Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-10-05
A Vacation Ramble.
RuMFoRp CORNER. October 3, ISL

To the Editor Of the Journal;
Ho, We jewellers in the close and dusty city, shut
in by high brick walls, and drudging in the tread
mill of daily life, with the mecurv. even in these
October days, pointing to so or 90 degrees in the
shade, come forth from the cirking cares of busi
ness and the mud and mire of politics. into the
green fields and forests of the country. fever days
o. hours were designed and fitted for recreation and
rural travel, these the ones. We left the Ken
nebec on the first day of October equipped for a
short excursion into the interior. The sunshine
and the air, the roads and the scenery were charm
ing and delightful from the hour we started. The
trees are clothed with the varegated hines of early
autumn, with here and there naples and sumacs
gorgeous with crimson or scarlet the deep brown
of the ash, the yellow gold Of the beech and all
the various coors that the trees and shrubs of the
roadside forests assume Thus we rode over the
hills and valleys that lie between the kennebec
and Androscoggn, viewing the green fields and
pastures, verdant even in October. the apple or
chards bending with their load of ripe and golden
fruit, the broad cultivated acres giving evidence
of abundant crops of rich corn and grain the men
and boys gathering in the potatoes, the cattle
grazing in their fat pastures and all the various
sights and scenes of prosperous rural lfe
Was it a poet who, with Ibis eye in fine frenzy
rolling" pronounced dancing to be the poetry of
moion"i If %, he was one who literally was "of
Imagination all compact, and had little kuowl-
edge of the reslitv. Talk of shaking your feet
and hopping about in hot room hour aft err hour
to the music Of an old fiddle, being the poetry Of
motion Before the high court of criticism con
Err oh ahsur ri 6pa hau
to submit another view. Take light open wagor
with horse that needs no driving, and on the
first and second days of October, with fe W pleas
ant companions equipped in similar manner ride
through beautiful country. along smooth and
well made roads, pausing where you please to
view the charming vistas of scenery, and going
fast and as far you choose. I'D If this is
not the poetry Of motion, what Is it?
Beautiful as was the first days ride to South
Livermore, yesterday far exceeded it. The road
from that place towards Canton Mills, passing
along the banks Of the pond for mile or two,
with glimpses of the water shining through the
nterstices of the intervening trees, is simply de
ghtful. At one point, crimson maple crowned
projecting point on the opposite bank of the
pond, and the water being perfectly still, the re-
heN''cu VI s"S ''SSo @hu shtuootfy III tue utptns
below, was just as distinct as the reality above,
the color even of the maple foliage being as
vivid 10 the water as in the air. Had q painter
been there, he would have established his repata.
tion If he could have succeeded in portrayng q
counterfeit prcsentment" of the lovely scene.
Bat time would fail to enumerate the be suties of
the scenery we witnessed on our journey up the
pc,uresqe Androscoggin to this point. And if
time would allow, our feeble powers of descrip-
ton are wholly inadequate to picture what must
be seen in Older TO be appreciated. We ought
not to forget, however, 10 mention that all the way
along ride, we were solaeed by the "melo.
dious song Of birds, namely, that charming bird
of the forests and fields of Maine the lovely crow,
crying in musical tones "cah! cab cab p a
This morning am writing at an open window,
in 1.-THE second story Of the hotel. with view on the
opposite side of the river of the pretty village of
Rumford Point with its white spires pointing
heavenward, and with q background of rocky,
wood-crowned cliffs, and through an opening q
view OF the road that leads to Audover, fanked
by hills and mountains on either hand. The
morning is lovely and clear, as was last evening,
when our party walked to the river and chartered
the rope ferry boat to take the river and
back by moonlight.
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