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 l "gladness and hope" The expansion I of the tender leaves, the peering of the : modest flowers above the luxuriant grass. s and the first notes of the spring.tide re- velry among the birds, are admirably calculated to impress these truths upon } our minds. Let us sit in this lovely spot, and weave coronets of fresh and ira- grant flowers" Look wonder, how beautlfullyarei einterminglcd the redbuds oi the Cercis Canadensis and the large

 white flowers of the Dog-wood {Cornus

 Florida sss, ss ss:i;s season .; fife \ year, contribute so much to the pleasant aspect of our western woods. Near by stands the Buckeye, (Esculus,) with it's pale yellow bloom, and the towering Sugar Maple, with its pea-green bios. so;ns. Here, beneath our feet. peers the May-Apple withits folded umbrella, the folemonium, with its pale blue flow CTS. the Pulmenaira with its bule bells. the humble Anemone and the tender Ciaytonia sEirgiriiea, on ali of which. like orient pearls,

 he dew that falls from Heaven, Just giitters brilliant on their cups, and

 then

 Exhales to Heaven again."

 fluttering among the younger leaves and above these fiowrets fair, the song. sters are welcoming their return. The tWitter of the blue bird, the earliest har- binger of Spring, the loud clear note of the sprightly cat-bird and the varied me- lodioas strain of the solitary noeking bird perched in the top of yon dark leaved elm, are all commingled in one cheerful song of joy that the dreary months of winter have passed away. Amid scenes like thesez when the flowers beneath our feet and the warb- lers above our heads, are like the bright thoughts and delicious notes of music thatattend the winged visions of quiet siumber, the affections Mndle up and the heart expands, and after banqueting on them for time, we return to the du- ties of active life, wiser, happier, and better.

 Bullet us withdraw oureyes from the objects immediately around us, for those i. where

 Distance lends entertainment to the view, Look atthat seemingly continuousr range of hills which, clothed in it's mantle of green, sweeps around the fair valley where stands, in princely pride, the young giant city of the west. And hark! what confusion of sound is this that strikes uponthe ear? His the hum of business, the artisans are already abroad, the hammer of industryis heard and huge masses of smoke are rising in spiral columns from the factories and workshops. Separating Newport with her old, and Covington with her fresh Hooking housesz rolls Licking river, Ia vile cognomen,1 chaffering and dashing onward with that impetuous career which distinguished the people Of Ken lucky. Here, winding round the point of the hill to the right, comes the Canal, cutting the upper plain of the city, like broad vein ofpure silver, its quiet bosom alone ruffled by the boats that bear, to this great commercial mart, the products of the fertile valley of our Mi- amies. On the left, rolls in soberd dig Unity the matchless Ohio, separating this magnificent valley from East to West, with fine curvilinear sweep, and at it's western limits, gently running off to- wards the sunny regions of the South.--- See yonder, on that lovely sheet of wa ter, far below the city, comes, with re- sistless power, one of our majestic steam boats, from which arise huge curling columns of smoke and yapor, that tower aloft and then comminglihg, stretch ia | zily over the hills that bound the em- bryo village of Hygeia. But why this ruddy glow that suddenly ovespreads . the hiiis, the city, ,ardi the placid streansi 1 Cast your eyes upon the eastern horizon. Il See the lettering clouds are becoming translucent-now they shift about as

 though impelled by some viewless spirit of the air--now they are illuminated and tipped with gorgeous dyes of vel low and crimson and purple; and now, mounts upward in glorious rsa;esty, the powerful king of day, casting, in lavish profusion, over all the world, his match

 less resplendencies.

 With what a happy and inpigorating r power the sunshine of May morning

 falls upon the earth. All nature par : takes of its generous influences and I every object gathers a new beauty from ] its golden rays. The sky takes deeper