Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1830-04-09
MISCELLANEOUS.
DEATH OF AN ANGEL.

The following, says the U. S. Gazette,
| rs the production oil Frederick Richter. a
German 1t was translated into French by
Madame de Stael. We flnd it in that Ian
guage, and have dOne 1t into English.
The angel Of our last hour, whom we
denominate Death, Heaven sends to us
from the tenderest. the best ofthe angelic
host, that he may kindly gather from life,
mans failing heart, and carry it tenderly
from our chilling bosom. into the high and
viVifying regions of Eden. His brother
is the Angel Of our first hour, who twice
kisses the forehead Of man. The first
time, that he may enter the world with
mItigated pain; and the second, that he
may awaken uninured on hiyh-that
he who had come into this life with tears,
may enter the other with smiles.
when the fields of battle were bedew-
ed with blood and tears, and the angel of
the last hour was gathering therein thou
sands OF souls, his kind eyes filled with
tears, he exclaimed, oh that might once
die like man-that might feel his last
pangs and mitigate them when am sen,
to deliver him from life The Infinite cir
Gle OF angels, who live in mutual affection
on high, gathered round the compassion.
ate spirit, aud promised to eucircle him at
his last sigh, with their celestial rays, that
he might know that he had tasted death ::
and his brother, whose first kiss half opens
our s'lffened lips, as the young dawn calls
forth the chilled flowers, pressed his visage
tenderly, and said--'when again kiss
thee, my brother, thou wilt be dead on
earth. and placed among u.s.
Trembling, and filed with affection
the angel cast himself upon field of bat
BILE, where there was yet single man
beautiful youth, full Of fire, whose mar.
ried bosom still heaved and near the
young hero kDeeled, solitary, his beloved.
He could no longer feel her burning tears,
and her groans appeared to him as the
distant cry OF comba,s. The angel spread
over him his wings, and, under the form
of his beloved, he pressed him to bis beart:
by burning kiss, he drew from bis bloody
breast his wounded soul, and gave it to his
bother. His brother gave the released
soul the second kiss, and it entered hea.
ven with smile.
"The angel of death glided like raw
Of lightning into the empty envelope-pe-
netrated the lifeless body with his divine
warmth, and powerfully terminated the
sources Of life. But the limits of human
body were painful restraints upon the spir-
it. His eye Of light, shut up in an CRIB of
nerves, grew weak and dim his immense
and rapid thought moved heavily in the boz
ny enclosure OF brain the vapoury and
respondent atmosphere which had reign
cd around him like an eternal spring, had
become dry and sombre all his sensations
became confused and tumuliuous. They
were such as belonged to bis new exis-
tence, and seemed simple instinct--as
do TO us the thoughts Of animals. Hun
ger gnawed upon him, and thirst deyour-
ed him his wounds tormented him his
breast, yet bathed in blood, smarted with
pain, and his first aspiration was a sigh
towards that Heaven which he had left
And is this mans death 2 said he. But
as he felt not the sign Of death, which had
been promised, and perceived no angel
nor circles Of heavenly rays, he felt, in
deed, that it was only life,