Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1842-02-03

JOYS or sorrows, in what situations or cir
cuns,anccs, she has most signaIly dis
charged the heavenly mnistralions OF her
mission what ordcals have best brought
out the radiance of her hidden jewels /;
what lrui,ioDs Of earthly bliss, ar iurna
ces Of Affections, have best declared the
linrness OF her gold.
!, Still, there Is Il scene, which has es-
/ capped "thc vuliure's eye" and almost
every other eve, where she has cast forth
her costliest pearls, and shown snth quail
tiles of her native character as almost
merit our alteration. This scene has
been allotted to the dlWnkard'S w1e -
How she has filled this most dcspera,,
outpost OF humanity, viii be revealed
when the seer, Is Of human life shall be-
disclosed "to more worlds than this. -
" hen the history of novels, aud of nur-
Ky garrets shall be given Ia when the
cnIcer of the enslaved inebria,e shall bc
told, from the first Ia the lowest dcgre,
of his dcgradation-, there will DC me-
moral made Ct woman, worthy of beng
tolC and heard in heaven. From the first
she gave mp her young and hoping
heart, aud all lis treasures into the hands
oi him she loved, TO the luckIess houI
when the charn.er, vine, tasien'G arounu
the loved one, Nil the serpent spells oi
us sorcery down through all the crush
ing of her young hopes-through years
at esiraDgement aud strange insanity
when harsh unlinduess bit at her heart
strings with an adder's tooth thence
down through each successive depth oi
disgrace and misery, until she bent over
the drunkard's grave; through all these
scenes, halo of divinity has gathered IA
round her, and stirred her to angel deeds
OF love. When the maddened victin
tried to cut himself adIilt from the sym
has clun. To him, and held him to her
heart "with hooks of steel" Aud when
he was cast out, all deliled with his lep-
rous pollution when he was reduced toI
such hing as the beasts Of the field
would below at there was one who sti
kept HIM thrnncd in her hear! OF hearts
who could say over the fallen, drivrlling
creature; although you are nothing 10
the world, you are all the world to me-"
When that awful insanity of The drunk
ard sets in upon him, with all its fcndish
shapes Of torture; while he lay wrlhing
beneath the scorpion siings Of the fiery
phantaaies and fures Of dtiiiium Femens
there was woman by his side, enSlaved /
with all the attributes of her loveiness
There was her fearful, love- beaming
eye, that never dimmed but with tears
when the black spirits were at him.
There she stood alone, and in the lone
hours Of night, 10 watch his breathings,
with her heart bIaccd up with the ON
Impotence Of her love. No 4! brute az
he was, not tie which her young heart
had thrown around him in his brigh,
days, had even given away, bu, had
grown stronger as he approached the
nadlr ofhls degradation. And if he sank
into that dark, hopeless grave, she EN-.
swathed him in her broken heart, and
laid it in his collin; or if some mighty
angels arm or voice brought him up
from the grave OF drunkenness, the deep II
EST ever dug for man, he came forth
Lazarus like, bound fast and forever
within the cerenen;s Of her dcathess
affection. h
Such is her sceptre such are the
cords which she throws around the way
ward and wandering, and leads him
back 10 virtue and to heaven, saving, as
she gives him in -" Here an ! and he
'Chg!l thou Gapest me ~ II