Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1919 — Dawn as It Is Welcomed by Animals, Birds of the Air and Posies of the Field [ARTICLE]

Dawn as It Is Welcomed by Animals, Birds of the Air and Posies of the Field

The dawn that dispels sleep, in nature is only welcome. The cows that have drowsed since evening twilight, crouched in ungainly comfort on the ground, like half-produced sphinxes to the night-wanderer’s vague vision, with now and then a moment’s munching of the cud in their dreams, wake at the first gray tints, upheave their clumsy bodies, and fall to browsing daintily near the pasture bars. The birds stir in the high boughs and the bushes, call and twitter to each other, preen their ruffled feathers and shake slumber from their joyous throats in song. The fragrances of herb and flower, the rose’s charm and the balsam of the firs, exhale upon the dewy air. The east’s perpetual miracle, coursing the globe forever from its-source in the mid-Pacific waters, is at the verge of revelation. The riddle of the night’s dream opens its mystery as the lighter tints are absorbed into the splendid heraldry of morn. Earth with a rich expectancy awaits the new revealment —always at hand, ever withdrawn, going on with the dawn to new days.—• Charles Goodrich Whiting.