Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880. Excerpt: ... THE RUSTLE OF THE LEAF. A LESSON FOR NOVEMBER. "There is in souls a sympathy with sound. Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touched within us, and the heart replies." What answer do we give to the sounds which follow our footsteps as we walk in the woods or beside the hedgerows in November? Those bright buddings of early spring, the tender green of which refreshed and gladdened us--those waving wreaths of foliage, so late exuberant with richer verdure of summer--the manyfashioned leaves which adorned and protected the fruit-laden boughs of autumn,--there they lie, crisp and brown, under the withering influence of wind and frost, taking their part now in the old winter music, as we get into the midst of them, or as the storm sweeps them along the ground. In October we, in Britain, have begun to think of winter; in November it has really come. Fathers, husbands, and brothers have generally their fixed occupations, unaffected by the changes of season; what are we doing who move in woman's sphere with less stated routine? Some, as they look up at the bare trees and cloudy sky, exclaim against the dulness of the dark days, and as soon as it grows cold, gather closer round the fire, and, with the last new volume from the library, or the bit of work, that will not oblige them to stir, sit at ease in their comfortable homes. They cannot go out, "it is too bleak" or "too foggy," and with dreary emphasis they will tell us they thoroughly dislike November. But as God has willed it that there should be a November in the year, and as He never gives us a month in which He intends us to be idle or selfindulgent, the question that most concerns us is--How can its surroundings instruct us, and its opportunities be best used by us? A listening heart may hear in the ...
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