The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1852-05-26
POETRY.
Published by Special Request.l
TO THE MEMORY OF MARIA RoUsH:
WHO DIED MARCH 1sT 18l3-BooN co., KY.

One OF your sex, the other day
Was snatched by deaths cold hand away
This lesson she has left for you.
To teach the careless what to do,
To seek JEHOVAH while they live,
And everlasting honors give.
Awhile before this damsel died,
Her tongue was speechless bound and tied
AT length she opened wide her eyes,
And said her tongue was lberzed,
She called her Father 10 her bed,
And thus in dying anguish said:
My days on earth are at an end,
My soul is summoned to attend
Before Jehovah's burning bar,
To hear my awful sentence there.
From meetings you have kept your child
To pleasures wanton vain and Wild
To frolics you would let me 60,
And dance my soul to pain and woe,
But now dear father do repent,
And read the Holy Testament,
Your head is blossemed for the grave,
You have a precious soul TO save;
Your children teach to serve the Lord.
And worship him with one accord.
Her honor'd mother she ADDRESSED. [breast
Whose tears we're streaming down hel
She grasped her tender hand and said,
Remember me when am dead.
Your aged years have rolled away,
And brought you to the present day,
Now take your dying child's advice,
And turn from sin and avarice-
Before the golden bowl be broke,
Or life's fair chord receive stroke
Before deaths banner round you wave
Before you are summoned to the grave.
! see no pleasure here on earth,
TO trace from death back to my birth,
That would entice my soul TO stay,
In this vain world of misery.
BY faith view the distant shore,
Where pleasures reign forevermore,
Where songs on seraph's pinions rise,
Beyond the curtain Of the skies.
Prepare yourself, oh mother dear.
For you are now on the frontier.
Where everlasting time shall roll,
Around my poor departing soul. t
Her weeping brother she addressed,
And thus her fal,ering tongue expressed,
Forsake your sins, and turn to God,
And fear the vengeance Of his rod
Or he will send you down to hell,
Forever in the lake to dwell,
Where fiery pillows bursting roll,
Around the never.dying soul.
Life is the time to seek his face,
His gospel, mercy, and his grace.
His arms are now extended wide,
Come purchase peace the Prophet cried.
Now give yourself up to his trust.
Before your body turns to dust;
And while you breathe the vital air,
Pour out your precious soul in prayer;
Reform your life in word and deed,
And pray that Christ may intercede,
For YOU and for my sister dear,
Who now is weeping by me here.
@, sister, come and take your leave
Don't break your heart, o do not grieve.
Chill'd are my limbs, the damps Of death
Run down my cheeks and steals my breath
See Ger my head how angels shine.
In sparkling garments long and fine,
To soo,he my parting spirit here; ..
And wipe away the briny tear.
Now my immortal soul shall rise,
To Gods eternal paradise.
Where crowds Of angels round him stand
And cherubs fly at his command.
Ny body here must slumbering lie,
Till Gabriel's trump shall rend the sky;
Then in the resurrection day.
When heaven and earth shall pass away
Ihope you'll meet me far above,
Where all is harmony and love,
Once more dear kindred let me tell,
bid you all long farewell
At this she closed her eyes in death.
And thus resigned her mortal breath,
Under deaths solemn cypress shade,
They placed this young departed maid.
While friends and kindred went around,
To see her corpse laid in the ground.
Awarning TO the human race,
For ali must 60 into that resting place,
To the cold grave where silence reigns,
In deaths tremendous dark domains;
Young people all a warning take,
And from your wicked pleasures break.
Tee uuuAN EAMuv--From a ctiriou