North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-05-10
A DYING WtFE TO Her HUSBAND. 7

DYING WiFE TO HER HUSBAND. The |
following most touching fragment ola Letter from
a dying Wife 10 her Husband was found by him |
some mouths after her death, between the leaves
of religious volume, which she was very fond oil
persuing The letter, which was literally dim
with tear-marks, was written long before the hus
band was aware that the grasp OF a fatal disease
had fastened upon the lovely form of his wife,
who died at the early age of nineteen:
"When this shall reach your eye, dear G" -,
some day when you are turning over the relics OF
the past, shall have passed away forever, and the
old white stone will be keeping its lonely walch
over the lips you have so often pressed: ana the
sod will be- growing green that shall hide forever
from your 81 ht the dust of one who has SO oten
nestled close TO YOUR warm heart For many long
and seeplcss nIg hts when all my Thoughts were AT
rest have wresled with the CONSCIOUSNESS OF ap-
proac hing death, until at last has forced itself up
on nv mind and although to you and to others 1t
might now seem but the nervous lmaglnatlons Of
ii girl, yet, dear G., IL is so Many weary
bonrs have passed in the endeavor TO reconcile
mvs, If 10 leaving you, whom love so well, and
this bright world of sunshine and beauty; and,
nard indeed. is to Struggle on silently and alone,
with the conrietiOn that am about to leave
all forever and GO down alone into the dark valley
But know in whom have trusted, and lean
! ing upon His arm, : | fear no evil Don't blame
me for keeping even all this from you. How could
SUBJECT you, OF all OtnelS, 10 SuCh d soIIo" "S
feel at parting when time will soon make 1t appa
rent to you2 | could have wished TO live, If only
10 be at your side when your time shall come, aud
pllowing your head upon my breast wipe the
death dampS from your brow, and usher your de
paxling spirit into its Makers presence" ernbaimed
in wonau's hottest prayer. But it is not TO be SC
and | submit.
Yours is the privilege Of watching, through
long and dreary nights for the spirits final flight
tnd of transferring my sinking head from you
breast to my Saviour's bosom! And you shall
share my last thought = the last faint pressure o
the hand aud the last feeble kiss shall be yours
and even when flesh and heart shall fail me, my
eye shall wrest on yours until GLAZED by death
aud our spirits shall hold one last fond communion
until gently fading from my view-the last OF earti
You shall mngle with the first bright gllmpe
of the unElded glorics of that better world. wher
F partngs are unknown. Well do know the spot
dear C., where you will lay me, often hav
we stood by the place, and as we watched the mel
low sunset as it glanced in quverlng fishes
through the leaves and FURNISHED the grass
mounds around US with stripes of FURNISHED gold
each perhaps has thought that one of US wou'
come alone and which ever it mi ht b., V"ur nam
would be on The stone But you loved the spot
aud know you'll love none the less when yo
see the name in quiet sunlight lnger and pla
among the grass that grows over your Mary
. grave. know you'll go Often alone there, whr'
| am laid there, and my spirit will BE- with yo
then, and whisper among the waving branchr;
f l am not lost but gone before"