New England bygones . thistle and mullein an<l liardliack : the over-hanging trees, the fallen fruit of which was lawtid plunder; thenear wood; the far-otf mountains; the blue sky overhead; thesunlio-ht; the shadows; the moving life of the scene. You see 204 NEW ENGLAND BYGONES. the traveller coming down the thread of a higlnvay on the distanthill; the farmers daughter spreading her clothes to bleach inthe orchard; working-men and oxen in the fields ; the shimmerof the near stream. You hear the brooks liabblo and the humof the insects; the song of Ijirds and the drowsy undertone ofnature. Y
New England bygones . thistle and mullein an<l liardliack : the over-hanging trees, the fallen fruit of which was lawtid plunder; thenear wood; the far-otf mountains; the blue sky overhead; thesunlio-ht; the shadows; the moving life of the scene. You see 204 NEW ENGLAND BYGONES. the traveller coming down the thread of a higlnvay on the distanthill; the farmers daughter spreading her clothes to bleach inthe orchard; working-men and oxen in the fields ; the shimmerof the near stream. You hear the brooks liabblo and the humof the insects; the song of Ijirds and the drowsy undertone ofnature. You see and feel it all,—the onward processes of life ;the unerring growth of the year ; the resistless tramp of much would you give to leap back for a day upon the oldgoal-ground, that you might lie upon the grass, a scholar and adreamer, and again watch that narrow landscape, which grew intoyou with a fruitful minuteness, and which has been the stablegroundwork of the best landscapes of your maturer
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