NATURAL APPEARANCES 



ground. It remains some time in that state, till the 

 fine season comes, when the ear of corn breaks out 

 of the coats in which it had been inclosed and pro- 

 tected from cold and uncertain weather* 



NOVEMBER. 





The lengthen'd night elaps'd, the morning shines 



Serene, in all her dewy beauty bright, 



Unfolding fair the last autumnal day. 



And now the mountain sun dispels the fog, 



And rigid hoar frost melts before his beam ; 



And hung on every spray, on every blade 



Of grass, the myriad dew-drops twinkle round." 



THE preceding month was marked by the change, 

 and this is distinguished by the fall, of the leaf. The 

 whole declining season of the year is often, in com- 

 mon language, denominated the fall. There is some- 

 thing extremely melancholy in this gradual process, 

 by which the trees are stripped of their beauty, and 

 left monuments of decay and desolation. This gra- 

 dual death of vegetable nature, and quick succession 

 of springing and falling leaves, suggests to 'the re- 

 flecting mind an apt comparison for the fugitive ge- 

 neration of men : 



" Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, 



Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; 



Another race the following spiing supplies, 



They fall successive, and successive rise; 



So generations in their course decay, 



So flourish these when those are passed away I* 3 



