Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-07-27
Substance and Show,


I saw being, bright AMI beautiful;
From whose deep eyes. methought Their,
beamed a soul
With kindly feelings warm. and calm benevo
lence.
A book before her lay, and as she read.
Her throbbing heart, and dimming eye did tel
OF tender sympathy, and woman's love sub
dued.
Exeites thy mind, and dims thine eyes with
tears?
glanced within. A high wrought sketch was
there,
Of suffering innocence, of murder, hate,
Of guilt, confession, unrequited love,
And all that serves to thrill the human mind.
saw her once again child. forlorn
And homeless. weeping sadly at her feet,
Was looking up to her for charity.
Oh then looked to see her woman's heart
Moved to compassion once she turned to look
Upon the outcast. then with naughty air.
And cold disdain she passed unmoved away;
She does not tceep although before her lies
A living, breathing, proof of human misery!
saw enemy approach his prey,
With smile, and friendly grasping of the hand;
/ saw him draw the dagger secretly.
That should, ere long, be plunged home to the
heart.
saw that ono, was innocent and still
SusT Getting not, and dreaming not of i'll.
saw that holy confidence betrayed;
The dagger fell severe heard the groan,
And sighed in very bitterness of soul,
To think where all seemed fair, should, hidden,
Turk
Intense, such foul deceit while over all,
The ingenious GrApery of words and smiles
Served to conceal awhile the hearts deep hate.
Alas, thought l. "things are not what they
SEEM"
II had a dream,
Which was not all dream :" two strangers
met;
And yet not strangers; for methousht they
were
Friends; but not such as claim the cherished
name
From long acquaintance day by day,
And telling each Of all their future plans
Their griefs, successes, losses, hopes and fears,
And all those little things which help to form
A lasting eonidcnce-aye, trusting love
Not such were these yet, as the ocean wave
Mingles with waters from the murmuring
stream,
Far. far apart, Chat brook and ocean wave)
Yet in a sense together oft. as when
The bright star-rays, at eve, united fall,
Or zephurs from the north and south winds
meet
So, something like sympathy had sprung
Between these stranger friends, nor was it
strange
That they should meet, who never met before.
saw them part one went but to disclose
The confidence the other in him placed,
And whisper words of scorn, and ridcule;
Which soon the other heard. astonished more
Than grieyed, TO think beneath so nobly fair
Exterior, such tainted heart should lie
All ! Snch is life = but oh. It's we'll tis we'll
We see not all of earths deceitfulness
Or eyes are yelled, God looketh at the heart
lis better that with mortal eyes we pass
Uneonsciously along lifc's wiIderins track,
Nor see the deep designs, nor hear the Shrek
or spirit in lis agony. We would
Not penetrate the hidden realms of thought,
Above, rolls camer on he ct life.
IT is enough, to see its surface stirred
With storms Of grief, or shaded by despair.
We cannot tell on whom we may rely
With perfect trust: but If we have misplaced
Our confidence, still if in our own heart
Deceit reposes not, let US be sure
While ,cs are innocent, tbs well-tis we'll.