Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1844-06-20
NELLYs FUNERAL.

The pilsied,
The living dead in many shapes and forms,
IL see The closing of this early grave.
ipnat was the death it would shut in,
To that which could crawl aud creep above it;
Along the crowded path they bore her now,
Pure as the new-lalun snow
That covered Il ; whose day earth
Had been as fceting;
Under that porch. where She had sat when Heaven
In mercy brought her Ia that peaceful spot,
She passed again and the old church
Received her IN It's quiet shade.
Throughout the whole Of the above
only two unimportant words have been o.
miiied-in and its; 'grand-dames has been
substituted for grand mothers, and cen for
almost All that remains is exactly as the
original not a single word ,ransposed, and
the punctuation the same 10 comma
The brief homily that concludes the funeral
Is profoundly beautiful:
Oh 1t is hard to take TO heart
The lesson that such deaths will tclch,
But let no man reject it.
For it is one that III must learn,
A nd is mighty, un iversal truth.
When death strikes down the beautiful and young,
For every nallle form from which he lets
The parting spirit free,
A hundr cd virtues rise,
In shapes OF mercy, charity and love,
To walk the world and bless it.
or every tear
That sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves
Some good is born, some gen,ler nature comes.
Not word of the original is changed in
The above quotation. which is worthy the
best passages Of Wordsworth and thus E.eet-
ing on the common ground of n deeply
truthful sentiment, the two most unlike men
in the literature of the country ere brought
into the closest approximation. Something
e c,fnii,r l. nd Of uarcico,iop -, ,bo
may be discovered in chapter II of 'Barna-
by Ridge The following is from the
concluding paragraph Of Nicholas Niclilc-
by:
The grass was green above the dead boys grave
Trodden by feet so small and light,
That not daisy dropped its head
Bencath their pressure
Through all the spring and summer time
Garland Of fresh flowers wreathed by infant hands
Rested upon the stone
To these selections Of Mr. Horne's many
rs curious might be added AS all our rea-
dcrs may not have observed this cause OF
the smoo,haeSs with which many passages
in Dickens writings fall on the ear. we
have thought those above worth transcrbing
a friend has called our attention to those
which follow, from the American Notes.
We copy them verbatim, giving, however,
90 the words the arrangement Of verse:
NIAGARA.
think IN every quiet season now
Still do those waters roll, and leap, and roar.
And tumble, all day long
Still are the rsnbow's spanning them
hundred feet below.
Sti II, when the is them. do they shine,
And glow like molten geld
sui when the day 10 gloomy do they fall
Like snow, or seem tn crumble away,
Like the front of great chalk cliff.
ar roll adown the rock like dense white smoke.
but always does the mighty stream appear
10 die as it comes down;
Add always from the unia thomable grave
ARISES that tremendous ghost of spray
And mist which Us never laid
}ihch has haunted this place;
With the same dread solemnity.
Since darkness brooded the deem.
And the first flood before the deuee-Licht
Game rushing on Creation at the word of God.
To any one who reads this we need not
say thai but three lines in it vary q, all from
the closest acquisitions ofan Iambic move.
ment The measure is precisely of the
kind which Mr.. Southly so often used
For the RAIDERS convenience, we copy from
lhalaba his well remembered lines on night
rs an instance
How beautiful is Night
hdewy freshness fills the silent air 4;
" "'s, "nseures nor cloud nor speck, nor stain
"fass tic serene Of heaven.
30 w ,u' oIhed glory Wonder Moon divine
''' rY,tough the dark blue dephs
nsheath the steady raw
The desert circle spresr,
Lac tno foHnd ocean, girdiad with th. Nv
io" Oeaeuinl is night 90
rom Tue American Notes we ex,r,c,
the following passage, only cbanr;nr ,I i,
form. as the line on Niapara ~ s"s ~
Cant as NC may (says Mr. Di,LoDs, 81
as we shall TO the cnd Of all ,hinos !, !. "nu
much harder for the poor ~ 10 80, Wy
than the rich and the GOOD tina, /. - , ,ho.R
shines The better for il" And IN ." aa e"esi
strain, he continues, in prose printed vcr ,',''
4iu May a noble mansion lives sman
The best OF husbands and Of fathers
" hose prigate worth IN both capacities
Is Justly lauded 10 the skies
Pui bnne Linn here upon this crowded deck,
S,,io f,,a, his fair Vounz wife her s.lken dres,
And Jewels -unbind her braided halt
Siam early wrinklos on her bF0n-
Pinch her pale cheek
With care and much prlsaiIoa-
ARA, her f-ded form
f. cosrsey patched attire
L., ,hefe te a9.k.HE BAT rs .s's