Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1852-01-24
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From TX Marvel's Dream of Life.
Cheer and Children.
: : : Dear Madge .
naor C1arancap


Dear Madge?'
Dear Clarence!
--And you pass your arm now un-
checked around that yielding, graceful figure,
and fold her to your bosom with the swift and
blessed assurance that your fullest and no
noblest dream of love is won
+ What a glow there is to the
sun What warmth, yet-yet it does not op-
press you; what coolness-yet is not too cool.
The birds sing swee.ly; you catch yourself
watching to see what new songsters they can
be-they are only the old robbins and thrush
es; yet what new melody is in their throa;s
The clouds hang gorgeous shapes upon the
| sky-shapes they could hardly ever have
fashioned before. The grass was never so
green. the butter cups was never so plenty !;
there was never such life in the leaves. II
seems as if the joyousness in you gava a
throb to nature that made every green thing
bueyant.
Faces too are changed-men look pleasant
ly-children are all charming chldren-even
babes look tender and loTeabIe. The street
beggar at your door is so suddenly grown into
Belisarius, and is one of the most deserving
heroes of modern times Your mind is in
continued ferment; you glide through your
toil-dashing out sparkles of passion-like
ship in the sea. No difficulty daunts you
there is kind of buoyancy in your soul
that rocks over danger or doubt, as sea waves
lave calmly and smoothly over sunken rocks.
You grow unusually amiable and kind
you are in earnest in your search of friends
you shake hands with your office boy as if he
we're your second cousin. You joke cheer
fully with the stout washerwoman, and give
her shilling over change and insist upon her
keeping it, and grow quite merry at the rec
ollection of it. You tap your hsckman very
familiarly on the shoulder, and tell him he is
a capital fellow, and dent allow him to whip
his horses, except when driven to the Post
Office. You even ask him to take glass of
beer with you upon some chilly evening. You
drink to the health of his wife. He says he
has no wife, whereupon you think him very
miserable man, and give him dollar by way
of consolation.
You think all the editorials in the morning
papers remarkably well written. whether
upon your side or upon the other. You think
the stock market has a very cheerful look
even with Ere-of which you are a large
bolder-down TO seventy FIVE, You wonder
why you never admired Mrs Hemans before,
| Ut CtOuudIuS VI ANY Vi tne rest
You give pleasant twirl to your fingers
as you saunter along the street, and say-but
not SO. loud as to be overheard is mine,
she is mine!'
You wonder if Frank ever loved Nelly one
half as well as you love Madge you feel
quite sure he never did. You can scarcely
conceive how it is that Madge has not been
seized before now by scores of enamored men
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mish history. You chuckle over your future
like boy who has found guinea in groping
for sixpence. You read over the marriage
service, thinking Of the time when you will
take her hand and slip the ring upon her fin
ger, and repeat after the clergyman-'for
richer, for poorer--for better-for worse'-
A great deal of worse there will be about it,
you think
Through all, your heart cleares to that
sweet image of the beloved Madge, as light
cleaves to day. The weeks leap with bound
and the months only grow long when you ap-
proach that day which is to make her yours.
There are no flowers rare enough to make be-
quets for her; diamonds are too dim for her
to view pearls are tame.
And after marriage the weeks are
even shorter than before; you wonder why
on earth all the single men in the world do
not rush tumultuously to the Altar; you look
upon them all as travelled man will look upon
some conceited Dutch boor, who has never
been beyond the limits of his cabbage garden.
Married men, on the contrary, you regard as
fellow voyagers; and look upon their wives
ugly as they may be-as, better thanInone
You blush little, at first telling your butch
er what your wife would like; you bargain
with the grocer for sugars and teas. and won
der if he kno1US that you are married man
You practice your new wav of talk upon your
Office boy you tell him that your wife expects
you home to dinner, and are astoDished that
be does not stare to hear you say It'll
You wonder if the people in the omnibus
know that Madge and you are just married
and if the driver knows that the shilling you
hand to him, is for self and wife % You won
der if anybody was ever so happy before, or
ever will be so happy again?
You enter your name upon the hotel books
as Clearance -- and Lady; and come
back to look at it. wondering if any body else
has noticed it-and thinking that it looks re-
markably we'll You cannot help thinking
that every third man you meet in the hall,
wishes be possessed your wife nor do you