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She peeps brightly into my study-window, inviting me to throw it open +and create a summer atmosphere by the intermixture of her genial breath with +the black and cheerless comfort of the stove. As the casement ascends, forth +into infinite space fly the innumerable forms of thought or fancy that have +kept me company in the retirement of this little chamber during the sluggish +lapse of wintry weather; visions, gay, grotesque, and sad; pictures of real +life, tinted with nature’s homely gray and russet; scenes in dreamland, +bedizened with rainbow hues which faded before they were well laid +on,—all these may vanish now, and leave me to mould a fresh existence out +of sunshine, Brooding Meditation may flap her dusky wings and take her owl-like +Right, blinking amid the cheerfulness of noontide. Such companions befit the +season of frosted window-panes and crackling fires, when the blast howls +through the black-ash trees of our avenue and the drifting snow-storm chokes up +the wood-paths and fills the highway from stone wall to stone wall. In the +spring and summer time all sombre thoughts should follow the winter northward +with the sombre and thoughtful crows. The old paradisiacal economy of life is +again in force; we live, not to think or to labor, but for the simple end of +being happy. Nothing for the present hour is worthy of man’s infinite capacity +save to imbibe the warm smile of heaven and sympathize with the reviving earth. +</p> + +<p> +The present Spring comes onward with fleeter footsteps, because Winter lingered +so unconscionably long that with her best diligence she can hardly retrieve +half the allotted period of her reign. It is but a fortnight since I stood on +the brink of our swollen river and beheld the accumulated ice of four frozen +months go down the stream. Except in streaks here and there upon the hillsides, +the whole visible universe was then covered with deep snow, the nethermost +layer of which had been deposited by an early December storm. It was a sight to +make the beholder torpid, in the impossibility of imagining how this vast white +napkin was to be removed from the face of the corpse-like world in less time +than had been required to spread it there. But who can estimate the power of +gentle influences, whether amid material desolation or the moral winter of +man’s heart? There have been no tempestuous rains, even no sultry days, but a +constant breath of southern winds, with now a day of kindly sunshine, and now a +no less kindly mist or a soft descent of showers, in which a smile and a +blessing seemed to have been steeped. The snow has vanished as if by magic; +whatever heaps may be hidden in the woods and deep gorges of the hills, only +two solitary specks remain in the landscape; and those I shall almost regret to +miss when to-morrow I look for them in vain. Never before, methinks, has spring +pressed so closely on the footsteps of retreating winter. Along the roadside +the green blades of grass have sprouted on the very edge of the snow-drifts. +The pastures and mowing-fields have not vet assumed a general aspect of +verdure; but neither have they the cheerless-brown tint which they wear in +latter autumn when vegetation has entirely ceased; there is now a faint shadow +of life, gradually brightening into the warm reality. Some tracts in a happy +exposure,—as, for instance, yonder southwestern slope of an orchard, in +front of that old red farm-house beyond the river,—such patches of land +already wear a beautiful and tender green, to which no future luxuriance can +add a charm. It looks unreal; a prophecy, a hope, a transitory effect of sonic +peculiar light, which will vanish with the slightest motion of the eye. But +beauty is never a delusion; not these verdant tracts, but the dark and barren +landscape all around them, is a shadow and a dream. Each moment wins seine +portion of the earth from death to life; a sudden gleam of verdure brightens +along the sunny slope of a bank which an instant ago was brown and bare. You +look again, and behold an apparition of green grass! +</p> + +<p> +The trees in our orchard and elsewhere are as yet naked, but already appear +full of life and vegetable blood. It seems as if by one magic touch they might +instantaneously burst into full foliage, and that the wind which now sighs +through their naked branches might make sudden music amid innumerable leaves. +The mossgrown willow-tree which for forty years past has overshadowed these +western windows will be among the first to put on its green attire. There are +some objections to the willow; it is not a dry and cleanly tree, and impresses +the beholder with an association of sliminess. No trees, I think, are perfectly +agreeable as companions unless they have glossy leaves, dry bark, and a firm +and hard texture of trunk and branches. But the willow is almost the earliest +to gladden us with the promise and reality of beauty in its graceful and +delicate foliage, and the last to scatter its yellow yet scarcely withered +leaves upon the ground. All