Green fields and whispering woods; or, The recreations of an American "country gentleman"; embracing journeys over his farm and excursions into his library . h. Birds with soulful voices, exquisitely-dyed AND SO DULL! 45*7 flowers witli honeyed fragrance, musically mummring beesand otter insects, trees, sparkling running-waters, or placidponds, rainbows, stars, sunsets, cloud-curtains, evening zeph-yrs, dews, grasses,— and we — ah, so bhnd, deaf and dull ofall perception! But a full chapter were not too much for aiconsideration of this subject. Ihave woven shrouds of airIn a loom of hurr
Green fields and whispering woods; or, The recreations of an American "country gentleman"; embracing journeys over his farm and excursions into his library . h. Birds with soulful voices, exquisitely-dyed AND SO DULL! 45*7 flowers witli honeyed fragrance, musically mummring beesand otter insects, trees, sparkling running-waters, or placidponds, rainbows, stars, sunsets, cloud-curtains, evening zeph-yrs, dews, grasses,— and we — ah, so bhnd, deaf and dull ofall perception! But a full chapter were not too much for aiconsideration of this subject. Ihave woven shrouds of airIn a loom of hurrying light. For the trees which blossoms bear, And gilded them with sheets of bright;I fall upon the grass like loves first kiss;I make the golden flies and their fine bliss; I paint the hedge-rows in the lane,And clover white and red the pathways bear; I laugh aloud in sudden gusts of rainTo see the ocean lash himself in air;I throw smooth shells and weeds along the pour the curling waves far oer the glossy reach;Swing birds nests in the elms, and shake cool mossAlong the aged beams, and hide their loss.* *Channing : Tlie MOTTOEg FOR KSiPTER JIM. Lxook how the floor of bjeavenIs thick inlaid ?witl] patine§ of bright gold ;Th)epe§ rjot th)e §ir)allest orb whicl] fetjou beh)olde8t^ut in hjis ngotior) like ar) arjgel quiriqg to the yourjg-eyed cherubim :Such hapmorjy i§ ir) immoptal souls. Shakespeare: Merchant of Venicii, ^ wilderrjess of sweets, for J^ature bjereW^antons as ir) her pringe, ar)d plays at -willl^er vipgir) farjcies- Milton : Paradise Lost, BookV. (2orr)e fopth, conge foptlg ! prove all the tinge will gain jFop JMatupe bids the best and rjevep bids in vain. BsiSI JONSOII. 458
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