Northern star, and Warren and Bristol gazette. [volume] (Warren [R.I.]) 1826-1830, 1826-07-22
MISC ELLAN Y.
FsOm the Trenton Emporium.
FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE.

Gus sway-her's is a world of delight.
ful dreams --of rapturous hope--oi
Of broken hearted disappointments,
melancholy and death. Friendship
swxys q colder sceptre ; is the lord
Of less feverish dominion but her
history is scarcely less marked by
vicissitudes and change and, as
few ever reach the first empire with
out passing through her gates, 81
hundreds who intended at first to
pause in her dominions wander be.
fore they are aware into the warmer
cline OF Love.
Associations Of Friendship most
commonly spriug from similarity Of
tastes--It was so IN the case Of San
ford and Celia. The same village
school the same holiday ,rambIes ;
the familiar intercourse Of iinmedi-
ate ncighbourhood and correspond
ing rank, ,never fail to make acInain-
tances but it is only hearts mould
ed alike ]; pulses that beat in unison;
spirits of kindred genius. that uatu-
rally run together aud cement-Such
however, were the circumstances |;
such the genius, of my two carly ac-
quaintances, and the strong iu,pul,
scs of nature made them friends.
Through all the years of child
hood and of youth, they royed to-
gether among the fields and flowers
of their native valley the residence
Of each was almost as much the home
of the other as was the paternal
roof, and gazing on the same noun
tain and valley scenes /; accustomed
to the same habits and sharing in
the same rustic sports, they were
happy in each others company in
each others friendship in each 9th
er's confidence /; they knew not why.
But children Of Daturc, and heirs Of
her simplicity, they confessed a mu.
tual friendship in every word and
action.
AT last however the time came for
them to be separated Sanford was
sent to complete his education among
some mercantile friends of the fa,ni-
ly, III distant 'tify--and Celia to a
boarding school. They promised to
correspond ; ia remember each other.
But they knew not then how far tho
current of tleir destinies)werc to car
ry them apart. New pursuits. new
hopes, new friends crowded from
Sanford's mind the early images he
brought with him from his rural
home. AMI In a few years, an op-
portunity Offering, he went out SUI
percargo to India.
Celia returned; at length, to her
home /; she was the same girl still |;
the scenes through which she had
passed had possessed some novelty,
but not sufficient to wear away her
early associations she found her
self restored to scenes that were more
dear to her indeed; but she found
their principal attractions in the re-
membranes they awakened /; and
she found there sa vacuum. She
cherished tile image of hor early
friend; il grew more distance sepa-
rated her from the original. She
was fond of the pencil (: and sire
sketched a woodland scene green
bank sIoping gently to the river side:
the thick clustering willows above ;
a romantic bower formed Of twining
grape aud mountain roses, half man
lied in the shade !; and gontle pair
"A maiden and a boy, ia the rustic
| dress of early days, standing hand
IN hand beside it no one could
mistake the likencsses /; she wrote
under it" EARLY FRIENDSHIP
and while it brought back TO her viv-
ed recollection, a thousand scenes
the impression of which was stamp
ed on her heart, she felt at times as
though restored to the days of ju-
venilc delight, and all its pleasant
scenes came fresh as the reviving
dew on her feelings.
! But years had passed away she
had grown to womanhood; the hand
of Improvement had altered the val
ley scenery. in person even she was
changed I; and she often wondered
that her hsart slinuld still remain