Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1843-07-25

The Poetry Of Life By iTs. i.as, aa'Ho' y IN
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| yt 90 found these especial beauues' a. No..
/ i. wcman religion, &c, &c, ~hich na'e 'io -,
;mmemoria given root, trunk, orahen rii;a arce,s
/ =, noa,rv II may h. mentioned that mrs E'i,S ~.
r.,ns,,si;on rather than IN definition, and lhsle ',e
,,v specimens of writing, IN the former " .Tn
| h,cb would do honor TO any writer "aa'soese'.
.n,e, on The Poetry Of Woman, IS one OF he' ''o''
| ,mo,, and we must needs copy passage OF '"o.
e,oress has Jus, been describing the girl, the
c, ,he ,uo;her-she now passes onward 10 Pa'n' a"
aJ ,,onan. and her pencil fingers especially on 'he
fern n, her who is neglected IN her OLD age
an, .prn;ng from the contemplation OF motner ID
.t ,,ds, Of her family, 10 that OF mere oa "oman'
49,, make melancholy decent from important ussiu''
ress 10 neglected imbecy. Perhaps we nave oesn
| deno too much upon what ought 10 pc, oul me
h.r mention Of an old brings US down al once
IN what's To inquire why il should be mus belongs
more 10 the writer morals than on poetry yet 80
,sthat woman who has been cherished III her INFANCY
and at,ered in her youth Who has been exalted 10 .he
most honorable station which her sex can hl VINO mas
snpnt The meridian of her life in tolls and anxetes ior
he good of others becomes in old age mere proVero
and by wod-a warning 10 the young ana the gay "
what they must expect-a simltude for all that IS iee
BILE and con,emptble-an evidence OF the destructive
20 wer Of ime-a living emblem of decay
"IuGoitc, indeed, beyond the possibility of calcuin'
ton mus. be the recoections and associations oil hef
whose long e from lis earliest TO its latest peroc mas
been life of feelingwhose experience has been tha'
Of impressions, rather than evenis-and whose sun
goes down amidst hc varied and nmutable UNITS whIcn
these impressions have given to its atmosphere En-
dued with inexhauslibe power of multiplying reia-
tive ideas, how melancholy must be The SITUATION "
her who beloved and cherished, no" aespseu
and forsaken-who in her turn loved and chershed
Others, and is nov neglected. II she be mother-obe
Of those fond mothers xpect that indulgence
10 win the lasting regard Of their children what sad
thoughts must crowd upon her al every fresh instance
Of unkindness and every additional proof that she has
fallen away from what she was, both IN her own and
others estimation Over the brow that no@ frowns
npnn her, she perhaps has watched with unuiteraoe
tenderness through the long night when every eye out
hers was sleeping The lips HAT now speak TO her
coldiy, answer her with silence, when she speaks'
she has ba;hed with The welcome draught when they
parched and burning with contagious lever ihr
scorn with which her humble pretenslons are looked
down upon a5jses in The hearts of those for whose
hrgPr intellectual ataiuments she has made every sa
crifce and exerted every faculty And whatif she be
unlearned in the literature of the modern times, she
understands deeply and eengly the springs OF aztec
;ion, and tenderness, and sorrow. She knows from
what source flow the bterest tears and
GLOW sharper than srrpeuts tooth it Is
To have tiaokess child"
She the young glad creatures OF another genera,
ton sporting around her, and her thoughts 90 back 10
The playmates of her childhood SEINE reduced TO The
lowest state of helpessness sufi.rIng-some dead
and some forgotten She hears the reluctant answer
when che asks kindness Of one OF the merry group,
and she thinks of The time when kindness was more
freely granted her. though fur less needed than now
she al The loud laugh but cannot understand the
Jest, and no explains it to her listening ear She
loses the thread of earnest conversation, and no one
stores the clue. She sits within the social circle, but
forms link in The chain of social union Her
thoughts and feelings cannot harmonise with those OF
her juvenile companions, and she feels IN all It's bitter
ness that least toerabe portion Of human experience
what il TO be deso!aie in the midst OF socety-sur-
rounded by kindred and friends, and lalone.
GLet then the aged woman be no longer object oil
contempt She is be pless child but as child
she may he learning The last awful lesson from her Hea
venly Father Her feeble step IS trembling on the
brink of grave but her hopes may be firmly planted
on the better shore which les beyond. Her eye is dun
with suffering and tears /; but her spiritual vision may
be contemplating the gradual unfolding of the gates of
eternal rest Beauty has faded from her form hui
angels in the world Of light may be weaving wreath
of glory for her brow Her lip is silent but may be
only waiting pour forth celestial strains Of gratitude
and praise Lowy and fallen, and sad she sits amongs.
the living but exalted, purified aud happy, she may
arise from the dead Then turn if thou witt from the
aged in her loneliness, but remember she is moi
foTsaken Of her God.