The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1842-03-15

the daughter oil Inc pastor. She, with older
sister, had just returned from the Seminary, where
the last year had been spent with all buoyancy of
youthful spirits again to gladden. the inmates Of the
paternal oofwiih their cheerful presence, and to
spread Joy and festiviiy through the circles who
had long anticipated their return with eagerness
and soIicitude With what doating fondness had
the father looked to the day when he should again
fold his long absent ones to his bosom, and listen
10 the sweet song of his singing birds, whose notes
| always awakened the raptures of pure devotion in
his heavenly spirs With what expectancy did no
| hail the time when he should behold the bright
| b'ossoming and maturing of the human mind
which II had, from infancy, been his avorite caSe
to cultivate aud train for richer perfection of the
| brighter world to which ne looking forward?
How bright, in fancYs glass,was the picture which
! the perspective of future years brought up, when
| in his declining daysthe warm expression ofyouth
| full ardor, rpened into womanhood, should recpro-
cate his assidutes and watch the waning Of life's
sun, with care and gentleness he lad hailed it's
rising and finally, when 'life's itful fever closed.
| by their prayers and songs wait his spirit upward
to the heaven Of bright realities for which his life
had been scene of preparation, and to which he
had so earnestly pointed them a final homei
| Alas for the frailty ofhuman expectation! AS
in the natural world the brghI morning sun is fro
quenty obscured by angry clouds-as the fair flow
er soon whe.s and is gone-the ripe fruit drops
earliest from the stem, so it is with human expecte
ton. The rosy cheek of youth purtures and cons
ceals the worm which is to destroy its youthful
hue; ERNEST constitution often yields most rapidly
to disease which hurries its victims to the tomb
while the feeble and infrm live on; those who
promise the greatest usefulness on the earth, are
frequently called the earliest 10 the skies Mary
| IN her r,ic & Il
ITCHY was in all her motions, and the huoyancy of
spirit which characerzes energy of gou was re-
markabIy hers. Life, apparently, spread its pros
poets broad and fair be her. Her dreams of fu
,ure usefulness seem ed almost positive realities
But her work well nigh done. In one short
month after her return the workings of sickness
were visible in her counienance. Solictude in
her be half manifested itself in the long and anxious
wachings Of her trends and Heir sorrowfuI connte
nances told of The fears too truly cherished tho,
death would blight their fondest prospects
with regard to one whom they had doaied SO
fondly. Medical skill united its strongest enegies,
the fervent prayers offered by many hearts for
her recovery. But
''She died! Twas like the setting of some star,
Or like The fedng of flower, or like
d The passing OF some breeze, falling of
Some pearly dew drop from its resting place
Amidst the fragile leaves. She died. Twas like
sound
Q Dissolving into silence, some dream
4 Passing away in beauty, leaving but
The memory Its loneliness.
;, And during the last conflicts of nature she was
no, insenslble o. her fate She felt that the cold
hand Of death pressing The life blood from her
titas. and that the wasting of disease was to term
nate only with mortal ex istence And as she felt
the life stream ebbng, she spoke to her sorrowing
sister oil the pure notes OF praise in which their VOC
1 IL
which her submissive spirit murt soon pass away,
, and the green fields, and the fowery mountains,
and pure streams w hch engage their notes IN tn cir
heavenly home. She comforted her afflicted pa
with the kind that their assiduties
for her earth would not be los, to her in her
! heavenly Inheritance, for which their pous care
had formed her mind.
: So calm and easy was her transition from earth
to heaven, that not uscle of her features was
q disquieied by the act OF separaton. Her counte-
nance exhibited only the paleness, mono of the ago
. MES Of death. The smile she accustomed to
wear while in health, yet rested on her lips and
;, her eyes were closed calmly as in a peaceful
slumber. 3 ~
. For three days they kept that precious clay whoh
while the spirit which inhabited il there, was
precions,and still it altered not Whenever the
afflicted father removed the cloth to view the cold
remains, her countenaDce met him IN It's native
I, oveliness, only the spirit there. Yet, as
j." he looked upon the broken vessel of disappointed
hopes, he flt the assured consciousness, that tho,
:, her earthly tabernacle had fallen, still "a
" 'She lived!
The star was shining in brigter sphere
70 The breeze had gen.Iy winged its wayto heaven;
), The dew drop was exhaled from earth; the snow
= Could vie not with her robes Of purity; ia rs
70 Her name is now sound that seraphs love-
5, The time had come when the dust he had cher.
y lshed with much fondness no longer to be
his, but must be consigned TO the cold, damp earth
> TO hold communion with the worm, and ,mouder
= with its original dust 1t was hour test the
philosophy OF the religion he had long proclaimed
= to his fellow men, He had been with them in
their hours Of sorrow and anguish when thoy must
separate from the dear obec OF their afocon,and
: had pointed them through the bright avenue of
hope, to the world where sorrow and parting will
h be known no more. His day OF trial had now
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