through the winter, too, its yellow twigs give it a +sunny aspect, which is not without a cheering influence even in the grayest and +gloomiest day. Beneath a clouded sky it faithfully remembers the sunshine. Our +old house would lose a charm were the willow to be cut down, with its golden +crown over the snow-covered roof and its heap of summer verdure. +</p> + +<p> +The lilac-shrubs under my study-windows are likewise almost in leaf: in two or +three days more I may put forth my hand and pluck the topmost bough in its +freshest green. These lilacs are very aged, and have lost the luxuriant foliage +of their prime. The heart, or the judgment, or the moral sense, or the taste is +dissatisfied with their present aspect. Old age is not venerable when it +embodies itself in lilacs, rose-bushes, or any other ornamental shrub; it seems +as if such plants, as they grow only for beauty, ought to flourish always in +immortal youth, or, at least, to die before their sad decrepitude. Trees of +beauty are trees of paradise, and therefore not subject to decay by their +original nature, though they have lost that precious birthright by being +transplanted to an earthly soil. There is a kind of ludicrous unfitness in the +idea of a time-stricken and grandfatherly lilac-bush. The analogy holds good in +human life. Persons who can only be graceful and ornamental—who can give +the world nothing but flowers—should die young, and never be seen with +gray hair and wrinkles, any more than the flower-shrubs with mossy bark and +blighted foliage, like the lilacs under my window. Not that beauty is worthy of +less than immortality; no, the beautiful should live forever,—and thence, +perhaps, the sense of impropriety when we see it triumphed over by time. +Apple-trees, on the other hand, grow old without reproach. Let them live as +long as they may, and contort themselves into whatever perversity of shape they +please, and deck their withered limbs with a springtime gaudiness of pink +blossoms; still they are respectable, even if they afford us only an apple or +two in a season. Those few apples—or, at all events, the remembrance of +apples in bygone years—are the atonement which utilitarianism inexorably +demands for the privilege of lengthened life. Human flower-shrubs, if they will +grow old on earth, should, besides their lovely blossoms, bear some kind of +fruit that will satisfy earthly appetites, else neither man nor the decorum of +nature will deem it fit that the moss should gather on them. +</p> + +<p> +One of the first things that strikes the attention when the white sheet of +winter is withdrawn is the neglect and disarray that lay hidden beneath it. +Nature is not cleanly according to our prejudices. The beauty of preceding +years, now transformed to brown and blighted deformity, obstructs the +brightening loveliness of the present hour. Our avenue is strewn with the whole +crop of autumn’s withered leaves. There are quantities of decayed branches +which one tempest after another has flung down, black and rotten, and one or +two with the ruin of a bird’s-nest clinging to them. In the garden are the +dried bean-vines, the brown stalks of the asparagus-bed, and melancholy old +cabbages which were frozen into the soil before their unthrifty cultivator +could find time to gather them. How invariably, throughout all the forms of +life, do we find these intermingled memorials of death! On the soil of thought +and in the garden of the heart, as well as in the sensual world, he withered +leaves,—the ideas and feelings that we have done with. There is no wind +strong enough to sweep them away; infinite space will not garner then from our +sight. What mean they? Why may we not be permitted to live and enjoy, as if +this were the first life and our own the primal enjoyment, instead of treading +always on these dry hones and mouldering relics, from the aged accumulation of +which springs all that now appears so young and new? Sweet must have been the +springtime of Eden, when no earlier year had strewn its decay upon the virgin +turf and no former experience had ripened into summer and faded into autumn in +the hearts of its inhabitants! That was a world worth living in. O then +murmurer, it is out of the very wantonness of such a life that then feignest +these idle lamentations. There is no decay. Each human soul is the +first-created inhabitant of its own Eden. We dwell in an old moss-covered +mansion, and tread in the worn footprints of the past, and have a gray +clergyman’s ghost for our daily and nightly inmate; yet all these outward +circumstances are made less than visionary by the renewing power of the spirit. +Should the spirit ever lose this power,—should the withered leaves, and +the rotten branches, and the moss-covered house, and the ghost of the gray past +ever become its realities, and the verdure and the freshness merely its faint +dream,—then let it pray to be released from earth. It will need the air +of heaven to revive its pristine energies. +</p> + +<p> +What an unlooked-for flight was this from our shadowy avenue of black-ash and +balm of Gilead trees into the infinite! Now we have our feet again upon the +turf. Nowhere does the grass spring up so industriously as in this homely yard, +along the base of the stone wall, and in the sheltered nooks of the buildings, +and especially around the southern doorstep,—a locality which seems +particularly favorable to its growth, for it is already tall enough to bend +over and wave in the wind. I observe that several weeds—and most +frequently a plant that stains the fingers with its yellow juice—have +survived and retained their freshness and sap throughout the winter. One knows +not how they have deserved such an exception from the common lot of their race. +They are now the patriarchs of the departed year, and may preach mortality to +the present generation of flowers and weeds. +</p> + +<p> +Among the delights of spring, how is it possible to forget the birds? Even the +crows were welcome as the sable harbingers of a brighter and livelier race. +They visited us before the snow was off, but seem mostly to have betaken +themselves to remote depths of the woods, which they haunt all summer long. +Many a time shall I disturb them there, and feel as if I had intruded among a +company of silent worshippers, as they sit in Sabbath stillness among the +tree-tops. Their voices, when they speak, are in admirable accordance with the +tranquil solitude of a summer afternoon; and resounding so far above the head, +their loud clamor increases the religious quiet of the scene instead of +breaking it. A crow, however, has no real pretensions to religion, in spite of +his gravity of mien and black attire; he is certainly a thief, and probably an +infidel. The gulls are far more respectable, in a moral point of view. These +denizens of seabeaten rocks and haunters of the lonely beach come up our inland +river at this season, and soar high overhead, flapping their broad wings in the +upper sunshine. They are among the most picturesque of birds, because they so +float and rest upon the air as to become almost stationary parts of the +landscape. The imagination has time to grow acquainted with them; they have not +flitted away in a moment. You go up among the clouds and greet these +lofty-flighted gulls, and repose confidently with them upon the sustaining +atmosphere. Duck’s have their haunts along the solitary places of the river, +and alight in flocks upon the broad bosom of the overflowed meadows. Their +flight is too rapid and determined for the eye to catch enjoyment from it, +although it never fails to stir up the heart with the sportsman’s ineradicable +instinct. They have now gone farther northward, but will visit us again in +autumn. +</p> + +<p> +The smaller birds,—the little songsters of the woods, and those that +haunt man’s dwellings and claim human friendship by building their nests under +the sheltering eaves or among the orchard trees,—these require a touch +more delicate and a gentler heart than mine to do them justice. Their outburst +of melody is like a brook let loose from wintry chains. We need not deem it a +too high and solemn word to call it a hymn of praise to the Creator; since +Nature, who pictures the reviving year in so many sights of beauty, has +expressed the sentiment of renewed life in no other sound save the notes of +these blessed birds. Their music, however, just now, seems to be incidental, +and not the result of a set purpose. They are discussing the economy of life +and love and the site and architecture of their summer residences, and have no +time to sit on a twig and pour forth solemn hymns, or overtures, operas, +symphonies, and waltzes. Anxious questions are asked; grave subjects are +settled in quick and animated debate; and only by occasional accident, as from +pure ecstasy, does a rich warble roll its tiny waves of golden sound through +the atmosphere. Their little bodies are as busy as their voices; they are all a +constant flutter and restlessness. Even when two or three retreat to a tree-top +to hold council, they wag their tails and heads all the time with the +irrepressible activity of their nature, which perhaps renders their brief span +of life in reality as long as the patriarchal age of sluggish man. The +blackbirds, three species of which consort together, are the noisiest of all +our feathered citizens. Great companies of them—more than the famous +“four-and-twenty” whom Mother Goose has immortalized—congregate in +contiguous treetops and vociferate with all the clamor and confusion of a +turbulent political meeting. Politics, certainly, must be the occasion of such +tumultuous debates; but still, unlike all other politicians, they instil melody +into their individual utterances and produce harmony as a general effect. Of +all bird voices, none are more sweet and cheerful to my ear than those of +swallows, in the dim, sunstreaked interior of a lofty barn; they address the +heart with even a closer sympathy than robin-redbreast. But, indeed, all these +winged people, that dwell in the vicinity of homesteads, seem to partake of +human nature, and possess the germ, if not the