Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1830-04-09

Is'0c"Sc'S. Meutdi IHaSeS lost tDelr HTii
and heightened ont like shadows. and
world rolled wildly aud unbrid.ed beior,
tlIm--tor dreams had sent to him thei
spirits, Finally, sleep spread over linn heI
s"nbre pail. aud he lay plunged ia dark
hess, alone and motionless, like a thing oil
earth. But then celestial dreams stretched
over him their wings, aid his soul was te-
ftcted from their magic mirrors, where he
saw the circle OF angels and resplend.nt
heaven and his earthly body seemed to
separate itself from all It's bonds. sAh.' said
he. IN his Joy this sleep was then my
separation But when he awokc will a
swollen heart, heavy with human bluo,L
when he saw both night aud day, he went
and exclaimed-'it was not death j, Mas
but the image thereof, although saw The
stars and the angels
| "The aflianced bride Of the yonnp war
rIor in heaven. did not perceive that !, vas
an angel which animated the bosom of Ter
beloved she yet loved this monument of
an absent soul, and grasped with ecs,acy
the hand OF him who was SD far from Ter.
But the angel, III his turn, loved the de-
| ceived heart, even with human affection
and jealous of the body he animated. be-
desired not to die before her, tina, he might
love her until she should pardon him here
aftei, IN heaven, for having received at
once upon her bosom. an angel and a low
er. Blu, she died before him; past griels
had too deeply bowed the head of This
tower--she fell broken-hearted into the
tomb.
Alas, she disappeared liom before the
weeping angel, not like the sun that Dln-
ges magniiicently into the wa.es in the
presence Of admiring nature, but like the
nocturnal star which hides itself at mil
right in cloud and van,shes away in
It's dusky vapour. Death sent to her the
kindest of his sisters; che touched with
her icy finger the heart OF the betro,be.)
at once the lustre of her cheeks grew
dim, and the snow Of deaih-that winter
under which germs the spring of eternity
spread over her heavenly form. The
eyes Ofthe angel swan in tears. He thought
that his heart was about to assume the
form Of tear, as the pearl which the ten
der shells produce. But the betro,hed
awaking for the last sigh, opened once
more her eyes, drew him to her heart
and died embracing hlm-crying, deEri-
ouslg, now l am near thee, my brother
The angel expected to receive then
from his celestial brother, the sign of the
tisS and OF death. But instead OF brilliant
rays, he saw only around him dark cloud.
aud he sighed that he could not die, but
must endure this human suffering. Ooh
miserable, oppressed man. cried he, how
can you survive your pains7 How can
you aspire to old age, when the circle of
those whom you loved in youth is broken
and when the tombs of friends
form but the steps to your own, and when
life has become void and silent arena Z
Miserable man, how can your heart sup
port these evils?'
The body nj the hero, which the angel
had taken, conducted the placid and pure
soul iDtu the midst of men and their lnius.
tce, among the storms OF vice and passion.
He was compelled TO bow beneath the ty-
ranny OF the great, and groaD under the
oppression of sceptres. He saw near at
hand the taions Of the crowned eagles
which devnur the substance of the people,
and he heard the wild tapping of their
wings. He saw all the earth folded in
the thousand coils Of the serpent, which
has made it his prey, and which continu.
lally pIanges his envenomed tooth into the
hosoms of men. Alas, even his tender
heart, which had reposed from eternity in
the bosom of angels. was pierced with the
thorn of hatred. This pang he thought
The last. Oh said ne, how painful is
death ! But that was not death, for 10
angel appeared.
{" He soon became weary oflife, which
we bear for half century and he looked
back TO what he was. His wounded breast
was contracted 10y pain he vert, pale and
disheartened, into the field Of the dead
that green back ground of life, where souls
throw off the vestments OF mortality. Here,
agitated with painful remembrance, he
sat down upon the spoiled grave of her
whom he had loved with inexpressible af-
lection, and contemplated the sun, which
was finishing his course. Stretched out
upon the beloved hillock, he cast his eyes
upon his pain racked BODY. 'E,e this,
thou shoudst have separated myself in this
lplace, had not preserved theep He
thought Of the painful existence Of men.
and the ,hrobing Of his wounds taught him
to know the price at which mortals pur-
chase their end and Their virtues. He felt
deeply touched with their consistency, and
he wept with an infinite love over our
race, who, banished to death Of fallen
planet, wandering in life darkened by
may clouds, yet keep their eyes fixed on a
divine light, stretching their arms towards
heaven at each renewed anguish, and a.
round whom nothing shines but the hope
OF one day rising, like that sun, into new
horizon.