Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1826-09-08
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FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE,

FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE,
Love rules over her empire ui hearte
With powerful aud mysterious sway
hers is world OF delightful dreems--
oil raprurous hopes--or OF broken hsali.
ed disappolntmenls, melancholy ano
death. Friendship sways colder scep-
ire; is the lord oil less ieverlsb do
mmlon; bu, her history is scarcely less
marked by vICIssItudes and change
and, as lew ever reach the first empile
! without passing through her gates, u
, hundreds who lnended at first 10 pause
in her dominlons wander before sheJ
are aware into the warmer cline o..
Love
Associations OF Friendship most com
monty spring from similarity oil tastes
II was SO IN the case OF SANFORD and
Celia. The same village school; the
same holiday rambles; The familiar 10
tercourse Oh immediate nele hborhood,
and corresponding rank, never tan to
make acquaintance; bat It Is only hearts
moulded alike pulses that beat in uni
son; spirits oil kindred genius, that na-
iurally run together and cement ouch
however, were the circumstances , such
the genus Of my wo early acqaalntan-
ces, aud the strong impulses o! nature
made them friends.
Through all the years Of childhood
aud OF youth, they roved logeiher among
the fields aud flowers o their NAIVE
valley the residence OF each was al
most as much he home OF The Other as
! WAS the paternal roof; and gazing OF
he same mountain and valley scenes !;
accustomed 10 the same habits and sba-
ring IA he same rustic sports, they were
happy IN each others company; in each
others friendship; 10 each others con-
/ fdence; they knew no why. Bul chill
| dren Of nature, and hers OF her sinpli-
city, they confessed mutual friendship
IN every word and action.
At last however, the time came Tor
them to be separated. Sanford was sent
to complete his education among some
mercantile friends OF The family 10 dis
tam city--.atd Celia to boarding school.
They promised to correspond; TO re-
member each other. BGt they knew
not taen how tar the current OF heir ues-
TIMES were to carry them apart. New
pursuits, new hopes, new trends crowd
I'd from Saniord's mind the early INA
ecs he brought with him from his rural
home. And in few years an oppor-
tunily offering, he went out, supercar-
go TO India.
Ceiia returned, at length TO her home ;
she was the same girl still; the scenes
through which she had passed had pos
sessed some novelty, but not sufficient
10 wear away her early associations !;
she found herself restored 20 scenes
that were more dear to her indeed; bul
she found their principal attractions In
he renembrances they awakened; and
she found there a vacuum. She che
rlshed the image of her early friend; II
grew more and more distinct, as time
and distance separated her from the orr
einsl. She was ford Of the pencil; and
she sketcbed a woodland scene a green
bank sloping gently to the river side !;
the thick clustering willows above; a
| romantic bower formed Of winning grape
and mountain roses, half mantled IN the
shade; and gentle para maiden and
boy, in the rustic dress OF early days
S Standing hand in hand beside it; no one
could mistake the lkenesses she
wrote under it" EARLY FRIENDSHIP"
and while it brought back 10 her vivid
recollection thousand scenes, the i'm
preston of which was stamped upon her
heart, she Eel, at umes as though resior-
ed to the days of juvenile delight, and
all lis pleasant scenes came fresh as the
revlving dew upon her feelings.
But years had passed away; she had
grown 10 womanhood; the hand Of i'm.
provement had altered the valley scene
Try; 10 person even she was CHANGED
and she often wondered that her hear