Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1841-04-17
n, LOUISIANA, SATURDAY. APRIL ~ 1871
THE HOUR OF DEATH.
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ny Ma# HEI4ssI
L.eaves have their time To fall.
hti flowers 10 wit,et at the norti, winds breath
And STARS To set@zbut all,
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, oh, DEATH
T. --z Day Ia for mortal care,
Eve for glad meetings round The Joy isl, hearth,
Night for The dreams Of sleep, the vote
OF prayer
But all for thee, thou I%nigltiest Of the Garth.
The banquet hath its hour,
it, few isl hour ot %nsittl, and song, and wiue;
There eatnes d day les gfiet's e'ef
whalmting power,
A time for softer tears, but al are thine.
.z Youth and the opening rose
May look like things lou glorious Tor decay.
AID smile vt i.sa-bat thou at not 81
tlthss Hs
That wait the ripen'd bloom to seize their prey.
LeHves have heir time to fall.
And flowers to w,tlier al The nprtt, winds breath,
And stars 10 Hst=@bat all,
Thou last all sen soas tur5 tl,i,ie own, oh, Deathl
We Enaw when moons sl,ali waHe,
When summer birds from far shall sloss the sea,
When auttimA's hue shall tinse the
gdidsh grain
But who alall teaea Us When to look FOR tl,ees'
II 1t Nhaa springs first gele
Comes iettl, to whisper where the yiolets lie
Il il vl,e, roses il, our patl, grow pals'
They have one sea soa-~ oil ARE ours 10 diel
Thou att where lillows foam.
Thou art where music nclts upon lie hirs
Ii,ou ART atvuhd as Ia our peaceful
Iutna
And The wnrit. calls Us forth, end li,oa art there.
Thou art where friend meets friend,
Beheatl, tlel sliatiuw OF The elm to rest
Thou art wl,ete foe meets f1e, auA
tfutnptts tfnd
The skies, and swords bent down the ptineefy
Leaves hive their time TO fall.
And noweres 10 witf,er Ut HE hot ii winds breath.
Aud stars to seta=int all.
Thou hast aii seasons f1r thine own. obi Death.
GERMAN GHOSTS AND GHOST sEERs.
Under this title, a Carlylisi e%ootiufs 10 poke
fun In . quiet, solemn way. nj German spiritua
liam and ereduli,y In The Dublin University Ma
gazin". We take The following snseinens oiths
intensely marvellous from his %aifIines Of Ger.
man Ghos. literature 10 the February nonbets-
PIC.
IN y certain village Of lbe Rheinisb country II
man went To visit, on her death.t,sd. M aunt #
his, who had been. "a he admits, bu, al Ill cons
aneist sh,ew, for the rest no unhotabis lioi,sse
dame. On coming 10 Tho door and ringing for
a1mittanee, 10 his surprise. IT was opened 10 him
Ivy bis aunt herself, in her usual house wifety ut.
tire. and with her great bunch OF keysin her hand.
She eaid nothing, but ushtrfd him into n rentn
where, TO his more than surprise, TO bis great
wonder and fear. be found lying in bed, inaehsi.
bic, and IN n dying slate, ibis very aunt whom
no hnd come To see, aud who had received and
shown him 10. Tl,s same day sbs died; bul when
the day Of her htiaial enns. this man. NJ also o
~neighlar wne attended the funeral. saw her. habi.
ted as befofr, aud with her bunch Of krys ne usual,
place hetselfo tho vehicle that carried the coffin.
and 70 proceed to The grave. who're, when the
coffin was se, dewn, she seated herself upon it,,
and only thea disappeared when IL was lowered
int" the earth. .
Let us here rem,sk. zen parenfhese) that
Oh oHta 90 M assijuouzty 10 funerals be 10 church
not all ghosts, however. 10 all funerals. bot like 10
like; wht,e-robei and radiant forms accompany
the remains of d good man ~ ibe grave: on the
other hand, when one dies whose portion IL with
%unetaeed spirits. not only are all manner Of foul
es, goblin shapes. black md grey. seen 10 attend
the funeral, but heading the i'll omeped train ap
pears The defunc, hi,neslf. following close after tho
coffin, performing. very properly. the part Of chief
m1urnet for himself
A man some where in Germany nc. himself in
the street, vet did not die; lived a, least 10 write
Ketner an account. Of II. Another. lying in n
art of half-conscinus efate in bed being then
weak and slowly canvaIe@cent from a severe i'll
ness, saw' himself. in fhc very dressing gown and
slippers, in which he was lying half dreaming
there. glide away noiselcssly from the bed. side TO
the chamber door and 90 ont thereat. No doub,
Tho invalid had been longing profoundly though
without being able 10 say If suddenly asked, what
he was thinking Otto he once more out Of the
sick room, ia ,heA~ under The wide heavens
and among mrn. Mrs Haufs used in her higher
magnetic states 10 get quite out bf her body and
concentrate II n. II lay knowing nothing Of the
matter on the bed. Touching ungraced ghosts
that 90 to their own funerals. such a. that shrew-
ish woman with the KEYS. II NAV he askSd whrth-
er they do not sit by iheir own bodies In tho grave
and witness things. which TO those who have
bern particularly tender of their own flesh, con
yield little satisfaction.
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