Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1848-09-15
VOLUME II--NUMBER a.

Yes, she was dead! She who bat few dnys
before was reveling in dream Of uneauhly
happiness who was enshri ned as an idol in ey.
cry heart. was wrapl in her last sleep, und those
who loved her so truly, had been doomed To see
the flower they had waiched through the lovely
days of llle's golden spring, pluckcd when lis
bloom was lairesl,-and given TO deck in It's
wiIhered beauty, the cold brow of dpa,h.
/ Death is terrible, let il cnme To the child of
sorrow, or To the hero in The hour of victory:
but oh, how doubly deep is the agony of the
soul when hts presence is felt in the bridal cbum.
Der OF love aud youth and beauty, and as he on
whose bosom the departing one has been pillow.
cd, hears the last adleu aud sees the pairing OF
the pure spirit and peerless mansion. deaths icv
breath congeals in agony almost the very life.
blood of the heart.
| stood once more on the spot haowed by the
/ recollection Of the bridal scene, when "youIh
ana pleasure met 10 chase the glowing hours
Nllh flying feet" and bright eyes and beating
hearts mingled in the dance To soft strains Of yo-
Iupluous music. | stood where the low VOWS of
realized love first trembed from her lips, who
now, IN The place which witnessed the bright OF
the brightest hour in cloves young DREAM lay
wrapl in the dreamcss slumber of the dead. in
a shroud as spotess as the bridal robe that let.
tered in vain The wild pulses Of her beating heart.
But oh, how changed! The snme loving ones
were there who had met to mngle their Joys
with hers, as she turned with trembling hand a
bright leaf in her destiny; not as then with the
glad smile and lighsome heart, butlo weep over
this sad commentary on human life, and to min
gle their tears as then their smiles, over her
whose eye was CLOSED in death and whose puI.
ses were slillrd forever. Alas! she had been
wooed aud won by another bridegroom, whose
bridal chamber was the grave!
Slowly aud sadly we followed her to her new
made home in tho city of the dead, and when
the first clod rallrd Oh The coffin, the sobs that
burst rom the pale mourncrs al the grave, lold
how 1t echoed amid the chambers of every hearl.
young lovely creature threw herself by the
grave side, and Shricked II last farewell. and the
aged mother kncll and wepI aloud in unu,lcra.
bic anguish. 20, God!" she cried. 81 have
gwen up The last of my rarhy jewels. | have
nothing left but broken heart. EVELYN, fare.
well! Farewell! my chid!" and she sauk pros.
lrate To the earth. | am sure that mother new.
er smiled again.
| have seen high, and pure, and noble spirits,
whisper in death the last adlcu to earth. aud
have stood by the grave of the young, the brave
and fair; but never have seen such burst of
grief as that which followed that young spirit to
the eternal realm, nor wept such tears as those
shed over the grave Of this youthful stranger.
The scene has left an impression on my hear,
aud has taught me commentary on human life
which will remain ill move no more amid the
haunlS OF men.
Months elapsed and was again in b
and turned my footsteps sadly 10 the graveyard
TO visit the young BRIDES tomb. 1t was in the
first month Of the blooming spring time, and |
once more saw that fond mother kueelng by
the lonely chamber of the dead. Her hands
were cIasped in silent prayer, and she was ga
znS into the boundesS realm above, as though
she would recall from the abode of the bIesl.
the spolIess spirit whose once beautiful mansion
sumbered beneath the sod. | TUNED. away,
choking with emotion, and sat down upon Il
grave stone and wept.