Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1823-02-20
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE ORPHAN.
" His lacry,sas rita@ damas, et miSersci-
mus R!iro."
ROMEO.

Nus GsifD.
The tempest of dark December 5
night, had Tor some time vented It's fury.
when wretched woman, drenched by
the rain, with hair disheyelled aud IN
tattered garments, sunk to the ground
as she losrneyed over the Heath.
She hid wandered far from her home
home alas she had none.-she was
an Orphan! Long had a mothers voice
ceased to instruct her by its preccpts-
a fathers ARIA to protect and administer
by its labor, to her necessities fate had
consigned them beth to the grave, and
Emma, was left without friend on
whom to depend for counsel or asSs-
lance.
She was then beaateous--her form and
graceful movements, were those OF Dl-
anna the health of Hygeia bloomed
upon her cheek, and the llIly's spotless
wilderness lsDt its complexion to her neck
and bosom. Fer mind was intelligent
though not learned her heart, com.
pound ofvirtue and credulity. Never
had EAms performed an act that was
wrong, knowing it to be so--never su5-
pcctcd guile or trcachery in another,
judging the world. az it were, by the
standard of her otcn honesty and truth.
Thus Observation-Disclosures III
the deceptive character OF ntal torlorn
and neeay-she was approached by a
youth, whose prepossesng form and
manners. soon engaged her Affections
With the malice and cunning Of the arch
fiend of old, he wood, won and desert
ed her,
Wretched Emma virtue was once
thy richest prize and soiace-uirtue!-
And is it then but a naUe, which the I'M
charitable look at Art thou not EN-
ma still yirtu0us? Shall the fell ma
chinations OF william, cast that oppro-
brium upon thy purer nature, which on
ly his iutsmy deserves ?-Yct it may be
said that, th0u too, art infamous no,
not sO.--Ih0a art wretChed, but not in
famous! 1t was not a tauit to believe as
thou hast believed !; it was misfortune.
THAT innocence, which should have been
thy protection, is nevertheless thy apollo
gy You saw the tears trickle from eyes,
while those eyes beamed in rapture upon
you heard voice, siivery and sweet,
which formed itself to your situation,
declare its passion and pledge its unal-
terable troth. Could you doubt it ? No.
That heart which had never deceived ;
that heart, which had so often throbbed
with sympathetic emotions at the bare
recital of" past tales of sorrow" could
not suspect deception in another, when
at its feet it laid, in supplicatlon, pro-
misses and vows?
Who then, Emma, brands You infa-
nous {? You that have felt the madning
shafts of love, burning in your hearts ;
you that have sighed for the indulgence
OF a passion, pure and ardent. thong n re-
stricted by custom, or those Incidental
occurrences which arise ever and anon
by late's invidious command, TO imblt-
ter our enjoyment and harrass our exls.
tence, trW not.
You whose b0sOms are cold whose
hearts, nOr passion nor persuasion, nor
sympathy, ever yet pervaded, who are
virtuous from deficiency OF nature, gen
Hal uEG> SNCutG NVts Ehbu y Nu l'h'
have felt the tender emotions you that
believed love had no wing tongue (; YOU
at whose mislortunes aud credulity, the
Implying world has pointed the iingel
Of derisiOn: on whose name, impressed
the siguet oil disgrace, will drop tears 0I
COMMUNICATION FOE poor Emma and be-
lie,e though one error made wretched
and an out cast, il should not make her
th(am5HS-n0r has II.
What voice olsorrOw breaks upon
my ear, giving TO the nights loud gusts
wilder and a more appalling accent
enqulred ilOrseman, a he cautiously
approached the spot where the wretched
orphan lay.
a being disgreced; prosecuted by
the world and iOg,aken by Heaven :" sh'
reDlied. Three days have passed since
these lamished lips have tasted of tn
coarse,t food and many a long night
since the roui Of hospitality sheltered IN
from the pitliess storm. / am a wo
man; | avn au orphan'
why have YOU been prosecuted b.
the w1ilP Why should you be for
saken By Heaven ?
Il thought not OF the opinions Oh tn