Green fields and whispering woods; or, The recreations of an American "country gentleman"; embracing journeys over his farm and excursions into his library . thee in that portion of theearthly heritage known as the business world. In nine cases out of ten,— yea, in the proportion of nine-teen and one-half out of every score,— where thou markestthe shooting and in its rapidity and its glory it doth recallto thy mind the career of the beautiful rocket, the descentthereof — to employ ancient symbolism — shall be as thatof the stick which formeth the nucleus of the devoted toy,and the end shall be
Green fields and whispering woods; or, The recreations of an American "country gentleman"; embracing journeys over his farm and excursions into his library . thee in that portion of theearthly heritage known as the business world. In nine cases out of ten,— yea, in the proportion of nine-teen and one-half out of every score,— where thou markestthe shooting and in its rapidity and its glory it doth recallto thy mind the career of the beautiful rocket, the descentthereof — to employ ancient symbolism — shall be as thatof the stick which formeth the nucleus of the devoted toy,and the end shall be darkness and eternal oblivion! the sun all the days of Ws life, which God giveth him; for it is his por-tion.—Ecdes., v., 18. I know that there is no good in them but for a man to rejoice anddo good in his life. And also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the goodof all his labor, it is the gift of God. Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better than that a manshould rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion; for who shallbring him to see what shall be after liim? —Ecdes., III., 12, 13, 22. A PASTORAL SCENE. 357. 358 A BEAUTIFUL VISION. History maketh note mainly of those who succeed,* andthe stars which have been lost from the firmament, no mannumbereth or holdeth in recollection! How beautiful, like a vision of that promised land whichvisited the slumbers of the Israelitish wanderers in the wil-derness, would it appear to me to view thee seated, in abid-ing content, by thy cottage door, in thine own goodlydomain, which thou art now deserting, under thine ownvine and fig-tree,f the wife of thy bosom and thine olivebranches:}: by thy side, thine own flocks and herds feedingin thy fields and on thy hill-sides, thy presence an orna-ment, thy reputation a fragrance in thy community, the wholeafternoon of thy life passing like that of a bland day in ourgolden season of Indian summer! But Lingering Kemembrance of days that are no more IMonument
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