Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1853-10-05

He, the young and strong, who Cherished
Noble longings. for the strife,
by the readable fell and persisted,
Weary with the march u life.
They, the holy ones and weakly,
who the cross Of suffering bore,
Folded their pale hands 30 msskly,
Spoke with ~ on earth no more.
And with them the being beautsous,
Who unto my youth was given,
More than all things else, to love me-,
And is now saint in heaven.
With slow and noiseless footstsp
Comes that messenger divine,
Takes the vacant chair beside ma,
Lays her gentle hand in mine
And she sits and gases at me
With those deep aud tender eyea
Like the stars 50 still and saint-liks,
Looking do wnward from the skies
Uttered not, yet comprehended,
Il the spirits voiceless prayer.
Soft rebukes, in blessings ended,
Breathing from her lips Of cir.
., though oft depressed and lonely,
All my fears are laid aside
II / but remember only
Such rs these have lived and died
rwelv. o'clock ~ Night, and Ala Well.
M By FANNY FERN
False prophet Still add statue like, 1t
yonder window stands the wife. The clock
has tolled the small hours; yet her face is
pressed closely against the window pane. stri-
wing in vain. with strainiu9 eye, to pisrse the
darkness. She sees nothing, she hears moth
ing but the beating Of her own heart. Nov
she takes her seat. opens small Bible, and
seeks from it what she may, wbila tears blis.
ter the pages. Then she clasps Der hands,
and her lips are tromulous with mute suppl
cation. Hist-there IS IN unsteady step in
the ball she knows it! Many time add
oft it has trod on her heart strings. She
glides down gently to meet the waneerer. -
He falls heavily against her and 10 maudlin
tones. pronounces n name he had long since
forgotten ito honor" Oh! all enduring pow
err Of woman's love no rerpoach. no up
braiding the slight arm passed around that
Keeling figure. once erect in Gods own i'm
age" With tender words OF entreaty, which
be is powerless to resist. L he would, she leads
him in. It is the repetition Of thousand
such yigils. 1t is the performance Of VOW.
with beroism and patient endurance too
common to be chronicled on earth; too holy
and heavenly to rass unnoticed by the regis
tering angles above
"ALL's WELL"
False prophet lin yonder luxurious room
sits one whose curse it was to be - fair o. .
dream Of Eden. Time was, when those clear
eyes looked lovingly into . mothers face
when gray haired father laid his trembling
hand, with blessing. on that sunny head
when brothers and sisters voices blended
with her own. in heart music around that hap.
by hearth. Oh! where are they now? Are
there none to say to the repeating Msgdalen,
Neither do condemn thee-go. and sin no
more" Must the fetter continue to bind
the soul that losthes it because man 10 less
merciful than God? a
afr Sails WELL"
False prophet There lies the dead or
phan In all the length and breadth Of the
green earth. there was found no sheltering
neat where that lovely dove could fold it's
wings, when the parent birds had Aown-
The brooding was gone. thst covered il from
the cold winds Of neglect and unkindness
Love was it's life; aud SOFT dropped!
SAILS WE'LL
False prophet HE walks The earth in pur-
pie and 6ne linen honest poverty. With tear
believed face. hungers. and shivers. and
tbirsts. pleads in vain to the ermioed judge Of
Justice = aud unpublished Of heaven. the
hungry tiger crouohes in bis lair. and springs
upon bis helpless prey!
"ALL's WELL
All yes, all is well for He who "seeth the
end from the beginning holds evenly the
scale Of Justice. olives" shall yet beg Of
Lazarus" Every human tear is counted.
They shall yet sparkle as gems in the crown
Of the patient and enduring disciple? When
the clear broad light Of eternity shines upon
life's crooked paths, We shall see the snares
and pitfalls from which our hedge Of thorns
has fenced Us. in the maturity Of our full
grown faith we shall repentingly say--"Fath-
er not as will, but as thou wilt"
sIy-The day laborer. who earns. with
horny hands and the sweat Of his face, coarse