The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1851-06-14
AVA, ILL.,, SATURDAY, JUNE If, 1851.

of many Joyous hours They remind Us Of many
incidents, oi many scenes in which we have borne
part, they recall the careless, happy days Of
childhood, the gay dreams Of youth, transient
pleasures, faded loys-we 20 back again to those
sunny days when We gazcd into the future as a
fairy scene, and longed to tread lis flow'ry paths
but-"D,tance lends enchantmcnt To the view"
Our pldylelIowS, and the companions Of our
youth, IN fancy pass before US, We sue each well
known hce--their histories are remembered
some perhaps are in distant land; others chan.
ged, allcnated-and friends, Whose bright faces
ana warm hearts beamed on and beat with our
own have become Indifferent to us. their time and
mInd having found new objects and new interests
but oh! how sadly does this thought come tn
our lone nnd weary hearts; who can tell It's derD
deP feeling Of desolalion Yet though there
are some events painful 10 remember some re.
grets' some wrecks ofhope, there are some flow.
eTs which have b!oumcd in our pathway, we
would "'cer forget, aud their fragrance" may
still be ours.
We also meet new and unknown faces in ev.
cry turn which makes us feel like strangers, in
our native land Those we left children. in few
years become actors themselves. playing their
paris upon the drama of lfe-but Of all the
changes that come over home, none are more
sad than finding
Some face beloved hath vanished from the social
hearth.
Some tones that gladdened it with musics mirth,"
vacant place around the festive board. where
sat the dearest ard most beautiful--for "the
brightest thing. Of earth soonest fade and ';is
slckenng thought that the form We so loved and
ldollzed Is now no more than the dust on which
we tread. Well might we wonder vhy we were
placed on this little dark planet to struggle with
sorrow while, then pass away and be forgotten
Did not faith point out to Us a home in the skies
an unchauging home--"Where the rainbow ne
yer fades r.
"And they are there, whose long loved mien,
II earthly home no more Is seem
Whose places, where they smiling safe
Is lett unto us-desOate
And they are where all longings vain,
Trouble no more the heart and brain;
The sadness OF our earthly love,
Dms not onr heavenly home above"
We may, in after life, form many local attach
ments but they can never have the sweet a..o
Citations Of our first home, which seems eutwlnec
with our very existence
"Green forever he the groves,
And bright the fOw'ry sod,
Where tirst the chIld's glad spirit .oYes
It's country and IL Cod
Home il oitener found in the cottage shan in
the palace, and qi'cGys in the heart. lis tokn0w
We are loved, that faces brighten in our pr
that one heart, at least, ia ever true to US. Ii
may be n mothers or a sisters; it may he q
brothers or a delrer trends. If the lone heart
be deprived of all these ties Its sky be clouded
Der. its stars all set not one ray of light left
to guide it DER liie's rugged way till the star.
oftaih rises, then it will not ony find home il
the flowers which memory plants in its path
way, and waters with its tears. but in the beaut
ful dwelling place Of the loved and departed, tc
those heavenly mansions the heart of the loved
one wIls wend It's way for there its treasures are
In that home no change comes DER affection.
glow-nothings there to dim the loved ones face
Dreams cannot picture throne so fair,
Sorrow and death may not enIer there:
For beyond the clouds, and beyond the tomb,
II Is there
Ottawa June I. STELLA