, 1840-06-27
From the Palmyra Courier.
ORITnGRV

From the Palmyra Courier.
OBITUARY.
DIED, on Saturday evening the 18th
inst, at the residence of her father in this
town, Miss ELLEN WReHr, in the 18th year
Of her age.
Gone! in youths delightful morning,
While the scenes of life were bright;
And the skies. with CAV adjoining,
Sheds around a glorious light!
Gone! while Hopes delightful measure,
GLADDEN. with its widening strain
And the fairy hand of pleasure
Wove with flowers her silken chain!
She has passed away, the garlands of life
have been sundered, and the beautiful spirit
has scared to its far home in the heavens.
We can scarcely realise that this gentle
young lady has departed. But a short time
since she was one Of the brightest ornaments
of society-beloved, almost worshiped by a
numerous circle of friends-of an age when
the heart has not been chilled by grief or the
has tapped his ~'funeral wing over her, and
she dweils in the peaceful mansions of the de-
parted. 1t is an awful and a mysterious
dispensation Of that unseen power, which
rules the destinies Of earth. and we should not
murmur. Better than the seal of death should
be set upon the brow ere the gay and fairy
colorings of life's amorning march" have fad.
ed, its hopes persisted, and its joys proven il
lpsive dreams. We may shed tear upon the
early doom Of the d~eparted-it will be at our
loss and not her own. We can witness the
vacuum that her death has caused, and we
can mourn in bitterness of heart that time
will never refill it; but she has outsoared the
1he clouds of earth, and
--"Like a star
Beacons from the abode where the eternal
are"
Her short career passed without an event
to mar its happIness-retirlng in her man.
ners-modest and unasuming in her actions
with a mind gentle and amiabIe-a quick
sensitiveness offeeling and a gaiety ofhea't-
she was an excellent daughter-a devoted
and sincere friend; in her death leaving be-
hind her these noble qualities as a rich legacy
for the imitation Of her youthful friends, By
whom her memory will never cease to be
cherished ard revered.
Death, all stern and p%itiiess, came and
found her prepared for its approach. And
thus in the spring of life, in the home of q
bereaved father. and a doating mother, sur
rounded by relations and friends-like the
snow wreath, dissolving into air before il
has caught a stain Of earth-her pure and
gentle spirit passed away, beautiful treas
ure for Paradise. Tread lightly, compan,
ions Of her school-days, as you wander be
meath the willows that gloom above her ear
ly grave-the voice, on whose sweet tone:
you swere wont" to linger is hushed for
ever-the eyes that were mirrors of YOU
affections are dull and ixed-the heart with
whose g~uiIeless and ennobling sentiment.
you were familiar is still and quiet-the gAy
laugh and the sweet smiles are gone, never
never to return-and the fair form is press
ed in the Wondering coffin. Tread lightly
then your sweet young friend has quit tn,
stir and strife of earth for a happier and
brighter cline where she will rwend forever
GAnd weep not for her, tho. she's gathered
away,
Like a sunbeam from. earth, or aleaf FORE
a flower,
For the light other beauty around US vii
stay.
And illumine. the soul in its gloomies
hour.
For we know in the far. away mansions a
bove,
Prepared for the pure and the blessed o
earth,
Her spirit reclines on the bosom ~oflove,
Asleep in the beautiful land of its birth.
r
Palmyra, June 9th, 1910.
OBITUARY.
DIED, on the 18th ultimo of consumption, at thu
xns.A~.>~ nr h;s matthias. L. Mnnfnonnxu cnnntu Mn