The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1846-05-30

setting sunk the living smile faded gradually
away, and gradual cold calm crept over his
checks: the angelic light which made his
eyes so beautiful TO look at, was going out,go-
ing out: all was peace, peace, deep peace.
O death, where is thy sting? o grave
where is thy victory?
Need |, sons and daughters, need | record
at any length how Maria mourned for her
father? lfyou now have parents worthy of
your love, if you now have hearts to love
them, mny safely leave that theme TO your
affections: now is for all things the accepted
time,now is the day for reconcliations: our
life is perpetual now. However mfilial you
may have been, however stern or negligent
they, if there is now the will to bless, and now
the heart to love, all is well-well Mt the last,
we'll now for evermore,-thank Heaven for
SO glad contamination. Oh, that my pen
had power to make many fathers kind, many
children trustfu oh, that by some burning
word could thaw the cold, shame sarcasnis,
and arouse the apathetic! Oh, that invoking
upon every hearth, whereunto this book may
come, the full free blaze of home affections,
my labor of love be anything but vain, when
God shall have blessed what | am writingl
There is a plaintabet in ST. Benets Church
just within the altar rail, bearing--no inscrip-
ton about Lord Mayoralty, Knighthood, or
the Worshipful Company of Stationers,-
full of facts more glorious than every honor
under heaven; for the words run thus:-
soRRowFUL, YET REJOICING,
"A Daughters LoUe hath placed This Tablet
TO THE MEMORY OF
| THOMA S DILLAW AY;
A man tcho died in The faith Of Christ,
In The Lore Of God, andin he
..... Hope Of Hauen. .......
Noble eptaph! Let us so live, that the like of
this may be truth on our tombstones. Seek
it, rather than wealth. before honor, instead
of pleasure; for, indeed, those words involve
within their vast significancy riches unsearch-
able, glory indestructible, and pleasure for ev-
ermore! Hide them, rs n string of precious
pearls, within the casket of your hearts.
In their sudden prosperity, Henry and Ma
ria cultivated well the grateful soil of Heart,
by n thousand little dressings aud diggings;
counting TO il the warm sunshine ofthe skies,
the zephyrs ofpleasant recolections, and the
genial dews of sympathy And very wise
were all those lahors ofdelight; for their sons
and their daughters grew UP as the polished
corners in the temple; moulded with delicate
affections, their moral essence sharp, and
clearly edged with sensitive feelings, as if
lucN utu FRESH from lilb IluUtS OF
their sculptor, and the world had not rubbed
off the master touches ofHis chisel. For in
this dull world we cheat ourselves and one a
mother of innocent pleasures by the score,
through very carelessness and apathy: cour-
ted day after day by happy memories,we rude
~ brush them off'with this indiscriminating
bosom, the stern material present: invited to
help in rendering joyful many patient heart,
we neglect the little word that might have
done it, and continually defraud creation of
its share of kindness from us. The child
made merriest by your interest in his toy; the
old domestic flattered by your seeing him look
so well; the poor, better helped by youn bless
ing than your penny Enough give the penny
o)--the laborer, cheered upon his toll by a
timely word of praise; the humble friend en-
couraged by your frankness; equals made TO
love you by the expression ofyour love; and
superiors gratified by attention and respect,
and looking out to benefit the kindly:--how
many pleasures here for any hand to gather;
how many blessings here for any heart to
givel Instead of these what have we rife a.
bout the world? frigid compliment,-for
warmth is vulgar; reserve of tongue,-for it
is folly to be talkative; composure, never at
thult,--for feelings are dangerous things;
gravity--for that looks wise; colduess,-for
other men arc cold; seltishness,- every
one is struggling for his own. This is all
false, all bad: the slavery chain of custom riv-
eted by the foolishness of fashion,; because,
there ever is band of men and women, who
have nothing to recommend them but eXter-
nals;-their looks or their dresses, their rank
or their wealth, and in order to eXalt the hon
or of these, they agree TO set compact seal
of silence on the heart and on the mind; lest
the flood of humber mems affections, or of
wiser mems intelligence, should pale their tin
sci praise; and the warm and the wise too soft
" acquiesce in this injury done to heartiness,
shamed by the effrontery of cold calm fools,
and the shallow dignity ofan empty presence.
Turn the tables on them, We truer gentry, trIi-
ernobility, truer royalty ofthe heart and mind;
speak freely, love warmly, laugh cheerfuly,
explain frankly, eXhort zealousy, admire lib
orally, advise earnestly,-be not ashamed to
show you have a heart, and ifsome cold blood
ed simpleton greet your social efforts with a
sheer, repay him flor you can well afford a
richer gift than his whole treasury possesses
repay him with kind good humored smle it
would have slammed Jack Dilaway himself
Then would they go to that Identical lodg-
ings ofyears gone by, where they had so
struggled with adversely, now in the happy
contrast ofwealth and peace and thanl<fiIness
to heaven, and of Joy at doing good. That
porlor was right literally hired for the day,
and all the poor in Sack Street were privi-
legged to call, where Mrs Clements held her lc-
wee. They came. in an orderly stream, elem
for the occasion, and full of gratitude and
blessings, and, TO be just upon the poor, no
imposter had ever been known to int ude up
on the privilege of Sack Street As for dear
Maria, she regularly broke down Just as the
proceedings commenced, and Herry's man
iier hand had to give away the spoil; whilst
Maria, sobbed beside, as if he, heart would
break. Then did the good old nurse come
in for cold round of beef with tea, sugar,