The ladies' garland. [volume] (Harpers-Ferry, Va. [W. Va.]) 1824-1828, 1826-11-25


ald hun the suddenly distracted and desulate
that. in tie very moment of expiration, she
inrN him we'll, and was recommending him
aid hi, affections 10 The pity Of Que Who died to
>;Nr sinners
Three days and three nights, we have said
did he SIT beside her, who soon wa, to have
hrcn his hllde--and come 90 who would INTO
the room, lie saw them moths eve was fixed
on the winding sheet, cycling it. without single
tear, from feet to forehead, and sometimes lock
ing up TO heaven As forgotten beings in dun
gcons have lived miserahly long without food
SD did hr-stnd he would have done on and
on to the most far of funeral day. From that
one chair, close to the hc,i SIDE. he ne,er rose
Night after night when all the vale wa i,l>ird
he never slept Through one 81 the mtnght>
there had been great thunder storm the light
mig smiting clltl close 10 the cottage. but it
seemed that he heard it not and, dur!n. the
floods of next dlv, to him the rclting vale was
silent On the morning Of the funeral, the old
peoplc--tnr now they seemed to be old--Wrpt
10 see hIm sitting unconscious beside their lear
child-lur each Of the few rcnann. hours had
nov IFS sad office, and man now had come to
nail the coffin Three large speck> saddeny
ali trI on the face of the corpse--;tnd then off
and on---and awav--and returning. was hcHr.
the huzzng of large hell-hies, attracted b
beauty ia its Corruption. .'Ha, ha !. starting
up he cried in horror. WHAT birds OF prey are
these. whom Satan has sent 10 dc,otr tie
corpse ," He became stricken with a sort Of
pai>y-and. being led out INTO the open alr vas
laid down, seemingly as dead as Der "ithIn on
the gresa dashed turf, where, beneath the >i,a|olv
l. Of the sycamore, they had often sat. hndng
up beautiful visions Of long hl!ssiui lie!
The company assemhed--but not before his
eyc,-thc bier was lifted up and moved awav
down the sylvan Slope, and away round the
head Of the lake. and over the wooden bridge
accompanied. here and there, il passed the
way SIDE houses the road TO Gras> mere, by
the >oun, Of psalms bat he saw, he heard not .,
when the last sound o' the spade rrbounceI
from the smooth arch OF the grave, he was, not
bv; but all the While h. was Wing where thry
lett hlm, with one or two piyin@ dotenarn, Ut
ms head AMI feet When he two<c a., in and
ROSE ~, d. cottage of the lnl vas a, il She
ever ANA .Na end ter siNtrcn years smiling lie
vas all rNtln: a,ied in the ,u>i
WEEKS ati lnonti!, passed on, and Still there
WA, It vlcant witness 10 >ryes, and mortal
sIIa~tnr,, over hi, t4cr lnrxprcseivc Of rca
SCRABBLE >oul. 1t sctsc,!, ~ecu.cd that ht knew
where he WAS, Or in hat part of the earth, vet.
when lett ID himself he never sought to lnoye
beyond tue iiounGaric, Of the t'al Durln4 tie
iir~t G,;..t ~!imm rin@s Of returning r~a~oH. h.
would utter her naue over and over many
times With a ninnG.,'pl VOICE, bit etIl he kn.,y
NOT that ~rWa, ,,ra,! :hrn h. h,@.,'t L, caution
them all to trrr1 tils tor that ~lrr!, had fallen
upon hos ana her fever in is blessed balm
might abatt; then with &roan> to- all, citing T.
BE- borne Nv those who heard thrlu, hr would
as, ,.nv Ia, was de al {, "a had tr ciil