The Nevada journal., 1852-06-12
BEAUTIFUL SKETCH.

BEAUTIFUL SKETCH.
K I tell y,u that loved San ah D.
! will call me an enthusiast, and
ribe my admiration to my passion
ID love her, but only as boy loves
eing very far above him. She was
ng and beautiful. As might be
ected, she had numberless suitors
every rank and variety. Frank
- was the gayest, best fellow in
world, and had you seen him on
horse by the side of Sarah D.,
would have said that he was made
her, so wild was his laugh, and SO
ous her response. Yet had you
b behind the closed shutter of the
dow in front Of the large white
Sc on the hill, as they rode BY, and
you there watched the compressed
the broad, calm forehead, the pale
J, and the speaking eye of Joseph
las he saw them passing, you
Id have prayed to God that that
girl might belong to that noble
!, even as ], boy, then prayed.
Tod has answered my prayers
en- the long way was travelled over,
the rugged and difficult steep sur
lnted-when her fairy foot was
,sed on the rock at the summit of
hill of life, and her eyes gazed into
deep blue sky, with a longing gaze,
g, even there, beyond the blue, his
,tretched arms received her, and
embrace was heaven
30 preach to blocks and stones, ye
believe that love is Of the clay !!
preach to the dead, ye who deny
immortality of the affections. Go
|ison with trees, or images Of wood,
with your own motionless, lifeless,
4 souls, We who believe that, because
are is no marrying yonder, there
all be no embracing, or because we
~ not use the gentle words "m ,
fe," we may not clasp these sancti
d forms into our own holy arms
She loved Joe. His calm and ear
st way of loving her, won her whole
nl' He did not say much in hel
mpany, nor OF her; but when they
ere alone or only some Of the chill
en- near, his low voice would be mu-
cal, and she sat entranced with his
oquence. ! have seen them seated
, a bench BY the side Of the stream
id have heard him lead her gentle
,ul, step by step, with him from earif
stars, and then from star to star
,til she seemed to be in heaven will
m, and listening to the praises Of The
agels.
Joseph S. left his profession
which had been the law) and entered
10 ministry; nor am ! able to state
lough might guess at the clauses
perating in his own mind. The ia
Ter of Sarah D. was not a reli
IONS man, and, / am sorry to say, wa
no Of the small class of men who no
,ly deny the truths of our most hol,
-eed, but take every opportunity t.
lst ridicule on its teachers. 1t wa
aerefore, with great pain that hi
aughter obselv we'd his coldness ant
adeness to Joseph, and was not sur
Used, however much she was grieved
rhen an open rupture rendered tn
aspension Of his visits at the hous
bsolutely necessary.
They had never spoken of love-
Zach knew the secret of the other
ltfection, and what need of words I,
ell it? 1t would have been but rep
tition of hackneyed phrases. An,
-et there is no music in the world 6,
weet as those three words, 81 low
or from the lips VIC love to kiss
But The father Of our gentle friend ha
cared the existence Of some bond be
ween them, and peremptorily requir
d his daughter to break it if it did ex
st,
Ehe replied to him, relating the sim
ID truth, and he desired her to refus
fenceforward to sec or speak to 10
eph. m
a month of deeper pain than ca'
'cll be imagined, succeeded tii;s com
and, during which they did not meet
1t was q moonlight evening in Au
ust that she walked ont with me
then boy, three years her junior.
I'D sat on the bench by the side of th,
ream. The air was clear, the SKY
,rene, and no sound disturbed, bu
- ~1ek .vosca sc <ho ~vsrI amouO fhs