Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1843-08-18
Life and Death.

Life and Death.
The dearest ties are severed and tie sa.
BILE pail conveys TO the tomb, tie young.
the beautiful. the aged and the worthy
The solemn knell rolls along the breeze
as it tolls the mournful obseouies which
are paid to the dead, and strikes on the ear
of the living with an ominous and warn
ing note.
There is something peculia, - true Il
tive in those simple ceremonies which wess
as masons -dauo.o~to our c.+-'--sl..s. l..s..--a.
and brother, when we say :" Let Us rise
and bury our dead" The last look which
we bestow upon the countenancc which
mas gladdencd us with It's smile the COM
pany of mourners and friends who have
assembled on this heart-rending occasion;
the address which ascents from the lips of
the Master to the throne of a being who ls
seen in his works; the silence and sorrow
of those who are left for time on earth,
until it shall be their fate to follow the de-
parted; the procession as it slowly moves
toward the last earthly tenement Of man;
the peal struck from the village church
which now comes upon our listless ear q
clay; the falling Of the earth upon ,As.
young, the aged and the amiable, . earth
to earth and dust to dust;" the return an.
dispersion Of the congregation, and those
] saddened feelings which bear with SIS
to our pillow and the void never, aeger---
never again to be filled. which is made =
mong the little rank of those We lore al
these furnish moral too forcibly aoolieo
to De resisted and awaken thoughts upnn
the future. beyond all tina, the most eTo-
quent tongue can produce. We turn from
this scene 10 that which is pencilIed rron
future years When the tall and pIairv
grass shall spring from the turf resting or
that bosom now beating with pleasure a,
our approach. and heavng the convuIsiVe
sob at our affection. When in fine. al.
that we now look upon with so muca de
light, shall become but an ungsemly ske.
eton within narrow grave.
Change the dream, and we ourselves
are to become the victims Of Ike trans
The sun, lie cottage O: OH,
infancy, the lake gllnreFing beneaih a
sivery moon. the vault Of heaven. the
friends Of our youth, the partner Of our
pillow, all the luxuries of mag .nation an,
of life are TO become dim and int!IstInct
passion must expire, sense after sense
must follow, oblivion will silently steal
each object of perception or Of affection
rom before us, we must become torpid,
unconscious and finally die, and the same
sad parade will be repealed and . where
Ire WEI" The world will move oaHa-.!.
he minute space we have filed gill ba
forgotten, and other generations trealing
al III iittio hi rs rth
within which we are steadily nloulde:iag
back to clay, "for from dust VIC CAM,
md 10 dust we must return. atit 70
Often il is the case tina, we cannot bat
ndulye in the idea tina, when the soul is
separated from The body. we shall IN spir-
/ reyisi. these scenes which in life were.
lear to US; that we shall again look from
some high bluff upon The blue waters, aud
yaze upon the smoky steamers of the lake
aud river beneath All evening sky tina. we
shall watch over The fortunes OF those wo
owe in life, meet them again in affection,
when they shall heve thrown off The clog
IF mortality, and be ready, hand in hand,
10 ascend The higher regions of bliss, when
his earth shall have passed away. Rut
he spor.ive tricks of a wild Imagination
should give place to the sober certainty OF
Though we delight to lingef
around these scenes which are dear 10 Us
,pon earth, though our conseienees tel!
IS that we are not TO bury IN parsimo-
,ious grave, those thoughts aud percer-
ions which altacI, Us SO closely 10 diseal-
,odied spirits, vet tie present period Of
LANCER warns Us most enphaucaIly 10 set
mr. hearts to such order that we may c'al-
enge death to the combat. Ills bolts ifs
ailing .ronnd Us. and the sna's SPACE ~
otied us before we shall be ss'agsGaei -
I.e list in an unknoui Gaze, go saat
ourne from whence ~ ~ e4ler se.irgs.
emands tina. our la.sa,. sa.sed be resdf.
Watch thereeore. re t9ts 1hitn
he day nor t.o nef- ese-ess' '-s sol.
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