WABBLK FOB I*ILAC TIMK.
BT WALT WHITMAN.
"Warble me now, for joy of Lilac-time,
Sort me. 0 tongue and lips, for Nature’s sake, and
sweet life’s sake—and death’s the same as
life's. .
Souvenirs ofearliest shmmer-bLd’s eggs and tho
first berries; . . .
Gather the welcome signs, (as children with peb-
bles, or stringing shells;) -
Put in April and May—the by las croaking in the
pond—the elastic air.
Bees, butterflies, the sparrow with its simple
notes, "
Blue-birds and darting swallow—nor forget tne
high-hoTe flashing his golden wing',
The tranquil sunny fiaze. the clinging smoke, the
vapor.
Spiritual, airy insects, humming on gossamer
wings,
Shimmer of waters, with fish in them—the ceru-
lean above;
And all that is Jocund and sparkling—the brooks
running,
The maple-woods,, the crisp February days, and
t)ie sugar-making;
The robin, where he. hops, bright-eyed, brown-
breasted.
With musical clear call at sunrise, and again at
sunset.
Or flittimr among the trees of the apple orchard.
building the nest of his mate ;
The melted snow of March- the willow sending
forth its yellow green sprouts;
For spring time is here ? the summer Is here I and
what is this in it and from it ?
Thou, Soul, unloosen’d—the restlessness after I
know not what:
Come, let us lag here no longer-let ns be np and
away!
O for another world! Oif one could bnt fly like a
bird!
Oto escape—to sail forth as in a ship!
To glide with thee, 0 Soul, o’er all, in all, as a ship
o’er the waters!
Gathering these hints, these preludes-lhe blue
sky, the green grass, the morning drops of
dew;
(With additional songs—every spring will l,oow
strike up additional songs.
Nor ever again forget these tender days, the chants
of death as well as life ;)
The lilac scent, \he hushes, and the dark green
heart shaped leaves.
Wood violets, the little delicate, pale blossoms
called innocence,
Samples and sorts, not for themselves alone, bnt
for their atmosphere.
Totally, drenched with them, tested by them.
Cities and artificial Hie. and all their sights and
scenes.
My mind henceforth, and all its meditations—my
recitatives.
My land, my age, my race, for once to serve in
songs,
(Sprouts, tokens over of death indeed the same as
life.)
To grace the bash I love-to sing with the birds
A warble of joy oi Lilac-time.
ELECTIVE AFFINITIES.
TUANSLATED PROM TUE GERMAN OP GOETHE.
chaptek vu. (continued.)
In the meanwhile, as the gentlemen
were thus slackening in their energy, the
activity of the ladies increased all the
more. The -Jftvery day life of a family,
which is composed of given persons, and
is shaped out ot necessary circumstances,
may easily receive into itself an extraor
dinary affection, an incipient passion—
may receive it into itself as into a ves
sel: and a long lime may elapse before
the new ingredient produces a visible ef
fervescence, and runs foaming over the
edge.
With our friends, the feelings which
were mutually arising had the most
agreeable effects. Their dispositions
opened out, and a.general good will arose
out of the several individual affections.
Every member nf the parly was happy ;
aud they each shared their happiness
with the rest.
Such a temper elevates the spirit, while
it enlarges' I 'the' heart, and everything
whigh, under the influence of it, people
Jn and undertake, has a tendency towards
the illimitable. The friends could not
remain any more shut up at home ; their
walks extended themselves further and
further. Edward would hurry on before
with O’.tilic, to choose the path or pioneer
the way-; and the Captain and Charlotte
would follow quietly on the track of their
more hasty precursors, talking on .some
grave subject, or delighting themselves
with some spot ihey had newly discover
ed, or some unexpected natural beauty.
One day their walk led them down
from the gate at the right wing of the
castle, in the direction of the hotel, and j
thence over the bridge towards the ponds, i
along the sides of which they proceeded
as far as it was generally thought possible .
to follow the water ; thickly wooded hills I
sloping directly up from the |edgc, and be ,
yond,these a wall of steep rocks, making i
further progress difficult, if not impossi |
ble. But Edward, whose hunting expert- :
ence had made him perfectly familiar
with the spot, pushed forward along an
overgrown path with Ottilie, knowing
well that the old mill could not be far off.
which was somewhere in the middle of
the rocks here. Tae path was so little
frequented that they soon,lost it ; and for
a short lime they were wandering among
mossy stones and thickets; it was not
long, however, the noise of the water
wheel telling them that the place
which they were looking for was
close at hand.- Stepping forward on
a point of rock, they s»w The strange old,
dark wooden building in the hollow be
fore them, quite shad »wed over with pre
cipitous crags and huge trees. They do
lorminel directly to climb down amidst i receive the interest of well expended cap
the nv's-i and the hlocksof st<me. Edward ; Hal in substantial enjoyment—instead of,
- ltd the way ; and when lie looked hack ■ as now, in the summing up at the end of
and saw Otlilie following, stepping light- I the year, vexing and fretting ourselves
ly, without tear or nervousness, from 1 over the pitiful little income which is re
stone to stone, so beautifully balancing ; turned for it.”
