The Arkansas advocate., 1830-11-17

=, @oiiSo oi tHts 0luCn llttlts ioi tow born maidens married to youths of nigh estates and raised from hut to
 nall, becoming mothers of a lordly line |aoi sons, that were consellors to kingsand princes.
 In spring, Mir. Howard went away
 for few months--it wassaid to the great city ot London, and on his return at mid summer, Lucy was to be his bride.-- They parted with few peaceful tears and though absent were still together.-
 And now aIetter came to the Fold, say ing that before another Sabbath he would be at the Fold. A few beauti. ful fields in eastdaie, long mortgaged be-
 yond their fee simple by the hard work Ing statesmen from whom theyre3uctant- y were passing away, had meanwhile
 been purchased by Mir. Howard, and in
 that cottage they were to abide. till they had built themselves a house little far ther up the side of the sylvan hill. be-
 low the shadow of Elm Graz. Lucy saw the Sabbath of his return and it's
 golden sun, but it wae in her minds eve only, for ere itwas to descend behind the hills, she was not to be among the number of living things.
 Up Forest Ullswater, the youth had come by the light of the setting sun; and ashecrossedthe mountainssto Grassmere by the majestic pass ofthe solitary Hawse, stlll as every new star arose in heaven, With 1t arose assiustrous a new emotion from the bosom of his betrethed. The
 midnight hour had been fixed for hisre- turn to the Told, and as he reached the cliffs above Whitemoss, 10! according to agreement, a light was burning in,the
 low windows the very planet of love. It seemed to shed bright serenity over all the vale, and the moon-glittering va
 ters of Reydelmere were as an image of life, pure, lonely, undisturbed, and at the pensiye hour how profound! "Bles- sing and praise be to the gracious God! who framed my spirits so to delight in hisg glorious creation -blessingand praise Dc to the Holy One, for the boon of my Mary's innocent and religious iove.n-
 Prayers crowded fast into his soul, aud tears ofjoy fell from his eyes, as he stood at the threshold, almost afraid in the trembling of iife-deep affection to meet her first embrace!
 In the silence, sobs.flr,dd gshs, and and one or two long deep groans! Then in anoth-' ermoment he saw through the opendoor ofthe room where Mary used to sleep, several figures, moving to and fro infthe light, and one figure on his knees--who else could it be'but her fatheri unnoticea he became one of the pale faced con- pany--and there he beheld her on the
 bed mute and motionless, her face cov-
 cred with deplorable beauty-eyes closed and her hands elapsed upon her
 breast! "Dead, dead, dead!n muttered in hisringing ears avoice from the tombs, and he fell down in the midst of them with great violence upon the floor. Encircled with arms that lay round
 him softer and siilsieF far than flower
 wreathes on the neck of child who
 has laid him down from play, was he, when he awoke from that fit; lying even on his own maiden's bed, and withinh her very bosom that beat yet although a.
 bout to beat no morei At that blest awakening moment he. might have thought he saw the first glimpse oflight of the morning after his marriage day, for her face was turned towards his heart: with her faint breathings he felt the touch of tears. Not tears alone now bedimmed those eyes, for tears he could have kissed, but the blue lips were heavy with something that was not slum- ber-the orbs themselves were scarce ly visible-and her goice-it was zone, to be heard never again, till in the choir of white robed spirits, that sing at the
 right hand of God.
 Yet no one doubted that she knew him-him who had dropped down like a superior being, from another sphere, on the innocence of her simple child
 hood-had taught her to know so much of her own soui---to love her parents
 with profounder and more holy love-
 to see, in characters more divine, Hea-
 ven's promises of forgiveness to every
 contrite heaFt-and a life of perfect blessedness beyond death and the grave! 4 smile sllone over her face the mo
 ment that she had been brought to know that he had come at last, and was nigh at hand-and that never left 1t
 while ieI bosom iioT sr asl II