New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-03-01
SPRINd HAS COME.

How suggestive is a comparative me-
taoro,ocical table: Who can glance at
ono at this season and not realize that it
is a great privilege to be in New Orleans?
Here spring really comes at the appointed
time. We inhale her balmy breath and
see her green robe, perfumed with violets
and spangled with daisies. trail over the
palpitating earth, while the ''rutfian
blasts" of ,tern old winter still tyrannize
over the less favored regions northward,
and his hard and icy grasp holds nature
bound up in her winding sheet. The
force of the contrast, paltry as such a
feeling is, undoubtedly heightens our
sense of enjoyment: and as we revel in
the joys Of spring, and indulge i'll the free
out-of-door life it brings in this delicious
climate. We cannot but remember With
shiyering compassion the unfortunates
whose chief open-air amusement consists
in the paralysing pleasure of a spring
sleigh-ride To love- of nature, that is
to every human being not warped by
sordid passions nor crushed By carking
cares there is rapture i'll the peculicr
features Of spring that never pals. a per-
petual series of sweet promises more eX-
hilerating than the sweeter fulilment.
The blossoms of the fruit trees the bud
ding foliage Of the ornamental shrubbery
the delicious fragrance OF the violet.
sweet olive, early roses, and orange bios
SONS Though little late this year. they
are almost out) the brilliant azure Of our
Southern sky, dappled with fieecy clouds:
the soft air that breathes over the flowers,
stealing and giving odor;' the voices
of the birds warbling their love lays-all
help to tune the heart to love and to wor-
ship. for such enjoyment is worship when
We gratefully recognize its source. "How
fortunate it y once exclaimed IA gushing
daughter of Green Erin, THAT spring in
New Orleans comes in Lent. The com
mandments of the church do not forbid
us to enjoy its pleasures; and surely they
are ample compensation for the abstin
ence from balls and parties Ample
compensation, indeed: for they are
pleasures in which all ages and all classes
can participate. Childhood, in them
| sees, if it does not recognize, its own i'm
age; the heart Of youth beats in unison tc
the love-tune which all nature is playing
age watches the efforts of the tender buds
to pierce the hard, tough bark, and re
joices in their success as a prophecy of the
renewed life and renewed youth in store
for all Even poverty is rich now; for the
unenvious eye owns all that it loves tt
look upon; the open heart all that it en-
| JOYS. Nature is universal possession
and the wealth, keep up their beautiful
places for the pleasure of the poor.
Every spring renews the joys Of para
disc: for it is the Only season when out-of
door life is perfectly pleasant. Adam ant
Eve could not have enjoyed their bowe
| in winter; could not have comfortabl,
! cultivated their flowers and fruit in sum
mer Toll came in with the seasons; ant
with them departed the peculiar bliss o
paradise; blissful idleness, enjoyment no
earned by previous exertion, but arising
from the simple consciousness of life:
Joy still felt by all in the bright balm,
spring time. but only then.