New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-03-11

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Ps,cx snow, snow East, west north, and south AZ
g. a The eye could reach over the valley and p n,
- 90 the sides Of the mountains everywhere, snow
@ Sfvs IL blocked up the wiDdows so that they could
fo each oher in The cottage Happy was il for them
e n they had bread enough 10 last until it melted
~ But bread or not, light not. II there any
W. 70 be done, Patience always did it, spinning day
VIZ ssbt uEiilit was finished
fingers few, twrling the pokes of her wheel
n 1shst noise that old wheel ma1e Hum, hum
sps buzz, buzz, buzz day and night IL made Pa
,soee almost Wild Il was so monot"no9san wearsons
red into her daily Thoughts, aud became part Of
life She could not sing, could not dream, could
20 bipk Of old. She pinned and wasted away in ia
ssrnsl mopotony and desolstion. II became
- 30 her that she seldom herself when spin
-; and when spinning che could hardly be con-
i,ed her real self, for she nothing then but the
~bHing wheel and hesrd nothing bat lie heart break
- mosD And she htrdl knew the whesi itself from
~ eooi the walls, the ceiling for the door VALE
"A ceiling seemed 10 be turing around the wheel
ecuxnes sbe found i; difficult to distinguish her voice
6vu it, s-pervading hum. Butfher mother happened
70 peak, though ever so low, or even If she did only
hi Ugh Patience heard her. and fastened 10 her bed
akwith all speed. The turning and lumning Of a
Assand wheels, the rolling, nosy world the tumult Of
s unverfe tsef could not have drowned her mothers
,f for She heard in her heart Of hears, in her very
I'D inmost soul
And this went for yesrs and her health grew worse
I'D worse Her cheeks werethin and ghas1y her eyes
vre sunkcu in their sockets and her hands thin
ey quite transparent when she held them up in
DE sunlight, IL shone through them, as through the
sogy palms OF some alabaster saint. Month in and
ntb cut her brain seemed bound with bands Of steel
hfpbbDg and beating Is If It compressed in vice
Her mind grew sluggish and dull, and her heart cold
I'D indifferent, ukewsrm in it's affections nd syInpa.
tjB- Her body had been oyerask' d. and her sou was
pgng the penalty. Bitterly did chs suffer- but bravely
Sshe endure; upheld by duty, though che sank be-
ptsh lis chastisemcnts.
Lie to her was long, dull autumn day. The winds
ere cold. but silent. The air is misty aud oppressive
lHeut to breathe. Here and thereare few clouds
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vhch britt. All is confused, strange, and desoate
fkhert seems likely to break and soul likely 10
h snnbilatd by the thick gray heaven which seems
soout 10 fall upon the cold, dead earth la doors and
a. cyeryt thing was dead and cold 20 Patience. The
- sbope with @ dun, uncertain light; the moon with
sekly and desthlke glare and the stars, the myriad
m, what were they, in their faTOd spendOT but the
dyRg embers Of a dead cTeaon Yet there were those
ing then and very near Patience too who saw none
dhese things. Sun, moon, and stars "a bright
sevcr 10 them, and TO much brighter for oher
s were wheeling their orbits into theirs, and other
1s were gazing with them on The shows Of day and
ljt both in the brave bright world, face TO face
10 the same Nature and the same God But how dt.
lnnti
But o, not different much longer, Patience, There
srbetter days in store for thee, even In this world
ID better, fur better in the next. where thy soul shall
bert eternal rcst. Hope on, dear heart, hope on
LbOr u, indeed, sorrow, and sometimes death but II
ytso prayer, always prayer.
One or two favorte cooquialisms occur too often in
sne OF the stories, but the whole, they exqu
lt specimens Of pure and graceful competition
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