Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1855-12-31
From the LOut,ville JOufna al,
The Death of a Poetzss.

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We have seldom been so deeply panied as by
the intelligence of the death Of Miss Mary Louisa
Chtwood, of Mt. Carmel, Indiana. We grwe al
her loss, for she was very dear personal friend
and one of the brightest among the young women
of genius in the country. She was for long time
writer of poetry for the Louisville Journal; and
every reader has admitted the rich and tender
hAaAAby Of hex ... vr,..
reer of life, she know sjmething Of sorrow, and
| her heart was both Softened and strengthened by
she stein discipline. She was kind and gentle and
tue ard good-waIm hearted and high souIed-
diaident snd Shrinking, but conscious OF bright
and beautiful thoughts and OF strong powers given
her by God Tor useful purposes. Her whole ma
ture was dee,'ly aud intensely poetical, aud thus
to Ter the whole world was full of poetry. The
deepest gtirts of her young bosom were turned 10
music, soft, sweet, and mOurnful music on her
| lips. There was low and sd aud mysterious
| melody in her heart, as if that young heart had
wande red down from Heaven and were moaning
Tor It's home the shell means for lis parent
sea. There was no deudiy nlghtSh de or other
! noxiouS thing among the myriad blossoms Of her
soul that flung upon every breeze that stirred them
an incense like that of AaGy the BlvSt. She
never uttered thought that Was not fitted to pun
ly and beautIty and make better every heart into
which 1t sank-never thought that might not
be cherished ard spoken by All angel i'll the midst
Of the SHINING hosts OF Heaven. Every thought
rested as purely and beautifully in her heart as a
white dove in It's nest, or StaIbeam in the calm
lake, or a dewdrup in the cup OF the rose, or the
soul of love aud perfume in the bos,m OF the vic
let. The bitteTeSl trials could not turn to bitter
ness her sweet ami lovely natu:t; no adveryity
could make her cold or morbid or mi anihIopic-
on the contrary the whole tendency Of her SORROW
fWl experiences Of life was 10 soften and ethereal
iZe and hallow her Spirt and to render il he home
r,f a hon and nbo
Miss Chitwo hal extraordinary genius, and, up
to the time Of her death, she cultivated II with
diligence and success. She was rising rapidly lU
fame, when suddenly her fiery heart sank down to
be Quenched in the cold dampS OF the gave. 1t
if tree in the midst Of all lis wealth OF April
bloom were upTemt hy the whirl wind, as If young
eagle, $pringng upward to the sky, were stIiken
dow II by the fowers shalt, as II young star, noun
ting brightly toTasd the zenith to take its place in
heaven, were suddenly aud MYsteIiously bIotie
IN mld C net from existence. When the sad know
edge that she was dead came home 10 us, we felt for
onlent aSll beauty and gloIY hSd periShed from
the UnVeTSe-aS it something beautiful in nature
had stopped; as if an exquisite harmony in creauon
had ceased; We remembered not that her pure spr-
it still lives exalted and strengthened and reEder-
ed even more heavenly than in its lovely pilgrim
age of earth. We loved her as dearly as we could
love one whom, we had never seen; and her
pure and gentle aud chlldlike and enthusiastic and
holy ioVewaS To US, surrounded IS we ever were
by the fierce StrlteS Of politics. like tone Of mu
sic among rude voices, "SweeL beneIction in The |
eternal curse"
We hope that Miss Chitwood's writings in poe.
Try and prose will be collected by some surviving
friend relative Tor publication and it would give
US pleasure 10 reLder our assistance in such
work. II would be to us laLor Of duty aud love-
There is, in what Miss G. has written, not only a /
brilliant promise OF W. at she would have done
but very much ofgraceful and beautiful fuI6lIment
She has uttered thoughts, whch, we believe, will
never die III the great heart Of humanity. PerhanS
her name may not survive her penetration, it is
possible that herp poetry, even before the laps OF
many years, nr.y I've engulled beneath the Surgins
waves OF time, but we rsgiousy believe that there
are nfuercts from her life and words not destined
to pass away. Those influences are soft and
gentle zephyr passing to Join the STORM of bene-
hicsnt might that shall sweep aud purify the earth.
We promised Miss ChitwoOd a tribute 10 her
living worth and geHouS, but we have come too |
late, and now, standing as il were beside her cot
I'm, we lay our humble offering on the cold bosom
upon which her white hands ME 30 meekIy fold.
ed. We Srem to hear voice from all nature A.
round us asking v hat business we have here while
the bEght spirits that have blessed our life are
falling one by one arc md us. Oh it seems mys
teIions dlSpeISstiOn Of Providence that the little
amount ct breath necessary to the life OF gloEi-
Gus young gTl Is Withdrawn, whilst enough of
wiud to make blusteIing day is VouchSafed 10
the lungs and the noStrris OF the tens Of thousands
olth6 worthless and the vile:
s"TEere Is a world OF bliss hetoarer-elsa
W 3 arc the o-d above, ne good beneath,
BrisTssSd flowers 49,. a:ke. but we may breathe
CIV hen he MS des9iatlng blade shall shsathe I,
Above the smoke ri bu ming wOTldE-an1 death =
Upon scose hell pImons with he dad shall lie
Rhsa Time witha ha years. leenturies has sOne by'
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