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thee. my brother. thou wilt be dead on
earth. and placed among u.s.
| Trembling and filled with aff.c.
non, the angel cast himself upon a
held OF battle. where there was vet
but a single mana beautiful youth.
iu'i OF hire. whose married bosom still.
heaved and near the Young hero
kneeled, solitary, his beloved. He
could no longer feel her burning tears.
and her groans appeared to him as the
distant cry Of combats. The angel
spread over him his wings, and. un-
der the form Of his beloved. he press.
cd him TO his heart; by q burning kiss
he drew from his bloody breast his
wounded soul, and gave il to his bro.
iher. His brother gave the released
soul the second kiss, and il entered
Heaven with a smile.
The angel Of death giided like a
ray OF lightning into the empt, enve.
iope--penetrated the lifeless BODY with
HI. divine warmth. and powerfully re.
animated the sources Of life. But the
limits OF a human body were painful
restraints upon the spirit. His eve of
light shut up in an orb Of nerves, grew
weak and dim; his immense and rapid
thought moved heavily in the bony en-
closure OF brain the vapoury and re.
splendent atmosphere which had reign.
ed around him like an eternal spring.
had become dry and sombre; all his
sensations became confused and tumul.
tuous. They were such ~ belonged
to his new existence, and seemed a
simple instinct-as do to- us the thoughts
OF animals. Hunger gnawed upon him.
and thirst devoured him; his wounds
t"rmented him; his breast, yet batbed
IN blond, smartcd with pain. and his
Era aspiration was sigh towards that
Heaven which he had left. And is
this mans desths' said he; But as he
felt not the sigh Of death. which had
been promised. and perceived no an
gel nor circle of heavenly rays, he felt.
indeed, that il was only life.
e" 10 the evening the angel lost his
earthly strength, and the world seem.
ed whrling under him-for sleep sent
to him his messengers. Mental images
lost their light and heightened gu, like
shadows. and a world rolled wildly
and unbridled before bim-lor dreams
had sent to him their spirits. Finally
sleep spread over him her sombre pali.
and he lay plunged in darkness, alone
and motionless, like thing Of earth.
But then celestial dreams stretched O.
yer aim their wings, and his soul was
reflected from their magic mirrors.
where he saw the circle Of angels and
resplendent heaven; and his earthly
body seemed to separate itself from all
ITS bonds. 'Ah,' said he, in his ioy,
this sleep was then my separation
But when he awoke with a swollen
heart, heavy with human blood-when
he saw both night and day, he wept
and exclaimed-si it was not DEATH,
was but the image thereof. although I
saw the stars aud the angels
The affianced bride Of the Young
warrior IN heaven, did not perceive
that IT was an angel which animated
the bosom OF her beloved she vet low
ed this monument Of an absent .ouI.
and grasped with ecstacy the hand Of
HIM who was so far from her. But the
angel, in his turn. loved this deceived
heart, even with a human affection.
and jealous OF the BODY he animated.
he desired not to die before her, that he
might love her until she should pardon
him hereafter, ia heaven, for having re-
eelved at once upon her bosom. an an.
gel and lover. But she died before
him; past grieis bad too deeply bowe ed
the head OF this fiOwer--she fell broken
hearted into the tomb.
Alas. she disappeared from before
the weeping angel, not like the sun
that Plunges magnihcentIy into the
waves VA the presence Of admiring ma.
ture, but like the nocturnal star which
hides itself at midnight in q cloud and
vanishes away IN ats dusky vapour. -
Death sent ,Ober the kindest of his sis.
ters; she touched with her ICY finger
the heart Of the betrolhed--at once the
lustre OF her cheeks grew dim. add tho
snow OG death-.that winter under
which germs the spring Of eIerniis-
spread over her heavenly form. The
N eyes OF the angel swan in tears. lie
thought that hIs heart was about 70 az
sumo the form Of a tear, as the pearl
which the tender shells produce. But
the betrOthed awaking from the last
sigh. opened once more her eyes, drew
him to her heart, aud died embracing
him--crying. drlir,ousIy, 'now | am
near thee my brothsrH
The angel expected 70 receive
then from his celestial brother, the sign
OF the kiss and Of death. Isn't instead
OF brilliant rays, he saw only around
him dark cloud. and he sighed that
he could not die, bot must endure this