Show treasured Treas urea through long years the following poem supposed to have been by joseph addison the famous english poet and tellene 0 the escape of his great poetic soul tair ism found ill way to THE recently by eing repeated aiom memory by mr jas mcfarland of west weber who committed it about 45 years ago it was written about 1710 and at that time was published in hie paper the london spectator being re published in 1853 18 53 tia night and the landscape Is lovely no more but ye woodlands I 1 mourn not louvou for morn i approaching your charms to restore perfumed wih fresh fragrance and glittering with dew nor yet for the ravage of winter I 1 mourn kind nature the embryo blossom will say bat when shall spring fisit the urn 0 when shall day dawn on the night of the grave awaa thus by the blare of false science betrayed that leads to bewilder and dazzles to blind my thoughts want to from shade onward to shade destruction before me and sorrow behind oh pity great father of licht then I 1 cried thy creature who fain would not wander from the lol bumbled i dust I 1 relinquish ray pride from doubt and from darkness thou only canet tree and darkness and doubt are now fleeing away no longer I 1 roam in conjecture forlorn thus bursts on the traveler faint and astray the bright and the balmy effulgence of morn seel loved truth and beauty in triumph descending and nature all glowing in edens fresh bloom on I 1 he cold lips of death smiles and roses are blending and beauty immortal awakes from the tomb |