Northern star, and Warren and Bristol gazette. [volume] (Warren [R.I.]) 1826-1830, 1826-03-25
DEATH.

Among the many tsoapies WIN"
holden by the human race, as birth a
right there are none so prone to blind s
the understanding. and to bind our SEN a
ses with the chains oi feeling, as the Y
loss OF relatives and friends, by the arm
Of death. We are selfish enough to
wish our acquaintance to linyer longer
in this world Of woes, because their DIS
positions are congcpial to our feelings
because their instructions are suited TO
our taste because our interests are
thereby benefited, or because our al
fcctions have become SO interviewer
with their existence as to render
separ alton almost apnihilntion to oo'h'
Were we to strip Death Of the tcrrours
| in which education has clothed him, and
look upon the phantom with the Cal"
eye OF philosophy, we should hod 'na.1
Jour grief at the parting of soul an"
BODY. arises more from regret at hav'ng
our own feelings lacerated, than from
any other motive.
! Are you wife. and has death rob.
bed ycu of the fruits Of your first love !
Has the infant, who yesterday nestled
upon your bosom-who awakened oy
Its playful gambols all the feelings o'
the parent. been claimed by It's mother
earth. and has she hushed it to sleep
, upon her clay cold bosom Have you
: seen the bud Of innocence blasted ny
Deaths rude hand, and that cheruh'
!. who bade fair to rival in beauty and ex-
ce,lence IFS father, been shifted from the
!, cradle TO the coffin, and its little body
!. left upon the dark heath, with nought
IS but the pelting storm or the signing
e wind to sing its lullaby. Or had man.
4 hoods summer ripened your child, and
;. given his tall form the shade OF age
e did the spoiIer meet him. at noon-day
d when his limbs had just grown to h'
. the mould formed for him by his ma
r. ker. Did he vanish as the lightning
aash, leaving the nights darkness dark
,t er still, because for moment ilIum'na
m ted by its ferkey rays |? Was he taker
40 from YOU when old age demanded hi
n. support-were you left upon this earth
he without single being allied by blood
tn to stretch your aged limbs in their mar
70 row tenement-without friend to mois
i. ten the little hillock which rises over
,e your coffin, with tear still, if yot
e. loved your friends you would not mnr
pb mur. Ifafection for them filed YOU
ts breast, when they were with you,
Of wonld follow them to the deepest re
,r. cesses of the grave. and their great gai
ii. would cease to draw tears from you
ch eyes.
nv Are you wife, and ought you t
he complain because your hosband IS Il
,ay ken from you Know ye not that troI
w. the earliest dawn of his existence, deaf
is was acknowledged as his ailianced bride
ing and should you not be ready to surrer
left der to her embrace the honey skel'
zen ton T? Know we not that he slcel
no. more sound upon this bridal he'd thu
he he did upon yours, and woald you d.
and prive him Of his rest :
'os- Are you a brother to the deceased
,ro- So is every clod in the valley, and thu
his have called him to mingle in their g
fist ciety as he once mingled in yours
ter: they have embraced him as affectio
,re- ately as you could-he is now boul
ling to them by stronger ties than he ev
, as was to you--you must'go to him, b
1t to you he can never come.
the Let any one Of us visit the labtatio
, on of tho dead, when time shall have cali
" to ed the feelings with which we regard
nee their dissolution and compare the hs
'usi- py Stiffness in which they slumber.
s its the turbulent connections Of life, a
The if we regard their well being more Il
my the qualification Of Dur own feelings,
Var shall hardly wish to break the de
a in sleep Of death.
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