Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-06-21
L,IJcy or THE FOLD

most affecting n To which rcnus has allied no
general emotion, iadcs likc tho mist and caves the
ho9ft.rending grief undeplored. Elegtes and dirges
m aht have well been sung smdst the green ruiis Of
yoadsr c0t~gc, hat looks Rrnost ike fiicn wall
-at best the ut cattle she'd shaken down
By the Storm. Twenty yours s-o-how short time
ta n,tural hisloryhuS long IN that OF private sor-
rows. ali tongues were speaking of the DEATH that
there befcl. and have the weeping, you would
hsye thought that the funeral could never have oeon
forgotten. Bat stop now The shepherd on the hh,
and ask him who lived of old in that nook, and chance
ID he knows not their name, much less the sto
~ of ,he,r Affections That farm house was inhab'
tied b; Alien Ncnmiug his wife, and an only child,
known fainlarv m her small world, by the
Of Lucy OF the Fold In almost every valo among
the mountains there is it's peculiar pride-sone one
creature to whom nature has been especially kind,
md whose personal beauty sweetness OF disposition
pnd fet superiority Of mind and manner, single her
out unconcionsly MS an OBJ, ct of attraction & prse,
making hcr tho Maydny Queen of the unend'ng
year. Such darling was Lucy Fleming, ere she
hal flushed her thirteenth year; aud strangers who
bad heard tell of her loneliness, often dropped in,
if by accident, to see the beauty of Kydelmere Her
parsus reioicel in thar child nor was there any
reason Why they should dislike the expression OF
delight and wUidcr, with which 60 many regarded her
Shy was she "a woodland Dii j, but us fond OF her
two and when there noih'ng near - disturb.
her life was almost II D.rptual hymn. romlcy to
sadness, and from sadness tn loy;--fron silence to
song, and from song to silerc from stiffness, Ike
that of the butterfly the Il wer. To Ino'io Lie
that of The same or .aturc wagering tho sunshine
the wood top, Lucy as weicnnle change,
The change of lights and shadows, breezes and
Gains in the mountain country OF her birth.
One summer duy, youthful Stranger appeared
at lie door of the house aud after On hours stay du
ring which Lucy was not ut home. asked 1t they
would let him have lodgings with them Tor lew
months,-a single room for bed and books, and that
he would take his meals with The family. Enthusi-
sst;c boy! TO him poetry had been tn light OF life.
nor did ever nero OF poetry belong more entirely
than he the world oil ,mas lat'or He hod come
INTO free rloun ain r'gon ffon nc confinement
OF tue college walls, AMI his spirit was eHPahueu
within him Ike u rainbow. NJ eye had he TOR reaii
tes--,li nature was seen Ill the hight OF faucy-noi
single "hjnct sunrise and sunset G sarhe AL
was beautiful within the crcc OF the green I'LL tops
whether shroudeu the sol isis or Clearly Outlined
in voudess shy. ii Line, friends. Colleges cites
all sunk away into oblivion, anu Harry Howard lett
asst waited on the wings vi spiIt, anu set down
in land beyond the sea, foreign 10 all lie 'ad before
experienced. yet hs perfect ana endless beauty APP
pealing every huur more endrrly and siruhsly 10
spirit awaken 10 new power, and revealing Ia new
emotion. In that college he took up his abode. In
few weeks library OF books IN al languages,
and there wondering Ia over all the coun
try side abJJt the mysterious young stranger who
lived at The Z. I'D.
Every d.y, 81 wien he chose to a5sen. himself from
his apiIis among ifr nils, every hour Was Lucy DE-
fore The young poets eyes-and every nour did her
beauty wax beautiful III MS nm gnaiion. VINO
Mr. Howard vas, even If That weie indeed his real
nan,e,no Enew; but none doubted That ne was vi
ES:tfc WIN VooU Hc ilau e'cr
sed hs e;egunt aIneniiy, cUuld nav, sworn that
youth so bland anu tree, aud w;h such a voice, aEd
SUCH eyes, would noi have irJnted the hunoicst VI
Gods c.eafu,os, uucntcss creature as t'ncy o
rae fold. Il indecd so-fo. bcfJ:e me iohg
summer days gone, wno nad never nad d
sister, loved her si. mad slept the same
maternal bosom.-Fn rtner mother ne mad uUnr,
Indeed scarcely near relation; ai.ii,ugn WIS
rich IN words riches out Than poor 10 CON
psrson win the cndowne,is hao LAVISH
cd upon his mud. His guardians took iile hecd OF
the splendid but waywaId youth, and Knew
whittier ills ianclcs mad carried linn wee 1t 10
some savage land. thus, the Fold became 10 him
the ono dla,est rolf una+r the OF heaven. ALI
the simple goings of thu; humble hom-, 1--we and
Ima gina beautilicd into poorly; and ali the rongh
or euges io~ly nis were sof oned away ln
the light genus tnat transmit ted every thing winch
it fell; while ali the silent ntimations winch nature
gave there OF her prltns synpathle5, The nut rs
hDe and furcefu the hail. sho ed 10 his exc ed
spirit permanently beautiful land chained It To the
hesr.h around which was read The ElorEng and tho
evening prayer:
What wiln schemes docs not lovo una gine and in
the face OF very ,inpossib'y achieve! Il will take
Lusy myself II At should be IN place of oil the world
viii myself breathe night her being, TIL in o
spiag shall be adorned with living flowers
fade mol away, perennial aud soil renewed. In few
years, the bright docle creature shall nave the soul
of very auge-and then before God and his holy
ataf mine snail she become forever-here and hero
aterin tbis paradise III earth, and if more &C cstia
be, in the paradise Ut heaven.
Thus two summers and two winters wheeled away
into the past ami IN the cdange ,mpercc ptlble from
day to day. but glorious at last, wrought on Iucys
naturoby communication with one prodigaly en-
dowed, scarcely could parents belive II was their
child, except that sac was ,lutifil Def re- a.
sfecionate, d. fond Of all the familiar objects dead
or living, round aud about her birth piace She Ind
now grown to womans statuTc-tall, tho she scarce
ly sePmed 30, except when among her playmates
and her maturing loveness, fulfilling, and far more
than flu filing the fair promise Other childhood Never
once had the youag stranger-stranger more--spo
ken to daughter, father or MOTHER his love- Indeed
for all that he eIt towards Lacy, there must have
been some other word than love. Tenderness, winch
was almost plty--an affection that was often sad
wonder her surprising beauty, not less her I'm
consciousness of Its power--odmraon Of her spiritual
qualities, thai ever rose up to meet inst ruction as il
already formedand that heart throbbing that stir,
the blood of youth when the innocent eyes it lore.
arc beaming in the twilight through smiles or through
eoars,-these, and a thousand other feelings, and
bove all, the creative faculty OF poets soul, now con
uted his being wien Lucy vyas N hia nto