Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1849-05-03
THE MOTHER OF LAMARrINE.

Lamartine, t. his Confidential Disclo.
sues, or Memories ofh,s Youth, has reared
a splendid and enduring monumea, 10 the
memory Of his mother. His .loqueut aad
psOfoundly sffeciionaie and tender defines. .
tons Of her hive and pie,y mus, elevate him
IN the esteem Of our lady readers, as vrll
as the mother whose praise be records with
SO much power and tervency. We quote a
few passages only from his splendid por-
lraiture. a
The whole Ut her soul was an imme nse,
tender, aud cons'.lins sense of the Infinite.
II was too sensible. and too aAl for The
wreicheG and pet ambitions Of this world
She was p,ssiIg through il, not inhab,ling
IT. That seD>c Of the Infinite in all. AID
particularly in love. had converted Itself
tor her into perpetual invocation aud as.
piT To the Que who was its source,
that is TO say, 10 G,,d. II may BE- said thai
she lived in God a. much las il is given TO
any human heine I" live 10 Him. There
was not single side Of her soul that was
40. made transparent, bright, ed warm by
that radiant beasD s'om absve .!hich flows
directly from God -pOa our thoughts. and
which penelrales into uS through the
darkness Of Our souls, ~ the light Oi heav>
en- shines through the crystal Of Gus closed
Dwellings r , result Of this for her was
pisty which. Ras never overcast. She
was not devOsee she had none Of tina,
stupid dread of God, none Of that puerili' y ,
of that subjecii0D OF the soul: none Of that
EQUALIZATION Of The mind, WIN. h make p
the sum Of devoGiOa with geaI many 40:
men, snd are ~ lheEl only an infancy pro-
lonRed through lite, Or ROeose. peevlsh. and
jraI Us old age. which ,evenges itself on . sa-
cred passion iOr the Pr"iane passions which
they can no longer emily.
Her pie'y was the part cG herself which
she most ardently wished to Communicate To
US. To make us creatures Of GUd in spirit
and in Teslltv, was her mosl maternal IM"ughi.
Even nthIs she succeeded --HhUuf any sys-
tenn. and without any rfi,T., and with that
marvellous skill which nsIu' impaIis, and
which NO artif e Can equal. l.<r pieiy. which
flowed from every breath she drew, from eve
~ one Of her actions, from every one 81 her
gestures. enveloped us here below sssao speak,
IN heavenly atmosphere. We thought that
God was behind her, and that we would hear
and zee Him. - she herself seemed TO hear,
ane sc, ant Universe with Him al each hour
of tne day God far as wss a. one Cf o. He
was bora in ~, with our earliest end our M Of
undefnsble feelings. We remembered ma time
when we knew DIN not; there was 10 first
day an which III. name had been mentioned
70 U.s. Al morn, a. eve. before and sitter "Vs
meals. we were iaugh, to make short prayers.
Our mothers knees were Tor j. NJ time our
domestic alter On thtse occasions her beam.
ing countsRaMee was AWAY. YELLED with re-
speriful and somewhat snlsmn thuughifslness.
which impressed an cur minds the Solemniiy
Of the oct which No wese PEI forming. When
she had prayed with o. and ever %. her beau-
iiful face became moro gentle and more tend~s
than ever We feli that she had ruEmmuSed
with her strength and her j'.y. that she might
have more Of buth 10 pour upon our heads.