Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1850-05-01
MISCELLANY A N Y.
m,l.ToN AND ms DAUGHTERS.

In Sharpes London Magazine, for S49, there appear
cd quaint, yet beautiful fiction, purporing to be Tho
Diary Of Mary Powell the first wife Of the poet Milton
In tho last number Of that periodical notice short
sketch, in the same style, called "Deborahs Diary" De
brah was one of the poets and her journal treats
Of the old aye and blindness Of Milton, the "Dry Of
Mary Powelp had treated Of his youth. We quote Por
ton Of this las, sketch that all who admire deicacy Of
thought and pictures Of home scenes swcey drawn, may
have an opportunity of doing it here. Meats Ga-ette
BuNHrrL FIELDS, Feb. Is. l665.
Something genisll and soothing beyond
ordnare in ye warmth and i,fue lghte Of ye fire. made
us iesye know no, how long to trim the evening lamp,
and sit, in bemuscd denesse shout the hearth Mary
voving her thumbs and staring ye embers Ammo quite
in the shadow with her behind hOr head agayust ye
wa father in his tall armchair quite upghte, as his
fashion is when very ,houghtue on the cushion at his
feet, with mine head ons knee and mine eyes his shad
owe on the WALL which, it happened Showed in colossal
proportions whio ours were like pgmeS. Ale at once he
exclams. 'Wo all seem very cOmiOrtaOle-I think We
shoulde reward ourselves with some egg flip"
And ihsn offered pence Tor thoughts. Anne would
no, tell hers Mary owned she had been trying to account
for ye decence of goa her housekeeping purse, and
contest to such medley that father sayd deserved An
nes penny in addition to mino own, for my strength OF
mind in submitting such farrago Of nonsense to 70 rdi-
cule of my friends
soc then bado for his thoughts. and he sayd he had
beene questioning the cricket tho hearth, upon the e1-
tucon of the fairies and askt Did anic believe in 'em
now and no made answer Oh yes he had known sorv-
ing wench in Oxon depono she had been nPped and hailed
Ly em and of cckets ho sayd he had mamie times
an old wife in Buckughashiro who was soc pestered by
one that she Cried 81 can: hearo myself talk! I'd as lie
hearo nounht as hearo ther poured kettle OF boiling
water into We Granny wherein tho harmless creature lay
and scaded it to death aud the next day. became as deal
as a stoue and remained SOC after monument Of
Gods dspasue, her destroying Of the most nno-
cent of his creatures.
After this he woudo tell of this and that wornout su
perstion as o the fior's antern and Of Lobe-by.thc
fire. until Mary who affects not 20 unrea went off tc
make the flip Anuo presentlie exclaymed "Fathor when
you sayd-
"The shepherds the lawn
Or DER the point of dawn,
Sat simply chatting in rustic row,
Full little thought they thea
That the mighty Pan
Was kindly come to live with them below
whom meant you by Pan2 Sure, you would not call oul
Lord by the name Of hCathon dley ?"
''Woll child" returns father, you know he calls Him
self Shepherd and was in truth what Pan was Ono sup
posed to be- the God of Shepherds albeit, Ievateus II
his treatise DE Iemurbus doth indeed tell us, that by Pal
undersoodo other than the Sahanas whose king
dom being overturned at Christs coming, his inferior
demons expelled and his otacles seuced, he in some
sort himself over thrown. And the story goes, tina
about the time Of Lords passion cerayn persons sail
ing from Italy Cyprus, and passing by certayu islands
IN b.,,e voice calling aloud, Thamus Thamus whic
was the name Of the ships pilot, who making answer
ye unseene appellant, was bdden wheH he came to PalO
das to tell that the great god Pan was dead which
doubling to doe yet for that when ne came to Pal0das
there suddanlie was such calm Of wind that the sh'
stood sill in We sea- he constrayned to cry aloud 'hi
Pan dead wherewithall, there were heard snco p'
Gus shreks and cries of invisible b0Ogs, echong haunc
spring and dale neer sote human ears before nor since
nyinphs aud wOodgods, they that had passed Tor suc'
breaking up house and retreating to their own place.
warrant you thero was trouble among tho Sylvan PeOP
thar day-SaryIs hiIsule aud cuyen, footed Fauns.