The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-12-19

4 I'd OV tto HC1te9tA t1II.EA Aud the 0Uol
/ Law with a terrible stiffness, \ ,solem
calmnasa. AZ repoae, w;th tbe ma;estic :
lence Of the folded maatle on marbl,
over vverr the Rfaye Of the dead riiIri that wyyaa Va
| in yeatb long gone the idol OF our vi
la3eil s'ao&iNo . s'soesK 30 diqoZ =
ItrwaS,her naue I heard in the nj,
Who rooke it,eifr p,a,terss mot tt IA
one Of the a,rels Of 'memory. fnreye
rear us-tEanfs be INTO him v Who mad
us lfoFevSrI 1eaF ma. -fak;nos he apres
80. ~ f.r;I;s-; o;,;S.ts - Thisnar 81,
sto,;ss n orr never.~earvino eers An,
.o to.nioht. n nv eitv room, I am wi
t;ne vcr thisI storv ~ tbe Village 1in ! th,
m. NJ n.ecantFv. 10 remind you e veil a, ~
sSIf az an her radiaae 6esntvs . Was a,
not beautiful,el 4, ,.uve.,Iii,,., IN hst,1rz7
Irenember one evening. when. VIM
her old father. / saw her coming doWr
he road lust nt chat spot !vhere IS,
sefting ann of .Tune sbone thro,gh IN,
treer S5d no,1Ired s;tsI 'snIendor on N,
dastT road = A csrriape had uasasi. AZ
The Air waa flled nth 'veliol .siuutI !. aDf
IN Il ahe stood a. in : food of ciorv
Saw yon n vas buk dust tbst ms8s ntb,
giosyf Alas for our human;tv r. ~,
6St al and sSs'vaS .dnst. even - ~
vet he WasI Of Snoelie mould. Whc
aid God broke IL 1ben he had made
FyeS Itvas not 40: or aneels found
the broken fragments and replaced them
for At least that once And vet she
fell = ves, fell. sa!iEd q ar .4sse3l
Angels were tempted even within the
oates of pearl; yea. even within sound
Of the musical fiow Of the river of ever.
lasting life; and angels sinned, and fell.
Would you have had her sterner of
heafkaa6d stronger to resist, than was
Lucifer, the star of the morning ?sf.4
One winter Sunday the old man came
alone TO the church door, and sat alone
Id his pew, and his stout frame shuddeI-
ed with agony az he stood up 10 prayer
And all the congregation was silent and
full of woe, fer all knew that she wac
lost.V It was as if each family had lost
child, so we'll beloved had she been of
all. And when the pastor prayed, hum
bly, and with broken voice, for the de.
esiSed, the erring, the wandering, sob
from one who had loved her too well
broke the solemn silence, and then q
wall Of sorrow-that low, hushed, half
suppressed moan Of anguish which you
have heard4-srose In all the house, and
tile old pastor paused and xept. aossE
A year dragged its slow length along;
and when another winter was on the
valley, aud when the old man sat in his
accustomed chair, gazing vaoantly into
The fre-light that f1ickered outhis hearth,
and when the rnddy embers glowed ,on
walls all through the valley,
aud in one large house, q mile down the
road, all the young people were gather.
ed for an evening Of winter emerrimeut
and while the. cold, calm moon, the new
exchanging, hypOeritical moon, that
smiles the same on Joy or woe, on calm
,r Whirlwind, shone on the cold and
quiet country road---she, the gentle
,hild on whom no wind before breathed
clad in thin garments, with a
ragged shawl wound around her grace,
iul shoulders and her hare white arms
1.-The beloved child Of hundred no mes
IN that valley, the best adored of an old
mans heart, whom Gods messengers
Iong waited TO take home to-. Him-she
vas walking slowly, feebly BY houses
hat would have opened every door to
ler, by the great house wherein she
'hould have been gsyest, brightest, pu-
'est of all that night, and whose sounds
IT joy sank like weight in. her soul,
md made her step more feebly, more
leavy, BY the old church and graveyard
Ehere her mother lsy-she thanked God
or il, IN undisturbsd Enthusiastically
md painfully on the slippery track of
he sleighs, urithing and turning her
mall feet on the roughness on which she
Tipped, aad twice. yes, twice falling in |
he road, and, nothing needing it, rising |
Q 60 on her homeRard way until she
TODD on tbe porch before that dear old
lome, and trembled now, for the first
ime, lest the home was hers no more |
orever. lFl ,bi'.-,aos .a9isst .Iei
Did l say she stood When the old
nan, startled by . feeble rap at the
loor, went to open It, he found her ~
ng on the threshold with her lips press
d to the worn, old boards. He lifted
Ter, he carried her IN his arms into the |
arge room and fell into his chair still
lolding her in his firm embrace. He
allied her By all the dear names she
lsd answered to IN years now gone; he
;issed her thin lips, her white and sunk
N temples, her pale cheeks, snd yet she
moved not, stirred not, answered moth |
ng: She never spoke again. Once
md but once, toward the morning after
hat night, while she still lay IN the old
mans arms, for there be sat all night |
spg and held her--once she-opened her
> Y, her soft brown eyes, and gazed