The ladies' garland. [volume] (Harpers-Ferry, Va. [W. Va.]) 1824-1828, 1826-01-21

edneSs where found peace destroying con
tent which could no more share in than restore
that your mildness would be terrified by my
moody, rugged temper yourvery beauty blast
ed by my alteration; that my love, like the hot
sand-wind of the desert, would have wthercd
scorched, the lovely fourishing flower that it
breathed upon; that if the sordid regard for
self which men dignity with the name of " no.
norable principle" had saved your little fortune
from rapaclty and dissipation, still your peace
of mind, your calm content, your happiness and
hopes, would have been ruined. wasted, wrecked
forever: if had not felt the kite was no fit com
panion for the dove, the white doe for the wolf
that the hyaclnth must die which we plant on
the brow of the volcano and that the rutlian
billow, seeming to court the gay and gaudy YES
sci, courts but to stihe her in his embrace bad
| not felt all this, and tanned myself down to
know it, should have told you on the very last
evening when we met, two trrths, which after
all, perhaps did but i'll conceal from YOU that
| was a consort only for darkness and for dan
ger \: beggar, helpless, hopeless. and but for
your love, almost careless; but that whatever
might be, had still heart: and that. as far as.
. life soul, man might venture, YOU held the
power to tempt, TO command me 10 cxcrtion.
and to reward it.
But if you escaped, in the moment of TRIAL.
from that peculiar danger TO which the fate that
made you woman made YOU liable, upon the
remote peril which forms no part of your con
tract with fortune, | cannot let YOU come to
harm. moment of passion ght have afforded
some excuse; while you were present to tempt
me, might have done wrong, and been for
given But must not take time to consider. and
then plumber you deliberately and in cold blood
| talk out of season, and even with freedom
which am scarcely warranted to use ; but trust
me, that freedom proceeds from no want OF
respect, no want Of reverence In my most rcck
less mood towards YOU. 4 thousand pounds
gained by stroke~at play, gained 50 that nei
Their thanked nor bowed to any human crca-
ture for it. could not have raised my spirits
as these crowqul lines Of yours have done
which life must have left me when / leave
TO remember and to acknowledge tell
YOU all tell it YOU to tediousness because
| know YOU will rejoice | was melancholy
sick of existence, dropping: the lirmncss that
| had was but the obstinacy of necessity and de-
spair was quitting the world on i'll terms
that is, quitting the world in which had lived
which is the real world to every man; and no
ono, though went forever, seemed to regret or
notice my departure. But your letter, | tell YOU.
Eliza, fatters me; gives me hope, nav, dc
sire, vet to live. One sken cord binds faster
than hundred chains Of iron Tell men only
that they are worthy and the very worst of them
will almost wish to be so. The absence of
hundred who should now he near me the
avoidance Of all who ought to offer me aid, ever
although | would not receive it : the cool tr,
umph Of those who hate me. more insulting liz
cause cold and silent; all this, which cannot
resent; this which must not notrc----Whiclt
to none. perhaps but YOU dare own ! ~cr