Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1849-12-20
The Sequel.

= Long, long the sufferer groaned, and wept
and prayed
Yet murmuren not. "Father, Thy will be done
"Ihough high my hopes though deepmy pIan
for life
And usefulness were laid ip wisdom Thou
Hast nuIIiied them all, and laid them low
Come near Inc now, my frends--companio Of
My schoolboy days, and take this feeble hand
Which now is eye snd ear to me and thus,
Ofby gone days we'll talk awhile. But oh
This heaying bosom swes-.this fevered brow
Seems bursting by the rush of flowing tears,
Pent up, and backward thrown upon my poor
Distracted brain. Vanly gaze through this
lmPenotrable gloom, to catch one glimpse
Ofoyos, hathrmg fire conveyed to this
Fond heart Leave leave me now my fate
is sealed
For life. Return to that dear place--ihose walls
So much beloved, will soon forget to echo
Back my poor and worthless name; but l.
Shut up in darkness here, can meier forget.
Your loving forms seem ever lowering near
To sootae this aching heart. FAREWELL! fare.
well
My earthly hopes, and treasures all-no more
| seek your bliss -yo but elode my grasp;
Sickcned, turn to Thy blest word my God!
And bind it to my bleeding heart.
Come now,
My mother dear this precious volume take,
And from its sacred pages read one HHle line.
Go bring the Alphabet.t These hands can feel /;
This feeble tongue can speak the cheering words
My Savior spake, and shall comfort find.
Come, read again, my Mother--for find
! My shattered memory retains the words
Ofyesterday: and n the darkness or
The silent night, read them Ger and Ger,
And Jesus deigned to bless. Thus, day by day
Well labor or, till God shall take me home,
Moher, cleave to thce--hcl plcss, as when
In infancy hung upon thy breast.
And now, my Father, Acknowledgment thou
Hast ever been-one favor still Gravel
Take now thy feeble boy to yonder place
Where rests the dead+ long to trace their
| Names
And with this foot to measure out the sod,
Where soon hope to rest. Fear not to bear
Me thence one lille spot is all claim
OF earth; there lay thy dying child. Come now
My chr stan rother-friend-yea, father has
Thou ever been. I've loved thee long, and no
The less, now life is ebbing last,-und that
Dear sainted wife-her angel smiles attend
Attend me still, as in the days Of health and jo
shared her home. How oft thy willing stee
Has sped me on to yonder hill, where
Was clustered up with books and dreams c
bliss.
n Dear brother take my hand, that may feel
Thy willingness, though but chlds request
| now present to thee. Soon death will close
These sightless eyes-theso pulses cease
% beat
These lungs to heaye-then take this clay, tn
,. wreck
Ofwhat was, and bear it to its hcme,
That my last journey may take with thee.
e, My brother, sister dear--your Henry leaves
You now; weep not for mo-be kind, be loviI
To each other, and prepare to meet me
In the skies Farewell Betake yourselves
m To prayer, while The valley pass ;-HwilIsoot
My palms, and shall easier pass from earth.
long to meet those loving onesoh how
loved them here, and how our hearts entwin
sh Around each other, as they passed away,
And left nc here to weep. Weep not for me
1t pray-my treasure is above; my heart,
My rest, my all is there. Jesus, come quick
vas Now, and take Thy weary pilgrim home
Father. It's darkness all around me here,
But yonder beams bright and shining light
NV Savior's smiling couutenance, the Light.
These four long years Eve grouped in darkn
here,
Nor scarce have heard the music ofyour voic
IS Then let me quickly pass to yon bright home
anne 1t nears ne fast, this night perchance shall
Nv last. The debt Of nature yet remains
IS Unpaid; but still fear it not Jesus,
|, Nv Savir stands with open arms, and bids
Me come. And now, what wait for?
fought
The fight, I've kept the faith, and hence a CT
OF glory waits"
Thus spoke the dying you'll
And thus the heavenly accents died upon
the tongue.
Then peacefully, as when an infant sleeps,
God lie sank to rest.
RS, North Cambridge, !
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