Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1851-01-09
The Legend Of the Lily.

There was once two stars of equa
magnitude, which for countless year
Lad traversed together the bound'es'
realms of space, and every morning anl
night sang, as With one voice, Their hymf
of praise and thanksgiving.
Far beneath them the earth revolved
within its orbit, and seemed to the stars,
as they gazed down upon it, to be plan
et of great and wondrous beauty.
Long had they watched the changing
seasons. and marked the varied and beau
tiful forms which nature takes, until one
star longed to leave his sphere and dwell
upon tile earth. His twin companion
saw, with unspeakable grief, his restless
desire for we'll she knew that if he left
his native home he could return to it no
more.
Tenderly she reminded him of the ages
they had passed in sweet communion to =.
cether, of her own utter loneliness should
he leave her, and the fearful doom that
awaited him, if he fell from his own
sphere; his light would then be quenched
in unutterable darkness, and his glory
departed forever.
jIhe disc ,ntented star listened silently
he knew that his purity would be suIlled,
and his doom irrevocable, if he left his
native home; but the desire increased
within him; his bright brow paled, and
his harp no more sounded the hymn OF
alteration and praise, while he still gazed
yearningly upon the earth.
At length there was sadness in the
spheres, for the star had fallen, and his
place could be filed no more forever!
Sorrowfuliy the deserted star had
watched the downward course Of her
aost companion. She saw him fall to
earth, and there become a dark, unsight>
1y thing--thc light of his glory quenched
in the deep waters where he had faller.
Sad and lonely she came each night,
and gazed steadfastly down upon the
stream where her lost mate was buried.
Her tender, earnest beam fell gently up.
on the water, and penetrated even unto
the depths where the fallen one now
rested in utter darkness and desolation.
Then when tie gentle and forgivjng
ray fell upon the bosom Of the lost, un-
happy star. he slowly lifted his bowed
head, and turned his dim brow upward in
repentant humility.
And still the lonely star shone stead
tasty down. until, cheered by her en-
couraging tenderness, and guided by her
faithful light, the fallen one raised his
head above the surface of the stream,
while his pale brow turned ever in res
pentant, humble love, TO the mate he had
forsaken but his chains were bound Sc
curely beneath the wave, and he could
return to his native sphere no more.
Still the loving star shone pray erfuliy
upon him, and bis brow, from which the
glory had departed for ever, became
white and radiant in perfect purity; and,
though he might no more jonin the song
of the spheres, yet the hymn Of praise
and thanksgiving came up in gush Of
rich fragrance from his heart; and the
loving star sang for joy.
Men, in passing, said" Behold a
OeauuSul MY
But the stars Thispered together,
Behold our brother, the fallen star"
And even. as the gentle one smiled ten
derly upon him, there mingled with the
star-fowel's prayerfully breathing, tone
of never. dying sadness:
tsEhou art lost to me forever: l can
come TO thee no more!"
Then the hight OF the faithful star paled
IN sorrow; aud 10! as the fallen one
turned his pale brow upward, the place
of his watchful mate was vacant, and a
sweet voice breathed close at his side:
81 am with thee forever; forget me
not
And there was sadness in the spheres,
for the faithful star had fallen; but JOY
npon the earth. for new flower was
born.