Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1843-01-27
TO SOUTIIEY.

thought 10 thee in thy lake.girt home.
Thou Of creative soul I thought with thee
Amid thy mountain soliiudes To nam,
Aud hear the voire,whOse echoes Wild and free
Had strangely thrilled me, when my life was new
With u6 rumanlic ialcs of wundrous lprc;
But ah hey told me that Thy mind Withdrew
Into thy mystic celi.-nor evermore
State on the lip. in fond familiar word.
Mr. through the speaking eye HER hove repaid
Whose heart lur thee Nth ceaselrss care Is sii,rd
Both night and day upon her wiilOw shade.
Her swoe, harp hung. They told me and wepr.
A. un INV pilgrim way DER England wales kept.
August 25. 1919.
From Wordsworth, while nt Rydel MouniI re
reved the first affirmation of sankey's melancholy
Of mind aHi intellect aud resgue thuugl. re-
luctaHy, my intention Of going 10 keswick 10 see
hrm. II Was With deep sorrow hat heard how
dark a cloud hing that strong aud creative
genus. whch has long com Ruuicaied such delight
both sides Of the Atlantic. and whuse varied
powers seem we'll characterised in few of his
own sweet lines, as
"rhe streams perpetual flow
That with iis shadows aud In glaucing lights
DimPles, aud IhreadlIke moIions infinite.
Forever varying aud yet still the same.
Like Tune towards Eternity, glides by
letter the ea.ping spring. from his wife s. wide
w known by her name OF Ca ruliue Eonl, rs the
writer Of some the irues and most pathetic poe.
try of our language, made still mere roget that
the short time which then remained To me i Enr.
land rendered il impossible Ia visit Greta HILL
This and her entire sell devuedness her suffering
husband, indnced me Ia turn with new interest To
her volumes, Of which an accomplished critic has
said. tina mo puTer models OF genuine hume feel.
ing and language could he placed Ia the hands of n
Ere.gner." The deep paIhus Of her "Pauper',
Death Bed" must be RENE ubered by all who have
read il.
trust TO be 6rgiven for selecting from one OF
her recent letters. few passages Tor the friends
who ih this western world have admired in aim ,.i
every department, of literature. the inventive gen
ius OF DR. SouiheY, his comprehensive learning, aud
hi rs unishlng ndnsITy.
You desire Ia remembered To him VIII sang Of
Thaha, the Wild and wondruus tale. Alas, my friend
the dull cold of death is not more in,eusI!,
than his, my dearest husbands, Ia all cOmmunica
lions from the world without Scarce " can keep
hold of the last ponr comfort of believing that lac
still knows me, Thisalmusi CGmplee ac, nsciuus-
has no been uf more than six months stand ing
though more than Two years have elapsed since he
ins written even his name After The death OF his
first wife, the Edith" Of his first love, who was for
several years insane, his health terribly shaken
Yet for The greater part OF a year that lac spent
with me ia Hampshire, my former home il seemed
periecIly re'esublrshed. and he used say II had
urely pleased God. that The last years Of his life
should be happy" But The Al Mighty will was
iherwise The lIiIle cloud spon appeared, which
vas ia no long lime To nvershaioT all. la the
,larkhess of its shadow we still live. and shall
,'nss from under II only through the portals Of the
crave.
The last three years have done Oh me the work
f twenty. The one. sole business ofmy life is that
which verify believe keeps the life in me. the
guardianship Of my dear. he pess, unconscious hus.
nand,"