Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1843-08-15
From tAs N-e Mirror.
FIR q NJ y A X A TOG A .
To rHK JULIA or soAK WARS AGO.
August ?, lSt3.


luAvE written you In your boys life. time-that ne
lad shade taller than yourself, whom sometimes
the first month [buer month Of your marriage have
thought OF you for tho duration Of reverie-dt be
called loved yonos, youswore your ruin and forgot
yo1-which is loves climax when Tilted. And X.
peeted to think OF you again.
Besides the establishment at hearing from me ut ALL you
VIII be surprised at receiving letter from Saratoga.
Here where the stars arc that you byhere. where
the springs and eoonnaJcs the woodwak and drives the
sofas and swings, all coated with your delicious
peuures your "protested protcsaons, your ncacuabc
bankruptcy OF sighs tears promises. oh Julia
mans, refisRs toi, plane,
assure you had not the slightest idea OF coming
here again IN the worljnot the slightest had in
heaven against it. indeed While hated you-beforc I
forgot you, that Is TO say would have your
husbands milontyour price, Julia i had laid Saratoga
away with great soa 10 be re-opened in the
shall nhab, and used lighthouse OF warning There
was one bannis'er at CongreSslIa partcusriyacross
which we parted nghtythc object hand touched
aet losing inc warm pressure OF yours-,he place leaned
over with n heart under waiscoat which would have
scaled Olympus 10 be YOU kept back by
that mahogany and your "no-and will believe that de-
wills become dolls aud ghosts play around like
smoke OF cigar, since that bannster have thrown
my leg and sat thinking OF the past without frenzy
uon And none have better right than laugh now
at loves passionate ctcrnitcs For lovers, Ju.
lia-l as know. and you bcicve-and in that entry
when we parted To dream write, the bissul
morrow-anyhing but sleep and foget-in that entry and
that banniser said words of and de-
voton, from deep soundngs Of hcarte ever plum.
met OF this world could by possibility iathom. You did
love msmonser ot untruth and Us YOU have
since been bought tor-yOu did lore And that you
ride in husbands carriage and grow and
here and make a mock OF it, are two comments
ON love worthy OF the commonplace book OF Mephistophes
Fle Us !
came Saratoga Us would look at coat that had
worn twenty years bciore-~ith of curiosity
TO see the shell in which had figured friend said
Join me at Saratoga " and sounded like "come and
where Julia was adorable came a rail-car, under
hot SUM- aud wanted dinner; and wished myself where
Julia indeed sat at in her it, for the good
wine IN the cellar and the French cook the kitchen And
did not go down to "Congress Hail. the old pdi1is
oHT-but in the modern and comfortable parlur OF the
United States, down by pretty woman oi these DAYS
and ehaed about the watey in her bosom and the hoy
she had pstairs-cody and every -day.shy. had been
there SIX hours, aud you had entered my houghts.
Please TO believe that, Julia!
But in the evening there ball at Congress Hail.
And though the old house is Questionable now and the
lies OF love elsewhere told aud listened to- there
movement among the bellies IN Its favour, and appended
myself Ia ladys arm and went boldly. boldly, for
required effort The twilight had fallen aud with IL
had come memory or of the Springs in our time
had seated myself against pillar the colonnade of the
81 med States aud looked down toward Congress Hall
and you were under the old vncclad portco should
have seen you from the spot and with eve
OF fancy, snndry years SO II quite like pas
sionless anuquary that foot again time CO.
lonnade, and, 10 say truth, the band struck up waltz
might have had IN my lip momenary culver, and
dmncss IN my world-wcary eye. But it passed away.
The ball was CONNIE and found women las
where are they not-gven, candles and musc) and aired
my homage old stager may. danced without think.
ing OF you unc5moaby though the years washing
that white floor has quite washed the memory Of
y"u fnb nsttp With ITS embracing and enYied sandal gill
NJ and bounding, oh how airly For had feet abso
lutte IN their perfection, dear Julia,--had you notl
Bat went out for fresh air the coonnade in an evil
and iogctul moment stroed alone toward the spring
The lamp burned dim, used burn tended by Cupds
minions And the end OF the portco the window
OF the MUSHROOM, under that oyerhangng ivy with
sight that would have for the very same-sa
lady in dress like yours You last, and black
eyes, like jet lamps framed in velvet turning indoenty to-
wards me. held by the railing for supersitious and
seemed To that had only ask why you there
Tor ghoSily or bodily, there saw you Back came your
beauty memory with yesterdays freshness of ecoec
ton Back into my heart the Julia OF my long accu
scd alteration. saw your coniding and bewderng SMILE
your necu teeth Of pearl your overbent aud arch
look from under, your lilly shoulders, your dmped hands
on were there II my sufficient evidence, IT
presence be anything without touch-bodily there.
OF course 1t was somebody else. went in and took
Iuep Blu, write 10 tell you that for a minute minute
OF enormous capacty-l have loved you once more. For
one minute, while you probably buried deep your
inled pllow-tsnorng, perhaps-who knows for one
minute, heetng and bissiu you have been loved again.
with heart, brain, blood, all with TRUTH tenderness
and passionate adOraonby who could have bought
you you know could! for half the money you sold for
And thought you would like know this Julia And
now hating you before in your heshy forgetfulnoss
Yours not at ALL y. P. W.