The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1827-08-01

hibits the venerable SHOWS Of aeA,, or the
hair falls off from the place it has so long
protected and adorned. At this seas on we
reap the full fruit, of our carly labors. and
live over again in the personsso of descend
ants. 1t is the period in which we receive
the just tribute of yeneration and conf
dence from our fellow men, if we have liy-
ed to deserve it, and are entitled to The re-
spect and confidence of the younger part
OF mankind, IN exact proportion to the man
ner in which our own youth has been scent,
and our maturity improved.
Last comes the lean and slippered pam
taloon. The marks of decline and de-
crepltuce become more perceptible. The
teeth are gone-the jaws approach each
other-the face is sunk-the eye quenched
IN rheumatic voice feeble, unequal and
Whlstllng-the muscles wasted-the gait
totterlng-the sight and hearing rapidly
fall-and the other senses are almost oblit-
Grated: The mind lives not in the pres
to-day.
"I'he green hills, the joyous gambols,
the pure friendship of childhood, all thrill
through the heart. The ancient man sits
In the midst of generation thrice remov-
ed from his own: he appears insensible to
those around him; he is deaf, and partici
pates not in their joys; he beAolds their
sorrows with cold, unfeeling eve. But
why does he at times convulsively grasp
his sta-+-&nd why does an unheeded tear
occasionally trickle down his furrowed
cheek? He is looking baclz-beyond the
existence of the present generaton-per-
haps the image of FER who hath slept in
dust foFhalf a century-she in whom his
youthful heart was garnered up" appears
before his memory as once she doomed =
perchance the mother who watched or
wept DER his cradle, aRd enhanced the low
BUSINESS OF his early life, is breathing in his
ear-or the bosom friend and companion
OF his youthful wandcrings, smiles upon
HIM, with the truth and ardor he has so
long been stranger to. Where are thea I?
Another people has grown to maturity since
their graves were first sodded. Their
memory has persisted, except in the aged
man, whose long dried fountains of sensi-
blIty gush forth afresh as such recollec-
lions rise within his mind.
The approach Of de2l;l from slow com
ing decline and ipfirnity Of nature. mark
ed by the eventual obiitera:ion of all tn1
faculties Of mind and body. The breath
ing becomes slower and slower: the heart
intermits its pulsations the blood lo;ters
along the veins; the extremities grow cold,
and the feeble fame of life lessons until Il
ceases to be perceptible, except at the CEN
tire, where it family glimmers Tor time,
and then is gently extinguished without
sigh or groan-without trace of emotion
or of pain"
This is faithful description of human
life drawn by 4 masters hand, and alas |!
as melancholy as faithful. Had time and
place permitted, we would have been bet
ter pleased to have seen IT, -: esa"re"ia OLD
man thus brought to the brink of the grave,
and left there piSiai.:e, hopeless specta-
Gle, carried one steo beyond it, and intro
duced to those regions Of endless bliss to
which every pious Christian is taught to
look forward with Mountaineering and un-
wavering confdence.l- Y. e. Post.