Middletown transcript., 1868-03-28
spflnnss, and ses.onaDls Renectlon..


Now that buds are beginning to blossom,
poets to peetize, flowers to bloom in open
air, ladies 10 put on new hats and spring |
habits Ito the joy and delight of fashiona-
bic nlodistes), students to yawn and in
-dulge spring fever, We suppose that WE of
the editorial staff may indulge ourselves |
and our readers to such dolce TAR nierte
reveries as come upon us, seeking express
sion in the mild sprihg-like manner Of the
season at hand. G.EFf at E.Ets If
IL will hardly, we fancy, be necessary
to inform our readers that St. Patrick
day has come, was duly celebrated, and is
gone, that spring time is upon us, and the
grassy wales and the green woodlands, the
sunny slopes, the budding flowers, full
gardens, dusty roads (but delightful rides
and drives), will soon succeed the bleak
winds, tblinding SHOWS, and milk-white
cercments of winter. This, and more than
this, they have already gathered from the
almanacs, the daily papers, and the show
windows; from the balrny air, the soft
winds, the light costumes and the daily
converse in the parlor and on the street;
and though the, changes Of the seasons,
like that Of faces, habits and stories, af-
fords great relief to writer and compo-
ser, and suggested a whole poem to Thomp-
son in whose nature was much of human
nature), it is not simply for the spring as
a new season that we refer at PRESENT.
is to bring with it and produce such
thoughts and feelings as are suggested by
it.
| There was much of wisdom and philos-
ophy in the division of the months anc sea-
sons by the Indians of this country, who
gave both, names significant of the chan
ges occurring at these periods in nature
herself and in her children. Our readers
will recall the language of Hiawatha and
the divisions of the year therein contained
and see how much of poetry possessed the
children of the forest.
What other equally important and sig
f nifcant influence this season exerts upon
the civilized and christianized dcnizens OF
the world, is matter of interesting and
not altogether uninstructive inquiry and
i it is specially to these we would at present
, advert. t4,t.t
Well and sweetly does the Laureate sing
In the Spring a fuller crimson comes upon the
, l., hi, robins breast:
In the Spring the wanton lapwing gets himself an
b. other CREST .-..s,-...
In the Spring loveler iris changes on the bur
nish d dove; it.'
In the Spring young mans fancy lightly turn:
f! to thoughts of love.
but how il touches the matden's heart anC
influences its action, or that of the ae9rlc
throughout the many thousand ramifca
d tions that feel its silent influence equal,
I, potent, a more steady and prosaic pen mus
teach US.
In the lines quoted we have only tn
: poetic, sparkling temperament laid bare
s not the whole man, soul, passion and ma
y ture. F5
= In our estimate of Eden, we feel sur
? neither writer or reader has ever though
of it in any light but that of bright beau
tiful land > of spring time and flowers an
the richest romance has always colored tn
y : happy land as "a land of eternal summer
!, = But the world (the stern, hard world)
u untitled for everlasting, all enduring good
~ required change, and that change has com
upon us in the dark and gloomy season
that so rapidly succeed the bright an
- cheering ones. What lessons such change
u teach; what thoughts they suggest, wcr
u a theme useful to preacher and worthy G
text !; but what beauties they develo
may interest and amuse the less stern mo
T. alist who g Finds tongues in trees
books in running brooks, sermons i
ID stones, and good in everything" To tn
many we know it brings no thought, II
Is Is reflection, no philosophy but that of th
~ poor shepherd, who minds his flock an
u sees the grass grow for no other purpos
( but to feed his sheep. Do we. not pit
'e thonghtand mind that. scars not beyon
such limits, and yet do we not pass ever
- - hour those whose thoughts rise not aboy
y such philosophy and such reflection, on
T., who contemplate the changes of season onl
y as they affect compilations or toilets, tt
., ., last hat or the newest bonnet?
- But the season suggests harmony, hal
u piness and content, and we cease to mo-
:, u alize, to hope for better and happier r,
~ ~ suits throughout the country, with I'll
20 y, return of bright, beautiful spring-time.
y Southern Society.