Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1824-11-11

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'Tmperfeet wing to soar upon
care like what am withou, thee"
There is scarcely feeling, amongl
all the woes of man, more completely
miserable than ardent love, with the
consciousness that you are to lose the
object of your attachment. Well is that
man likened TO
"a boat, st midnight sent alone;
"To drift upon moonless sea-"
who is compelled to separate from the
woman be loved, and drag out dull
and wretched existence, uncheered by
the sweetness of her smile, or the thrill
ing music Of her voice. Not the Per.
who fingered near the gates OF Heaven,
and wept as the bar shut from her eye
the glory of that happy place, which she
was forbidden to enter, could have ex
perienced more anguish than Harry,
when he returned to his chamber, and
thought upon the horrid deed he had
lust perpetrated, and felt that il depri
we'd him of Caroline forever He start
ed at every sound: not a breeze muir
INJURED around the house-nota foot step
passed bis door, but he shrunk from a
discovery, and an ignominious death
Long hours OF agony rolled on their heavy
way, and yet he was undetermined what
course to pursue.
Sometimes he thought he would fly TO
some foreign land: then, that he would
20 to the police, confess, and debut
Caroline rose up before his mind, in all
her bewitching loneliness, and resolution
and fear both vanished before the magic
of her form.
Al length he came to the firm resolve
that he. would see her once more, and
persuade her to fly with him. II she
refused, that a self-inclined blow should
send him from the shoals of time, amidst
the mysteries over which he had so often
pondered with delight. To fly without
her he felt was impossible. He would
not have gone to the throne of England,
unless she would beautify its splendor
by her presence: he would not have
rioted in all the golden profusion of
Eastern magniicence, if she were not
the companion of his way. He possess
sed one of those dispositions, whose pas
sion is most irresistible: he knew no
halfway stage of affection for woman.
1t was either cold Indifference, or burn
ing love. His enmity was deep, and
surprising revenge, that left desolatiOn
in its gloomy path: and his love was ado
ration warm, glowing adoration.-
Gladly would he have laid down his life
at glance from Caroline's eye: he
would.bave leaped into the blazing era
ter of volcano, at a word from her
lips. Success would have made him
great, had he been innocent and uncor-
rupted: he would have nourished a more
splendid dream of ambition; and the en-
ergies of his nature, called forth upon
noble objects, and disentangled from
the tolls Of guilt, would have been ex-
cited to the benefit and glory of man
kind Then might love have woven its
beauteous chaplet around his brow, and
the blush which mantled his cheek, as
be bowed down before the charms of
her he loved, would have burned with
pleasure, and not with shame. But he
was yillain--a guilty wretch: he had
mashed into the mazes of vice: he had
scorned the God by whom he was ere
ated: he had spurned at his assistance,
along the perilous way of life, and now
lie was plunged in misery, from which
he could not extricate himself.
Wrapping himself up in the sternness
OF his terrible resolution, he awaited, in
settled gloom, the coming of the night
At length it arrived the bright sun
gradually sunk down into his majestic
repose-night drew its brown mantle
over half the. world. The moon was
launched forth upon her serene way,
and the millions Of twinkling stars gilt
tered in the noiseless expanse of heaven,
as merrily, and with as much briiliancy
as if no eyes were weeping On our earth,
and as if no hearts were breaking with
agony and shame. As Harry started
for the house in whose unconscious
walls dwelt ali be cared for on this WIDE
world, he gazed far into the heavens,
upon the myriads of stars, and the ga
lazy in its broad and beautiful track of
snowy white. There was no confusion
in the numberless worlds that were
yielding to the sway of Almighty God:
each, in prompt obedience to his COM
mands, either wheeling their long cir
cles in undertaking regularity, or fixed L
firm and motionless in their nnchanging
seat, for ever and for ever. why" Il
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