The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-09-19
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A SKETCH.

great and powerful King had sister
distinguished for extreme personal beauty,
and for a most amiable and benevolent dis
position. She was remarkable, also, for pro-
ficiency in those accomplishments which
throw such additional charms over female
beauty and intellect. In music, especially,
she took excessive pleasure, and possessed
extreme skill. She was the favorite of her
brother, and was regarded with all that
consideration which such favor gives an alb
solute court. Youth, beauty, talent, feel
ing, powerful seemed joined to shower
roses in her path-to give to it all happi-
ness. But this was not to last. A young
nobleman appeared at the court who soon
attracted universal attention. Peculiarly
fitted to shine in such scenes, it was not
long before his success, Ito use the word in
its French signiication) became great and
undoubted. Among others, the princess
admired the young courtier, and soon she
loved him. Their mutual affection was
what might be expected between two
young persons of fiery passions, and habits
of little self control. 1t did not, therefore,
remain long unperceived. The young man
was advised to withdraw himself-hut all
such cautions were vain to youthful and
faVoured passion, He remained. At last
he was seized and imprisoned, and after
various escapes, was finally thrown into q
dungeon, where he was totally cut off from
all communications with the world, to which
he was as though he had never been. Dur
ing his first imprisonment, the princess con-
trived to convey to him her assurances of
continued affection; and every alienation
which wealth could furnish his lot. But
after he was removed to the last place of
his confinement, it was as if the tomb had
closed over him forever.
Let us shift the scene, and see woman
lettering in premature old age her limbs
have nearly lost their power she can
scarcely crawl the length of her ROOM,
and she cannot lift one hand without the
help of the other to raise it. Her eyes
| arc distended, fsreed fse.as Tho soal-a4.- S.,A
nearly blind. Her voice is gone, and with
it her fondness of the art to which it gave
so much effect and beauty. Her mind is
equally altered. Her mildness is changed
into the btterest sarcasm. From one of
the most benevolent of human beings, she
has come to take delight only in the indul-
gence of severity of temper amounting
almost to rancor.
She is seated in her chamber The door
opens, q man enters. He is old and deere
pid. His hair is snow white. His form is
bent nearly double -
"----- there came
A worn out man, with withercd limbs and
lame,
His mind oppressed with woes, and bent with
ago his frame"
1t is her lover. His hair has been whtened
by intense and continued suffering, rather
than by the work of time; his body has
been doubled by the weight of iron which
it bore for ten years. He was at that time
in solitary confinement, loaded with heavy
chains, and scrupulously debarred from the
slightest mitigation ofhis condition, physca
or mental. The tyrant is dead, and the
lovers may meet. How would they have
recognized each other? The gay cavalier
flushed with the pride of youthful beauty
and general admiration, brilliant in present
fortune, and anticipating still higher des
tiny; AND the young princess, the lovely