Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-01-09
For the Daily State Sentinel.

For the Daily State Sentinel.
The Year and her Twelve Children.
January, the Alpha of the year, comes spin
ming his cold wool for the mountains and mead
ows, fit covering for the earth, so that the eyes
of the young yer may rest on its spOtless purity.
February comes next. He differs but little from
his elder brother January. Then March reaches
down his strong arms and shouts hoarse vel
come to his eldest sister, smiling April. She
comes-her sweet face crowned with sunbeams
and swathed in clouds, but tickle as her sex-the
sunbeams often turn to clouds and her smiles to
tears. Then comes the timid May and in her
quiet way, works wonders. She plants her green
feet on the mountains and covers the solid ma
sonry of the hills with her blossoms of white and
purple Her soft fingers shall heal, with green
ligaments and fragrant dews the wound which
the fierce battle of winter has left on earth; and
through her sweet sunshine and pleasant showers
God shall speak to His children of the seed time
and harvest. Then comes June, first-born and
fairest child of summer The earth stands up in
the new green drapery of spring to await her
advent. And up ON the mountains and down in
the valley, her biography shall be written in bios
SONS of red, white, and purple, long after her
bright locks have lain on the heart of July
August comes up from the tropics with slow
and stately tread, to cool his fiery heart with night
draughts of the south wind The green earth
grows very calm as he winds his hot arms about
it; low hymn rocks the summer to its
death. Have YOU any of its hours with
| golden well done?' Are you quite as ready
to meet life's September as the summer is
to meet hers Each hour has brought its mission.
whether it found you in your quiet homes or amid
tba iatia Of fasbi
But remember as each day saws to its twilight
farewell, to YOU it bears into the ''white calm of
eternity the sigh and superscripton you have left
there September comes winding her necklace of
golden mist bout the mountains and stringing
her jewels along the hedges and hollows tread
ing with balmy feet the green path over which
summer pa sed smiling to her DEATH And so
Gods love appointeth the seasons; glorious in
beauty and laden with gifts they walk by us DC
tOber, the great prophet, comes in his crimson
| garments like another jeremiah pouring his deep
lamentations through the forest and fields spelling
out the years destiny in mourning and sighs it in
the evening winds. Alas. for the glory that shall
depart for the earth must put off the garments of
life for the winding sheet of death The tree
boughs dip downward with their fruitage of gold
and purple and their hands break to us the great
felst of the year." All these have a message
and ministry to the heart of those who will re-
ceive them. Witnesses sent of God the months
come Dack Win us lace 10 lace, though they have
no pulse that beat in union with the great iron
heart of the city, though their voices be not heard
amid the roar of its hot arring life; still out under
the shadow of the great rocks by the side of
sweetvoced brooks and in all quiet places we shall
find the lessons of the Great High Priest ofnature
There, under the green trees, we seem sometimes
to catch glimpses of the purple mountain ON
whose hight the White City, sits in her serene
ethereal beauty, and we feel some of the melninc
of those words, There shall be no night there .
no night of the soul as well as of the outward
life God sends to our souls new baptismal of
quiet, and we learn well life's best, truest, deep
est lesson, while there.
November, like gray headed nun. next comes
to us-sad. dim and cold with her wild night
winds and long rains. she mourns the glory that
has departed. Yet she has very sweet smiles
sometimes in the middle of the dav. and her
breezes laugh with the Golden Rod along the
hedges and the bright smile lights up the crimson
clusters winch still cling lovingly to the maple
branches. Then there are the long evenings
when you can set before the glowing crate and
Dire lm such lorious 'lkc Mlrve'" dreams Then