Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1864-05-11

during the wintry season which heralded
their advent. Violets are enough Of
of themselves, in their fairy sweetness,
to recreate within us new longings and
biggest. thoughts. And Mrs. Southey
says of the season which paints the
ground when the frost-fetters are first un-
loosed -
- gaze upon her violet beds.
Laburnams golden-tressed, .a Hua.ua ~ .
Her fower-spiked almonds breathe perfume
From lilac and syringa bloom, ~
uuo And cry / love Spring best. -, O, p 'fi,y
Dormant or depraved must be that mind
which fails to derive a. feeling of eleya-
ting and refined delight, a soft and
dreamy calm. from the contemplation Of
these aromatic gems--gems that grace
the bosom of the fecund mother of us all
-jewelry. wondrously beautiful and ra-
diant,made of Heaven, with which to en-
rich and adorn her regal vesture Hap
is the condition of such, who cherish sor-
did thoughts of speculation in gold or
stocks to the exclusion Of all healthy rel
ish and study of these little enamelled
beauties So deliciously refreshing are they
to our vision Gas we now look at bunch
freshly. cropped. having been placed by a
dainty, loving, and considerate hand up
no our table--a hand belonging to wifely
body, and well symbolized by the delicate
violet before u.s. that we would construct,
as did LinDaus, dial of the modest
flowers, inactive of their time of expand.
ing and dying; so that by planting them
in such manner as that each succeeding
hour blossom should unfold, the time
could be accurately expressed, without re-
course to human arti6ce. Indeed, we
would have the woodland exquisltes al
ways before US. We would colloquy with
them, hear them Whisper in their strange
dialect, the phenomena of their birth and
daily life, sleep while they sleep, (for it
need not be said that plants do sleep,)
laugh while they laugh, cry when they
cry, and 1--WE could almost add in our en-.
thusiastic fondness for the pets) die when
they die! '.'' l'95a ia'm2 sai go
And then, think of the wealth Of fra
GRANGE common to our May-fowers New
er SO divinely sweet seems the flower
breath, as in spring-time Love itself
does not preserve more absolutely its in-
exhaustibleness while most profusely dis
pensing it. Touching the perfume of fow-
ers, Leigh Hunt has happily said. +" Their
odor has material basis, though we can
not detect it by our finest tests. What
millions Of millions Of atoms must 90 to
the formation of even a single gust of per-
fume. Yet this goes on through seconds,
minutes, hours. days, weeks, and ceases
only with the health Of flower petals.
Where, then, in these pctals-these thin.
unsubstantial, m.fakes-may we look
to find stored up all these liberal sup
plies?. Where, indeed? and if they are
not stored up, but newly created as given
forth--is not that even more wonderful
Would that any one could show us tho
nature and modes Of operation of such
miraculous chemistry gi5a, aG, yr,a
! One of the earliest harbingers Of the
spring is the Daisy, (Eyecf Day) Ev-
cry one will remember the quaint lines Of
Chaucer, as we recite the.n -.
--" Of all the aoures in the mede,
Than love most these houres OF white and rede,
Such that men called daisies in our toun, .;,fl.
To them have so great affection"
Wordsworth calls them very prettily,
"thc pearl Of spring, whose home is every
where" A certain poetical superstition
is attached to this flower, which possessed
the hearts Of rustic swains aud lasses,
not many years ego. 1t was a custom
with these simple-hcarted people. says our
authority, when they desired to ascertain
whether a professod attachment was sim
cere, for the trusting parties to pull off,
one by one. the white rays Of the flower.
saying alternately, "Does he love me ?"
..docs he not ?" until the daisy was bereft
Of its corolla. If the first appeal happens
to occur at the last ray, the fondness is
believed reliable, and the event auspic.
ious. ai1 Fee ~ af'aH Hps #9ae
4 Ebenezer Elliott has most beautiful
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