Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1867-02-27


All these golden months of my soourn in glo-
riou, old Vermont, have been in maze of de
lghtiul bewilderment, hardly realizing where
was, whether in the body OF out of the body. /
have been lost among scenes so wondrousy love-
~ and grand that have had 40 desire to he found
Like one in a pleasant dream, wandering about
some strange aud beautiful place, so radiant, ro-
mantle and charming in all its aspects, he fears
even in his sleep, it may prove TO Ice only the
bright vision of dream, - have / tremblugly
dreaded and shrupk from a rude awakening lest
my El,sium. where il was long delicious traus-
port Of joy to look out of the windows Of the
soul, should vanish into thin air.
NY sil,ing soul sos ,, 'uy
Aq qi, Fl. Ara ,..i ing ne hlr,,if away
If not quite heaven, not far from it; the vesti-
bule, the gateway, the broad avenue Of most roy
al splondor leading thither, and every hilltop a
Pisgah with the promised land iull IA view The
prospect has frequently seemed 20 wear vague,
familiar look to my fancy, and great vistas were
suddenly illuminated with flashes of recollection
that had once lived here ia some remote age
past, and keenly alive 10 the marvellous beauty
and grandeur of the scene that sin and time could
not altogether eilace it from memory. Thus near
~ through the seasons Of the revolving year have
been, with the most ready compliance LOST and
seeking no thread out of such labyrinth OF per-
petua wonders, but rather trying TO entangle my
self the more.
read the letters Of travellers during the sum
mer who proiessed TO have passed within hear
ing,--the two lheodures will serve for an exam
Pile. The one wrote about a superb team, the
lion, Mr., Puhmeup, and a magnificent hotel, and
incidentally alluded to the scenery. The other
banded terms with some Sir Oracle ON nature,
and touched upon the mountains as IT he. had
caught glimpse of them from the ear windows.
| did not believe either OF them had actually been
here ! judged It was only pair of smart adv
thing agents for Vermont still continued to be
fairy land 10 me, as yet untrodden by any of those
perpatetcs that write for tayerus aud book con
Germs under the shadow and ON the summit of
Mansfield II ever here, their eyes were surely
holden by the divinity OF the place, for yenal
dissertation Of his abode.
Now aud then, standing upon some emiuence, /
have heard the shril neigh Of the iron horse with
lis long black train laundering up the valley from
the great furnaces where poor swelteTlng human
" is crowded together in the cities, but his track
and tramp were always Ear below he did not in
wade my domain, and only excited my pity for the
| iostling, frantic rabhle, burning and burnt by
fierce desire after the things that perish with the
using. The spell that cnthralled me was unbrok-
en-. | still lived on in the outer court OF some
heavenly paradise. But | have it now lit has
come To me- at last; | know where am This il
none other than the land that so kndled our
young imaginations in reading the cassics--tl G
land that Homer immortalized in verse, and
Herodotus in prose-
In mountaq and vale, in hill and dale, ia haunt,
/ for nymph and naad, in all that external natur,
can furnish 10 quicken spiritual impulse aud uplif
the soul Of man. this is Greece-Greece waitinl
| IN patient repose for the fiery sway of mammoi
10 cease, when her children to the " manor born
| shall drink m the inspiration that ows down from
her llelicon aud Parnassus, RESTING the Tyre o
the muse, ply the pencil Of Parhassus aud Apelles
and the ehisel Of Phidias and Praxiteles again
The groves of Attica, the craggy heights o
Olympus, the streams, the lakes, the fountains o