herself, be fancied he was looking at some I Even Charlotte, with all her prudence,
Cd-istial creature Muting above him ; 1 had little to urge against this. There had
whtle tf. as ehe often did. she caught 'he I been, indeed, a previous intention of gel
hand which in some difficult spot I e ling the farm. The Captain was ready
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would offer her, or if she supported her
self on his shoulder, then he was left in
no doubt that it was a very exquisite
human creature who touched Kim He
almost wished that she might slip or
stumble, that he might catch her in his
arms and press her to his heart.. This, ;
however, he would under no circumstan
ces have done, for more than one reason. ;
He was afraid to wound her, and he was
afraid to do her some bodily injury.
What the meaning of this could be, we
sbaH immediately learn. When they bad
gonedowu, and were seated opposite each
other at a table under the trees, and when
the miller’s wife had gone for milk, and
the miller, who had come out to them,
was sent to meet Charlotte and the Cap
tain, Edward, with a little embarrass
ment, began to speak;
“I have a request to make, dear Ottilie ;
you will forgive me for asking it, if you
do not grant it. You make no secret (I
am sure you need not make any,) that
you wear a miniature under your dress
against your breast. It is the picture of
your noble father. You could hardly
have known him; but in every sense be
he deserves a place by your heart. Only,
forgive me, the picture is exceedingly
large, and the metal frame and the glass,
if take up a child in your arms, if you
are carrying anything, if the carriage
swings violently, ’lf we are poshing
through bushes, or just now, as we were
coming down these rocks—cause me a
thousand anxieties for you. Any unfor
seen blow, a fall, a touch, may be fatally
injurious to you; and I am terrified at
the possibility of it. For my sake do
this ; pul away the piclurs, not out of
your affections, not out of your room ;
let it have the brightest, the holiest place
which you can give it; only do not wear
upon your breast a thing, the presence of
which seems to me, perhaps from an ex
travagant anxiety, so dangerous.”
Oitile said nothing, and while be was
speaking, she kept her eyes fixed straight
before her; then, without hesitation and
without haste, with a look turned more
towards heaven than on Edward, she un
clasped the chain, drew out the picture,
and pressed it against her forehead, and
then reached it over to her friend, with
the words;
“Do you keep it for me till we come
home; I cannot g\ve you a better proof
how deeply I thank you for your affec
tionate care.”
He did not venture to press the pic
ture to bis lips ; but he caught her band
and raised it to bis eyes. They were, per
haps, of the most beautiful hands which
had ever been clasped together. He felt
as if a stouc bad fallen from bis heart, as
if a partition-wall bad been thrown down
between him and Ottilie.
Under the mlllor’# guidance, Obatlmie
and the Captain eame down by an easier
path, and now joined them. There was
the meeting, and a happy talk, and the'n
they look some refreshments. They
would not return by the same wa'y\s
they come ; and Edward struck into a
rocky path on the, other side of the
stream, from which the ponds were again
to be. seen. They made their way along
it, with some effort, and then bad to cross
a variety of wood and copse—getting
glimpses, on the land side, of a number
of villages and manor houses, with their
green lawns and fruit gardens; while very
near them, and sweetly situated on a ris
ing ground, a farm lay in the middle of
the wood. From a general ascent, they
had a view, before and behind, which
showed them thfe richness of the country
to the greatest advantage ; and then, en
tering a grove of trees, they tound them
selves, on emerging again from it, on the
rock opposite the castle.
They came upon it rather unexpected
ly, and were of course delighted. They
had made the circuit of a little world ;
they were standing on the spot where the
new build was to be erected, and were
looking again at the windows of their
own home.]
They went down to the summer house,
and sal all four in it for the first lime to
gether ; nothing was more natural .than
that with one voice it should be proposed
to have the way they had been that day,
and which, as it was, had taken them
much lime and trouble, properly laid out
and graveled, so that people might loiter
along it at their leisure. They each
said what they thought; and they reck
oned up that the circuit, over which they
had taken many hours, might be traveled
easily with a good road all the way round
to the castle, in a single one.
Already a plan was being suggested for
making the distance shorter, and adding
ajfresh 1 canty to the landscape, by throw
ing a bridge across the stream, below the
‘hull, where it ran into the lake ; when
Charlotte brought their inventive imagi-
nation to a stand still, by putting them in
mind of the expense which such an un
dertaking would involve.
