Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1860-08-11
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son OF oprlnS' when all Nature is beginning to
shake off the lethargic embraces of old Winter.
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'''u '"e groves ana forests are budding INTO
greenncss and beauty The air is redoent with
freshness and perfume. and man goes forth to
his daily toll with ;r,;,,oro,od s,ror,,,h I, :
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'"0 '"''' o'"u'''"i Vi '"e "h"'e quater'ar! Oh
the year. How like n resurrection from the
dead or, a waking from profound sumter
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'"iS WIZ" vi s'iie anu 'ur'hoil, lul OF ACTIVITY
and wild unrest greeting its progenitors and
natal attendants with cries and struggles. II
is full of noisy glee, yea. music; to the ear at
tuned to the harmonies of Nature.
Yes, music in the stagnant pools by the way
side at even, offering their tribute of nraise and
Thanksgiving for their relief from A LONG i'm
prisonment "away down below" Music-in
the hedges, and in old walls and abou, the
doorstep, from black. plossy.coated GENTRY
chirping their yesner HYMNS Nusic-;n tho
groves, from feathered songsters who gree, old
Sol as he ones the gates of dnv. with t6c;r vol
come warble; and offer up their evening nrnver
as the portals close behind him
Music-in the murmuring of the gentle
breeze, and in the fury of the tornado.
Music-at the crystal spring, in the rivulct
ana pehbly bruuh, in the rushing, mighty river,
and the foaming cataract.
Music-by the shingly beach, as it echoes
back the ripple tones OF ocean; and on the
iron-holnd coast where the deep diapason of
old Neptune is mingled with the treble shrieks
Of the enraged tempest.
Musc-in the air, from the ceaseless hum Of
NIFTY insects, to the hoarse mutterngs of dis
tant thunder, and the awful crash of the light
ning's shaft as it rives the gnarled oak. Music
everywhere, each and all in harmony and
part of Natures grand symphony.
Hope-what word to conjure thought
How pregnant with happiness or misery as it
is realized or deferred. liopes-for health and
long litei wealth and its surroundings; friends
with their smiles and kindly sympathies.-
Hopes-of childhood and youth, looking for
ward ardently to the period of maturer age,
when they shall take their places upon the stage
of active life Hope's-of manhood in search
of fame or wealth, that he may spend his de-
clinng years in case and luxury, and 70 down
to the grave honored and esteemed. Ilone's-
of age in a bssful Immortality beyond the
tomb.
Hope's-of the good. that all wrong and op
preston shall cease and sin and sorrow be
bunshcd, and succeeded by period of millen-
ia glory of the poor, that he may be rich and
surrounded with all the appliances of wealth
of the rich, that he NAV be richer, and see his
Golfers filled to safety and count his gold by
millions of the asIirant for political honor.
that he may reach the topmost round of the
ladder of fame, and from the giddy height look
down upon those who started with him in the
race, with proud satisfaction of the military
genius, that he may distinguish himself ON the
field OF battle. and be rewarded with promo
tion, and his brow "bound with victorious
wrealhs ;"-of the legal aspirant. that he may
win fame and honors at the bar. and in the
Senate house, and hold his auditory entranced
by his thrilling cloQuence of the religious
teacher, that he may exemplify his doctrines in
his daily walks and conversation. and thereby
lead men up from the groveing and sensual
things of earth, to worship in that temple not
made with hands, eternal, in the heavens of
the disciple of Aisculapius, that he NAV, by the
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