. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers . UNFOLDING BUDS Mav 5th. fi^ ^^s, UR literature of nature contains nothing,m \ it seems to me, more happy, as a tran- \ Jy script of the pageant of the vernal sea- ^£**&r son in New England, than that quaintcalendar in the provincial tongue ofHosea Biglow,* Sunthin in the Pastoral Line, fromwhich the following is quoted. What mirrored truth is in this picture: The maple crimsons to a coral reef;The saffern swarms swing off from all the willers,So plump they look like yaller caterpillars ;Then gray hoss-ches
. Sharp eyes; a rambler's calendar of fifty-two weeks among insects, birds and flowers . UNFOLDING BUDS Mav 5th. fi^ ^^s, UR literature of nature contains nothing,m \ it seems to me, more happy, as a tran- \ Jy script of the pageant of the vernal sea- ^£**&r son in New England, than that quaintcalendar in the provincial tongue ofHosea Biglow,* Sunthin in the Pastoral Line, fromwhich the following is quoted. What mirrored truth is in this picture: The maple crimsons to a coral reef;The saffern swarms swing off from all the willers,So plump they look like yaller caterpillars ;Then gray hoss-chestnuts leetle hands unfold,Softern a babys be at three days old. Here is another complete and exquisite touch : Young oak leaves mist the side-hill woods with pink.* The Biglow Papers. By James Russell Lowell. UNFOLDING BUDS 49 Where is the artist who would lay his canvas besideit as a talisman to memory alone? With the begin-ning of May the woods are full of color; there is a re-flection of autumn in the tender foliage tints; there arebursting buds and budding leaves that mist the hillswith pink and wh
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