Southern marksman. [volume] (Clinton, Miss.) 1838-1839, 1839-01-08
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE YOUTHFUL BRIDE.


! Observe that slow and solemn tread
when the young bride takes her weddcd
ono by the arm, and with downcast eyes
and heavy heart turns her face frcm
"sweet home" and all its associations
which have for years been growing and
Frightening, entwining 50 closely around
! the purest and tenderest heart Iow e,
iuctant that step as she moves towards ihe
carriage; how eloquent those tears which
rush unhden from the fountain
She has just bid adieu to homel She hai
given the parting hand-the parting kssi
With deep and struggling emotion she haT
pronounced the farewell! and oh, hot
fond and yet mournful a spell the work
breathes, and perhaps 'tis the last farewell
to father, mother, brother and sister.
Childhood and youth, the sweet morniEg
of life, with its 'charms Of earliest as0
cations, have now passed." Now con-
mences a new-a momentuous penod OF
existence. OF this she is aware She
reads in living charac,ers-uncerta
assuming that where all were happiness
where home, sweet home, was all II oil
unto her. But these lies, the associa ians,
these enioyments, she has yielded ohe by
one and now she has broken them al as.
sunder. She has turned her face from
them all, and how she clings to the arm of
him for whom all these Joys have been exx
changed.
See how she moves on, the work is be,
fore her, and history to be written whose
pages arelo be filled up with life's lbveliest
pencilings, or perhaps, with incileB,s Of
anecting interest; Of startling, fearfsl re-
cord! Who can throw aside the veil of
'Sthree score years and ten'' and record
the happy and sunbright incidents that
shall arise in succession, to make bvous
and full the cup of life; that shall brow
around these embellishments ofthemind.
that which crowns the domestic circa with
beauty and loneliness; that which sweet.
ems social intercourse, and soften, i'm
proves, and elevaies the conditioned so-
ciety? Or who with firm and unvaverx
ing hand, can register the DAYS and hours
OF affectlouate and silent weepng-.of
midnight watching2 who can pen the
blighted hopes--the instances O unre,
Quilted love--ihe loneliness and sorrow of
the mind, when neglected and forgotten,
as it were by him who was dearei 10 Ter
than lite-when all around was drear and
desoiate, when the garnered stores are
wasted, and the Pickering blaze OF the
hearth wanes and goes out! and leaves
her IN solitude, in silence and in iears.-
But her affections wane not, slunber not
and die not.
The brilliant skies may shed down all
their gladdening beauties; nature array
herself in gay flowers, and friends. kind
friends may greet with laughing counte>
nances and kind hearts, but it nvaiIs nauoht
One kind look-one soft and affect;onate
accent, the unequivocal evidence of 70,
naming love-and smile like that which
edand won the heart, would enkiodeI
brighter, and deeper, and lovelier emotion
at Its fountain, than earth with all IFS
spiendor, beauty and gay associations.
On. Young man, ever be to ihy vounq
bride that which thou seemest now 70 no !.
disappoint her not. What has she not - , -
en- up for theee What sweet Tics that
pound heart 10 heart, hand to hand and
lie 10 HE, has she not broken off for thee ?
Prove myself worthy of all she has sac~
rlilced. Let it ever be her Measure rs
now, 10 cling with coniding joy and love
70 my arm. Let it be her stay. her sup
port and 1t shall be well repaid. Hers
: an enduring, an undying love! Pros.
Pef'ty VIII strengthen it--ahEersity will
brighten and inYipo,ate II n Cd