Northern star, and Warren and Bristol gazette. [volume] (Warren [R.I.]) 1826-1830, 1826-09-02
A SOLDIERS FAITH.

Never snail / forget their bridal
earta scarce confined aught more
lovely than Maria, as she passed the
portal of the village church, and has
tened to cscap. the admiring gaze of
the rustick crowd. Maria was barely
eighteen the light ot beauty danced
in her deep blue eye but on this. her
bridal morn, its long siIken lash hid
more than half IT. brightness, and the
snowy veil which fell over her au-
burn tresses, was not paler than her
cheek had loved, ere left my
ctcr's roof bat had no patrmony
eycepta proud name and Il soldiers
fortunes and Maria. was prize too
great for one SO portioned. | looked
upon her. bride sroom--every feature
was eplete With .manly beauty and
each well knit lirG mi ,ht have foen-
ed study for the tastiduous sta,u,ry,
and Yet | gazed upon him ill my heart
swelled almost to bursting and.l tam
ed once more to l,k urou Maria,
ard wished that they hal chosen her
another lord. Never shall forget
that dark. deep, earth.turned eye, or
the langhly lip with its triumphant and
feariu! smile! left my native village /;
| sighedEnot one farewell to NJ ria.
After her marriage we feared to meet.
She felt that loved her, and her own
heart, more stubborn than her nature,
resisted cqrn yet the the harsh man
date Of an unyield.ng parent ; she knew
t it and she shrunk not from her dlty. -
Again left my home and the sun OF
Spain ddrkencd my brow, and her wars
nerved my spirit to greater daring
but returned from her naughty daugh-
tiers with ,i,l>ning sonl for thought
Of Maria, and her ia'al destiny, and !
cluug to her remembrance as ii my
hopeless trut, could not in aught avail
her. Years sped on, and my heart
yearped to revisit the house OF my
childhood the birth place oi'my first
hopes. j trodits path with tirni step
|b1t the sunny ray which glanced on me
in the home of my fathers, rested on
the sacred features of a war scathed
soldier l shrunk from The reflection
+" Should Maria now look on me, how
would she deem me changed !" ltwas
| foolish thought and in the next mo-
ment blu,hed for It's conception. -
my stay was brief, yet ere again be-
came wandercr, once more beheld
Maria. She had been the mother OF
(two blooming boys, but they had wish
1 cred, like roses devourcd By the foul
worm which feasts on beauty. | saw
| her lord, tao the voice ol mqrmur
was on his toagne, and his eye scowied
j reproachfaly as he threw it on his syouns
bride. The pale cheek grew yet pa
Jlerbeneath the glance--the soft blue
eye swelIed with the drop of silent sui
fering the heaying bosom strpg sled TO
repress the sigh. which threatened to
escape it--and fled ere my tongue
! gave utterancc TO the curse my hear
engcndei cd. | became loudest in the
lrevel, but could not drown the mem.
ory Of that low stifei sigh tminglet
in the train Of beauty, but the deep eye
with its large tear was everin The throns
md every pale cheek on which gazet
| in my wanderipgs, recalled the memo
| ry OF Maria Again the tented feIt
was my abode, the green-sward my
res:ing.placr. Again my night slumbel
was amidst the brave,and my day -dreau
Of conquest and Of glory. Many bo''
and buoy yant heart slept 10 death ere tn
field was fought; mauy au ardent spirl