New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-04-16
BEAUTIFUL SPRING.
ay rI.LIs AnnovErrz.

A blue-eyed maiden, flower laden, comes wan
dering Ger the hills. Come, Let us meet her !;
come, let us greet her, with gay and laughing
trills-beantifni Spring with gay and laughing
trflIs
Far in the South is her native home but now,
responsive to the seasons call, she comes to cast
her spirits spell around the worId--beautiful and
identifying Spring. Even where human skill has
toi1ed at works that cireumscribe her power, she
has the magic art to make her presence seen and
felt. The poor bricked and footworn earth,
thrilled to rapture by her warm and fragrant
breath, tries to win an approving smile, by yield
ing up its vital store to the prisoned trees and
humble, disregarded grass.
Even where human vile has woven a tissue that
II calls pleasure SPELL and thinks its fascination
snre, the inner being answering to the silver voice
of Spring, yearns within itself to wander to the
quiet realm, where all that meets the eye gives
token of her sovereign sway.
Even where slaves Of want are beM in labor for
the daily crust, there comes some picture Of the
far-ofr time of childhood, when in forest cool thai
bordered on the lowly parent home, the care-free
happy boy had couched him on the tender heritage
Of the early spring, or cooled the naked, dimpled
feet in limpd pond or laughing brook now, to the
little ones who claim his father-love, he casts .
look o'erfraught with tenderness, and then with
that forgetfulmess Of self that comes to paren
hearts, he turns himself with energy renewed te
tolls that may perchance, in some delightful future
yield the store that will suffice to bear them to the
pleasures that give such joy, in distant recol
lection.
Beautiful Spring! it is but her bounty that DER
flows upon the city pent; her regal wealth is Law.
| ished in her country courts.
Look look! where that vale, a very ssdimple in
the smile of natnre,'' spreads its carpet for their
gentle feet; naught like unto it e'er issued from
the Persian looms Of storied fame-so soft, SO
fresh, SO spangled Ger with flowers of inimitable
workmanship; and see where the forest clasps
| its emerald ring how the drapery of vines, fes
TONED in widest grace shuts in the royal audience
| chamber.
4 Hark to her minstrels poets-laureate that hymn
Spring. praises from the eafy boughs, swaying in
measured rythm to the low cadence of the festive
| wind.
Spring regns. Beautiful spring! Mark, hon
with willing hand her graces have been scattered
Ger the homes that nestle in her wide domain
There, where the thrifty farmer turns the loan.
soil, and lays the seed in earth, she smiles upoi
LIE eHort, aAiu DIGS aElse tle LILY scEpls lhht AuI
tured by the sun and rain shall rear their tassele
heads and spread their Haunting leaves like slkel
banners on the air and in the fullness of thei
time shall yield the stores that make the heart 6
man to gladden. through all the circle of the year
Behold where the roses swell and blow, an
shed their odorous treasures on the ground an
see where the ambitious creepers, rivals to til
last, have grasped each "coigne Of vantage" III
til they cling triumphant to tile roof that shelter
happy country hearts,
The twittering martin joins its CHEEKY note to til
tremnlous coo that swells the pigeons lustrou
throat and not unmusically the farm-yard sound
of bleatng calves, and shrll cocks crow swell tn
glad chorus that rises to terminating Spring.
Spring reigns beautiful Spring All! she is ia
to see. Come, let US meet her; come, let US gree
| her with the hearts sweet ministrelsy.