The herald., 1837-04-26

np fear came over her. lest those buds of life so fair
so glowing, might be touched with sudden decay, and
gathered back in their brig ghtness 10 the dust. And
she lifted her voice IN prayer soemnly passonately,
earnestly that the Glver offe would still spare her
those blossoms OF love, whom her soul thus
yearned And as the low breahed accents fell on the
still air, deepened thsught came over her, and her
spirit went out with her loved and pure ones into the
strange wild paths OF life and stronger horror chilled
her frame as she beheld mdew and blight settling
the far and lovely of the earth, and high and rich
hearts scorched with desolating and guilty passions.
And the prayer she was breathing grew yet more fer
vent, even to agony, that he who the foundation
OF all purity would preserve those whom he had given
IN their perfect Innocence, permitting neither shame,
nor crme nor folly 10 cast stain on the brightness
with which she had received them invested from his
hand as with a mantle.
AS the prayer died away in the weakness of the
spent spirit, pale shadowy form stood beside the IN
fant scepers II am Death said the spectre, (" and
| come for thy babes-I am commissioned to bear
them where the perls you deprecate unknown
where neither stain, nor dust, nor shadow, can reach
the rejoicing spirit. Ii is only by yielding them to me
you preserve them forever from contamination and
decay" wild confct-a struggle as of the soul
starting in strong agony shook the mothers frame,
but faith and the love which hath purer foun than
that of earthward passions, trumphed and she yield
ed up her babes to the spectre
"Behold! said Death, as he touched the fair forms,
and the beaaty of life gave place to hoer and yet
deeper loneliness "behod, the smile of innocence is
is now forever sealed. They will waken where there
er, whom call the Spoiler bore away the now per-
cct blossoms ofmmortality to the far oft sky.
Music IN VIENNA.-There is not in Europe, more
musical city than that of Vienna. Not only every te
male q beg pardon, every woMAN,) but every man in
respectable life is capable of taking part in a concert
In making up parties for this delightful amusement,
kind of formalty ceremony is observed "a gen.
tleman wishing fr quaIette qulntse ia the even
ing, walks out in the forenoon for the purpose OF in
vting any friend he may chance TO meet; and as the
slightest previous acquaintance is sufficient no diff
Guilty The love of music is general, and
the ability to play, common, that it is even usual
for gentleman not to engage any man servant who
is sufficiently master of some Instrument to oc
casonally accompany him, and join in his concerts
if wanted. The number of music shops and the ra-
pdity of the sale of music in Vienna are prodigioas
and there is not respectable private house without
piano forte.
CURE Foa DRUEKENNEss.-A man in MARYLAND,
VIGOROUSLY addicted to this vice, hearing uprear
in his kitchen one evening, had the curiosity to step
without noise to the door to hear what the mat
ter when he beheld his servants indugng in the most
unbeunded roars of laughter at couple of his negro
boys who mimcking himself in his drunken
fits; showing how he reeled and staggered how he
looked and nodded, and hiccupped and tumbled
The picture which these children of nature drew of
him, and which filled the rest with so much merri-
ment, struck him SO forclbly that he became per-
fectly sober man, the unspeakabe Joy of his wife
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