Litchfield enquirer., 1830-02-11
MATRFMONY.

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as the world says--well! Some have mo-
we'd into costly houses, and their friends
have all come and looked at their fine fur
niture and their splendid arrangements for
happiness, and they have gone away and
committed them TO their sunny hopes
cheerfully and without fear. 1t is natural
to be sanguine for the young, and at such
times l ann carried away by similar feel
Jings. love TO get unObserved into cor
ner, and watch the bride in her white at
tire, and with her smiling face and her soft
blue eyes moving before me in their pride
of life, weave waking dream Of her fu-
tire happiness, and persuade myself that
it will be true. think how they will sit
upon the luxurious sofa as the twilight falls,
and build gay hopes, and murmur in low
tones the now unforbidden tenderness, and
how thrillingly the allowed kiss and the
beautiful endearments of welded life, will
make even the parting joyous, and how
gladly they will come back from the crowd
and the empty mirth Of the gay, to each
others quiet company. picture TO my
self that young creature, who bushes even
now, at his hesitating caress, listening ca
{ gerly for his footsteps NJ night steals on,
and wishing that he would come; and
when he enters at last, and, with an affec-
ton as underlying as his pulse, folds her
to his bosom, can feel the very tide tina,
goes flowing through his heart, and gaze
with him on her graceful form as she
moves about him for the kind offices of af-
lection, soothing all his unquiet cares, and
making him forget even himself, in her
young and unshadowed beauty.
60 forward for years, and see her lux
uriant hair put soberly away from her
brow, and her girlish graces ripened into
dignity, and her bright loveliness chasten-
cd with the lovely meekness of maternal
affection. Her husband looks on her with
proud eye, and shows Der the same fer
vent and delicate attentions which first
won her, and fair children are growing up
around them, and they 60 on full of hon
or and untroubled years, and are remem-
bered when they die
say / love to dream thus when goto
give the young bride joy. 1t is The natu-
raj tendency of feeling touched by lowell
ness, that fears nothing for itself, and, if
ever yield to darker feeling, it is because
the light Of the figure is changed. Fam
not fond Of dwelling opon such changes,
and ] will not, infinitely, now. l allude
to it only because T. ttusl that my simple
page, will he read by 'some OF tno young
and beautiful beings who move daily a.
cross my path, and 1 would whisper to
them, as they glide by joyously and con-
fidingly, the secret of an unclouded future.
The picture have drawn above is not
peculiar. 1t is colored like the fancies OF
the bride; and many, oh many an hour
will she sit, with her rich jewels lying loose
in her fingers, and dream such dreams as
these. She believes them too-and she
goes on, for a while, undeceived. The
evening is not too long while they talk OF
their plans for happiness, and the quiet
meal is still pleasant with the delightful
novelty Of mutual reliance and attention.
There comes soon, however, time when
personal topics become bare and weari-
some, and slight attentions will not alone
keep up the social excitement. There
are long intervals Of silence, and detected
symptoms of WEAKNESS, and the husband,
first, in his manhood, breaks in upon the
hours they were TO spend together. i
cannot follow it circumstantially. There
come unhappy hours Of listIessness, and
terrible nisgivings of each others worth,
and affection, ill, by and by, they can con-
ceal their uncasiness no longer, and 60
out separately to seek relief, and lean up
on a hollow world for support which one
who was their lover and friend could not
give them !
Heed this ye who arc winning by your
innocent beauty, the affection Of high mind
ed and innocent beings! Remember that
he will give up the brother Of his heart
with whom he has had, ever. fellowship
of mind-the society of his contemporary
runners in the race Of fame, who have held
with him a stern companioDshiP-and ire.
ouently, in his passionate love, he will
break away from the arena OF his burning
ambition. 10 como and listen 10 the voice
Of the clIarmer.' It will bewilder him at
first, but it will not long; and then, tn'nk
Won that an idle Establishment will chain
The mind that has been used, for years, to
an equal communion? Think that be will
give up, for weak dalliance' the ANNA
.;ne themes of men, and the search into
the fine mysteries Of knowledge f-Oh
-" ladv ,-belicvc mc---no Trust not
YOUR influence to such light fetters!--Cred-
4 mot Tie old fashioned absurdlty that wo-
mans is a secondary Iot-ministerIng to
the necessities Of her lord and master Y! u
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