"There are ways of meeting that, too,"
i replied Edward ; "we have only to dis
| pose of that farm in the forest which is
i so pleasantly situated, and which brings
i in so little in the \yay of rent ; the sum
I which will be set free will more than cov
1 er what we shall require, and thus, hav
ing gained an invaluable walk, we shall
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immediately with a plairfor breaking up
the ground into small portions ambng the.
peasantry of the forest. Edward, howev
er, had a simpler and shorter way of man
aging It. His present steward had al
ready proposed to take it off bis hands—
be was to pay for it by instalments—and
so, gradually, as the money canie in, they
would get their, work forwarded, from
point to point.
So reasonable and prudent a scheme
was sure of universal approbation, and al
ready, in prospect, they began to see tbeir
new walk winding along its way, and t 0
imagine tbe many beautiful views and
charming spots which they hoped to dis
cover in it neighborhood,.
.To bring it all before .themselves with
greater fulness of detail, 1 ini l|ie evening
they prod need the new nhart. v WiVh tbe
help of this they wentovef again the way
that they bad come, and found various
places where the walk might take rather
a diderent direction with advantage. Tbeir
other scheme was now once more talked
through, and connected with tbe fresh de
signs. The site for tbe new house in tbe
park, opposite tbe a ‘second
time examined into and approved, and fix
ed npon for tbe termination of the intend
ed circuit.
Ottilie had said nothing all this time.
At length Edward poshed the chart,
which had hitherto been lying before
Charlotte, across to her, begging her to
give her opinion ; she still hesitated for
a moment. Edward in bis gentlest way
again pressed her to let them know what
she thought—nothing bad as yet been set
tled—it was all aayet an embryo.
“I would have the house built here,” she
said, as she pointed with her finger to the
highest point of the slope on the hill. ‘ It
is true you cannot see .the castle from
thence, for U is bidden by the wood ; but
for that very reason you find yourself in
another quite new world; you lose vil
lage and bouses and all at the same time.
The view of the ponds and the mill, and
the bills and mountains in the distance,
is singularly beautiful—l have often ob
served it when I have been there.”
“She is right,” Edward cried; “how
could we have overlooked it. This is
what you mean Ottilie, is it not?”
He took a lead pencil, and drew a great
black rectangular figure on the summit of
the bill.
It went through the Captain's soul to
see bis carefully and clearly JdrawlTchart
disfigured in such a way. He collected
himself, however, after a slight expres
sion of his disapproval, and went into the
idea.
“Ottilie is right,” be said; “we are
ready enough to walk any distance to
drink tea or eat fish, because they would
not tasted as well at home—-wpiequire
change of scene and changj; fcfj. objects.
Your ancestors showed their judgment in
the spot which they chose for the castle ;
for it is sheltered from the wind with the
conveniences of life close at band. A
place, on the contrary, which is more for
pleasure parlies than for a regular resU
dence, may be very well yonder there,
and in the fair time of year the most
agreeable hours may be there.
The more they talked it over, the more
conclusive was their judgment in favor of
Ottilie; and Edward could not conceal
his triumph that the thought had been
hers He was as proud as if be had bit
upon it himself.
CHAPTER VIII
. Early the following morning the Cap
tain examined the spot ; he first threw off
a sketch of what should be done, and af
terwards, wbeu the thing had been more
completely decided upon, be made a com
plete design, with accurate calculations
and measurements. It cost him a good
deal of labor, and the business connected
with the sale of the farm had to be gone
into, so that both the gentlemen now
found a fresh impulse to activity.
The Captain made E Iward observe that
it would b; proper, indeed that it would
be a kind of duly, to celebrate Charlotte’s
birthday with laying the foundation
stone. Not much was wanted to over
come Edward’s disinclination for such
festivities —for he quickly recollected that
a little later OUilie’s birthday would fol
low, and that he could have a magnificent
celebration for that.
Charlotte, to whom all this work and
what it would involve was a subject for
math serious and almost anxious thought,
busied herself in carefully going through
the time and outlay which it was calcula
ted would be expended on it. During the
day they rarely saw each other, so that
the evening meeting was looked forward
to with all the mure anxiety.
Oltilie meantime was complete mistress
of the household —and how could it be
otherwise, with her quick methodical
ways of working? Indeed, her whole
mode of thought was suited better to
home life than the world, and to a more
free existence. Edward sotm observed
that she only walked about with them out
of a desire to please; that she stayed out
late with them in the evening it was be
cause she thought it a s<-rt ol social duty,
and that she would often find a pretext in
some household matter for going in again
—constquenlly he soon managed so to
arrange the walks- which they look to
gether, that they should be at home be
fore sunset; and be began again, what he
had long let off, to read aloud poetry—
particularly such as had for its subject the
expiessinn of a pure but passionate love.
TO UK CONTINUED.
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