The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1850-09-07

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blast oi wind, vet. shiyeiiug, seemed 10 smile.
/ hy'dreda knelt until the chapel bells ceased At
sefviee-time. And then there came bursting from
her llps the long sealed prayers If her childhood
hile she hreathed them the rich fairy garments
crumbIei from her, and She remained clad in tL.
coarse dress She were when Kong Tolv carried
her away; save that il hung in miserable tattcrs
a ii worn for yeers and through is rents the lev
/ wind pierced her bosom, SO that the hear, within
might have sunk and died but for the eycr-lJ...
ing warmth oi maternal love.
! 1hdt told her how in one other mothers heart
! there must be wormth still.
j will go home she murmuId 81 will saw.
Mother take me IN aud save me or else die
| And 50, when the night closed, and all ,he vi.
layers wer safe ut home and none could mock AZ
her and her misery, the poor, dcsoiate one ciept
/ to her mothers door
| 1t bad been opened to her even when She came
IN her pride; how would it bee closed against her
sorrow and humility And was there ever a true
mott ers breast, that, while rcyet throbbed there
was not rffuge for repcntant child
Hyldrrda found shelter aud rest But the 1t
Tie elm babe, unused TO the air of earth, uttered
continual meanings At night the strange ewes
never closed, but looked at her with n dumb en-
treaty. And tcniod returned the mothers first
desire, that her darling should become q chris
tened child.7
/ Much the old grandame glored in ibis, looking
with dIstrust on the puing, withercd babe But
keenly upon Hyldrcda's memory came bgcl; the
saying OF Kong fulv that for a soul would be
exchanged lie 1t must be liars. That. doubt.
less was the purchase; and thu, had heaven or.
dained the eNpV.inH of her sin If So, mcckly
She would offer it, SO that Heaven would admit
INTO Its mercy her beloved child
/ 1t was in the night-in the cold white night
that the widow Kahn, with her daughter and the
ny'torlouS, babe, came to the chapel Of OfSsici-kQr
All the way ththcr they had been followed Ivy
strange unearhy naises; and as they passse be-
meath The otk.WOOd it seemed as If the Overhaul.
ng branches were transformed into giant hands
That cYermorc snatchod at the Geld. But in vain
Tor the mother held it fast and on its little breast
she had laid the wooden cross which she herself
used to wear when Il girl Bitterly the infant
had walled, but when they crossed the threshold
OF the chappel, it ceased, and smile broke over
ITO iIce--'' smile pure and saintly. such as little
children wear, lying in a sleep so beautiful ;hat
the bier seems like the cradle.
The mother beheld it. and thought What her
iorehoding should be tue--that the momcn;
which opened the gate of Heavens mercy unto
her babe, should close upon herself life and lie
sweetness But She ie; no fear
, Let Inc hiss the once again, my babe, my dar
Ing I! she murmurcd hcrhaps ! may never ks,
thee more Ever now ! feel as if my eyes Were
growing dark, aud thy little face were gliding from
my sight But | can let thee go, my sweet
God Will take care Of thee aud keep thee safe
even amidst this bitter world
She clasped and kissed the child once more
ana kntehug, calm, but very pale, she waited
whatever might bv her DOOM
The priest; performing 10y stealth what he al
most deemed desecraiiou Of the ballowed rite
began to read the ceremony over the fairy babe
Al! the while it looked at hin with those mys
,crlous eyes, 20 lately opened TO the world We
which seemed 20 express the emotions ola whol
existence. But whenthe sprnkcd water touche,
them, they closed softly, slowly, like blue ilowc
at night.
The mother, still living and full Of Thankful
wonder that she did live, took from the priest
ums her recovered treasure, her Christian child
1t lay all smiling, but it lifted not its eyes, tn
color was fading on its lips, and its little hand
were growing cold. For it, not for her, had beer
The warning. 1t had rendered up its little life
and received an immortal soul
Ter years after this, there abode IN the villag
Of Nklcl-kora woman whom some people though
was an utter stranger for none 50 grave, and q
he same time So good, was ever knowr amon
the llghthearlcl people of Zealand Others sal
hat ifany one could come bacl; alive from fair
= land the woman must be liyldrcda Kolm Bu
is later generation, arose they muckrd at H.
story of Kong Toly aud the palace under liz
under the hill, considered the whole lcgen,
but an allcgory, the moral II which tney di
not fail to preach to their fair young daughter
continually
Nevertheless, this woman had surely once lived
for her memory cmblmed by its own rich yir
tues, long fingered in the palace where she la,
!. dwelt She must have died there toe, for the'
, pointed out her grave, and u smaller oue bcsil
1t, teough whose that was none knew. There wa
a tradition that when she drl--lt was Oh a win
ter night aud the clock was Just striking hceirf-
there arose Il stormy wind, which swept throu.
the neighboring osk.woud, LAYING every tree pru,
tratc on the ground, Aud from that hour ther
was no record Of the Elle-pcope or the mlg,,,
Kong IoIy having been ever again seen in Zen
land
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