Large Furerœa. _Furerœa Gigantea._
Dedicated to _St. Willibrord_.
[380] The Times, 17th November, 1824.
~November 8.~
_The four crowned Brothers_, Martyrs, A. D. 304. _St. Willehad_, Bp.
A. D. 787. _St. Godfrey_, Bp. A. D. 1118.
Now the leaf
Incessant rustles from the mournful grove;
Oft startling such as studious walk below;
And slowly circles through the waving air.
As the maturing and dispersing of seeds was a striking character of the
last month, so the fall of the leaf distinguishes the present. From this
circumstance, the whole declining season of the year is often in common
language denominated the _fall_. The melancholy sensations which attend
this gradual death of vegetable nature, by which the trees are stripped
of all their beauty, and left so many monuments of decay and desolation,
forcibly suggest to the reflecting mind an apt comparison for the
fugitive generations of man.[381]
Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,
Now green in youth, now with’ring on the ground.
Another race the following spring supplies;
They fall successive, and successive rise:
So generations in their course decay,
So flourish these, when those are pass’d away.
_Pope’s Homer._
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