American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1856-01-24
SICKNESS AND DEATH.
BY HIRAM ToRSEY.

Sickness !-Wherever, man lives disease
is an attendant of his mortallty-it creeps
into the domestic circle, it lays It's hand
upon the young child, and its budding
lovIiness. fades and withers like the'Aowers
Of the field. its Joyous mirthfulness is
changed to that dull moaning so peculiar
70 children when suffering. and which falls
like lead upon the Mothers heart; and
then the light goes out from its bright
eyes. and in the quivering limbs, and faint
struggle, we see the other and more awful
messenger has come-death!
Sickness s!-The young man in the fresh
ness and vigor Of his morning existence
when the very veins are filed with bound
ing Joy, and hope throws its brightest col
ors and most halcyon light over the future,
in all his thoughtlessness of present dan
ger and while his eye is intently fixed up
on years to com0-thsn he is stricken down
by the pale hand of sickness, and like the
young oak uprooted by the tempest, he
falls a victim to that Unsuitable monster
death!
Sickness The man Of strong nerves
and wiry sinews, aronnd whom a fond
family clings for support. as the ivy clings
to the oak, in the greatness Of his strength
and in the glory Of his fame-he is bow
ed, his power becomes Weakness for the
mora potent hand of disease is upon him,
and with its cold and lank fingers closes
his eyes, bushes his voice to silence, stops
the pulses Of his heart and drops him into
the tomb. These, all these, the pratlling
infant, the aspiring youth, the vigorous
man, as we'll as mothers and fathers. tie
aged and the honored, with their silvery
hair. dim eyes and trembling limbs all a
like are po,Oertess in the grasp of disease,
and are conveyed with the same ease to the
chambers of eternal silence.
Death! How it walks abroad over the
earth with its noiseless tread, visiting a
like the cottages Of the poor and the pala
ces OF the rich, as dreaded messenger Il
caves and dark dungeons,
'Where al guish walls aloud and fstters clank,''
as to kings and potentates who live in state
and sffluence. and enjoy fsasting and ban
quoting! With fear and trembling al
hearts stand appalled, before the King o
Teirors! Through all the ages past he ha'
moved on with the same unceasing devas
tating tread. filing the world with tear'
and sorrow, leaving the mourners to go a
bout the streets for a season, and then tax
ing them away that others may mourI
lhtir departure, and thus down through al
the coming ages will his dark, gloom.
pathway extend, onward, ONWARD, unit
the triumphant shout shall go up from
disenthralled and resurrectioned nnivers
-"DEATii is SWALLOWED UP IN VICTORY! !!
Then there shall be ..'no moro sickness no
pain. neither sorrow nor, signing, nei,he
shall there be any more death, for the for
mer things shall have passed away. Il
well. sometimes. apid the busy cares @
life, to pause and refect-to consider .wha
we are and whittier We are tending; an
+ thus shall we be strengthened for the NOR
faithful performance of our duties here
and cheered with clearer and brighte
prospects of that better land which lies be
yond the. Jordon of death.
y "No sickness there,
No weary wasting OF the frame away
No fearful shrinking from the midnight air,
No dread Of summers bright and fervid ray!
'No parted friends
O'er mournful recollectOns have 10 weep!
No bed OF death enduring love attends
To watch the coming of puseless sleep!
; "With faith our guide,
White-robed and innocent, TO lead the way,
Why fear to plunge in Jordon's rolling tide,
!, And find the light of etarnal day !"
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