Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-07-24

wears away; what were once mere bushes
become mighty forests, rivers change their
courses, and form new channels, stars disap-
pear and others fill their places, and even our
whole solar system is moving forward to some
far distant point, there perchnance to be de-
stroyed.
Splendid temples with their gorgeous trap
pings become insecure and totering; the vel
vet is moth eaten and moulded the gliding
tarnished by rust and damp; the gold becomes
dim, and the most fine gold changed
! The child offortune, the daughter of wealth
and luxury, who has all that this world can
furnish to crafty the desire, or administer to
the wants of man, whose cheek the summer
zephyrs are scarce permitted to fan, her bosom
free from care or anxiety for the future. Visit
her when few years shall have elapsed; see
her poverty stricken, her pale, emaciated
frame and care worn brow are but the rem
nant Of that which once constituted an object
of SO much beauty. Home, friends, health
all are gone hope, the last to forsake US, has
taken his everlasting flight; the march of
time has produced sad and bitter changes in
the destiny of many. Those who set out
with bright and fiattering prospects, have liv-
ed and toiled only to see their hopes blasted,
their future career clouded in gloom.
The little stream dancing with merry music
over its pebbly bed is beautiful sight, as its
fowery banks stoop to kiss the sparkling rip
pies; but follow it on-see new accessions
made to it at every step, until it swells into a
majestic river, bearing life and produce on its
broad bosom; behold it vending its way to
the ocean, and finally mingling its waters
with those of the great sea, there to be lashed
by the fury Of the elements.
! Yon splenpid castle, trowning with batter
! les, and bristling with cannon, whose brazen
mouths bid defiance to the enemy, the strength
OF whose foundations challenge the united ex-
ertlons of man to undermine them, and which
has been erected as proud specimen or ar
chltectural skill, and rihgt legacy to coming
generations, will need but short lapse of
time ere it will be covered with ivy, and its
apartments become home for moles and
bats; the scream OF the owl at night will be
heard from its crumbling battlements it's
war like weapons will be broken and useless,
and the name of its possessors be obliterated
from the memory of those to whom it was
bequeathed to perpetuate it.
Man tolls year after year for the trifing re-
compense which earth can afford yet of
what consequence is it wether we be rich
or poor. Though well known in our own
generation, yet to those who shall follow, our
name will be unknown; the elevation mark
ing the spot where we rest will soon be level
ed and the marble worn so that the letters
theron inscribed will be invisible to him who
shall walk among the mouldering piles
Though some old Mortality recut the inscrip-
ton, marking the character ofthe sleeper be-
meath the sod yet soon even his task will be
ended, and the stone worn and crumbling fall
to the ground even before this shall have
occurred, our mortal tenements will have
mingled with the dust
Youth, beauty and vigor soon depart. 1t
is not always spring nor summer, but icy win
ter must come. Riches take to themselves
wings and fly away; blessings and happiness
leave US; cares, disappoinments and anxiety
press heavy upon us; the companions of our
early days are cut down, and their grave
stones grow grey in our sight: we leave home
for short time, OH our return new faces greet
us, and of all our friends scarcely one is left
to recount the happy days of sunny childhood
Sor youth.
Time is ever marching onward; he abides
longer with some than with others: ne takes
one thing and leaves substitute. Soon alas
too soon his account with us will be settled
but whenever it shall be, may we go to oul
silent home,
And lies down to pleasant dreams"