The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1852-11-20
THE FAIRY WIFE.
An APOI.OGt

merchant married Fairy. lie was so
manly, 50 earnest, so energetic, and so LOVING
that her heart was constrained towards him,
and She gave up her heritage in Falryland to
acccp, the lot of woman.
Th,v were married they were happy; and
the early months gidch away like the van
i,hinr pagcantry of dream
Before the year was over he had returned
to his affairs; they We're important and press
inc. and occupied more and more of his time.
But every evening as he haStencd back TO her
SIDE she felt the wcarincss OF absence more
than repaid by the delight of his presence
She sat at his feet, and sang TO him and pratt
lied away the remnant of care that fingered
in his mind
But his cares multiplied. The happiness
Of many families depended on him. His at
fairs were vast and complicated. and they
kept him longer away from her All the day,
while he was amidst his bales of merchandise
she roamed along the banks OF a sequestercd
stream, weaving bright fancy pageantrlcS, or
,lcyising airy gaictcs with which to charm
his troubled spirit. \ bright and sunny be-
ins. she comprchended nothing of Care
Life was abounding to her. She knew not
the disease of reflection; she felt not the per-
pIcXtics OF life To sing and to laugh-to
leap the stream and bcckon him to leap after
her, a. he used in the old lover DAYS. when
she would conceal herself from him in the
hlm with thousand caprciouS coquetrIcS -
this was her idea of how they should live; and
chiIAllke gambols, and told her OF the serious
work that awaited him, she raised her soft
blue ewes to him in baby wondermcnt. not
comprchcnding what he meant, but acqulcs-
eng with sigh, because he said it.
She acquiesced, but sadness fell upon
her Life to her was Love, and nothing
more. A sadness also fell upon him. Life
to him was Love- and something more; and
he saw with regret that she did not comprc-
hend it. The wall of Care. raised bv busy
hands, was gradually shutting him out from
her. If she visited him during the day she
found herself hindrance and retired When
he came to her at sunset he came preoccuried.
She sat at his feet, loving his anxious face
He raised tendert the golden ripple of love
Illness that fell in ringlets on her neck and
kissed her soft beSeeching ewes: but there
was a something in his eyes, a remote look "a,
!, his soul We're afar, busy with other things
which made her little heart almost burst witt
uncomprchended jealousy.
She would steal up to him at times whcr
he was absorbed in calculations and THROWN!
her arms around his neck. WOO him from hi
thought. y smile. revealing love in its yer,
depths, would brighten his anxious face "a
Tor moment he pushed aside the world, an,
concentrated all his being in one happy feel
IN.
Could not win his life; she could charm, sh,
''n'd not occupy him, The painful trutl
came slowly over her. as the deepening shad
"SS tall upon sunny Dav until at last it i
>-' Night with her stars of infinite beau
~ 'Nt without the luStre and warmth of
Day
We dropped; and on her couch of sicknes
,eF Keen sighted love perceived, through al
'"'"at'Ie tenderness, that same remote
,'s> III his eyes, which proved that even
" "' there Srleving and apparently absorbe,
"''' there still came dim remembrances OF
are 70 vex and occupy his soul.
We're better were dead" she though,
a'n not good enough for him. Poor child
'' Sood enough because her simple natur
1" not the manifold plexities, the Eindran
d ""'"Flete life Not good enough. be
-'.>e her whole life was scattered,
|'"' so she breathed herselfaway. and let
"N>band to all his gloom of Care, mad
.eh''I darker by the absence of those oIeam
'"'rTness, which before had ftfullv ira
'''v'' HE The night was staress and h
a.nnr '''A Il
'Ei'tLICRE IN GEKMANY.-A trsvo,o
'a''r'ad from Dresden to Hanover On II,
- d May, gives the following descr;p,;o
vi ,Ae fields on the route otb;. day.. ;,,r,
he country through which We passed
.I3 '''' IN all the luxurance of spring Tb
"r''' Of rape, glowing on al! hand. with tb.;
-'s 0i 'n'enss yellow. looked as .boor