Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1854-02-01
Died.


At his residence, Camper Spring, Hill Country Jul
del Augusta county the 25th ult AUGUsrUs PATE,
aged y years
On Wednesday evening, the 18th ult, at the resi-
aence OF her father, John McCue, ESQ, on the Long
Meadows, in Augusta county, Miss EvALINE McCUE,
in the Doth year of her age.
= "She died-yet death could scarcely chill
Her smiling beauties, though she lay
With cold extended limbs, for still
Her face looked fairer than the day.
Those eyes once eloquent with bliss,
Were closed soft as shutting flowers
o few could bear sight like this,
Yet such a sight was ours.
On the last day of the departed year, fatal disease
marked her as victim, and hcraded the rapid approach
of the day and the hour when her freed spirit under the
dspensation Of an All Wise Providence, was 10 be e
mancpated from the letters that bound it 20 this cold
world Of change and ycssitde aud pass to that far and
infinite home whose untold wonders mortal eye may
not discover She is gone in the morning Of he-the
glad play of the pulses the sweet sensations OF exis
teace, which animated that elastic iorn are hush
ed in chilling and mysterious repose lth heart u
OF feeling aud mind bright with promise-out Few
days since in the full yigor of health, mngng IN our
pleasures, and sharing in pursuits and now-gone
gone forever Around the energies OF that opening
mind and all the sweet visions OF that young hearts IAN
y the hand Of the Most High has drawn the sable dra
perry of the tomb No more shall we meet her in that
domestic and the social circle and exchange the friend
ly greeting No shall the home and the OF
her childhood and youth brighten at her approach The
realities OF lite done, and she rests with that Being
whose attributes Mercy, Love and Justice. Let
this solemn warning sink deep into our hearts Such is
the uncertainty Of life, and such is the end that awaits
sooner or later each Of the friends companions and
associates she has left behind In the deepest anguish
Of our hearts, bow with and submission, 10 the
high mandate Of that mysterious God, whose nat from
the very foundation of the world has stamped the things
Of ear;h-nay the very stars OF Heaven, with decay.
Rarely does it fall TO the lot of the friend whose
ournful privilege il is to record bretmemoria OF the
loved whom ''remorseless Time, fierce spirit OF
9he glass and Scythe cuts down. TO dwell on such a
theme presented in the life and character Of our dear
departed friend Euosy is net only pardonable but II
eommeadabe, when its object truly merits the enco-
misms the partial friendship dictate. By those
who knew her well she known to the writer,
nought that ne can say will be esteemed 1lsome pane
gyrc but rather dim outline sketch Of traits and quail
ties 10 be filled perfect picture Of her eharac-
ter BY The bright eoiors which their own fond hearts
viii supply from the sacred memorials c. affection and
friendship.
Lovely and attractive in person graceful and digaied
in her Manners and Of easy and quiet nsiea from
childhood she attracted atieaton made hosts Of friends
amongst her aclaaiataNceS wherever she went, and
bouad them 10 her BY iadissolEble tics II she ever
CT associations Of homc-or when amongst her school,
moying IN that general society, upon whose
Threshold she had but fairly entered ]; without
intent wound, and with coascioGsness O harza.-
She gave bright pro.aise Of assuming high and use
position IN society. Her mind singuariy cain,
rioas and reflective, All she had cultivated most
aent taste for solid mental improvement, 10 the excln
son OF all indulgence the empty, rrmg trIvOlties
alas, but too common with many Of her age aud Sex
The standard authors Of or Language living aud dead
the Historians, the Poets, the Essuyists whose wri
tingS, together with those Of few oil the eminent
10 the fields Of roaalcc have given impurishabl'
literature, ever prizsd companions and OF
sought by her. tina the society Of the h0ughtes
gidly crowds who constitute large proportion Of TIT
world around Modest, retiring ana sensitive, she
was at all times extremely cautious yield to others
becoming respect and hS few beyond the circle of he
immediate friends had the means of correctly
timatng the cXtent to which she had BY dgent study
carried her mental Improvement
Her suferingS intense a they were, through b-ie
illness, never caused murnur % escape be- bps bu
with inimitable patience she submitted every pre-
scrptiOn, her physicians felt IL a duty. always painful
TO administer. The hope Of the Christian hers
and cith0lt this how agOlzing the death bed scene ?
To the minister who feelmgl administered her the
consultations of religion she expressed her acquescencc
in the will Of her Heavenly Father, in removing he
just in the bloom and flush YOUTH to that bright world
her santed spirit is enjoy ing ' know there ISM
hope except in the Lord Jesus" one of her res
ponses 10 question asked her by her minister. He
breathing of life peacculno distortion Of ea
reflect the glory of the world she took leave
earth. Lovely as in life, she yet beautiful
when arrayed in the hablimcnts of the tomb, and as
the rays or the setting beamed athwart that lovely
face wearing the smile that lii il up in life il hardly
required stretch of Imagination to believe hc- scraph
from the sprit-word. The long funeral train Of sor
rowing friends evidenced hv their agonized feelings that
Of the strongest ties that bound them 10 earth
severed
''Yet why sho1ld death be linked with fcars
single breath, low drawn sigh,
Can break the ties that bind here,
And wait the spirit to the sky.
Such was her end. a calm release,
No cngng to this mortal cod;
She closed her eyes, and stood in peace
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