Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1837-05-19

of those acquired feelings concerning
death, and the child that lay before me,
was as lovely and deserving admiration as
when alive. The beautiful glossiness of
his prominent forehead, was set off by
the fine silky hair that stretched in semi
circle towards the temples; there was
transparency in the skin, through which
the blue veins showed with wonderful dis
tinctness and the budding whiteness of
the teeth was discernable between the
slightly opened lips; its little hands were
crossed below its breast-their beauty had
not departed. But the eyes, as gazed
upwards, cleaned CLASSY between the lids,
through their long dark lashes; and as the
light fiickered through the vines near the
window, sometimes thought that life was
returning to animate the lovely features
on which / gazed. L stopped to press
kiss upon the FACET was cold; and the
tears that / dropped upon it, trickled off
as if they had fallen upon polished mar
BILE. AS raised my head from the cof-
fin, my eyes met those of the mother
We gazed upon the dead with regret for
their loss we looked upon the inanimate
corpse of an infant, and mourn that it is
! so soon spatched away we dwell with
fondness upon its features, treasure the
memory Of its beauties, and sigh that we
cannot longer enjoy them. But when we
see those whom the bereavement has left
childless standing by us in the dignity OF
grief, the silent cause of sorrow yet
stretched before them, we shrink almost
with awe from their presence. Such for
a moment were my feelings. / wished
myself absent from the scene that was
about to ensue but the extended hand OF
the afflicted parent, satisfied me that re-
treat would have been cruelty or coward
ice. pressed the hand of the mother in
the ardor of sympathy, and our tears fell
fast upon the snowy shroud of the out
stretched infant. She leaned forward
and buried her face with his in the mar
row coffin. Fearing the effects of this
paroxysm of grief upon the mother,
would have withdrawn her. ''Let me
Alone" said she, 81 know by whom
have been afflicted, and in my sorrow
will not sin; neither will ! charge Goo
foolishly.' But in my darling's sickness.
he lay night and day on my knees, unit
, he died and the kind officiousness o
, neighbors has kept me from solitary III
diligence of grief until now. Let me, ther
> ere they shut him out Of my sight, forev
er-let me once more feel his face i'm
! printing its features on my neck, though
it be cold as death. came to yield up
in silence and solitude, my child to hin
7 who gave it-but not without the feeling
. and grief of mother. ! have bowed L
: the chastisement-I have even kissed til,
= rod that smote but have not mistaken
. stoicism for resignation, nor offered TN
! Lord an unfeeiing for a Submissive mind
! -Four times has the hand of heaven visite
me in affection, and have not mumured
!, and now, when the last lamb of the hoc
= is taken, have in the hour of prayer an
u solitude, exclaimed the Lord giyet
J. and the Lord taketh away,-and whe
n, n the passion of grief shall have subsidized
:, when the cords of affection now torn as
~ under, shall have ceased to bleed, an
, mourning shall have become woven int
!. the tissue of life, instead of being, as no
y its whole web, then perhaps, may adj
I blessed be the name of the Lord Blu
a. he so lovely, SO bright in promise of a
= that parents heart can ask, and to |
T now so cold -"
tv Again the mother threw herself upon II
!; coffin and nestled her face with that Of Il
ID infant. saw il was no time to offer COZ
as ISOLATION. She had restrained her grief du
a, ing the presence of her neighbors; ar
m now that she thought herself alone, 81
:, had come forth from her chamber to II
ne dulge a mothers grief.
w. In short time the people OF the vici
h ity were seen gathering towards the hous
a. with view of attending the funeral. III
cd mother impressed new kiss upon the h
of her dead child she uttered one mo
ri burst of grief and shrunk to her chambe
~ In a little time they screwed down the CO
mo- fin lid, and slight hustle denoted prepi
No atoms for a procession to the grave.
(, followed among the very few whom {
=" ! occasion had called together and as '
ii entered the city of the dead, l saw, by t
,ns little heap of fresh turned earth, where
10 10 tenement Of my little favorite was prep'
te ed.
me The line of followers assembled rou
vas the little grave, and the coffin lay at
va mouth. At length the lloarse rumbling