Buds and Bird Voices

Download or read book Buds and Bird Voices written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[...]utilitarianism inexorably demands for the privilege of lengthened life. Human flower-shrubs, if they will grow old on earth, should, besides their lovely blossoms, bear some kind of fruit that will satisfy earthly appetites, else neither man nor the decorum of nature will deem it fit that the moss should gather on them. One of the first things that strikes the attention when the white sheet of winter is withdrawn is the neglect and disarray that lay hidden beneath it. Nature is not cleanly according to our prejudices. The beauty of preceding years, now transformed to brown and blighted deformity, obstructs the brightening loveliness of the present hour. Our avenue is strewn with the whole crop of autumn's withered leaves. There are quantities of decayed branches which one tempest after another has [...]".