New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-09-17
BY Mas. J. W. NKKcUR.

Qua beauteous one her steps no more
Fall gently on the marble floor,
And from her coral lips no strain
Of melody will blend again;
For her fair brow and eyes OF light
Are hidden By Deaths duksome night;
And in some far o6 sphere Of bliss
wanders the spirit loved y this
Oh couId we here but dimly trace
In home brigh, star her resting place,
Fsin would we tune our silent Tyres
From hearts where burn Affections fires
And In the glowing worship given
To that Respondent orb Of Heaven
Blend with prolonged and ceaseless strain
requiem for the loved again
The loved, whose life llumed the way
Her parents ,rod from day TO day,
TIL DER their brows were traces felt
OF Time most mutely eloquent;
Then paced che hence whose virtues shone
Az sems upon our pathways thrown,
To where the ties that here are riyen,
Meet and unite again In Heaven
That flower whose roseate petals threw
Can never moro with light or smile
Her Parenp weary hours beguile
Nor cheer them at LIES closing even
When pass On high their souls to Heaven
Yet still ono hearts deep changeless tone
Than theirs beats now more doubly lone.
For round their hearths a, even-tde
stili many cherished form viii glide,
s;ill Ger their paths will flowers be spread.
And round them loved once lightly tread
Though visions Of her form viii still
Their every dream Of fancy h.
And frequent thoughts to her be gwen
Their beautiful, their loved, in Heaven.
gut from her Partners home hath flown
The light which Ger his pathway shone'
And all the cherished joys Of earth
Known at that homes once cheerful hearth
And every thought Of joyous tone
With her, tho early lost. has iiown,
And mournful memories Of the past
Rush DER him ss the fitfu blast.
lie clasps q child whose sunny brow
Reflects his mothers image now,
As but the link which binds 10 earth
A spirit formed for heavenly birfh,
And in his souls deep thankful tide
Turns from all joys of earth beside
Still keeping in this heart and mind
The memory Of her love enshrined.
Thus time will psss-days years will come
And silent yesrnings for that home,
Az some mysterious chain will bind,
We know not how, Ia immortal mind
But. Weakened by some sudden spell,
Some vain vain grief but known too well
Most quickly into life will start,
shroudlng with gloom the inmost heart
But DER him may Hopes glories beam,
Az light upon some troubled stream,
Tha, gems with stars the rushing waves,
Which onward leap to Oceans caves.
Though lasting as the mists which rise
From stream and ocean to the skies
May Hopes bright halo beam and spread
Its light DER him who mourns the deed
Whose dreams are Of the spirit land,
With the beloved Of that bright band
Whose eye the Joyous Past o'ersweeps.
Then to the Present turn and weeps
While shadows DER his spirit fall
As darkness on ruined wall,
And sees he but a silent tomb
shroudcd by earth's deep purple gloom
That tomb round which we hush our tread
Where Friendship walls the early dead
Where Beauty still on her fair brow
Meath its dark heavy veilings now.
Rest as in days when sleep o'ercarne
Her blue eyes ever brilliant flame,
Where Parents mourn Daughter riven-
That Wife and Mother passed to Heaven.
randa, Pa.