Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1866-11-21
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LASoILLE VALLEY,
JEFrERsoNNILLE, W., Oct. l, 1866 z
Dear Mr.. Editor The grassbopper v
is no longer burden, nor Sirius terror
and the rain Of terror which has held US
iu in doordurance more or less for forty I
days and forty nights has passed, and the
sunshine has set the forests all ablaze,
and us spectators all agog and all amaze
whether each successive autumn and spring
really brings richer and more lux
uriant glory than its predecessor, or
whether year after year our appreciation
becomes wore expanded and elevated. is a
question unsolved. and let it be; We don't
care to know everything at once. We
have all been told as much as once or
twice in our life time about one man who
did get his work 'all done up" and then
sat down and wept because be had moth
ing more to do. have always been
afraid of knowing or doing too much ever
since, and so have laughed as much at
what didn't know, as wept at what |
did
As to any description of this brilliant sea-
sou, artist and poet and moralist have es-
Isayed it in vain ever since the world be-
gan, for aught can say, certainly ever
since the world began to me. 1t never
has been described. | am sure you will
he very glad to know have come to this
conclusion, as shall not be very likely
10 attempt it myself, and you will there
by cscure one infictiou at least
When mortal man or woman can create
: one of all those little leaves that fire >the
forests with their countless flames until it
seems to us that the world is wrapped in
its last dissolvipg blaze, when Que artist
can create single ray of the light that
+, flashes into Instant life those myriad sha.
l des of color almost as transparent as ether,
! here flushing into hectic Of evanescen'
! delight, there sombering into the 'rrsse'
: shades of serious thought anon scintillat
. ing into considerations Of twinikling fan
cies, and again with one universal ctful'
/; gencc of color illuminating from horizon
8 to horizon like the apocalypse OF heaven
n " noontide. then can some memorial bt
9 perfected of Natures TRANSPORTATION II
i this the crowning of all Gods cycling
II seasons. Do you hear this delicious still
% ness .? Forit can be heard in the locust
L drowsy song, in the round, mufied, crea
d INV fullness of the waters flow, lise tn
st rich tones Of loving human heart subdu
y ed in the dreamy atmosphere which envel
IS opes its approaching completeness of life
y And could we---as have said before
IS advance towards the close Of our earth
10 career with the consciousness OF havin
le fulfilled the laws of our being as faithful
er as Nature has hers. our exit would be a
TO brilliant, and the gate Of death becom
ut to us only the illuminated way to ne
p and higher life in fresh spring-tin
ge hereafter. All haIlto the increasing ligf
ey of a new era, 10 which the mistaken tcacl
he ipgs Of the past are fast giving way to
30 more cheerful faith, assuring US that OF
Ike autumn is but guaranty for anoth'
of spring, denuding Death of the grim VI
u age he once wore! saaa
en- The young have long enough an'is'p
ng ted death as penalty instead OF q pron
ey Use, and the old have long enough ante
he pated the grave as a place of deposit whe
to their worn out bones aud slDews were
await the summons for them to gather
,er their mortal dust and through some inc
les plicable sympathy become unity on
ng more, and pessntable at the judgme
of seat the material to triumph ,o'
10 the spiritual and confront st. Paul ia
It'll to face. Revelation, science, poetry, !
,ad seasons, all read differently in these lat'
all duys. aud it is lifelong journey to ha
ccd been born in them
at Oar meadows, refreshed by the late
uc- uudations. are as green as the meade
the carpets flesh from the looms Of june, .
Gu, aud eau imagine the contrast which