The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1850-04-25
A CHILD's DREAM or a STAR.

They wondered at the beauty of the flowers thew
wondered at the height and bueness the sky; they
wonder at the depth of the bright water; they won
dered at the goodness and power of God who made
the lovely world.
They used to say TO one another sometimes, Sun
posing all the children upon earth were to die, would
the flowers, and the waters and the sky, be sorry
They believed they would be sorry. For, said they,
the buds, are the children of flowers, and the little
playful streams that ganbol down the hill-sdes are
the children of the water; and the smallest bright
specks, playing at hide and seek in the sky all night,
must surely be the children of the stars and they
would all be greved to their playmates the chill
dren of men, no more.
There was one clear shining star that used to come
out in the sky before the rest near the church spire
above the graves. 1t was larger and more beautiful
they thought, than all the others, and every night
they watched for 1t, standing hand in hand at a win
dow. Whoever saw it first cried out, 81 see the
star ~ And often they cried out both together know
ing so well when it would rise, and where So they
grew to be such friends with it. that before laying
down IN their beds, they always looked out once
again to bid it good nigh and when they were turn
ing round to sleep, they used to say, 'God bless the
star %
But while she was still very young, oh, very, very
young, the sister dropped and came to be so weak
that she could no longer stand in the window at night
and then the child looked sadly out by himself, and
when he the star, turned round and said to the
patient pale face the bed, 81 see the star 20 and
| then smile would come upon the face, and little
weak voice used to say, 'sGod bless my brother and
the star -
And so the time came, all too soon when the child
looked out alone, and when there was no aceIon the
| bed; and when there was little grave among the
graves, not there kbefore; and when the star made
| long rays down towards him. as he saw through his
tears.
Now, these rays were so bright and they seemed
to make such shining waySfrom earth to Heaven
that when the child to his solitary bed he dream
ed about the star; and dreamed that lying where he
was, he saw train of people taken up that spark
ling road by angels. An the star, opening, showed
him great world of light, where many more such
angels waited TO receive Them
All these angels, who were waiting, turned their
beaming eyes upon the people who were carried up
INTO the star; and some out from the long rows
IN which they stood, and feupon the peoples necks,
and kissed them tenderly, and went away with them
down avenues oflight, and were so happy in their
company, that lying in his bed he wept for joy.
But there were many angels who did not 90 with
them, and among them one he knew. The patient
face that once had lain upon the bed was glorGed and
radiant but his heart found out his sister among all
the host.
His sisters angel fingered near the entrance of the
star, and SAID to the leader among those who had
brought the people thither:
els my brother come 20
And he said '.No.''
I She was turning hopefully away, when the child
stretched out his arms, and cried, ''Oh sister, am
here Take me - and then she turned her BEAM
ing eyes upon him, and it was night; and the star
was shining into the room, making long rays down to
wards him as he saw it through his tears.
From that hour forth, the child looked out upon
the star as on the Home he was TO 90 to, when his
time should come; and he thought that he did not
belong to the earth one but to the star too because
OF his sisters angel gone before
There was baby born to be brother to the
child; and while he little that he never vet
had spoken word, he stretched his tiny form out ON
his bed, and died.
Again the child dreamed OF the opened star and of
the company of angels, and the train of people. and
the rows Of angels, with their beaming ewes all turn
ed upon those peoples faces
Said his sisters angel to the leader:
els my brother come?''
And he said, ''Not that one, but another.o
And the child beheld his brothers. angel in her
arms; he cried, sob, sister, am here Take me p,
and she turned and smiled upon him, and the star
was shining.
lie grew to be young man, and was busy at his
books, when an old servant came to him and said:
"Thy mother is no MORE bring her blessing on
her darling son 20
Again at night he the star, and all that former
"ohP"hy' odiu MS SISTER angel 10 the leader
sis my brother comei''
And he said, ",Thy mother p
a mighty cry ofjoy went forth through all the star
because the mother reunited TO her two children
And he stretched out his arms and cried, go. moth
err, sister, and brother, am here Take me % and
they answered him, "Not YETI and the star was
shining
} lie grew TO be man, whose hairy turning grew
and he was sitting in his chair by the ireside heavy
with grief, and with his face believed with tears
when the star opened once again.
Sald his sisters angel to the leader, sis my BROTH
er come I"
And he said, "Nay, but his maiden daughter
II And the man who had been the child saw his
daughter, newly lost to him. celestial creature among
those three, and he said, My daughters head is on
my sisters bosom, and her arm is round my mothers
neck, and at her feet there is the baby old time
| ed 70 r"
And the star shining.
| Thus the child came to be an old man. and bis
once smooth face was wrin led, and his stems were
slow and feeble, and his back was bent. And one
night as he lay upon his bed, his children standing
round he cried, as he had cried SO long ago:
81 see the starr