Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-03-03
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From the Little Pilgrim.
a DREAM OF HEAVEN.
KATE.

| saw a garden SO luxuriant with flowers and TO-
liage that it seemed as though
1.-THE very rainbow showers
Had turned TIC blossoms where they fell,
And sown the ground with fowers"
Branches covered with bloom, leaned towards
each other, and twined themselves together in
nasUral bouquets. From the trees hing crimson
and purple and amber colored fruit--pomegranates
figs, plums and many others, such as | had never
seen, and their names / did not know. These
bright-hued fruits appeared transparent, and
through the clear juice sparkled the polished seeds
and stones, like precious gems.
In the centre Of the garden rose two trees with
widely-spreading banches, covered with snow
white blossoms. Grape-vines clambered up the
trunks of each tree and wound themselves in
graceful festoOns through the coughs. The soft
air wefted the floating tendrils of one vine to the
topmost branches of the opposite tree, until they
formed a leafy bower. From its arch hung clus-
tiers Of golden grapes, glistening through wreaths
Of pearl-like bloom. Within the bower | saw a
messy mound. Niolets, anemones, lilies of the
valley, and the blue-eyes of the "forget-me-not'
peeped through the velvet covering, making a rich.
ly-variegated and living b~roidery. The mound APP.
peared in the shape of a seat, half rustic and hall
regal.
The flowers in this garden exhaled an odor Sc
penetratingiy delicious, that they seemed to be
sending up perpetual thanksgiving for their bright
existence-whil diamond dew drops glittered like
costly gifts on their expanded bOsoms. The at
mosphere was singularly pure, exhilarating, life
string. The sky shone resplendent with the soft
est, and most roseate hues of early morning.
A group of angelic children gambolled. through
the garden Some had chaplets on their heads
and some had garlands twined about their bosoms
or girdles of tiny leaves mingled with violets and
rose buds, wound around their waists and some
had woven bracelets of flowers and bound them on
their arms, and then fastened the fowery manacle
to the arm of an ~infantile companion: these pairs
mara oltva vs. soon observation-disclosures xaomaJ N @ M
each as half of the other, and only when united
forming a complete whole. The children were
sporting with a white lamb-decking his pure
throat with leafy ch~ains-embracing and kissing
him.
Near the joyous crowd stood an angel, clad in
vesture that had the Whitley varying hees of an
opal the hem was wrought with stars of gold
the zone was clasped beneath her breast with a sin
gle ruby, heart-shaped. A fllet of pearls encircled
her ~head--one large ruby shone in the centre,
and emitted such q stream of roseate rays that
they formed q halo above her brow. From ben cath
the pearly band her hair flowed loosely to her knees
mot in ringlets, but in shining waves that looked
like a veil of woven amber.
The perfect beauty, the mild effulgence of her
cOuntenance, no language could describe. 1t was
turned towards the children. and / noticed that,
when she smiled upon them, her face grew so radi.
ant that q beam of light seemed to strike on their
heads aud illumine their hair. She watched
them in their sports they were gathering flowers,
and, strange to say, when they plucked the BIOS
SONS from the stems, other blossoms instantly ap.
peared 10 their places--no stem was ever left bare.
Ms the children sprang over the mead, the flowers
only bowed their heads. ana rose up brighter and
trcsher, and sent out a more exquisite perfume at
their infant touches.
And now the angel-girl, with q gliding step,
drew near the bower and seated herself on the
rossy throne. She lifted her beautiful arm and
took from the branch Of the tree on her right