The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1844-08-10
YAZOo DEMOCRAT.
woo CITY, AUGUST 10. ls44
Absence from Friends.

sacred spot. On the delights and happiness c,
existant with home, prose-writers have filed vo
umes. On every page, where poets fame
glows in living characters, we find something sal
ofthis happy this familiar spot And this Low
Of home is not confined to one sect or nation
but like heavens light and refreshing dews, i
is equally shared by every cline, enjoyed b
every people. It's vivid fires burn in every hear
Its praises are chaunted by every voice TIL,
mariner, when tempest-tossed and widespread
ing destruction points him to an inevitable fate
finds time, ere the vessel sinks or skaters bel
frai sides against the destructive rock, to form
prayer Of home-to dream once again DER the
dear delights that ever welcomed his presence
there; and as he is ruthlessly wrest from life,s
embrace to fall in eternity's dread chas,n-the
last words he utters is for the preservation Of the
cndearing objects Of his early home--the safety
Mall those that may constitute the shining links
in the bright bands OF friendship!
These ties formed in infancy are never TO be
eradlcated! AS man prides himself upon his
acqusitons.-as he is successful in life. Though
his every aspiration or wild venture may be at
tanned or successfully terminate-still his mental
vision will at times, leave him-restless sad
and for enjoyment wing its way to the cherished
and valued reoolleCtions of his early home
there once more to carol in wild freedom the
sports Of his youth. To gaze once again in a
fond mothers face. To again carefully attend
TO the warning council of a kind father. Or,
playfuiy wrangle for supremacy with doating
and loving sister!
lfFecollection can thus embrace, what mental
vision alone may trace; how must it long! how
acute must be its suffering, when separated from
kindred spint--in unity, formed and fashioned
by the Creative Power!
The separation Of two Trusting hearts. Can
distance estrange them? On shall absence bury
in oblivion's pail all the tender associations that
germed and budded forth into new existance
the answering emotions of each others soul.
where their bright presence commingled, and
clothed in halo Of glory the scenes that bore
witness to their young lOVes--where the fond
pledges Of tender joy sprang into life, and
taught the parent that great and high duties
still beckoned him on to renewed exertion
Say, shall absence discover ties like these? Or
will not those buds Fof future promise, rivet in
closer bonds the heaven-boFn passion that sprang
into being through mutual sympathy its
growth tended by angels, and warmed into me.
redian existence by the upspringing hopes that
kindled in each bosom living aaue--the bright
gleamings Of which gained additional Iustre
from the increased love iieaped on the pyre by
two devoted hearts! Shall associations like "
these, by absence, be forgotten?
Next to the regrets that spring into existence 81
when thinking Of our absent home, is the dread P
that ever cOrrOdes with care the sensitive and har.
raised mind, for fear some afliction--some heavy
dispensatiOn may fall upon those distant objects
Ofour love. The doubts the uncaled for alarm y
that ever keeps alive the troubled nlind Fancy y
ending her aid to swell the pool of apprehen- =
lion, converts every thought into certainty; =
makes every dOubts a misfortune. And these "
lark imaginings are not to be driven hence by -"
reasoni or forced from our presence by an at y
empted resignation to our absence! y
How subtle tie material of which the human
heart is composed! How indefnable its parti- -
les! There is allOy--no cruoible that ever can
epdEute anu unhkS visible us CouhtttlleOI quail
ties. And still where its presence is admitted
Ind cOmprehended by another whose sympathies
hrob in answering pulsations of unison, how
,asily is its every passion traced How clearly J.
Is every property defined! And still there is :,
10 hope or joy it. ma. long. to embrace but an
answering electric spark is at once communities 2,
ed to the other, and unRIloyed and heavenly :,
happiness encircles both with its preserving :.
Still closer they become united by !,
common sympathy--the twO!mingle in one, and :,
or ever after know no separation! -
For man, in this life, is much happiness re- az
eFved. More, much more, than he is willing TO ~,
Omit 70 HIMSELF even. And it is only by the 70
outrast ofthe joys that waited in cur homes
nth the coggBg cares that absence surrounds Us No
riih are we enabled TO distinguish between the an
ure and the counterfeit metal. And seldom On
Ias il been ihs case with any Of US, when many !.
lilies reared barrier between ourselves and =,
ur homes, where birth vas not given to de- :
srmination on our parts that il once more uni nv
ed with the objects OF our love--no induosment an
ould be presented with strength sufficient to al
lille us bat ior a dayirom that loved and cher No
bed spot, ,er
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