development, of immortal souls. +We hear them saying their melodious prayers at morning’s blush and eventide. A +little while ago, in the deep of night, there came the lively thrill of a +bird’s note from a neighboring tree,—a real song, such as greets the +purple dawn or mingles with the yellow sunshine. What could the little bird +mean by pouring it forth at midnight? Probably the music gushed out of the +midst of a dream in which he fancied himself in paradise with his mate, but +suddenly awoke on a cold leafless bough, with a New England mist penetrating +through his feathers. That was a sad exchange of imagination for reality. +</p> + +<p> +Insects are among the earliest births of sprung. Multitudes of I know not what +species appeared long ago on the surface of the snow. Clouds of them, almost +too minute for sight, hover in a beam of sunshine, and vanish, as if +annihilated, when they pass into the shade. A mosquito has already been heard +to sound the small horror of his bugle-horn. Wasps infest the sunny windows of +the house. A bee entered one of the chambers with a prophecy of flowers. Rare +butterflies came before the snow was off, flaunting in the chill breeze, and +looking forlorn and all astray, in spite of the magnificence of their dark +velvet cloaks, with golden borders. +</p> + +<p> +The fields and wood-paths have as yet few charms to entice the wanderer. In a +walk, the other day, I found no violets, nor anemones, nor anything in the +likeness of a flower. It was worth while, however, to ascend our opposite hill +for the sake of gaining a general idea of the advance of spring, which I had +hitherto been studying in its minute developments. The river lay around me in a +semicircle, overflowing all the meadows which give it its Indian name, and +offering a noble breadth to sparkle in the sunbeams. Along the hither shore a +row of trees stood up to their knees in water; and afar off, on the surface of +the stream, tufts of bushes thrust up their heads, as it were, to breathe. The +most striking objects were great solitary trees here and there, with a +mile-wide waste of water all around them. The curtailment of the trunk, by its +immersion in the river, quite destroys the fair proportions of the tree, and +thus makes us sensible of a regularity and propriety in the usual forms of +nature. The flood of the present season—though it never amounts to a +freshet on our quiet stream—has encroached farther upon the land than any +previous one for at least a score of years. It has overflowed stone fences, and +even rendered a portion of the highway navigable for boats. +</p> + +<p> +The waters, however, are now gradually subsiding; islands become annexed to the +mainland; and other islands emerge, like new creations, from the watery waste. +The scene supplies an admirable image of the receding of the Nile, except that +there is no deposit of black slime; or of Noah’s flood, only that there is a +freshness and novelty in these recovered portions of the continent which give +the impression of a world just made rather than of one so polluted that a +deluge had been requisite to purify it. These upspringing islands are the +greenest spots in the landscape; the first gleam of sunlight suffices to cover +them with verdure. +</p> + +<p> +Thank Providence for spring! The earth—and man himself, by sympathy with +his birthplace would be far other than we find them if life toiled wearily +onward without this periodical infusion of the primal spirit. Will the world +ever be so decayed that spring may not renew its greenness? Can man be so +dismally age stricken that no faintest sunshine of his youth may revisit him +once a year? It is impossible. The moss on our time-worn mansion brightens into +beauty; the good old pastor who once dwelt here renewed his prime, regained his +boyhood, in the genial breezes of his ninetieth spring. Alas for the worn and +heavy soul if, whether in youth or age, it have outlived its privilege of +springtime sprightliness! From such a soul the world must hope no reformation +of its evil, no sympathy with the lofty faith and gallant struggles of those +who contend in its behalf. Summer works in the present, and thinks not of the +future; autumn is a rich conservative; winter has utterly lost its faith, and +clings tremulously to the remembrance of what has been; but spring, with its +outgushing life, is the true type of the movement. +</p> + +</div><!--end chapter--> + +<div style='display:block; margin-top:4em'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BUDS AND BIRD VOICES ***</div> +<div style='text-align:left'> + +<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> +Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will +be renamed. +</div> + +<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> +Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright +law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, +so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United +States without permission and without paying copyright +royalties. 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