The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1878-05-16
From Middleton.
MAY 4TI, 1873.
SIay-Day in the Country.

MAY 4TII, 1873.
SIay-Day in the Country.
NTessrs Editors:
All hail, glorious May! The warm sea-
son comes on apace, and to the refined and
appreciative mind there Is 10 time more
fully fraught with keen and pure enjoyment
than this, the season Of buds and blossoms
All nature seems instinct with life and
energy; but to know and realize this fully
one must not tread the stone pavements or
be surrounded with the brick walls OF the
city. They must go to the woods and fields
where nature has showered her treasures
and gems of beauty with lavish hand.
Let them press the green turf, which in
depth of clouding and luxurious softness,
rivals the richest tapestries. Let them
mark the intricate tracery formed by the
shadow of the haif-grown leaves as they
are moved by the mild breeze; listen to
the sweet, clear and Joyous burstsIof melody
from the Threats of our feathered songsters;
drink deep draughts of the soul-strCngthcn-
ing, health-giYing air, which is loaded with
the perfume of flowers, with which, in per-
lection of form and delicacy of tints, the
rarest cxotics might compete III vain; for
what can excel the exquisite shading of the
apple blossoms, from the deepest crimson to
the scarcely percuptible tinge Of pink, or
the pearlv purity or snowy witness of the
pear, cherry and strawberry blossoms Let
them be lulled to Il sense of peace and rest
by the musical murmurs OF the silvcry shin
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out beneath the trees which bend protect
ingly above it, and they will be ready to
exclaim that in life no place offered to lis Is
so filled to the brim with deep, true and
pure enjoyment as in the country
4 mistaken idea seems TO prevail among
some people that life in the country and on
Il farm, pursuing the daily avocations ef
farmers life, is Incompatible with any great
degree of mental culture or Development
1t is not the occupa tion which degrades the
man, but the man that cnn9bles the occupa-
ton. In no place are we so completely re-
moved from sin and temptation in all their
alluring forms, 50 entirely surrounded by
good, true and elevating influences, As in
our quiet, happy homes in the country.
The pursuit of agriculture seems almost of
4 divine origin, for was it not the chosen
occupation of our first parents before the
serpent trailed his Shiny folds through the
fair walks of Paradise, and with his advent
came sickness and death, love of wealth,
contention and strife, with all their attend
ing evils, which made the professions neces-
sary. So it seems a. though agriculture
should be held as the most honorable Of any
employment in the grand and harmonious
workings of nature.
Poets have found some Of their richest
and truest Inspirations in the country.
Soae OF Burns best poems were written on
the banks of the softly flowing Firth, where
he was free from the influences of the town;
and what can be more charming than the
imagery OF the Garden of Eden, of Ewes
beauty of form, her quiet life and pure love
which Millions royal genius brings 50
wildly before our mental vision2 When
Madame POLAND forzook the rural life of
La Platiere to mingle in the stormy scenes
of the French revolution, she doomed her
husband to ruin and herself to the guillo-
tine. Never does the Creator speak 50
clearly, truthfuliy and directly 10 the hearts
| OF his children as through the myriad
voices of nature; never are his boundless
goodness and mercy 50 plainly uufolded as
IL her majestic working. \. T. 7,