Iowa news. [volume] (Dubuque, Upper Mississippi Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1837-1841, 1838-02-03
Tug Yo1yNs BRIDE.

when the young bride takes her we'd
aed one by the arm, and with downeast
4 looks. and heavy heart turns her face
from ssswcet home,' and all its associa-
tons, which have for years been grow
/ ing, and Frightening, and entwining SO
closely around the purest and tenderest
feelings Of the heart. How reluctant
that step, as she moves towards the car
rage; how eloquent those tears, which
rush unbiddcn from their fountain!
She has bid adieu to her home, she
has given the parting hand-the part
ing kiss! With deep and struggling
emotions she has pronounced the fare
,reN and oh how fond, and yet morn
full spell this word breathes! and per-
haps, its the last farewell to father,
mother, brother, sister!
Childhood and youth, the sweet
morning of life, with its "charms of
earliest brids, and earliest associations,
have now passed. Now commences a
new-a momentiousperiod ofexistence!
Of this she is well aware. She reads
in living character--uncerfainfy-
assuming that where all was peace
wherea all was happiness-where home,
sweet home- was all in all unto her.
But these ties, thesa associations, these
endearments, she has yielded, one by
one, and now she has broken them all
assunder! She has turned her face
from them all, and witness how she
clings to the arm Of him, for whom all
these have been exchanged.
See how she moves on; the world is
before her. and a history to be written
whose pages are 10 be filled up with
Iife's loyelest pencillings, or, perhaps.
with incidents Of eventful inierest--of
startling, fearful record! What can
throw aside the veil Of ssthreescore
years and ten,'' for her, and record the
happy and sun-bright incidents that
shall arise in succession, to make joyo
and full her cup Of life; that shall throw
around those embellishments Of the mind
and heart, that which crowns the do
mestic circle with beauty and loneliness:
that which sweetens social intercourse,
and softcns, improves and elevates the
condition Of society? Or who with
| firm and unwavering hand, can regis
Ter the hours and days. Of affectionate
and siIcntweeping-olmid-night watch
ing! Who pen the blighted hopes
the instances Of unrequited love-the
loneliness and sorrow Of the confding
heart-the deep corroding cares Of the
mind, when neglected and forgotten,
asst were, by him who is dearer to her
than liie-when all around is serene and
desolate-when the garnered stores
are wasted, and the well dried up and
Pickering blaze upon the hearth wanes
and goes out, and leaves her in solitude,
in silence.and in toars! But her affec-
tons wane not, slnmber not, die not!
| The brilliant skies may shed down
all their gladdening beauties: nature
array herself in gay flowers, bright
hopes---and friends, kind friends, may
greet with laughing countenances and
glad hearts, but all avails naught. One
kind look---one soft and affectionate
accent, the unequivocal evidence Of re-
naming. love;one smile like that which
wooed and won that heart, would en-
kindle brighter, and deeper, and love-
lier emotions at its fountain, than hea-
ven, with all its splendor. and earth,
with all its beauties and gay associa-
tons.
On! young man, even to be thy
! young bride, then, what thou soonest
now to be; disappoint her not! what
has not given up for thee? what sweet
! ties, that bound heartto heart, and hand
to hand, and life to life, has she not
broken off for thee? Prove myself
worthy Of all she has sacrificed. Let
it ever be her pleasure, as now, to cling
with con6dingjoy and love to that arm.
4 Let it be her stay, her support, and it
shall be well repaid Here is an endur-
ing-an undying love! Prosperity
will strengthen and invigorate it and,
give to it additional lustre and lowell
ness! Should the hand of disease fall
upon thee, then wilt thou behold wo-
mans love-woman's devotion! for
thou will never witness her spirits wax
faint and dropping atthy couch! When
thine own air failing, she will cling to
thee like a sweet vine, and difuse
around thy pillow those sweet inau-
ences and attractions that shall touch
the master spaings and nobler passions
of thy. nature-that shall give new i'm
pulse TO life! Her kind voice will be
like music to thy falling heart--like
oil TO thy wounds! Yea, she willraise