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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. + +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! + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. + +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. 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