Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-10-20

her simple childhood; had taught her to know
so much of her own soul; to love her parents
with profounder and more holy love; to see,
in characters more divine,' Heavens promises
Of forgiveness to every contrite heart, and lie
of perfect bessedness beyond death and the
grave! A smile that shone over her face the
moment she had been brought to know that ne
mad come at last, and was nigh at hand, ana
that .never left it while her bosom moved, no.
not for all the three days and nights that ne
continued 10 sit beside the beautiful corpse,
when father and mother were forgetting their
ares in sleep; that smile told ali who stood
around, watching her departure, neighbor,
friend, priest, parent, and him the suddenly dis
trac1ed and desolate, that, in the very moment
of expiration she knew him well, and was re-
commencing him and his Affections to the pity
of one who died 10 save sinners!
| Three DAYS and three nights, we have said,
did he sit beside her, who so soon was to nave
/ been his bride, and come or go who would into
the room, he saw them not; his sight was fixed
on the winding sheet, cycling 1t without SIM
pie tear. from feet to forehead, and sometimes
looking up 10 heaven. AS men forgotten in
dungeons have lived miserably long without
food, so did he and so he would have done, on
and on to the most far off funeralday. From that
one chair close TO the bed side, he never rose -
Night after night when all the vale was hush
ed, he never slept. Through one Of the mid
nights there had been great thunder storm,
the lightning shifting cliff close TO the cottage
but it seemed that he heard it not; and during
the floods of next day, to him the roaring vale
was silent: On the morning of the funeral the
| old people, for now they seemed to be old, wept
10 see him sitting Unconscious beside their dead
child for each remaining hour had now It's own
sad office Three large specks suddenly alight-
ed IN the face of the corpse; and then off, and
on, and away, and returning, was ard the buzz
zing Of large hell flies, attracted by beauty in
its corruption. "Ha, Hal" starting up, he cri-
ed in horror, "what birds Of prey are these,
whom Satan has sent to devour the corset" He
became stricken with Sort of palsy and, being
led out to the open air, laid down, seem
ingly as dead as her within, on the green dais-
ed turf, where, beneath the shadow OF the syca-
more they had so often sat, holding up beau
tifuI visions Of long and blssful life!
The company assembled; but not before his
eyes; the bier was lifted up and moved away
down the sylvan slope, and away round the head
Of the lake, and over the wooden bridge, &C
companed, here and there, as IT passed the
way side houses on the road to Grassmere, ny
the sound of Psalms, but he saw, he heard 1t
not, when the last sound oithe spade re5ounGed
! from the smooth arch OF the grove, he was not
by, but all the while he was lying where they
had left him, with one or two plying daesmen
at his head and feet When he awoke again &
rose up, the Cottage of the Fold wa" as 1t she
never had been born, for she had vanished tor
ever and aye, and sixteen years smiling lie was
all extirguished in dust
Weeks and months passed on, and still there
was vacant wildness in his eyes, and mortal
ghas,liness over his face inexpensive OF rea-
sonable soul. 1t scarcely seemed that he knew
where he was, or in what part OF the earth, yet
when left by himself, he never sought 10 move
beyond The boundaries Of the Fold. During the
first gllmmerings ofremalnlng reason, he would
utter her name, over and over many times, with
mournfu voice, but still he knew not that she
was dead; then he began to caution them all TO
tread softly, for that sleep had fallen upon her,
and her fever in its blessed balm might abate;
then with groans too affecting TO be borne by
those who had heard them, he would ask why,
since she was dead, God had the cruelty to keep
him, her husband in life, and finally and last OF
all, he imagined himself in Grassmere Church
yard, and clasplng little mound on the green,
which it was evident he thought was her grave,
he wept over it for hours, and hours & kissed
it, and placed stone at its head, and sometimes
all at once broke out into fits OF laughter, till
the hideous fainting fits returned, and after long
commissions, left him lying as ifstone dead! AS
for his bodily frame, when Lucys father lifted
it up in his arms, little heavier was it than
bundle of withered fern.
Nobody supposed that one so miserably at
,enuated and ghost like could for many days be
alive, vet not ill the earth had revolved seven
times round the sun. did that body die, and then
it was buried far, far away from the Fold, the
banks of the Rydal water, and the sweet noun
tans of Wes,moreland; for after passing like
shadow through many foreign lands, he ceased
his pilgrimage in Palestine, even beneath the
shadow of Mount Sion, and was laid with lock
of beautiful hair, which, from the place it held,
strangers knew TO have belonged TO one dearly
beloyed-close to his heart, on which 1t had
lain so long, and was to moulder away in dark
ness together, by a Christian hand and in
Christian Sepulchre.
From, the Richmond Enquirer.
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