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

. Barren indeed were this world of ours,
Denied the sweet smell of beautiful flowers"
g Spring is melting into summer. as night
into the morning. Yernal beauties are
waxing supernal in their luxuriance. The
sun has looked upon us halfaskance. half
coquettishly for nearly six-month, and
now he fain would boldly court our little
satellite, i'm the hope of effecting our for
giveness for mis- cold demeanor during the
cold winter-months, which came SO harsh
ly but left SO mildly. And the earth is
element, submissive and responsive before
the suns strong witchery and passionate
embrace. as .eaais 81 aoh ai i .aE
While our pen talks with you, appre.
ciative reader, April "a word derived from
opsrso, to open. as you may remember)
has opened the shimmering gates Of the
year for the incoming Of the delicate
footed May" We-the the pens Aeshly
holder--are sitting within the genial pre-
ciucts of "Cricket Lodge" while you are
either in the far or near elsewhere :"
but the months drop off from the calen-
dar-stem in their ripeness and decay just
the same all the world over, though they
differ as to appearance and development
May--the "queen7 month"---has been q
fruitful theme to the dcvotees of the muse
from the days Of good old Chaucer down
to our own. None. however, sing more
sweetly than the "blind bard" of English
verse, of the festival month: qa'-d
1.-The fiowery May. who from her green lap
throws
The yellow cowslip and pale primrose, l.a
Hail. bounteous May, that dost inspire ...
Mirth and youth and warm desire;
Woods and groves are of thy dressing, ~ ...
Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing
Thus we salute thee with our early song, a|
And welcome thee, and wish the long,
d. In our last issue we spoke of autographs:
this week We. would also write of them !;
but they shall be composed of tho floral
h'erogiyphics which spell the name of
Him. who laid the foundations of the
worlds that feek earth's ponderous arch
way. and made the,lily as well. Flowers
are the Enthusiastically true and
beautiful---which make up the Creators
autograph With all fear and selfcon-
cealing, we would examine the diyinely-
writ emblems .,Y i..e..,...,. ,s.,a
b. Wordsworth wreathes these birthlings
of the spring-time into fragrant and at
-tractive verse - be- 44caifag fatsg
r' ..'Pansies lilies, kingcups, daisies. ita-r,
Let them live upon their praises s
-9s1 Long as there's sun that sets; 3us 4i'r
f-.; Primroses will have their glory go
Long as there are violets
prs they will have place in story" t-f
+ May is the synonym of 'beauteous buds
and swelling leaves (The word is deriv-
cd from Mdia, the brightest of the Plei.
AIDES, and tabled to have beep the daugh
ter Of Atlas; and the month is aptly
namel, for VIC deem it the happiest of the
twelve.) p The pastoral customs known to
the years that have long been buried in
the tornbof the centuries, of celebrating
May-day--whcn the youth of both sexes
with music and dancing hearts, were seen
before dawn threading their way to the
neighboring wood, there to gather branch
es and whole arm-fulls of spangled fow-
ers, with (which to decorate their rus
tic homes--we have not 4 forgotten,
though they have long since met with
disuse. iejsr d.g iaim 4iad1 a1or a.
Z" Girlish heads, half.seen and glanclng, svHi
Peeped although the leaf.lorn bowers;
And the little children. dancing. .e1
Il. Clapped their hands and cried, May fow-
ers. ~ t+"t t'"
The picturesque festival Of the May
pole, and the crowning Of the village
pride with gaycst towers doubtless iden-
tical with that Of the Romans in honor Of
Flora, called by them F9oralia, and oc-
curing on the forth Of the kalends Of
May-becomes only interesting from the
fact that our good grandmothers were per-
haps the envicd queens" on some one Of
these rural festivities, and not from any
personal participation in the jubilees.
But from the remotest period comes the
echo, to our statement-that the month
just lunsherod in is. Of all others, beloved
and luxuriated over, because Of - "
:. Its brigh. mosaics. that with storied beauty
The floor Of natures temple tesselate.aN Nl =
~ Like first love. are May fowers---to our