Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1866-09-21
For the Standard.
Beauty Everywhere.

: "There is beauty in the rounded
wood, dark with heavy foliage in
IN laughing fields, and dinted hills, the
valley and its lake-there is beauty
in the gullies, beauty on the cliffs,
beauty in the sun and shade, in the
rocks and rivers, seas and plains :;
the earth IS full Of beauty
Prou. Philosophy.
How does the heart swell with
gratitude while contemplating the
beauties Of creation all around what
emotions thrill through every fibre Of
our being! what joy and bliss fills
the soul Of every true lover of nature,
and of natures God. Why do we
not Iioo more scih pure and simple
nature; O! how much happier and ho-
lier should we be to wander out alone
amid her ever instructive beauties,
and listen to her gentle teachings,
and drink in her all prevailing spirit of
tr@hfutness and peace
How much there is to awaken
thought-tO cleve to its verge--to
call forth from the depth Of our ma
lures new powers and faculties-t0
warm into dormant affections and
Sympathies OF our higher being, and
to quicken US in right discharge of
social, moral and religious duties to
God, and to each other. Let US all
study nature in her simplicity and
loneliness more, and the fotties and
errors of our fellow beings less!
''There is a pleasure in the painless woods
There is society where none intrudes."
Yea, and such society and pleasure
too, as none but natures true worship
pcrs can appreciate and enjoy. Srci-
ETY. into which the gay triher or the
thOughtless deyotee OF fashionable life
is never admitted. Pleasures which
are as much superior to those found
in the weak frivolous things Of earth,
as the lofty, towering intellect is su-
perior to animal instinct and passion.
Here we meet no tawning sycophants
or smooth tongued deceiVers-no en-
viOus or jealous spirits to watch with
eager eyes our mOvemenJs-Or truni-
pet-tongued scandalizers ready TO
blast our brightest hopes and wither
our freshest buds Of promise. None
none ct earth's unhoIy angels minister
before natures blessed affairs. All
there is peace, purity and unchangin@
fidelity, and truth. In this God
out ter temple, the high and low, the
noble and ignobIe, tnaster and servant,
are admitted impartially, no seats re
served for tavorites. Nature is con
tinually teaching US the impartiallity
of the great Creator.
Virtue and intelligence are the OH
" PASSPORTS required to admit all TO
her rich banquets. Intelligence hts
the veil which cOnceals her rarest
beauty from the ignorant and thought
less, while virtue feasts aud reveIs
amid the countless realms OF beauty !;
for the earth is drowned in beauty
Yea, beauty hideth everywhere that
Wisdom child may seek her. and
having found the gem Of price may
set it in Gods crown. Beauty nes-
tleth III the rose bud, or waiketh the
firmament with planets; she is heard
/ in the beetles evening hymn and
shouteth III the mathis 0t the sun, the
cheek Of the peach, Is glowing with
her smile, her spIendor bIazeth i'll the
lightning; she is the dryad of the
woods, the naiad OF the streams, her
golden HAIR hath tapeatried the silk
worms silent chamber and to her
measured harmonies the wild waves
beat in time, with twinkling feet at
even tide She danceth in the meadow.
or, like a Titan lies stretched across
the ridgy Alps, she rising in her veil
I of mist a Venus from the waters,-
Men gaze upon the loyeliness, and
10 it is beautiful, exceedingly.
Reader, study nature il thou would
be happy, wise and good.