The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1824-11-25

But by u mother"
Uannah Mooc
! marked a mother at the tomb of her son.
Her sable garment conceded with the deep
gloom THAT hung heavily around her heart.
Ilerdeclmng head, her close clasped hands,
her fixed position, her tear bedewed cheek,
bespoke the intensity Of her thoughts
and the sorrow Of her soul. The scene
struck the strings of sympathy, and a cor
respondent tear Rowing from the impulse OF
a similar feeling, trickled down my cheek.
Fancy lent her creative power to my mind
and mcthought heard and felt the grief in
spircd solloquy OF the heart broken mother,
as she rcvo,ved in her depressed mind the
following thoughts. "Ah YES my child thou
art numbered with the dead The curtain
of my hopes has suddenly dropped, and the
thick cloud of my soul-rendng despondency
shuts the light of joy and tranquility from
my mind. When feeble infancy was thine,
with what rapture watched the pleasure
| BILE smile playing on thy health flushed
cheek; it was then my heart bounded with
ecstacy, and antc-datcd the joys of youth
and the happiness of manhood. thought
thou wouldst have been the pillarofmy old age
| thought thou wouldst have supported my
tottci'ng, declining life, when the cXtinguish-
ing hand of time had quenchcd the ieryor OF Vi
tality But ali! these -builthopes arc gone
forevcr;-thcy are buried in the humid earth
With thee. No more l hear thy voice, no
more / mark thy sprghtly eye thy voice
is silent as the grave, and thy eye fixed by
the rigid power OF death. Scarce more than
eighteen years had rolled around thy head
before the "grim monster" came and snatch
cd thee from the world. Thou vert strlck
en- as the tender sapling scattered by the
irhtnng's fiery bolt.-O Death thou art
the destroyer OF mothers bliss But still
amid all my sorrow will say,
"worms may banquet on thy frame,
And r,in feed on what vas eair:--
Back to the skies from whence it came,
The saul recalled, shall flourish there
With these words she ended and taking
her little daughter by the hand she slowly
retired.
CONTEMPLATION ON GRASSES
.Ye dark towcrin. pines that rear high
your unbcndinS heads, and spread with youi
Shade a solemn gloom around yc lofty oaks,
and thou stream, that poureSt thy sllVcry
brightness DER the grey mo'ntitin's brow
NOT now will celebrate your charms: will
look down on the turf that surrounds me;
will contemplate this wonderful world III
miniature, rcplete with unnumbercd beau
tics. with innumerablc species OF plants,
with millions ofdiffcrent inhabitants; they fly
from flower to flower or wander among the
mazes of the grass. Endlessly diversified
I in form and beauty, each little indlvldual
finds here all that is necessary for its sub
sistcnce and its pleasures: tcllow-citlzcns
Of This earth, each one is in its kind, perfect
and good. -
sHow softly dost thou murmur, little
stream as thou passest among the water
cresses. and the brook lime, that spreads its
Nine starry fowrets DER thy waves. lhov
enci,clcst every one of its stems with glist-
euinp ring, and shaketh it's tender blossoms
as thou passcst by: from either bank th'
luxuriant grass, mixed with flowers, bend!
over thy tide: thy chrstal flowers How un
der the variegated arch, and reflect Its beau
: teous Eues.
i will look down into this little thicl:et o
waving grass: how beautifully they show the
!, various tints of green, as | turn them to the
" sun, The tender herbs spread their foliage
: unseen among the thick grass, or piercing
J. through it's mazes, rear their fragile flowers
d to the lirht-But thou, purple violet! en-
is blcm of modest wisdom, hdest thy beauteou
head deep in the bosom of the leaves, ant
spreadcst unseen thy soft perfume around
- While thy sccnt!ess sister blooms on every
+. bank, and unfolds her azure blossoms to eve
l. ry passing gale.
J. * varegatcd tribe of insects pursue ., eacl
other among the grass; my eyes lose then
: in the green shade; now soon they sport a
$ gain in the sunshine; they fly in swarm
n around, and dance glittcring in the noontid'
h. air.
;s What varigated flower bends yonder ovel
= the stream, decked with such bright, suci
= brilliant tiptss All! pleasing deception
e tits butterfly, that hasjust taken hight, ant