Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-03-06

additional to several able papers on other themes
which together make up number Of exceeding
interest and value.
To come home, We find place in each number
reserved for our own State. The January issue
contains admirable sketch Of the history Of oul
College; and in the February number the editor
''sets" an exquisite poetic gem, from the pen Of T
B. ALDR1cH, of Barnwell, entitled 'The Poem o.
q little Life that was but three Aprils long" WI
can not refrain from sharing this delightful NOR
ceau with our readers, and we think, with the
Messenger, that "if Mr.. ALDR1cH writes nothing
more, he will yet deserve to be ranked among the
true poets of our day for the sweet Conceptions q
"Babie Bell":-
Have you not heard the Poet tell :
How came the dainty babie Bell
Into this world Of ours
The Gates Of Heaven were left ajar.
With folded hands and dreamy eyes
She wandered out of Paradise!
She saw this planet, like o star,
Hung in the depths Of purple even
Its bridges, running to and fro,
Der which the white winged Seraphs 60,
Bearing the holy Dead to Heaven!
She touched bridge of aowers-those feet,
So light they did not bend the bells
Of the celestial asphodels!
They fell like dew upon the flowers
And all the air grew strangely sweet
And thus came dainty babe Bell
Into this world of ours!
She came and brought delicious May =
The swallows built beneath the caves;
Like sunbeams in and out the leaves,
The robins went, the live-long day;
The lily swung its noiseless bell,
And DER the porch the trembling vine
Seemed bursting with its veins Of wine
o, earth was full Of pleasant smell,
When came the dainty babie Bell
Into this world Of ours
0 babie, dainty bsbie Bell!
How fair she grew from day to day!
What woman nature filled her eyes.
What poetry within them lay
Those deep and tender twilight eyes,
So full Of meaning pure, and bright
AS if she yet stoodin the light
Of those oped gates of Paradise!
And we loved babie more and more:
o never in our hearts before
Such holy love was born;
We felt we had link between
This real world and that unseen-
The land of deathless morn
And for the love of those dear eyes,
For love Of her whom God led forth
The mothers being ceased on earth
When babie came from Paradise .s,
For love Of him who smote our lives,
And woke the chords of joy and pain;
We said, Sweet Christ!-our hearts bent down
Like violets after rain
And now the orchards which were once
All white and rosy in their bloom
Filling the crystal heart of air
With gentle pulses of perfume,-
We're thick with yellow juicy fruit;
The plums were globes of honey rare,
And soft checked peeches blushed and fell
The grapes were purpling in the grange;
And Time wrought just as rich q change
In little babie Bell!
Her petit form more perfect grew,
Andin her features we could trace, =.
In softened curves, her mothers face.
Her angel nature ripened too.
We thought her lovely when she came,
But she was holy, sanity now
Around her pale and lofty brow
We thought we saw ring of Aame
sometimes Sne SalU u lew SIIAuR6 HOIQH
Whose meanings lay beyond our reach:
Gods hand had taken away the seal
Which held the portals Of her speech
She never was child to US;
We never held her beings key!
We could not teach her holy things;
She was Christ's self in purity
It came upon US by degrees;
We saw its shadow ere it fell,
The knowledge that our God had sent
His messenger for babie Bell
We shuddered with unlanguaged pain,
And all our thoughts ran into tears
And all our hopes were changedto fears
The sunshine into dismal rain
Aloud we cried in our belief
go, smite US gently, gently, God
Teach US to bend and kiss the rod,
And perfect grow thro' grief"
All, how we loved her, God can tell;
Her little heart was cased in ours
They're broken caskets-babie Bell
At last he came, the messenger, -
The messenger from unseen lands;
And what did dainty babie Bell?
She only crossed her little hands
She only looked more meek and fair ;! .
We parted back her silken hair;
We laid some buds upon her brow
Deaths bride arrayed in flowers!
And thus went dainty babie Bell
Out of this world of ours