Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1855-09-22

ded glance of blessing and Of love would sit
among the braided locks and inger on the brow
Of that fair being, who bad been, all day d
bride. The young flowers nodded in thet
dreams, and where the palest and the meekest
grew, gathered from their midst knot Of
fragrant buds, and wove Of them bridal
crown; whose dewy tears should mingle with
her tears Of joy; whose halmy breath Of per-
fume should 60 forth to blend with hers,
when on the ears Of morrow's morn should
steal her whispered VOWS of love. | gazed
and smiled upon them deeming them fit types
Of her, pure, fair and stainless. Yet dreamed
| not that they were emblems of her life, in
that they were SO beautiful and blight--so ear
I ly doomed TO fade. Bu, thus It was.
/ The waich-iIe Of the stars went out in
Heaven then the life-giving light which night
ly ebbs, flowed back upon the world 10 one un-
broken, waye-like flood and il was day. Oh
never day before poured on my head such ago
ny Of woe. The sun with silent feet, crept
! through the unopened lattice, and laid his in-
ger upon the still, cold form of her, my wor-
shipped one. She was a bride. Midnight, as
she kneeled upon her jewced throne, had seen
her wed, with pure eyes raised, and pale lips
Dreaming iorlh 'rustiul prayer TO the stern
Dnoeg,co" Dea'n' Sotiy l smooihed the
uaik' oaihp locks oack from her marble brow
ssuy "lneo uhe orldai crown among their
clustering folds, then, for the last, last time,
bent and pressed the lips that gave not back
my warm caress /; gszed with one last, yearn-
ing' heAi'-'o,i LOOKS OF love- ana gave her 10
'ne ous' linen, the hoPe-hem oi my life
went out was alone There was world
around me, but knew II not. She had been
all my world
We had been sailing upon LIES summer sea.
forever side by side. Night spread her sa-
BILE shadows over us-mornine lifted ,hem-but
all athwart the troubled sea, there was no bark
but mine. In vain called no answer came,
save hallow echoes from the land of dreams
and now DER all my Heaven cloud Of gloom
was cast, deep and impenetrable as the shades
OF death, NY feeble bark went widely drifting
DER the wave no Dor, il sought. no isle Of
rest but like troubled thing il wandered up
and down, uneuided and alone.
AT length gentle spri, c,me--whi,e. winged
and holy-eyed; bearing sweet messages of
peace from her, the loved and los, whisper
luE VI udNCn-uOfnc MuCTe angels Rul1tU
her frai bark, and moored il safely in a peace
ful port; bidding me waiehfully and prayerful-
ly to steer my course over the rocks and shoals
that dot life's deep with dangers as stars do
Heaven with glory,-thatI might reach that
bliss perfected shore, and meet once more the
ever loved and early los, lpon the bosom ofthe
ln6nte--in that bright sun-land where all
worlds as one shall vet be Joined in endless
harmony, where all hearts, perfected and made
pure, shall utter ceaselcss homage unto God,
and every tongue confess the glory Of Omnipo-
'~".s.
again. my lost one $ me had been quiet
scehe-erewhiie played only ior my pleasure.
Que was ihe only slar. me only ONE upon the
sage oi me- only looked and lislened-till
ne came VINO sought and won the priceless
treasure OF her heart--and then we bowed To-
gether al one common shrine and offered up the
wofship OF our spirits Entranced we drank
ue music oi her ligh'es' word. as thirsty how-
efs swallow up me dew unconciously our
very being glded into hers--we only lived to
sec heI move and act. but, while the spring.
'"e o' her NE was bright afoond her, ere yet
one summer bud had oPpehed IN her way,
whiie yet We iondly dreamed that she might
larry ever'-s'iii to add star afier star unto our
crown oi earthly bliss--'he mighty curtain of
Eternity had dropped and hid her from our
view sought to pierce It's ioldings--bul the
feeble power OF mortal ken might not drink in
the deep, untold immensely which II concealed,
nor gaze upon the dazzling glory that il veiled.
ana wes well Tor even thus was Heavens
h'gn wiIl, but o,en when my heart grows
weary ana my soul is faint, and forgot to
look TO Him whose all-enduring mercy limits
creation utmost bonnds-whose love sPannelh
'ne universe, as ralnbows arch the Heavens
she Pa's aside The veil that PaIie'h US from i'm
mortality and with the halo Of her angel-home
around her' comeih In the still night, or at the
70 teach my spirit still to bear ard murinur not,