The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1893-11-10
AMID NATURES BEAUTIFUL HAUNTS.

Lovely Autumn! when October filings
Her beautiful robes DER created things,
When the streams, and brooks are swollen with
rain,
The pi1me crested goldenrods yellow again.
When on hillside and mountain each towering
bole
Have flung out their banners of crimson and
gold,
And on the gray, rugged lodges, mid messy
beds
Cinging creepers are sv aging, all gorgeous in
The grav.coated squirrels are sounding their
call
From the depths of the wild wood, where the
brown nuts fall.
soft dreamy haze wraps hillside and lea.
And dim to our vision are the sails on the sea.
From East Rocks summit, so massive and
grand
How lovely the picture of the sea and land.
Where sounds come to us like sweet, distant
chimes,
Mingled with voices of whispering pines.
AT our feet. far below, one sees, with delight
The City of Elms, half concealed. half in sight.
o, that lovers of beauty could stand with me
here,
And gaze on the scene, both distant and near.
On mountain and bill, DER woodland and lea.
The elm crowned city. and grand restless sea.
Oh! It's all so beautiful meath the suns mellow
RAJ,
AS If touched by the wand Of some fairy or fay
This grand view awakens memories of another
rair scene,
Der which presides, charmlngly, Natures fair
Queen.
Oft have looked on the picture, 30 fair.
And drank In great draughts of that sweet,
healthful air,
There's broad, bending river, and clear rush
ing rills.
And beautiful town, nesting like gem mids
the hills,
Then there's grand old Wantastquet, dressed
In crimson and brown
Ever keeping his watch DER tho river and town.
From It's foot to the summit, o road winds
hither and thither.
Amid grand rugged lodges. through openings
and cover.
And from It's observatory, All! how the grand
scene changes,
As one looks away towards the distant blue
ranges,
Lying between, are lovely Views of woodland
ana dell,
And DER all Autumn has woven Its wonderou
spell,
These views we may liken to pearls, strung tc-
geher,
But the falrest and brightest is the town by TIE
river.
The lovely Cascade is another sweet scene,
Ito foreground the blue arch, its back ground OF
green.
In Its sylvan niche, its waters sparkling and
foaming
Meath the deep, cool shade, like midsummer's
gioaming.
is waters glide away towards the broad. d,mp.
ling river,
Twist nodding white daisies, and weet-sented
clover,
md lis surface mirrors many buttercup's
face
IRE It jcyously leaps to the rivers embrace |
IA! beautiful Brattleboro, you will Ger be to
revelation of beauty, grand prophesy.
% wond.r so many churches rear their tall
steeples up,
+, that their pastors are eloquent, and their
hearts filed with hope.
o wonder poverty and crime is but q modlcum !
there
r soul debasing intemperance, as a rule, is so
rare,
lille br athing such air. and midst such re ]
fnement and grace, Z
8 people must be happy where there's naught
to abase.
ut my eyes may behold, and my heart be
flied,
y reason comprehend, and my soul be thrilled
ith what may feel. and hear. and see
Gods grand works as presented to me.
IAN but look on, my eyes blessed by the scene,
can but list to the voice of bird. leaf and =
stream, A
II alas I've no language my thoughts to en- i
press
beautiful Brattleboro in her October dress,