Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-09-30
PAYABLE WITHIN -FOUR MONTHS.
From the New York Observer.
SONGS OF THE NIGHT.
AN INVOCATION TO DEATH

SONGS OF THE NIGHT.
AN INVOCATION TO DEATH
All Death thou art welcome friend,
WOO thee 10 my hearl.
From all loved and valued once,
I'm ready now TO part.
This voice, attmed to notes Of praise,
Come, hush 10 silence new,
And Ia the Stiffness of the tetnb
Kind friend, come Lar me low.
These hands, now warn With active life,
Fear not thy ehilhDg grasp,
Come Death though icy cold thou art,
Thy hand I'll freely clasp.
These eyes, now fondly glansing round
On those dearly love,
Come, Ger them spread flmy veil,
Nor let them longer rove.
These lips, now forming words Of love,
Come, give one palsying kiss
They'll yield thee up their living breath,
With joyful eagerness.
Come, take this heart, this beating heart,
And freeze it all to stone,
And let my soul, my longing soul,
Fly to th' eternal One. s.
And set me wholly free,
I'll thank thee for that cold embrace,
Through all eternity! MARY s.B. DANA.
TEARs. There is a sacredness in tears.
They are. not. the mark of weakness but
of power They. speak more eloquently
than ten thousand tongues. They are the
messengers of overwhelming grief, Of
deep contrnion, Of unspeakable love. #
there were wanting any argument to
prove that man is not mortal, would look
for it in a strong convulsiVe emotion Of
the breast, when the soul has been deeply
agitated, when the fountains Of feeling are
rising. and tears are gushing forth in crys-
tai streams. Oh .speakln not harshly OF the
stricken one--Weeping In silence. Break
not the solemnity BY rude laughter or IN
truding footsteps. Despise not woman 5
|tears-they are what make her an angel.
Scof not if the stern heart of manhood is
sometimes melted to tears Of sympathy
they are what help to elevate him above
the brute. / love to see the tears of affec-
ton. They are painful tokens, but still
most holy. There Is a pleasure in tears
Ian awful pleasure! IF there were none
on earth to shed a tear for me, should be
10th to. live; and if not one might weep
over my grave, | could never die in
peace.
FRUITs OF REPENTANCE. AT our last
communion, several young people came
forward to unite with the church, and were
examined for that purpose. One, about
f0E or az
count Of his religious experience, butSsaid,
at the close, that he wished to make pub
lie profession at the next communion after
this-that, although he desired it very
much, he could not join the church atthis
time. Next week we learned the reason
why he could not make his profession on
this occasion. He went to several families
whom he feit1he had wronged, and asked
their forgiveness. Although there was
nothing which people generally regarded
Jas criminal, God had shown him that sit
tie sins" are very great and heinous in his
sight; and he could not 60 into the hurch
with the guilt.of unrepented sin upon his
soul, nor until he had made every effort
70 remove the effect of his sins upon others.
Bap. Record
PoLITIcAL No subject
possessed of potent attractions, is more cal
Eculated to ensnare and endanger the piety
of protested christians, than political excite
ment, especially when men give loose to
their excited passions, and to the violence
fof party ceiling Then it is they lose the
balance of their reason, and wander ALMOST
into the destructive mazes of pc.
flitical artifce and political error.
It often becomes source of painful re
I gret, that very many of those whose chris.
Titan department at other times is of the
most exemplary character, should allow
themselves, as the political contest approach
les, to be drawn into the fearful current ere
lated by the violence of party strifes and te
/ be carried along with the crowd down the
ldepraved stream, until at length they lose
ali sense Of christian propriety and chris
] tan duty. Political excitement has beer
Ilhe bane of many warm hearted professors
and the rock on which many good mer
have been shipwrecked. It becomes u;
Therefore as the guardian of public moral:
and the conservator of religious conslsten
lev In our churches, In view of the ap
!, preaching political contest, Whichseems Il
have claimed more than usual attention
from all parties, both civil and religious
it becomes US, we repeat, to lift the warn
ing voice and caution our christian breth
i rem against improper and clamorous excite
ment in their attendance at the polls, AM
to guard them against convivial election
eering practices and their unhappy tran
of consequences.
AGRIG u 1t U RA L..
InpnprANnr or AGRIcuLTURE .-IIf Ii