The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1862-12-16
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.t ccEsILu nH DECEMBER
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ime, "Opens % - he treasury u IT,
efaiur aad scicaec. and ihe Adysnia
ee a reirospcgsion and selfcosnmun'
,oa. Wei May she farmer, tmhusd
uI,h iiankfal apd hopeful spirit, e.
claia 9Th The poes
Tss wsrt : 6oar. 80 sBd : asaF,
fssat hanfs b. Gets aua tAaer.
~ lsa1sir. ue48as is ihs rear.
GxaaFassas ArNtA. frusu hta
Ihsys : hash a - su8 hrs
hes grsng hands haFs esouns4 us
Their 3 i hesyea - abors
fhsrs : g aesrea aigana ~
The earth Is frozen, tie imple-
ments Of hasbandry have gone into
winicr quartersi the herds and hoeks
the trees, the shrubs, the grasses
are all bybernaiiug We have reach.
~ arosi.ss sieso, attained another
segment IN The round Of lie, and en-
riched BY The fruits Of our previous
tolls. we can conieutedly and quietly
rest from our labors. We can now
~a0alhg round the evening Orc
AID crack the iokes that neEer tire"
The best period Of rest in the circle
Of the wide year Is now at hand
The business Of culliyating the earth
and securing the crops,--the appro-
pirate employment Of the husband
MANS completed. He has passed
through the busy and laborious cares
Of seed-time and tillage, the joys Of
the early and later harvests, and has,
in the spirit Of true thankiulness and
the cheering songs Of Harvest Home,
welcomed the last Of his crops 10 bis
cellars and bis barns. The last flow
ers have faded--the frost have turned
Geld and fores, TO a russell brown, and
iiie leaves that during the kaleidos-
eopir changes Of maturer autumn, put
o. aeh gorgeous coloring, are now
changed to a sad and sombre hue, and
scattered over the icy ground. The
F0seaic hues Of summer no longer
brighten The skies, which look chill
add wintry, and even the few clear
days that are occasionally interper-
ed through the solar chain Of diurnal
changes, are succeeded by cloud and
storm. Nature bids us pause and
Look back over the vanished year
The paling stars, the purpling dawn
and the rising sun usher in his morn
ing, and the splendid coloring Of the
evening heavens, with their ever new
and changing features of illuminated
clouds, are his for perpetual possess
ion. lie is daily in the school Of
Nature--of the Great Architect whose
silent teaching, more eifectually than
those OF the Garden, the Porch or the
Acadcmy--of sage or sophist, open up
to his vision the pathways Of knowl-
edge, and Of the mysterious love whose
essence is diyinest lore.
The farmer, Of oil men, has the best
opportunity to cultivate his taste
lie may not, indeed, have access to
10 tho studios Of the painter and sculp-
t0r, or the privilege Of gazing upon
Tie august ereations--the breathing
wonders Of genius on canvas or in
marble but he has the privilege of
studying the forms fresh from the
hand of a Master infinitely greater
,han any that have graced the earth,
and whose inimitable and unaproach-
able productions meet him at every
turn. In comparison with these, what
are the treasures Of the richest col.
lec,ions and galleries Of artY There
may be no Apollos, no Psyches, no
Vcnuscs, no nude embodiments Of
ideal beauty and loneliness, to excite
unlloly passions--no exaggerated rep.
reservations Of heroism, to arouse
sympaihlcs "hich should never End
place in the human breast but be
may gaze on forms and developments
which have n refining and elevating
influence upon his mind and affections,
and from which he may derive instruc.
ton that, IL taken in the proper spirit,
cannot fail to make linn both
"a wiAeF ard better man .
II he is a cultivated man, this is Of
infinitely more importance than the
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