New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-11-16


The iron steeds that night flew swiftly Onward.
The stars were yelled, the moon refused to shine
A black eclipse was the face of nature.
The outer and the inner world were darkened.
Before the midnight we had met again!
The living and the dead were locked together,
Not in the cruel Tuscan's loathed embrace,
But with love stronger than Mezentius steel
Iknelt beside you all the long drear night.
kissed with agony your marble brow,
And though your old companions turned away
Oh, dearest, from your cold and faded form,
Death could not make it terrible to me.
Although the blackness Of too quick decay
Began to overspread your beauteous cheeks
And your sweet lips were colorless and cold,
And the dull lustre of your straning eyes
Did fall like mdew my anguished heart,
Could forget TINT roses here had bloomed
That these TO mine had been so often pressed
That these had beamed such tender love on me?
Oh. those mild eyes, their lids were still half parted
And you seem'd, dear one, striving 20 unclose them,
To give assurance by their gentle chances
That cen in death still was loved by you
When my head rested on your icy temples
Their very GOODNESS warmed my brain to phrenzy.
called upon you. dearest, in my madness,
70 break the letters in which death had bound you,
To look into my eyes to glad my ears
With the sweet melody of your dear voice
Saying you loved me and forgave my errors
cried, oh heart, unto whose quick pulsations
L listened in many sorrowng hour
Until your turbulent motion brought me peace,
Awake beat on the river of my tears
again doth wet the drapery about thee p
But cold, all cold, and silent as the statue
That has reclined Ger death thousand yearsl
Then would gaze on you, and round your cofsn
Oh, dear one, clasp my arms. in wretchedness
And kiss you with hot lips and cry TO God
Toilet you come, in mercy, back to me.
And seeing tears upon your cheeka and eyes,
Ideemed my prayer was heard, and laughed alond,
And shouted, in my Joy, my thanks to Heaven
Bnt when my reason was once more in action,
And perceived those waters had bat fallen
From the hot fountain struggling in my BRAIN
Oh, then, in bitterness of woe, l died,
And fell beside you in deaths he pessness
To me came back the life invoked for YOU.
had not drained the dregs Of suffering
The dread compound of misery and life
Was SO commnglsd in one cup for me,
could drink the one without the other
And HE permits them not to pass from me.
You had no equal in your loving kindness
When you were with me in this cheerless world
And can 1t be that your immortal spri,
Feels less of that exalted deep affection
That gave your voice earth its seraph sweetness,
That made your eyes beam with celestial brightness
The gentle twining of your arms around rae
TO seem like the embrace of holy angels,
Than while you fingered here on earth among us
Oh, loved oncl in you more exalted virtue
Is there such change made in your very nature
That you anfeel no pity for year husband
Loft here alone 10 die, and not see death?
Kacold word in life did veil my feelings
And seemed harsh, or any way unkind,
You now can read nay hearts NEST secret pages,
And know my love aschangeless as 'twa. feryent
Havc not drank sufficiently OF woe,
Has NOT my punishment been deep enough,
To winyour pardon and your sympathy?
The true, who die in Christ, my faith has taught me
Become the ministers of God 10 US
Who lnger with frail hearts and unchaste passions
Irthis dark valley of the shade of DEATH
To whom Oh holy and immortal being
Would you return more quickly than to me
For two long nights have I my vigils kept,
thinking the Living and the dead might meet
bsside the form your mortal life made sacred;
su! praying God that you might visit me-
And you, to maaifes, your spirits presence;
ana strained my glazed eyes to see your form
in tue cold vacancy tina, was about me.
aoH saw my my agony. yet would not heal ii:
ioi Ans% my brain was turned TO molten lava
anu would not lay your finger. on my brow.
ioawno once lived butte fni6l my wishes
And gave fruision eseIny hopes were uttered.
Now heard my prayer for one brief word Of nsr3,,
Knowing il would give peace unto my soul, go
And ye,were silent as the clsy before mo,
TbenT went out TO look upon the stars
Inhopes 10 hear their ancient music waken
The holy karmonies thar gave TO man
Assurance of more sublime existence.
Where pain and death and mourning could no, come
Bat they shons coidly on me frem ;heir places,
In the far ether, aud were still as death.
So cane back. in hopeless agcny,
Tocling again unto your senseless clay,
With prayers thai as You would not come TO me,
/ might, without seltmuraer, ay to thee.
|; VS.. the evening Of a day in sprias
When hrss met her in her quiet home;
Within the stree, were raging rain and Wind