The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1843-03-07

tons, he commenced writing letter to his frends-
He wrote page or more, and then said he would lie
down and take some repose, and finish his letter
when he arose; but dinner being announced, he
made his hasty toilette meet the promscuous COM
pany of fashionable hotel and offered his arm 10 his
wife, AS they stepped into the entry, his eye rested
on some of their baggage, that the porter had careless
y placed in the passage way, and at the same time
raising his foot with considerable force to remove it
from his way he fell the alarm soon given: they
raised him and laid him upon the bed he had so
lately left, but he spoke breathed again.
All possible used for his restoration but
Death had there placed his SEAL and it could not be
withdrawn. His wife was almost frantic with grief;
she called on him, by every endearing ephct, to
speak to her, but he was now deaf to the
voice he had loved so we-that voice, which, sleep
ing waking, to him had ever been as music. Then
the truth, the fearful truth, fell upon her heart shc
is dead and for the first time, she felt that she
alone, and stranger in that great city, and that he
whom she had loved with all Il woman's tenderness,
had gone render up his account to the Great Judge
of all.
She consented that post mortem examination
should take place; and it found that his disease
was upon his heart, and one which unavoidaby
es sudden death.
To the credit of the Howard House be it said that
the landlord and his wife to that bereaved one
if she had been their daughter; every thing
done she wished. The letter which her hus-
band had commenced just before his DEATH the gen.
tenan kindly finished and it his friends that
| they might meet the widow and all that remained of
the son and brother in the pity of ID. lie also offered
the services ofhis first clerk to accompany her thus
far which she with many thanks, accepted not that
she feared travel alone with the dead-no; death
had no for her now-but the delicacy of her
health would not admit of her travelling without
| protector. '...
| They arrived in b. without accident, and found
her friends waiting to receive her. The only words
she uttered meeting them were, ooh Henry! is it
thus we meet' And throwing herself into her broth
! er's arms, she wept like child Then her
were dried and she ready depart again for l..
She arrived few hours before the corpse, and
ed herself in the room we have described, at the
of this tale, and we have before said,
spoke not until the cein rested on the table. Then
she arose, and looking upon the loved face, excaim
ed, "Oh! L could stand here always"
| In short time she sent for her child that had
been taken into the country, and intrusted it to the
care of widowed sister during the absence of its
unfortunate parents And now did she lavish upon
him all the love she had before bestowed upon the
father. She had in his infancy given him the Of
Charles; it was now changed to John, the name of
him who was now in heaven--for she spoke
of him as dead, but always being in heaven; and
well might she believe that was his blest abode, for
without exaggerated praise to the departed we can
that is so N
earth. He the Widows and the Orphans friend,
and in works of charity his left hand knew not what
the right hand did She weary of car
essing her infant boy, for he sweet promising
child, and she yet looked forward long years Of
happiness, when he should become man; and she
ondly anticipated teaching him every thing his father
loved; but alas, sorrow and disappointment ever
the lot Of some, for
81 saw that young mother in tenderness bend
O'er The couch of her slumbering boy,
And she kissed the soft lips, they murnured her
While the dreamer lay smiling in joy
Obi sweet is a rosebud encirced with dew.
When its fragrance is flung on the air;
So fresh and SO bright to that mother he seemed,
AS he lay in his innocence there.
But saw when she gazed on the same lovely
Pale as marble, and silent and cold,
But paler and colder her beautiful boy,
And the tale Of her told;
But the Healer wus there who had stricken her
heart, ...f ...a....a..
And taken her tears away: .... .....
To allure her to heaven, he had placed ii on high,
And the mourner will sweetly obey ..4
There whispers voice-'twas the voice OF her
Hove thee love thee--PASS UNDER TliERCD.'
Yes the little one died, and again she was alone
Oh! it very hard to part with him, bnt she knew
the had been lent to her Tor time, and thaf
The Father haH right to reca what lie had given,
when to his Infinite wisdom it should seem best In
the deep agony OF her feelings she threw herself on
her knees before that little corpse, and ier'enty pray
ed that she too might be taken to dwell with those
she most loved. But it ordained otherwise |
Cod wall know that He must take away her idols be