The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1839-07-26


us visit together the spots sacred to our
loves.-the grove ringing with the song OF
birds ere they seek their downy nests, the
bank of redolent flowers, and the stream
curglino its music in requital for their odours,
the romantic fall where first breathed my
VOWS of eternal truth, and the ruined abbey
that o'er-tops the scene where these VOWS
were accepted and ratified by her to whom
owe life-mofe than life; all that can
make life acceptable, what life can never
repay"
- The dawn of morning On. bed
of sickness, of agony, lay Marion Delmar.
Writhing in the torture of that fell disease
before whose appalling might youth and
strength were swept away as grass before
the scythe of the mower. Alas, for Henry.
the stern commands of skill forbade him
even to approach that bed of infection and
of death. Brief was its awful struggle
Distorted were the CHASTITY features of
matchless loneliness, but last night beaming
with intelligence and hope; the rosy tints
Of health we're gone, and that pure colour
which had marked the streams of vital prln-
ciple, like violets strewed among roses on
wreath of snow, no longer natural in mo-
ton, had usurped the liVid corpse,
n = The tenth day arrived. The viii
LACE church was decked with boughs and
blossoms; for the dismal tidings had not
reached the aged sexton, and he was sur
viewing his cheerful work with an approving
glance, when, 10! the summons came to
prepare an immediate grave. In that grave,
within an hour, was deposited the remains
of Marion Delmar, hardly attended to their
final abode by the dead-stricken living, whom
terror kept from the plague.spotted couch,
and whom terror slew in their flight from
the danger.
- Not even Henry Sturmond was
there to see laid in the cold clay, her whom
at that very hour he was to have led to the
bridal altar, But it was not fear that de-
tanned him; it was not dispair. The blow
had stunned him into utter insensiblity
and to have embraced, and kissed, and en-
deared the horrible wreck Of all be loved,
or TO have witnessed it hurriedly shrouded
and tossed into the foul ground, had been
the same to him. Reason was dead.
But not forever. She gradually
resumed her empire, and with her came i'm
ages of Marion, full of life, and warmth,
and perception, and thought, and grace, and
love-of Marion struck with disease, tor
mented, dying, passive, dead,-dead even
to his love. ''To-morrow is here,' he ex-
claimed, "to-morrow is here, and she IS
aEone!''
The shades of the evening had
descended upon the jocund grove, the ena-
melted bank, the murmuring river, the
splashing fall, the Wondering ruin, and Hen
ry trod the paths of yesterday, but he trod
them alone.
''Oh, God! oh, Cod" he cried aloud IN
his agony, "is there another and better
world?"
He flung himselfu the broken stone
once the tomb of warrior knight, and scat
tered near the shrine where kings and alb
bots had knelt in splendid worship--he flung
himself down, and he essayed to pray. But
his lips were parched and powerless, and
his tongue clave to the roof of his mouth.
IF he prayed, it was the voiceless aspiration
of the crushed and overburthened soul.
As if awakened from a hideous
dream, he casta look toward the calm and
starry heaven, and, amazementi to his sight
was revealed new and dazzling Star, bright
and soft, and sweet, and lovely, serene and
glorious as his Marion, whom 1t so splendid |
" resembled in every attribute and quality. |
at is my Marion!' he gasped, sit is herself |
She is not lost,-she is not alonei We are
together; we are together, for ever and for
ever. Come to me, darling Of my breaking
heart, OF take me to thyself-Come."
= : In an instant the orb, the new
and brilliant lustre of the sky, burst from the
sphere, and sunk to the earth, leaving a long
white CLEAN of light behind. 1t was but an
exhalation of the air-a vision for the mo-
ment, more unreal and transitory than the
mortal brightness which distempered fancy
had elected it to restore.
Prone fell the lover to the dust 1.-THE spark
oflife, like the perished Star, was exiting
uished.
$50 Were they united for ever and for
ever? They slept together, side by side, in
the same village churchyard, and on single
marble tablet was sculptured-"A FAL1INC
STAR