @;
the bur-hers vLo sent I coloay Of these
"lJ-eLaudei' bids 10 New Y.lk vAoIe
they aIe in the habit Of killing nan AID
beas. with kindness aui good living.
Now Nature has malii;uies Of beirs on
such farm as We are writing Of; things
tvo-f59tel, siz-f79:ed, no-fg5;a3; things
tia, fl, hor, b.uui, crseF; that bursow
in tie earth, twinkle il the sunbeam,
dwell il the green towers of tie trees.
And they al I've AMI tLri7a; some lay
lp" 70. winter Ike The ants, tie taes and
he squirrels, arl s1me-LaFry fel-ws.-
ave ID winter 70 .ay Up for, al! %, Ike
I,gan's cuckoo, are "c.mpani5ls Of the
;; ring" without going away from home
Doesn't it stand Nature in hand to doa
.ood deal Of vigorous growing when it
an? Look I. the business she did in
bose thirty days of june. How tree and
hrub reached ont their hands al at oace
nd rolled doEn their green slaves. Ems
I'd NAPLES have met together, and lilacs
ID roses kissed each other. Aud thus,
here Is enough for all;La tenants. indoors
I'd ou.. There's many white leaf il
ao5a yellow vi:Tams Of shocked % grain;
orey in the hives, sugar in the sorghum;
osl BaE,ow's golden theme il tbs s;.kcd
I'd tass,ed corn abuullnce everywhere
But We have been "ciPheriDg" little;
iakin. tive OF three calculations not dowD .
! Dat5l., Tia; possibly may prove sug-
sstive to some reader q other. We wait
in to l9ok At the narrow path woIn from !
.e gate to the door q the homestead,
oTkal through towering shrubs that boy
II it, and :avcily catch you BY the coat .
.ir.s ike children who have been waiting
: you and have come part way from tie i
reshbold to tyou. That path began .
be worn more than a quarter Of a ceI- q
ry ago, By the touch Of feet, some Of Il
aich have wandered auI returned not; .
j some have gone fcEth and 'rad1-n ri
ayely aud firmly in the broader paths Of r.
e; and some have gone across the Con o.
.eu., aud over the sea, rud some have p.
ne ovcr The River, and had rest. l. =,
ss not cut much Of fgure-that path :.
j, is only faint line on the dark palm y,
the earth, and yet there have been far Y
re ambitious writings with a world less =
auins 1t was the work, q; first, of >,
sc whose lives were one; who came %
Of the same uost and bore one name :.
common. And by that path, over that =,
5sholi have love aud friendship, joy :.
SORROW, hope and fear, youth and age =.
he ald gone, and lent the pace the :,
I'm Of humanity, and made il beautiful II
hougbtful eyes forever. raj
Along iha. path worn IN Indiana W oois, IS
= many pairs Of feet, do You think,