The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-02-26
Love Rare and True.


ted by Ern's sweet melodlst, and still
more touchingly, erhaps, in the we'll
known ballad, John Anderson, my 10,
John" in addition to IA depth and con-
stancy OF character Of no everyday oc-
curreuce, suppose peculiar sensibIlty
aud tenderness OF nature conslilu-
iional communlcaiiveness and utieramcy
Of heart and soul dcligh, in the de
tail of sympathy, III the outward and Wis
lille si1ns Of the sacrament within, to
count, IS it were, the pulses Of the life
Of love. But, above all, ii supposes a
soul which, even in the pride and sum
mer tide of lIie even IN the luslihood Of
health and strength, had felt oitenesi and
prized highest Iha, which age cannot
take away, anG which, in all our loyings,
is the love- mean that willing sense OF
the iusuiiiciency Of the s1T Tor itself
which predIeposcs generous nature t.
see in the total being of another, The
supplement and completion Of lis Own
that quiet perpetul Ssfkia2 which the
presence Of the beloved moduates, not
su.peuds, where the heart momentarlly
finds, and, finding again seek, on lastly,
when HES changelul orb has passed
the full confirmed faith i'll The noble
ness Of humanity, thus brought home
aud pressed, as il were, to the very boz
som Of hourly experience: it supposes, |
say, heartfelt reverence for Worsh no,
the less deep because diyesied of lis so-
lemnity by habit, by familiarity, by mus
tual inirmiies, and even by feeling o'
modesiy which Will arise in delicate
minds, when they are conscious of pos
sesslng the same or the correspondent;
excellence in their own characters. In
short, there must be q mind which, while
it feels the beautiful and the excellent in
the beloved as its own, and by right OF
love approprlaies it, can call goodness
It's play fellow, aud dares not make sport
OF time aud inhrmity while in the per-
son Of ihousau d-ioldly endeared part
nor, we feel for aged virtue the caress-
ing fondness that belongs to the limos
cence of childhood and repeat the same
attentions and tender coutlesies as bad
been dictated by the same affection to
the same object. when attlred in feminine
lovelncss, or in manly beauty. These
qualities which have enumerated, are
rarely found united in single individual.
How much more rare must it be, that
two such individuals should meet to-
gelher in this wide world, under circum-
stances that admit OF their union as hus-
band ard wife. A person may be highly
csiimable on the whole, nay, amlable as
nelghbor, friend, housemale, in short, in
all the eccentric circles of attachment,
save only the last and Utmost aud yet
from how many causes be es'ranged from
the highest perfection in this Pride,
coIdness, or flstidousncss of nature,
worldly cares, an ANXIOUS or ambitious
disposition, passion for display, a sullcn
tcmper, one or the other, too often proves
the dead fly in the compost Of spices"
and any one is enough 10 unfit it for the
precious balm of uncion. For some
mighty good sort Of people, too, there Is
not seldom a sort Of saturninP, or, if you
will, "rsiRe vanity, that keeps iiself alive
by sucking the paws Of its own scfim-
porlance. And as this high sense, or
rather sensation of their own value, is
for the most part grounded on negative
qualities, so they have no better means
of preserving the same lut by negatives,
that is, by not doing or saying anything
that might be put down for fond, silly, or
nonsensIca! Or (lo use their own phrase
By nerer .forgotiiHg Memseices, which
some Of their acqualntances are charila-
bic enough to think the most worthless
object they could be employed N remem
berlng. The same effect is produced in
thousands, by the too general insensibil-
ity To n very important truth this, name
ly, that the MISERY of human life is made
up of large masses, each separated from
the other by certain intervals. One year,
the death of child; years after, fall
ure in trade; after another longer or
shorter interval, daughter NAV have
married unhlpply in all but the SIN
gularly unfortunate the integral parts
that compose the sum total of the un>
happiness of a mans life, are easily
counted, aud distinctly remembered
The HAPPINESS Of life, on the contrary,
is made up OF minute fractions, the little
soon-rorgoitcn charities Of a kiss, a smile,
a kind look, heartfelt compliment in
the disguise of playful raillery, and the
countless other infnilesimals of pleasur-
able thought and genial feeling,