Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-04-10
From the AUBURN Free Press.
EDWIN AND ELLEN.

TALE-FoCNDED ON FACT.
Marriage is sure matter OF more worth
Than 10 be subject for attorneyship,
For what is wedock forced but he'll,
An age OF discord and continual strife;
Whereas the contrary bringeIh forth bliss,
And is pattern OF celestial peace
Shakespeare.
The moon had risen in cloudle3s ajesty a.
bove the eastern hills, and her silver rays illu-
minated the horizon, while Ph96us had de-
scended over The western hemisphere and recli-
ned in the lap OF Morpheus-the misty twilight
had dispersed, aud the cheering rays Of the
twinklng meteors spread refulgent harmony to
the enrapturcd eye--no noise was heard to ar
res, The melancholy and pensive, calm reflector,
or disturb the trapQuilizing scenes so delight
fully spread arouud-all was STILL save the
murmuriug zephyrs which gently famed the
shady grove, whose waving piumes reyerberated
har-stifled signs 10 the passing breeze. This
was the hour tor love; the delightful scenes Of
Of nature; the seQuestered promenade; the fruit
ful fancy Of viriapus, unsIspecting youth. Mo
we'd by ne natural dictates Of lively feeling, and
enraptured by tie novelty Of the enchanting
scene, TWO youthit but ardent lovers, entered
on 8 ,oneiJ walk; 10 RAN rie through The magic
grove; to Breathe thsir gentle tales Of love, and
thiu& of 6liss to cnm"--hours like moments
few apaoe-lheY had II mbled far, unccnsci nu9
where, aud yet solemn silence reigned. They
could 1t talk &c lo-e-still walked they on, alb
sorbed in thought, until the distant village bell
had told the Saur Of twelre-beiug oppressed
and melancholy, they needed it not-nor could
they dssist from ,hsir nocturnal rambes, attho'
both 'e!ta delicacy in breaking the heavenly
stiffness and embarrassment that perry AIDED each
indi idual bosom. There is language in the
eye, IN the look, in the gesture in the sh which
reciprocal feelings can understand, athough the
organs of speech are inadequate TO their expires
sions. They loved; each felt as though un-
worthy Of the object Of their highest admira-
lion. They were vir,uous; they never harbour
ed or cherished thought repugnan, to the
strictest rules Of decorum. They were passion
ately fond Of each other; but the :nsurmount.
able obstacles that obtruded themselves 10 pre-
vent their immediate union-the consumma,ios
of1heir highest nlieipations-were, indeed, of
a nature calculated to chill and deadcn every
hope of earthly wealth and prosperity-for they
we'll knew that to marry against the will OF their
parents would cost them the loss Of their right.
fnl inheritance, which was not iIconsiderable;
altho' he was an only son, & she an only daughter
their parents would as soon have seen them an
initiated as joined in the affecrioHate bonds of
mat,imony. Political discord had sown the
seeds of a fatal hatred that sometimes. for a
sea son, had threatened the destruction OF both
parties, and seemed a calamity to Edwin anu
Ellen that time could not efface: and each felt,
tina: to unburlhen the mind by candid acknow.
Judgement OF feelings, might, perhaps, have
tendency 20 add torture 10 affection.
The moment was auspicious-to part at this
inncturs woul6 be affecting; 10 remain longer
in this state 81 mind, misery in the extreme
The fear of parental authority, and the pain
they experienced from cruel stubbornness, con
spired To hegn,en their sensibility, in the same
proportion as it darkened and blighted their
future hopes Of prosperity and happiness. They