The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1841-05-13

: the spiendor OF more polished sultors ever
gain The affections of one who has been
devoted to you for years.
Thus discoursed that simple hearted
girl, who was about to launch out upon
] the untried ocean of life, to have her
simple. unassuming manners exchanged
for the pert flippancy Of a fashionable
! boarding school miss.
! They parted with streaming eyes and
melting hearts, Those bright dreams
were never realized. That farewell was
their last. Alas! how fleeing is friend
ship, and how uncertain all earthly pros
poets. Laura was placed in fashionable
boarding school, where she met with
young ladies from every portion of the
! Union, where her mind was stored with
fashionable literature, etc. She was
taught to waltz and play on the piano
most admirably.
: Conspicuous in the gay circle in which
she moved, was yound Midshipman of
! the u. S. Navy. Polished, talented and
handsome, he soon created an interest iii
the young girls affections, and ere she
was conscious of the fact, found herself
encircled in the silken chords of love.
Her new sutton became acquainted with
her whole history, intercepted Charles
letters, urged his passion in glowing Ian
guage, called his rival a young ''buck-
skin,' who was utterly incapable of rem
dering her any happiness, since she had
received an education. Here was iii
lemma in which the immutabilty of :'irst
love" was to be tried. The struggle was
a hard one. She thought oftheir parting
vow-of the rescue-of the thousand as
sociatons of youth. The suit was pres.
sed with all the cloquence of which he
was master. That moment decided her
fate. Her brain grew dizzy-she fell
into his arms-a powerless viclim-an
affianced bride. -..,..'
The papers of the day announced the
marriage of the young and talented Mid
shipman with the Western Star, and for
time their dreams of bliss was complete
They spent the honey moon in ecstacy,
but the honorable gentleman had an aflal,
of honor with a brother officer. and fell ;
victim to deiuded ambition. Though the
poet has said,
"The heart may break; but breaking still
lives on.''
The assertion is only true with regard t
man. Woman, coufding woman, though
she can suffer much, and endure grea
trial, while buoyed up with hope, mus
ultimately fail, when her souls idol i
rudely snatched from her, and foreve
buried from her sight.
"Mans love is of his life, a thing apart;
IT'S womans whole existence"
Charles received the intelligence of he
Inconsistency, with manly courage; bu
it was a shock he was unable to sustai
in solitude. He sought fo,getfullness il
1.-The world, wandered far and wide, cross
ed the ocean, rambled over the plains Q
Europe. entered the army of the Empel
or Napoleon, when his star was i'll til
ascendant, and left where fortune did, o
! the plains of Waterloo. Tired of til
world, and disguised with human amb
ton, he turned with resienat;ou, 10 hi
n carly I'"u'u,
"As the sunflower turns to its god when h
sets, ~a.. .. ...s.
Il The same look which it gave when he rose"
st With what enthusiasm he hailed tn
IS shores of his native land, and as he gaze
re once more upon her 'stars and stripes.
a. and heard the sound of Hail Columbia
7. come floating on the breeze, he almo:
rs .orgo, his early sorrow and in imagination
'ei took his part again in the rafting game
l. of childhood. ....~.. ....s
W He had spea, his prime of life in foI
* eign land, fighting under foreign flag
L. He had suffered, but not for the good {
SIS mankind. in the glorious struggle for HI
man liberty. He now saw that he ha
Id been impelled by fate to vast the energi'
ct of his mind and body, without producin
a any happiness to mankind.
nj He reached his home as the sun WI
ad just sinking behind the hill on which
er with Laura--he had culled the flowers
- the untrodden forest. Near the banks
n the river, on an elevated spot, he -four
st the grave Of her who had been the can
fit er TO his happiness. She had long sin
til been laid in the marrow house, und
the shade Of weeping willow, whit
OH waves over her tomb. He is daily to
he seen, and although melancholy has mar
. ed him for her own, he has repented
I r II